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...copycats, which means the kind of coach or team that management wants can change very quickly. The Phoenix Suns win by playing an up-tempo style? Maybe we should do that. Oklahoma City fired Carlesimo after a brutal start? The other coaches will fall like dominoes. "Once there's blood in the water, people don't think they're keeping up with the times," says an NBA source familiar with coach-management relations. "These guys can't help themselves...
...them they're acting like "skanks." They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation with an African student who rises to their defense, blood is accidentally spilled and the boy is threatened with expulsion - which in his case means expulsion not just from school but very likely, given his father's sternness, from France itself...
...Canadian team analyzed data from 210 diabetes patients, all of whom were taking medication to control their blood sugar. Because the medical management of diabetes still leaves patients with two to four times the average risk of heart disease, the study's authors wanted to explore whether a stricter diet could reduce that risk. The theory is that foods that break down quickly in the gut and flood the blood with glucose - high-glycemic foods - put an exceedingly heavy burden on the body to churn out enough insulin to process the sugar, leading to diabetes. Low-glycemic foods, which take...
...including wheat, whole-grain breads, brown rice and potatoes with their skins, and also kept a journal of their food choices. All participants were told to avoid high-glycemic foods (the glycemic index of a food is typically measured as the amount by which a 50 g portion raises blood sugar compared with white bread or pure sugar), such as pancakes, muffins, bagels, French fries, potato chips and cookies...
After the six months, not only did the low-glycemic diet group show lower levels of blood glucose, but they also enjoyed a 1.7 mg/dL boost in HDL, or good cholesterol, while the high-fiber group experienced a .2 mg/dL drop in their HDL. Studies have shown that raising HDL levels is one way to prevent heart attacks, but it's not clear yet whether the current findings translate to any practical protection against heart disease. (See 9 kid foods to avoid...