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...first time, people like Raj had concrete evidence of what a hurry-up lifestyle can do to the body. To be sure, hypertension can be caused by a wide variety of other factors --genes, diet, smoking and a lack of exercise. But now another behavioral dimension can be added...
...WorldCom in mid-November, Fiorina must now take full responsibility for HP's bottom line at a time when she must parry new threats from IBM and Dell. Both have spent the past year bulking up major parts of their businesses, while HP has been on a low-cal diet, trying to restore its flabby enterprises to health. As analyst Bill Shope of J.P. Morgan Chase puts it, "IBM is trying to squeeze HP at the upper end of the market, while Dell is challenging it at the lower end. HP has carved a spot in the middle...
...sends in wave after wave of cells to swarm and destroy the invader. In the blood vessels, layers of these immune cells pile up, creating lesions that become increasingly unstable and may eventually rupture, triggering a heart attack. How sensitive this alarm system is depends on such things as diet, stress and one's genetic predisposition...
Because salmon are voracious eaters of smaller species, it takes several pounds of wild fish, ground up into meal, to yield 1 lb. of farmed salmon--an exchange that depletes the world supply of protein. The diet of farmed salmon lacks the small, pink-colored krill that their wild cousins eat, so the flesh of farmed fish is gray; a synthetic version of astaxanthin, a naturally occurring pigment, is added to the feed...
...cans per day is the amount of diet soda you'd have to drink, says the Medi-cal College of Wisconsin, in order to consume the amount of saccharin used in a famed study that once claimed it caused cancer...