Visit Salt Lake Debuts Spectacular Salt Lake Winter Roundup Event Downtown
The February 10th festival showcased a blend of winter sports, art, and culture SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, joyfully marked the commencement of the Salt Lake Winter Roundup: Rounding Up Sports, Arts and Culture, a festival that highlighted Salt Lake's profound heritage and…#saltlakecity #saltlake #abravanelhall #saltlakecounty #olympic #picabostreet #utah #stakerparson #village #abravanelhallplaza (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How much salt and sugar are in YOUR favourite sauces? Use this guide to find out - as shock probe finds just 1 tablespoon of worst-offenders can be 8 times saltier than McDonald's fries
MailOnline probed the nutritional value of more than 30 condiments. Just one tablespoon of soy sauce contained nearly half of an adult's recommended salt limit. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards
The Biden administration is unveiling new, stricter pollution standards for American cities such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have long struggled with chronically dirty air.(Image credit: Kirk Siegler/NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kirk Siegler Source Type: news

Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards
The Biden administration is unveiling new, stricter pollution standards for American cities such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have long struggled with chronically dirty air. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kirk Siegler Source Type: news

Pepper...and Salt
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Source: Reuters: Health - February 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Why NASA ’ s New Climate Satellite is Studying Clouds and Phytoplankton
If you’re trying to spot a phytoplankton, it pays to get exceedingly close. Among the smallest life forms inhabiting both fresh and marine water, phytoplankton can measure as little as one micrometer—or one millionth of a meter. But little things can have a big impact. Blooms of phytoplankton, which are actually a form of microalgae, can spread hundreds of square miles, sometimes doing disastrous damage to fisheries, beaches, drinking water supplies, and entire aquatic ecosystems. To track so sprawling a scourge, you want to stand at a distance—675 km (420 mi.) worth of distance. That’s the altitude...
Source: TIME: Science - February 5, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

House considers expanding state tax deduction for some families
The House is preparing legislation to cut federal taxes for relatively high-income married couples in high-tax states, a measure meant to placate politically vulnerable Republicans who last week nearly held up another tax relief measure for working families to force a vote on the issue. Get a…#republicans #michaellawler #salt #donaldtrump #trump #democrats #taxfoundation #nicklalota #maryland #congressliberals (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

McDonalds, US vs UK! How the menus really compare, from calories in a Big Mac to sugar in a chocolate milkshake (and the results might shock you!)
McDonald's has almost identical menus in the US and UK. Both are full of calories and loaded with fat, salt and sugar, but the US McDonald's is the most calorific an audit of more than 20 products shows. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Huntsman Family Foundation and James "JB" Brown Emmy Award Broadcaster Announce Global Movement to End Stigma of Mental Health
The Huntsman Family Foundation is heading to Las Vegas to continue its groundbreaking movement to end the stigma associated with Mental Health, Suicide, and Addiction. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Huntsman Family Foundation is heading to Las Vegas to begin its... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 3, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: NPT Source Type: news

Why vulnerable House Republicans are still scrambling to fix a tax law
“New York was the deciding factor between having a majority and not,” Hudson Valley GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, who campaigned heavily on the issue, said in an interview Thursday. “It will once again be deciding the majority.” Lawler along with his fellow New York Republicans from battleground districts…#hudsonvalley #mikelawler #republicans #salt #houserulescommittee #donaldtrump #newjersey #longisland #nicklalota #democrats (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Del Taco Partners With Stone Brewing to Elevate Beer Battered Crispy Fish Tacos
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- , the nation's second-largest Mexican quick service restaurant*, today unveils an unprecedented collaboration with Stone Brewing to deliver the NEW Beer Battered Crispy Fish Tacos made with Stone Buenaveza Salt & Lime Lager. Del Taco joined…#lakeforest #mexican #stonebrewing #beerbatteredcrispy #deltaco #taco #stone #baja #stonebuenaveza #alaska (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Moss project takes step toward first artificial plant genome
Researchers have crafted synthetic genomes for several types of bacteria, and an 18-year-long project to do the same for brewer’s yeast is close to completion . Now, a group in China has tackled a multicellular organism, synthesizing part of the genome of a type of moss. The achievement, reported last week in Nature Plants , could smooth the way for creating artificial genomes for other multicellular organisms—and for turning the moss into a factory for medicines and other products. The Chinese team only reworked part of one chromosome in its chosen species, the spreading earthmo...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 30, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news

Tuesday assorted links
1. Puffins are excellent swimmers. 2. How good are top Chinese LLMs? 3. Multicellularity older than we had thought? 4. “Online, she goes by the name Ballerina Farm, and millions of people watch her almost daily videos depicting her life in the countryside 30 miles from Salt Lake City.” (NYT,…#ballerinafarm #saltlakecity #yemeninavy #quantitativesneezing #crusader #truth #superbowl (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Some vulnerable Republicans look to tax deal as 2024 asset
While some vulnerable, blue-state House Republicans are raising hell over the lack of tax relief for their constituents in the bipartisan tax bill set to be voted on this week, others see it as a key win going into the 2024 election. Why it matters: The 118th House and its narrow GOP majority have…#republicans #118thhouse #democrats #childtaxcredit #salt #anthonydesposito #jasonsmith #juliegracebrufke #donbacon #rneb (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news