Both are not pretty to look at. But I know which one I'd rather have.

I just wish I could have showed this smoker's lung (on the right) to my mother-in-law well before she died of lung cancer ten years ago.

On Thursday, November 10th, 2005, a new exhibit in New York prepared to open called "BODIES...The Exhibition".

On the left is a healthy human lung. On the right is a smokers lung injected with a polymer preservative.

AP Photographer Mary Altaffer captured this photograph at a press preview of the upcoming exhibit.

In the July issue of the American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition a new study outlines the potential benefits of a "HP", low carbohydrate diet, if you are trying to lose weight. No, "HP" does not stand for Harry Potter in this case. However, after devouring the 652 page book in less than six days, I can see how people reading J.K. Rowling's sixth book could lose weight in the process.

In this case, "HP" stands for High Protein.

Dr. David S. Weigle, a Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Internal Medicine specialist at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, studied the effects in nineteen middle-aged, overweight men and women along with his colleagues, Patricia A. Breen, Coleen C. Matthys, Holly S. Callahan, Kaatje E. Meeuws, Verna R. Burden and Jonathan Q. Purnell.

The men and women studied by Weigle and his colleagues at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, were 41 years-old on average.

Their average body mass index (BMI) was 26. This is considered overweight but not obese.

According to their findings, these men and women lost weight not so much because their diet contained fewer carbohydrates. Rather they found that a higher protein diet suppresses one's appetite.