Word: cardiovascular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eating right to prevent heart disease may seem complicated and confusing, but it's a breeze compared with trying to design an anticancer diet. Cardiovascular disease is relatively simple; it's the result of normal bodily processes taken to the extreme. Cancer, by contrast, involves changes in the programming of DNA within the nuclei of individual cells. Beyond that, heart disease is an illness that affects a single organ system, while cancer is dozens of different diseases that target body parts as radically different as the brain, breast and bone...
...than simplicity, and it has become clear that although older bodies burn fewer calories than younger ones, they actually require bigger helpings of nutrients. Older bodies absorb nutrients from food less efficiently than younger ones. Aging bodies continue to need not just nutrition but also aerobic exercise to preserve cardiovascular health and weight-bearing exercise to prevent bone loss and build muscle...
...doctrine that healthy people should get all they require from a well-balanced diet. Dr. Robert Russell, one of the Tufts authors, observes how difficult it is to get enough of some vitamins from the most conscientious diet. "Vitamin E in high dosages may help prevent some cancers and cardiovascular disease," he says. "To get that much from your diet, you'd have to consume 1 1/2 quarts of olive...
Whether [endostain] can be implemented [ to help humans] based on the animal studies remains to be seen," said Isner, who is chief of vaascular medicine and cardiovascular research at St.Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston and a professor of medicine and pathology at Tufts University...
Sources--Good News: Press reports; American Heart Association meeting on cardiovascular disease. Bad News: A.H.A. meeting; Journal of the American Medical Association (3/24/99...