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2016-04-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Here's the 700-calorie breakfast you should eat if you want to live forever, according to futurist Ray Kurzweil

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Posted by gorb 2016-04-20 15:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If not forever, it'll sure as hell seem like forever.

Posted by Shipman 2016-04-20 17:48|| 2016-04-20 17:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Stupid. Nobody lives forever. Trying hard to deny mortality, and avoid the inevitable accounting with your Maker.

Posted by Neville Grundy8030 2016-04-20 18:03|| 2016-04-20 18:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Kurzweil was born in 1948.

He once predicted that we would have a voice activated typewriter by 1985. His other predictions, where achieved, have come5 to 15 years later than he estimated them.

Posted by lord garth 2016-04-20 18:04|| 2016-04-20 18:04|| Front Page Top

#4 FUD in the article: "While it's sugar- and calorie-free, we still don't have enough research to say whether stevia (or calorie-free sugar replacements, like Splenda or Sweet-and-Low), is completely safe to eat."

Perfect shill for the big chemical companies' artificial sweeteners. And completely false.

It has been in use as a sweetener for decades in Japan. And the FDA has done studies and approves it as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe).

Then there's this: The plant Stevia rebaudiana has been used for more than 1,500 years by the Guaraní peoples of South America, who called it ka'a he'ê ("sweet herb").[10] The leaves have been used traditionally for hundreds of years in both Brazil and Paraguay to sweeten local teas and medicines, and as a "sweet treat"

(citations on Wikipedia, inclduing mutiple studies debunking the statement in the article)

Posted by Ebbaiter Snereck5501 2016-04-20 18:12|| 2016-04-20 18:12|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll stick to cereal and bacon, eggs and potatoes on the weekends.

I'm 43 and can still out hump (hike with a 120 lbs kit for you civies) a 24 year old that is with the water rescue division over 15 miles of mountain terrain.

Still infantry as fuck.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-04-20 18:18|| 2016-04-20 18:18|| Front Page Top

#6 He doesn't say a fucking thing about exercise?

Posted by Raj 2016-04-20 18:21|| 2016-04-20 18:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Eating all of that would be exercise.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-20 18:49|| 2016-04-20 18:49|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 He doesn't say a fucking thing about exercise?
Posted by Raj

well, beyond leaping logic and jumping to conclusions? No

Posted by Frank G 2016-04-20 19:23|| 2016-04-20 19:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Where the beef?

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-04-20 20:47|| 2016-04-20 20:47|| Front Page Top

#10 250 pills a day? He must have rattled.

Posted by james 2016-04-20 22:07|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2016-04-20 22:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Drop the soy milk and stevia, put half a bagel under the salmon, add some cream cheese and a few capers, and it sounds good to me. I'd put a dash of maple syrup on the ~~porridge~~ oatmeal, though.

Another good way to eat oatmeal - the scottish way - is to have a small cup of cream. Dip a spoonful of porridge in the cream.

Kruzweil's a big eater compared to me. Two eggs with cheese, bacon, coffee, no toast. On Sunday, I eat like he does. Still, he's pretty skinny. Must worry a lot.

"His other predictions, where achieved, have come 5 to 15 years later than he estimated them."

One prediction he's making is likely to go the other way in compensation.

Posted by KBK 2016-04-20 22:51|| 2016-04-20 22:51|| Front Page Top

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