Word: diets
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...study by Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif., has provided evidence that a mind-body program of group meetings, exercise, a low-fat diet and stress-management techniques like meditation can be effective in reversing even severe coronary-artery blockage after only a year. "To the degree heart disease can be reversed, it can be prevented," says Dr. Ornish...
Assertive as ever in an interview with The Crimson yesterday, Koch has lost none of his flair for wisecracks in recent weeks, and claims he has lost none of his popularity. The only thingthe three-term mayor will admit to having lost is23 pounds--courtesy of a diet plan which he nowendorses on television...
Victories are best savored slowly, but Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu barely found time for the customary postelection rituals last week. No sooner had he hammered open a keg of sake to celebrate his Liberal Democratic Party's renewed majority in the lower house of the Diet than he confronted a formidable problem: Japan's strained relations with...
...experts say. For example, the NIH reportedly spends just 13% of its budget studying women's health. The research shortfall, observes Dr. Florence Haseltine, director of the NIH's Center for Population Research, has left uncertainties on many vital questions, including the causes of infertility and the effect of diet on breast cancer...
About one-third of the 512-member Lower House and 10% of the 252-member Upper House are sons, sons-in-law or legally adopted successors of Diet members. Even more politicians are linked by marital and familial ties. Six of the 20 Cabinet ministers, including Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama, are sons of former Diet members. Former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and L.D.P. kingmaker Shin Kanemaru are related through the marriage of their children. Former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, a son of a parliamentarian, is married to the daughter of former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi...