Word: gout
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...Jonathan Rhys Meyers comports himself as the world's first metrosexual, in taut leather shirts, fur doublets and enormous gems. The Other Boleyn Girl, scheduled for release early next year, is less salacious in its interpretation but no less compelling in the fashion stakes. Before the corpulence and the gout set in, Henry was a strapping King, and it's this image that inspired Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell, who conceived a wardrobe of fluid ensembles for the youthful monarch played by Eric Bana. For the ambitious Boleyn sisters, Powell designed jewel-toned gowns with tight bodices and hoopskirts...
While elevated urate levels appear to be beneficial to Parkinson’s patients, Weisskopf said it would be unwise to tell patients to increase their urate levels by diet or supplement, as high levels of urate can lead to gout, increased mortality by up to 20 percent, and negative kidney and cardiovascular symptoms...
Ever since the ancient Romans realized their plumbing was giving them gout, lead has been bad news. The plentiful-but-toxic metal has been banned by the federal government in everything from paint and water pipes to food containers and gasoline. And now, one of the poisonous element's last footholds in American culture - the ammunition used by the 25 million people who hunt for sport and food - is being targeted, as states across the country consider enacting bans on the use of lead for hunting...
...proposed the resolution. His four colleagues had other committee assignments that they considered to be more important, and none of them realized that the document would eventually become viewed as a text akin to Scripture. As for Franklin, he was still laid up in bed with boils and gout when the committee first met. Besides, he later told Jefferson, "I have made it a rule, whenever in my power, to avoid becoming the draughtsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body...
...gets scraggier--and in the absence of data, politics takes over. What we know is that healers have accumulated copious anecdotes on weed's powers over the past 4,700 years. Understanding Marijuana author Earleywine credits a (possibly mythical) Chinese emperor with introducing the plant as a treatment for gout around 2700 B.C. But the emperor also thought his pot potion would help memory, making him the first of many fans to aggrandize the drug's medical potential. The ancient Greek doc Galen even used the drug to treat flatulence...