PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday, March 5, 2008

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Folic Acid in the Food Supply Reduces Birth Defects, but May Cause Extra Cancers, Reports the Harvard Women's Health Watch

For 20 years, the United States has been fortifying some foods with folic acid (the synthetic form of folate, a B vitamin) as part of a public health effort to prevent neural tube defects in newborns. The effort is paying off: the rate of neural tube defects is down by 30%. But there's also evidence that the added folic acid is contributing to colorectal cancers, reports the March 2008 issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch.

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Focus Features Sets Release of Next Film by No Country for Old Men Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen; Burn After Reading to Open Nationwide September 12th

Focus Features announced that it will open Burn After Reading, the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen, Academy Award-winning directors of this year's Best Picture Oscar winner No Country for Old Men, domestically nationwide on Friday, September 12th.

Joel and Ethan Coen are writers, producers, and directors of Focus Features and Working Title Films' Burn After Reading. The film stars Academy Award winner George Clooney, two-time Academy Award nominee John Malkovich, Academy Award winner Frances McDormand, Academy Award nominee Brad Pitt, and Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton.

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New-Car Shoppers Say Gas Prices Affecting Consumer Spending Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research Shows Car Shoppers' Spending Down

According to the latest Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research study (http://www.kbb.com/), elevating gas prices have in-market new-car shoppers considering vehicles they would have otherwise ignored. The February 2008 results reveal that almost two-thirds, 64 percent of shoppers, have changed their minds or are now thinking about vehicles they normally would not have considered before.

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Best (and Worst) Walking Cities in America Ranked by Prevention & APMA

Cambridge, MA, is the Best Walking City in America, with more residents walking to work and more parks per square mile than any other city evaluated, according to a just-released study by Prevention magazine and the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). Walking kudos also goes to New York, ranked #2, and Ann Arbor, #3. The Worst Walking Cities: Oklahoma City, North Las Vegas, and Gadsden, AL. Prevention and the APMA annually team up to measure the walkability of America's cities as interest in walking for fitness remains strong. Walking is the most popular form of exercise with 87.5% of Americans walking for fitness.*

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