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Fighting Memory Loss Looking around and within, memory loss does seem normal [June 9]. The real question we should ask is, is it speeding up? I am curious to know if any research has been conducted to study the effects of household chemicals or radiation on memory loss. Widespread use of chemicals has pervaded our lifestyle. Similarly, we spend more time in front of computer monitors, TV sets and gaming consoles, and rely on wireless networks, cell phones and other electronic devices, increasing our exposure to a whole gamut of electromagnetic waves. Would it not be worthwhile to study...
...strange disconnect between what we see out our windows and what we know is going on just a few miles away. As I type from my Des Moines home on the afternoon of Friday the 13th, I see my neighbor mowing the lawn, dogs barking, kids playing, normal life. It's sunny and dry. But I've just received an e-mail that in downtown Des Moines, about 10 minutes away, a voluntary evacuation is underway as water levels on the Des Moines River fast approach the top of the levee. Worried friends and family are starting to call...
...conduct training exercises in the Taiwan Strait. To avoid miscalculation, to avoid accidents, those exercises have to be constrained," he says. "Whether Beijing or Taiwan have a willingness to eliminate exercises and training, that remains to be seen. But that would be conducive to assurance of safety corridors [for]normal charter flights." When the skies between the two sides are crowded with passenger aircraft, it's that much harder to fill them with missiles and fighter jets...
...people of any age are at risk of not only better-known ills like cardiac disease but also arthritis, joint damage and sleep apnea. Adults who were overweight as children have nearly twice the risk of dying from any cause in their 70s than are adults who were of normal weight as youngsters. Early evidence also suggests that heavier children are even 35% more likely to develop cancer in their later years. "If you are a fat kid, you know you're in trouble," says Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, "and you know...
...lower but does not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women. Assessing nearly 39,000 middle-aged women over a period of 11 years, researchers determined that the odds for developing heart disease were 54% higher in overweight active women and 87% higher in obese active women compared with normal-weight active women. Women who were normal weight but inactive faced only an 8% increase in risk. "If you're overweight or obese, you can't really get back to that lower risk entirely with physical activity alone," says lead author Dr. Amy Weinstein of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess...