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Drinking Tea Helps Weight Loss, Study Shows

Forget the latest diet and exercise trends. The secret to burning fat might be as simple as sitting down with a nice cup of tea. Tea contains high levels of compounds that combat the absorption of fat, Japanese scientists have found. These compounds, called theaflavins and thearubigins, stopped weight gain when given to...

FDA's Four Loko Move Makes Microbrewers Jittery

(Nov. 20) -- Experimental craft-beer maker Scott Newman-Bale has made some strange concoctions. Peanut-butter-and-jelly beer. Stout that tastes like s'mores. Next the Michigan microbrewer wants to invent a "spruce-tip pilsner," using fresh treetops. But first he has to ask a question that could ruin it all, one that's...

Why Did Tea Party Nation Cancel Las Vegas Convention?

(Sept. 20) -- What happens in Vegas ... well, never mind. A prominent tea party group has abruptly canceled its plans to hold a convention in Las Vegas that was to begin Oct. 14, Washington Monthly and TPM report. Billed as the National Tea Party Unity convention, the event was sponsored by the Tea Party Nation, was to...

Book Shows What's on the World's Dining Tables

(Sept. 2) -- Think it's hard enough to arrange a dinner date? Try arranging 80 of them in 30 countries over a three-year period. That's one of the struggles that Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio faced while writing their book, "What I Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets" (Ten Speed Press), which details what 80 different...