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Medical First: Israeli Technique to Watch Effects of Hi-Carb Food on Arteries in Realtime
Israel National News ^ | July 5, 2009 | Baruch Gordon

Posted on 07/04/2009 11:27:12 PM PDT by Baruchg

Using a clinical technique pioneered by his laboratory in Israel, Dr. Michael Shechter of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine and the Heart Institute of Sheba Medical Center was able to visualize what happens inside our arteries before, during and after eating high carb foods.

Doctors have known for decades that foods like white bread and corn flakes aren’t good for cardiac health. But, this new landmark study shows exactly how these high carb foods increase the risk for heart problems.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: carbs; israelcarbarteries; science

1 posted on 07/04/2009 11:27:12 PM PDT by Baruchg
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2 posted on 07/04/2009 11:54:57 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: Baruchg

No doubt invented by a Jewish mother. Who else could come up with computer-assisted guilt?


3 posted on 07/05/2009 12:47:24 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: neverdem

FYI


4 posted on 07/05/2009 1:55:47 AM PDT by BossLady ("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
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To: Baruchg

ping


5 posted on 07/05/2009 2:06:17 AM PDT by Bellflower (The end of this age is near but the beginning of the next glorious one is coming!)
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To: Baruchg

Somewhere, cardiologist Robert Atkins smiles.


6 posted on 07/05/2009 2:10:44 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)
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To: Baruchg; fabian

This is interesting.....


7 posted on 07/05/2009 2:16:57 AM PDT by abigail2
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But the government’s food pyramid says I need to eat a ton of carbs to stay healthy. You mean they are wrong? I don’t believe it.


8 posted on 07/05/2009 2:49:01 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
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Certainly, even a popular write-up could have taken up important parameters , like blinding, randomization and crossover.I notice coconut oil is now healthy to be thrown into Powerade, whereas last I had heard of it, tropical oils were to be avoided by all means.


9 posted on 07/05/2009 5:12:56 AM PDT by gusopol3
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Does this mean I shouldn’t eat the biscuits ‘n’ gravy I’m eating now?


10 posted on 07/05/2009 6:32:29 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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