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PC World is reporting that some companies are looking at a new method of fire protection in their server closets, oxygen-deprivation systems.""Wood stops burning when the oxygen content falls to 17 percent and plastic cables between 16 to 17 percent, said Frank Eickhorn, product manager for fire detection at Wagner Alarm and Security Systems GmbH in Hanover, Germany. Wagner makes electric compressors that use a special membrane to remove some of the oxygen from the outside air, a system the company calls OxyReduct. The excess oxygen is exhausted, and the remaining nitrogen-rich air is pumped inside the data center."
If you're serious about coming up with a good diet, check out "Healing with Whole Foods" by Paul Pitchford. The Atkins diet is a load of crap.
A lot of people have said that the Atkins diet is a load of crap, but there are two problems with that. 1) Most of them have no fucking idea what they're talking about. 2) Of those that do know what they're talking about, more and more of them are accepting the Atkins diet's validity.
By the way, saying that the Atkins diet is a fraud and then suggesting a book with a super-hippie title does not buy you any credibility. And I'm a semi-hippie myself, having been born in Santa Cruz and currently paired up with a hippiechick.
If you have specific objections to the Atkins diet, feel free to raise them. Otherwise, please go drown in a bathtub.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Or you could go on a real diet that involves cutting down on unhealthy fats instead of the carbohydrates your body (especially your brain) need in order to function. You know, a diet that has actually been recommended by actual medical professionals, not by some fat ass who died of a heart attack while morbidly obese (and yes, I know Atkins was in a coma before he died, but he still was overweight when he went in the coma).
Also weights won't help you loose that much weight, as you don't burn that many calories that way (according to this chart, it burns about as many calories as playing golf). Unfortunate as it may be for someone with asthma, you really need the aerobic workout. Though I would think a professional trainer at a gym or someplace might know how to work around the asthma.
Or you could do what I do and just get something you can work out on in the privacy of your own home. Then you can pant and wheeze all you want without worrying about other people giving you weird looks (though in your case you might want an inhaler within reach).
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
Your body and brain do not need carbohydrates. In fact your brain actually runs more efficiently on ketones than on glucose.
You neglect to mention that Atkins actually had a congenital heart defect which never troubled him all his life, and died because he slipped on some ice.
You also cannot cite any source for information saying that he was obese at the time of his fall; his family claims that fluid built up in his body during his coma. As we do not have access to his full medical records, this will be difficult to prove. If you can come up with a source that can positively confirm Dr. Atkins' weight at the time of his accident, then you will have something here. But you don't.
But muscle burns fat while you're just sitting around, because it requires more energy just for upkeep.
If it were that simple, then everyone would do it. It isn't. Medication has been helpful in controlling my asthma but it doesn't cure it. A Canadian university has successfully cured asthma in mice using gene therapy; I'm hoping for that treatment to make it to humans sometime within my lifetime, but I'm not holding my breath (ha ha.)
Yes, I intend to get some free weights for my home. Thanks.
If you actually have an objection to make about Atkins that is based in fact, I'm interested. But so far I haven't seen one not debunked by modern medical science.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The whole foods diet you recommend will kill most diabetics...
It would also kill most critically ill patients who have to be fed through a tube. And probably people who are allergic to the food. And probably 1-day old babies.
What's your point? The diet is not FOR any of these people. People who have special medical conditions should consult a nutritionist. Period. Full stop.
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