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...should limit something called trans-fatty acids in your diet. Though the FDA hasn't yet required that they be mentioned on food labels, trans-fatty acids are found in anything that contains partly hydrogenated oil, such as many commercially prepared baked goods, fast foods and some margarines...
Most important, the A.H.A.'s new guidelines don't shoehorn everyone into a one-size-fits-all diet. You will find very detailed dietary information for folks who already have heart disease or diabetes, or who need to bring down their level of triglycerides, another fatty substance found in the blood. We've always known that what you eat can have a profound effect on your health. Now you won't need a calculator to figure out what's best...
...jump among young people is clear," says Dennis Bier, director of the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "Concerns about proper growth and bone density should exist whether one's diet is vegetarian or not. But there's no question that if it's well planned, a vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy for kids...
Vegetarianism has not always been so fashionable. Just two years ago, the late Dr. Benjamin Spock provoked outrage among some parents and pediatricians when he recommended that all kids over the age of two should eat a strictly vegan diet. Some are still opposed to vegan diets for kids. But increasingly, nutritionists, educators and parents--all too aware of a nationwide obesity epidemic--are taking more relaxed vegetarian diets in stride. In an effort to reduce fat in federally subsidized school lunches, the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this year expanded the use of soy as a nutritious alternative...
...would have a big impact on the Games. Did they ever. The news that C.J. Hunter--a sidelined shot putter who is much better known as Jones' husband--had recently tested positive for steroids, became an overshadowing story. Hunter, a 320-pounder who usually avoids the media like a diet, summoned the press to assert, tears flowing, that he would never do anything to hurt his wife. But if he took nandrolone intentionally, he sure wasn't thinking about what might happen to her, to him, to their bank account. And if he took the drug, did his wife know...