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U.S. Releases Group of Iranians Held in Baghdad

By STEPHEN FARRELL Published: August 29, 2007 BAGHDAD, Wednesday Aug. 29 ? Members of an Iranian Energy Ministry delegation visiting Baghdad at the invitation of the Iraqi government were released Wednesday, a day after being arrested at their hotel by American troops and led away in handcuffs and blindfolds.

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In an image from TV, U.S. troops lead the members of an Iranian Energy Ministry delegation out of a hotel in Baghdad last night.

Iraqi and Iranian officials said the Iranians were in Baghdad to help resolve Iraq?s power crisis. American officials said they were held after being stopped and searched at a checkpoint near their hotel because unauthorized weapons were found in their vehicles.

The Iranian Embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday confirmed that the group was freed after being held overnight.

?They are in Baghdad to discuss power situation in Iraq with Iraqi power officials,? said an Iranian Embassy spokesman. ?They were arrested at 3 p.m. and released at 5.30 p.m., then arrested again at night yesterday. The Iraqi government intervened and later on they were released and now they are at the office of the Iraqi prime minister.?

Yasin Majid, a media adviser to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq, told Reuters news agency that the group was in Baghdad at the invitation of Iraq?s Ministry of Electricity to help set up a power station in Najaf, a city that is holy to Shiite Muslims.

The American military said the delegation was originally allowed to proceed from the checkpoint beside the Tigris River on Tuesday to the state-owned Sheraton Ishtar hotel nearby. But uniformed American troops later arrived at the hotel, and television cameras filmed them leading the group away.

Hotel officials said the Iranian delegation, which was the first Iranian party to visit the hotel since the 2003 invasion, had checked in the day before.

Mohaned Abed, the night manager, identified the members of the Iranian delegation from hotel records as Jamal Bayati, Abathar Mirzani, Mohsen Ashouri, Saed Raai, Hassan Tharif and Bahmatullah Muradi, who was accompanied by his wife, who was held but not handcuffed or blindfolded. He said on Wednesday that seven Iraqis accompanying the party were also held. The United States military said the total number of people detained was 15.

Mr. Abed, 39, said that the American soldiers entered the hotel?s ground-floor restaurant, Al Warkaa, while the Iranians were having dinner. The soldiers took them into the lobby and questioned them.

?The American soldiers arrived about 9.30 p.m., entered the hotel and their commander asked me about the Iranian delegation, how many they were, their room numbers and did I have a copy of their room keys,? he said.

?I told him that the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity had invited them, that they were guests of the ministry and that we had a letter from the ministry confirming this,? he said.

The Americans then went to the restaurant and searched the delegation?s rooms on the third floor of the 18-story building, he said.

?After about 15 or 20 minutes they gathered the Iranians? personal belongings, put them in plastic folders, put blindfolds on their eyes and then accompanied the delegation outside the hotel,? he added.

Videotape filmed by Associated Press Television News showed American soldiers leading blindfolded and handcuffed people out of the hotel lobby at night. The videotape showed other American soldiers leaving the hotel carrying what appeared to be luggage and smaller bags.

The detentions are likely to increase tensions between Iran and the United States.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, called the arrests an act of ?interference? in Iraq?s internal affairs and ?inconsistent? with the responsibilities of the American-led forces in Iraq, the Associated Press reported.

The United States military said the latest group was detained after American troops confiscated an AK-47 rifle and two 9-millimeter pistols from the group?s Iraqi guards, who ?had identification but no weapons permits and also had Iranian money.?

?While there, coalition forces confiscated a laptop computer, cellphones, and a briefcase full of Iranian and U.S. money,? said an American military statement issued in Baghdad.

It said the group, including two people carrying ?diplomatic credentials,? was questioned at a coalition facility and that everyone was later ?released in consultation with the Government of Iraq to Iraqi officials.?

The arrests follow numerous recent disputes between Iran and the United States, which has repeatedly accused Iran of arming and financing Shiite militias who attack American and Iraqi forces in Iraq.

Iran has denied the accusations and has protested the arrest of five Iranians by American troops in northern Iraq in January. The United States has said the five had links to Iran?s Revolutionary Guards; Iran has denied the accusation, saying they were diplomats. The five men are still in American custoday.

