I think we can assume that they're properly calculating calories as things we can digest?
I would not bet on that, since the ability to digest varies among individuals, and is also influenced by other aliments in the meal (hint: fibers).
On glucose vs insulin response: we know that some proteins will amplify the insulin response to glucose. This is well known for whey, for instance. But there there must be carbs in order to raise insulin. Eating meat, cheese and eggs will not raise blood glucose and insulin in any significant way. The wikipedia page notes protein-rich beans raise insulin, but beans also contains carbs.
it's hard to find really yummy things without carbs.
It's just because you are addicted and lack imagination:-)
I explicitly and consistently said that ingesting same number of calories will have the same effect on body weight regardless of their source
This is easy to debunk: paper contains a lot of calories, but eating 100g of paper a day will not make you fat. The same amount of calories from sugar will.
protein triggers a rise in blood glucose that's comparable to carbs
This is just wrong. Convertingaminoacids into glucose is a slow process, a high aminoacid intake will not create high blood sugar
Hunger is a lot more complicated than simple blood sugar, that's why we have hormones like insulin and glucagon, so our brain is able to regulate hunger appropriately.
And cortisol, and thyroid hormons, and leptin, and ghrelin... but that runs amok when your diet has nothing to do with what your body is designed for, and high carb diest does just that.
Day one, you eat a lot of carbs on breakfeast. Blood glucose and then insulin go to the sky. As a result, glucose in the blood is aggressively converted into fat. Your muscle will also burn glucose since it is available. 2 hours after breakfast, too much insulin caused so much glucose to be removed from the blood that you crash into hypoglycemia. Your brain is crying for glucose, either you eat again, or your body runs into power saving mode to leave some glucose for the brain. At lunch, your low glucose level pushes you to eat a lot of carbs again to fix the situation, and the cycle is started again.
Day two, you eat a low carb breakfast. Insulin remains low, you do not make fat. Glucose from your breakfast remains available for your brain, and since insulin is low, fat is released and your muscles feed on it. At lunch your do not need to eat a lot of carbs to feel good again, and so does for the dinner.
If the food doesn't raise blood glucose levels that means the calories get come from places other than simple carbohydrates, and those calories get broken down into what the body needs, and if there's extra it gets stored as fat.
You assume that metabolic pathway yields and body expenses are the same in the two situations, and this is likely to be wrong. But you can check it on your own: eat low carbs for a few days. Your carb-addicted brain will hate it, but you will loose fat. Make sure you eat enough proteins, otherwise you will loose muscle too.
TFA says Soylent contains aminoacids, which suggest this is absorption-ready proteins: no need it digest it further. I just hope the gut leave enough for gut bacteria!
Focusing of communication skills is the first step of your journey to the dark side of the force. You will quickly notice that your organization rewards you better for talking than for actually doing things, and the improving communication skills is more important that doing real work done.
Therefore you will do less and less work, and communicate better and better. One day you will get promoted manager, and you instead of focusing on what engineers do, you will tell them to focus on communication skills.
Replying to myself: TFA says "The carbs are an oligosaccharid". Theses cannot be digested by human enzymes. Gut bacteria will break them, leaving some to the host, but the process will be slow, which means that will insulin will be stuck to base level.
Summary notes that he lose weight at 2400 kcal/day, which is relatively high. This is not surprising: fat storage or burning is controlled by insulin, which is controlled in healthy subjects by blood glucose level. If the food does not rise blood glucose level (either because it is low carb, or because it contains carbs that take time to digest), insulin remains low, and fat is burnt.
God made it that way. It is not our place to question why.
Your first sentence is obviously faith, it shall not be subject to rational discussions: people just believe or not. The second sentence raises a big question. How can you be sure God does not want you to understand the universe he created?
When SSO protocols are open, you can host your own identity provider, or at least have someone you trust host it. Once protocols are proprietary, this is not possible anymore.
I hope they will distinguish natural and artificial trans fats.
Natural trans fats can be found in dairy products. They are produced by the bacteria inside ruminants guts. They are the trans-vaccenic acid (produced from linoleic acid, a common omega-6 found in sunflower seeds and soy beans), and the conjugated linoneic acid (a.k.a. CLA, produced from alpha-linolenic acid, a common omega-3 acid found in flax seeds and walnuts). None of them are known to be harmful, ant the CLA is even known to have some health benefits, and is available as dietary supplements
On the other hand, there is the evil artificial trans fat created in partially hydrogenated oils: the elaidic acid. That one is harmful, and it may be because it is an isomer of the well known omega 9 oleic acid (found in olive oil, avocado, hazelnut). It is suspected that enzymes in charge of oleic acid will get confused by elaidic acid, because it chemically behaves like expected oleic acid, but has different physical behavior because it is a trans fat.
Here is a one size fits all notice for any research grant application: "this research benefits the national interest because it will increase USA ranking in various metrics used to measure research performances".
