Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter articles from October 1995

Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter archives from October 1995

Burn, baby, burn. (level of intensity of exercise)
October 1, 1995... If you exercise too hard during a workout, your body will burn less fat than if you move at a slower pace. At least that's the notion that has muscled its way into gyms and health clubs, leading to a proliferation of relatively slow,...

Temperature's rising, but by how much? (safety techniques for cooking)
October 1, 1995... There's a good chance that next month you'll be cooking one of the millions of Thanksgiving turkeys that comes with a pop-up thermometer to tell you when it's done. Don't rely on it--at least not by itself. "Most of the time pop-up...

More to life than just lowering your cholesterol.
October 1, 1995... Perhaps you've managed to get your total cholesterol below 200 (milligrams per deciliter of blood), the ceiling for what heart disease specialists call "desirable." But even if it's down to, say, 190, you're still almost twice as likely to die...

Reading tea leaves for health benefits.
October 1, 1995... Take some more tea, the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. Tea, the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water, is showing signs of promise as a protector against heart disease and several kinds of cancer. At the National...

Minding their peas and cukes. (food habits of children)
October 1, 1995... Kids are listening--the great majority of the 3,000 elementary schoolchildren questioned recently in the National Child Health Survey knew they were supposed to be eating several servings of fruits and vegetables a day. They're just not doing...

Blackballing Chinese black balls. (herbal remedies may contain harmful doses of ingredients that cause illness)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1995... A 71-year-old woman suffering from the arthritis-like pain of degenerative joint disease starts taking over-the-counter Chinese herbal pills marketed for the relief of joint stiffness. But after just a few months she develops a huge ulcer...