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Fifteen years ago, my friends and I wanted to get involved in fantasy sports. We had heard of Rotisserie baseball, the game where you select major leaguers and use their statistics for your own fantasy team. Most of us preferred football over baseball, so we did a little research and decided to create a fantasy football league. Now, we're entering our 16th season, with 20 of the most rabid football nuts anywhere, competing for pride and a small monetary prize each year. We're not alone, of course. Over 15 million Americans play fantasy football, a game that uses the statistics of prof ... CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE
New research by a University of Minnesota professor and a graduate student shows that when highly unsaturated vegetable oils are heated at frying temperature (365 F) for extended periods–or even for half an hour–a highly toxic compound, HNE (4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal) forms in the oil. A. Saari Csallany, professor of food chemistry and nutritional biochemistry at U. of Minn. said “HNE is a well known, highly toxic compound that is easily absorbed from the diet. The toxicity arises because the compound is highly reactive with proteins, nucleic acids–DNA and RNA–and other biomolec ... CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE
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