On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:59:13PM -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Kragen Javier Sitaker [09/09/11 00:51 -0400]: > >A beans-and-rice diet is pretty healthy, and whatever its deficiencies might > >be, raising your cholesterol isn't among them! > > Brown rice certainly not. I was thinking of white "polished" rice
White rice is not known to be a risk factor for high cholesterol. > >>* The role of body cooling in causing the common cold is controversial.[17] > >>It is the most commonly offered folk explanation for the disease, and it has > > its not exposure to the cold as much as the temperature differences, and > the fact that rainwater comes with lots of atmospheric pollutants, cold > virii from other people's sneezes etc mixed in. I am even more skeptical about these theories. Do you have evidence? Kragen
