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...Coke - the rush of sugar causes something called "post-prandial hyperglycemia": a big spike in blood-sugar levels. Poor diet in the long-term leads to hypertension and buildup of gunk in blood vessels that increases heart-attack risk. But there are short-term effects too. "People don't understand this, even most physicians," says O'Keefe. Tissue becomes inflamed, just as it does when infected. Blood vessels constrict. Free radicals, unstable molecules that cause cell damage and are thought to contribute to chronic disease and aging, are generated. The body's stress response has a bigger effect on blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Meal to Good (or Bad) Health | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...bottom line is that we just don't know what Vytorin does, because we don't have the clinical trials," he says. "We know Vytorin blocks absorption of cholesterol. But what else does it block - something else in the diet that could be beneficial? We just don't understand fully how it works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Vytorin a Failure? | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

It’s not that I haven’t explored these ideas with my friends here—I have, and being able to discuss them for the first time with people who understand from their own experiences has been liberating. Yet we are missing a real opportunity to connect with multiracial students throughout Harvard. The student activities fair at the beginning of the year plays host to countless student organizations for a single race or ethnicity to the marginalization of multiracial issues...

Author: By Nikki Anderson | Title: Unacknowledged Identities | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...audience is supposed to understand that Shahriyar’s questions are so crazy that they might just get to the heart of human existence, and Leaf and Okocha both gave performances that lived up to the script’s philosophical intensity. As their words circled back on themselves, Leaf and Okocha circled each other, creating an almost tangible atmosphere of meditative claustrophobia...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Shahrazad’ Worth More Than a Thousand Words | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

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