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Profiles in Medicine
Heart-smart eating
These tasty foods are loaded with fats, the main source of cholesterol in the diet. After years of build-up of fatty deposits (from cholesterol-rich foods) in the walls of the arteries, these blood vessels narrow, restricting blood flow and places the...
Smoking will take your breath away
IN JAMAICA, 27.2 per cent of adolescents (Garfield-Douglas; 1997) have tried a cigarette and 4.8 per cent of them have smoked in the last 30 days. Cigarette smoking kills three million people each year - one death every 10 seconds. Tobacco is also a...
Protect yourself from STIs
THE RIGHT of individuals and couples to enjoy a healthy sexual life includes the prevention of unintended and mistimed pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The 1997 Reproductive Health Survey reported that 50 per cent or 49,000 female...
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