Russia Has No Need to Counter Europe Missile Shield, U.S. Says

By Michael Heath

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Russia has no need to counter the Bush administration's proposed missile shield in eastern Europe, the U.S. State Department said, after a report that Russia planned to deploy nuclear missiles in neighboring Belarus.

``It's simply untrue to try and assert that the placement of a radar installation and 10 interceptors requires any kind of strategic counter on the part of Russia or any other government that has a substantial nuclear arsenal,'' State Department spokesman Tom Casey said at a briefing in Washington yesterday.

The Moscow-based Kommersant daily reported that Russia may counter the shield by stationing nuclear weapons in Belarus, citing Russia's ambassador in Minsk, Alexander Surikov. Russia and Belarus, a former Soviet republic that borders Poland, haven't held talks on the proposal, Kommersant said yesterday.

Russia is reasserting its global military power with a new intercontinental ballistic missile, upgrades to its air force and the expansion of its navy. It is seeking to counter the proposed anti-missile system in eastern Europe and the expansion of NATO and President Vladimir Putin has vowed an ``asymmetrical response'' to the U.S. shield.

The missile system ``poses absolutely no challenge, threat, or degradation of the strategic nuclear capabilities of Russia,'' Casey said, according to a transcript posted on the State Department's Web site. ``So whether these reports are true or are not, I don't think that they fundamentally alter any of the strategic balances that already exist.''

Polish Border

Russia earlier threatened to deploy missiles in its western enclave of Kaliningrad on the border with Poland. Its military already has early warning radar installations in Belarus.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and described as ``Europe's last dictator'' by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, is being isolated by the West. The U.S. government earlier this month expanded a list of Belarus politicians and state officials banned from visiting America.

The deployment of Russian missiles in Belarus hasn't been discussed officially, though the two countries have a high level of military cooperation, Kommersant cited the Belarus Foreign Ministry as saying. The government in Moscow withdrew nuclear weapons from Belarus after the Soviet Union's breakup in 1991 and the end of the Cold War, the newspaper reported.

The U.S., whose ties with Russia have deteriorated because of diverging views on Europe's defense needs, accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons and sponsoring terrorism.

``This is a very limited capability system,'' Casey said. ``It's designed to counter a limited threat posed by nations like Iran or others in the Middle East that might, at some point, develop a nuclear weapon.''

Warsaw Pact

The U.S. wants to deploy the missile interceptors in Poland and the radar installations in the Czech Republic. Both nations are former members of the Warsaw Pact group of countries the Soviet Union established to counter the western military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Putin said in May Iranian missiles have a maximum range of 1,100 miles (1,700 kilometers) and by 2012 this may increase to a range of 1,500 miles, or not enough to threaten Europe.

He offered President George W. Bush the use of a Russian radar base in Azerbaijan, which shares a border with Iran, as an alternative to the Czech and Polish sites when they met at the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, in June.

To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Heath in Sydney at mheath1@bloomberg.net .

Last Updated: August 28, 2007 21:51 EDT

Iraqi PM blasts American critics

Mon, August 27, 2007

By AP

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's embattled prime minister lashed out at American critics yesterday, saying Senator Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who have called for his ouster should stop treating Iraq like "one of their villages."

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also lambasted the U.S. military for raids on Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad that have resulted in civilian deaths.

The grim combination of ongoing violence and political deadlock have increased frustration in both Washington and Baghdad, with American legislators increasingly critical of al-Maliki's performance and Iraqi leaders growing weary of what they consider unfair U.S. criticism.

Clinton and Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat and chairperson of the Senate armed services committee, have called for al-Maliki to be replaced.

Angelina: The UN Believeable Fabulousness

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While Brad Pitt has been toting the kids around NYC, playing in parks and going on horse-and-carriage rides, mama has been touring war torn Iraq and Syria.

Jolie, who is Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, visited refugee camps in Damascus on Monday and Tuesday this week, with the entourageless Santa Angelina also making a quick stop in Iraq to visit US troops. How does she do it all?

Angelina also took time to play with a group of children at a makeshift refugee camp, before heading back to New York today. She did not take any of them with her.

Over 100 killed in Afghan clash, suicide attack (Roundup)

Aug 29, 2007, 13:36 GMT

Kabul - US-led coalition forces said Wednesday they killed more than 100 Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, while a suicide bombing in a crowded market in a southeastern province killed six and wounded 11, officials said.

