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Herman Adlercreutz
University of Helsinki
Foklhälsan Research Center
Department of Clinical Chemistry
FIN-00014, PB60
Helsinki
Finland

Mark Messina
Nutrition Matters
1543 Lincoln Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368

Jin-Rong Zhou
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center
Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory
Department of Surgery
Boston, MA 02215

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 19, November 6, 1999, p. 295. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.