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Whole grain intake is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease and lower mortality rate in patients with type 2 diabetes, Harvard School of Public Health researchers...
...study shows that even if you have already developed disease, it’s never too late to prevent more mortality risk in the future,” Ding said...
...perhaps most important sections of this legislation will focus on derivatives trading. Derivatives, financial instruments that are used to bet on movements of assets and thus serve as protections against risk, are often necessary for many different kinds of businesses, ranging from farms to airlines to banks. Yet during the crisis, banks took enormous risks with derivatives, and these risks were neither monitored nor regulated by the government as most of the derivatives were traded in over-the-counter transactions, private trades between two parties...
...such trades can be monitored and regulated, and the legislation had been moving in this direction. However, Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln has now introduced an amendment to the legislation that will cause banks to spin off their derivatives trading businesses entirely. Although this measure seems like it will decrease risk in the financial system, in reality, it will only transfer the risk to murkier and less-visible facets of the financial world...
...proposal, hundreds of billions of dollars in existing derivatives trading would be spun off to entities such as hedge funds and foreign banks, which are beyond the scope of regulators, or associated bank entities that are not technically part of the bank, in both cases increasing risk and causing difficulties for regulators. It is smarter to keep derivatives trading within the major banks and impose tougher oversight and regulation on these institutions than to spin off the derivatives trading to where we can neither regulate nor examine the market...