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...carotenoids, nutrients that may lower the risk of cancer and heart disease. In its original formulation, it also reduced the absorption of vitamins A, D, E and K and caused a condition delicately referred to as "anal leakage." And while most other artificial food additives are eaten by the milligram, olestra would be gulped grams at a time, making it what nutritionists call a "macroingredient"--it would, for example, account for about one-third, by weight, of every potato chip...
...article in the August 10 Journal of the American Medical Association titled "The Duration of Zidovudine Benefit in Persons With Asymptomativ HIV Infection" concluded that AZT, when administered at 500 milligram doses "caused a significant delay in progression to AIDS or death [in asymptomatic individuals...
After six years, Gaziano and co-workers foundthat men taking a 50-milligram beta carotene pillevery other day (about 25 times the averageintake) were only half as likely as those takingplacebo pills to suffer a heart attack, an evenbetter result than the stunning 44 percentreduction achieved with aspirin...