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so a productive approach may be to find what it is that is causing people's bodies to fail to continue to detect and correct cancers in the body. Unfortunately, that has more to do with diet than drugs and so there isn't a strong profit motive to take that vector seriously.

There is plenty of research trying to determine why a person doesn't see the cancer, and plenty of research to train the immune system on how to fight the cancer.
See: http://www.mayo.edu/research/discoverys-edge/training-immune-system-fight-cancer
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029442.800-cancer-meets-its-nemesis-in-reprogrammed-blood-cells.html

Diet has an effect on cancer but it's not how you state it. Drugs are all very powerful ally in the fight against cancer.

See also:
    http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/levine_lab/
    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/71000.php

We set up two of treadmill workstations for our home offices (Horizon T95). We run them at 0.5 mile per hour to 1.0 mph. I can walk for hours while surfing the web or typing emails. Programming is a little harder while walking though, depending on the programming task. The doctor (James Levine) who made some of the first workstation presumably is just doing reading and text writing with it.

We set up a shelf on a wall above the treadmill for multiple LCD monitors. We switched to trackballs. We use a one inch square cross-section yard stick across the treadmill handles to support a board attached to the treadmill by two U-shaped brackets. The only big problem is the optical encoder on my T95 is making noise, and while I keep fixing it by hand, a complex plastic part is just warped and needs to be replaced (which means either finding the warranty paperwork, or buying a 3D printer and laser scanner. :-) The other treadmill has not had that problem -- I think one of them was just made slightly different so it is more sensitive to a plastic bracket drooping a little over time.

Anyway, it really works. We bought tall stools, so we can alternate sitting, standing, and walking. The main idea is that walking is better than standing for the legs and knees, because the knee and leg is adapted more for continuous movement than for supporting weight in one place. Still, either standing for a long time or walking a little unnaturally on a treadmill can be hard on the knees, especially if they are weak already for some reason. Supposedly the treadmill platform is designed with different zones for landing and walking, but with a keyboard, you are shifted a little back on it, so possibly the zones don't work out as well. For some people, it may make a difference in comfort if you walk barefoot, in slippers, or in shoes. Also, stepping on and off a treadmill can be a hazard, especially if you have a dog in the way. :-) Integrated office designs can have drop floors that put the treadmill at floor height, not elevated.

We have had a couple wired headsets broken though, from stepping on the cable while walking. Wireless headsets is probably a better idea as far as that goes.

I think using a treadmill while at the computer has helped me lose weight, have more stamina, and have better posture. So, overall, a big win. It's nice to look down at the console after doing a long task and realize you have walked a mile or two.

Still, a lot of people get hurt lugging 250 pound treadmills up stairs, so best to keep it on a first floor or a place with elevators -- which can limit placement of a home office.

We have set up two workstations with treadmills, inspired by Dr. James A. Levine's work at the Mayo clinic:
        http://www.mayoclinic.org/endocrinology-rst/112066 08.html
        http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/levine_ lab/
        http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-06-07-offic e-fit_x.htm?csp=34
Each has three LCD monitors on a shelf on the wall in front of the treadmill.

One big issue is we had to rearrange our house to have the heavy (~250lb) treadmills on the ground floor -- both to not carry them up the stairs and also for concerns about noise.

Your comment and the parent were interesting to me.

We are setting up workstations with treadmills, inspired by Dr. James A. Levine's work at the Mayo clinic:
    http://www.mayoclinic.org/endocrinology-rst/112066 08.html
    http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/levine_ lab/
    http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-06-07-offic e-fit_x.htm?csp=34

While we had a custom tray made for a treadmill by a generous neighbor a couple days ago, on reading your comment I do now realize it is a bit low and I am hunching to use the keyboard and mouse on it. So a few boxes to prop up the keyboard and mouse pad added just now and it feels better.

As the parent post to yours suggests, having multiple monitors also helps, and I have three in this setup, and it is nice to switch between them for moving around the neck and so on.

Anyway, the treadmill may be nice, but for the week or so that I was standing just with a drafting desk moved to standing height with three LCD monitors, I felt a big improvement. We also had tall chairs for variety, and also a floor rest for alternating resting feet while standing. The more you can keep moving in various ways and vary your body position while working for a long time, the better. The treadmill is mostly geared towards weight loss in my case. :-)

And I am typing this going half a mile an hour on the treadmill, having just walked about a mile during the two hours I have been web surfing (including reading this slashdot article and replying to this).

Well, except for hopping off the treadmill to give a treat to our two dogs. :-) We work at home, so dogs and workstation customizations are more possible here. Could ergonomics be a push for more home offices?

Here's my source, and I was wrong. It's not 80%, but 96%.

Thursday, September 09, 1999
Mayo Clinic Study Implicates Fungus as Cause of Chronic Sinusitis

"Fungus allergy was thought to be involved in less than ten percent of cases," says Dr. Sherris. "Our studies indicate that, in fact, fungus is likely the cause of nearly all of these problems. And it is not an allergic reaction, but an immune reaction."