One explanation to Fermi paradox would be that we developed at maximum speed, so did other life forms on other systems, but sign of their presence did not reach us yet because of the distance.
Before hanging themselves, southern EU citizen should at least try to vote for someone that will propose a fix to the euro. The current setup cannot work because the only way to offset a commercial deficit is to make the country poorer every year. That kills the economy and gives no opportunity to improve the commercial deficit.
The fix can be to have the European Central Bank creating the money needed to offset the deficit and give it to member states that need it. Or to broaden EU tax transfers like the CAP, but to benefit other workers. If no money transfer solution is accepted, the remaining fix that a member state can do on its own is to get out of the euro zone, get back to the national currency, and devalue it every year to offset commercial deficit, which is the way it worked before the Euro.
EU being no democracy, it has no legitimacy pushing directives on member states. But EU subsidies come from EU member state taxes, therefore it is legitimate for EU citizen to have them. As a tax payer, I am happy to give money help Spain farmers while they say f*ck you to the EU. Especially while they say f*ck you to the EU.
Nothing will happen. Remember EU is not a democracy, and the EU parliament is a fake parliament. It does not vote the budget. It cannot start a directive initiative (only the EU commission can). The commission can remove amendments done by the parliament, and it already did it in the past. And of course the EU commission can ignore a proposal from the parliament. The only real power of the EU parliament is to reject a directive within the co-decision method.
Most of the time, the EU parliament vote non binding resolutions that are only relevant to the press. EU ideologists can then quote nice resolutions that will have no consequence in the real world, and tell us how good the EU is for EU citizen. But this kind of propaganda is getting less effective, as people face a harsh reality every day.
Well, good until the population catches its own government with pants on the knees. There are laws preventing government to spy to much on its own citizen, and breaking them may have consequences (except in the US, apparently)
Given that EU member state politicians have been complaining, it suggests they did not know. Are European spying agency completely out of control from their own governments?
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I think we can assume that they're properly calculating calories as things we can digest?
I would not bet on that, since the ability to digest varies among individuals, and is also influenced by other aliments in the meal (hint: fibers).
On glucose vs insulin response: we know that some proteins will amplify the insulin response to glucose. This is well known for whey, for instance. But there there must be carbs in order to raise insulin. Eating meat, cheese and eggs will not raise blood glucose and insulin in any significant way. The wikipedia page notes protein-rich beans raise insulin, but beans also contains carbs.
it's hard to find really yummy things without carbs.
It's just because you are addicted and lack imagination :-)
I explicitly and consistently said that ingesting same number of calories will have the same effect on body weight regardless of their source
This is easy to debunk: paper contains a lot of calories, but eating 100g of paper a day will not make you fat. The same amount of calories from sugar will.
protein triggers a rise in blood glucose that's comparable to carbs
This is just wrong. Convertingaminoacids into glucose is a slow process, a high aminoacid intake will not create high blood sugar
Hunger is a lot more complicated than simple blood sugar, that's why we have hormones like insulin and glucagon, so our brain is able to regulate hunger appropriately.
And cortisol, and thyroid hormons, and leptin, and ghrelin... but that runs amok when your diet has nothing to do with what your body is designed for, and high carb diest does just that.
Here is an imaginary experiment.
Day one, you eat a lot of carbs on breakfeast. Blood glucose and then insulin go to the sky. As a result, glucose in the blood is aggressively converted into fat. Your muscle will also burn glucose since it is available. 2 hours after breakfast, too much insulin caused so much glucose to be removed from the blood that you crash into hypoglycemia. Your brain is crying for glucose, either you eat again, or your body runs into power saving mode to leave some glucose for the brain. At lunch, your low glucose level pushes you to eat a lot of carbs again to fix the situation, and the cycle is started again.
Day two, you eat a low carb breakfast. Insulin remains low, you do not make fat. Glucose from your breakfast remains available for your brain, and since insulin is low, fat is released and your muscles feed on it. At lunch your do not need to eat a lot of carbs to feel good again, and so does for the dinner.
If the food doesn't raise blood glucose levels that means the calories get come from places other than simple carbohydrates, and those calories get broken down into what the body needs, and if there's extra it gets stored as fat.
You assume that metabolic pathway yields and body expenses are the same in the two situations, and this is likely to be wrong. But you can check it on your own: eat low carbs for a few days. Your carb-addicted brain will hate it, but you will loose fat. Make sure you eat enough proteins, otherwise you will loose muscle too.
TFA says Soylent contains aminoacids, which suggest this is absorption-ready proteins: no need it digest it further. I just hope the gut leave enough for gut bacteria!
Well, I understand soylent supplies enough proteins so that the body will not have to burn muscle if it needs amino acids for neoglucogenesis.
