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...just that people tend to be depressed because they have a life-threatening illness or that depressed people smoke, are too lethargic to take their medicine or aren't motivated to eat right or exercise. "Even when we take those factors into consideration," says Dr. Dwight Evans, a professor of psychiatry, medicine and neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, "depression jumps out as an independent risk factor for heart disease. It may be as bad as cholesterol...
FRENCH FRIES Cooking potatoes and other starchy foods at high temperatures can trigger the formation of acrylamide, a compound that has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats. Scientists also know there are toxic consequences to breathing the acrylamide in cigarette smoke. So are chips and fries even worse for us than we thought or just the latest food fright? A report by the American Council on Science and Health concludes that we can relax. There is no evidence that acrylamide, when consumed in food, poses a cancer risk. But all the other reasons for going easy on deep...
NICOTINE You can't smoke 'em if you got 'em in more and more public places, but what about licking 'em or drinking 'em? Not without the government's green light. The FDA warned pharmacists to stop mixing up nicotine-laden lollipops and lip balm, both of which the agency ruled were illegal drugs that could appeal to children. A few months later, the FDA dried up a California company's plans to douse the nation with nicotine water. The only nicotine products the agency okayed for over-the-counter sale were nicotine lozenges, which hit stores in November...
...dominant approaches to therapy today. It was pioneered in the early 1960s by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who was trained as a Freudian but--in classic Oedipal fashion--rebelled against his master. Beck dismissed Freud's ideas about the subconscious as so much scientifically unverifiable cigar smoke. In their place he crafted a quick, pragmatic therapeutic approach that dispensed with abstract theories and focused on results. Cognitive therapy attacks such symptoms as anxiety and depression by "coaching" patients on how to think about their lives more clearly...
...Karymsky volcano, which, since its 1996 eruption, has been spewing ash into the air every 10 minutes or so with sinister rumbles. No wonder the native Itelmen people once thought the volcanoes were inhabited by gomuls?Xghosts that roasted whales over huge bonfires, sending forth clouds of smoke and rivers of boiling fat. After camping by the Sestryonka River, we hiked through birch forests and fields of wild purple irises to the Valley of Geysers...