Diet & Nutrition

Magazine articles on dieting, the effects of diet on health, nutrition, and healthy foods.

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Science News November 13, 2004 Diana Parsell	Vegetable Soup Fights Cell Damage Scientists at Tufts University report that volunteers eating a type of vegetable soup twice a day had lower amounts of stress-related molecules in their blood after just 7 days.
AskMen.com Simon McNeil	Lose The Fat Generally, fat consumption is the most important component that needs monitoring in a diet designed for weight loss. But many say that the amount of calories is the most important measurement. The truth is, the ideal is to monitor both. Here are some guidelines.
DailyCandy November 10, 2004	Dew Me Borba Skin Balance Water claims to cure whatever ails your skin. There are different flavors for different derma needs.
American Family Physician November 1, 2004 Saper, Eisenberg & Phillips	Common Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss Asking overweight patients about their use of weight-loss supplements and understanding the evidence for the efficacy, safety, and quality of these supplements are critical when counseling patients regarding weight loss.
Geotimes November 2004 Sara Pratt	Fish Advisories on the Rise A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency shows an all-time high in the number of fish advisories that warn of contamination from toxins, including PCBs and mercury, despite a simultaneous decrease in U.S. emissions.
AskMen.com Phil Franklin	Unhealthy Ingredients On Food Labels You've probably heard this advice before: Read the nutritional labels on food before you buy it. With the obesity rate now double what it was in 1980, that advice is all the more relevant today.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2004 Alyce Lomax	New Serving Sizes for Snacks and Soda? Coca-Cola and Pepsi are the latest in a trend toward clearer nutrition labeling.
Science News October 16, 2004 Janet Raloff	Is Vitamin D Fattening? One of the newest identified functions of the hormonal form of vitamin D, known as 1,25-D, is its role in determining how the body manages energy. The hormone actually promotes weight gain by sending calories into storage.
Science News October 9, 2004 Janet Raloff	Honey, Let's Shrink the Kids After 2 years of hearings and fact-finding on the nation's childhood obesity epidemic, a 19-member panel commissioned by Congress offers their recommendations and calls for fundamental changes in our society.
AskMen.com Sabrina Rogers	7 Low-Carb Myths & More If you haven't heard of Atkins or the South Beach Diet, you've probably been living under a rock for quite some time. The low-carb diet craze has taken on gargantuan proportions in the media and in Americans' everyday lives over the past year.
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