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1/31/2005
But was it made in Sherman?
This is a neat story out of Brandeis:
Snackaholics rejoice!
Brandeis University biology professor K.C. Hayes and Senior Research Associate Andy Pronczuk at the school’s Foster Biomedical Research Laboratory, and Senior Scientist Daniel Perlman in the Physics Department have discovered a way to produce chips and other snack foods that can actually lower your cholesterol while you eat them – without having any impact on taste.
The Brandeis research team found that soybean-derived phytosterols (natural sterols that occur in plants) helped block cholesterol uptake (present in animal fat). When added to the cooking oil used to prepare snack chips and other foods, these natural sterols lowered LDL (the so-called “bad” cholesterol).
In a clinical study chronicled in the American Society for Nutritional Sciences’ Journal of Nutrition, the Hayes team followed 10 subjects who achieved a 15 percent decrease in their LDL cholesterol and a 10 percent drop in total cholesterol after eating two one-ounce servings of phytosterol-enriched tortilla chips each day over a four-week period. “If you have a really high cholesterol, LDL would likely decline even more,” Hayes said.
More on the story from Brandeis’ website and the AP wire
The significance of the Election
When I was in the car yesterday, I was listening to Brian Whitman, a self described “liberal” and a “Democrat who voted for John Kerry” (his words).
What he had to say, I thing should resonate among many. To paraphrase (from memory), he said something along the lines of:
“Yesterday’s Iraqi elections should be seen as a victory for the Iraqi people. It should be seen as a victory for freedom and liberty. They should be celebrated for what they signify…
Those on the left shouldn’t worry if the elections “validated President Bush’s policies” or improve his domestic stature…nor should they whine or carp about that…rather they should just be happy for the Iraqi people.”
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like many of the big names on the left have followed such advice. As Watcher points out in “Carnival of the PESTs“
He was for ‘em before he was against ‘em…redux!
A post election special from Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
“I think polls today are almost irrelevant, and I just don’t pay any attention to them.”
– Sen. John Kerry, on Meet the Press, noting the polls were wrong about his chances in the Democratic presidential primaries.
Of course, earlier in the interview Kerry used polls to prove the impact of the Osama bin Laden video released just days before the election. “I believe that 9/11 was the central deciding issue in this race. And the tape — we were rising in the polls up until the last day when the tape appeared. We flat-lined the day the tape appeared and went down on Monday. I think it had an impact.”
[h/t Political Wire]
Some people never change….