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With do's, you can lose
The debunking of "miracle" weight-loss pills like Xenadrine EFX and TrimSpa reinforces what dieticians long have advised: A healthy diet combined with exercise is the best way to keep those New Year's resolutions. The Federal Trade Commission last week reached a $25 million settlement with the makers of those and two other diet pills, CortiSlim and One-A-Day WeightSmart, alleging each company's claims of weight loss were not supported by scientific studies. Commercials -- complete with testimonials -- for diet pills fill the airways this time of year as people make that age-old resolution to lose weight. Exercise machines and gear replace Christmas decorations in store aisles, and the focus is on creating a new you. .
Wellness / Weight loss
Still trying to lose that spare tire? Are those last 5 pounds refusing to budge? Think twice before turning to a fad diet as the solution to your weight woes. While their efficacy and safety have been questioned for years, fad diets continue to tempt us. Many still see them as a fast, simple and acceptable way to lose weight without adherence to a healthy eating plan or regular exercise. This month, when New Year's resolutions can tempt individuals to try fad diets, it becomes especially important to check their adverse health effects against their appeal. Fad diets cause nutritional deficiencies Fad diets are popular for the very reason they are detrimental to individual health: They promise a quick fix.
Cards of our fathers: Son uses POW's memento to piece together history
FRAMINGHAM - For former Woburn resident William Fossey, playing cards was the best way to pass the time with fellow prisoners of war in Germany during the tail end of World War II. For son Steve Fossey, whose father died in 1999 at age 76, that same deck of cards - on which William Fossey wrote the names of fellow prisoners - has proven the best way to get in touch with some of his dad's POW friends in an attempt to better understand and document his World War II experience. "To find these guys is a little bit of a race against time," said Steve Fossey, 50, of Framingham. The engineer for Natick Labs said he has made contact with two of his dad's friends since beginning the search about a month ago. Check out a slide show of some of the playing cards:http://util.wickedlocal.com/multimedia/metrowestdailynews/cards/ "Without the Internet and without Google it would be a lot harder," said Steve Fossey, adding that he failed to contact the former POWs when he conducted a similar search in the mid-1990s.
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How did the promise of a historic trial against Saddam Hussein disintegrate into a deeply flawed legal process, followed by the equally flawed spectacle of a hasty sectarian execution? Why did the United States abandon the potent internationalist legacy of the Nuremberg Trials that it once championed? A brief history of this failed promise of justice demonstrates that the outcome could have been different, that the Iraqi people deserved a more befitting vindication of their suffering under Saddam Hussein's tyranny. In March of 2003, shortly before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, I advised the Iraqi opposition to call for the establishment of a United Nations tribunal in anticipation of Saddam Hussein's eventual capture. After the use of poison gas in the notorious 1988 al-Anfal genocidal campaign against the Kurds, bringing him to justice before an international court had become a focus of the human-rights community.
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