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The Ping-Pong Battle of the Diets ... for our Wallets.

1963 - Weight Watchers is incorporated by Jean Nidetch

1972 - Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution phenomenal success

1973 - Richard Simmons opens his first club for the severely overweight

1976 - William Duffy Sugar Blues

1982 - Richard Simmons Never Say Diet

1986 - Michel Montignac Eat Yourself Slim (Glycemic)

1986 - William Duffy Sugar Blues paperback

1991 - Rachael F. Heller and Richard F. Heller Carbohydrate Addicts ...

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My community was named for the cascade in Wappingers Creek.

According to local legend, New York City merchants Francis Rombout and Gulian Verplanck bought land from the Wappinger Indians.

Rombout bargained for "all the land he could see", then climbed to the top of Mount Beacon.

His land grant included what is now the city of Beacon and the towns of Wappinger, Fishkill and East Fishkill.

There are about 30,000 people in my town. Approximately 8,000 of the 30,000 reside in the Village.
(The houses are closer together...

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Two former slaughterhouse workers were charged this weekend with abusing ailing cattle.

They were seen in a Humane Society video, which showed workers kicking, shocking and otherwise abusing "downer" animals that were apparently too sick or injured to walk into the slaughterhouse.

Crippled and sick animals were being shoved with forklifts.

"The facts of this case are horrendous," the DA said. "It makes your stomach turn to see what they did to these cows."

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The Farmers’ Market Effect

Vouchers that permit low-income women to shop at a local farmers’ market increase fruit and vegetable consumption in poor families, a new study shows.

The research, published this month in the American Journal of Public Health, comes just as states are making important changes to national nutrition programs.

For years, the federally-funded Women, Infants and Children (W.I.C.) program, which subsidizes food purchases for low-income women and young children, hasn’t included fruits and vegetables, except for fruit juice and...

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