Word: overdo
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...diet did not significantly reduce breast cancer, colorectal cancer or heart disease. But low-fat advocates say the study didn't distinguish between good fats such as those in olive oil and oily fish and bad ones in meat and dairy products. LOVE YOUR GREENGROCER You can't overdo fruit and veg. Eating more than the usual recommendation of five servings a day cuts the risk of stroke by 26%, according to a London team that analyzed eight other studies. People who ate three to five servings a day had an 11% lower stroke risk. The bad news: average fruit...
...What about the person who is exercising, exercising, exercising. Can people overdo...
Part of the problem, doctors say, is that children are specializing in sports at a younger age. Then they simply overdo it, playing in three or four soccer leagues instead of just one, for example, or stressing the same parts of the body year round with very similar sports--like swimming, water polo and volleyball...
...care specialist. Dry eyes may be associated with an underlying medical condition like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, a viral infection or something called Sjogren's syndrome, says Dr. Esen Akpek, an ophthalmologist who runs the dry-eye clinic at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute. "You can also overdo it with eyedrops and actually wash out your own tears," Akpek says. Also, watch for products whose active ingredients end with the suffix -zoline. Those are vasoconstrictors designed to reduce redness and should not be used for more than a few days, since they can trigger a rebound effect, increasing redness...
...heart disease. In a study of 8,125 subjects, those who sipped up to 19 drinks a month were 35% less likely than nondrinkers to have the syndrome. Consuming more than 20 drinks a month--beer and wine only--led to a 66% smaller chance. But don't overdo it. In other research, metabolic syndrome was 60% more likely in heavy drinkers who downed at least four drinks a day than in one-a-day drinkers. --By Sora Song