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- HEALTH Q&A
Often-scorned military MREs raise the issue of fiber intake
I'm seeking information about fiber. During the time I was eating the MRE meals distributed after Hurricane Katrina, the difference in my bowel movements was dramatic.
- Calories and burning questions
Many exercisers wonder about the veracity of the calorie-counting functions on cardio exercise machines. Your suspicion is well-founded.
- Wellnews: All the news that's fit
- FIREHOUSE FITNESS
Bench dips help strengthen chest, triceps
The moves: Performing a bench dip with the feet on an exercise ball.
Works on: Chest and triceps strength, trunk stability.
- NEWS & NOTES
Once is not enough with chickenpox vaccine
One dose of chickenpox vaccine may be insufficient to prevent school outbreaks of chickenpox, according to a report in Pediatrics.
- S.D. Stat: Young Offenders
- WORKS FOR ME JACK WILLIAMS
Physician, exercise thyself
If your idea of retirement is a day at the beach, Dr. Herbert McCoy just might be the surf-and-sandman of your dreams. Consider his seaside regimen: two-mile jog along the shore, one-mile swim at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, followed by a series of push-ups, stretches and twists.
- Kids' cancer battles hit home and the heart in tragic 'Lion'
Husband and wife filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert tackle the most daunting of subjects in “A Lion in the House” – children with cancer.
- BROADCAST BRIEFS
The chase is on for 'Prison Break'
The “Prison Break” gang will face a formidable nemesis next season to be played by former “Invasion” star William Fichtner, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
- Health campaign to new mothers: Breast-feed or put children at risk
Warning: Public health officials have determined that not breast-feeding may be hazardous to your baby's health.
- DEAR ABBY
No regrets about taking the steps to be rid of abusive stepdad's name
“Confused in South Carolina” wrote you regarding changing her name from her abusive stepfather's back to her biological father's. That letter could have been written by me. I did change my name for the same reasons she wants to.
- LIVING WITH DISABILITIES
Chronic illness can impact caregivers
When chronic disease strikes, everyone in the immediate family suffers right along with the patient. And the effects of that illness go well beyond the family. Friends and co-workers are included as well.
- Big-man roles are a perfect fit for Jack Black
Jack Black puts in serious work to make himself outrageously funny. For “Nacho Libre,” in which he plays a cook in a Mexican orphanage who moonlights as a masked wrestler, Black took Spanish lessons, carefully honed his accent, learned zany but dangerous moves and overcame the fear that he could get squashed in the ring.
- Stone's 9/11 movie opens some wounds
Just two months before the film's release date, Paramount Pictures said it has softened the graphic death scene of a Port Authority police officer in Oliver Stone's “World Trade Center,” following criticism from the officer's widow.
- Griffin somehow finds right tone with 'Iraq Episode'
She has nipped, tucked and 'toxed herself into such a shrink-wrapped state, comedian Kathy Griffin looks like she should be sold in bulk at Toys “R” Us. Look kids! It's Extreme Makeover Barbie!
- No time for losers: They are 'Our Champions'
Laura Galinson and Rolf Benirschke were honored as Our Champions of 2006, and Luba Johnston was hailed posthumously as the 2006 Shining Star. Mary's House – North County's first transitional living program – was recognized for “providing a safe haven for homeless young women.”
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