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Poor Diet Is a Factor In One In Five Deaths, Global Disease Study Reveals (theguardian.com)
schwit1 shares a report from The Guardian: Millions of people are eating the wrong sorts of food for good health. Eating a diet that is low in whole grains, fruit, nuts and seeds and fish oils and high in salt raises the risk of an early death, according to the huge and ongoing study Global Burden of Disease. The study, based at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, compiles data from every country in the world and makes informed estimates where there are gaps. Five papers on life expectancy and the causes and risk factors of death and ill health have been published by the Lancet medical journal. Diet is the second highest risk factor for early death after smoking. Other high risks are high blood glucose which can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, high body mass index (BMI) which is a measure of obesity, and high total cholesterol. All of these can be related to eating the wrong foods, although there are also other causes.
did it really take a study and five papers to tell us that eating garbage food is bad for us?
Grains are bain ... nuts feed putz; soy-paloi. Bitch-slap progressives, eat cow ... it's the American thing to do. Eating pussy is soooooooo French-i-fied.
that's why i carefully slide in a glow stick into my ass right before i eat.
then after i have finished eating, i pull out the glow stick and suck it dry
The real question should be, why do Western nations keep encouraging and supporting third world reproduction, especially in regions where there aren't enough resources to support even a small fraction of the current population?
Look at what's happening in Nigeria:
Going from only 33 million people to potentially over 1 billion people in only 150 years is idiotic from a sustainability perspective.
And we need to keep in mind that Nigeria is actually one of the better-off African nations, as hard as it is to believe. Places like Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan have been in famine-like conditions for decades now, never mind the near-constant conflict those regions have seen, yet still see over-population.
As this summary shows us, it's difficult enough for prosperous Western nations to feed their own people healthy diets. The last thing we should be doing is engaging in programs that will only encourage even more severe over-population in places that really, really, really can't support anything more than very small populations.
I thought this was a troll, but decided to try it before knocking it.
It's actually pretty good. Would recommend. Smells like gummy bears taste.
I've never tried your host file software, but I'm inclined to think it's good. Why? Based on your posts, I trust you're competent.
There are lots of ACs that like to harrass you, but there's no substance or wit in any of it. We're all ACs on Slashdot, but these people are ACs in real life too.
Fight the good fight, APK.
If folks want to eat, drink & smoke unhealthy stuff that cuts short their life well it is not exactly a secret about the affects so live how ya like , fine by me. However, if this unhealthy behavior requires extra public funding and burdens unnecessarily health costs by requiring higher premiums from folks with healthy eating, moderate/ no drinking as well as no smoking then they can form their own insurance pools and participate as they like.
Public sharing of insurance for largely uncontrollable factors should be the goal, though not that simple.
Walk into a super market and astounding how much junk food exists.
So I can eat food that tastes good all my life and I only have a one in five chance of it being a factor? Here's the rolling the dice!
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
If you understand the basics on what is a good weight, what foods are healthy and what foods are not. You can see by looking at many of us that we don't eat right or exercise or do many positive things to stay healthy. many would rather just get a pill then actually get healthy. I weened off insulin as a type 2 diabetic just by eating much better. The most powerful drug is not a drug at all, its just a matter of giving your body what it wants and needs and nothing more. Our sedentary lifestyles many of us lead doesn't burn enough calories for what we tend to eat.
You need to master English.
If you're one of the pizza-seven-days-a-week crowd, this story is aimed directly at you. Yet will any of you read it? Much less act on it?
I'm always amazed at how people will trade away their health for junk food.
3.1 billion years of evolution went by with the vast majority of our ancestors endlessly starving. Most of our ancestors time was spent trying to gather what meager food they could, often dying of hunger when slightly injured, sick, old or just unlucky. Now all of a sudden nearly all humans have endless amounts of cheap, effortless, concentrated food available 24-7-365.25. Now the problem is food is just too damn easy to eat - I'll take that over dying of starvation any day.
All you have to do is make clear that it will cost more to eat foods with poor nutrition. Right now we are subsidizing corn and thus high-fructose corn syrup, so it's put into everything. The problem is that cost of healthcare is decoupled from things that impair your health. A simple behavioral correction would be to provide universal health care and add a health care tax (must show on receipt) to things that are statistically correlated with health care costs.
What this means is that if there is an X% chance of getting cancer after smoking Y cigarettes, you can take the average cost to treat lung cancer, divide it up and tack that cost onto the price of cigarettes. People will then see how much it's going to cost to actually slowly kill themselves and either pay to do it or choose to not do it. The same goes with food but you need to evaluate foods based on different metrics like how it affects your blood sugar, the amount of stress it puts on your liver, how much "crave" it causes (as they call addiction in the food industry) and other things.
The result of doing this will be that food that is good for you will become blindly obvious because of they won't have a health care tax slapped on them. Behavior is determined by feedback loops and if you do not have the proper ones in place, you will not get the desired behavior.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
The rest is Bayesian statistics.
