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...Meta-analysis showed participants had a 19 percent reduced risk of coronary heart disease compared to a control group. This means that with each five percent increase in the proportion of calories from polyunsaturated fats, there was a ten percent decrease in coronary heart disease episodes. They also found that a diet made up of 15 percent polyunsaturated fats was more effective at reducing risk than a diet with the previously recommended ten percent...

Author: By Juliana L. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Recommends Limiting Saturated Fats | 3/24/2010 | See Source »

...Museum of Eterna’s Novel’ is a meta-novel that goes so deep into the swirl of metas that it loses itself, its characters, and us in the process. And yet it is all about the relationship between reader and author, and what fiction can and cannot do. “The Museum of Eterna’s Novel” is a proverbial Wonderland of wit and explicitly enunciated confusion, where forward leads backwards, and where a word is synonymous with its opposite. As the novel progresses, Fernández constantly shifts voice and tone...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fernández Creates a Literary Wonderland in ‘Museum’ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...have friends that are in close circles and confidantes, and when they are interrogated, those friends become the faces of the court,” said Speciale. “We are playing around with it theatrically, an almost meta-theatrical way of dealing with The Court...

Author: By Emily S. Shire, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Broadway Outs the Outters | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Meehan goes meta with a list that belongs at the top of itself...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, Jeffrey W. Feldman, Ama R. Francis, Jessica R. Henderson, Joshua J. Kearney, Eunice Y. Kim, Chris R. Kingston, Ali R. Leskowitz, Beryl C.D. Lipton, Monica S. Liu, Ryan J. Meehan, Antonia M.R. Peacocke, Erika P. Pierson, Bram A. Strochlic, Mark A. VanMiddlesworth, and Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Editor's Picks 2009 | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...piece called “My Video Game Idea” pitches a vision for a new game in a meta-novel-ish vision—a 2-D game that features a voluptuous if pixilated woman is being played by an even more attractive and higher resolution woman, which is being watched and enjoyed by a fat man on a couch, which is all being observed by a fat man who is wearing virtual reality goggles and sitting in a “futuristic chair.” We learn that the man on the couch is really...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some 'Poon-Provided Procrastination | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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