GOING VEGGIE-ALOHA STYLE.
Ah, the land of grass shacks and hula girls, swaying palms and tradewinds, native Hawaiians strumming ukuleles, with poi, pineapple, and papaya for everyone. If this is your image of Hawaii, wow, have we got news for you! How about freeways and highrises, cell phones and the Internet, and...

Pain, away! (scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers may achieve pain relief by building muscle and adopting a vegetarian diet, according to the 2002 book Strong Women and Men Beat Arthritis. Co-author Miriam E. Nelson, director of the Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Tufts University, put arthritis sufferers through a 16-week strength-training...

Color me healthy. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
The idea that a food's color is a good indication of its nutritional value continues to gain favor. In The Color Code, James A. Joseph of the Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University, Daniel A. Nadeau, MD, and Newsweek's Anne Underwood promote "pigment power," dividing fruits and vegetables...

E for exercise. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Vitamin E may help older exercise enthusiasts bounce back quicker from vigorous workouts, researchers from the Harvard School of Medicine and the Human Nutrition Center at Tufts University have found. Vitamin E helps dampen the activity of free radicals, harmful molecules that attack cells and can operate too aggressively...

Effect of vegetarian diets on performance in strength sports.
A lacto-ovovegetarian diet can provide all the nutrients required for optimal health. Anecdotal reports suggest that many successful endurance athletes are vegetarians whereas few reports suggest that elite strength athletes follow a vegetarian diet. Strength and power athletes almost invariably include meat in their diets, although it is unclear...

Face it. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
The notion that diet causes acne--discredited, it was believed, more than 30 years ago--may be credible after all. Until 1970, when a German researcher supposedly showed that adolescents who ate chocolate had the same rate of acne as those who did not, mothers routinely told their teenaged children to...

Pyramid schemes. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
That Newsweek's January 20, 2003 diet issue included Harvard's Healthy Eating Pyramid alongside the better-known US Department of Agriculture's Food Guide Pyramid is a good sign. Newsweek even gave Harvard's alternative the edge over Uncle Sam's, "now widely viewed as flawed" Vegetarians could have told you that. The USDA...

Food for thought. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
The same diet that protects the heart may also protect the brain, says a study in February 2003's Archives of Neurology. Of the 815 elderly Americans in the study, those who consumed relatively large quantities of saturated fats found in meat and butter faced twice as high a risk...

Junk-food junkies. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
A diet of calorie-rich, high-fat foods may trigger chemical changes that make the body less resistant to the hormone leptin, which influences eating behavior, and to the amino acid protein galanin, which stimulates the desire to eat. As a result of these changes, says Michael Schwartz, an endocrinologist at...

How sweet it is. (scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Although most Americans may not know what a "functional food" is, that doesn't mean they're not consuming it in great quantities and on purpose. Functional foods are those that provide "a health benefit beyond basic nutrition," the International Food Information Council Foundation (IFICF) says, More than 60 percent of...