At a grocery scoring company. It soon emerged that the score would plummet on say broccoli the moment you add sugar, salt or fat.
I do it too! View my picture here if you are interested:
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I grew up in the 1950's and 1960's. (Lawn, etc). There were very few obese people. All though pre-university schooling I remember only one kid who was overweight. Adults were also thin, and that formed my mental image of what a normal sized person is. You did not see "mobility scooters" for weight- only wheelchairs for disabilities such as paraplegics.
Tody, I am still "normal" size (in my 60's), and the world has ballooned around me. I see obese children, even young ones 5-6 years old. Most adults look overweight to me, even ones in the prime of their lives in their 20's or 30's. It seems mostly related to terrible diets.
With the "fat acceptance" movement they insist they are normal and healthy. I do not agree! They have a higher risk of a large number of serious health problems: heart disease, cancers, strokes, diabetes, joint problems, and more. Not only that, but I can climb multiple flights of steps better in my 60's than many in their 20's, because for the same height of person they are hauling up 50, 100, sometimes even 200 extra pounds.
Cook your own food, pick healthy ingredients, mostly vegetables and fruits, and do not over-eat or eat constantly between meals. Exercise to burn 2500 calories per week.
I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised by mmell
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg
(APK's) work, I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon
I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo
APK your posts on this & the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error &/or bad advice by BlueStrat
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising & malvertising is quite valid by JazzLad
I like your host file system by Karmashock
(By the way? THANKS AC!)
* It's recommended/hosted by Malwarebytes' hpHosts!
APK
P.S.=> China imitated me http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/26/boffins_supercharge_the_hosts_file_to_save_users_plagued_by_dns_outages/ ... apk
because they already know but either don't care or can't do any better.
"high body mass index (BMI)"
High BMI is a red herring. BMI is based on a sedentary lifestyle like office workers have. Those of us who are in physically demanding jobs very often have high BMIs without being obese because we have more muscle, denser bones and lower body fat levels. My son and I farm and do butchery. we have very high BMIs but it is muscle that is necessary for our work. Same goes for athletes who tend to score high on the BMI but again it is muscle, not fat. The BMI system needs to be redone to account for the fact that not everyone is a sedentary office worker. Our life insurance company takes this into account - they do a measure of hips, belly and chest which corrects for the errors on BMI.
Carbs are primarily to blame.
Over the years, I've gotten plenty of diet advice on Slashdot that would kill me sooner rather than later. Here are the top three diets.
poor girl is sad and hungry speaks:
"he said they had fried chicken for supper, I peeked in the tent whilst they were eating and they had fried dough just like everybody else"
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Honestly, junk food tastes great, and people who eat lots of it and die in their 50s or 60s from heart disease or diabetes are doing society a great favour. It's those who insist on lingering on into their 90s and beyond, in care homes or with dementia, that are a real economic drain. Better still, smoke and drink. Die young having contributed plenty in taxes. They are the real heroes.
What good? They simply won't exist anymore.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Salt is actually super healthy food, don't listen to big pharma.
It's Time to End the War on Salt
For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate the amount of salt that food manufacturers put into products; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has already convinced 16 companies to do so voluntarily. But if the U.S. does conquer salt, what will we gain? Bland french fries, for sure. But a healthy nation? Not necessarily.
This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urineâ"an excellent measure of prior consumptionâ"the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.
Shaking Up the Salt Myth
Salt has been the subject of controversy in recent years, and has increasingly been blamed for a number of poor health outcomes, such as high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. Salt is ubiquitous in our modern diet, with Americans consuming an average of 10 grams per day.
Most of what we read and hear these days is telling us that salt consumption needs to be reduced, and it has even been referred to as âoethe single most harmful substance in the food supplyâ.
But is salt really as dangerous as we have been led to believe? Or is there a healthy, even beneficial range of salt that we should be eating? And could the governmentâ(TM)s low salt recommendations actually be harmful to health?
In this series, Shaking Up The Salt Myth, I explore the history of salt in the human diet, as well as the physiological requirements for salt and theories on the âoeoptimalâ dietary salt range. I present evidence for the dangers of too little and too much salt, and give recommendations for the type and amount of salt to include in the diet.
This series will present the bare facts about a highly misunderstood but essential part of the human diet.
See subject: They 'die' if it comes to using them (1 of many) alternate sockpuppet accounts vs. me.
Their 'death' due to poor diet's due to EATING THEIR WORDS vs. me each time they've tried to 'outsmart' me technically... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Unidentifiable ac "ne'er-do-well" trolls - EATING YOUR WORDS != good nutrition... apk
We have looked a lot at investment options in food and obesity. We did make a recent investment in a novel company (Gila) that has some promise on tackling diet. Long way to go though.... https://www.iselectfund.com/gi...
... if everyone ate better, 20% of the population wouldn't die? o_O
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