Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TAKE A PUFF OF TOBACCO, AND A BLAST OF 4,000 CHEMICALS fills your lungs, blood and brain. The smoke delivers a strong hit--about 2 mg in each cigarette--of nicotine, a compound the U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 deemed an addictive drug. But is nicotine alone what hooks people on tobacco? Apparently not. According to a new report, smoking may exert yet another powerfully addictive influence, one that enhances the effect of nicotine in what a leading researcher calls a "diabolical synergism...
Nevertheless, the agency is requiring foods made with the synthetic compound to carry a label warning that olestra "may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools" and that it "inhibits the absorption of some vitamins and other nutrients." "There are real effects in some people," says Kessler, though he notes that the agency considers them "annoying" rather than "medically significant...
...SOUNDED LIKE SUCH A GOOD IDEA. Scientists knew that folks who eat a lot of fruits and vegetables have lower rates of cancer and heart disease. They also knew that these same people have high levels of a compound called beta carotene in their blood. Like its chemical cousin vitamin A, beta carotene--which is found in carrots, squash and leafy, dark-green vegetables--seems to act like a biochemical broom, sweeping out of the body toxins that can trigger cancerous growth and heart problems. Could taking pills with extra doses of the compound confer some of the same benefits...
SARAJEVO: Two Portuguese and one Italian NATO soldier were killed Wednesday night when an explosion rocked the compound where they were housed. Seven other allied soldiers were injured. Though early reports suggested that a terrorist attack or a land mine may have caused the explosion, NATO officials later revealed that one of the Portuguese soldiers had brought the grenade-type bomb to the barracks as a souvenir...
Wrong. As soon as the scientists added a fourth fatty acid, the digestibility and absorbability of the compound decreased. Five fatty acids decreased it further still. And six fatty acids, attached to a molecule of sorbitol, a sweetish alcohol used in food products, made the compound completely indigestible...