Word: stroke
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...study didn't distinguish between good fats such as those in olive oil and oily fish and bad ones in meat and dairy products. LOVE YOUR GREENGROCER You can't overdo fruit and veg. Eating more than the usual recommendation of five servings a day cuts the risk of stroke by 26%, according to a London team that analyzed eight other studies. People who ate three to five servings a day had an 11% lower stroke risk. The bad news: average fruit and vegetable consumption in developed countries is three servings a day. EAT YOUR BROCCOLI Former U.S. President George...
...these drugs pose a risk to the heart? Maybe. Ritalin and its cousins Concerta and Adderall are stimulants that can raise heart rate and blood pressure. The FDA knows of 25 cases of people--19 of them children--dying suddenly while on the drugs and dozens of cases of stroke and arrhythmias, but cause and effect are far from certain. Those are small numbers given that 2.5 million kids and 1.5 million adults in the U.S. take the drugs, but some panel members think many cases may go unreported. Cardiologist Steven Nissen, who proposed the warning, is worried about adults...
...meant to name their creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into a business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried to license their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their...
Starting a low-fat diet in mid-life does not, by itself, decrease a woman's risk of heart disease or stroke or dramatically reduce her risk of breast or colorectal cancer, according to three studies published today of almost 50,000 healthy, post-menopausal women. But don?t break out the ice cream just yet. Once you get into the nitty-gritty of the study, the investigators stress, the findings still support the general idea that you need to pay attention to how much fat-and particularly what kinds...
...King's official cause of death is listed as cardio-respiratory failure, cerebral vascular illness and ovarian cancer, with her heart and lung failures owing in part to the stroke. Her cancerous condition had not been previously made public, and she was diagnosed last fall, according to family friends. That condition, deemed inoperable by doctors consulted in the United States, led King's family to check her into an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico on January 26 under an assumed name. No funeral or memorial arrangements had been announced, as King's family escorted her body back to Atlanta early...