Word: fatness
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Indeed, much of what Weil recommends is pretty simple stuff: self-administered, commonsense cures like eating less fat, getting more exercise and reducing stress. He leads readers a little farther afield when he introduces them to herbalism, acupuncture, naturopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic and hypnotism, although most of these protocols fall into the can't-hurt-could-help category. Where he may get into trouble is when he wanders farther still, uncritically endorsing treatments such as cranial manipulation that seem like folly even to many alternative-medicine believers. For skeptics looking for reasons to dismiss Weil, this kind of at-the-fringes...
...reinforces behaviors so essential to survival. "If it were not for the fact that sex is pleasurable," observes Charles Schuster of Wayne State University in Detroit, "we would not engage in it." Unfortunately, some of the activities humans are neurochemically tuned to find agreeable--eating foods rich in fat and sugar, for instance--have backfired in modern society. Just as a surfeit of food and a dearth of exercise have conspired to turn heart disease and diabetes into major health problems, so the easy availability of addictive chemicals has played a devious trick. Addicts do not crave heroin or cocaine...
...time films in the West. But Yeoh, 34, has always known how to handle herself. Consider the first scene in her first starring role, as a Hong Kong cop in the 1985 Yes, Madam: she walks into a library and, when a man exposes himself, slams a fat book shut on his offending member. She is a master of lightning kicks, splits and somersaults; she's also handy with firearms. A little Diaghilev, a little Dirty Harry...
...group, nobody has lower blood pressure than vegetarians. But until now, scientists could only guess at what the reasons might be. Was it the absence of artery-clogging fat in their diet or something in the tofu that made their blood flow so smoothly? More to the point, is it possible for ordinary meat eaters with hypertension to reduce their blood pressure without going entirely macrobiotic...
...answer, it turns out, is yes. A study of 459 adults published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine showed for the first time that a diet that is low in saturated fat and combines lots of fruits and vegetables with low-fat dairy products can indeed reduce hypertension--and rather dramatically at that. Within two weeks, the blood pressure of the test subjects dropped significantly. By the end of the study, almost everyone on the combined diet saw their diastolic pressure drop an average of three to five points, or as much as 6%. Researchers calculate that...