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...impatience with inflated health claims on labels is already producing a mild crackdown. Phoenix Fiber Cookies were touted as being low in fat and calories, high in fiber and useful for treating cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, diabetes and diverticulitis. Last May the munchables were whisked off supermarket shelves by their manufacturer when the FDA judged the claims to be false. Just last month, the agency warned six food companies, including Health Valley Foods, Select Origin and Ralston Purina, to remove cholesterol-reducing claims from a variety of packaged foods, ranging from Oat Chex cereal to Rice Bran...
...what about all the other studies that have tentatively linked coffee not only to heart attacks but also to calcium loss, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, increased cholesterol levels, birth defects and difficulty in getting pregnant, to say nothing of damage to computer keyboards and silk neckties? Though some of these investigations have been superseded by contrary research, it is virtually impossible for anyone -- expert or layman -- to sort them...
...theory behind the new program is that cancers from different organs share certain "family" characteristics. For example, brain cells that turn cancerous might share qualities with other brain cancers but differ dramatically from colon cancers or leukemias. To look for common weaknesses among different types of cancer, the automation process tests chemical compounds directly against a range of 60 lines of living tumor cells grown in Petri dishes and representing seven leading cancer killers: colon, lung, melanoma, kidney, ovarian, brain and blood...
Another bold (or maybe suicidal) offering is NBC's Lifestories, a downbeat, documentary-style series about people going through medical crises. The show wedges bits of medical advice in between the personal stories and pulls few punches. In the opening program, a man survives a battle with colon cancer -- or so we think, until the offscreen narrator informs us at the end that his cancer reappeared one year later and he died. For this, viewers are supposed to switch away from America's Funniest Home Videos...
...club operator, however, was beyond any further penalties: Elias Colon, the manager of Happy Land. He died with his partying customers...