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...Aerobics Center in Dallas, Fixx may have been running from the truth. Last December, while testing a number of other runners, Cooper urged his friend to have his heart function evaluated with a treadmill stress test, but "for reasons known only to himself," Fixx refused. "The second most common symptom of coronary disease, after angina, is denial," observes Winslow. For long distance runners like Jim Fixx, it can be fatal...
...took the drug three times a day for four months. All 16 herpes sufferers in a control group had outbreaks during the period. In the second study, conducted at the University of Washington in Seattle, 68% of 96 patients taking acyclovir during a four-month test period remained symptom free, while 94% of those taking placebos developed blisters. In both studies, patients suffered flare-ups after they stopped taking the drug...
...National Nuclear Safety and Safeguards Commission, stresses that "there is no danger now." Nonetheless, two technicians are still searching for radioactive material on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juárez highway, and the U.S. Department of Energy has conducted an airborne scan of the contaminated areas. The accident is a symptom of a larger problem, insists Antonio Ponce, a representative of Mexico's Nuclear Workers Union. He charges that the nuclear commission has been lax in cracking down on firms that handle radioactive material carelessly. Responds Trevino: "Their accusations are unfounded. The commission has technically done what it could...
...cigarette in one hand and a martini in the other. These same people will sit down to a meal of steak, French fries, a salad drowned in dressing, and pie à la mode. Cholesterol per se does not cause heart disease. Rather, a high cholesterol level may be a symptom that one's life-style is out of whack. Our focus should not be on eggs but on making appropriate changes in our lifestyles...
...Club is, at best, idealistic, in that it is based on the assumption that to eliminate the Pi means to eliminate the sexism from our community. What such actions will do is only eliminate the more obvious manifestations of sexism from our consciousness. In other words, curing the symptom will not cure the disease...