11.   Engineers are considering other ways to protect the heart of the city and provide an island of refuge in the French Quarter and government centers.

12.   In that situation, EMS personnel said, a patient should be given morphine to alleviate pain and oxygen to protect the heart.

13.   Its scientists discovered atrial natriuretic peptide, or ANP, a hormone that helps protect the heart.

14.   Now, it looks as if estrogen pills do not protect the heart.

15.   One study showed that fatty fish, previously studied mostly in men, can protect the heart in women as well.

16.   Some experts proposed that if the women took estrogen alone, the hormone would protect their hearts.

17.   Still, even if the French did not reach American levels of fat consumption until recently, something still seems to have been protecting their hearts.

18.   That means quitting smoking and limiting alcohol intake to one or two drinks a day, the amount believed to protect the heart.

19.   The belief that estrogen protects the heart did not come out of nowhere.

20.   The idea that fish helps protect the heart has become entrenched in public perception even though it has never been firmly proved.