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...aren't getting many book contracts. "Most Americans don't eat enough fruits and vegetables, and now you have diets like Atkins that say don't eat sweet potatoes, don't eat carrots, don't eat corn," says Franca Alphin, administrative director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center. "Those foods are so beneficial. It's really frustrating." The low-carb diets, they insist, eventually fail. "The more unusual a diet is, the more different from the standard of what people normally eat and find around them, the more apt they are to go off the diet and regain...
...most people feeling too physically and emotionally deprived to continue. Also, the body is often quick to recognize caloric deprivation and adjusts by lowering the metabolic rate, thus sabotaging the effect of a lower caloric intake. I saw this when I was a consultant in a hospital weight-loss center that specialized in liquid diets. I was astonished at the number of people on 600-to-800-calorie diets whose weight loss seemed to stall after just a few weeks. Even worse, when you come off such a diet, the metabolism often remains at that lower level, making weight gain...
...WOODSON MERRELL is executive director of the Beth Israel Center for Health and Healing in New York City
Cancer specialists, for their part, haven't neglected the issue. "Despite what this ABC show may have reported, there's no clear scientific evidence to date that cell phones are linked to brain cancer," says Dr. Lisa DeAngelis, a neuro-oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City--a view, she adds, that will be reaffirmed in an upcoming study by her colleagues...
Charles Schwab, one of the country's leading financial-services firms, is putting that principle into practice at its four regional call centers, in Indianapolis, Ind.; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Denver. Some 300 of the 3,500 brokers and customer-service representatives at the centers work in the evening or at night, answering calls on everything from account balances to securities prices. When Deborah Maldeney, now a team manager at Schwab's Indianapolis center, joined the company, she took advantage of one of the 40 different job schedules Schwab offered her. She needed to begin work after finishing...