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...your report on eating foods with relatively few carbohydrates [May 3], you stated that "nutritionists are horrified" by America's obsession with low-carb diets. As a registered dietitian, I disagree. This is a great opportunity for people to develop a healthy and balanced long-term eating plan to manage their weight. In my years of counseling clients, I learned you can certainly attract more bees with honey--though in this case I'd use honey with fewer carbs. ELISA ZIED New York City...
...guidelines, and compliance is voluntary. Pactiv Corp., the Chicago-based manufacturer of Hefty trash bags, may add some sugar to the medicine by offering chronically ill employees incentives to get well. "What if diabetic patients were to get free health-club benefits if they were willing to see a dietitian to control weight and check for eye problems, a frequent complication of the disease?" asks Michael Aldrich, head of benefits at Pactiv, another VitalSpring customer...
Some couples golf together. Some play tennis. And some, like Terry Viney, 62, and his wife Leilani, 51, dance--and by dancing, we're not talking about the occasional night out. Terry, a strategic-planning consultant, and Leilani, a dietitian, spend 20 hours a week taking lessons and rehearsing the waltz, fox trot, tango and quickstep. They hone their moves so they can participate in about 10 different ballroom-dancing competitions a year. It's an endeavor that costs $6,000 annually, mostly spent on travel and numerous gowns and tuxedos that have been hand stitched for their outings. They...
...play a key role. Experts say it's important to reach the communities that are hardest hit by diabetes--American Indians, for example--all the while taking cultural differences into account. "You can't give everybody the same diet to solve the problem," says Albright, a registered dietitian. "People obviously eat the foods they've grown up with. So you have to try to help them get as much of those things that they like into their eating plan but also make the changes that will help lower the fat or moderate the carbohydrates...
...registered dietitian, I was happy to see an article about nutrition that gave sound advice. However, I have two messages for our food industry: 1) many of the foods that the population should be eating?fruits, vegetables, fish, whole grains?are prohibitively expensive for the working class and the poor, and 2) too much money is spent on developing and marketing inexpensive, empty-calorie foods with no nutritional value. Food manufacturers would do well to put fewer choices on our grocery-store shelves; then perhaps people would slim down and be healthier. Nancy Dimond Easton...