Low fat or fat-free dairy foods: Eat two to three servings a day. A serving equals one ounce of cheese, ½ cup of cottage cheese, or 1 cup of milk or yogurt
Lean meats, eggs, fish, poultry: Eat two or fewer servings a day. A serving equals one egg or three to four ounces of meat, chicken, or fish — about the size of a deck of cards.
Nuts, seeds, legumes: Eat four to five servings a week. A serving equals ⅓ cup of nuts, 1 tablespoon of nut butter, or ½ cup of legumes. DEBORAH KOTZ
junglerunner wrote: I suspect we will soon discover that the quality of calories that you eat will be as important as the amount of calories that you eat. If you eat crap you will look and feel like crap.
allin58 wrote: So once again we have a headline for a study that “suggests.’’ Then we read the article and it has more qualifiers than the marathon. This is not informative.
Bud2129 wrote: Kids that go out and play usually don’t need to go on a special diet. The ones that sit at home all day and play video games need the diet.
SurroundSound wrote: DASH: Doritos, Arby’s, Snickers, Häagen-Dazs.
Are wrinkles a sign of bone loss?
Could the amount of wrinkles women have predict whether they have more brittle bones? It’s quite possible, according to a new finding presented last week by Yale researchers at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Boston.
“The loss of estrogen that occurs during menopause is when we start to see rapid deterioration in a woman’s bones and skin,’’ explains study leader Dr. Lubna Pal, who is a reproductive endocrinologist at Yale School of Medicine. The connection between the two, she adds, may be due to a loss in collagen, which is a type of protein that provides the supportive matrix structure for bones and skin.
In the study of 114 women who had recently gone through menopause, Pal and her colleagues measured wrinkles and skin rigidity (another sign of aging) in several areas on the face and neck and assigned women scores based on those two factors. Women with the highest wrinkle and rigidity scores, on average, had the lowest bone masses, measured on bone density scans. D.K.
lizzo wrote: This is an interesting correlation… . I assume bone loss is the much more serious of the two problems mentioned.
debkotz wrote: Yes, the bigger issue is certainly the bones, not the wrinkles. But judging by the financial success of Botox and face creams, women are definitely looking to prevent wrinkles as well. And, yes, an environmental factor like smoking can harm both the bones and the skin.
Do chemicals contribute to rise in autism?
Could household chemicals be causing an increase in autism? The evidence is not cut and dried, but a coalition of environmental and health advocates said that it is suggestive enough for people to worry.
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