Thus, stressed-out folks are storing more fat than people who approach their day relaxed or in a better state of mind, according to her book.

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More importantly, it focuses on cutting out the fat through aggressive restructuring, creating and delivering best of the breed products that consumers want, and strengthening the balance sheet.

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Material wealth may be the common thread, but as Richard finds out there is much more to wealth than merely sporting a fat wallet.

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They involve ginning up microbes to do things that we really need doing such as making clean fuel, sucking up carbon dioxide, cleaning fat out of our arteries, giving us a lot more immunity to nasty bacteria and viruses and helping us make plastics and chemicals more efficiently and cheaply.

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Wild birds can be stuffed and cooked like any other turkey, but you have to take more care not to overcook them or dry them out since they have no extra fat.

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"I think we're close to the point where, instead of a dietitian saying, 'Eat less fat, eat more fruits and vegetables, ' they could figure out what foods you do or don't like with a survey or genetic test, " says John Hayes, a professor of food science at Penn State and lead author of a 2010 study showing supertasters' preference for salt.

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