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...Ford Hospital and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., believe they may have found a treatment that is as effective as estrogen but without its troubling side effects. In a twelve-year study, Dr. B. Lawrence Riggs and a team of Mayo physicians treated women with large doses of sodium fluoride combined with calcium. Sodium fluoride stimulates bone-forming cells to produce new bone faster than the old bone is resorbed. The Mayo researchers will now study the mechanical quality of the new bone, trying to determine if it is as strong as the tissue produced normally. Preliminary results indicate...
People have become deeply suspicious of the food they eat. Convenience foods and the microwave ovens in which to prepare them have turned the supermarket into an additive minefield: saturated fat, nitrites, saccharin, sodium and caffeine. Shoppers pause, read package labels, searching for poisons real or suspected. Amid the latest warnings about salt, sugar, too much protein and assorted baneful additives, one current bestseller, Jane Brody's Nutrition Book, sensibly advocates a return to a down-home simplicity: meat, fish and milk in moderation, plenty of green and yellow vegetables, grain and some kind of fruit. "Mirror, mirror...
...beansprout faddist now to question processed foods. In the '60s, when Adelle Davis (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit) preached against the dangers of good old American "enriched" white flour, she seemed no more than another village crank. To consumers obsessed with the astounding levels of sodium in processed foods, claims Author Brody...
...knowledge that two slices of Pepperidge Farm white bread contain more sodium than a 1-oz. bag of Lay's potato chips is a mainstream American fact of life. Label reading is not the passion of a literary or political elite...
...trend arises mainly from a search for a more humane form of capital punishment. Three drugs will flow into Hays to render him unconscious and paralyze his heart: thiopental sodium, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Theoretically, they should make dying no more traumatic than falling asleep...