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Want to stay trim and lower your risk of Type 2 diabetes? Try cutting out the soft drinks. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women who regularly drank sugar-sweetened soda or fruit punch gained significantly more weight and had a greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than women who rarely indulged in high-sugar drinks. (Drinking diet soda had no significant effect.) The frequent soda sippers, who downed more than one sugary beverage a day, also tended to exercise less, smoke more, weigh more and eat more, but when researchers adjusted...
...growing ranks of scientists who believe that severely restricting calorie intake can slow down the aging process. Evidence for that surprising phenomenon emerged in the 1930s, when scientists learned that underfed rodents lived up to 40% longer than their well-fed counterparts. The results have since been duplicated in fruit flies, worms, monkeys and other lab animals. And preliminary research on humans suggests that some markers of aging--levels of blood glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol--improve on calorie-restriction (CR) diets...
...been perfected yet, but Sinclair and other researchers are making progress by trying to understand at the molecular level what it is about CR that seems to slow aging. Sinclair has found, for example, that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, increases life-spans of yeast and fruit flies. It works by amplifying the action of a molecule called SIRT1, which is present in all life forms and is produced in response to stress. "It's like a cell's 911 center," says Sinclair, and resveratrol is like a false alarm...
...year-old can be managed rather well. My little girl, thanks to her vigilant mother, does not watch television (except for approved videos) or eat fast food (except when with her aunt) or drink soda pop (ditto) or use foul language. She wears clean clothes and is fed fresh fruit and vegetables and that sort of thing. She is taken to kiddie concerts of classical music and to children's theater. At bedtime, with a little prompting, she bows her head and prays for people. Her teeth are clean and bright. Here I am, an old Democrat...
...bond between Bush and Deng bore fruit. When Bush left Beijing, Deng gave him an invitation from Mao to return to China at any time, go anywhere he wanted and bring whomever he wished. Deng then congratulated Bush on being promoted to head the CIA (where I worked at the time). In September 1977, Bush took Deng up on Mao's offer and went to China for 16 days. In the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he and Deng discussed the best way to use American technology to develop China's offshore oil reserves, and Bush made...