Word: diets
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...ethos of domestic civility was the overwhelming norm. But I was also exposed to, and invigorated by, lots of what would now be called "transgressive art" - popular works that exceeded or demolished the official standards of probity. I attended horror movies, read vivid comic books, gorged on a diet of rock 'n roll. (And what was the most extreme TV genre of the decade? Wrestling.) Somehow I survived; miraculously, so did my parents, nice conservative Catholics who monitored but chose not to restrict a boy's outlaw tastes...
...ERYTHROPOIETIN EPO regulates red-cell production, and these cells deliver oxygen throughout the body. Developed to alleviate anemia in patients with kidney disease, synthetic EPO is a diet staple for many long-distance runners, swimmers and cyclists. The oxygen boost it provides can improve an athlete's performance in a 20-min. run by 30 sec.; in a marathon, by as much...
...DIET (Germany) Ten chubsters locked in "a golden cage of temptations" try to lose as much weight as possible in 100 days. The winner receives the equivalent of loss in gold...
...meat or fish are more likely than carnivores to give birth to daughters. In the general British population, boys outnumber girls at birth 106 to 100, but girls outnumbered boys 100 to 81 among babies born to vegetarian moms in the study. Researchers theorize that a vegetarian diet may stress a woman's body, creating an environment in which the stronger female embryos thrive but males...
HALE AND HEARTY Chalk up another one for women. A study of nearly 85,000 nurses shows that since 1980, coronary heart disease--the leading killer of women in the U.S.--has plummeted 30%. The decline is mostly attributable to better diet: women are eating less red meat and fewer high-fat dairy products while chowing down on more of the good stuff, like fiber. The fact that more of them have kicked the smoking habit helps too. That's not to say the battle is over. Doctors report that if obesity were licked, heart disease would drop even further...