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...test, which is sold online and at some drugstores, is simple. You use a special stick to swab the inside of your cheek, then send the sample off, along with a questionnaire about your diet and lifestyle, to Sciona's laboratories in New Haven, Conn. Within three weeks, Sciona sends back a standard computerized analysis of your survey answers, with a few highlights from or red flags about the genetic-test results. For example, Gill-Garrison says, the company estimates from the questionnaire the amount of folic acid in your system. Then it tells you what level you should...
...little longer. Yet most folks panic when they think ahead, usually because they've put off any serious planning until about age 50. By then time is running short. Giving up seems like the only option. It's not. Here are some painless steps that work if you stick with them...
...least for a day, competence problems had been banished. The break came when the President needed it most - as the daily parade of horribles from Iraq was eroding confidence in his handling of the war, even among conservatives. Republicans on Capitol Hill had fretted that Bush would stick stubbornly to a massive U.S. presence while Iraq burned, perhaps costing the party its majority in Congress. GOP strategists planning fall campaigns are facing polling showing that Iraq was the only issue that really mattered, and so were desperate for signs that the invasion had not been a horrible miscalculation...
...MARGARINE can be just as harmful as butter, if not worse; a process that stiffens vegetable oil into a butter-like stick also transforms it into an artery blocker. In general, the softer the margarine, the better. New butter substitutes, such as Benecol, can lower blood cholesterol...
Then came the news that taking benign foods like vegetable and peanut oils and hydrogenating them--a process that stiffens them to make stick margarine, peanut butter and solid shortening--transforms them into substances known as trans-fatty acids, which can drive LDL and triglyceride levels through the roof. Trans-fatty acids are not technically fats, which means, astonishingly, that a food labeled FAT FREE may be bursting with stuff that can give you heart disease. The fact that stick margarine is bad doesn't mean butter is suddenly good. Says Dr. Walter Willett, head of nutrition at the Harvard...