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Cholesterol kids: Rx or exercise?
By LESLIE BECK
-- Do kids need statins or just a healthier diet?If you read last week's headlines, you might be wondering if your eight-year-old should be taking a statin drug to lower his blood cholesterol and ward off heart disease in adulthood. FULL STORY 
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Doctors, activists work to stop clay eating in Africa
The practice of geophagy, widespread among pregnant women, can be harmful to the mother as well as the fetus
By KIM BARRY BRUNHUBER
MAKENI, SIERRA LEONE -- Aisha Jalloh takes one of the hard, smooth balls of clay and rolls it in her hand. It looks like a fossilized dinosaur egg.''I know it is bad but I wanted to sustain the baby, so I eat it,'' she says, looking at her newborn daughter. While she was pregnant she would eat between 10 and 15 balls of clay each day. Sometimes she roasted them, sometimes she ate them plain. The old women in her community told her the clay would make her baby strong and remove ''bad water'' from her stomach. FULL STORY
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Asthma linked to nutty diets
By SARAH BOESVELD
-- Allison Bullen ate peanut butter by the scoopful while pregnant with her son Braxton, who's turning 3 in August. The Huntsville, Ont., mother craved the taste, she says, and Braxton does now too - he has been served peanut butter on toast for breakfast nearly every day since he was 1. FULL STORY
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Good parenting overrides bad-behaviour genes
By MAGGIE FOX
-- Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighbourhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, according to U.S. researchers. FULL STORY
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Don't charge by hindsight
-- Until a couple of weeks ago, the stimulant benzylpiperazine (BZP) seems to have scarcely been on the radar of Canadian authorities. After the death earlier this month of a 55-year-old Toronto man who may have ingested the substance in a product called Pure Rush, government and police are now paying attention. But rather than simply looking forward to prevent any future misuse, they appear overzealous to make up for lost time. FULL STORY
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The inside dope on drugs
By ADAM NEWMAN
Kingston, Ont. -- As a physician who has treated injection drug users for eight years, I disagree that harm reduction is a failure when it comes to reducing drug use and addiction. This is like decrying the use of Band-Aids because they don't prevent cuts. FULL STORY
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The inside dope on drugs
By TIM MEEHAN
Ottawa -- Margaret Wente, in her latest misguided polemic against harm reduction (We Still Await The Scientific Proof Of Harm Reduction's Success - July 15) complains that ''the same small set of people peer-review each other's work.'' Gee, that sounds a lot like a newspaper editorial board. FULL STORY
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