Fruit juice: friend or foe?
Grapefruit, orange and apple juices can harm the body’s ability to absorb certain medications and make the drugs less effective, said a Canadian study released last week in the United States.
The research showed that these juices can decrease the effectiveness of certain drugs used to treat heart disease, cancer, organ-transplant rejection and [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Peking duck flies off plates of athletes
Beijing’s most famous dish is proving to be a hit with athletes in the Olympic Village, who do not even have to step out of the area to enjoy the treat.
“I like the Peking Duck,” said Cyrille Gombrowicz, a badminton coach from France, in the village cafeteria last week.
“It’s [...]
Study: Kids’ popular fast foods dangerous
Letting kids eat at popular fast-food and chain restaurants can be downright dangerous because the servings are far too high in calories, said a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) on Monday.
The center, a U.S. consumer group, examined the menus at 13 popular restaurants that promote children’s [...]
Chef: Sorry for suggesting poison plant in salad
A British celebrity chef says he’s sorry for mistakenly recommending a deadly plant as a tasty salad ingredient.
Anthony Worrall Thompson says he meant to suggest using the weed fat hen, a member of the spinach family whose leaves are edible. He instead told Healthy and Organic Living magazine [...]
Beijing Snacks
Beijing is renowned for the variety,long history,high qualituy ingredients and delicate production of its authentic local snacks.On sale in markets and temple fairs across the city,these snacks are known as “meeting food” among local people because they are such a commmon sight on the streets of Beijing.
Ai Wo Wo is a kind of Muslim [...]
Traditional Beijing delicacies in Wangfujing snack street
Photo taken on July 29, 2008 shows the night view of Wangfujing snack street in Beijing, capital of China. In the past, the popular Beijing snacks used to be hawked at temple fairs or roadside bazaars. Along with the change of times, traditional Beijing snack bars have emerged [...]
Beijing bars offer a cocktail of new sounds
Dressed in tight tops and slinky black pants, the four members of the Chinese Britpop band Super VCon stage at Beijing’s Yugong Yishan club performed their hit songs to a large crowd moving hands and bodies to the beat.
The band threw theatrical rock-star poses and the audience [...]
Yang Jinbo obtains honorary certificate New China net Su Haiping absorbs
(This article originates: New China net)
People.com Beijing, December 21 – 2009 county territory economy most had the influence bank electing result on December 19 to make known in Beijing grandly. Jiangsu Yixing rural cooperatives bank and Zhejiang Yiwu rural cooperatives bank and Jiangsu Wu Jiang rural commercial bank and Agriculture Bank of [...]
In the near future the stock market bulk lots are under the deadlock, the platelet stock and undertaking board stock release are actually getting more and more lively, the release market profit creates new high repeatedly. The first batch of undertaking board stock issue market profit close 60 times, after going on the market , [...]
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