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...with food, often characterized by an obsession with nutrition, constant dieting and perpetual dissatisfaction with body image. You’ve seen or have been victim to its various incarnations—obsessively going to the gym, binging at the dessert table, constantly strategizing about caloric intake, absurd one-fruit-an-hour diets, screensavers that say, “Diet or die,” Facebook notes that cry out for help, a sudden and inexplicable switch to veganism, etc. While anorexia is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual as failure to maintain body weight within 85% of expected...
...Khan Trust for Culture, which promotes the rehabilitation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage. In times of conflict, civilians were afraid to leave home, he says, and the fear of land mines kept many from digging. Now that a nationwide campaign to clear the mines is bearing fruit, looters are returning to sites that have been untouched for years, and are even discovering new ones. "Given the price land mines exact, you don't exactly want to promote them," muses Leslie. "But it is tempting to put up warnings just for preservation...
...article about people's gullibility when it comes to detoxing. Many years ago I asked my physician whether illnesses are due at least 90% to what we eat; he nodded approvingly. These last 30 years I have eaten very sparingly, adhering to a strict Mediterranean regimen: plenty of fruit and vegetables and one glass of red wine, no red meat but lots of beans as a substitute. With a BMI of 20, I feel very healthy. Will people ever learn that gluttony and junk food are bad? Ettore Ulivelli, MILAN, ITALY...
...Enjoys working on cars and is an amateur horticulturalist. According to the Seattle Times, he spends his time, "grafting fruit trees, ministering a friend's ailing gardenias, growing orchids in his office...
...food, less is more. Scientific papers have cited one of the first reports of this effect, a 1981 study by W.M. Jarrell and R.B. Beverly in Advances in Agronomy, more than 180 times since its publication, "suggesting that the effect is widely regarded as common knowledge." (See pictures of fruit...