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Scientific Battlegrounds in Diets

There's an interesting article currently carried by the NYTimes (free reg. yada yada) that talks about the world of dieting, National Institutes of Health, Atkins as well as low-carb vs low-fat. The interesting thing, from a scientific perspective, is the sheer lack of study - and the reticence from the scientific community to question the party line.

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  1. Re:Are Apple's OS X updates poisoned? by Gumber · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Besides being completely off topic, this has nothing to do with a BSD kernel vulnerability. How, exactly, a BSD kernel vulnerability would be very important to the linux community is behind me, other than issues of sympathy.

  2. Non-creative activities by Voltronalpha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Videogames for the most part are about reward for effort and penalty for failure. If you do anything on that bias you might find yourself being less creative, and thus dropping the activity in that part of the brain, I'm an artist and an avid gamer this irreversible line is a bunch of hooey.

    When was the last timne a clinical study aimed to prove something was bad or good failed at doing so.

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  3. Dilbert by skydude_20 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My way to trim the pounds: Still pumped from using the mouse

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