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...when Allaire and Mulcahy, a well-liked 24-year veteran of the company, formally disclose the damage, they'll do their best to put that speculation to rest and chart a turnaround strategy. Saddled with $17 billion in debt, Xerox is a bloated company that needs to trim the fat--and fast--to compete with the Japanese and rivals in Silicon Valley. Besides getting rid of the credit division and Xerox PARC, options include bailing on its Japanese joint venture with Fuji...
Cardiologists have long known that eating fish helps protect against heart disease. What they don't know is why fish are beneficial. For years they figured it was a simple question of substitution: folks who replace red meat with fish are naturally cutting down their intake of saturated fat, which the body easily converts into artery-choking plaques. But a growing body of evidence collected over the past 30 years suggests there's something special about fish. In particular, fish contain nutrients called omega-3 fatty acids (especially abundant in species like sardines, salmon and mackerel) that seem to promote...
...Food and Drug Administration's turn to consider the question. As the result of a lawsuit brought by alternative-medicine advocates, the FDA is supposed to decide before the end of this week whether the manufacturers of omega-3 pills and fish oils can advertise the fat's heart benefits. If the FDA agrees, omega-3 will join a select group of nutrients, including psyllium, soy and whole oats, that is cleared for similar health claims. The agency was keeping mum in advance about which way it was leaning, but the evidence provided some clues about how it might rule...
...thing is clear whether you get your omega-3s from pills, oils or fish: they are not panaceas. You still have to eat a well-balanced diet that's lower in calories and total fat than most Americans currently consume. Otherwise, you're fishing for trouble...
...time that very overweight girls tend to mature earlier, and very thin girls, such as anorexics, tend to mature later than normal. We think mildly overweight girls may be maturing early as well." Kaplowitz emphasizes that the correlation is merely statistical; not every girl with a little extra baby fat will develop breasts early...