Word: fiber
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Soundest Dietary Restriction The 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act mandates standard definitions of such terms as light and lowfat, bans misleading claims and requires food producers to list the amount of dietary fiber and saturated fat in raw seafood, fruit and vegetables as well as on most packaged-goods labels...
Latest Immortality Elixir Not so long ago, the secret ingredient to lower cholesterol was oat bran, which proved to be no more or less magical than low- fiber grains. In 1990 health nuts got hooked on canola oil, which is made from rapeseed. Enough! cried Julia Child. "If fear of food continues, it will be the death of gastronomy in the United States...
...American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 155,000 new cases of colon cancer this year and almost 61,000 deaths from the disease, making it second only to lung cancer among fatal malignancies. Diets high in fat and low in fiber from fruits and vegetables have long been implicated in the disease. One clue: the ailment becomes more common among people as they emigrate from countries, like Japan, where meat consumption is low, to the U.S., where meat is a staple. Scientists speculate that bile acids produced by the liver to help digest fats can damage the intestine...
...kind of Golden Age of liberality and modernity: of the 56 students taking the Oxford Entrance Examinations last month, 18 were specialists in natural sciences (as against five in classics). There is even a martial-arts room in the new Olympic-standard gym -- to toughen, no doubt, the fiber of future powers on and off the Wall...
Instead of a cure-all, scientists say, betacarotene might just be a "marker"--a biologicalred herring which does little for the human body,yet always shows up in a healthy diet high invegetables and fiber...