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Fortunately, there's a simple way to minimize that effect: boost your intake of B vitamins, especially folic acid. You don't even have to take vitamin supplements. In 1998 the government mandated that cereal and flour manufacturers add folic acid to their products --not to fight heart disease but because it prevents neural-tube defects such as spina bifida in newborns. The other major sources of B vitamins are beans and--you guessed it--leafy green vegetables...
...follow medical news even casually, you have probably heard about homocysteine. Over the past few years, this amino acid, produced in the body, has been implicated as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease--maybe even more important than LDL, or "bad cholesterol." According to many studies, elevated homocysteine levels can triple the chance that you'll get heart disease and significantly increase your risk of stroke--and maybe of Alzheimer's disease as well. Researchers even have a plausible explanation: homocysteine seems to damage the internal walls of the arteries--a major source of cardiovascular problems...
...University School of Medicine, who wrote an editorial accompanying the two JAMA articles: "If you're already at high risk for heart disease, having your homocysteine levels tested is probably appropriate. If you're in good health, there's no point." Taking a multivitamin with 400 micrograms of folic acid certainly won't hurt. An even better idea, as always, is to eat plenty of leafy green vegetables, since they're high in the sorts of natural compounds that not only protect your heart but also may reduce your cancer risk...
...TIME/CNN poll, 7% of Americans think they'd be a good contestant on American Idol, and 23% say they have a friend or family member who would. Now they will have plenty of chances: several American Idol imitators are in the works. In the spirit of the show's acid host Simon Cowell, here's our honest preview...
...sophomore from Harvard tells me at the show. “They’re really cute,” adds her friend. And, to a degree they’re correct. Their emo/New Wave fashion sense and their greasy unkempt locks are analogous, I suppose, to those horrible acid-washed ensembles donned by Timberlake et al or the mop-tops of the Beatles. Still, the demographics of Wednesday’s audience—fans ranging from aggravating teeny-boppers to aspiring yuppie hipsters to visor-sporting frat boys—suggest that the Strokes’ widespread appreciation...