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Lead researcher Dr.

Susan B.

Roberts, Senior Scientist and Director of the Energy Metabolism Laboratory in the Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at the Boston, MA-based Tufts University, and her fellow researchers wanted to try to settle the age-old question of which diet makeup is best for weight loss and weight maintenance.

The researchers observed 34 healthy, but overweight men and women who were placed on a calorie-restricted diet where their total caloric intake was cut by 30 percent.

However, the study participants were split into one of two groups: LOW-GLYCEMIC LOAD LOWER-CARB DIET (LG) or HIGH-GLYCEMIC LOAD LOW-FAT DIET (HG) The LG group avoided foods with sugar and starch, but still ate 40 percent of their calories as carbohydrates.

The macronutrient breakdown of the fat and protein were 30 percent each.

Interestingly, they call this a "low-carb" diet, but it's not low enough for most of us who are livin' la vida low-carb.

This more closely resembles The Zone diet.

The HG group, on the other hand, ate 60 percent of their calories as carbohydrates while limiting their fat and protein to 20 percent each.

This is what many would describe as the Standard American Diet (SAD).

The researchers took great pains to try to match the foods in this group with the taste, appearance, and cal...

Schilling has issued a $1 million challenge to prove the sock he wore while throwing through an injury during Boston's postseason run toward its 2004 World Series conquest was reddened by anything but his blood.

The hosiery rests in the Hall of Fame where it belongs, until and unless ambulance chasers like Geraldo Rivera invade Cooperstown, N.Y., to identify Sherwin Williams as the culprit.

Peter Gammons, baseball's soul, offered the most logical explanation.

Red Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli, exercising his right to engage in locker room sarcasm, wink-winked in the presence of Gary Thorne, who embellished the tale Wednesday night when he declared as fact while doing play-by-play for the Baltimore Orioles that Schilling had dramatized his ordeal by painting the sock.

All you-know-what ensued in Boston, where fans are rabid, sensitive and genuinely nuts about the Red Sox.

Schilling, mind you, is a lightning rod often accused of being self-absorbed.

He survived playing with the earthy 1993 Philadelphia Phillies, who nicknamed him "Moth" for his knack of finding camera lights and surmised that his wish is to die in his own arms.

However, those Phillies, outrageous as they were, appreciated his 16-7 record that led to a Na...

There are about 70m blogs worldwide, Technorati estimates, though only a fraction are updated regularly.

Most blogs have only a handful of readers.

But some, such as Daily Kos and Instapundit, both US political blogs, have struck it big.

A few are attracting more than 1m readers a day, more than most newspapers.Local politicians who blog include President Thabo Mbeki and DA leader Tony Leon.

A visit to local blog tracking engines Amatomu and Afrigator shows that The two sites, both launched last month, “aggregate” blog posts and help deliver readers to SA blogs.Afrigator, which aggregates content from all over Africa, was created by Web entrepreneurs Mike Stopforth and Justin Hartman; Amatomu, which focuses exclusively on SA, is the brainchild of Mail & Guardian Web strategists Matthew Buckland and Vincent Maher.Buckland says it’s difficult to know how many South Africans are The most popular SA blogs, says Amatomu, include one created by rugby writer Mark Keohane and one about infertility by another Capetonian, Tertia Albertyn.Many traditional publishers are casting a wary eye on the phenomenon.

Unlike journalists at reputable publications, bloggers don’t subscribe to a code of conduct, are not boun...