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http://www.livestrong.com/article/38118-high-cholesterol-effects-eyes/

"Low vitamin D linked to heart disease, death"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/26/us-vitamind-heartdisease-idUSTRE7AO1UM20111126
""We expected to see that there was a relationship between heart disease and vitamin D deficiency; we were surprised at how strong it was," Dr. James L. Vacek, a professor of cardiology at the University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center, told Reuters Health. "It was so much more profound than we expected." ... After taking into account the patients' medical history, medications and other factors, the cardiologists found that people with deficient levels of vitamin D were more than twice as likely to have diabetes, 40 percent more likely to have high blood pressure and about 30 percent more likely to suffer from cardiomyopathy -- a diseased heart muscle -- as people without D deficiency."

http://www.livestrong.com/article/440011-can-low-potassium-cause-an-irregular-heartbeat/
"A potassium deficiency, or hypokalemia, is an electrolyte imbalance that may cause heart arrhythmias. ... Reviewing your dietary intake may reveal a potassium deficiency. Foods that contain high concentrations of potassium include all meats, fruits, vegetables, legumes and dairy products. High-sodium foods that lower potassium stores include processed, prepackaged foods such as soups, prepared pizza, Mexican food, frozen meals, sodas, potato chips and restaurant meals. ..."

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/NHC/irregular_heartbeat/cellular_solutions.htm
"Conventional medicine has invented its own diagnostic term to cover the fact that it does not know the origin of most arrhythmias. âoeParoxysmal arrhythmiaâ means nothing other than âoecauses unknown.â As a direct consequence, the therapeutic options of conventional medicine are confined to treating the symptoms of irregular heartbeat. Beta-blockers, calcium antagonists and other anti-arrhythmic drugs are given to patients in the hope that they will decrease the incidence of irregular heartbeat.
However, the most frequent known side effect of these drugs is an increased risk for new arrhythmias! Slow forms of arrhythmias with long pauses between heartbeats are dealt with by implanting a pacemaker. In other cases, heart muscle tissue that creates or conducts uncoordinated electrical impulses is cauterized (burned) and eliminated as a focus of the electrical disturbance in the heart muscle. Without an understanding of the primary cause of irregular heartbeat, the therapeutic approaches by conventional medicine are not specific and frequently fail.
Modern Cellular Medicine now provides the breakthrough in our understanding of the causes, prevention and adjunct treatnent of irregular heartbeat. The most frequent cause of irregular heartbeat is a chronic deficiency of vitamins and other essential nutrients in millions of âoeelectricalâ heart muscle cells that generate and conduct the electrical impulse responsible for a normal heartbeat. Long-term deficiencies of essential nutrients in these cells cause or aggravate disturbances in the creation or conduction of the electrical impulses and trigger arrhythmias. The primary method for preventing and correcting irregular heartbeat is an optimum supply of specific vitamins and other cellular nutrients.
Scientific research and clinical studies have already documented the value of magnesium, carnitine, coenzyme Q-10 and other important components of my Cellular Health recommendations in helping to normalize different forms of irregular heartbeat and improve the quality of life for patients.
A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study Confirms Vitamins and

And "vastly healthier" could be scientifically argued and proven wrong within the vegetarian community...not that you really need to when a simple visual comparison between the two groups is obvious enough.

Right, 'cause only meat causes obesity, and there's no such thing as a obese vegan... /sarcasm

Let's not split hairs here. Obesity is caused by overeating, regardless of what you eat. But the average carnivorous American who could give two shits about the crap they put into their body vs. a vegetarian or vegan, which most(all?) are usually very sensitive as to what goes into their bodies is certainly NOT equal by any stretch of the imagination.

And oddly enough, the latter study you cited came to the same conclusion, so I'm not exactly sure what you were trying to prove there.

And "vastly healthier" could be scientifically argued and proven wrong within the vegetarian community...not that you really need to when a simple visual comparison between the two groups is obvious enough.

Right, 'cause only meat causes obesity, and there's no such thing as a obese vegan...