In a statement, US-led coalition forces claimed to have killed more than 100 suspected Taliban fighters in an engagement which was still ongoing in the southern province of Kandahar.

One Afghan army soldier was killed, three coalition troops and three Afghan soldiers were wounded injured in the fighting eight kilometres south of Chenartu village in Shah Walikot district, the statement said.

The combined forces were attacked by a large number of insurgents using small arms, heavy machineguns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, the statement said.

The coalition forces repelled the attack with aircraft that destroyed hilltop sniper positions and two trucks used to reinforce and resupply the rebels.

No civilians were killed or wounded as all targets were engaged in open and unpopulated areas, it said.

Taliban officials were not immediately available for any comment.

Since the fighting in Panjwayi district of Kandahar province in summer 2006, which left more than 1,000 rebels dead, it was the first large-scale attack the Taliban had launched on the joint forces.

Also Wednesday, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vest in a crowded market in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing six including two Afghan army soldiers and wounding 11, a provincial governor said.

The attack took place on at around noon in Bermal district of Paktika province, which has a long border with Pakistan, Mohammad Akram Khepilwak said.

'Four civilians, two Afghan national army soldiers were killed and 10 civilians and one police officer were wounded when the bomber detonated the explosives that he had strapped around his body,' he said.

The target of the attack was 'killing the innocent people and creating fear among the people in the province,' he said, adding, 'if not why he should have exploded himself among the civilians in a crowded market.'

In the eastern province of Nangarhar, coalition forces arrested six alleged insurgents, and in the south-east province of Ghazni seven suspects were detained, the military reported Wednesday.

Since spring, the fighting has killed more than 4,000 Taliban-led insurgents, according to coalition officials.

Al-Fayed says royal family have "ice water in veins"

Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:17AM BST

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LONDON (Reuters) - The royal family must have "ice water in their veins," says the father of Princess Diana's lover who will forever be convinced their deaths in a Paris car crash were not an accident.

"They took a young girl who was only 19 and they made her life hell," said Mohamed al-Fayed, an implacable foe of the House of Windsor, reflecting on Diana's fairytale marriage to Prince Charles that ended in bitter divorce.

The Egyptian-born tycoon who owns the luxury store Harrods said in an interview to mark the 10th anniversary of the deaths of Diana and his eldest son Dodi: "The royal family must have ice water in their veins."

He has long maintained that his son and Diana were victims of an establishment conspiracy to prevent them from marrying.

"Agents of MI6 (the intelligence agency) or people working for MI6 or both combined to make sure that Dodi and Diana would never get back to London."

"I will never rest until I have exposed the whole murderous conspiracy. My son and Diana were slaughtered. I am not going to let them get away with it."

The Palace does not usually comment on al-Fayed's claims. Two major investigations by both British and French police ruled that the high-speed crash was an accident blamed on drunken chauffeur Henri Paul who also died in the crash.

Despite a stream of stories linking her to various men, Diana was largely discreet about her companions until she dropped her reserve with millionaire Dodi in the weeks before her death.

Photographs of Diana and Dodi kissing on his luxury yacht in the Mediterranean were splashed over the world's press, which revelled in the real-life "princess and the playboy" soap opera.

FIGHTING ON

Al-Fayed will not give up and has employed a phalanx of lawyers to make his case at a much delayed London inquest -- the official British inquiry where a jury will give a verdict on how the couple died.

Pressed on how he could prove his allegations, al-Fayed conceded: "It is difficult. But I believe in God. With the help of God I will give justice to my son and Princess Diana."

Asked if he was in any way to blame for the couple's death in a car driven by a chauffeur he employed, al-Fayed said "There is no reason why I should feel responsible".

The 74-year-old tycoon who won a bitter battle to take over the "Top People's Store" in the 1980s has been a controversial figure.

He revealed that he had paid members of parliament to ask questions and lobby on his behalf. The disclosures sparked a major scandal over sleaze and influence-peddling that contributed to the fall of the Conservative government in 1997.

Thwarted in his application for a British passport, al-Fayed argues that he employs thousands of people, pays millions of pounds in taxes and has been a patron of many good causes.

Today, his bitterness and anger are palpable whatever the perceptions of him may be.

