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...global event, because my Olympics are not your Olympics. If you're a Western European, the Games is a track-and-field championship, while for American TV viewers it's a reason to go all gooey-eyed over winsome teenage gymnasts, and for Turks it's a celebration of weight lifting. True, a few stars transcend their sports and a regional base. Babe Ruth, Pelé and Michael Jordan did so, and today I'd put David Beckham, Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods in the same category-but very few others manage that trick...
Most doctors prefer to treat high blood pressure in their younger patients with lifestyle changes first: getting them to lose weight, if necessary, and to step up their physical activity. Preliminary evidence suggests that caffeine--found in soda, coffee and some candy--may also boost blood pressure, particularly in African Americans. Daniels and his colleagues are just starting a study that looks at the effect on children and teenagers of a diet that has been shown to lower blood pressure in adults--one that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy. Blood pressure can jump high enough among...
...opposing defenses thinking that the extra weight might slow Fitzpatrick down were disproved on the very first series from scrimmage...
...several sources say has crept closer to a quarter of a billion dollars--Troy is one of the biggest, craziest movie gambits since Titanic. It's not just that the film required some 1,500 battle-trained extras or that production was plagued by war, hurricanes and frothing Bulgarian weight lifters or even that Pitt, playing the legendary Achilles, injured his Achilles tendon. It's also that the odds of a movie of Troy's scope making money have never been longer...
What do dental X rays have to do with pregnancy? Scientists don't really know, but the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports the surprising finding that a woman's risk of having a low-birth-weight baby at full term more than triples if she has her teeth X-rayed while pregnant. This is not a good reason to avoid the dentist, however. Other studies have shown that women with periodontal disease have a three to five times greater risk of preterm childbirth than those with healthy teeth and gums...