Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter articles from September 1993

Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter archives from September 1993

Avoiding breast cancer through food choices.
September 1, 1993... Are you eating at least three quarters of a carrot a day? Or a half cup of frozen cooked spinach? Or just a serving of butternut squash? That's all it may take to reduce your risk of developing breast cancer by about 20 percent. The...

Pepsi helps push pop to babies. (Pepsi-Cola Co.; baby bottles that look like soft-drink bottles may give message that milk and juice are similar to soft drinks)
September 1, 1993... "You got the right one Baby," pronounces the label of a new baby bottle meant to look exactly like a bottle of Diet Pepsi. But we think the makers of Pepsi got it all wrong, just as they and other soda pop manufacturers did by allowing the...

A heart disease checkup. (self-quiz about heart disease)
September 1, 1993... Only about one in three adults knows his or her blood cholesterol level, an unfortunate fact since high cholesterol is one of a handful of major heart disease risk factors that people can take into their own hands by making changes in their...

A 9-point guide to choosing the right supplement. (vitamin supplements)
September 1, 1993... Imagine taking a pill on the advice of your doctor only to find out that it doesn't break down inside the body and therefore can't be absorbed. Or paying a premium for a tablet touted as containing an ingredient that health experts say may...

'Eat more, weigh less.' (two physicians write similar books on weight loss)
September 1, 1993... Great minds really do think alike. Two respected physicians have just published books about weight loss with almost identical titles and in many ways a single message. The message is that if you reduce your fat intake to something on the...