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Posted by Richard Bennett

Somebody told me once that cholesterol-reducing drugs are scary. This article seems to indicate otherwise: Every man over the age of 50 should be on a daily medication of cholesterol-lowering drugs to protect against heart disease and stroke, the government’s heart tsar said yesterday. Roger Boyle said that blanket prescribing of statins should also apply [...]

Posted by Richard Bennett

People are doing interesting things with food these days. Researchers in Ohio have devised some new varieties of tomato by combining heirloom varieties with disease-resistant modern varieties, and in the process dramatically raised the content of usable lycopene. It’s all in this American Chemical Society Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry article, Carotenoid Absorption in [...]