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...Colon cancer has been linked to high-fat diets; fatty foods increase the production of bile acids, which may irritate the lining of the colon and trigger abnormal cell growth. This could explain why the disease is found less frequently among vegetarians and in countries where people eat less fat than typical Americans...
...study, conducted by Dr. Martin Lipkin and Harold Newmark at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, ten people with typical Western-style high-fat diets and family histories of colon cancer were given 1.2 grams, 1½ times the recommended daily allowance, of calcium, which acts to neutralize bile acids. After only two to three months, tests of their colon linings showed that the number of fast-growing cells associated with cancer had significantly decreased. More study is needed, but at least one expert has already urged adults to drink a quart of fat-free milk...
...Deng astonished everyone by showing up at a Peking banquet, using his old title of Vice Premier. It was soon clear that he had been rehabilitated to take over the day-to-day running of the government from Chou, who was succumbing to cancer. Deng also assumed operating control of the party and the military. Chastened at first but then with growing sureness, he helped Chou map out the ambitious Four Modernizations program, announced in January...
...attached to cigarettes was John Galbraith, 69, that even while hospitalized with lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema, he would slip off his oxygen mask to sneak a smoke. Before death ended his 51-year, three-pack-a-day habit in 1982, Galbraith had filed a $1 million product-liability suit against R.J. Reynolds, contending that the company that marketed the Winstons and Camels he puffed so prodigiously fueled his addiction and thus killed him. But last week a jury in Santa Barbara, Calif., voted 9 to 3 that Galbraith's lawyer Melvin Belli had not proved that smoking necessarily...
...PEOPLE, Dec. 23], he replied, "You don't have too much time to stop and say, 'Hey, I'm a celebrity,' because such things mean nothing in the face of death." I read the piece, shuddered, then ran my eyes back over it, hoping to find a mention of cancer or some other dread affliction. No such luck. Fuentes was apparently referring to his age. I am 57 and feel happy and horny. Don't do this to me, Carlos. Orson Bean Venice, Calif. Abandoned Hope...