With low-carb eating back in its rightful spot alongside cabbage soup and grapefruit diets, we again are celebrating foods that give comfort and energy.We are cooking and ordering three of our favorites - potatoes, pasta and rice - without feeling the guilt of committing a dietary no-no. We're carbo-loading again and proud of it."So many of the messages in the last decade have been negative: 'Don't eat carbs. Don't eat this or that.' People are ready to enjoy food that tastes good and is good for you - like carbs," says Cynthia Harriman, spokeswoman for the Whole Grain Council in Boston. "The carb mania finally has subsided."Carbohydrates, an important part of any healthy diet, are the body's No. 1 choice of fuel. Before the Atkins and South Beach diets vilified and blamed carbs for super-sizing our bellies, they were accepted as the building blocks of a sensible eating plan.Today, carbs have regained the respect they deserve, with the realization by former low-carb disciples that, when eaten regularly, carbs do not lead to weight gain unless they are gobbled to excess."It never made sense to me that people believed that if they stayed away from pasta for more red meat they would be thinner and healthier.

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It is passed on when these infected fluids get into another person's system.

You can contract HIV by:
Having unprotected sexual intercourse with someone who is infected Sharing needles or body piercing equipment with someone who is infected Being given a transfusion of infected blood Allowing infected fluids to get into a cut or sore anywhere on your body Babies born to HIV positive women can be infected during pregnancy and birth, or through breast feeding

HIV is present in the saliva of an infected person, but not in quantities sufficient to transmit infection. Once infected fluids have dried, the risk of them transmitting the virus is considered to be close to zero.

The key methods of preventing the transmission of HIV are by not having sex with anyone who is, or may be, HIV positive, or by using latex condoms.

Host family needed for Peruvian teen

Cristian Cruz Choccata lives in Peru, in a two-room house with his parents, four sisters and a brother. He's 18. He goes to school. He speaks a little English.

Later this month, he'll leave home, get on a plane and come to Seattle. It won't be a pleasure trip. He's not in a study-abroad program.

"His diagnosis is macroadenoma," said Rebecca Snyders, executive director of Healing the Children's Oregon and Washington chapter. In simpler terms, Choccata has a tumor in his pituitary gland. The gland, at the base of the brain, is involved in the release of hormones.

Untreated, this type of tumor can cause headaches, bleeding and pressure on the optic nerve that could lead to blindness. Trouble with the gland's hormonal role can stunt growth.

"He is very small for his age, it has definitely affected his growth," Snyders said of the teen who lives in Cusco, in the southern part of Peru.

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VYTORIN is also indicated for the reduction of elevated total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, as an adjunct to other lipid-lowering treatments (e.g. LDL apheresis) or if such treatments are unavailable.

Muscle pain, tenderness or weakness in people taking VYTORIN should be reported to a doctor promptly because these could be signs of a serious side effect.