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Intriguingly, the part of the WHI study that focuses on the long-term benefits of estrogen alone among women who have undergone hysterectomies is ongoing. So far, the safety board has not detected any excess risk of breast cancer in this group. Apparently, estrogen plus progestin has a negative cumulative effect on the breast that estrogen by itself seems not to have...
...replacement therapy, women taking birth-control pills shouldn't panic. True, these pills also contain estrogen and progestin, but most women take them before menopause, when their bodies are making more of their own hormones. So it's quite possible that their bodies are better able to handle the excess. In any case, it's impossible to extrapolate from the WHI study...
...their parents. Vegetarian food sales are savoring double-digit growth. Top restaurants have added more meatless dishes. Trendy "living foods" or "raw" restaurants are sprouting up, like Roxanne's in Larkspur, Calif., where no meat, fish, poultry or dairy items are served, and nothing is cooked to temperatures in excess of 118[degrees]F. "Going to my restaurant," says Roxanne Klein, "is like going to a really cool new country you haven't experienced before...
Eberle notes that vegetarian diets done correctly are high in fiber and low in fat. "But where are the calories?" she asks. "World-class endurance athletes need in excess of 5,000 or 6,000 calories a day. Competition can easily consume 10,000. You need to eat a lot of plant-based food to get those calories. Being a vegetarian athlete is hard, really hard to do right...
...have welcomed it. The E.U.'s agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler is trying to de-link direct subsidies and production. The Common Agricultural Policy has encouraged farmers to overproduce in the knowledge that the E.U. will buy their crops. This has raised prices for consumers - and created mountains of excess products. Under the new system, payments will be more closely linked to environmental and quality standards, and will be gradually lowered by 20%, with the money saved to be used for rural devel BRITAIN Going to Pot The U.K. government lessened the penalties for being caught using marijuana as part...