"The establishment has done the only thing it could to hurt me. It has killed my son. That I cannot forgive."

Fed Underestimated Debt Impact, Focused on Inflation (Update1)

By Craig Torres

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials, underestimating the impact of credit-market turmoil, focused at their Aug. 7 meeting on inflation and slowing productivity.

Minutes of the session released yesterday showed that the Fed was intent on securing credibility as an inflation fighter just 18 months into Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's term. Even though the central bank cut the discount rate on Aug. 17, the emphasis on prices forms the backdrop for deliberations next month.

Investors now anticipate policy makers will lower the benchmark rate by a quarter point to 5 percent at or before their Sept. 18 meeting. Anxiety about inflation may keep officials from a larger reduction, or discourage them from signaling a series of cuts, according to some economists.

``Concerns about upside inflation risk and their credibility will play a role in tempering how aggressively they will be willing to ease,'' said Brian Sack, vice president at Macroeconomic Advisers LLC in Washington and a former Fed economist. ``It won't prevent them from easing in September.''

The central bank did signal greater concern about the threat to the economic expansion from credit markets than it showed in the statement after the Aug. 7 meeting. A deeper deterioration in financial markets ``might require a policy response'' depending on the effect on the outlook for growth, the minutes showed.

Rising Risk

By Aug. 17, the Fed dropped its reference to inflation entirely when it cut the discount rate and said ``the downside risks to growth have increased appreciably.'' Records of the emergency videoconference where policy makers changed course won't be released until October.

The central bank at the start of the month still viewed the upheaval in credit markets as concentrated in subprime mortgages, with ``little net change in the cost of credit for investment-grade businesses,'' the minutes showed.

That conclusion overlooked increasing signs of stress in several markets, analysts said. At the time of the Aug. 7 meeting, the stock market had lost about $1.3 trillion in market capitalization since benchmark indexes reached records in July.

On July 24, Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mortgage lender, reported its third straight decline in quarterly profit, as even prime borrowers struggled with debt payments. The earnings release showed that delinquencies were spreading into less risky loans.

`Coming Unglued'

``The minutes indicate they underestimated how severe the problems were in the credit markets,'' said Scott Minerd, chief investment officer at Guggenheim Partners LLC in Santa Monica, California, where he helps oversee $24 billion. ``The market was clearly coming unglued prior to the meeting.''

Policy makers have employed a range of tools since their last scheduled meeting to ease the credit crunch. They first injected the most funds into money markets since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, then cut the rate charged to banks for direct loans from the Fed.

The Fed has also allowed banks to channel discount-window borrowings to their securities subsidiaries to help improve clients' access to capital. Officials clarified that they will accept as collateral securities such as asset-backed commercial paper sold by special-purpose companies.

Still, financing remains costly or constrained for riskier securities and loans. Interest rates on jumbo mortgages, or those greater than $417,000, have soared to 106 basis points more than the cost of smaller mortgages, from 39 basis points at the start of the month. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.

Likely to Cut

``Given the way the market is, I think it would be very difficult'' for the Fed to avoid cutting its target rate next month, said John Silvia, chief economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina. ``The Fed will go ahead and ease 25 basis points in September and then see what happens after that.''

Yields on two-year Treasury notes are more than 1 percentage point below the Fed's 5.25 percent benchmark rate, indicating investors anticipate a series of rate cuts. Notes due in July 2009 yielded 4.14 percent at 7:56 a.m. in New York.

Policy makers still weren't convinced that inflation had receded enough to relax their guard at the start of the month, the minutes showed. Part of the moderation in the four months through June was due to ``volatile'' categories such as clothing, the Fed said. Inflation expectations over the next year also ``remained unchanged'' even though gasoline prices had fallen.

Inflation Pressures

``Participants remained concerned about factors that could augment inflation pressures,'' including a slower trend growth rate in productivity, the Fed said. They also cited high levels of ``resource utilization,'' a reference to unemployment that remains historically low, economists said.

Productivity, or the amount that workers produce per hour, rose about 1 percent in 2006, the smallest gain since 1995, Labor Department figures show. Fed staff economists took account of slower productivity in cutting their predictions for economic growth in 2007 and 2008, the minutes said.

