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D2 COMPLETE. IN-DEPTH. DEPENDABLE. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 LIFE Dr. Keith Roach To Your Health Dear Dr.

Roach: My 82- year-old brother died in January from pancreatic cancer. Prior to his diagnosis, he was the picture of health: exercising vigorously every day, eating a healthy diet, keeping his mind active and alert, and taking health supplements with no excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages (only occasional wine). His only health complication was getting deep-vein thrombosis from a long horseback ride, and he was placed on warfarin (Coumadin) and told to take it forever. He had his blood clotting levels monitored per the physician schedule. His dad lived to age 94, and our mother to 90.

He thought he had the longevity genes. In researching the diagnosis and possible causes, we found several references to people taking this medication getting pancreatic cancer. T.A. Answer: Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most feared malignancies because there an screening test, chemotherapy and radiation are only modestly useful and surgery, while the only reliable cure, often is not possible at the stage when most people with the disease present to their doctors. Although not the case for your brother, cigarette smoking and lack of exercise are clear risk factors for pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is well known to cause blood clots. I suspect what may have happened in your case is that the unknown pancreatic cancer, not the horseback ride, caused the initial blood clot. He then would have been on war farin at the time the pancreatic cancer was diagnosed. One can never be sure what happens in any particular case. However, to my knowledge, there has never been a study suggesting that warfarin increases risk of pancreatic (or any other) cancer.

Dear Dr. Roach: an 80- year-old man in fairly good health, but I have a problem that I an answer for. asked my primary doctor, but he has not given me a good answer for it, and it could be that I did not ask the question right. When I get cold, I break out in hives. It happens when the temperature is below 70 degrees and I touch cold metal or something I will break out.

The only thing that seems to work is to warm up the body. Do you have any suggestions? D.M. Answer: You have cold ur ticaria. is the pre cise term for hives or wheals. Cold air can do it, but so can cold objects.

Metal objects are more likely to do so because metal conducts heat away from your body faster. Swimming is the most dangerous activity for people with cold urticar ia, and it be done in cold water. Nobody really understands why cold urticaria happens. Avoiding cold and keeping the body covered up and warm are obvious and remedies. Antihistamines, such as Benad ryl or Claritin, may help if you must be exposed to the cold.

Dear Dr. Roach: Could you give me some information about BCG? If this were recommended to you as a treatment, would you hesitate to take it? M.P. Answer: Bacille Calmette- Guerin (BCG) is a weakened form of a bacteria related to tuberculosis. It is used in many countries as a vaccine against tuberculosis; however, its effectiveness at preventing TB is questioned. BCG in North America is mostly used as a treatment for bladder cancer.

It seems to stimulate the immune system to the cancer on its own, but not clear exactly how it works. Serious side effects are uncommon, but it frequently causes bladder symptoms, which wear usually within 48 hours. I would hesitate before using it, but I would take it if my urologist felt it was my best option. Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible.

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Get moving, for a lot of good reasons Ohio State University Extension I know that getting enough exercise is recommended to reduce the risk of heart disease. Is that just because doing so helps you maintain a healthy weight, or is there a separate Your instincts are on the mark. While both a healthy diet and regular physical activity can reduce a whole host of risk factors related to heart disease such as maintaining a healthy weight, reducing blood pressure and cholesterol, and managing blood sugar levels they both have heart-healthy bene in their own right. Inactive people are nearly twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease as people who are physically active, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Physical activity helps the heart in a number of ways.

Regularly engaging in moderate to vigorous activity strengthens the heart muscle, which helps improve your ability to pump blood to your lungs and throughout your body. That allows more blood to to muscles, and increases oxygen levels in your blood. Aerobic exercise your heart and lungs the most. the type of exercise that moves the large muscle groups in your arms and legs. Walking, jogging, running, swimming, biking, dancing, tennis, basketball, skateboarding, jumping rope and doing jumping jacks are all examples of aerobic exercise.

Even working in the yard and garden digging, hoeing or raking or doing housework counts as aerobic exercise if the activity is vigorous enough to increase your heart rate. You know exercising hard enough to have an if the activity causes noticeable increases in your breathing and heart rate. doing moderate-intensity activity if you can still talk, but not sing, while doing the activity. If you you say more than a few words without stopping for a breath, reached the level of activity. If currently not very active, build up gradually to 2.5 hours of moderate-intensity activity per week 30 minutes a day, days a week.

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not about the fear of hell or the promise of It the time Brady Williams has crossed religious lines. As a teenager, his parents left mainstream Mormonism and joined polygamy. He said that transition was very dif but not as hard as leaving the fundamentalist church his wives all grew up in. The women still have family members in the church who pray for them to repent and return. They been ostracized by family and friends in the community, but town leaders have made it clear to Brady Williams, a former church leader in the Apostolic United Brethren in northern Utah, that they prefer the family leave town.

Dealing with that scrutiny may help the Williams as they brace for newfound attention now that TLC has debuted the one-hour special about the family, called Five The practice of polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The main stream church abandoned polygamy in 1890 as Utah moved toward statehood. The Williams family said it chose to do the TV show after declining previous to show that polygamy can be healthy and stable. is an unhealthy stigma attached to Brady Williams said. is nothing wrong with consenting adults living and loving how they It braces for newfound attention after one-hour special Five Family preaches polygamy, not Mormonism Brady Williams poses with his wives (from left) Paulie, Robyn, Rosemary, Nonie and Rhonda, outside of their home in a polygamous community outside Salt Lake City.

Williams has wives, 24 children but no organized religion. The latest polygamous family from Utah to open its lives to America via reality TV is a tried and true plural family. The kids range from age 2 to 20, and are named Brady. RICK BOWMER ASSOCIATED PRESS.