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Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction
WrongSizeGlass writes "A new study in rats suggests that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain in much the same way as cocaine and heroin. The rats that gorged themselves on the human food quickly became obese."
not the same thing. drug addicts are usually slender.
fat people are all ugly all the time.
Sugar was never banned. The only reason that it is not used in the US as in other countries is that the US simply grows so much corn, HFCS is the cheaper option. Now, it is true that this bounty of corn is due to government subsidies, and it may be preferable to end them so that sugar is economical, but there is no ban on using sugar. You can even buy drinks like Coke with real sugar in select US markets.
Until science offers a completely predictive model of behavior and thoughts, it would be premature to assume that a soul (in the classical definition) does or doesn't exist.
Wow. Just... wow. This is a pathetically stupid prerequisite. It's like saying that until quantum mechanics offers a completely predictive model of electron transitions in an atom (which, thanks to Heisenberg, we know it can't), it would be premature to assume that angels aren't pushing the electrons about.
Failure of exact prediction is not necessarily a flaw in a theory. In fact, a theory's main contribution is not always via a prediction, but as a framework to narrow down the factors that could be influencing an outcome. Right now, it appears as if modern neural science provides a clean mechanism using only the action of biochemical processes to explain thought and behavior. We have enough experimental data (chopping out parts of brains, etc.) that tells us that we don't need a "soul" to explain this stuff.
Getting back to the topic, given the large number of neurons involved and the analog nature of their operation, it's quite likely that any prediction will be probabilistic in nature and you will never have a "completely predictive" model of behavior and thoughts, but that's not a flaw - do you think that God is still involved because we don't have a "completely predictive" model of biological evolution? Oh yeah, you were prattling on about the "soul" - of course you do.
That is all.
The problem is that unhealthy citizens cost money to society.
So do unproductive ones, but liberals don't seem to mind subsidizing them in exchange for votes.....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Alaska? Nevada? Montana?
You mean, places that generally receive more Federal money than they pay? (As opposed to places like New York that pay more in Federal taxes than they get back?) Your recipe for "freedom" is to be a ward of the Federal government?
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