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...wonder so many of us are overweight, ill-nourished and just plain frustrated about how to shape up: every day brings more conflicting medical advice. Here's what experts are reporting now: IS FAT THAT BAD? Everyone knows that a diet low in fat helps the heart and prevents cancer. But what if it doesn't? A $415 million, 12-year U.S. study of 49,000 older women found that a low-fat diet did not significantly reduce breast cancer, colorectal cancer or heart disease. But low-fat advocates say the study didn't distinguish between good fats such...
...future, search were to become more personal, more local? We might turn more to our friends, neighbors and even strangers for opinions, recipes, travel tips and so on. That, more or less, is what Yahoo!'s bet is about. Yahoo! figures we won't be satisfied with a fat data-crunching search engine like Google's. Yahoo! is focusing instead on "social search," in which everyday Internet users pool their knowledge to create alternative systems of content that deliver more relevant results--which, of course, can be monetized...
...Trade Center. The production had surprising lulls, though, such as the boring balloon heads who followed the fake cows pulled by waltzers in Holsteinesque spotted costumes on the white-floored performance ring, which the choregraphers called a mosh pit (piazzetta). Actually, according to the Opening? Ceremonies Media Guide, a fat 68 pages in both English and Italian, those were not technically "balloon heads." They were 50 snow women, "symbolizing winter snowflakes." So there...
...statistics. After looking at the variation in the data with various mathematical tools, research statisticians determined that they couldn't rule out the possibility that the 9% difference in breast cancer results was due to chance alone. (It could be chance; it could also be due to the low-fat diet.) On the other hand, after applying those same mathematical tools to the data in the colorectal cancer study, they determined that the 9% difference in the number of polyps was unlikely to be due to chance alone...
...women?s hearts after menopause. There are plenty of doctors, and quite a few patients, who are still trying to figure what that actually means.) Strictly speaking, the results do not apply to men, who tend to get heart disease earlier than women do and for whom a low-fat diet might be particularly beneficial. But this study has set the gold standard for diet studies in the future. Fortunately, there are enough research funds to continue following the WHI participants for another five years. Here?s hoping that is long enough to get more answers that are statistically significant...