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Feeling besieged by all those low-fat, low-carb best sellers? Picking virtuously at salads when you crave a steak seared in butter and oil? The grande dame of American cookery is here to help. In June's Esquire, JULIA CHILD shares 25 truths she has learned in her 87 years. On food, she offers soothing words--"Fat gives things flavor"--and announces bluntly, "There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables." But she also offers pronouncements on such wide-ranging subjects as golfing with men (Don't; "[they] can throw off your stroke"), marriage, world leaders and diva attitude...
...CARB-DIET CRAZE...
...nutrition professional, I would like to thank you for your well-written article on low-carb diets [HEALTH, Nov. 1]. You presented the many sides of this complex issue very well. There have been hundreds of diets in the past, and there are bound to be hundreds more in the future, each promising the reward of thinness and health as long as one stays on "the diet" forever, an almost certain impossibility. For this reason diet truly is a four-letter word. There is not one sole miracle cure, book or meal plan for proper nutrition and health; there...
Americans are finally waking up to the destructive consequences of 15 years of carbohydrate abuse. Everyone hates low-carb diets except the people who are on them! Congratulations to Dr. Woodson Merrell for his piece "How I Became a Low-Carb Believer." He had the courage to speak up. DEBORAH FRIEDSON CHUD, M.D. Tufts University School of Medicine Medford, Mass...
...MANIFESTO] The latest to join the low-carb library, written by endocrinologist Diana Schwarzbein...