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Cream Soda. Bill Bradley has blamed his recurring heart arrhythmia on his switch to drinking diet cream soda, which contains caffeine. He has since switched to diet orange soda. But what sort of a presidential beverage is diet orange soda...
...encouraging development is the increasing number of options for preventing bone loss and heart disease. The American Heart Association, for example, recommends the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs as the front-line treatment of choice for women whose blood lipids remain high despite diet and exercise. Similarly, there are new drugs designed to combat bone loss, including estrogen look-alikes that appear to act as antigrowth factors in the breast. As new and better drugs become available, the case for long-term hormone replacement will weaken...
...even to Shirley Watkins, the USDA Under Secretary of Food and Nutrition, who happens to be black. In recent years, food activists with a reasonable point to make--whether it be the fatty meals in restaurants, the dangers of genetically modified crops or the risks of a milk-rich diet--have increasingly relied on rhetorical bomb throwing to make sure they get heard. Or, in the case of one antibiotech group, real fire bombs...
...milk guidelines. For all the exasperation elicited by the allegations, they are not totally unfounded. As many as 70% of African Americans, 50% of Hispanics and 90% of Asian Americans are lactase deficient. The fact that the committee that writes the dietary guidelines may nonetheless recommend a milk-friendly diet is, the activists charge, partly a result of a conflict of interest. The group claims that six of the 10 committee members have had ties to the meat or dairy industries because they serve as consultants or accept research grants or speaking dates...
...EnfaGrow snacks if you're unsure about how healthy your child's diet is. But don't give up on those fruits and vegetables...