| Size matters: The dangers of big portions
As a consuming public, the problem we're having - the thing that is adding about 100 calories to our daily diets, researchers have found, and making us into an increasingly overweight society - isn't so much the food we're eating as the amounts to which we are helping ourselves. Decrease serving sizes and move around a little more, and victory in the battle of the bulge can be yours to claim. .
TV makes kids fat
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Two studies released Wednesday by the American Heart Association at the 47th annual conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention shed light on the eating habits of children. One study found a correlation between hours of television watched by 3-year-olds and the development of poor eating habits. Another study found that impoverished children and children who were members of a minority group were more likely to be obese. According to Dr. Nadine Burke, medical director of the Bayview Child Health Center, the results of both studies are related. Burke said there were fewer opportunities to play outside in lower income communities. As a result, children may sit inside and watch TV, causing them to become unhealthy.
Beer, and the biochemists behind it
It was none other than Benjamin Franklin who said: "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." But for such a revered drink, the steps to making beer are actually quite basic -- simply bottle (or can) the alcoholic fermentation that occurs when yeast is introduced to extracts of malted grain. Still, scientists throughout the ages have spent countless hours tweaking this general formula, communicating their achievements via media ranging from ancient funerary art to this week's lecture on the science of beer at the New York Academy of Sciences. Beer has been around for at least 8,000 years, making brewing quite possibly the world's oldest biotechnology. Archaeologists have scraped beer deposits from ancient Egyptian brewing jars, historians recount how everyone from Pharaoh to farmer drank, and beer was a common offering to the Egyptian Gods.
Brazilians worst abusers of diet pills, UN says
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilians are the world's worst abusers of diet pills and the biggest producers of two potentially dangerous weight-loss drugs, a study by the International Narcotics Control Board said on Thursday. Per-capita consumption of diet drugs, or anorectics, is almost 40 percent higher in Brazil than in the United States, according to the INCB, which is in charge of implementing U.N. drug conventions. The top five users, in order, were Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, the United States and Singapore. "Anorectics are being used indiscriminately to feed the slimming obsession that affects some societies," INCB President Philip Emafo said in a statement. "Effective intervention by local competent authorities is a must." .
John Mackey on Whole Foods' growth
RYSSDAL: So I had a couple of hours to kill before you and I sat down; so I went downstairs to look for lunch and two things happened. One was I couldn't figure out what to eat because this place has so much in it; but the other one was I kind of got lost because it's so big. Is this what you had in mind 25 years ago? MACKEY: No. Twenty-five years ago? No. I mean, we didn't have this in mind until, like, a year or two before we opened the store up. There's a misconception somehow or another that there was some, like, master plan and I've been, like, fulfilling the master plan that we made up 25 years ago, but, I mean we've been . . . it's a discovery process. We've been making it up as we go along. I can't tell you exactly how the company will be in five years. I think most CEOs who tell you where their company is going to be in five years either are making a big mistake or they're lying.
Community calendar
Monday, March 5, 7 p.m., 11063 Robinwood Drive. Preordered ham sandwiches will be ready for pick-up and delivery early on Sunday, March 4, or at the meeting. Plans for the annual card party on March 19 will be finalized. There will be an election of officers for the coming year. The secretary will be available one hour prior to the meeting to collect dues for the coming year. Dues are $15 for regular members and $5 for lifetime members. Call 301-582-1558 for additional information. Leitersburg Senior Citizens Club LEITERSBURG - Monday, March 5, Leitersburg Fire Hall. Bring a wrapped gift for the game of "Now you have it, now you don't." Bring a brown bag lunch. Dessert will be provided. Tri-State Singles Monday, March 5, 6 p.m.
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