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...stamped on meat these days. This month new federal rules for organic food become law, and you can expect to see another designation: usda organic. This means that neither the animal you eat nor its mother in the last three months of pregnancy received antibiotics or hormones. Itenjoyed a diet consisting of only certified organic feed grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, on soil free of chemicals for at least three years. Only a tiny percentage of ranchers are expected to live up to the exacting standard. And only a small percentage of consumers are expected to pony...
Apples, cranberries, pumpkins and squashes are some of the season's most powerful foods. Apples contain flavanoids, some of the most potent antioxidants known. Several studies have shown that people who eat a diet rich in flavanoids have a lower risk of heart disease and heart attacks as well as several types of cancer. Pumpkins, those quintessential autumn vegetables, are much more than Halloween decorations. Pumpkins and other orange-colored fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamin C, vitamin A, folate and carotenoids. Carotenoids, such as beta-carotene, are excellent cancer-prevention compounds. Yellow and orange squashes are rich...
...course, it's possible to get off-season fruits in many supermarkets these days, if you are willing to pay for imported, frozen or canned varieties. While having these options can be useful if you need to diversify your diet, it's generally best to buy fruit and vegetables grown locally and in season. "There is always going to be a benefit to something seasonal," says registered dietician Julie Walsh of the American Dietetic Association. The nutrients in plants actually change with the seasons, and many fruits and vegetables lose potency if eaten past their prime...
...Cleland to admit that most people who buy diet pills know they don't work, and that the Venn diagram of those people and the people who read FTC reports doesn't have enough overlap to be worth 2 1/2 years of effort. What he didn't understand, and why he should use whatever little bit of remaining FTC budget he has left to take his staff to a Eugene O'Neill play, is that people want to be deceived. You don't go to John Edward because you believe, but because it's nice to pretend you believe...
...ELECTED. YUKIO HATOYAMA, 55, as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition party; after a closely contested runoff against party Secretary-General Naoto Kan; in Tokyo. Despite holding a quarter of the seats in Japan's Diet, a recent newspaper poll showed that that djp is supported by less than 10% of the public...