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Starting a low-fat diet in mid-life does not, by itself, decrease a woman's risk of heart disease or stroke or dramatically reduce her risk of breast or colorectal cancer, according to three studies published today of almost 50,000 healthy, post-menopausal women. But don?t break out the ice cream just yet. Once you get into the nitty-gritty of the study, the investigators stress, the findings still support the general idea that you need to pay attention to how much fat-and particularly what kinds...
...Still, the results of these studies, which were sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, cannot be ignored, or easily dismissed. This is by far the largest, most scientifically rigorous attempt ever to test a low-fat diet-defined as 20% or less of total calories coming from fat. Researchers randomly divided the participants into two groups, worked hard to get one group to cut its fat intake and then compared the results for each of them for the next several years...
...Through focus groups and sessions with nutritionists, the so-called intervention group was given a lot of help and information on how to cut the amount of fat in their diet. As a group they weren?t able to get all the way down to 20% fat intake, but they did manage to reduce it to 24% in the first year, though it slid back up to 29% by the sixth year. The other, so-called control group received printed material on dietary guidelines but no other help on healthy eating. The fat content of their diets was 35% after...
...having more of the hottest merchandise on hand, of course, is to convince shoppers used to a steady diet of Macy's one-day sales that there's value in paying full price too. "Will they be able to wean the customer off the sale heroin? It's not going to be easy," says retail consultant Cynthia Cohen, president of Strategic Mindshare. To earn that premium, retail consultants say Macy's has to offer more merchandise that shoppers can't get anywhere else. Private labels like Charter Club and INC already make up about 18% of Federated's sales. Deborah...
...generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised on a diet of "wall-to-wall sex, violence and misery," will buy Cyrano for Valentine's Day. "But everybody," she says, "should be subverted by romance now and again." McCaughrean's ease on literary giants' shoulders may have swayed the panel of Pan judges. But their description of her suggested treatment...