Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deterioration of bone mass. Nothing so dramatic happens to men at that age, but psychologically it's a good opportunity to get them to modify their diets. It is hard to get a 30-year-old male to change his eating habits to reduce his risk of prostate cancer 20 or 30 years hence. But a 50-year-old, aware that men not much his senior are dying, is more likely to pay attention...
...efficiency of the factory declines with age. It drops even further if you live in the northern half of the country, where the sun is too low on the horizon half the year to help, and even lower if you keep your skin covered to protect it from cancer...
...from food. It should taste good and be reasonably good for me. But more and more these days we're encouraged to view the grocery store as a medicine chest. There are tofu and yams for hot flashes. Ginseng tea for energy. Stewed tomatoes to prevent prostate cancer. So when I heard about Benecol and Take Control, the new margarines that are supposed to lower cholesterol levels in the blood, I didn't exactly smack my lips in anticipation. Still, I figured, given how much heart disease there is in the U.S., they deserved a look...
Next to James Thurber, she was probably the funniest serious person who ever lived. She was learned and scrupulous and very brave. She spent the past three years dying of cancer, yet so alive was she with ideas about world events, she made one forget the inevitable. Her small, frail body would shake with rage or laughter at Clinton and Monica, at Congress, at her beloved city of Washington, which she would ridicule in private and defend against outside assaults, as one would a foolish child...
MARGIN OF SAFETY For years, doctors have tried to spare women from having a mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. Instead, they cut out only the cancerous cells and then irradiate the breast. Now a major report shows that women may be able to avoid radiation too--as long as doctors remove a 1/2-in. margin of tissue along with the problem cells. That sure beats getting zapped, which is expensive, time consuming and may make future mammograms difficult to read...