Word: prevent
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...tightrope between real promise and false hope. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's is the formation of sticky clumps of protein, called amyloid plaques, in the brains of affected patients. Scientists from Elan Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company headquartered in Ireland, reported they had produced a vaccine that could prevent plaques from forming and dissolve existing ones in the brains of mice. They speculated that a similar approach might be used to treat people...
MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Between former model JERRY HALL and senescent rocker MICK JAGGER. Jagger's legal tack--that their Hindu wedding on Bali nine years ago was not binding--didn't prevent his ceding to Hall a sum London tabloids put at $15.5 million. The couple, who have four children, reached a settlement the day their divorce trial was to start...
Eating right to prevent heart disease may seem complicated and confusing, but it's a breeze compared with trying to design an anticancer diet. Cardiovascular disease is relatively simple; it's the result of normal bodily processes taken to the extreme. Cancer, by contrast, involves changes in the programming of DNA within the nuclei of individual cells. Beyond that, heart disease is an illness that affects a single organ system, while cancer is dozens of different diseases that target body parts as radically different as the brain, breast and bone...
...that those who eat lots of fruits and vegetables tend to get less cancer and speculated that carotenoids--the same antioxidant substances that seem to protect against heart disease--were responsible. In particular, they focused on beta carotene, the most abundant and common carotenoid, as the most likely to prevent cancer...
...vegetables. Fiber works--and again, fruits and vegetables (especially beans), as well as whole grains, are an ideal source. So along with giving up tobacco (mouth, throat and lung cancer) and limiting alcohol consumption (too much booze leads to cirrhosis, which leads to liver cancer), the best way to prevent a broad range of cancers, given the current state of medical knowledge, is to eat more fruits and vegetables. That sort of diet will help you stay trim and prevent heart disease anyway--so if, against all odds, it turns out to have no effect on cancer, it certainly...