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Fortunately, nature has given us a handy rule of thumb. Many of the very chemicals that make foods good for us are the ones that give them color, turning blueberries blue, spinach green and carrots deep orange. For optimum health, scientists say, eat a rainbow of colors. Your plate should look like a box of Crayolas...
...chairman with bared teeth at these things, opened the hearing by cross-examining Greenspan on one particularly quotable passage in his remarks, a rhetorical question whether the Fed had "the capability to eliminate booms and busts in economic activity? Can fiscal and monetary policy acting at their optimum eliminate the business cycle, as some of the more optimistic followers of J.M. Keynes seemed to believe several decades...
...surprisingly, the weakest link. What's recommended is an array of produce, the more vibrant the better. "Be drawn to brightly colored fruits and vegetables," advises Dr. Daniel Nadeau, a professor at Tufts Medical School and co-author of The Color Code: A Revolutionary Eating Plan for Optimum Health, due from Hyperion next March. Dr. David Heber, the founding director of the ucla Center for Human Nutrition and author of the just published What Color Is Your Diet? (HarperCollins), suggests seven servings a day of fruits and vegetables, each from a different color group (to meet your orange-yellow needs...
...Group, a partnership with Ernst & Young designed to apply complexity science to Big Business. In five years, it has completed more than 50 projects for FORTUNE 500 companies, solving thorny problems of supply-chain management for Procter & Gamble (How do you get the soap from factory to home with optimum results for P&G, its retailers, and consumers?), decimalization for NASDAQ and crowd control for Disneyland (How do you avoid long lines at rides...
Gridlock, in fact, is one candidate investors should vote for. The Dow has fared best when one party has controlled the White House and the other has controlled Congress, the optimum formula being a Democratic President and a Republican-controlled Congress. That combo has produced Dow gains, excluding dividends, of 10.7% a year. The hands-down loser: Republicans with a mandate. When the g.o.p. has run both branches, the Dow has limped at less than 1% a year...