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...everything at once. This one can be tough, especially if you need to lose weight, because your best hope for long-term success requires permanent changes in your diet as well as a boost in your physical activity. But improvements in one area often lead to changes in others. If you're exercising regularly, for example, you're likely to find yourself eating more healthfully as well, so as not to undermine your "investment...
...instead of saying you'll eat less fat, make up your mind to bring your lunch to work. (By the way, you don't have to condemn yourself to carrots and celery sticks only. Just preparing your own food can cut hundreds of calories from the typical American diet...
...losing a promotion. Some even reported that they had been prevented from adopting children because of information found in genetic tests. Billings recalls, for example, a couple who had a child with phenylketonuria (PKU), an inherited condition that can lead to retardation but is easily--and inexpensively--treated by diet. "Insurance companies not only refused to write policies for the couple but effectively ostracized the entire family," he says...
...could arise with the increasing availability of tests for so-called low-penetrance genes, such as those associated with breast or colon cancer. These don't necessarily mean that the carrier will be stricken but suggest an increased risk, especially in the presence of certain "co-factors" like poor diet, alcohol or smoking. Such tests are already available for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast-cancer genes but at a cost of about $2,700 each, and with their limited predictive abilities, only a few are performed. Still, they raise critical questions for any woman who tests positive. Should she undertake...
...Alaia to Prada to Yohji Yamamoto, you'd think he had a product placement contract. It seems to be Ellis' convenient shorthand for character sketches. When Victor undergoes a transformation to a law student, we know he is different because he now wears a Brooks Brothers suit and drinks Diet Coke. London and Paris become nothing more than a different collection of recognizable proper nouns (Notting Hill and Irvine Welsh in the first case; Chez Georges and Yves Saint-Laurent in the second...