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This week’s Triangle sanitation scores (March 14)

Violin14/03/2023 57 Views

The News & Observer publishes a weekly roundup of restaurant sanitation scores to keep you up-to-date on the health grades at Triangle dining spots.

Sanitation scores and their corresponding letter grades are used in North Carolina to assess restaurants’ adherence to rules and standards intended to mitigate and prevent the spread of food-borne illnesses.

You’ve likely seen sanitation grade cards at restaurants you’ve visited, and The N&O previously explained what those scores mean and how they’re calculated.

Here are sanitation scores in Triangle counties for the week of March 7-14.

Wake County sanitation scores

The Wake County sanitation grades database

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Mediterranean, MIND diets may reduce brain plaques

Violin13/03/2023 60 Views

An older woman wearing a green top smiles at her partner or husband during an at-home dinner with another couple or family — A study found people who followed either the MIND diet or the Mediterranean diet had fewer Alzheimer’s disease plaques and tangles. Studio Firma/Stocksy

Over 55 million people around the world have dementia, which includes Alzheimer’s disease.
A prominent feature of Alzheimer’s disease is the plaques and tangles that form in the brain.
Researchers from RUSH University have found a link between following either the MIND diet or the Mediterranean diet and fewer Alzheimer’s disease plaques and tangles.

More than 55 million people globally have dementia, with an estimated 10 million new cases each year. Alzheimer’s disease is

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Silicon Valley Bank gave company-wide bonuses hours before it collapsed: report

Violin12/03/2023 117 Views

Ben Levisohn, Carleton English and Jack Hough discuss the markets following Federal Reserve Chairman Powell’s testimony before Congress, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the impact on the banking industry and railroad safety spending data.

Silicon Valley Bank employees received their annual bonuses on Friday just hours before the government took control of the company, according to reports.

SVB traditionally processes annual bonuses on the second Friday of March, unnamed sources associated with the bank told CNBC. The bonuses were reportedly for work completed in 2022.

SVB did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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A Personal Trainer Shares her Favorite Cheap Healthy Foods

Violin10/03/2023 49 Views

Inflation is really impacting food prices and, therefore, all our wallets are getting skinnier. Many of us have a tendency to assume that healthy food is expensive and it can be easy to feel frustrated when you feel like you have to choose between saving money and eating healthy.

As a trainer, I believe that nutrition is crucial to good health and no one should have to skimp on that. There are lots of affordable grocery items that are both healthy and inexpensive. Here are my tips for how to feed yourself — and your loved ones — delicious, nutritious

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Inflation and money woes are forcing Americans to delay medical care: Shots

Violin10/03/2023 99 Views

Substitute teacher Crystal Clyburn, 51, doesn’t have health insurance. She got her blood pressure checked at a health fair in Sarasota, Fla.

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Substitute teacher Crystal Clyburn, 51, doesn’t have health insurance. She got her blood pressure checked at a health fair in Sarasota, Fla.

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At a health-screening event in Sarasota, Florida, people milled around a parking lot waiting for their turn for blood pressure or diabetes checks. The event was held in Sarasota’s Newtown neighborhood, a historically Black community.

Local resident Tracy Green, 54, joined the line outside a pink

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Heart-healthy habits linked to a longer life without chronic conditions

Violin07/03/2023 65 Views

A woman wearing leggings and workout clothes runs up a staircase in the rain at night — A study found that heart-healthy lifestyle habits described in the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8, such as physical activity and quality sleep, are associated with a longer lifespan and more years spent free of chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cancer. urbazon/Getty Images

The American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 is a concept that defines cardiovascular health based on four modifiable behaviors, such as physical activity and sleep, and four modifiable biometric measures, such as weight, blood glucose, and blood lipid levels, that impact cardiovascular health.
The composite cardiovascular health score measured using the

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US Life Span Falling Behind Our Peer Countries

Violin06/03/2023 117 Views

March 6, 2023 · 7:29 AM

From NPR:

The average life expectancy for Americans is shortened by over seven months [in 2021]according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As a result, the expected life span of someone born in the US is now 76.4 years — the shortest it has been in nearly two decades.

But we still have the best healthcare system in the world, right? Not if you judge it by life expectancy. From Health System Tracker:

Life expectancy in the

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Middlesex-London Health Unit confirms measles case in London, Ont. -London

Violin25/02/2023 98 Views

Local health officials say a measles case has been confirmed in the community.

The Middlesex-London Health Unit and Southwestern Public Health say the person lives in London and works at Nova Steel in Woodstock.

The person reportedly got sick while traveling outside of Canada. After they returned, health officials said they had limited contact with others during the time they were infectious.

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