Word: tobacco
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...good relationships so good for our health? Seeman suggests two mechanisms. The first is behavioral: family and friends encourage loved ones to eat better, consume less alcohol, curb tobacco use, exercise and seek medical care. Second, good relationships appear to enhance actual physical well-being. In experiments, the presence of a friend decreased physiological stress responses in subjects performing difficult mental tasks, whereas unsupportive social situations increased them...
...society encourages sloth and gluttony," he says. "Obesity and related illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer cause as many deaths as tobacco." C.S.P.I.'s monthly Nutrition Action Health Letter, with a circulation of 850,000, combines articles on serious research--such as the questionable benefits of garlic supplements and St.-John's-wort--with healthy recipes and lobbying advice. Last month's issue urged readers to write the Food and Drug Administration asking it to label the "shocking levels" of added sugars in many foods...
...state congresses and governorships. They have survived for eight years under a President who talks populist but thinks centrist, and is on the starboard side of his own party. After the lawyers get through picking over the Florida tally as if it were a suit against Big Tobacco, conservatives will have a purchase on the White House. They already own talk radio. In Fox News, they have their own strident TV news network. And on the point-counterpoint shows, they speak with a vigor their so-called liberal (but really moderate) opponents are too decorous or slow-witted to even...
...Internet? If so, what color is your heart? Has it become progressively darker as you have used the Internet more? Do you smoke under-regulated tobacco products manufactured by large contributors to Republican campaigns? If you do, have you used such products during the time in which your heart has supposedly been darkened by the Internet...
...Republican appointees have tended to limit federal jurisdiction over the states, Rosen discussed decisions made under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. These rulings, which involved a narrow construction of the Interstate Commerce Clause, included overturning the Violence Against Women Act and limiting Food and Drug Administration regulation of the tobacco industry...