Obesity and health insurance may go together Owning health insurance makes you prone to weight gain , claims a new study by a trio of U.S. and UK economists. The authors researched the relationship between weight gain and health insurance and found that those who held private insurance experienced a Body Mass Index increase of 1.3 points, while public insurance increased BMI by 2.1 points. North Korea embraces fast food North Koreans living in the country’s capital have taken a liking

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U.S. stocks were rising Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recently climbed 152 points to 9222, the S&P 500 added 18 points to 993, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 26 points to 1994.Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM, $16.20, -$4.20, -20.59%) reported a weak second quarter and offered up what Jefferies calls “very weak” second-half guidance. “Akamai’s seeming infallibility is increasingly being exposed,” the firm said, cutting the rating to hold. “The last time this type of pricing r

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What sells me on an item of clothing is the details. I’m always looking for an interesting neckline, some detailing around the hem, alternative fasteners, multi-functionality…so imagine how excited I was to stumble across Pretty Birdie on etsy, and her fabulous Hemp/Organic Cotton Snap Jacket : I love everything about this jacket: the sleeve length, the pockets, the tie-waist, the material and the length, but THE SNAPS are awesome! If she had used buttons to close the jacket, and on t

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Here is the news A few months ago I suggested Waitrose as a solution to the problem of finding a new business model for journalism. I was trying to make a more general point about journalism being delivered in different ways but I am increasingly convinced that I may have hit upon something. When we consider the technicalities of getting income from the consumer, the secret may not be HOW to get people to pay for news, it’s WHEN that counts. Let me explain, although bear in mind that I a

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Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA BioChar, or using black carbon directly as a soil amendment holds the promise of both increasing agricultural yields and locking up carbon in the soil for centuries or millennia. Are there ways for stock market investors to benefit? The technology is simple, but the results are potentially quite profound. By pyrolyizing (heating in the absence of oxygen) biomass, and mixing the resulting char into the soil, it is possible to produce Energy, in the form of heat

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