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...adults. Helping set the tone are books--two in just the past year for teen veggies--and stories about celebrity vegetarians such as Chelsea Clinton, Paul McCartney and Alicia Silverstone. (TV-cartoon heroine Lisa Simpson is an especially vocal veggie.) With mainstream groceries carrying products like Boca Burgers, soy milk and tofu, and fast-food restaurants like Wendy's offering veggie pitas, meat-eating parents are having an easier time accommodating their kids and, in some cases, are following suit...
...vegan diets for kids. But increasingly, nutritionists, educators and parents--all too aware of a nationwide obesity epidemic--are taking more relaxed vegetarian diets in stride. In an effort to reduce fat in federally subsidized school lunches, the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this year expanded the use of soy as a nutritious alternative to meat...
Every generation needs a soy bomb. It's just that this generation already had one, a couple of years ago at the Grammy Awards. Still, Rage Against the Machine bassist TIM COMMERFORD decided to make his own abstract political statement by climbing the podium scaffolding at the MTV Video Music Awards, bringing a rare bit of unscripted television to an otherwise split-timed evening. Commerford scaled the 15-ft. structure as Limp Bizkit accepted the Best Rock video award. Cameras quickly cut away, but the bassist kept a Wayans family-size phalanx of security at bay for 10 minutes before...
...older alternatives include a long list of natural remedies--vitamins, minerals, herbs and various supplements containing phytoestrogens (plant estrogens that seem to have estrogen-like effects in humans). Lately, phytoestrogens have become popular alternatives to standard HRT. Sales of supplements that contain soy isoflavones, a form of phytoestrogen, tripled from 1998 to 1999. Some women also take vitamin E for hot flashes, while others are turning to remedies based on such exotics as black cohosh, flaxseed, red clover, dong quai and wild...
Unfortunately, there is little hard, scientific evidence to support the use of most hot-flash remedies sold in health-food stores. The exceptions are the soy supplements. Soy isoflavones have been subjected to quite a bit of scientific testing, with mixed results. While some studies show as much as a 45% reduction in hot flashes, others have found that a placebo can be nearly as effective. Also, whereas the moderate amounts of soy isoflavones contained in food are safe, there are hints that the high concentrations found in supplements may promote breast tumors...