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...example, the highly regarded editor of the Zamboanga Scribe, Edgar Damalerio, was gunned down on the street. Famous for writing exposés of local malfeasance, Damalerio had also taken the extraordinary step of personally filing cases against allegedly crooked officials. Since Damalerio's death, his paper's publisher, Hernan de la Cruz, says he has hired three bodyguards and has taken to carrying a .45-cal. pistol for protection. These are logical precautions, no doubt, but what about the many journalists who cannot afford such measures? For now, they might have to content themselves with the advice offered...
...Hernan said previous studies have found that smokers and coffee drinkers are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease—at least among men. This has led some scientists to posit that the disease is positively correlated with a certain personality type whose tendency is to avoid addictive behaviors...
...people with Parkinson’s have this special type of personality that leads them to avoid behaviors that are addictive, then we would expect that they drink less too,” said Hernan, who added that his latest results have not supported this theory...
...study did show that drinking beer was associated with a lower risk of Parkinson’s, but the consumption of other types of alcohol was not. Hernan said that this could be because beer increases the level of uric acid in the blood, which has been shown in other studies to be associated with a lower occurrence of Parkinson?...
...studies have shown so far that caffeine does reduce the likelihood that mice will develop certain diseases, while alcohol has had no effect. But Hernan cautioned that such theories are still “based on speculation,” and at this point, it is too early to draw any conclusions...