81. Overall, average blood folate levels more than doubled after the change. 82. People with dementia often eat poorly, and the blood levels may have simply reflected inadequate diets. 83. She examined the baby via the monitor, checked over the blood gas levels and vital signs Luecke provided, and confidently diagnosed aspiration pneumonia. 84. Saturated fats, along with trans fats formed when vegetable oil is hydrogenated, raise blood levels of cholesterol and are strongly linked to high rates of heart disease. 85. Seldane blood levels are increased not only by grapefruit juice but also by many common prescription drugs, and serious heart problems may result. 86. Similarly, blood levels of natural killer cells, which constantly search the body for abnormal cells and wipe them out, were affected very little. 87. So far, none of this constitutes a huge public health concern, says Watkins, because many drugs are designed to be safe even at high blood levels. 88. Some patients have developed high cholesterol and other high blood fat levels, abnormal deposits of fat in the abdomen and upper shoulders, and diabetes. 89. SOY FOODS Eating soy protein daily can lower the blood level of heart-damaging LDL cholesterol and raise protective HDL cholesterol. 90. So it was also with cholesterol, when people were told to lower their blood levels long before research showed that doing so prevented heart attacks. |