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Fatty Acid Imbalance Hurts our Health

February 10, 2004 by Judy Foreman

Throughout most of human history, our ancestors ate a diet that was nearly perfect in its balance between two essential fatty acids, omega-3s and omega-6s, which have crucial, though opposite, roles to play in metabolism.

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The Impact of Obesity on Hospitals

October 7, 2003 by Judy Foreman

The patient was so obese – more than 700 pounds – that it took seven nurses to turn him over. Three nurses at the New England hospital where he was in intensive care went out on workman’s compensation after injuring their shoulders and backs trying to move him.  

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The Glycemic Index – Should You Worry?

February 11, 2003 by Judy Foreman

If you haven’t heard of it yet, get ready to grapple with the “glycemic index,” the latest wrinkle in America’s endless diet debate.

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No Drug Cure in Sight for Obesity

October 22, 2002 by Judy Foreman

Three very fat Turkish people, all cousins, got very lucky this year, when they spent a few months in Los Angeles getting injections of leptin, the “satiety” hormone discovered in 1994 and immediately hailed as the long-awaited magic bullet to cure obesity.

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Food Fight – The Latest Skinny on Diets

July 31, 2001 by Judy Foreman

In the swampy world of nutrition books, clarity and credibility are as scarce as tofu and sprouts at Dunkin’ Donuts.But clarity and credibility are precisely the reasons you should toss out your old diet books, forget the government’s famous but flawed food pyramid, and get your hands on a new book, “Eat, Drink and Be Healthy,” by Walter Willett, a nutritionist based at Harvard University.

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NUTS

November 7, 2000 by Judy Foreman

Let’s face it: We were brainwashed. For years, nutritional gurus strummed a one-note samba: All fats are bad. And many of us played along, giving up some of our favorite foods. Like nuts.

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Should We Worry About Altered Foods?

March 28, 2000 by Judy Foreman

In the early 1990s, while almost nobody was looking, the biotech industry pulled off quite a coup.

Led by industry giants like Monsanto, DuPont, Novartis and Aventis, genetic engineers began commercializing an idea they’d worked on for years – tinkering with genes to make crops more resistant to insects and herbicides.

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The Saga Of Soy

February 15, 2000 by Judy Foreman

Consumers Believe Soy Is Good Food, And Research Shows They’re Partly Right.

Americans have fallen in love with the humble soybean. Convinced that in its many incarnations – tofu, soy milk, dietary supplements – soy can prevent everything from heart disease to hot flashes to cancer, consumers have sent soysales soaring.

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Chocolate’s not so dark secret

October 18, 1999 by Judy Foreman

I slip it reverentially into my mouth. Luscious, gooey, it melts on my taste buds, caresses my tongue. I stop talking, thinking, even breathing. I have but one sense: Taste. I have but one love: Chocolate.

Nanoseconds later, the guilt sets in. I imagine my arteries seizing, my weight soaring. Yet I am powerless: I want more.

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Good for you, no matter how you slice them

August 31, 1998 by Judy Foreman

Ripening in the late-summer sun, filling garden baskets and salad bowls, reddening gazpacho in kitchen blenders, simmering in saucepans for spaghetti sauce, tomatoes might just be the best, maybe the only, reason for welcoming the end of summer.

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