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Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) have found that fiber helps reduce the risk of heart disease, according to an article in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Higher consumption of fiber is only one of the many important components of a healthy diet," Rimm said in an interview yesterday. "A high fiber diet will not compensate for the adverse health effects of a highly processed diet...
When Houghton took over the reins, nearly 70 percent of Corning's revenues came from cyclical, slow-growth businesses. The new CEO quickly divested units in laboratory glassware, electronics and light bulbs and spent $500 million on high-profit ventures in laboratory services and fiber optics...
...former pipe smoker, Kessler has boldly pursued the regulation of tobacco as an addictive drug and has been particularly critical of cigarette ads aimed at children (he calls smoking a "pediatric disease"). One of his proudest achievements was making sure every item of processed food clearly lists its fat, fiber and calorie contents. "The nutrition facts labels changed literally every product in the supermarket," Kessler says. "You used to walk in and not know what to believe...
...together is our common reflex to hit the remote whenever one of those Jonathan Pryce Infiniti commercials comes on. But more to the point, despite perennial complaints about TV's formulaic and lowbrow fare--and the religious right's conviction that the medium is destroying our nation's moral fiber--anyone who watches even a smattering of TV would have to agree that there are currently more first-rate programs on the air than at any time in television's nearly 50-year history: that comedies like The Simpsons and Frasier and Seinfeld more than stand up to I Love...