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A case has been filed against General Mills, the maker of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Fiber One and Cheerios. The lawsuit filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer group, has alleged that the company has been selling its product Cheerios Protein with false pretense.

Michael Jacobson, president of CSPI, explained that when one looks at the box of the new product, there is an impression that the product has a lot more protein than original Cheerios. But they have compared the nutritional value of the products and came to know that a single serving of Cheerios Protein has 7 grams of protein and 17 grams of sugar.

New data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey has unveiled that obesity continues to be a big concern for the US. Americans have made changes in their dietary patterns, but as per a new study from Cornell, there are many other factors to play beyond food.

Between 2013 and 2014, around 40% of adults and over 17% of youngsters were obese in the US. But a decade back, around 32% of adults and 17% of youth were obese. The figures show that obesity continues to be a problem among both adults and children.

Americans have changed their eating patterns, as they have reduced the consumption of calories intake. But the study has found that in 95% of the population, consumption of high-calorie or high-sugar foods is not linked to BMI.

So far several rules have been framed and were brought into effect to ban smoking in public areas, in cars and many others, but no positive results came forward. Now the Department of Housing and Urban Development has kept forward a anew proposal to make the apartments and indoor common areas of the country’s public housing system smoke-free.

Previously several cities have implemented these policies to ban smoking. In July, the commissioners of Philadelphia’s Housing Authority voted to put a ban on smoking. In Philadelphia almost 55% of tenants were in favor of smoke-free housing, said officials.

Colombian Minister of Health Alejandro Gaviria on Thursday announced that the government will issue a decree that will regulate the use of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes.

President Juan Manuel Santos told BBC Mundo in a statement that the decree would be signed in the coming days. He also told that growing, distribution and selling cannabis will remain illegal in the country.

It has been known that the South American country suspended spraying of illegal crops this year, citing cancer concerns related to the herbicide glyphosate.

As per the current law in the country a person can have possession of up to 20 grams of marijuana or 20 marijuana plants for personal use. Researchers through a new study showed that 11.5% of Colombians have used marijuana at least once.

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cause for concern among the residents of United States. Now a new report has revealed that the rate of prevalence of hypertension remained unchanged from 1999 to 2014, but the number of people who had their hypertension under control increased.

The authors of the government report said that although the data released is not very satisfactory, there is room for improvement.

Recent findings from a large National Institutes of Health study now suggested that it is worth treating patients in that prehypertension gray area of 120 to 140, in order to bring them down into the normal range.

Pluto since long has baffled scientists and before July, entire world was unaware of what Pluto actually is. Close flyby made by NASA’s New Horizons helped the entire world to get a closer look at the distant world. It was very difficult for scientists to sequence and separate the different surface features of the dwarf planet, therefore, they created a Pluto which has contrasting colors.

The New Horizons so far has sent images showing the tiny, complex world’s icy plains, mountains, chemical composition and data on its tenuous but complex atmosphere. These new findings by the crafts were revolutionary that changed the previous beliefs about the planet which was thought to be a dead and frozen region of the solar system.