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...sentiment echoed by millions of Americans who are fanatical about getting their sweets--just as long as the sweets come sugar-free. By 2004, 180 million Americans were buying sugar-free products, according to a national survey by the Calorie Control Council, up from 109 million in 1991. A 2005 report by ACNielsen found that while the low-carb craze was fading, low-sugar packaged items represented the second-fastest-growing segment (behind organics) in the good-for-you product industry...
...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 be aiming for, based on the results of your...
...much sugar, too much fat, too many meals on the run and not enough vegetables or variety. Could it be that Americans' worst eating habits all take root in the high chair and stroller? Consider this: By age 2, according to a 2002 survey, 1 in 5 babies is eating candy every day. And the No. 1 vegetable for toddlers isn't pureed peas or carrots; it's French fries. Sounds a lot less like baby food and a lot more like, well, our own meals...
...that this happens in economics, with its student-faculty ratio of about 20 to 1, nor in government, which has a ratio of 14 to 1. But 15 percent of undergrads concentrate in economics, and another 10 percent concentrate in government. While he was dean, Lewis conducted a biennial survey of seniors about their advising experiences. He found that economics and government consistently scored lowest in quality of advising: for instance, while 56 percent of all seniors reported that their academic interests were covered in advising conversations, only 28 percent of economics concentrators and 37 percent of government concentrators could...
...order of importance, 10 changes Harvard can and should make in the next year that I believe undergraduates would support.1. UC-student disconnect. Not once in my four years here have I been asked by the Undergraduate Council (UC) or by any other student organization to complete a comprehensive survey about my undergraduate experience. The College recently made me fill one out to get tickets for today’s ceremonies, but the results will never be released. No one has any idea whatsoever what undergraduates as a group think about the proposed changes to general education, or a system...