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...Earlier this year, another study of diet-soda drinkers came to a similar conclusion, this time about metabolic syndrome, the dangerous constellation of risk factors, such as obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance, that increases the likelihood of heart disease. In this report, part of the 60-year-old Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that soda drinkers, regardless of whether they consumed diet or regular beverages, had a 48% higher risk of metabolic syndrome than non-soda drinkers...
...Ramachandran Vasan, lead author of the Framingham study, however, notes, "A zero-calorie drink could produce a metabolic response if it is sweet. It can condition you to develop a preference for sweet things, which can lead to weight gain or metabolic syndrome. So something that is sweet could produce a metabolic effect even if it doesn't have a whole lot of calories...
Christakis and Fowler arrived at their conclusions by analyzing data from the ongoing Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948 as an observational study of Cardiovascular Disease in subjects from Framingham, Mass. and is now studying a third generation of subjects...
...Libby's sentence for heinous crimes reflects that indifference. At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" He said, "A republic, if you can keep it." I certainly hope we can. Natalie Rosen, FRAMINGHAM, MASS...
...particularly puzzling. Its incongruence stands out not just because of its large size but also because of its subject matter. While the other works have some visible recognition of the artists’ descent, Madahar captures birds visiting feeders—in Framingham, Massachusetts, no less. While laudable that the exhibition brings together the diverse works of photographers in one forum, the common thread among the photographs is the artists’ shared ethnicity ultimately seems to be too weak a basis on which to center a collection...