.The decrease 1 blood pressure occurred 2 race or 3 and whether or not study participants are a "typical American diet", 4 is high in saturated fats and contains few fruits and 5 or the so-called DASH (for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension)diet, which emphasizes lots of fresh 6 , low-fat diary, fish and fewer sweets and which was proved in 1997 to reduce hypertension. The biggest decrease in blood pressure in this study was recorded in subjects who ate the DASH diet and reduced their sodium 7 to 1200mg a day.Why is this significant 8 -health experts estimate that Americans consume, on average, about 3500 mg of sodium- 9 about 9 grams of salt-daily. It"s not 10 we"re that heavyhanded with the saltshaker. Most of our dietary sodium is added 11 food processing. 12 to 1200mg, you"d have to forgo most 13 foods, take-out deliveries and restaurant meals.So pay attention 14 how much salt you"re eating, but don"t forget to make fruits, vegetables and whole grains a 15 part of your diet. They"ll help 16 your cholesterol level 17 your blood pressure. Be sure to drink alcohol 18 , if at all. 19 weight-even just 4.5kg-and exercising at least 30 minutes most days of the week can also have a marked 20 on blood pressure....
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Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to "think and concentrate". Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剥夺) of cigarettes through a series of tests.In the first test, each subject (实验对象) sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and non-smokers performed equally well.The next test was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the. instant one of the letters was transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁) , active smokers were faster than deprived smokers.In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers.The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but also had trouble separating important information from insignificant details."As our tests became more complex," sums up Spilich, "non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins." He predicts, "smokers might perform adequately at many jobs-until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity." George Spilich"s experiment was conducted in such a way as to ______.
A. compel the subjects to separate major information from minor details
B. put the subjects through increasingly complex tests
C. check the effectiveness of nicotine on smokers
D. register the prompt responses of the subjects