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This analysis is radically at odds with long-standing Mormon teachings.Some longtime observers believe that, ultimately, the vast majority of Mormons will disregard the genetic research as an unworthy distraction from their faith."This may look like the crushing blow to Mormonism from the outside," said Jan Shipps, a professor emeritus of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis who has studied the church for 40 years.

"But religion ultimately does not rest on scientific evidence, but on mystical experiences.

There are different ways of looking at truth."A tribe of JewsAccording to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an angel named Moroni led Joseph Smith in 1827 to a divine set of golden plates buried in a hillside near his New York home.God provided the 22-year-old Smith with a pair of glasses and seer stones that allowed him to translate the "Reformed Egyptian" writings on the golden plates into the "Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ."Mormons believe these scriptures restored the church to God's original vision and left the rest of Christianity in a state of apostasy.The book's narrative focuses on a tribe of Jews who sailed from Jerusalem to the New World in 600 B.C.

and split into two main warring factions.

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Men have heart attacks 10 years earlier than women, the gender factor.

You are wondering why you had a heart attack if you never smoked or drank to excess.

Those kinds of risk factors are called "modifiable" risk factors.

People can do something about them.

High blood cholesterol, uncontrolled high blood pressure, a life of inactivity, obesity and diabetes are things that people can control, to some extent.

People who are careful about what they eat, about getting exercise, about watching their cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure can still have a heart attack.

That doesn't seem fair, but that's life.

If these factors were not controlled, those people could have had a more serious heart attack or had one at a much younger age.

That's the way you should think of your attack.

Thalassemia is an inherited anemia that shares many similarities with iron deficiency anemia.

It's an inherited anemia and iron does nothing for it.

People with thalassemia who take iron for long periods of time can get into trouble from an iron overdose.

That's why the doctor took your iron pills away.

The heart attack booklet discusses all aspects of this very common illness.

Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr.

Donohue — No.

102, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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