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Diet News for November 13, 2006


MIKE DUFFY: Look who's talking (Detroit Free Press) The Great and Powerful Oprah knows all. That's a given. She's thoughtfully talking waist size and poundage with a diet book doctor on this particular afternoon, a Thursday in early November. A rapt studio audience is soaking up the sensible information about nutrition and weight loss.
Talk-show Jimmy Kimmel ushers in a kinder persona (Houston Chronicle) After watching the Flaming Lips whip his audience into a frenzy, Jimmy Kimmel quietly headed upstairs to his office above Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre, twisted open a Diet Snapple and took his favorite seat ? right on the carpet.
Abe not to extend Diet session beyond Dec. 15 (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he does not plan to extend the current Diet session beyond its scheduled end on Dec. 15.
Children's Hospital Oakland's new maternal diet study (EurekAlert!) November 13, 2006 - Oakland, CA- A new study by scientists at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) is the first to show that a mother's diet during pregnancy influences the health of her grandchildren by changing the behavior of a specific gene.
Children's Hospital and Research Center-Oakland presents a new maternal diet study (EurekAlert!) November 13, 2006 - Oakland, CA? A new study by scientists at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) is the first to show that a mother's diet during pregnancy influences the health of her grandchildren by changing the behavior of a specific gene.
Maternal diet can affect family for generation, study says (Inside Bay Area) They say you are what you eat. But could you also be what your grandmother ate? Maternal diet during pregnancy influences not only the offspring's health but the health of a subsequent generation,
Mediterranean diet set for major push in US (Nutraingredients.com) 11/13/2006 - Next year could mark the onset of a new diet pattern in the US, with an influential nutrition group saying it plans to comprehensively promote the healthy Mediterranean style of eating.
Education bill may not pass in Diet session (Daily Yomiuri Online) A bill to revise the Fundamental Law of Education--the focal issue of the current extraordinary Diet session--might not pass during the current session as the opposition parties called for further deliberation on the bill Monday.
TIMES DIET CLUB: Roots of dieting hard to pinpoint (Contra Costa Times) JUST THE OTHER day someone asked me, "So, how did this whole dieting thing get started?" He was actually asking about my own personal diet and the formation of the Times Diet Club, but it made me think back a little further than that. Just how did this dieting thing get off the ground?
No picky eater? CU team may turn tables on diet of early human relative (Rocky Mountain News) Paranthropus robustus was not a finicky eater. That's the conclusion University of Colorado anthropologist Matt Sponheimer and his colleagues reached after using lasers to probe four fossil teeth from the extinct apelike creature, which walked upright across the African savannas more than a million years ago.