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...reach for those pork rinds just yet. While the new studies showed an initial benefit, the advantages gradually disappeared over the long term. After a year, folks on the low-carb diet had regained much more weight than those on low-fat diets. And as Dr. Dean Ornish--on the opposite side of many a debate with Atkins--points out, you would expect HDL levels to go up with a low-carb diet, since HDL acts as a kind of dump truck for scavenging fatty compounds. It will also take years to determine whether low-carb diets--which stint...
Angwin, a late-blooming fitness fanatic, is an exception to the country's otherwise alarming fat stats. More than 63 million Americans are overweight, according to government data, and only 1 in 4 adults satisfies the minimum recommendation of 30 minutes of moderate activity most days of the week...
After age 40, adults lose a quarter to a third of a pound of muscle a year and gain that much body fat, a condition known as sarcopenia. "You get that typical, pudgy 'old-person look,'" says Nelson, "and eventually you become so weak, you can't walk up stairs or get out of a chair without help." Twice weekly 45-minute sessions of strength training, she says, can reverse or prevent age-related muscle loss. In four weeks, grocery bags feel lighter, and in six weeks, arthritis pain may lessen. Women in Nelson's weight-training studies usually drop...
...frightened, partly because they wore military uniforms and were indistinguishable from the troops and partly because their military keepers had told them GAM knew all of their names and intended to assassinate them. Foolishly, I had assumed the presence of embeds might curb the worst excesses of the troops. Fat chance. Two embed teams have witnessed T.N.I. atrocities and been warned-in one case, on pain of death-not to report them. "Before, the embeds were afraid of GAM," says an Indonesian colleague in Lhokseumawe in northern Aceh. "Now, they're more afraid of the T.N.I...
Gomes compared Lewis to Charlemagne and spoke of hostile invaders who wished to destroy his European kingdom. Gomes also mentioned the Emperor’s incompetent successors who had such memorable names as “Charles the Fat...