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LONDON- Youcan cut the risk of a deadly heart at-
tack by an astonishing 44 percent by drinking at least one
cup of tea a day, say
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medical researchers. ByJACKALEXANDER
The beneficial results are
probably due to the powerful
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Earlier studies have suggested that tea
deadlyheartaHat"
by 44percent!
amounts of natural sub- could be good for the heart, but the latest
stances in tea known as findings are the most dramatic and compre-
flavonoids-vitamin-like nu- hensive.
trients that make blood cells A study examined 340 men and women
less prone to clotting. who had suffered heart attacks .-----
Flavonoids are one of the and matched them by age., sex tea from black tea leaves as op- or cold, or with loose tea leaves, smoking, exercise, alcohol in•
most powerful antioxidents, and neighborhood with people posed to green or herbal teas. tea bags or granulated crystals. take and family history of heart
or substances that offset the who had never had heart at• Scientists say black tea contains Adding milk, sugar or lemon trouble in arriving at the results.
damaging effects of oxygen tacks. It then investigated their more powerful flavonoids than to the tea does not diminish the Conductingthe study was Dr.
in the body. Ftavonoids also coffee- and tea-drinking habits green tea, while herbal teas are effect of flavonoids. Michael Gaziano, a heart spe-
are found in fruits, vegeta- over the course of a year. not knownto contain flavonoids. Researchers also made ad- cialist at the Harvard Medical
bles and red wine. The study involved regular The tea can be prepared hot justments for such factors as School-affiliated Brigham and
THE
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Healing isallinyour
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saydocs
In an el..iraordinary study that suggests healing
may really be all in your head, 10 arthritis patients
said they felt better six months after a pain•relieving
operation - even though only five of them actually
had the surgery. ence" to support it. yet they also got better.
People's expectations thatthey Dr. Moerman cites blushing Other examples of the placebo ef•
will improve, cultural beliefs and as a nonmedical event that trig• feet:
the enthusiasm of the treating gers a biological response. An • A saline injection was enough
doctor all may be at work in the embarrassing remark brings to kill the pain in 30 to 40 percent of
placebo effect, the amazing study blood to the cheeks. A red face is people who had their wisdom teeth
reveals. biological response to some- pulled.
The placebo effect is the non• thing - visual or verbal - out• • Patients who were taken off
specific reason people respond to side the body. blood-pressure medicine for three
treatments that are not medically The mechanism that sets off weeks so they could try a new drug
proven to work on their ailment- this response is what Dr. saw their blood pressure drop to
M treatments as simple as talking to Moerman and other researchers normal in the period they were ta.k·
a doctor or taking a sugar pill. are trying to discover. How can a ing no drug at all
In the placebo experiment at a placebo and morphine both trig• • Patients underwent make•be·
veterans hospital in Houston, four gerbrainreactions that ease pain? lieve su11.·geryfor angina. They were
of the five arthritis patients who Another recent study appears given a local anesthesia and cut
did not have surgery said they to show that the change in brain slightly. but they did bett.er than pa•
would recommend it to a friend. activity that accounted for im• tients who actually bad the surgery.
Even though the medjcal world provement in patients on Prozac Some e:>.."J)ertssay the placebo ef.
disagrees with the placebo effect, ispreciselyopposUetothechange feet explains a good outcome 30 per•
medical anthropologist Daniel in brain activity experienced by centoftlhe time. Dr. Moerman says it
Moerman says there is "good sci• patientsw-botookaplacebo-and could be as high as 50 percent.
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Meetman's bestfriend!
Dogs may not be man's best friend any more, says
amazing new research. Lizards are ready to take that honor.
Tbe wily reptilescan recognize.-----------
people and fonn unique relation- who bad cared for him four years
shipswitb them,but it maynotnec- earlier.
essarilybe the kind of lovingrela- McRobert believeslizards pick
tionshipyou might havewith your out individualsby sightandlisten to
pet dog or cat, says researcher voicesto "fine-tune"theirresponse.
Scott McRobert. "This is the first time human
Scientists in Philadelphiadis- recognitionby a lizard has been 1.-~c-l
coverediguanas!mowtheir human demonstratedin a scientificway,"
handlers andgreet them differently he said.
than strangerswhen a laboratory Iguanas and other lizardsnor-
lizardnamedFidobobbedhis head mally see people as a threat, so
at McRobert, his handlei; but ig- This One
when Fido recognizedMcRobertit
noredeveryoneelsein theroom. meanthewasn'tafraidof him.
The researchteam also found "It's not that he loves me,"
that Fido remembereda student McRobertsaid.
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EDITOR
Eddie Clontz
MANAGING EDITOR
Vol. 20 No. 49
SCIENTISTS
DISCO
UFO
BURIED
INDESE
Susan Jimison
ARTDIRECTOR
Dick Kulpa
PHOTO EDITOR
Susan Chappell
SENIOREDITORS: Joe Berger, Donnie Brown, Fronk Di Pietro,
Israeli scientists using so-
Michael Forsyth, Fronk lo Senno, R. Neale Lind, Cindy O'Neil, phisticated sonar equipment
Leskie Pinson, nm Skelly have reportedly discovered DIAGRAM shows
OFFICIMANAGER/EXEC. SECRETARY: Marcello Rotenberger a giant disc-shaped object flyingsaucer
wreckage burled
EDITORIAL
INTERNS:Sarah Gist; Jussoro Silva
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:Christie Carlson buried 600 feet beneath the in desert.
STAFFASTROLOGER & PSYCHIC: Sereno Sobok desert!
COLUMNISTS:Ed Anger, Dotti Primrose "Based on geological formations
FREElANCEPHOTOGRAPHERS: Ron Alexander, McKenzie located on the surface above the ob-
Betsch, Christine Phelan, Judy Sorensky, Edie Szymanski ject we have calculated that it dates
CEO & PUBLISHER: DAVID PECKER
CHAIRMAN, PR.ESIDEMT,
back at least 30,000 years," Dr.
Moshe Abramson, a scientist in-
U.S. BUREAUCHIEFS: volved in the project, said in an
WASHINGTON
BOSTON NEW
YOIIC AnANTA interview. "That means it has
been there since before the
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dawn of human history."
Cautious about leaping t,o conclusions,
scientists have avoidedusing the term "flying
IOSWEU,N.M. saucer" to describe the object. But they have
LOSANGEW CHICAGO confirmedthat it is perfectlycircularin con-
laurel
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figuration- strongly suggesting that it is not
a natural formation and instead was made by
intelligent beings.
What's more, density readings indicate the
object - which is about 850 feet in diameter
-is metal.
LONDON PARIS NEWDElHI NAIROBI "Every indication is that it is a vehicle of
some type," Dr. Abramson confirmed. "We
Q theorize that it may have been ----
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the Holy Land and near a city possible military importance of
University experts first be- considered sacred by Jews, an intact UFO being successful-
gan to suspect there might be Christians and Moslems alike ly recovered Last week officials
it~.:•= something odd underground in - are not being overlooked. issued a total news blackout on
~Vi~ the area, about 30 miles outside Israeli newspapers have al- the matter and forbade scien-
~Saidi Jerusalem, back in January ready dubbed the mysterious tists from granting further in-
1996, when they picked up un- object "The Holy Land Saucer," terviews.
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