The Weekly Skinny: All the healthy news you need (6-26-09)

More food recalls are making news this week, including one for Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough. FatFighterTV has a look at this story and other diet and fitness headlines making news this week.

Nestle Toll House cookie dough recalled, may be contaminated with E. coli
Last month, it was ground beef. Just before that, it was peanut products. Now it's cookie dough. Another recall because some food may make us sick. Nestle has voluntarily recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a warning from the Food and Drug Administration that they might be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. The FDA warns not to eat any varieties of the prepackaged cookie dough. If you have any questions, call Nestle consumer services at

1-800-559-5025

and/or visit their website, verybestbaking.com.

New website helps employers fight obesity
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just launched LEANWorks! - a website designed to help businesses fight obesity. LEAN stands for Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition. The site can help businesses calculate how much obesity is costing them and how much they could save with different workplace interventions like fitness classes, lunchtime health education sessions, and weight management programs.

Weight-loss surgery cuts women's risk of cancer
Having weight-loss surgery may help obese women lower their risk of developing cancer. Swedish researchers found women who had bariatric surgery were 42 percent less likely to develop cancer, but men in the study did not benefit. Researchers say that may be because many cancers are driven by female hormones like estrogen, or simply because fewer men have weight-loss surgery.

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