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Mama commanded you to do it or else. Dr. Atkins said it was an essential part of his low-carb diet and you wouldn't lose a pound if you didn't follow his advice. The U.S. Department of Agriculture food pyramid demonstrated that it is necessary to maintain health. Americans got the message: Eat your spinach. Make salad and fruit a part of your daily consumption. Don't forget to include greens on the menu. Then, last month, we had the spinach scare. Later came lettuce.

Almost 200 people became sick after eating spinach tainted with a deadly strain of E. coli. Three people died. Later, a grower from the Salinas Valley in California recalled 8,500 cartons of green leaf lettuce, worried, too, that it was tainted with E. coli. Turned out the lettuce was OK, but the scare about leafy greens underlined an essential problem with the safety of our food supply: There are so many agencies overseeing food -- from the Department of Agriculture to the Food and Drug Administration to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- that monitoring food safety is extremely difficult.

They stir unusual passions, feet. Ask someone what they think of the human foot and they will immediately respond either with instant revulsion or peculiar appreciation.
Seldom is there middle ground and rarely, in expressing an opinion, does anyone consider their purpose and function. In short, they are judged solely (no pun intended) on their aesthetic merits.
But consider just how remarkable they are: the average person's feet carries them the equivalent of five times round the earth during their lifetime and, in a typical day, each foot will endure a cumulative force of several hundred tonnes. Moreover, each foot is a masterpiece of engineering, made up of 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Yet in spite of their importance, just how many of us look after our feet as we would other parts of our body? Well, according to the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (the two terms mean exactly the same thing), whose annual conference meets next month, not too many of us.

The group tries to offer events that give attendees concrete parenting tips, such as the suggestion given by one recent speaker that parents negotiate curfew times with their children, then have the kids set an alarm clock at the front door and return home to turn it off before it rings."People can take that home and do something with it," she said.Sarah Lemagie • 612-673-7557 • slemagie@startribune.com .

New drugs are looming on the horizon that could, if they live up to their promise, avert heart disease, diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. By suppressing the common killers associated with aging, the drugs — sirtuin activators — could significantly prolong both health and life span.
But is the promise a mirage or a serious possibility?
The drugs are designed to mimic the effects of caloric restriction, a low calorie but healthful diet known to make laboratory mice live longer and more healthily but is too hard for all but the most ascetic of humans to keep to. One such drug, resveratrol, also a very minor ingredient of red wine, hit the headlines last week with a report by David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School and colleagues that it negates the bad effects of a high-fat diet in mice.