Only then could doctors truly point to better dental care as protection against heart disease.
For new readers, hedge fund managers will usually buy ETF puts as protection against equities they are accumulating.
Firms are hoarding cash in an environment of economic uncertainty as protection against the type of credit squeeze that occurred in 2008.
Banks are trying to shrink the loans and investments on their balance sheets, relative to the capital they hold as protection against losses.
But when it comes to the much-touted long-term benefits of breastfeeding, such as protection against obesity, diabetes or allergy, the research is less convincing.
According to Dr Rattan, such interventions improve the function of a cell over time, and in doing so, may produce clinical benefits such as protection against neurodegenerative diseases.
Martens said the houses would be razed and the land left as open space, allowing dunes, marshlands and other natural barriers to be built as protection against future storms.
Credit-default swaps can be bought as protection against the default of a bond or loan, or they can be sold to create some income in exchange for guaranteeing a credit exposure.
As I said it would yesterday, the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has declared that big British banks need to raise more capital as protection against possible future losses.
As protection against the extremes of temperature and pressure which were to come, he had taken just one precaution - he had stuffed bits of crumpled white tissue paper into his ears.
It is the banks in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy which are seen by regulators as weakest, as needing to raise the most new capital as protection against potential future losses on loans to highly indebted eurozone governments.
Because the perceived quality of patent awards has deteriorated--critics complain that they were given almost indiscriminately to dot-coms for only the slightest changes in prior art--even minor patent applications must be carefully (and expensively) vetted by patent lawyers as protection against lawsuits by aggrieved patent holders.
On the basis of a pact between central bank governors and senior regulators, every important developed and developing country has agreed to enact laws to raise the amount of capital that banks have to hold as protection against future losses to more than treble the current minimum.
This, according to Treasury sources, would make it impossible for the FPC to force British banks to hold more capital, as a protection against losses and to slow down lending, as and when the FPC spots a new bubble, such as a renewed and worrying boom in the housing market.
While gold has traditionally been seen as a protection against inflation and a falling dollar, Anderson notes that investors may also be currently using it as a method of controlling volatility and diversifying a portfolio.
Yet commodities may make sense both as a portfolio diversifier and as a protection against inflation.
Plus, many of these puts could have been purchased as portfolio protection against a potential post-earnings dip.
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Bosnia and Kosovo both wanted foreign troops as a protection against Serbia, and East Timor had similar feelings towards Indonesia.
Beyond welcoming shoppers, the job was designed to provide an aura of safety to the front of the store as well as extra protection against shoplifters.
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That is why bankers, regulators and analysts increasingly fear that the capital banks will need as a protection against these losses may exceed what can be raised from conventional investors and Spanish taxpayers.
They release chemicals as a protection against predators.
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But the really interesting question, now that they've been forced by regulators to hold much more capital and cash as a protection against shocks, is when and whether they'll ever again make the bumper profits of yore.
On Wednesday, Britain's banks will be put out of their misery, and will learn how much extra capital they have to raise as a protection against future losses - after a nerve-wracking five-month wait for the Bank of England's judgement.
So, as one senior international regulator said to me, the debacle should reinforce his and his colleagues attempts to force banks to hold vastly more capital as a protection against losses on banks' trading activities (the Basel Committee's " fundamental review of trading book capital requirements").
The EBA said it recommends that these banks be forced by their respective national regulators to raise additional capital as a protection against possible further losses from loans going bad, with a deadline of 15 October for the formulation of remedial plans and 15 April 2012 for implementation.
And in this instance, the culprit (if that is the right word) is the permission that was given under so-called Basel ll to the biggest banks to use their own internal risk models to determine the riskiness of categories of loans and - by implication - the amount of capital they need to hold as a protection against the souring of those loans.
While expenses related to the casualty are not included in the casualty loss itself, certain expenses such as any costs for the protection against future casualties should be capitalized as permanent improvements which will increase your basis.
This was thought to ensure that their offspring have as wide a range of immune response genes - and therefore greater protection against infection - as possible.
In particular, it tells a bidder how much capital its so-called Train Operating Company (TOC) would have to hold as a protection for taxpayers against the risk that in the course of operating the franchise the TOC went bust or risked going bust.
Just as central banks in China, India, Russia and many other nations view gold as a monetary reserve protection against the falling dollar, major academic institutions are looking for new asset classes like precious metals and commodities to produce returns that can be put to work as a source of funds for a large portion of college operating expenses.
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