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Saved at the finish line

...A member of the Hollyburn Country Club, he trained with others at the club and had even run a half marathon in 2005.

Life felt pretty good.This was his third Sun Run.

His fastest time was 56:04 in 2005.

This year he ran it in 65:07.

At least that is what the official record says.

He can't remember.Pahl, an auxiliary Coast Guard member who finished the race in 67:48, watched Curtis spin to the ground in front of him."I figured he was either exhausted and passing out, or he was having a heart attack."Pahl bent in close and could see that Curtis's eyes were open, he was conscious, but looking quite "shocky."He freed the windbreaker that Curtis still clutched in his hand and put it under his head.

"He was still breathing, still had a pulse, but his eyes were glazing over," he recalls.He, and another guy who had knelt down to help, decided to put him in the comfort position- semi-prone with one hand under his ear and the other out front providing stability.The comfort position is standard first aid, it keeps people from aspirating their vomit, something Pahl knew because, as an auxiliary Coast Guard, he'd recently recertified in CPR.

It had caused a bit of tension at home because the exam fell on the same day as his wife's birthday.

She wanted to go out for dinner that night.Instead, Pahl learned the new gold standard of CPR rescue in which artificial respiration is droppe...

Sterols in capsules cut cholesterol

...Advertisement The research study The study, sponsored by Cognis Nutrition & Health who also provided the plant sterol esters (Vegapure), investigated the efficacy of the capsules in sixteen subjects in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, sequential study.

"In just three weeks after taking the plant sterol esters capsules, participants saw their LDL Numerous clinical trials in controlled settings have reported that daily consumption of 1,5 to 3g of phytosterols/-stanols from foods can reduce total "The clinical advantage of the capsule form is that it provides a convenient vehicle to consume these beneficial plant sterol esters minus the calories often associated with foods containing these ingredients," said Cai.

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Animal Study Suggests Tart Cherries Can Alter Factors Linked to ...

...All of the rats had a predisposition toward high All the measures on which the two groups of animals differed are linked to metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors linked to high rates of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.

Tens of millions of Americans have metabolic syndrome; most don't know it.

The researchers say the correlation between cherry intake and significant changes in metabolic measurements suggest a positive effect from the high concentrations of antioxidant compounds called anthocyanins that are found in tart cherries.

The new results were given today in an oral presentation at the Experimental Biology 2007 meeting in Washington, D.C.

It's not yet known if cherry-rich diets might have a similar impact in humans, but a U-M team will soon launch a small clinical trial to start to find out.

Meanwhile, additional research is being carried out in animals prone to both obesity and diabetes.

The study's lead author is E.

Mitchell Seymour, M.S., a U-M research associate and supervisor of the U-M Cardioprotection Research Laboratory, which studies the potential preventive benefits of antioxidant-rich foods.

Support for the new study comes from an unrestric...

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