Word: chronical
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...much better." Another important advantage is that the operation can be repeated or followed by a laminectomy if necessary. But when the more drastic operation is performed first, reoperation is much more difficult because of the scar tissue and adhesions that often form around the nerve roots, causing chronic pain and loss of flexibility...
While noting that other factors, like heredity and environment, contribute to the development of chronic ailments, the report stresses that aside from drinking or smoking, diet is the "one personal choice" that more than any other influences long-term health prospects. The Surgeon General's Report urges the public to cut back on saturated fats and cholesterol, mainly from meat and dairy products, and concentrate on fish, skinned poultry, fruits, vegetables and whole grain products. Fat, which increases the risk for obesity, heart disease and cancer, now accounts for 37% of the calories in the American diet, well above...
...limit to how much damage a sector of ocean can take. Under assault by heavy concentrations of sludge, for example, the self- cleansing system can be overwhelmed. Just like decaying algae, decomposing sludge robs the water of oxygen, suffocating many forms of marine life. What effect chronic contamination from sludge and other wastes will have on the oceans' restorative powers is still unknown...
...still rare, and there is all too little in the way of concerted multinational activity to heal the oceans. That means pollution is bound to get worse. Warns Clifton Curtis, president of the Oceanic Society, a Washington-based environmental organization: "We can expect to see an increase in the chronic contamination of coastal waters, an increase in health advisories and an increase in the closing of shellfish beds and fisheries." ) Those are grim tidings indeed, for both the world's oceans and the people who live by them...
...brutal Mengistu and his secretive Marxist government have begun a frenzied effort to win back lost ground. In recent weeks government troops have retaken the major towns of Tigre, but the battle-hardened Eritreans have fought them to a stalemate. Both sides have used the region's chronic hunger as a weapon, with the rebels attacking a relief convoy and Mengistu ordering most foreign-aid workers out of Eritrea and Tigre. Some food is still reaching the estimated 2 million to 3 million victims of northern Ethiopia's latest famine, but no one knows how many have died, casualties...