Still, there is little evidence to support any specific diet to protect against inflammation, says Dr. Cannon.

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Or to be more specific, a diet that consists of something other than sugar, fat, grease and more sugar, fat and grease.

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These other factors could be related to a child's climate, diet or geography-specific infections.

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This means that the Diet would have to pass specific tax increases sufficient to repay within a reasonable period (say ten years) special reconstruction bond issues.

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Not a vague, wishy-washy notion that I should "get in shape, " maybe "eat better" or possibly "go on a diet, " but rather a specific long-term plan to enhance my wellness in a way that would not only stick, but fit within the parameters of my busy life as a full-time lawyer, husband and father of four small children.

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Special foods and beverages may be deductible if they are prescribed to treat a specific illness and are in addition to your normal diet.

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Previous studies have linked Mediterranean diets to fewer heart attacks and deaths from heart disease, but most of those have correlated people's recall of their diet with heart-disease outcomes rather than randomly assigning participants to eat specific diets and then following them for heart-disease risk, as Estruch and his colleagues did.

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Given that the association between diet drinks and with vascular events is unexpected and unsupported by other research, a study that controlled for specific ingredients, such as the type of sweetener and caffeine content, is needed to assess whether there are grounds for a plausible mode of action.

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