Word: blood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doctors see more and more crack-damaged infants -- many of them premature -- a clearer picture of the effects of the drug on the fetus is emerging. It is not a pretty one. Because a mother's crack binge triggers spasms in the baby's blood vessels, the vital flow of oxygen and nutrients can be severely restricted for long periods. Fetal growth, including head and brain size, may be impaired, strokes and seizures may occur, and malformations of the kidneys, genitals, intestines and spinal cord may develop. If the cocaine dose is large enough, the blood supply...
...mingle with the crowds on the field. You feel the blood coming back into your feet. Your feet feel like dancing. Penguins would grow stiff in this cold. But you are as warm as Florida beach. This is the way it should...
Commuters who drive to work often show up too tired or too irritated to function effectively. Chronic exposure to traffic congestion, according to a study by Psychologist Raymond Novaco at the University of California at Irvine, tends to give drivers "an increase in baseline blood pressure, lowering of frustration tolerance, increase in negative mood and aggressive driving habits." The outbreak of freeway violence in California last year, when more than 100 freeway shootings and rock-throwing incidents took place, was not an aberration. On one Sunday last month, five separate highway shootings occurred in Oregon and Colorado...
...fuss? The word is out that eating oats can lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Result: groceries and supermarkets can't keep oat products on the shelves. Sales of oatmeal have jumped 20% this year, and oat- bran purchases have more than quintupled. The Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is working three shifts every day and still not meeting demand. At the Real Food Co. in San Francisco, a health-food emporium, sales of bulk oat bran have tripled in the past year to 1,000 lbs. a month. Sales of oat- based breakfast cereals and cookies have...
...current craze stems from studies showing that oats, particularly oat bran, can have a salutary effect on blood levels of total cholesterol and, even better, of the "bad" type of cholesterol known as LDL (low-density lipoprotein). Researchers have found that consuming 1 1/2 to 3 oz. of oat bran daily for six to eight weeks can lower total cholesterol some 20% and LDLs as much as 25%. "It's great stuff," says Dr. James Anderson of the University of Kentucky, who pioneered the study of oat bran in the 1970s. Anderson estimates that up to 85% of Americans with...