Word: diets
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...researchers agree that fish should not be entirely eliminated from a diet. Some fish, such as salmon and shrimp, may provide healthy fatty acids and minerals while containing little or no mercury. But predators, such as sharks and swordfish, which are more concentrated with mercury, may pose a greater threat...
...There’s clearly a much greater benefit from eating them than taking them out of your diet,” Rimm said. But “you would be ill-advised to have tuna fish every...
...study was originally designed to study diet and chronic disease including diabetes in women. However, we think the results should apply to men,” Frank Hu wrote in an e-mail. Hu is an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at SPH who helped design and supervise the 16-year study...
...Right now, Japan's gargantuan banking crisis has taken center stage. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the rest of the Diet squabble endlessly over the various iterations of bank proposals recommended by Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka, while the national media reports with increasing confidence that one or more of the the nation's four megabanks are in danger of imminent collapse. Last week, Takenaka gave the banks a deadline: they have four months to take convincing action aimed at solving their financial crisis or risk being nationalized...
...subsidies and tariffs for protected industries and dismantling quasi-governmental monopolies." But that is a lot easier said than done. For one thing, those protected industries have had plenty of time to develop powerful lobbying groups, which are now among the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's biggest contributors. Many Diet members, in fact, are known by which zoku (tribe) they are members of: construction, agriculture or health care. Change is coming in dribs and drabs, but usually only after a prolonged fight. Liquor licenses will be fully deregulated next September, and telecommunications opened up a few years...