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...sport makes it worth it. “[Losing weight] adds another dimension,” he claims. Furthermore, Downing doesn’t think that his skill at the art of dropping pounds will dominate his life. “I think I’ll be fat by the time I’m 30,” he says...
...sport makes it worth it. “[Losing weight] adds another dimension,” he claims. Furthermore, Downing doesn’t think that his skill at the art of dropping pounds will dominate his life. “I think I’ll be fat by the time I’m 30,” he says...
DIED. PHIL SOKOLOF, 82, who spent millions of his own money to wage war against fat; in Omaha, Neb. After a heart attack at age 46, the self-made millionaire, who suffered from high cholesterol, began buying full-page newspaper ads with such headlines as MCDONALD'S, YOUR HAMBURGERS HAVE TOO MUCH FAT! His work prompted some fast-food chains, including McDonald's, to begin frying potatoes in vegetable oil rather than beef tallow and other companies to stop using highly saturated tropical oils in packaged snacks. He was credited with helping bring about mandatory nutritional labels on food packaging...
...lessons she teaches through the stories she tells. There are tales of conversion when some critics actually get around to reading the books and find a message about good and evil, courage and kindness, that speaks to universal values. There are testimonials from parents and teachers about kids tackling fat books for the first time, skipping whole grade levels in their reading, lured away from the screen to sink into the page. But mainly her influence is quiet, because it is private, a transaction between her imagination and ours, and it is measured in gratitude, to a woman...
...answer, it turns out, involves inflammation. As the body's first line of defense against invading bugs, it's the reason that cuts swell and turn red as immune cells flood in to attack the microbes. Fat, when it builds up in plaques inside heart vessels, can launch the same type of alert, causing the plaques to rupture and lead to a heart attack. Ridker exploited this response by measuring inflammation with a specific marker of the process, C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is easily picked up in the blood and reliably indicates how much inflammation is occurring...