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...study by a team of European researchers. It all has to do with breathing patterns and their relationship to cardiac rhythms. It turns out that reciting poetry - especially verse like Homer's that follows a specific rhythm called hexameter - makes an excellent breathing exercise. The authors of the study taught healthy volunteers to recite passages from Homer while walking and lifting their arms with each breath. The result was an increase in the synchronization of certain cardiorespiratory patterns that is believed to be favorable to the long-term prognosis of cardiac patients. There was less of this synchronization from controlled...
Overcoming Obesity Thank you for the comprehensive articles on the worldwide epidemic of obesity [Aug. 9]. It is only to be expected that people are overweight; after all, from childhood we are taught to consume as much as possible. Clearly, too many of us believe that if a little is good, more is better and too much is just enough. Charles J. Huebner Petoskey, Michigan...
Though Julia Child was a cooking teacher, what she really taught was how to be alive. She lived until she was 91, mocking Atkins, Ornish and anyone else who believed that a slice of French bread or a pat of butter would kill...
...creating one of the few cooking shows that made viewers want to cook more than eat, she inspired me to make dinner for my family on Mondays. Every week I was snapping bones and yanking guts from a chicken, thinking of Julia Child and feeling cool. She taught me that Americans can cook as well as the French without being all French about it. And now, when restaurants in New York City, San Francisco and even Las Vegas are as good as those in Paris, she has once again proved the American axiom that brashness trumps snobbery. That fact, even...
...World War II writing for the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw. Later, after a stint as a diplomat, he broke from the Polish government and wrote about the plight of intellectuals under communism in his 1953 essay collection, The Captive Mind. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, he taught Slavic literature at Berkeley for more than 20 years...