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...selenium each day, or a combination of the two, had the same rates of prostate cancer as the placebo group. In the second study, involving more than 14,000 physicians, those taking 400 IU of vitamin E every other day or 500 mg of vitamin C daily also had similar rates of prostate and other cancers as those popping placebo pills. (See TIME's 2008 Year in Medicine...
...Europe is to persuade the U.S. and emerging economic powers like China and India to take similar action, it has to back up its rhetoric with action," says Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based Centre for European Reform. "If the E.U. retreats from its leading position on climate policy, it will surrender its first-mover advantage and, with it, the chance to make European firms leaders in key environmental technologies...
...months, for example, subjects start to reap the physical rewards of trimming down. "Their knees and back no longer ache. They start to look better in clothes," he says. "Those benefits become their own reinforcements, so you can turn off the incentive program." Employers and insurers could adopt a similar program, with monthly premiums falling along with the numbers on the scale. "We all tend to discount amorphous health benefits that will come sometime in the future," Volpp says. "So the key is to provide some immediate gratification...
Dieting is not the only discipline that can be encouraged with the promise of cash. Volpp, who is affiliated with the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Association and Penn's Center for Health Incentives, is exploring similar pay-to-play strategies for such challenges as quitting smoking and adhering to medication regimens...
...Americans, symbolizes hope for the future. I was privileged to be a resident research fellow at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, during the presidential election of November 1960, when Kennedy narrowly defeated Nixon. This was, we felt, the beginning of a new age. Many people have a similar feeling today. Please, Mr. Obama, demonstrate your distance from the discredited neocon gang by abandoning this symbol of nationalistic unilateralism. Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...