Word: heart
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...optimal 200--were placed on a cholesterol-lowering regimen of diet and exercise. Additionally, half took daily doses of the cholesterol drug pravastatin, while the other half took a placebo. After five years, the group taking the real drug was 36% less likely to have suffered a first heart attack and 33% less likely to have needed coronary bypass or angioplasty. What's more, their bad LDLs had fallen 25% while their good HDLs had risen...
...blood pressure depresses sexual function is unclear; why men and women react differently to medication is murkier still. The only thing certain from the study is that with hypertension a leading cause of heart attack and stroke, the first priority is still to get the pressure down...
...Plumbers"? The most entertaining of the tape excerpts, to me, has Nixon raging about the threat of impeachment to his press secretary Ron Ziegler, when his dog, King Timahoe, suddenly jumps up on him: "Christ, impeach the President on John Dean's word... there's a cancer in the heart of the White House, on the heart of the presidency. [The dog barks.] King! Goddam, get off me! But they can't want, frankly, to see Agnew be President...
Parents can take heart: the amount of programming for preschoolers has exploded, and much of it is both entertaining and beneficial. The old standbys--Mister Rogers, Sesame Street and Barney--remain, but dozens of other shows are now on the air or are scheduled to appear in the coming months. On the Disney Channel, there is Bear in the Big Blue House, which features a 7-ft. bear and his puppet friends; the WB network is showing Channel Umptee-3, a cartoon that Norman Lear is helping produce; a new Captain Kangaroo is in syndication; Nickelodeon schedules five hours...
...Marshall recalled Nov. 14, 1970. But then they remember that date on an almost continual basis. As Marshall football coach and former Herd running back Bob Pruett says, "I think I speak for a lot of people when I tell you that on that day, the bottom of my heart fell...