Word: acidly
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...Folic acid, already known to prevent certain types of birth defects, is emerging as the leader of the vitamin pack in protecting against heart disease. A member of the B-vitamin family, folic acid lowers levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that has been linked to greater risk of heart disease. While scientists are still trying to explain why--it may have something to do with homocysteine's tendency to promote blood clots and eat away the lining of blood-vessel walls--the newest research suggests that taking more folic acid can lower homocysteine levels and reduce the risk...
Meanwhile, an English study reports that it may take about twice the current U.S. Dietary Reference Intake of folic acid--in other words, 0.8 mg a day--to lower homocysteine levels enough to ward off a heart attack...
Sounds good. But probe the surface, and acid bubbles up. A top Democratic leadership aide on Bush: "The onus is on him to end the partisanship. He's been saying for months and months, 'I'm gonna make things better in Washington. I'm going to unify.' Fine. That's great. But he's got some proving to do." A Republican member of Congress on Gore: "He wants to fight everyone and everything." New eras of warm cooperation have a way of dissolving into cold, familiar warfare, and even good intentions and fond hopes can't always prevent...
...Doctors will pay big dollars [to learn] how to read a reading off of a ventilator or how to read an acid-base imbalance, something that's a measurable, hard concrete kind of skill," says Buckman...
...good. It's tough. "In the '90s, the attitude was, 'Take the bad out--get out the fat, the salt,'" she says. But that removed taste. So Schellhaass is concocting products like Harmony, a cereal that's not as bland and healthy as All-Bran but has added folic acid and calcium, which women need. Schellhaass is finding ways for us to have our cake and beat...