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The pair dubbed their idea the 100 Mile Diet and vowed, for one year, to eat only foods grown within a 100-mile (160-kilometre) radius of their Kitsilano home. And to hold themselves to it, they decided to go public with their experiment. The couple, both professional writers, have turned their dietary experience into a diary published by The Tyee, a B.C. on-line magazine at http://www.thetyee.ca, and their experiences have turned into an Internet phenomenon of sorts.

Earlier this month, scientists in Swansea announced that turmeric, a spice used in curry, might help to prevent cancer of the gullet.