Word: regimen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collapsed so many years of her childhood into a very short period of time." She knew she had a shot at winning another Olympic gold medal in 1998 (Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie are the only women singles skaters to win more than one), but amateur skating's regimen and multiplicity of rules left her chagrined. So did the grueling professional schedule. And her body was changing, no longer the poised pubescence perfect for jumps and axels. Relearning her balance led to accidents and injuries and occasional withdrawals from performances. She told Esquire last April that she had grown three...
...first, and on his TV program, which aired from 1952 until 1986, he was a buoyant evangelist for fitness. At 60 he swam, handcuffed, 1 1/2 miles from Alcatraz to San Francisco's shore, towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. He still maintains a rugged regimen; up at 5 every morning, he works out an hour with weights before swimming for another hour. "My conscience is terrific," he says. "If I missed a workout, it would just kill me." For those wavering about their New Year's resolutions to shape up, he advises, Set small goals...
...majority of those with HIV outside the U.S. and Europe, the cost of the new "cocktail" treatments seems a cruel joke. The average Kenyan would exhaust his annual income in less than a week on the regimen. In India, where the government imposes 100% to 150% customs duty on pharmaceuticals brought from overseas, even a two-drug treatment can run to $3,500 a month, or more than 75 times the monthly earnings of poor laborers, who are the prime victims of the disease. "The new drugs will help the yuppies of the world," says Thailand's Mechai Viravaidya...
...insurance to cover most of the expense. But only 20% of the 1 million Americans who carry the virus are so lucky. Taking the new drugs properly--three times a day, with no food for one hour before or two hours afterward--also requires discipline. Patients who neglect the regimen risk developing drug-resistant strains of the virus. The side effects can be murderous. Even when the new drugs work, the quality of life they provide can be so-so. "Roughly every 10 days I sleep all day," says Schwartz. "I get up, take my pills and go back...
...diet loaded with fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy foods can drive down HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE quickly and significantly. Among hypertensive patients, the regimen appears to work nearly as well as drugs do--and in just two weeks...