Article: Drowning death of Madoff-crony who funded research validating raw foods diet

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Drowning death of Madoff-crony who funded research validating raw

foods diet

 

October 25, 6:18 PM

Judy Pokras, West Palm Beach Raw Food Examiner

 

The raw foods diet is in the news in a big way today with the

discovery this afternoon of the body of Jeffry Picower at the bottom

of his Palm Beach, Florida swimming pool. He was one of the largest

investors in Bernard Madoff's 65 billion dollar Ponzi scheme.

Picower's foundation, The Picower Institute, funded a study

(http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v52/n6/abs/ki1997497a.html

) that in 1992 showed that many forms of cooked food cause aging and

chronic disease in the people who eat them.

 

The Picower Study's results were first announced in mainstream media

in 1992 on ABC TV's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. The study

focused on the effects that eating fried, baked and grilled food have

on people with diabetes, in whom the cooked food causes aging and

chronic disease through a caramelization-like process. About 10 years

later, the Picower Study's validation of the raw foods diet was

broadened by a Swedish Institute study

(http://journals.sfu.ca/coaction/index.php/fnr/article/viewArticle/1456

) that showed that heating food above certain temperatures (via common

forms of cooking) produces carcinogenic chemicals called acrylamides

in all people who eat those foods, not only diabetics.

 

Full story:

http://www.examiner.com/x-24342-West-Palm-Beach-Raw-Food-

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validating-raw-foods-diet

 

 

 

 

 

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Jeff Rogers <jeffwrote:

 

>

>

> [From Judy Pokras, member of this list!]

>

> Drowning death of Madoff-crony who funded research validating raw

> foods diet

>

> October 25, 6:18 PM

> Judy Pokras, West Palm Beach Raw Food Examiner

>

> The raw foods diet is in the news in a big way today with the

> discovery this afternoon of the body of Jeffry Picower at the bottom

> of his Palm Beach, Florida swimming pool. He was one of the largest

> investors in Bernard Madoff's 65 billion dollar Ponzi scheme.

> Picower's foundation, The Picower Institute, funded a study (

> http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v52/n6/abs/ki1997497a.html

> ) that in 1992 showed that many forms of cooked food cause aging and

> chronic disease in the people who eat them.

>

> The Picower Study's results were first announced in mainstream media

> in 1992 on ABC TV's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. The study

> focused on the effects that eating fried, baked and grilled food have

> on people with diabetes, in whom the cooked food causes aging and

> chronic disease through a caramelization-like process. About 10 years

> later, the Picower Study's validation of the raw foods diet was

> broadened by a Swedish Institute study (

> http://journals.sfu.ca/coaction/index.php/fnr/article/viewArticle/1456

> ) that showed that heating food above certain temperatures (via common

> forms of cooking) produces carcinogenic chemicals called acrylamides

> in all people who eat those foods, not only diabetics.

>

> Full story:

> http://www.examiner.com/x-24342-West-Palm-Beach-Raw-Food-

> Examiner~y2009m10d25-Drowning-death-of-Madoffcrony-who-funded-research-

> validating-raw-foods-diet

>

>