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It's not the product, is the producer. The perverse incentives in our meat and farming industries drive production of a vasty inferior product at an unsustainable price.
>"We've actually run out of antibiotics that really keep animals healthy," Price said. "We're finding strains of bacteria in animals that are resistant to so many antibiotics."
How about this novel solution: stop raising animals in a way that requires them to guzzle down tons of antibiotics in order to survive.
I love how this article fails to even mention the possibility that livestock animals do not need to ALWAYS BE SICK. Preposterous.
To be able to experience a new invention so far before everyone else on that planet is a special experience. At least, I'd see it that way were I in her friend's shoes.
Instead of simply opting out of the horrendous conditions you don't agree with, what about voting with your dollar to support the ethical alternatives?
You could argue that Flat UI's icons were derivative works taking inspiration from LayerVault, but they were certainly not direct copies.
google: "straw man fallacy", first result http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man:
>A straw man is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
My point in the above post was: Zuk is positioning herself as if she were attacking Paleo as a concept, but all she's really attacking is the mis-application of information by some members in a larger group. I call that a straw man.
If Zuk's point is that some people are applying evolutionary concepts blindly without verifying results or considering evidence, then her book title should have been: "Some People Are Stupid" and left it at that. If she wants to launch a counter to the paleo movement then I think she's fallen flat on her face.
So... couldn't we argue that LayerVault copied the design of actual clocks? Using your logic, the inventor of the wall clock would be just as justified sending LayerVault a take-down notice, right?
Along the the same lines as fumar's suggestions, I recommend:
1. Music from Braid (yes, the video game)
2. Black Swan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3. The Social Network Soundtrack
>We can manage the dangers of sugar toxicity pretty easily by exercising.
No, not really. Our bodies run on glucose yet our diets are rife with fructose which must be converted by our livers into a usable form. The metabolic pathway responsible for this conversion is a bottleneck and has nothing to do with how much exercise we get.
Sigh. No, according to this study, there is a stronger correlation between sugar and diabetes than between obesity and diabetes.
>Each 150 kilocalories/person/day increase in total calorie availability related to a 0.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence (not significant), whereas a 150 kilocalories/person/day rise in sugar availability (one 12-ounce can of soft drink) was associated with a 1.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence.
Much better! Lead with that next time, medical research reporter.
All in all, this seems like a pretty good study that controls for a lot of confounding variables that a lot of diet related studies completely neglect. I just wish the reporting here, and in general in all medical research reporting, wasn't so sloppy. The goal should be to spread awareness of new findings, not to spread misconceptions.
That sentence is of course followed by caveats about Python 3 support being experimental at this stage, but all-in-all I think this is a sign that we are finally at the tipping point for Python 3 to start gaining mainstream usage.
Thank you Django community for moving the ball forward for everyone.
Here is a very recent study and write up:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22825366
http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/glutenintolerance/a/Gluten...
And here is a well-cited summary of the facts:
Symptoms of gluten sensitivity may include bloating, abdominal discomfort, pain, or diarrhea; or it may present with a variety of extraintestinal symptoms including headaches and migraines, lethargy and tiredness, attention-deficit disorder and hyperactivity, autism and schizophrenia, muscular disturbances as well as bone and joint pain. [1][2][3][4]
Whilst the research surrounding gluten sensitivity is still very much emerging, coeliac disease is a well-defined condition. It is a lifelong autoimmune condition characterised by the chronic inflammation of the intestine... In comparison, in a recent clinical paper, gluten sensitivity was defined as ‘one or more of a variety of immunological, morphological or symptomatic manifestations that may also be shared by coeliac disease and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) [5]. In cases where there is reactivity to gluten, yet coeliac disease and wheat allergy are eliminated as possibilities, gluten sensitivity may be considered. Whilst the general clinical picture for gluten sensitivity is similar to coeliac disease in particular, it is usually less severe and neither anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies nor autoimmune comorbidities are found. It is believed that approximately 40-50% of gluten sensitivity patients may have IgG or IgA anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) [6][7]. There is also a study identifying approximately 50% of gluten sensitivity patients, few more than the general population, carry either HLA DQ 2 or 8 [8].
