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

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