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...Physical exercise helps control insulin levels, while certain foods elicit its massive release. For example, ingesting fat alone doesn't prompt a big surge in insulin, but fat combined with starches and sugar does. A child who sits in front of the TV for hours on end, eating potato chips and doughnuts, is an ideal fat-storage machine...
Feeding the cows, cleaning out the pigpen and weeding the potato beds - that's the routine Irina Zhbanova grew up with in Perkhlyai, a desolate village of 740 souls in the depressed Russian republic of Mordovia, 600 km southeast of Moscow. But for the past three years, Zhbanova, 14, has been following another daily routine: for two hours early in the morning and two more after school, she practices her aces and backhands, flat serves and chip shots, footwork and block volleys. "Trying harder makes up for my starting in tennis too late," she says. "All right...
...past half-century, not much. Ever since the McDonald brothers perfected a method for deep-frying julienned potatoes and an Idaho researcher figured out how to freeze and refry the potatoes for mass consumption, fast-food chains, where some 40% of the U.S. potato crop ends up, have been serving the same basic burger accoutrement. After health concerns about the high fat content of fries were raised more than a decade ago, McDonald's switched in 1990 from a blend of beef tallow and cottonseed oil to pure vegetable oil in its deep fryers. Now McDonald's and the others...
...save the French fry from culinary oblivion, drastic changes are in the works. "To say they are panicking out in Idaho is a gross understatement," says Joseph Hotchkiss, chairman of Cornell University's Department of Food Sciences. Potato growers and the processing companies that make fries held a summit in July to figure out how to rev up potato sales. Manufacturers were reluctant to reveal what they have in the pipeline, but growers want to aggressively promote a more healthful potato. No wonder. The price of a 100lb. bag of russets has dropped to $2 from $8 a year...
...Percentage of the U.S. potato crop that is bought by McDonald...