Word: diets
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...today," apologizes director Robert Zemeckis, who teamed with Hanks on 1994's Forrest Gump. It's more like boxing. Hanks clambers, panting, onto the command ship Aftershock, barking, "Big ones! Those were great!" Like a prizefighter, he's wrapped in a towel. He takes a few slugs of Diet Coke, has a mouthpiece popped in--actually a set of prosthetic rotten teeth--gets his scars and scabs touched up and then swings overboard again. Perhaps out of patriotism, I avert my eyes from his skimpy loincloth. I mean, that'd be like checking out Thomas Jefferson's package...
What makes a primate species start breeding more like bunnies than bonobos? Hrdy points to that great watershed of prehistory, the dawn of the Neolithic era, with the invention of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. For one thing, the changing diet allowed girls to fatten up for puberty earlier and wean their babies faster, thus bearing more babies per lifetime. Men began to define land and animals as property and sources of prestige, it would seem, and women as chattel to be fought over...
...women shows that the current federal guidelines--lots of fruits, veggies, low-fat protein and grains--can indeed reduce the risk of dying from cancer, heart disease or stroke. May sound familiar, but this is one of the few reports that look at the health effects of overall diet, not just a single food or food group. The message? Fill your plate with the good stuff...
...mean you're off the hook to keep your pressure down. According to generally accepted standards, no one should maintain a reading above 140/90, and some people may be advised to keep their pressure even lower. And that's where the work comes in: Cutting salt from your diet, losing weight and, yes, getting out there and exercising...
...they're being held. But the Philippines government says retreat is out of the question. Besides having to cope with being held hostage by a fanatical organization fighting to stave off extinction at the hands of the government forces, the erstwhile vacationers are suffering from deteriorating health from a diet of rice and rainwater and growing anxiety of dying in a shoot-out. Although the government has appointed a former commander of a rival rebel group to negotiate with the abductors, it is holding to a tough security line, and engaged a group of rebels in a firefight Monday...