/sarcasm

Please explain to me how you make a long thin stick that you throw at high velocities not deadly?

They are already pretty non-deadly as they are, as they make it impossible to aim at large distances and fly slow enough to give the victim possibility to dodge if aware of the spear. Surviving a hit is also quite possible.

Risks & Hazards Involved in Javelin Throwing:

Analysis by National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research of NCAA and high school injury data found that between 1990 and 2007, eight individuals were struck by a thrown javelin. There were no fatalities. The NCCSIR found that more serious injuries and the largest number of deaths in track and field are incurred during pole vaulting.

Of course that's just regular sport use, not actual abuse of the tool in armed rubbery and murder, but then I can't think of any cases when they where ever abused for any of the later. Care to provide some statistics?

actually the meals are fairly good, probably because a MRE meal has 1,250 calories, nearly 200 calories more than a McDonald's Big Mac Meal. Not hard to make something taste decent when you're shoving it full of calories.

That's why I try to do 15 to 45 burpees every hour. It's not easy but it is necessary and quite effective

Actually, yes. Your brain needs electrolytes to function properly. Doesn't mean you should eat more, but you might not be getting enough.

> But then again...I guess I can't put the blame on this guy....hey, they taste good.

They have 23 varieties of Doritos chips.

22 of the 23 are rich in Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). That's what makes them taste so good.

MSG is tasty. I don't think MSG is evil, however just like artificial sweeteners that trick our taste buds to thinking we are getting calories, MSG kind of tricks our taste sensors and making our bodies go yeah this is real hearty healthy food with protein and nutrition. Why? Because protein-rich foods are high in Glutamic acid, which provides the Umami flavor. And umami is nice. and MSG is just glutamic acid but with no inherent nutrition or protein.

so, we taste MSG and then we think, mmmmmm, body wants to hoard this (faux) nutrition.... I think I will have 7 pounds of these and just keep eating more and more and more.

Only the special variety that I've NEVER bought --- the one that is Kosher and Milk/Casein free and additive free... --- doesn't have MSG. You can identify that one on this page as the one with the all the icons indicating its specialness.

If i'm gonna have doritos, i want MSG and weird orange color.

But it's important to watch how much consumed in one sitting, because the MSG makes us want to keep eating them, and high amounts of carbs, fat, and salt aren't great for ya. For me, it's the carbs reduction that is helping me lose weight.

According to this site, 49 grams of doritos is 13 grams fat and 28 grams non-fiber carbs. And a 14.5 oz bag of chips is 411 grams.

So multiply by 8 and the bag is 104 grams fat and 224 grams carbs!!!

The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/12504-teen-pregnancy-rates-usa/#ixzz1Vr1hzt00

That's just ridiculous. The religious Republican nutbars need to get their act together and stop resisting the teaching sex ed in class and provide free birth control in high school to those who want it.

Well there's no need to guess from factors like "donut shops per capita".

http://thestatsblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/united-states-vs-canada-which-has-the-lower-obesity-rate/

The data, which was gathered between 2007 and 2009, reveals that approximately 24.1 percent of Canadians are obese compared to 34.4 percent of Americans.

So we have a 42% higher obesity rate.

As for smoking, I'm not sure where you got your stats. I did a quick search and found http://www.livestrong.com/article/258448-canada-smoking-vs-america-smoking/

In 2007, 18 percent of Canadian females and 20 percent of males reported smoking cigarettes. In the US, an estimated 18.3 percent of women and 23.1 percent of men smoke, based on 2008 statistics from The American Heart Association.

Maybe that's changed significantly in the last few years but that seems unlikely.

And there's more to health care costs than the efficiency of health care.

Yes: There's the fact that as a portion of health care dollars spent, the U.S. spends almost twice as much as Canada on administrative costs (28% vs. 16%, last time I checked).

Well... that would be included in what I called "efficiency of health care." More overhead = less efficient, but it's not the only factor in overall cost. In any case, dropping that 28% down to 16% to make it even with Canada would not account for the 45% cost difference you noted.

