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...Folkman lab team led by Dr. Karen Moulton decided to find out. The scientists put baby lab mice on a 16-week "Western diet" that was high in fat and cholesterol, then measured the plaque buildup on the walls of each aorta, the large artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. Meanwhile, they injected one group of mice with endostatin, another with a different blood-vessel inhibitor called TNP-470 and a control group with an inert saline solution. Twenty weeks later the researchers again measured plaque in the mouse aortas. The results were...
...Chinese restaurants. But that hasn't stopped the experts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from coming up with a new set of guidelines, published last week in the form of a pint-size food pyramid, to help parents and teachers encourage kids to eat a healthy, balanced diet...
Even at that, you don't want too much fruit juice to displace other foods in your child's diet. Otherwise, he or she will miss out on fiber, vitamins and other nutrients in whole fruit, and calcium from milk, yogurt and other dairy products. One final caution: the USDA's food guide does not apply to toddlers under the age of 2, who have their own very specific nutritional needs. Soon enough, though, they'll be lobbying you for something from the chip group and something from the chocolate group...
...EATING Consuming wheat germ, sardines, whole grains and other foods high in vitamin E may protect your heart better than taking vitamin E supplements. A study out last week found that women whose diet was naturally high in E were more resistant to the presence of dangerous oxidizing chemicals in their blood than were those who took vitamin pills. It seemed that the supplements blocked some of the benefits of vitamins found in food...
...added, "Throughout my childhood his reaction to television was 'There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.' " So we may end Farnsworth's story by saying that he was not only the inventor of television but also one of its earliest and most perceptive critics...