Word: fatted
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...list of things we're supposed to do but generally don't, nothing ranks higher than eating well. And no wonder, considering that they keep changing the rules on us. Margarine was once supposed to be better than butter - until it turned out to be worse. Low-fat eating was supposed to be the way to lose weight - until it was low-carb, then back to low-fat again...
...relatively few Wall Streeters over the years have decided to give up the fat paychecks and luxury perks of high finance for the world of education. Those who did often had midlevel jobs on Wall Street or were nearing retirement. That seems to be changing...
...Both groups gained similar amounts of weight by the end of the 12 weeks, but only the people drinking fructose-sweetened beverages with each meal showed signs of unhealthy changes in their liver function and fat deposits. In this group, the liver churned out more fat, while the subjects consuming similar amounts of glucose-sweetened drinks showed no such change. The fructose-drinking volunteers also were not as sensitive to insulin, the hormone released by the pancreas to capture and break down glucose in the blood and store it as fat. Insulin insensitivity is one of the first signs...
Sitting in Crema Cafe, non-fat latte in one hand and BlackBerry in the other, freshman novelist Isabel E. Kaplan ’12 parries her timid demeanor with confident eloquence. She has the air of total normalcy that most Harvard students manifest, but in both pedigree and talent, Kaplan is a far cry from normal. Her book pitch in seventh grade garnished a mention in Page Six of The New York Post, but Kaplan had to wait till the ripe age of 16 to finally sign her first book deal. However, patience paid off; Kaplan’s debut...
...possess a type of beneficial fat—previously thought to only be present in babies, young children, and other small mammals—that burns calories instead of storing them. The discovery was made simultaneously by three independent research teams in Boston, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden. Brown fat and its potentially crucial role in warding off obesity has since been the subject of three articles in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Unlike its counterpart white fat, a mere two ounces of brown fat tissue, if fully activated, could burn an estimated...