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Colon cancer has been linked to high-fat diets; fatty foods increase the production of bile acids, which may irritate the lining of the colon and trigger abnormal cell growth. This could explain why the disease is found less frequently among vegetarians and in countries where people eat less fat than typical Americans...
...years old and recovering from the flu, starts to stir. Stephanie, who is an American Indian and one of ten children herself, first became pregnant at 15. It was an "accident," she explains. So too was her second baby. "I'm always tired," she laments, "and I can't eat." Before Joey's birth, before she dropped out of school, Stephanie dreamed of being a stewardess. Now her aspirations are more down-to-earth. "I want to pay my bills, buy groceries and have a house and furniture. I want to feel good about myself so my kids...
...over rural China have been narrowed by piles of bricks dumped along the shoulders to be picked up by peasants who are erecting homes or even paying others to do it for them. Compared with the days of Mao, when many peasants were required to live in dormitories and eat in communal mess halls, the change in life-style alone is almost revolutionary...
...results have been phenomenal. Freed to prosper by hard work, Chinese farmers have increased food production around 8% in each year since 1978, about 2½ times the rate in the preceding 26 years. Variety has increased along with quantity; besides rice and wheat, the Chinese are growing and eating more poultry and pork (China has the world's largest pig population, though many are scrawny beasts quite unlike the corn-fattened hogs of Iowa or Nebraska). The biggest payoff of all: Vaclav Smil, a Canadian geographer, calculates that in China, "today's diets appear to supply, on the average, enough...
...problem that is not likely to be solved by technological heroism in the intensive-care nursery. It is easiest to blame the mothers. They are often teenagers who have got pregnant through carelessness and gone through the pregnancy in secret, with no prenatal care and little social pressure to eat right, say, or give up smoking. Some of the mothers are alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes...