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Low fat, high-carb diet leads to moderate weight loss
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CHICAGO — Older women
who ate less fat and more car*
bohydrates lost about 2
pounds over seven years, a
large study showed.
While one obesity expert
called the results disappoint
ing, the lead author of the
research said it refutes claims
by promoters of the Atkins
and Zone diets that low-fat
diets are partly ■ behind
America’s obesity epidemic,
“It will help people to under
stand that the wei^t gain
we’re seeing in this country is
not caused by the lower-fat
diets,” said study author
Barbara V, Howard of
MedStar Research Institute,
a nonprofit research group.
However, the skimpy
weight loss after seven years
won’t satisfy people looking
for a cure for obesity; said Dr.
Michael Dansinger, an obesi
ty researcher at T\ifts-New
Englemd Medical Center who
was not involved in the study
“This is like losing the
Super Bowl but claiming a
second place victory,”
Dansinger said. “The results
are disappointing in the con
text of a country trying to bat
tle obesity”
The study appearing in
Wednesday’s Journal of the
American Mediced
Association, included more
than 43,000 women, ages 50
to 79. They were followed for
an average of seven years and
six months
One group of women low
ered the fat in their diets
while increasing finiits, veg-
etaldes and whole grains. The
other group didn’t change
their diets significantly
The taiget fat content of the
diet was 20 percent, but the
women on the diet actually
got about 30 percent of their
calories in fat; their previous
fat intake was about 39 per
cent.
The women on the diet
increased their carb calories
fixjm 44 percent to 53 percent,
while the women not on the
diet stayed at about 44 per
cent carbs.
The low-fat group lost, on
average, 4.8 pounds in the
first year, then regained most
of that wei^t. The non-diet
group stayed at about the
same wei^t ov^* the seven
years. The women were part
of the Women’s Health
Initiative, a research project
of the National Institutes of
Health that involves thou
sands of postmenopausal
women across the coimtry
Other WHI studies have
uncovered the risks of taking
hormones.
Weight loss was not the
original focus of the study,
Howard said. Other findings
on the low-fat diet’s effect on
heart disease and cancer will
be released this year, she
said.
But researchers realized
their data could answer
chaiges made by popular diet
promoters who drew a link
between obesity and recom
mendations of low-fat eating
plans by health organizations
and the government.
Low-fat diets promote foods
Filmmaker captures New Orleans amid chaos
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NEW ORLEANS-
Gripping his tnunpet, Irvin
Mayfield talks about growing
up on Music Street and how
his father taught him to play
The Jazz musician also dis
cusses liis decision to evacu
ate before Hurricane Katrina
and his father’s choice not
to—and the monthslong wait
his family had to endure
before learning Irvin Mayfield
Sr. had drowned,
‘This is something we’re not
going to be able to heal fiom,
as a dty for a long time,”
Mayfield tells New Orleans
filmmaker Stephen Rue, pres
ident of the Motion Picture
and Tfelevision Association of
Louisiana.
It’s part of more than 135
hours of interviews Rue col
lected and plans to release as
a 130-minute documentary
Rue wants the film to give a
comprehensive view of
Katrina’s effects as told by the
people who experienced it.
The film, which he’s financ
ing himself, should be finished
by mid-March, he said.
With countless film and TV
crews in and out of the dty
since Katrina, among them a
crew working with filmmaker
Spike Lee, Rue said he has
something they don’t—exten
sive footage just weeks before
the storm from the now-
destroyed Lower 9th Ward
Rue was shooting footage in
the neighboihoods there for a
Habitat for Humanity project.
That neighborhood, one of the
dtys poorest, was wiped out
by a sudden levee breach at
the Industrial Canal.
“We probably have some of
the last video footage fiom
there,” he said. “I think about
the many many people we
met. I wonder if they made it,
wonder where they are now.”
Since the storm, he has
traveled to several states to
interview evacuees. But
much of his post-storm cover
age has been in New Orleans
with people such as Mayfield,
founder of the New Orleans
Jazz Orchestra, to document
the storm for historical pur-
Rush hour relief with a snappy good taste
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Let’s not resign oiu^ves to
scrappy meals on tlrese madly
busy days, nor lose out on
taste and nutrition.
Sometimes we can have it
all—we just need the right
redpe
Ginger apple chicken stm
fiy is a winner to try It does
n’t take long to make, the
result is pleasing, with a
snappy taste that will clieer
jaded palates and warm a
chilly evening
The combination of ginger
and apple works a kind of
magic on the chicken, and a
touch of Asian influence com
pletes the pfdatable whole. If
you happen to have guests to
entertain, well—that’s their
good luck to share this.
