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You Eat A Lot of Refined Carbs


A Harvard Medical School study of otherwise healthy women found that those who ate the most high-glycemic carbs—the kind that the body rapidly breaks down into sugar, such as white bread, muffins, and cold breakfast cereal—had the highest CRP. Sugar raises levels of insulin, which can have a pro-inflammatory effect.

From the September 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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