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...that people taking the type of medications marketed as Prilosec and Prevacid are almost three times as likely to suffer a C. diff attack as non-users, and those taking the type marketed as Pepcid or Zantac may be twice as likely. It seems that bacteria don't like stomach acid any better than consumers do, and when you suppress it chemically the bugs have a better chance of surviving...
...makes us lose our resolve. Susan Roberts, a nutrition researcher at Tufts University, recommends eating plenty of fiber--found in beans, whole-wheat pasta (there are new varieties that taste better, honest!) and, of course, vegetables. Super-high-fiber cereals also help. The aim is to plug up your stomach so that it releases its contents more slowly, thereby triggering fewer hunger pangs. "Fiber isn't the only way to lose weight," Roberts says. "But for people who struggle with dieting because they are hungry, it really seems to help...
...sorry you didn't write about intestinal ailments. Was there really nothing new to report about ulcers, Crohn's disease, irritable-bowel syndrome or ulcerative colitis? The stomach and its environs are vitally important, but I guess our plumbing has never made for particularly sexy reading. PHIL GIACALONE St. Petersburg...
...study, who will be drawn from the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, Australia and South America, will be randomly assigned a regimen of either Celebrex, ibuprofen or naproxen. They will also take aspirin, cholesterol-lowering drugs and other medications appropriate for heart patients, as well as a drug to prevent stomach bleeding, which all three of the painkillers may cause. The four-year study should be sufficient time to reveal what risk, if any, the cox-2s pose, but it could end sooner if one of the medications reveals itself as just too dangerous...
...million from a mob boss and are being tracked down by one of the boss’s hit men. Cusack as a hard-nosed killer/mob lawyer, without any of the neurotic charm of “Gross Pointe Blank,” is a bit hard to stomach. One wonders what happened to that fun, lovable kid who played Anthony Michael Hall’s pal in “Sixteen Candles.” Instead of Minnie Driver (“Good Will Hunting”) as the love interest, we’re presented with Connie Nielson...