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Scientists who specialize in nutritional genomics have only begun to decipher the relationship between DNA sequences, diets and ailments like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Their hope is that someday your own nutritional geneticist will be able to scan your DNA and tell you exactly how to plan your diet given the genes you've been bequeathed...
...settling into the center of the fifth row on a Friday night, Junior Mints and large diet soda in hand, wants to be reminded of real men? Why do we have to keep seeing in movies the people we sneaked out of the house to get away from...
Drinking a diet coke, Andrea told homicide sergeant Eric Mehl what she had done and why. She did not hate the children. Nor was she mad at them. "They weren't developing correctly," she said. The soft-spoken sergeant asked how long she had considered murder. Two years, she said. "Since I realized I have not been a good mother to them." Mehl watched her movements. She looked him in the eye. She nodded. Sometimes she answered, "Yes, sir." But she would sit in 15 seconds of stone-cold silence if he asked too much. She could give only short...
...Americans count calories, Poles eat for pleasure, often five times a day. As far as I know, only Poles would ever say “first breakfast” and “second breakfast.”Of course we’re supposed to eat a balanced diet, watch our saturated fat intake, our sugar intake, and plenty of other intakes I don’t know enough about to name. Poles, on the other hand, see balance in terms of possibilities, not limits. This a country where “no thanks” really means...
None of this means that schools should give up Intro to Calculus for Civilization IV and Blogging 101. Kids should have a balanced media diet: surfing and gaming alongside old-fashioned reading. (Not to mention going outdoors to toss a football around.) Yes, popular culture can be addictive and time consuming. Yes, you sometimes have to draw the line. The same is true of all social interactions, as any parent of a teenager will tell you. But how can you figure out where to draw the line if you can't measure the benefits and costs? To plan a balanced...