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...cardiovascular disease was larger than we expected,” said Cook, who is affiliated with the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She added that although excessive sodium intake has been linked with hypertension and high blood pressure, this is the first study to comprehensively trace the long-term link between dietary sodium levels and cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. The mortality rate was also slightly lower in the group that reduced sodium intake, although not statistically significant. Most Americans consume much more than the recommended maximum amount...
...describing how he was considered both “the Palestinian people’s Enemy Number One” and “the single most dangerous enemy of Israel” at two separate points in his life. Nusseibeh was raised in a Jerusalem dynasty that can trace its history there back 1300 years to a female warrior who once defended the Prophet Muhammed and her brother, the first Muslim high judge of Jerusalem who was entrusted by Caliph Omar with the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. He devotes the first third...
...People should understand, he adds, that dreams aren't constructed with the goal of delivering a message; they don't have an inherent meaning. "But when you look at your dreams after you wake up... you can often feel the associative networks that were activated during dream construction, and trace them back a ways, and maybe discover a new way of looking at events in your life, of looking at yourself, at others, or at the world at large." Maybe that's worth a third of our lives asleep, perchance dreaming...
...Earning the non-GMO label, at least initially, requires nearly as much effort as getting certified organic. To root out the genetically modified corn, Straus spent several months and about $10,000 testing, re-testing and tracing back his products: from his own dairy's milk, to other dairies that supply some of his milk, to the brokers who sell them feed, to their mills that grind the corn, to farmers who grow it. To put the GM-free label on his ice cream, Straus will have to trace the chickens that provided the egg yolks, the grain used...
Alas, my fate is far more tragic. I have been told that I live in a metaphorical bubble, transcending space and probably time, so impermeable that not the slightest trace of the real world can reach me. That’s right, I live in the Harvard Bubble...