``If you have slower productivity growth, tight markets translate into more inflation, that is why there is this extreme focus on inflation,'' said Robert Eisenbeis, former head of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. A rate cut is ``not a foregone conclusion'' at the September meeting, he said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Craig Torres in Washington at ctorres3@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: August 29, 2007 08:07 EDT

Bird flu in German farm more serious than thought

www.chinaview.cn 2007-08-28 23:59:53 Print

BERLIN, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The bird flu found on a southern German farm last week has infected more poultry than previously thought, local authority said Tuesday.

Tests show that birds in three enclosures, instead of only one, in the farm near the southern German city of Erlangen have been infected with bird flu, director of the local veterinary authority Ottmar Fick said Tuesday.

However, it was unclear whether all these birds were infected with the deadly H5N1 virus, which experts believe could transfer to humans, he said.

Earlier reports say some ducks which died suddenly in the farm have been tested positive for the H5N1 virus and experts are still trying to find out where the virus originated.

Meanwhile, Fick said it was not clear whether infected birds had been offered for sale commercially.

"We cannot exclude delivery," he said.

All the 166,000 birds on the farm were killed after bird flu was identified on Friday.

Several cases of the deadly H5N1 strain in wild birds has been identified in the German states of Bavaria and Sachsen in June.

According to the World Health Organization, 195 people globally, mostly in Asia, have died from the H5N1 virus.

Asthma Rates High Among 9/11 Workers

By DEVLIN BARRETT

The Associated Press

Monday, August 27, 2007; 1:36 PM

WASHINGTON -- A new survey of Sept. 11-related illnesses has found an alarming increase in asthma _ 12 times higher than normal _ among those who toiled on the toxic debris piles of ground zero.

The study was released Monday by the New York City Department of Health, based on responses gathered by the World Trade Center Health Registry.

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The data show 3.6 percent of the 25,000 rescue and recovery workers in the registry reported developing asthma after working at the site _ more than 12 times the expected figure for adults over a similar time period.

"The risk was significantly elevated for fire and rescue workers, medical workers, and police and military personnel compared to volunteers," according to the study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Firefighters, police officers, construction workers and volunteers swarmed to the site immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. While most of them were from New York, hundreds or more came from across the country to help in the moment of national crisis.

Overall, workers who arrived at the disaster site on the day of the attacks and stayed more than 90 days reported the highest rate of new asthma _ 7 percent. Volunteers accounted for almost one-third of those responding to the survey; firefighters accounted for about 14 percent.

Workers who reported wearing protective respirators on Sept. 11 and 12, when the contamination was at its worst, had lower risk of developing adult-onset asthma, the study found.

"These findings reflect the critical importance of getting appropriate respiratory protection to all workers as quickly as possible during a disaster, and making every effort to make sure workers wear them at all times," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, the city's health commissioner.

The results buttress previous research that found 70 percent of those who worked at ground zero later suffered lung problems. The doctors who conducted that study said they expect thousands to need treatment for 9/11 illnesses, and New York politicians, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, have pushed for a $1.9 billion program to treat those workers.

The authors of the new asthma study cautioned the findings are based on self-reporting by those answering their survey questions, so they cannot verify diagnoses or rule out over-reporting by those who responded.

The authors also said there is little pre-existing data on the prevalence of asthma among first responders _ but separate research published by Swiss doctors in March in the medical journal Chest found asthma was "considerably underdiagnosed in firefighters."

The World Trade Center Health Registry was launched in 2003 to track the long-term health effects of ground zero exposure to workers, volunteers, and residents.

How old are you really?

www.chinaview.cn 2007-08-29 14:12:17 Print

BEIJING, Aug. 29 -- He is an anti-aging expert, a best-seller author and an experienced internist. But Dr Michael Roizen does not care what people call him as he only has a single goal: To help motivate people to get healthier.

Last week, still in high spirits after attending an international conference held in Beijing, Roizen came to a community residence in the southern suburbs of Beijing and lectured young people about the science of age reduction.

Dr Roizen, an internist and anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, the United States, pioneered the concept of real age. And he started discussing it publicly in 1993.

Roizen's first book on the topic, Real Age: Are You as Young as You Can Be? came out in 1999 and became a New York Times best-seller. In the book, 140 things were mentioned to make people younger and change the rate of aging. For example, Roizen suggests that people take simple steps like drinking less alcohol, eating more vegetables and taking vitamins.

