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...problem, according to Meir Stampfer, a nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, is potato starch. When you eat a potato and that starch hits the saliva in your mouth, its tightly bundled molecules immediately get turned into sugars, which make a beeline for the blood. "You ate a potato," says Stampfer, "but your body is getting pure glucose." The flood of blood sugar sets off a chain reaction. Insulin pours out of the pancreas. Triglycerides shoot up. HDL (good) cholesterol takes a dive. "It's a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes," says Stampfer...
...least that's the argument put forward in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Ideally, say Dr. Walter Willett and Dr. Meir Stampfer of Harvard, all vitamin supplements would be evaluated in scientifically rigorous clinical trials. But those studies can take a long time and often raise more questions than they answer. At some point, while researchers work on figuring out where the truth lies, it just makes sense to say the potential benefit outweighs the cost...
...according to Meir Shahar, a lecturer in East Asian studies at Tel Aviv University and the foremost historian of Shaolin, Yan Ming's idiosyncracies are well in keeping with the temple's past. "Shaolin monks have always adapted themselves to the legend that surrounds them," he says. "Many of the practices for which Shaolin is now famous were developed as a direct response to the way the monks had been portrayed in fiction and drama." If life at the Shaolin Temple has long imitated art, Yan Ming may be writing its newest chapter. Jet Li's next movie, rumor...
Cohen criticizes our president’s response, but does she need a history lesson on the “hairy-backed war tactics” of Golda Meir in the Yom Kippur War of 1973? She responded with force, as she had to. So may President George W. Bush, as he may have to. Sometimes, the correct action of the state involves the use of force. Gender has nothing to do with...
...stopping in at their weddings and dinners. The army too wants the Prime Minister to do more; the generals would like Sharon officially to declare Arafat and his Palestinian Authority an enemy. "The army is pushing harder and harder to attack the Palestinians, all the time," says Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit. "Sharon's in very difficult circumstances...