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An Italian study found that people who ate five or more slices of bread a day, or 35 per week, were twice as likely to develop Renal Cell Carcinoma, a leading cause of kidney cancer, as those who ate bread only half as often, or less. The scientists behind the study felt that an increase in blood glucose levels might be a factor in the increased cancer risk. High GI foods are usually things that are highly processed with a lot of sugar or contain a lot of refined white flour. Some sources are saying that the study linked eating white bread with cancer because of this GI link, but "the study did not specify what type of bread [participants] ate," so statements of that sort are just speculation. The study did not actually "establish exactly what in bread may be to blame."

Besides, it seems that a significant portion of the food-related media tries to convince us that in Italy everyone only eats the best bread from their local bakeries, not processed white bread. If the results of the study turned out to be a result of eating three loaves of Wonder Bread each week it might make sense, but baguettes?

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Four Italians, all instructors at a survival school, were used to dealing with harsh conditions. Among the other survival skills they had, they even had a lot of practice at building igloos, just in case they were ever stranded in the mountains and needed to stay warm to stay alive. Despite all their varied experiences, however, they weren't quite prepared to embark on their most recent challenge: building an igloo out of chocolate.

The dark chocolate structure was built for the Eurochocolate Fair in Perugia, weighs nearly 8,000-lbs and stands about 54-ft high. A regular igloo takes about 3 hours to complete, but the chocolate one took 23 hours due to the challenges posed by the material, which could both melt and crumble during construction. One of the builders said that it was "much more difficult than building a normal snow igloo," although the working environment in an air-conditioned room was probably a little more plesant than a snowy mountaintop.

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More Italians felt guilt about over-eating than they did about being untrue to their partners, according to the results of a study recently published in Riza Psicosomatica, an Italian psychology magazine. The roughly 1,000 Italians surveyed, ages 25 to 55, viewed sexual infidelity as a less serious offense than things like over-spending, neglecting friends and family, failing at work and, of course, over-eating. Many said that religion played little or no part in their decision-making.

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