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From the moment they announce their news, pregnant women are bombarded with well-meaning guidance: Drink milk; take your vitamins; buy a good vitamin E cream; eat lots of low-fat protein, including fish. It's all good advice. But these days, expectant mothers (and women considering pregnancy) are being told to choose their fish carefully...
...Jones in making her a tad too tubby. After all, in the novel, at an average of 124 pounds, Bridget is decidedly not overweight—she merely obsesses about feeling “ashamed and repulsive” and as if she “actually feels the fat splurging out from my body” when there is clearly no reason for it. However, it is exactly her appearance that makes her more endearing—she gives Bridget a warm glow that makes it absolutely believable that two devastatingly handsome men would end up in a full...
...Stem cells, which are simply cells that haven't decided what they want to be when they grow up, are widely considered one of science's best tools for developing cures for myriad diseases. A stem cell, taken before it's become, say, a fat cell, can be coaxed into becoming any number of other types of cells. Eventually, scientists hope, these modified organisms will be used to replace diseased cells all over the body...
...UCLA team is quick to point out, stem cell research is currently hampered by the controversy surrounding the cells, which are generally culled from aborted fetuses or from embryos left behind after fertility treatments. If scientists can perfect a method of extracting stem cells from discarded (and decidedly uncontroversial) fat, they could skirt the ethical conundrum altogether...
...Meanwhile, back in the plastic surgery suites of Beverly Hills, watch for a brand new calculus of fat reduction to emerge: If liposuction can help science, will whittling your waist become a philanthropic act? Will plastic surgeons be canonized...