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From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosocomial_infection

"In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of microorganisms, including bacteria, combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year"

I worked for a newspaper in Texas, and the editors told us not to cover suicides.

I like http://longreads.com/ for my long articles. Right now, my favorite setup for reading long articles from the web is:

Nook Color + CM7.1 + InstaFetch Pro + Instapaper + Longreads.

The Longreads website integrates with instapaper, and the instafetch client will cache articles to the nook, so I don't have to be online to read. I haven't gotten around to playing with it, but I'm sure iPad + instapaper client would work well

There's this:

http://www.window.state.tx.us/border/ch09/cobalto.html

I think Verizon/Terremark has a leg up on Amazon on this one. They have some type of massive secure data center near DC for federal customer clouds.

And alone with the counterpoint:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/06/is_the_cult_of_self-e...

I, too, am at a high risk- I've seen members of my family slowly move from "abnormal fasting blood sugar" to "type 2 diabetic" over the span of a decade.

What I'm working on for myself is a set of scripts to take all the data I have about my diet and my blood glucose and making a chart of blood sugar fluctuation. Think fitday+ blood glucose readings + gnuplot. I'm using it to figure out what exactly is driving changes in BG levels.

I'm aiming for a chart like the one here: http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16422495.php

I think that there's a great amount of insight to be had if OP can aggregate a few thousand, or 10's of thousands users diet and blood sugar readings, specially when the users are at the cusp of "abnormal blood sugar" and "full blow diabetes".

Another longtime SDF user, sadly I haven't logged in in a while. It was my first contact with the BSDs and the korn shell.

Do rats eat fat in nature? I don't know anything about animal nutrition, but is this like feeding protein to say, rabbits, which are herbivores?

I wonder if diet plays a role. The only way you're getting 20 miles' worth of glycogen is from eating grains- which were domesticated just recently in human history. I'm not sure if that type of glycogen density was available before then. Maybe now we have the luxury of burning up 5kcals for a very long jog, but 100,000 years ago?

Damn, now I have MDFMK's "Torpedoes" stuck in my head.