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...surprising that when Dr. Robert Atkins' 33-year-long fad diet finally came to a crashing end last week, a whole lot of us were glad. This was a guy who wanted to take away our bread. Even prisoners get bread. Bread is so basic that, unlike water, restaurants don't have the guts to charge for it. Certain foods cannot even be made without bread -- such as French toast and bread...
...than 50 low-carb products and 100 nutritional supplements and no grammatical sense, announced that it is $300 million in debt and has filed for bankruptcy. Over the past year, the company has fallen apart as the country went from having 9% of its citizens on a low-carb diet to having 2%. I knew the Atkins plan was doomed when a diet designed to let you indulge in Lardcicles was losing its willpower and selling people low-carb versions of the rolls and bagels it had demonized. It got so bad that last September Atkins was sending surplus...
Would a mind-over-matter diet really work? Loftus doesn't know yet; she's still trying to figure out how long these effects last. But, she says, "nothing would stop a parent of an overweight child from trying this out on their kid"--as long as parents don't expect miracles. Weight control, after all, involves a devilishly complex combination of genes, biology and the environment. But every little bit helps when you are dieting--even the power of suggestion...
...disorders happen more frequently than do disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. One out of four families will face mental illness in their lifetime. These diseases cannot be cured at this point, but they can be controlled with a combination of therapy, sometimes medication. Certainly having a good diet, basic and proper nutrition is helpful. Also, in many cases, designing your life so that it is as stress-free as possible...
...they suffer from malaria or other diseases? What did they eat? She's already found telltale signs of degenerative bone disease - evidence of hard physical work. Signs of malaria could reveal whether the Lapita people unknowingly brought the illness with them, while details of their diet will help tackle one of the great puzzles of the Lapita story - did some stay long enough in Melanesia to set up gardens, or were they, as proponents of the "Express Train to Polynesia" theory believe, just passing through on their way east, eating whatever they could forage along the way? "The fact that...