Word: diets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After just one pill, I discovered that the package was--how best to put this?--not kidding. It's hard to say if my memory improved in the little time I was on ginkgo, but I can say I had no trouble at all remembering to eat a bland diet for several days afterward. Vitamin E had similarly little impact on my memory. Those antioxidants may be able to sponge up free radicals, but in my case either the sponge was not absorbing much or my brain was already pretty much free-radical free...
...some patients can't leave home. And just when sufferers think it's gone, the disease returns. Now two studies offer new hope. One finds that the cancer drug methotrexate may prevent a relapse in those in remission. The other suggests that growth hormones combined with a high-protein diet can significantly ease symptoms, with only minor side effects...
Rudenstine spoke about the difficult task he faced in trying to provide the seniors with sound advice, humorously speaking about hours staring at a half-empty bottle of "diet avocado juice" as a fruitless attempt at inspiration...
...they are supposed to be) made of a compound called methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA. It's an old drug: Germany issued the patent for it in 1914 to the German company E. Merck. Contrary to ecstasy lore, and there's tons of it, Merck wasn't trying to develop a diet drug when it synthesized MDMA. Instead, its chemists simply thought it could be a promising intermediary substance that might be used to help develop more advanced therapeutic drugs. There's also no evidence that any living creature took it at the time--not Merck employees and certainly not Nazi soldiers...
...Helped by their fish-based diet, the Japanese top the list, living an average of 74 years of healthy life (concerned that the chronically bedridden were skewing the curve, the WHO switched from the straight life-expectancy indicator this year). Coming up fast are the Australians, at 73.2, followed by France, Sweden, Spain and Italy. The U.S. notched an even 70. At the bottom? Sierra Leone, at 26 healthy years per person. In fact, the bottom 23 places on the 191-nation list were all countries from sub-Saharan Africa, ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, malaria and other tropical diseases...