Word: liverance
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Alcoholism's toll is frightening. Cirrhosis of the liver kills at least 14,000 alcoholics a year. Drunk drivers were responsible for approximately half the 46,000 driving fatalities in the U.S. in 1986. Alcohol was implicated in up to 70% of the 4,000 drowning deaths last year and in about 30% of the nearly 30,000 suicides. A Department of Justice survey estimates that nearly a third of the nation's 523,000 state-prison inmates drank heavily before committing rapes, burglaries and assaults. As many as 45% of the country's more than 250,000 homeless...
...early 1970s, the Kemper Group of Long Grove, Ill., was the first national insurance company to include coverage for alcoholism in all its group policies. The firm's hunch: the bill for helping an alcoholic quit today would be cheaper than nursing him through afflictions like cirrhosis of the liver and strokes later in life. The logic of acting sooner rather than later has since spread throughout corporate America. Some 10,000 firms and public agencies, including 70% of the FORTUNE $ 500 companies, now have employee-assistance programs to help alcohol and drug abusers pull their lives together...
...animal fat or poultry skin. If cholesterol cannot be reduced with diet alone, the panel directed, physicians should prescribe such drugs as cholestyramine and colestipol, which act in the intestines and cause the body to utilize excess cholesterol. The much touted newer drug lovastatin, which works in the liver, where most of the body's cholesterol is manufactured, is mentioned as a second choice, since its long-term effects remain unknown. Based on the new standards, one in four adults may require diet modifications or drug therapy...
...have to have a lot of patience. The recipe for Pavloff's original rabbit dish is seven pages long. It describes in detail how to prepare the rabbit in three ways: rabbit loin stuffed with black truffles, rabbit leg stuffed with foie gras (fattened duck liver), and quenelles (rabbit made into a mousse and boiled in red wine...
CAPTION: Cholesterol produced in the liver can collect in the arteries, contributing to blockage...