Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections

LinuxGeek8 writes "There's a news update on a previous article about the first case of antibiotic resistant staph infections. The woman who has the infection is being kept up to 6 months in an isolation room. She is taking an antibiotic that is working, after many others did not. "In the scheme of public health threats, this has to rank close to the top," David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, said of antibiotic resistance."

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[Jace of Fuse!]

One slice of roast beef fits in my hand, as does 50.

hah hah. I said the same thing, but I was actually being serious when I said the palm of your hand.

A slice of roast beef, if balled up, might just fit in your hand perfectly if you clasp your fingers around it. Maybe two slices. It's going to be different slightly for everybody, and it's hardly scientific to use "the palm of your hand" as a way to gauge how much you should eat.

The reason I've been told the palm of your hand is a good rule of thumb, though is because a "handful" of meat, the size of "your hand" is a close aproximation of about how much meat someone your size should probably be eating.

I know it sounds silly, but believe me, if I were to say you shouldn't have any more than 2 ounces of meat a day, someone could turn around and say "But I'm 6'5" and 270 lbs of hulking mass." If that's the case, that person's palm is probably also about 6 inches wide, and he very easily might need more than a couple of ounces.

Of course, I'm not a nutritionist myself, I just have the rather unpleasant curse of knowing a few, so I can't lay out a proper diet plan for you. But I can tell you it seems to be pretty much agreed upon by those who should know that you really, truely, honestly, do not need to be eating very much meat.

This is of course not the same as saying "Don't eat meat." Do not confuse the two statements. Apparently, protein is NOT the only important thing you get from meat.