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...suddenly made sense." Waters maintains her trademark plot-twisting - the full connections between some of the characters aren't revealed until the reader meets them in 1941 - and her attention to detail. She focuses on seemingly ordinary things that were luxuries at the time - a birthday orange, tins of meat, gin gimlets - to bring home a sense of the austerity of the period and the extraordinary situations Londoners found themselves in. Her meticulous revivals range from the mundane ("Their stockings were darned at the toes and heels. Their shoes were scuffed; everybody's were") to the shocking ("What amazed...
...study of 49,000 older women found that a low-fat diet did not significantly reduce breast cancer, colorectal cancer or heart disease. But low-fat advocates say the study didn't distinguish between good fats such as those in olive oil and oily fish and bad ones in meat and dairy products. LOVE YOUR GREENGROCER You can't overdo fruit and veg. Eating more than the usual recommendation of five servings a day cuts the risk of stroke by 26%, according to a London team that analyzed eight other studies. People who ate three to five servings...
...what passes in Mountain View for a crisis, Google has spent months trying to find a successor, or maybe two, to replace departing head chef Charlie Ayers, who once cooked for members of the Grateful Dead. A search committee has been meeting with candidates. We're not talking meat loaf and bug juice. In a recent tryout, the executive chef from an acclaimed area restaurant prepared sugar-pie pumpkin lasagna and cedar spring lamb chops...
...answer to the first question is that it's really, really hard to get a lot of women to cut their fat intake to 20%--basically no butter or nuts and very little meat. As for the question about whether low-fat diets prevent cancer, the WHI study simply may not have gone on long enough. True, there was no statistically significant benefit when you compared the two large groups. But the women who had the highest fat consumption at the start of the trial and who managed to cut it back the closest to 20% for the longest period...