Now 61 years old, Roizen says his biological age or real age is only 42.

According to him, chronological age is how old one is in calendar years. Comparatively, biological age, or real age, is how old the body is based on lifestyle, medical history and genetics.

To calculate real age, Roizen worked with doctors, epidemiologists and scientists to design the Real Age Test to weigh each individual factor in one's profile, from medical history and current health conditions to exercise, nutrition, daily habits and stress. After completing the quiz of 190 questions available on Roizen's Realage.com, the biological age of one person can be calculated.

Roizen says the test can persuade patients to adopt healthier habits or drop bad practices like smoking, which can add the equivalent of eight years to a person's biological age.

There are also some simple tests you can do to see whether you are healthy or not. For example, stand on one foot with the eyes closed and see how long you can stand.

According to Dr Roizen, you should stand at least 35 seconds if you are under the age of 35. For people over the age of 35, they should be able to stand 15 seconds.

"If you could not, it says that you are a bit older physiologically," he says.

You could also pinch your skin and see how fast it returns, which is also a sign of the aging body.

According to Dr Roizen, several components are thought to contribute to aging: diseases in the artery and immune system, decay of nerve cells, damage to genes, inefficient energy production in the cells and effects of accidents and environmental factors.

For example, arterial aging is the root cause of heart attacks, strokes, heart disease and many other conditions. Immune system aging is associated with cancers and autoimmune diseases such as arthritis. Accidents contribute to premature disabilities and death.

Dr Roizen believes that cardiovascular disease and cancer are not just a matter of genetics, they are actually preventable. For example, 70 percent of arterial aging is considered preventable; 80 percent to 90 percent of all cancers are likely due to environmental causes, such as exposure to toxins or poor diet; 80 percent of all accidents may be avoidable.

"So to a large extent, you could control the rate at which you will age," says Roizen.

To motivate people to keep younger is quite effective in persuading them turning to healthier lifestyle, he says.

At the very beginning, Dr Roizen started with motivating his patients to quit smoking. "I would tell them it made them years older physiologically. The warning is commonly quite effective," he says.

Also, many of his patients come because they are overweight, have diabetes and high blood pressure and want to transform themselves or do not want to depend on pills. What Dr Roizen does is to help them choose the best practice for them.

"No one can do the 140 things mentioned in my book, so I would suggest them to start with three and make them habits. For example, walking 30 minutes a day, quitting smoking and have nuts such as walnuts and almonds. If they feel better after a while, then they could add more choices each month," says Dr Roizen.

On average each day Dr Roizen's website has 10.4 million visitors worldwide.

The Real Age series Roizen wrote later after his first publication includes The RealAge Diet, Cooking the RealAge Way, The RealAge Makeover, YOU: The Owner's Manual, and YOU on a diet: the Owner's Manual for Waist Management. The last two also were also published in Chinese.

Dr Zhong Nanshan, president of Chinese Medical Association, supports the health concepts advocated in his books and prefaced the two books to encourage Chinese readers to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

The waist management book, also the New York Times best-seller, focuses on losing weight and dieting in a smart way.

According to Dr Roizen, the fat on the arms, thighs and hips is no big deal, but the fat in the middle is quite a health concern. The fat released from the omentum, a fatty layer of tissue located inside the belly that hangs underneath the muscles in the stomach, travels to the liver rapidly and constantly as opposed to the more patient fat on the thighs. The processed material in the liver is then shipped to the arteries, where it is linked to health risks like high LDL cholesterol.

The other problem with omentum fat is that it secretes very little adiponectin, which is a stress- and inflammation-reducing chemical that is related to the hunger-controlling hormone leptin. Higher levels of adiponectin are related to lower levels of fat. Comparatively, those who have low levels of adiponectin have abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other risk factors associated with coronary artery disease.

"Chinese are vulnerable to the same amount of fat in the belly and have 50 times more risk than Americans because we develop genes to store fat to survive famine and bad weather," says Dr Roizen.

He viewed the anti-aging medicine as an effort of diseases prevention to ensure the best quality of life. "We can educate people to live to the top of their life curves to 90-100. But we do not know how to get them to 120-150 today. Probably, we would know about it 10 years later," says Dr Roizen.

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