FEATURES
By Jana Sanchez-Klein | November 2, 1994
What an enchanting dream -- feeding your family a more nutritious diet and cutting the food budget at the same time. Well, you might want to pinch yourself, because it can be done.We know, we know. Grilled seafood, rich in nutrients and low in fat, crisp asparagus, and large meaty tomatoes -- all of these things are so expensive.And there's the waste factor. If you're like the average family, you buy fresh fruit and vegetables, only to throw them out because they've gone bad before you've had time to prepare them.
NEWS
By Kelly Brewington | February 26, 2009
What's the best way to lose weight - load up on proteins and cut carbohydrates? Keep the good carbs and just trim fats? Or build "healthful" fats into your diet? Scientists now say it doesn't matter as long as you consume fewer calories. A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine tested four different diets and found that participants lost similar amounts of weight on each of them. In the extensive two-year study, investigators randomly assigned more than 800 overweight participants to follow one of four heart-healthy diets, each emphasizing a different combination of carbohydrates, protein and fat. All replaced saturated with unsaturated fat and emphasized whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
NEWS
By ELIZABETH LARGE | February 21, 2007
When we first heard about Maggie Smith's situation, it didn't seem as serious as some we've dealt with in The Sun's monthly Make Over My Meal series. Boy, were we wrong. The 32-year-old working mother of two does a good job of getting a meal on the table every night in spite of a lengthy commute from Owings Mills to her home in Frankford. Usually the family has dinner together, and everyone pretty much eats the same thing. While 4-year-old Melina and 2-year-old Myles aren't great eaters, they enjoy some fruits; and Smith makes sure they drink lots of milk.
NEWS
By Dennis O'Brien | February 23, 2007
Karen Paris knew she was eating too much when she caught herself eating off her daughter's plate. "I had gotten into some really bad habits, and my portions were huge," she recalled. So she began a campaign to lose 25 pounds. There was no secret shortcut: She joined Weight Watchers, cut back on portions at every meal and took up aerobics and circuit training at the YMCA near her Catonsville home. Her weight has since fluctuated, but Paris, now 44 and paid to run weekly sessions for Weight Watchers members, has managed to keep it within 5 pounds of the goal she achieved back in 1995.
NEWS
By Kathleen Megan | January 12, 2007
Ladies and gentlemen, choose your dietary weapons. Would you prefer to eat Southern fried chicken and shrimp creole for breakfast while supping on shredded wheat? If so, see The Reverse Diet by Tricia Cunningham and Heide Skolnik. Or perhaps you're ready to ditch that regimen Francaise (French Women Don't Get Fat) and go eastward with Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat by Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle. (The authors say that Japanese women have the lowest rate of obesity in the developed world: 3 percent, compared with 11 percent for French women and 34 percent for American women.
NEWS
By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | January 15, 1999
Applying a new method of analyzing the chemistry of tooth enamel, scientists have examined molars of prehuman ancestors who lived in Africa 3 million years ago and determined that they had more varied diets than had been supposed.They dined not only on fruits and leaves, as modern chimpanzees do, but might also have been meat eaters.In a study reported in today's issue of the journal Science, anthropologists said their tests of the carbon content of teeth of Australopithecus africanus indicate that they ate large quantities of food rich in carbon 13 -- such as grasses and sedges -- or animals that ate these plants, or both.
NEWS
By Joe Graedon, and Teresa Graedon | May 16, 1999
Q. Your column about the dangers of low cholesterol caught my attention. For years I avoided all fat in my diet, but then I was unable to conceive. After including fat in my diet briefly, I became pregnant, but lost the baby when I returned to my no-fat regimen.After the miscarriage, my gynecologist told me my cholesterol (94) was not sufficient for making the sex hormones I need to sustain a pregnancy. I changed my diet, raised my cholesterol to 114 and had a healthy, normal, successful pregnancy.
FEATURES
By Suzanne Loudermilk | May 19, 1999
Strawberry recipes spring forthStrawberry fields may be forever but spring is a great time to turn to "Totally Strawberries Cookbook" (Celestial Arts, 1999) by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham. This compact, 96-page book packs a wallop with recipes for tarts, salsas, drinks and more. Nothing is easier than the Strawberry Milkshake: 2 1/2 scoops softened strawberry ice cream, 1/2 cup milk, 2 large or 4 small strawberries, hulled and chopped. Combine ingredients in a blender. Process until smooth and frothy.
SPORTS
By Joe Strauss | February 24, 1999
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- There's nothing unusual about a relief pitcher having a little afternoon catch during the fourth week in February.Except Arthur Rhodes spent yesterday throwing to himself inside the Orioles clubhouse.And Rhodes wasn't throwing baseballs. His idea of fun was heaving a 10-pound cantaloupe-sized yellow ball against a trampoline and catching the rebound. Not once, or twice, but over and over. Teammates and coaches squeezed past, saying nothing, until one bemused observer couldn't resist.
NEWS
By Gary Dorsey | August 31, 1999
In the wake of a trial that brought a $23 million award to a Texas woman who sued manufacturers of the diet drug "cocktail" known as phen-fen, 20 Maryland residents have filed suits in U.S. District Court in Baltimore linking the drug to their health problems.The most serious allegation, made by Angela Borlik of Arnold, is that her husband, Michael, 48, died in May 1997 of primary pulmonary hypertension, a lung disease that she says the drugs caused.Other plaintiffs say they have suffered from heart disease or related cardiopulmonary problems, according to the suits.