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Well: Shhh…My Child Is Sleeping (in My Bed, Um, With Me)

A few years ago, my daughter told me about a dream involving a giant bag of Doritos. The crinkles in the package had formed a sort of ladder, and she had climbed them to reach the giant chips inside. It was such a good dream, Mom, she told me.
The Doritos dream is just one […]

Shuttle launches despite bad weather

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: The shuttle Discovery roared off the ground Tuesday, even though poor weather had threatened to keep it on the ground.
The weather and other issues were resolved and shuttle was launched as scheduled at 11:38 a.m. for a mission that will involve challenging construction work aboard the $100 billion International Space Station, […]

AP: Nutrition education ineffective

PANORAMA CITY, Calif. The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education Д fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
But an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such […]

Having it Your Way - the Healthy Way - at Burger King’s Drive Thru

Drive Thru at Burger King -
Without Driving Up The Fat
Written by Elizabeth Daeninck, MS, RD
Published in May 2007
Imagine you’re on your way home after a long day at the office. You’re famished because you didn’t have time to eat lunch (too many meetings) and all you had to eat this morning was a […]

Is the low-glycemic diet a red herring?

The glycemic index, which indicates how different types of carbohydrates affect blood sugar levels, was originally developed as a tool to help diabetics manage their diets. But the wider nutrition community quickly jumped on the bandwagon, arguing that a low-glycemic diet (one that avoided sharp spikes in blood sugar) would be healthier for everyone. It […]