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...coincidence that California, land of the experimental health regimen, was home to Judy Mazel's wildly successful 1981 best seller, The Beverly Hills Diet. An aspiring actress with no medical training, Mazel became frustrated in her quest to lose weight and invented her own program, which required eating fruit for 10days and consuming just one type of food, such as carbs or proteins, at a time. Panned by health professionals, Mazel struck a chord with dieters who believed that self-educated people often know better than experts. In the '80s, Mazel, who said she lost...
...reached No. 1, from Woolworth's to Kmart, has eventually spit the bit, unable to cope with market shifts. Wal-Mart is a far superior operator to any of those has-beens--it will produce $20 billion in operating income this year. But being king is an awfully heavy weight to bear, and Wal-Mart is feeling the strain...
...Ways to Boost Ovulation and Improve Your Chances of Getting Pregnant.” The book is based on the report and will be published this coming December, he said. Chavarro and co-author Walter C. Willett, director of the department of nutrition at HSPH, chose to track body weight, level of physical activity, multivitamin supplements, and certain dietary adjustments on the basis of past studies that correlated these factors with diabetes in women. The authors believed that these correlations were important because they speculated that sensitivity to insulin is also related to ovulatory function in women. Currently, Harvard University...
...Kong's professional world - manufacturing, movies and modeling - located another 2-year-old gelding named Pocket Money in Ireland through a trainer's connections. They bought him and shipped him to Hong Kong. After two seasons with little consistent success racing the horse at various distances and in differing weight classes, they switched to another trainer, who guessed Pocket Money was best suited to the 1,400-m run at Hong Kong's Shatin track. In the three races that Pocket Money has run so far this year, he has finished first twice and second once. Lo is pleased...
CORRECTION: Wednesday’s comment “Bad Apples” said that the new Macbook is 6.8 pounds. While this is the weight for the 17-inch Macbook Pro, other models weigh considerably less. Furthermore, although some benchmarks do show that a similarly performing Dell costs half as much as the most expensive Mac, this is not as regular of a result as the article suggests. The Crimson regrets the error...