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...physical mechanism linking heart attacks and stress may have been found, a discovery that could ultimately help prevent heart attacks. Mental stress seems to make blood platelets release the chemical atp into the bloodstream, and atp produces blood clots, a major cause of heart attacks...
...liver takes eight hours to eliminate alcohol from the bloodstream, but Detoxahol, an experimental drug, may shorten that process to minutes. Compumed Inc., the California medical firm that holds the rights to Detoxahol, hopes to market it as a prescription drug within five years...
These feelings-behind-policy, this Great Power subjectivism, often arises spontaneously from pictures, either still photographs or television clips, that are mainlined directly into the democracy's emotional bloodstream without the mediation of conscious thought. America got into Somalia because it felt a sane and generous outrage at the spectacle of thousands of children and other innocent people starving while gangs of thugs stole the food from their bowls. Now the majority of Americans want to withdraw from Somalia because they have felt a converse outrage at pictures of an American soldier's body gruesomely dragged through the dust...
...bizarre stratagems men and women have cooked up to reduce weight without cutting back on food, this latest one takes the cake. It's a pill that makes you thinner not by suppressing appetite or speeding up metabolism but by preventing fat from entering the bloodstream (and the hips, the belly and the buttocks), one greasy molecule at a time. Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist, calls it the new "dream drug." The Times of London, which should know better, pronounced it a "pain-free pill that allows us to stay slim for life while eating what we like...
...blocking their action neatly thwarts one of the body's most basic functions: the breakdown and utilization of dietary fat. Most of the fat we eat is too . . . well, fat to be absorbed by the body. Before it can pass through the walls of the intestine into the bloodstream, each fat molecule must be split into its constituent parts: three fatty acids and the glycerol backbone to which they are attached. That is the job of two fat-cleaving enzymes, called lipases; one of them is found in the stomach and the other in the small intestine. Once...