Word: magnesium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Diets high in potassium and magnesium may lower the risk of stroke for men, especially those with high blood pressure, according to a report released yesterday by doctors at the School of Public Health...
Over the following eight years, 300 of these men, aged 40 to 75, suffered strokes. The group with the highest potassium intake had a 38 percent lower chance of suffering a stroke, according to the study. In addition, those with the highest magnesium intake had a chance of a stroke 30 percent lower than those who had the least magnesium...
...Harvard study to come out this year on the relationship between strokes and potassium. Dr. Frank M. Sacks, associate professor of nutrition, published a report in the January issue of Hypertension, which said potassium could lower high blood pressure, the leading cause of strokes. His study did not concern magnesium...
Sacks said it was difficult to separate the effects of potassium and magnesium...
...poisons before they reach the danger level, some residents are promoting a new twist on their old livelihood: mining the Berkeley lake. There is growing talk by both local residents and officialdom (scientists and bureaucrats) of seeking to extract perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow of a mountain of toxic sludge as high as the lake...