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...Calif., Lappé studied education at Brown University and spent a year teaching history in South Africa. She earned a master's degree in economic and political development from Columbia University, turning her thesis into a book about the root causes of hunger and poverty, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her mom. "Globally, we're producing enough food not only to be well fed but to get chubby," says Lappé. "If more citizens rather than corporations had a say in decisions being made about our food, there wouldn't be any hunger...
...latest diets call on the health conscious to cut out meat, carbohydrates, and sweets from their diet, but a new study suggests that for children, cutting down on television just might prevent packing on those extra pounds. The report, co-authored by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and published this month, revealed that increasing television-viewing results in increasing caloric intake in children. While the link between viewing television and obesity has been well documented in the past, studies have often hypothesized that weight gain from television-viewing comes from being sedentary and from the tendency...
...real disappointing.” But Walsh added, “There’s no blame. Just a heckuva ballgame. You know, you gotta get on the board. And we didn’t.” In game one, Haviland fed the Quakers a steady diet of curveballs, confounding the opposition with a spot-on delivery and superb control. He produced a nearly identical line—seven-inning complete game, seven strikeouts, only one run allowed—to the one he served Princeton in a 4-1 victory on April 1. This time, as the result...
They're also unlikely to impair your judgment behind the wheel or send you on the road to rehab. Simply put, alcohol is not for everyone. "It's a lot more important to stress the benefits of a healthy diet and regular physical activity," says Eric Rimm, one of the co-authors of the New England Journal study. If you are one of those people who is able to drink responsibly, you can enjoy alcohol without turning it into some kind of medical excuse. But if, for whatever reason, you don't drink, there's no need to start. There...
...tuna, but some concerns surround high mercury and lead levels in fish. “People can continue to eat their junk food,” said Alexander Leaf, an emeritus professor of clinical medicine at Harvard. “You won’t have to change your diet, but you will be getting what you need.” A number of obstacles remain before the research can move from the lab to the supermarket. Scientists are still uncertain as to whether Omega-3s will have the same benefits when eaten in pork. And Jing X. Kang...