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...celebrity as a physician long before his foray into prophesy. After excelling as a medical student at Montpelier, he enjoyed unprecedented success in treating the 1546 charbon, the Black Death. Always the iconoclast, he achieved his results by rejecting traditional treatments such as bleeding and, instead, stressing hygiene and diet, and giving his patients lozenges made of rose petals and other herbs (really, vitamin C). He seems truly to have been ahead of his time...
...White House, has been overtaken and outdated by contemporary events. "That was the era of Linus Pauling and vitamin C and the common cold," says Marion Nestle, chairman of the department of nutrition at New York University and a Joy contributor. "Frances Moore Lappe's book Diet for a Small Planet had just come out, emphasizing the importance of balanced protein. So the nutrition content of the book in 1975 really emphasized protein, beyond all other nutritional information. Today, issues of calories and fat and caloric balance and exercise and moderation are much more important...
...LAND Trans fatty acids--a class of fat that's pervasive in the American diet--may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. They're found in margarine, fast foods, baked goods and some vegetable oils...
This decision begins to strike at the heiwa kenpo or Peace Constitution, which was probably the best result of the American occupation of Japan after World War II. Currently in the Japanese Diet (the equivalent of Parliament), legislation is being considered that would considerably revise the Peace Constitution so that the peaceful focus of this document would be forever altered. This concerns some high officials in Japan, such as Takako Doi, head of the second largest political party in Japan, the Social Democratic Party. In her recent speech at Harvard Law School, Doi stated that the MacArthur Constitution "gave Japan...
...didn't notice," said Trent Taylor, a third-year law student, who was drinking a bottle of Diet Coke in the Green-house. "But $1.50 is pretty expensive. I know you can get a liter of this Coke for the same price...