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...Masters, professor of pathology at the University of Melbourne, who says drugs that could stop or reverse the disease may not be far off. Alzheimer's inexorably strips people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function. Characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells, Alzheimer's typically kills within 5 to 10 years of onset. Partly because the majority of patients spend the last stages of the illness in government-subsidized aged-care homes, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: an Access Economics report, also to be released next...
...following oldsters like Toguchi since 1976 in the Okinawa Centenarian Study (OCS) and they've learned that he's typical. Elderly Okinawans tend to get plenty of physical and mental exercise. Their diets, moreover, are exemplary: low in fat and salt, and high in fruits and vegetables packed with fiber and antioxidant substances that protect against cancer, heart disease and stroke. They consume more soy than any other population on earth: 60-120 g a day, compared to 30-50 g for the average Japanese, 10 for Chinese and virtually 0 g for the average American. Soy is rich...
Waterfalls and Fiber Optics...
...years, the German Formula 1 race driver has the opposite problem: he can't stop winning. Schumacher, 35, has been world champion six times, more than any other driver, and is on his way to his seventh title. In his 10-cylinder, 2,997-cc, 853-horsepower, carbon-fiber red Ferrari, Schumacher gets as close to perfection as is humanly possible at 220 m.p.h. The sport's organizers want to slow him down...
Adidas has already scored success. Its ClimaCool system, first tested in 2000, accounted for 20%, or $82 million, of the company's 2003 U.S. apparel sales. For the Olympics, Adidas has unveiled the Adistar SS running shirt, with a wicking fiber that helps sweat evaporate and wide mesh holes that increase ventilation. Adistar's silver microfibers down the back and metallic tape at the neck let heat escape, creating a cooling sensation upon touch. "Since I started using ClimaCool, I don't sweat as much," says Haile Gebrselassie, the two-time 10,000-m Olympic champion from Ethiopia...