[1] Sapone A et al. Differential mucosal IL-17 expression in two gliadin-induced disorders: gluten sensitivity and the autoimmune enteropathy celiac disease. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology. 2010;152:75-80; Ford RP. The gluten syndrome. A neurological disease. Medical Hypotheses. 2009; 73 (3):438-440 [2] Elder JH et al. The gluten-free, casein-free diet in autism: results of a preliminary double-blind clinical trial. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2006;36(3):413-420 [3] Dickerson F et al. Markers of gluten sensitivity and celiac disease in recent onset psychosis and multi-episode schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 2010;68(1):100-104 [4] Hadjivassiliou M et al. Myopathy associated with gluten sensitivity. Muscle Nerve. 2007;35:443-450 [5] Verdu EF, Armstrong D, Murray JA. Between celiac disease and irritable bowel syndrome: The ‘No Man’s Land’ of Gluten Sensitivity. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2009;104(6):1587-1594 [6] Sapone A et al. (2010). Differential mucosal IL-17 expression in two gliadin-induced disorders: gluten sensitivity and the autoimmune enteropathy celiac disease. International Archives of Allergy & Immunology; 152: 75-80 [7] Bizzaro N et al. (2010) Cutting edge issues in celiac disease and in gluten intolerance. Clinical Reviews in Allergy & immunology. [8] Sapone A et al. (2010). Differential mucosal IL-17 expression in two gliadin-induced disorders: gluten sensitivity and the autoimmune enteropathy celiac disease. International Archives of Allergy & Immunology; 152: 75-80.
So, as you asked: Is it just recently that everyone that everyone started having these issues? No. The issues have been around for a long time. It's just recently that there was this possible explanation and remedy for these issues.
Many people who are not Celiacs experience deleterious effects as a result of gluten consumption none the less. It's called gluten intolerance.
Awareness of how gluten can be the underlying cause of many subtle and low-grade health problems has only begun to spread in the past few years.
Labeling the sudden realization that gluten is something that A LOT of people shouldn't be eating as "hypochondria and mass hysteria" is ingnorant.
Failure to distinguish between the two has created a lot of confusion around the subject. For instance: some people believe that it is black or white: a person is either a) a are celiac, or b) deluding themselves into following a fad diet.
This is not the case. A person can be gluten intolerant without necessarily experiencing auto-immune reactions to it. Many people see drastic health benefits by excluding gluten from their diets even though these people are not celiacs.
Aside from the anecdotal evidence I, as a non-celiac, could offer about how life changing it was for me personally to cut out gluten about two years ago, here's a recent study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22825366
and write up:
http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/glutenintolerance/a/Gluten...
I believe most of the strains of wheat grown in the US are potentially more harmful to our digestive systems than elsewhere.
I've heard the US stains are genetically modified to be more resistant to pesticides and that this resistance comes with other deleterious effects. This last part, is a questionable claim that I have no support for and remain skeptical of.
No.
I understand what you're trying to convey but calling coffee before lunch a placebo is definitely going too far.
It's true that caffeine binds to adenosine, but 1) there is always a non-trivial baseline of adenosine in your system (and for many, morning adenosine levels are high in spite of having just slept) and 2) there is more than just caffeine in coffee.
If so, wouldn't those treated by this gene therapy still suffer a persistent hormone imbalance? Hormones are complicated. Insulin (and the lack thereof) is tied in up-down regulation of lots of other hormones. Glucagon, for one, would always be higher in your body meaning you'd be prone to break down your body's fat stores. While that might actually be a positive side effect, I wouldn't be surprised if there were many negative side effects too.
Still, the side effects from this hypothetical hormone imbalance is very likely a huge improvement over constantly having advanced glycation end-products slowly destroying your body (which is what slowly happens to us type 1 diabetics).
From: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hz/correspondence_bias/
Also, this:
We tend to see far too direct a correspondence between others' actions and personalities. When we see someone else kick a vending machine for no visible reason, we assume they are "an angry person". But when you yourself kick the vending machine, it's because the bus was late, the train was early, your report is overdue, and now the damned vending machine has eaten your lunch money for the second day in a row. Surely, you think to yourself, anyone would kick the vending machine, in that situation.
>I opened a new company and I'm trying to build some software that hasn't been built before and hired a co-CTO to help me with my duties.
to mean you hired a co-CTO at the new company. Now it makes more sense, sorry for the confusion.
Instead of starting a new company could you transition into a new role in your first company that lets you do more coding and building? There may be more to the story than you've said; but from what you've given me to go on, starting a new company without first resolving things at the first seems like a irresponsible and selfish move.