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...charity auctions to remind you. What they don't emphasize--but what doctors have known for a while--is that smoking cigars on a regular basis significantly increases your risk of developing emphysema as well as cancers of the lung, lip, throat and esophagus. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine added to that grim list, reporting that cigar smoking also boosts your risk of heart disease...
...says Gorman. It doesn?t mean a glop of food on a plate. "For fruit and vegetables, it usually means half a cup," she says, "for meat, it means about three ounces." The full guidelines will be published in the July 27 issue of the American Heart Association?s journal, Circulation...
...risk of osteoporosis, but it may increase the risk of breast cancer -- researchers have been trying to come up with a better, synthetic substitute to help women in need of long-term hormone-replacement therapy after menopause. A new study published in Wednesday?s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that scientists may have made a significant discovery about the properties of the osteoporosis drug raloxifene. In a study of more than 7,000 women, researchers found that postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who were treated with raloxifene for three years reduced their risk of breast cancer...
Your short item on B-vitamin folate and its connection to various medical conditions [HEALTH, May 24] included a conclusion from the New England Journal of Medicine that folate deficiency in the U.S. has "virtually disappeared." That is not only wrong but also poses a very real threat to millions of women of childbearing...
...products with folic acid helps prevent certain serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural-tube defects. The U.S. Public Health Service has recommended that all women of childbearing age consume 400 micrograms of folic acid daily beginning before pregnancy. Despite the encouraging findings in the Journal report, there is no direct evidence that blood-folate levels in women ages 15 to 40 have reached protective levels. DR. JENNIFER L. HOWSE, PRESIDENT March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation White Plains...