Word: fatted
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...their study, which was reported in the research journal Science, Michigan's Yves Poirier and his colleagues capitalized on the environmental know-how of a select group of bacteria. In much the same way that humans store excess nutrients as fat, these germs turn sugar into the plastic molecule polyhydroxybutyrate, or PHB. They can also digest the polymer, which means it is biodegradable...
According to Rifkin, civilization began a long slide downhill when 18th century British gentry acquired a taste for fat-marbled beef and proceeded to spread that proclivity, like a plague, throughout the Western world. Rifkin's real argument, of course, is not with the 1.3 billion bovines that roam the planet but with modern methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated...
Such inflammatory rhetoric sends shudders through the U.S. beef industry, which is already reeling from a nearly one-third drop in per capita consumption since 1976 -- the result of popular concern about fat in the diet. Now Rifkin hungers for a more decisive blow. This week he is leading a coalition of environmental, food-policy and animal-rights groups in launching a well-financed advertising campaign aimed at slashing worldwide beef consumption by 50% over the coming decade. Members of the coalition range from the Rainforest Action Network, which blames cattle for "killing the Amazon," % to the Fund for Animals...
Cutting down on beef consumption in protein-sated countries like the U.S. is a prudent prescription that would go a long way toward enhancing general health. Red meat is the primary source of saturated fat in the American diet, and too much dietary fat has been linked to the development of both heart disease and certain types of cancer. But trimming beef in the American diet, emphasizes Felicia Busch of the American Dietetic Association, "will not solve world hunger, and it isn't going to save our planet." The environmental cost of beef is just one aspect of the multiplying...
...beer, like alcohol in general, is full of calories. Except that the obvious is only part of the story. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that Swiss physiologists have found that alcohol not only adds calories to the diet but also keeps the body from burning dietary fat properly. Booze in the bloodstream can slow down fat metabolism more than 30% -- though it speeds up the burning of carbohydrates. When fat isn't metabolized, it gets deposited on thighs, hips, stomach and other embarrassing parts of the body. So while one answer to an inappropriately bulging physique might...