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...This is a major step forward in understanding the mechanism of how air pollution causes heart disease," says Brook. Now that we know how damaging polluted air can be on our hearts, clean air is not just a matter of the planet's health, but ours...
...Particulates can lodge deep in the lungs, where they activate another process - inflammation, which kicks in over the 24 hours after exposure. The inflammatory response can stiffen blood vessels and cause longer-term damage to blood-vessel flexibility and their ability to absorb changes in blood flow from the heart. Weakened blood vessels can increase the risk of heart disease or stroke...
...that doesn't mean that every urban resident is at higher risk of heart disease. For most healthy people, the exposure to city air and transient changes in blood pressure isn't dangerous. But, says Brook, "it's plausible that if someone has underlying hypertension or coronary disease, then these changes in blood pressure and blood-vessel function might be exaggerated and might even trigger a heart attack. The levels at which we encounter these particles today is still dangerous to people who are unhealthy and at high risk." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...chilly night earlier this week. A Monday or Tuesday, I believe. I was right by Holyoke Street, just a block from Harvard square. Sweat drenched my brow. My heart was pounding. Two muscular, raging men were right in front of my face. I was pumping my legs as fast as I could, but I wasn’t going anywhere. I was thrusting my arms back and forth, but connecting with no targets...
...hoping to strike it big as a franchise. "At that time, there was no Indian food franchise in the country. We hoped to be the first," says Kanageswari Suppiah. "We were doing fairly O.K. until the first legal letter arrived from McDonald's. We almost had a heart attack," she adds. "They wanted us to take off the Mc or face a lawsuit...