The protein-rich bounty of the football training table is supposed to grow the biggest and strongest athletes in professional sports. Kansas City Chiefs tight-end Tony Gonzalez was afraid it was going to kill him. "It's the Catch-22," says Mr. Gonzalez, 31. "Am I going to be unhealthy and play football? Or be healthy and get out of the league?"

FSA Unveils First Steps Of Saturated Fat And Energy Intake Programme

The Food Standards Agency is unveiling the range of activity it plans to take to help people in the UK reduce the amount of saturated fat they eat.

The diet of the average British adult contains too much saturated fat, added sugar and salt. Since 2004 the Agency has been working with industry to reformulate foods to reduce the amount of salt they contain, along with communicating the health impacts of a high-salt diet directly to consumers. It is now extending that focus to saturated fat and the balance of calories that we need.

Intakes of saturated fat in UK diets are around 20% higher than official Government recommendations. Eating too much saturated fat and a diet consisting of too many calories, compared to the energy we burn off through activity, can be a significant risk factor in developing a range of serious illnesses.

NBC11 Answers E. coli Questions

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As federal health officials continue to investigate the E. coli outbreak that has spread through the nation during the past few days, Bay Area consumers are left with many questions.

These questions were answered on Sept. 19 and are subject to chance as the FDA's investigation continues.

Question No. 1: "How many people have gotten sick, and are they mostly kids?" -Jennifer

Favro: "According to the FDA, 146 people have gotten sick, including one person in California, in Shasta County. Most of them were not children. They were between the ages of 20 and 64. One person died.

"I can tell you 71 percent of the people who've gotten sick are women. The FDA says, 'What's unusually high is the number of people who developed severe kidney problems.' So far, 76 have been hospitalized."

Question No.

Black Death Selective In Its Wrath: Plague Targeted The Weak, Frail

ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2008) — Despite the long-held assumption by historians that Europe's Black Death of 1347 to 1351 killed indiscriminately, a new report by University at Albany anthropologist Sharon DeWitte and Pennsylvania State University researcher James Wood finds that the deadly plaque targeted the already ill and weak.

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