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2016-01-25 Science & Technology

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Posted by Bobby 2016-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Looks like the science of nutrition / health is not only not "settled", it's not even "science".

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-01-25 01:08|| 2016-01-25 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Science is dying.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-25 03:06|| 2016-01-25 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I call it the Big Government Diet. As you might expect, it leads to weight gain, heart disease and other "unexpected" benefits.

Posted by Iblis 2016-01-25 03:57|| 2016-01-25 03:57|| Front Page Top

#4 This subject is near and dear to my heart.

Almost all the pro carb, pro vegetable oil studies were funded by the big food companies. Big pharma benefits from all the chronic ailments caused by these foods and the drugs they sell to fix the symptoms. Win win for both.

I recommend:

Why we get fat and What to do about it by Gary Taubes. All about insulin and its effects.

Bullet Proof Diet by Dave Asprey. Where to get the best fats.

And getting off yer a$$ and get moving around.

Ive lost 65 lbs and my blood works went from bad to "perfect" according to my doctor.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-01-25 05:12|| 2016-01-25 05:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Big pharma benefits from all the chronic ailments caused by these foods and the drugs they sell to fix the symptoms. Win win for both.

And when the proles begin to learn about the bad effects, we'll simply provide them the food at no charge and spread the health costs around on everyone else through some form of national health insurance.

Oh I know, it will never happen.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-01-25 06:39|| 2016-01-25 06:39|| Front Page Top

#6 The extortion funded sector does lysenkoism, not science.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-01-25 07:55|| 2016-01-25 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey, Brer you Da man!!.

Problem is once stuck with a label it always remains. DX Diabetes for example. Smokers who haven't smoked in twenty years are told your medical problem is because you had smoked.

I say again some of the oldest people were and are smokers. Government at work here*. Perhaps politicians looking for the big score. Oral and lung cancers among people who never smoked or chewed tobacco products. I remember a wealthy young man with a wife and two small children. Went for his yearly complete medical exam. An X ray of his lungs destroyed much of the tissue for gas exchange. Poor man on oxygen 24 hours a day. He died. I have seen high altitude pilots have destroyed lung tissue being on 100% oxygen. So as my Dad would have said, all in moderation. Ah but genetics, now there's the rub.

* Government authorized and required chemicals that are known hazardous to health in drinking water. Think of it, aerosol breathing treatment with every shower.

Posted by Dale 2016-01-25 08:04|| 2016-01-25 08:04|| Front Page Top

#8 While doing a little refresher on Lysenko, I stumbled across this gem from two years ago - Forbes article.

I just had to share this part: Despite claims by global warming Lysenkoists that soon children “won’t know what snow is,” on February 6, 2010, a blizzard covered the northeastern U.S. with 20 to 35 inches of snow. Three days later another 10 to 20 inches were added.

I was in Northern Virginia for that one, but enjoyed 60 degrees yesterday in North Texas.

And this reminder - Lysenkoism was “politically correct” (a term invented by Lenin) because it was consistent with certain broader Marxist doctrines.

Posted by Bobby 2016-01-25 08:28|| 2016-01-25 08:28|| Front Page Top

#9 And yet the census date shows more and more people living longer. They're all not tethered to life sustaining machines.

The normal for thousands of years was famine and hunger. That has largely been vanquished. We don't know what 'normal' is and are engaged in defining what it 'should' be.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-25 09:15|| 2016-01-25 09:15|| Front Page Top

#10 The food pyramid with all the grains that went with it did a lot of damage to Americans and it was based entirely on electoral votes in farm country rather than science.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-01-25 11:15|| 2016-01-25 11:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Well said BrerRabbit - in my opinion big pharma should fund obamas healthcare conundrum seeing as they caused, with federal backing , the long term chronic health issues like obesity or diabetes . They sold it to a trusting , gullible public .

Posted by MacNails jnr 2016-01-25 14:15|| 2016-01-25 14:15|| Front Page Top

#12 So did the USDA, whose policies are effectively dictated by the processed food industry. Big Pharma just helpfully supplies "solutions" to problems created by Big Food. It's all a giant circle jerk, that relies on keeping Americans fat, sick, and dependent on government. The whole fraud would collapse if everyone was healthy.

Posted by RandomJD 2016-01-25 16:35|| 2016-01-25 16:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Living longer but the ones I see are looking like they should have died years ago.

Posted by Dale 2016-01-25 18:26|| 2016-01-25 18:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Uh, uh, SOLYENT EGGS???

Iff future Astronauts, Etal. have to recycle their natural bodily wastes for food-n-water, etc. in order to survive deep space travel, or make the Kessel Run in 14 = 12 Parsecs like Hans Solo + Chewy in the "Millenium Falcon", WELL D *** NG IT SO CAN THE NON-SPACE-TRAVELING, STAY-AT-HOME HOME FOLKS BACK ON TERRA GAIA!?

SOLYENT IS GOD!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-01-25 23:08|| 2016-01-25 23:08|| Front Page Top

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