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The Salt is a blog is about what we eat and why we eat it. It's about how food opens doors for discussion all over the world, and how it shapes the world, from culture, to science, to history, to business practices and environmental impacts.

More than half of the people in a recent poll say weight-loss shows influence what they eat. And 49 percent say they believe the television programs will have a positive influence on the obesity epidemic.

Chaohu, a city in eastern China with 4 million people, effectively vanished overnight by administrative order. Many former residents are uneasy with the new reality, and what it means for their future.

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were released from an Iranian prison in exchange for $1 million and flown to the Persian Gulf nation of Oman. The sultanate has served as a broker between Tehran and Washington because of its good relationships with both countries.

It was a dramatic night, which saw the scheduled execution delayed for more than four hours, while the Supreme Court weighed Davis' request. In the end, the court released a one-sentence statement denying the request. Davis was then injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs and pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m.

While many obese people lead happy and healthy sex lives, counselors and therapists are seeing more obese clients with problems in the bedroom. A pattern is clear: Obese people are more dissatisfied with their sexual lives, and women seem to suffer the most.

Revolution and tourism don't mix. Just ask the Egyptians. The tourism industry is crucial for Egypt's economic well-being, but foreigners have been staying away since the upheaval in February that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

As protesters argued that the Georgia man's guilt was in doubt, the victim's loved ones found some closure. Troy Davis was executed for the killing of a police officer in 1989.

They dropped by 9,000 from the previous week, but remain high.

The epinephrine inhalers, marketed as Primatene Mist, are one of the last consumer products with chloroflouorocarbons, or CFCs, to disappear from the market.