Focusing of communication skills is the first step of your journey to the dark side of the force. You will quickly notice that your organization rewards you better for talking than for actually doing things, and the improving communication skills is more important that doing real work done.
Therefore you will do less and less work, and communicate better and better. One day you will get promoted manager, and you instead of focusing on what engineers do, you will tell them to focus on communication skills.
Replying to myself: TFA says "The carbs are an oligosaccharid". Theses cannot be digested by human enzymes. Gut bacteria will break them, leaving some to the host, but the process will be slow, which means that will insulin will be stuck to base level.
Summary notes that he lose weight at 2400 kcal/day, which is relatively high. This is not surprising: fat storage or burning is controlled by insulin, which is controlled in healthy subjects by blood glucose level. If the food does not rise blood glucose level (either because it is low carb, or because it contains carbs that take time to digest), insulin remains low, and fat is burnt.
Where is the U.S. heading?
Downward, of course. It is the only way one may go when being at the top. And it is a good reason to fear anything.
Note that this is not such a big deal, as going downward does not means collapsing, it just means leaving the first rank to another else.
God made it that way. It is not our place to question why.
Your first sentence is obviously faith, it shall not be subject to rational discussions: people just believe or not. The second sentence raises a big question. How can you be sure God does not want you to understand the universe he created?
When SSO protocols are open, you can host your own identity provider, or at least have someone you trust host it. Once protocols are proprietary, this is not possible anymore.
I hope they will distinguish natural and artificial trans fats.
Natural trans fats can be found in dairy products. They are produced by the bacteria inside ruminants guts. They are the trans-vaccenic acid (produced from linoleic acid, a common omega-6 found in sunflower seeds and soy beans), and the conjugated linoneic acid (a.k.a. CLA, produced from alpha-linolenic acid, a common omega-3 acid found in flax seeds and walnuts). None of them are known to be harmful, ant the CLA is even known to have some health benefits, and is available as dietary supplements
On the other hand, there is the evil artificial trans fat created in partially hydrogenated oils: the elaidic acid. That one is harmful, and it may be because it is an isomer of the well known omega 9 oleic acid (found in olive oil, avocado, hazelnut). It is suspected that enzymes in charge of oleic acid will get confused by elaidic acid, because it chemically behaves like expected oleic acid, but has different physical behavior because it is a trans fat.
If it is not broken, do not fix it. Your installation seems to work, why do you want to waste time "fixing" it?
Here is a one size fits all notice for any research grant application: "this research benefits the national interest because it will increase USA ranking in various metrics used to measure research performances".
One explanation to Fermi paradox would be that we developed at maximum speed, so did other life forms on other systems, but sign of their presence did not reach us yet because of the distance.
The question is: how will a tech bubble burst impact economy outside of silicon valley?
Before hanging themselves, southern EU citizen should at least try to vote for someone that will propose a fix to the euro. The current setup cannot work because the only way to offset a commercial deficit is to make the country poorer every year. That kills the economy and gives no opportunity to improve the commercial deficit.
The fix can be to have the European Central Bank creating the money needed to offset the deficit and give it to member states that need it. Or to broaden EU tax transfers like the CAP, but to benefit other workers. If no money transfer solution is accepted, the remaining fix that a member state can do on its own is to get out of the euro zone, get back to the national currency, and devalue it every year to offset commercial deficit, which is the way it worked before the Euro.
EU being no democracy, it has no legitimacy pushing directives on member states. But EU subsidies come from EU member state taxes, therefore it is legitimate for EU citizen to have them. As a tax payer, I am happy to give money help Spain farmers while they say f*ck you to the EU. Especially while they say f*ck you to the EU.
Nothing will happen. Remember EU is not a democracy, and the EU parliament is a fake parliament. It does not vote the budget. It cannot start a directive initiative (only the EU commission can). The commission can remove amendments done by the parliament, and it already did it in the past. And of course the EU commission can ignore a proposal from the parliament. The only real power of the EU parliament is to reject a directive within the co-decision method.
Most of the time, the EU parliament vote non binding resolutions that are only relevant to the press. EU ideologists can then quote nice resolutions that will have no consequence in the real world, and tell us how good the EU is for EU citizen. But this kind of propaganda is getting less effective, as people face a harsh reality every day.
.. and they are also word-class economical heavyweights. since they are fourth and fifth in worldwide GDP ranking (after US, China and Japan)
Given UK is part of five eyes countries that share intelligence, CGHQ should be able to hand Cameron the data collected by NSA on him.
Spying on population: good
Well, good until the population catches its own government with pants on the knees. There are laws preventing government to spy to much on its own citizen, and breaking them may have consequences (except in the US, apparently)
Given that EU member state politicians have been complaining, it suggests they did not know. Are European spying agency completely out of control from their own governments?
End to end encryption is the only answer here.
The Guardian's paper talks about French DGSE ability to break encryption. It would be nice to have some details.