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...stop there: One "news" piece, more likely a subtle advertisement for a product or resort, is followed by the CNN logo and theme music, to keep the company and the product in the forefront of your thoughts. The headache these televisions cause should give one of the aspirin or ibuprofen companies (you choose your preferred name) a chance to advertise in this aggressive-advertisement traps...
...reduce your risk of heart attack. Stop smoking. Maintain a healthy weight. Exercise regularly--for example, by walking briskly for 30 min. four times a week. If you have diabetes, high-blood pressure or high cholesterol, get treated. Talk to your doctor about whether you should take an aspirin a day. "These things are so simple that people don't take them seriously," says Dr. Elsa-Grace Giardina, a cardiologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Sometimes the obvious remedies are still the best...
What if you could prevent the polyps from forming in the first place? In 1991 Michael Thun, an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, made an intriguing observation: people who regularly take aspirin are less likely to develop colorectal cancer. It turns out that aspirin blocks the production of an enzyme, called COX-2, that is found in 90% of all tumors and half of the polyps in the large intestine. Apparently most of these abnormal tissues need COX-2 to grow. Stop the production of the enzyme, and you might be able to prevent the cancer from getting larger...
...least that's the idea. Since COX-2 is produced by normal cells as well, doctors may run into trouble if they try to shut down its production entirely. Also, taking aspirin on a regular basis can lead to other problems, like internal bleeding. Still, researchers are sufficiently intrigued by the COX-2 connection that they're trying to determine whether a new generation of seemingly safer drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors, can reduce the incidence of cancer among folks with the FAP or HNPCC genes. "It's a very exciting area of research," says Thun...
...double-blind trial of nearly 10,000 high-risk patients--who had already had a heart attack or stroke--400 IUs of vitamin E daily didn't work any better than a sugar pill in preventing a subsequent episode of heart trouble. Best advice: for now, count on aspirin and the other meds your doctor prescribes...