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Neither aspirin nor vitamin E turns out to be the miracle drug everyone hoped for. Two reports last week from the Women's Health Study (WHS)--a scientifically rigorous trial that followed 40,000 healthy middle-aged women over 10 years--showed that regular use does not, for the most part, prevent cancer or heart disease. Here's what you need to know...
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...Taking 600 IU of vitamin E every other day provided almost no protection from heart disease or cancer, with two exceptions. It slightly reduced the risk of dying from heart disease and decreased the number of heart attacks in women 65 and older...
Isaacson is quick with encouragement and compliments, but carefully avoids hyperjock competitiveness or withering comparisons.[*] A member of the American College of Sports Medicine, he draws from a variety of sources (the Pritikin Program, Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, The Sports-medicine Book by Gabe Mirkin and Marshall Hoffman) and serves it all up with a commonsensical approach that stresses his four Ds: decision, determination, discipline and diligence. His unballyhooed fifth D, of course, is deference. He ministers to egos as deftly as to flesh, and he is sympathetic to the open-pore scrutiny and pressures faced by performers. "They...
...DEFENSE IN THE DAIRY CASE A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D can stave off the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Women in the study fared best when they got four daily servings of low-fat or skim milk. Is that too much milk? Try fortified orange juice or such low-fat dairy foods as yogurt and cheese...