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Recent studies on the effects of regular doses of aspirin on men have found a significant reduction in the risk of a heart attack...
...Partners for Improved Nutrition and Health. The program enlists volunteers, such as Bertha Thurman, to serve as health advisers in their communities. After completing a 10-week training course, Thurman has become a crucial bridge to the medical system. "We get called on to do everything from provide an aspirin to pay the utility bill," she says. "And we reinforce what the local health department has already mentioned to people...
GARLIC. The "lowly stinking rose" may lower blood pressure slightly and help prevent blood clotting, like aspirin. A recent German study showed marked reduction in blood fats, including cholesterol, among people who consumed the equivalent of one clove of garlic a day. The active compounds are probably the same sulfur derivatives that give garlic its distinctive odor. Other studies suggest that sulfur compounds may suppress the development of stomach cancer in humans and breast cancer in laboratory animals. Garlic does not have to be eaten raw, but deep frying and high heat could destroy its active ingredients. If the idea...
...forgiven if they jump every time the phone rings these days. At any moment, an enviable client may invite a pitch or a major chunk of their business may walk out. When New York's N W Ayer celebrated its victory last week in capturing the $30 million Bayer aspirin account, the agency was still smarting from the loss two weeks earlier of the $65 million J.C. Penney account. Advertisers are flexing their spending muscle more aggressively than ever before. Even longtime clients feel little loyalty anymore to their agencies. As a result, ad firms are raising the stakes...
...plan on a long life. As a boy, he toyed with suicide, employing, among other means, a dull knife, hay-fever drops and a mild overdose of aspirin; he also survived several sessions of Russian roulette. Grown older, evidently in spite of himself, he left his native England as often as possible to court danger and disease, wherever and whenever they might prove most virulent: Africa, Mexico, Indochina, Cuba, Haiti, Central America. None of these places killed him; instead they furnished material for many of his more than 50 books, including novels, short story collections, travel writings, plays, essays, autobiography...