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...from 1962 to 1997. Nearly half the subjects were dead by the time the study ended. Of those still alive, many were self-medicating with multiple other illicit drugs or alcohol and 67% smoked cigarettes. Not surprisingly, heroin users suffer from a wide range of medical ills, including hypertension, liver and pulmonary diseases and HIV. But the most common cause of death from heroin is overdose, with 22% of the subjects in the long-term study dying that way. Some of the health problems associated with heroin come from the impurities it is cut with. Overdoses often spring from...
...must surely be bad for you, and initial studies suggested it might lead to bladder cancer, high blood pressure and other ills. More recent research has not only refuted most of those claims but also come up with some significant benefits. Caffeine appears to have some protective effect against liver damage, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, gallstones, depression and maybe even some forms of cancer. The only proven medical downside appears to be a temporary elevation in blood pressure, which is a problem only if you already suffer from hypertension. Some studies have also suggested a higher risk...
What was the treatment like? Patients first underwent surgery to clear the abdominal area?including around the liver, spleen and under the diaphragm?of as much cancer as possible, followed by 18 weeks of chemo...
...some people it may be easier and safer to rely on fish-oil supplements. The best are distilled and certified to be free of mercury and other toxins. Some are flavored, and some even taste good?or at least a lot better than the cod-liver oil I was forced to take as a kid. One product I recommend is Antarctic krill oil, made from the tiny crustaceans that abound in southern seas and are consumed in great quantities by whales and other marine mammals. Krill oil is red from carotenoid pigments, which have high antioxidant activity, and it doesn...
...Senator Proxmire was a creature of routine. A fitness buff, he ran five miles and did 50 pushups and sit-ups each day. His daily lunches were equally predictable: cottage cheese one day, sardines and milk the next, and liver and onions the day after that. From April 1966 to October 1988, Proxmire cast 10,261 consecutive votes, the record up to that point. Every staff member lived in constant fear of being the one who failed to alert him to a roll call in time for him to make the vote. He was also a dogged advocate of causes...