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...KIND This week People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launches a campaign to increase public awareness of animal cruelty and its link to other violent behavior in youngsters. The group is supplying teaching kits and videos to more than 100,000 educators as well as 15,000 pediatric and obstetric offices to help adults teach kids the importance of being kind to their pets and other animals. The material shows parents, teachers and doctors how to spot and deal quickly with the troubling early signs of cruelty to animals...
That being the case, it's no surprise that the relationship between diet and cancer is still largely a matter of educated guesswork--and in many cases, the guesses have turned out to be wrong. Take the much publicized link between high-fat diets and breast cancer, for example. Women who live in Western countries, where high-fat diets are the norm, tend to have high breast-cancer rates. Even more telling: women of Japanese ancestry who live in the U.S. get the disease six times more often than their grandmothers and great-grandmothers in Japan. Yet a huge recent...
...tomatoes and prostate cancer. Studies have shown that men who eat cooked tomatoes in various forms have a lower incidence of malignancy. The reason may be lycopene, another of the carotenoids, which is released when tomatoes are heated--but no one knows for sure, and even the tomato-prostate link isn't absolutely firm...
Another substance found in fruits and vegetables, though, does seem to have a protective effect against one form of malignancy: dietary fiber clearly reduces the risk of colon cancer. That link is sufficiently well established that the National Cancer Institute recommends that Americans increase their average daily fiber intake...
...pressured on every side, are restructuring their businesses and forming large entities with muscle power of their own. Cruise lines, car-rental firms and rail and ferry companies are racing to consolidate into giant groupings with global ownership, reach and resources. "In a competitive environment, you've got to link up with partners if you don't want to be marginalized," says Dominique Patry, head of international affairs and alliances for Air France. "All companies are looking for ways to hang on to their customers...