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...water that felled her. It was too much water. A study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine found that an alarming number of runners and other athletes are risking a similar fate. The problem is that drinking too much water dilutes the blood's normal salt content...
...stop there? Stamler argues that it might be possible to supercharge the NO content in blood and use it as a treatment for everything from heart disease to angina to diabetes. "We all want to open up blood vessels, and blood knows how to do that," he says. "The opportunities to manipulate the system to do even better are now available." And that would truly make giving blood the gift of life...
...meeting was abruptly canceled, and at the time he was originally supposed to meet with representatives of the Council, Pilbeam sent his now-famous missive, which was almost immediately posted on the College’s Web site.Pilbeam’s letter was noteworthy not only for its content but also for its harsh tone. Calling the Party Fund “inherently flawed,” Pilbeam bashed the UC for funding unregulated events where the focus was clearly on drinking and insisted that his decision was final. Pilbeam also warned that funding individuals, as opposed to student...
...soft-cover will do is give anyone with a hankering to understand, for example, why aspirin dulls pain but morphine does it much better, some basic familiarity with the scientific answer.For the most part, the book keeps close to the boundary separating reference books, textbooks, and anecdotal history. Its content is broken into six parts, one of which is an introduction designed to provide an understanding of chemistry jargon to those whose last encounter with the subject came before their first high school date. The remaining five sections are broken down further by types of disease, spanning the spectrum from...
...product was perfected, Nike had another puzzle: What would runners do with all that data? Stefan Olander, the company's director of digital content, joined the Nike Plus team early on to figure that out. Nike knew runners were logging results by hand. What if this product could do it for them? The result was nikeplus.com "The site puts you and your achievements at the heart of this," says Olander. About 500,000 runners from more than 160countries have signed on, and some 30million miles (48million km) have been uploaded. The site graphs distances for each...