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...Chinese Women Runners vs. Vegetarians Wang Junxia and her teammates shattered world records in the 10,000 meters, 3,000 meters and 1,500 meters at the Chinese National Games in Beijing. Their coach credited their success in part to a diet spiced with gourmet dried worms...
...toll it exacts on its smallest citizens are staggering. Twenty years ago, the infant-mortality rate was 133 for every 1,000 births, most of the babies claimed by pneumonia and diarrhea. By the 1980s, it was clear that a lack of vitamin A in the Nepalese diet was a factor in the high rates of infant mortality and in a form of blindness. All it would take to reduce both would be a low-cost vitamin-A capsule taken as infrequently as twice a year...
...Andrew Weil's recommendations for maximizing physical and emotional health and happiness as we grow older were welcomed by readers. While some applauded his advice for aging gracefully, others had their own suggestions about diet, exercise, medical aids and the need for effortful mental activity...
Weil's "Wellness Diet" was right on target. This article will help educate people and alert them to the impact that their diet has on their health. But his recommendation that we "strictly avoid all products made with partially hydrogenated oils of any kind" is almost impossible to follow. Nearly all snack foods, especially packaged cakes and cookies, contain those harmful oils. Scientists should try to find an alternative to them as quickly as possible. People need to know just how bad that stuff is. DAVID R. LADEN Virginia Beach...
...Karen B. Michels’ new freshman seminar, “You Are What You Eat,” received 85 applications, and this high number shows that students are increasingly concerned about leading healthy lifestyle. The course itself provides an overview about nutrition, including what encompasses a healthy diet, why obesity exists among children, and how genetically engineered foods effect people worldwide. It also questions the responsibility of food providers and national healthy guidelines established by the Food and Drug Administration...