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...least that's true for many Americans, whose fat-and calorie-packed diets and largely exercise-free lives are a prescription for heart disease and plenty of other ills. For Okinawans, by contrast, the traditional way of life seems tailor-made for living forever--one day at a time...
...Institutes of Health and Japan's Ministry of Health have been following oldsters like Toguchi since 1976 in the Okinawa Centenarian Study (OCS) and they've learned that he's typical. Elderly Okinawans tend to get plenty of physical and mental exercise. Their diets, moreover, are exemplary: low in fat and salt, and high in fruits and vegetables packed with fiber and antioxidant substances that protect against cancer, heart disease and stroke. They consume more soy than any other population on earth: 60-120 g a day, compared to 30-50 g for the average Japanese, 10 for Chinese...
...have gallstones never develop pancreatitis). When the illness is attributed to excessive alcohol consumption - the other most common cause - patients are told to practice total abstinence. It's not clear whether pancreatitis is preventable, but anyone with a family history would be well advised to avoid a high-fat diet and drink alcohol sparingly...
...obesity is welcome. It would be appropriate to feature this problem on a monthly basis. I have noticed a disturbing trend in the U.S.: clothing is being resized, and everything is being made bigger. It is hard to believe any progress is being made in the war against fat. Here in Paris, if you eat out, the food is high priced and the occasion is a cherished time spent with friends. Emily Donahue Paris The key message about maintaining a healthy weight is to eat less and exercise more. We must pass this on to young children. Kids love...
...extraordinary imagery: a sword point that slo-mo slices through drops of water; soldiers squatting in a circle, caked in clay; lovers curled into each other, sleeping under red silk; a sword fight in a grove of golden leaves that turn red, plum, magenta and fall like fat confetti. In the film's design, color creates context. Each story Nameless tells is draped in a different hue: gray, red, blue, white, green. (In the fifth episode, a lake shimmers like lime Jell-O.) At the end, reality forces a new color on Nameless: black, for death. The cinematographer is Christopher...