Ginger Apple Chicken
Stir-Fry
(Start to finish 40 minutes)
2 teas{xx)ns sesame oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons minced ginger
root
1 pound boneless skinless
chicken breast, cut into strips
1/3 pound pea pods
1 small sweet red pepper,
cut into stripe
10 shiitake and/or white
mushrooms, sliced
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/3 cup applesauce,
unsweetened
2 tablespoons apple dder
vinegar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/3 cup chicken broth or
water
2 medium apples, cored and
sliced
Heat sesame oil in nonstick
skillet or wok. Add garlic and
ginger, and stir for about 30
seconds. Add chicken and
cook in hot oil 4 to 5 minutes,
or until chicken is no longer
pink. Remove chicken fiom
Student athlete has one hectic schedule
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and daycare for Cameron, 18-
month-old Amaiui and 3-
month-old Mia. Tajdor’s 17
credit hours are necessary for
the ftiture they are building.
Basketbtdl is required to pay
for the education.
Suffice it to say the Pratts
are mature beyond their
years, and Taylor doesn’t fit
the prototypical hoop dream
er who lives for the game,
savors the devil-may-care col
lege lifestyle and fantasizes
about the NBA’s riches.
Having your first child at 17
will do that
“It definitely humble you,”
Pratt said. “You’ve got to put
yourself second, behind your
kids. It puts extra perspective
on life.”
Agrees Jami: “When you get
money, you don’t spend it on
yourself”
Their cozy and tidy mar
ried-housing apartment is a
refiection of their spartan
lifestyle and focus on the fam
ily Photos of family adorn the
walls Where the typical stu
dent-athlete might have
XBox games or GameCubes
stacked near the televisicsi,
the Pratts have children’s
movies; cartoons are playing
on the television.
They dcm't get out much.
“We used to go to movies.”
Taylor said.
“We haven't done that in
two years." his wife added
On a special occaaicn. such
as th^ anniversar>’. theyTl
eat out Tbammate Marvin
Moss and his girifiiend.
Abigail, who live nearby with
th^ dau^ter, will look after
Cameron, Amauri and Mia.
Assistant coach James
Clark and his wife sometimes
baby-sit as w^; the Pratts
had Christmas dinner with
Clark’s in-laws in Livingston.
‘He doesn't hang out much
with everybody on the team,”
Jami said of Ta>ior. “Really,
he just stays home. He does
just as much as I do.”
It has been that way since
Cameron was bom in 2001,
about a year after Thyior and
Jami met at a roller-skating
paik in Claremore, Okla., her
hometown. Taylor’s father,
Revon, lived near Claremore,
a town of 16,000 about 15
miles northeast of Tulsa,
where TV>dor was attending
Will Rogers High School.
“I didn’t notice her,” Taylor
said of Jami.
Said Jami; “I noticed him
because he was really tall.
You can always tell somebody
new in a small town.”
They met that day,
exchanged phone numbers
and kept in touch when
Tajdor moved briefly to
Houston before returning to
TYilsa. Soon they were attend
ing the 180 Church for
teenagers on Wednesday
nights, Jami's mother was
bringing Taylor to thdr home
after church on Sundays and
Jami was venturing to his
home on weekends.
When Jami became preg
nant with Cameron, she
moved into the Pratt home in
Tidsa, where she lived until
like grains and pasta, which
are mostly forbidden by low-
carb diets.
“The Zone” diet author Dr.
Barry Sears, after reading the
new study said he stands by
his belief that the recom
mended low-fat, higharb
diet caused Americans to gain
wei^t.
He noted that women on the
low-fat diet in the study lost
only a fi*action of a pound per
year, on average, and they
added 1.6 centimeters—about
a half-inch—to their waist cir
cumferences. The other group
added 1.9 centimeto^.
“I was struck by what the
study didn’t say” Sears said.
Dansiger said his research
has shown that diets like
Atkins and The Zone woik,
but are hard to stay on.
“People who succeed at
maintaining a dramatic
weight loss have changed
their mindset and priorities
and have made exercise and
healthy eating among the top
priorities in their lives,” he
said.
‘Tt’s a tapestry of stories by
those affected,” Rue said
Whatev«'’s left once the doc
umentary is complete may be
used in a cable TV series cov
ering various aspects of the
disaster, including racial
issues and animal rescue
efforts. Rue said.
Media coverage and home
footage taken during the
storm by private citizens will
also be used in the film And
he’s incorporating interviews
with historians such as
Douglas Brinkley, who’s writ
ing a book due out next yesir
titled “The Great Deluge.”
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they were married in August
2002. They were forced to
grow up fast.
“Neither of us were
partiers,” Jami said, “so for
me it wasn’t like a huge
change.”
Nor did Cameron’s birth
have a dramatic impact on
Tajior’s life goals.
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basketball player who didn’t
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