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...particularly confused about what makes us fat. The old arguments--is it too much fat, too many carbohydrates or too many calories?--were stirred up once again last month by an article in the New York Times Magazine suggesting that low-fat diets may be making us fatter. While the new information about PYY won't help you choose between a high-protein or low-fat diet, it goes a long way toward explaining how the brain and the digestive system conspire to keep the pounds...
Whole Foods, along with its chief rival, Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo., is riding a surge of interest in so-called natural and organic foods. While such foods account for just 3% of Americans' grocery bills, they attract higher-income buyers and yield fatter profits for grocers and producers. And a parade of food scares--mad-cow disease, hormones and antibiotics in meat and milk, pesticides in produce, genetically altered "Frankenfoods"--is propelling more shoppers to go organic. Result: sales of natural and organic foods are growing at an 18% annual clip and are projected to surpass...
...practices combined yoga/ballet three times a week. "People didn't have the time or money to spend on themselves, but at least they were healthier because they ate simple things and exercised because their work was strenuous. Today, some people may be wealthier, but they're also getting fatter and living more stressed-out lives...
...there's one conflict of interest that the SEC will never get at: Everybody on Wall Street benefits when the markets go up. Deals get bigger. Commissions get fatter. Decisions get easier - just run with the bulls - and CNBC anchors' smiles get wider, because the more people making money in the market, the more viewers tuning in to hear what the analysts, economists, CEOs and Warren Buffett think is the best place to put your chips...
OBESE KIDS Mothers who worry about their children gaining weight could actually make the problem worse. According to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the more a mother worries that her child will become obese the fatter a child tends to be. But when a mom allows her child to eat everything on the plate, the child's typical total fat mass is lower. Researchers surmise that controlling feeding strategies interfere with kids' ability to self-regulate their food intake...