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...decrease in blood pressure occurred regardless of race or gender and whether or not study participants ate a "typical American diet," which is high in saturated fats and skimps on fruits and vegetables, or the so-called DASH (for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which emphasizes lots of fresh produce, low-fat dairy, fish and fewer sweets and which was proved in 1997 to reduce hypertension. The biggest decreases in blood pressure in this study were recorded in subjects who ate the DASH diet and reduced their sodium intake...
...Calling From.) Carver devotees portray Lish as the villain of this piece, an overreaching editor who bullied an uncertain beginning writer. Lish's defenders argue that he did for Carver's fiction what Ezra Pound did for T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, i.e., cut out the fat to expose the essential genius within the work...
...effective at lower doses, making fusion inhibitors safer for the patient in the long run. Trimeris' studies support this; so far, neither of its compounds seems to cause any of the serious toxic side effects associated with today's AIDS drugs, such as nausea, vomiting and abnormalities in fat metabolism...
...place their hopes not in any particular treatment strategy but in the broad range of options that the genetic toolbox is so rapidly opening up. Right now, it is encouraging to note, researchers are homing in on at least three more genes involved in Alzheimer's, each potentially a fat new target for drug developers...
...course, there would be much less need for new medications to treat heart disease if we all exercised more, watched our weight and stopped eating so much food that is high in saturated fat. Public-health experts estimate that you can reduce your risk of heart disease as much as 80% by adopting a healthy lifestyle. But as long as our culture and our genes conspire to clog our arteries and strain our hearts, it's good to know that there will be some powerful drugs to help undo the damage...