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Older people need to consume more fiber than younger people because the muscles in the lower intestinal tract become less responsive and need bulk to keep working. If the muscles fail to do their job, the intestines can develop diverticulitis, an inflammation of the intestinal wall...
...cholesterol, fight cancer and build healthy bones. Grocers are stocking tasty new varieties. And sometime this summer or early fall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to put soy on its short list of foods that may actually lower the risk of heart disease. (The others are fiber-containing fruits, vegetables, whole grains and psyllium seed husk...
...both his and the company's stock soaring. It was the perfect meeting of a CEO with an unlimited imagination and a corporation with an unlimited checkbook. In January 1998, just two months after Armstrong took the helm, the company paid $11 billion for Teleport, a company that operates fiber-optic networks in New York and other cities. Six months later, AT&T purchased Tele-Communications Inc., then the second largest cable company in the U.S., for $53.5 billion. Acquiring MediaOne, and adding its 5 million subscribers to TCI's 12 million households, would finally give AT&T the national...
Another reason to go slow: your intestines need a week or two to adjust to the extra fiber. Drink plenty of water to keep your bowels from getting blocked. "You don't have to eat all bran all the time," says Susan Roberts, professor of nutrition at Tufts University in Boston. "But you should try to get some fiber at every meal...
Whole grains, of course, are not the only source of fiber, vitamins or complex carbohydrates. Don't forget your beans, peas and other legumes (rinsing canned beans in cold water helps cut down on gas). And as nutritious as these food groups are, they won't protect you from patently self-destructive behavior--like smoking, overdrinking or leading a sedentary life. But that's food for another column...