Wonder if there’s any truth to the suggestion that shark cartilage or lecithin may help prevent or cure disease? Here’s what health experts say: Lecithin and arthritis (or other health problems): Your body makes lecithin. So taking more doesn’t seem to offer any benefits. Synthetic lecithin isn’t absorbed well, anyway. Shark cartilage and cancer: Limited
Penny for penny, drinking milk’s the most cost-effective way to consume bone-building calcium—more so than calcium-fortified juice, soy milk, breakfast bars, and other calcium-fortified foods. (See August 8 for more about calcium.) And milk offers you more: for just one cup of fat-free, low-fat, or whole milk you not only get 30% Daily Value (DV)
Comparable worth is a policy implemented by a small number of state, local, and national governments to remedy wage disparities between men and women due to occupational segregation, a situation in which women are more likely to be employed in low-paying occupations and men are more likely to be employed in high-paying occupations. Comparable worth
The commonly accepted definition of comparable worth is that dissimilar jobs that are of equal worth to the organization (e.g., nurses and truck drivers) should be paid the same wage. The term comparable worth must be distinguished from related terms, such as equal pay for equal work. The latter term is associated with the U.S.