The researchers studied 210 patients with chronic sinusitis. Using new methods of collecting and testing mucus from the nose, they discovered fungus in 96 percent of the patients' mucus. They identified a total of 40 different kinds of fungi in these patients, with an average of 2.7 kinds per patient.

The above is just a snippet from here:
http://www.mayo.edu/comm/mcr/news_773.html

The twin cities probably distort the overall picture for the state. You'd probably see the same for Missouri and Kansas if you removed Kansas City and St. Louis from consideration.
I would generally agree with you. Each of these states has a top 50 city, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Wichita, Kansas. The two largest privately held companies in the U.S. are located in MN (Cargill) and KS (Koch) with revenues of $48B and $40B respectively. However, ...

The twin cities probably distort the overall picture
Hormel has its headquarters and R&D in Austin, Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic is headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota, Cargill started in Austin, Minnesota and is headquartered in Minnesota, etc. Of course, Minnesota has large companies in the twin cities (e.g. 3M is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.)

see the same for ... Kansas if you removed Kansas City
The largest city in Kansas is Wichita (not Kansas City). The aircraft industry in Wichita (e.g. Boeing, Raytheon (Beech), Cessna & Learjet) is a big employer in Wichita and Koch is headquartered there.

My guess is that the rural areas in MN and KS are seeing a population decline; I am too lazy to actually check. Other than "spillover" from large urban areas (e.g. Las Vegas), I suspect rural areas are losing population all over the U.S.; does anyone know if this is true in upstate NY?

pyxis
Dr. Plummer
Facts

can you tell i was thinking orkut with my links?

A doctor from 500 years ago describes them, some interesting stuff amongst the debatable collection here and an account from 1706 of Alpine dragons.

That should get y'all started. There's too much out there, consistently presented as factual down through the ages, to be all phantasm. Stuff like the dragons on the walls of Babylon alongside and not differentiated from the ordinary animals (lions etc) alongside them.

Walford has been researching and writing up his results with mice for years. His retort to fad discoveries is to "show me your old mouse".

Recently, an article appeared describing how he' subjecting himself to his own regimen of reduced caloric intake to improve longevity.

He admits it's difficult for people to restrain their diets, but he believes it's necessary if you want to live to be 120 years old.

In addition to quantity, there's the whole issue of diet composition, which is the second part of Calorie Restriction Optimum Nutrition.

The USDA food pyramid is an improvement over the basic 4 food groups I learned when I was young, but it's still been criticized, there are serious profits in making up our current set of foodstuffs.

But others have suggested alternatives that place the carbohydrate group as a smaller portion and put fruits and vegetables as the pyramid base.

The latter would be much more consistent with a hunter gatherer diet that predates agriculture and, IMHO, probably is more closely aligned with the way our bodies were meant to digest food. Our bodies have only recently begun to adapt to the advent of agriculture adn they certainly haven't adapted yet to modern high sugar diets (witness especially the incidence of diabetes among ethnic groups with less exposure to agriculture).

Oh well, soon enough we'll re-engineer ourselves to take power from whatever is highest energy density. Maybe nitromethane:)

rochester realy isnt the happening place for younger folks but if you realy need a job bad this is a great place to start, it will look good on a resume... and rochester has been ranked the #1 city to live in a couple times in recent years

Considering that the invasion of Iraq is estimated to cost $200 billion, I'd say $50 billion over a few decades is a bargain. You never know what good will come of research. People were screaming (and still are) bloody murder about AIDS research. Now it looks like a cure for parkinson's will use the HIV virus as a delivery mechanism for gene therapy.

You don't know what you'll find if you don't go.

Cat
"It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross... But it's not for the timid." -- Q

is this how they are going to arive at peoples buisness?

I'm orginally for Minnesota (first 18 years of my life) and lived in a small town of 2000 about 13 miles north of Rochester. Rochester is not a big city either (approx. 75,000) but it is quite hi-tech in its public library and Mayo Clinic.

In my hometown my parents have a DSL Internet connection offered by our local Phone and Cable Co. (one building off of Main St.) They also have digital cable (the only type of cable offered now after a switch last year). My father is employed by IBM as are many people in the Rochester, MN area.

The Mayo Clinic is also a very hi-tech organization that is constantly developing new medical technologies and software which helps them remain the world's best medical facility. (Why do you think Rochester, MN was voted the best place to live in America four times? Simple - more doctors per capida than anywhere else....plus fairly low crime and pollution.)

In the winter, I live in Minne-snow-ta

"correcting" TLD's to have true classifications is a Bad Thing ®. IMO, it will create more problems than it fixes. Was Andover.net really a network provider? Slashdot probably doesn't make any profit, so couldn't they technically remain a .org, and if not for that reason, be grandfathered because the original intent was nonprofit?

As far as I'm concerned, there should be dozens of generic TLD's with no REAL classification, and just a handful that are actually meaningful -- .edu and .sex (or .xxx) come to mind right away for me.

Furthermore, to make these rules even handed, wouldn't this also mean that .edu's would be ineligible to register other TLD's?

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