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The Hong Kong Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Factors – East Meets West: Meet the Experts Symposium will be jointly organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (HKIDO), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Foundation for Research and Development in Diabetes (HKFRDD), the Hong Kong Association for the Study of Obesity (HKASO), the Hong Kong Atherosclerosis Society (HKAS) and CMPMedica Pacific Limited (CMPMedica) on 20 March 2010 at the InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong.

Last years 3rd place male runner Mykhaylo Iveruk wins the 2009 Macau Galaxy Entertainment International Marathon with a time of 02:17:45. He narrowly beats Kenyan competitors Micah Kipserem Chuma and Jusius Kibet Mebur.

The event aims to develop local sports, to raise the level of running and to strengthen the friendship with people from different parts of the world.

World Cancer Research Fund Hong Kong (WCRF HK) has announced that its annual Fruity Friday Campaign will take place on 26 June (Friday) 2009.

Now that summer is over and New Year resolutions of eating well have fallen away, Australia’s leading nutrition body is warning against quick-fix diets.

According to a Newspoll survey commissioned by the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA), almost half of Australian adults (46 per cent) tried to lose weight in the 12 months to November last year. But only one in five thought they had been ‘very successful’.

The word diet stems from the Greek Diaita meaning way of life.

Teachings of Nutrition and how it relates to health date back to ancient times, the Egyptian Imhotep made accounts of food being used as medicine some 6000 years ago. The Ancient Chinese Emperor Huang Ti and the Indian Ayurevedic traditions also document the use of nutrition as part of the path to good health some 2500 ago. It was also discussed among the great Greek and Roman philosophers.