Also, claiming 28% of ALL health care dollars goes to administrative costs makes me really skeptical. Unless you're counting stuff like doctor salaries as administrative.

Hey, another person (and some moderators) who didn't watch the video and doesn't know what he's talking about.

You're wrong about orange juice too.

I wasn't pulling random numbers out of thin air.

I clearly remember the can containing more sugar, as described on the nutrition label. All my searching on the internet says otherwise. Perhaps I misinterpreted the numbers, but other people looked at the labels in disbelief, also, and changed their minds.

It was a late gaming night, so maybe we were all tired.

That being said, the emphasis of what I said is still correct: contain less sugar than a can of cola.

It's not surprising, when you think about it, but when you don't, you might end up assuming that a can of cola is mostly water, and that there isn't much sugar.

According to another search, 160 calories = 40 sugar grams = 1/3 of a cup. Apparently, I had a number in a wrong place, and then some. ;^P

Just did a quick search and it does appear that if, e.g., this is accurate, stressing bone causes them to increase in density.

Wearing a cellphone is restrictive on your range of movement, and you're more cautious about activities which could apply force to that area because you don't want to damage your expensive phone. Hence, the bone is less stressed, leading to less bone density.

Even if that isn't right, it still seems to me like the correct control for the experiment, if they want to say it's the radiation that's causing the bone loss, would be to have the control group wearing deactivated phones, not having them wearing no phone at all.

Doing a bit of quick research I found:

Considerations

Wheat Chex contain 5 g of sugar per serving, which is equivalent to about 1.2 tsp. The American Heart Association recommends consuming just 6 tsp. of added sugar daily if you are a woman and 9 if you are a man. The sugars in Wheat Chex come from sugar, which is the second ingredient, and molasses, which is the fourth ingredient. The wheat variety of Chex is not gluten-free. The corn, rice, honey-nut, chocolate and cinnamon versions are, however.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/277650-wheat-chex-cereal-nutrition-information/#ixzz13h64D000

here. That's 5g per 38g serving. I'd bet that a lot of people eating it because it's a "healthy option" put a bit of sugar on the top as well. Where I live we have cereals packed with sugar all the way over to cereals with plain old wheat and nothing added at all.

Of course, I don't believe that the US has no popular options for a plain, boring, tamper free cereal but you really do have to read the labels, whatever you buy.

Doing a bit of quick research I found:

Considerations

Wheat Chex contain 5 g of sugar per serving, which is equivalent to about 1.2 tsp. The American Heart Association recommends consuming just 6 tsp. of added sugar daily if you are a woman and 9 if you are a man. The sugars in Wheat Chex come from sugar, which is the second ingredient, and molasses, which is the fourth ingredient. The wheat variety of Chex is not gluten-free. The corn, rice, honey-nut, chocolate and cinnamon versions are, however.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/277650-wheat-chex-cereal-nutrition-information/#ixzz13h64D000

here. That's 5g per 38g serving. I'd bet that a lot of people eating it because it's a "healthy option" put a bit of sugar on the top as well. Where I live we have cereals packed with sugar all the way over to cereals with plain old wheat and nothing added at all.

Of course, I don't believe that the US has no popular options for a plain, boring, tamper free cereal but you really do have to read the labels, whatever you buy.

I use this site and it works wonders:

http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/users/myplate/

Go this page to calculate your calorie intake, and I chose Lightly Active, sounds like you should too.
http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/users/myinfo/

Then record everything you eat. Their food database is extensive. I also don't exercise, and sit on my ass doing computer work all day, and I lost 11 pounds using this site. met my goal.

I use this site and it works wonders:

http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/users/myplate/

Go this page to calculate your calorie intake, and I chose Lightly Active, sounds like you should too.
http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/users/myinfo/

Then record everything you eat. Their food database is extensive. I also don't exercise, and sit on my ass doing computer work all day, and I lost 11 pounds using this site. met my goal.