I was responding to the original poster, who has diabetes and wants to slim down. In that case, I would especially avoid anything with high-fructose corn syrup.
Processed foods with the fat and fibre removed alter our normal digestion. Our bodies are supposed to get fat and fibre through our diet. Cutting out fat will not necessarily force our bodies to burn body fat, and probably will lead to decreased absorption of certain vitamins and minerals. (There are always exceptions, but almost everyone will experience negative health effects from consuming processed foods.)
Worse, processed foods with all the additives, preservatives, and other chemicals affect our immune systems and other body processes in various ways. (Why put those un-natural foods in your body in the first place?) And processed foods have Omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFAs) removed, which explains why the typical person in the US has an un-healthy ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 EFAs of over ten-to-one. (The ratio should be below two-to-one.)
Many doctors and nutritionists tell diabetics to switch to fat-free and sugar-free foods, but diatetes actually gets worse for over 90 percent of those patients. Doctors have even told them to stop eating fruit (because of the sugars), but that is misguided -- as many diabetics have discovered.
Similarly, dentists tell patients that artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose will not cause dental caries, because they are not fermentable carbohydrates. All the scientific studies in the world can be bent to produce the desired results. If any dentist totally trusts those studies (from the makers of artificial sweeteners), let him/her consume a diet beverage or coat his/her teeth with the artificial sweetener before going to sleep. Would anyone have that much trust to keep that crap on the teeth all night? I certainly would not risk it. Perhaps you would.
It's up to you what you put in your body. But if you only worry about dental care, you might neglect a lot more of your body. Your teeth (and gums) are only part of the total system. And you can brush, floss, and rinse to keep your teeth and gums clean and healthy.
In the past, the Wade-Giles system was more commonly used. However, in the case of Chinese names (especially for people from or in Taiwan), the punctuation is almost always dropped.
Examples:
pinyin:
Mao Zedong
Deng Xiaoping
Taibei
Diaoyutai
Wade-Giles:
Mao Tse-tung
Teng Hsiao-ping
T'aipei
Tiao Yü T'ai
But I would expect Mainland Chinese people to use simplified Chinese characters (probably GB), not Roman ones.
if you ate only meat, you would become VERY unhealthy
Not true.
The natives of Gambell, Alaska (for example) eating the traditional diet (whale, seal, walrus, caribou, fish, seal oil) are extremely healthy. Global warming may eventually allow them to grow vegetables, but not right now.
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I was responding to the original poster, who has diabetes and wants to slim down. In that case, I would especially avoid anything with high-fructose corn syrup.
Processed foods with the fat and fibre removed alter our normal digestion. Our bodies are supposed to get fat and fibre through our diet. Cutting out fat will not necessarily force our bodies to burn body fat, and probably will lead to decreased absorption of certain vitamins and minerals. (There are always exceptions, but almost everyone will experience negative health effects from consuming processed foods.)
Worse, processed foods with all the additives, preservatives, and other chemicals affect our immune systems and other body processes in various ways. (Why put those un-natural foods in your body in the first place?) And processed foods have Omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFAs) removed, which explains why the typical person in the US has an un-healthy ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 EFAs of over ten-to-one. (The ratio should be below two-to-one.)
Many doctors and nutritionists tell diabetics to switch to fat-free and sugar-free foods, but diatetes actually gets worse for over 90 percent of those patients. Doctors have even told them to stop eating fruit (because of the sugars), but that is misguided -- as many diabetics have discovered.
Similarly, dentists tell patients that artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose will not cause dental caries, because they are not fermentable carbohydrates. All the scientific studies in the world can be bent to produce the desired results. If any dentist totally trusts those studies (from the makers of artificial sweeteners), let him/her consume a diet beverage or coat his/her teeth with the artificial sweetener before going to sleep. Would anyone have that much trust to keep that crap on the teeth all night? I certainly would not risk it. Perhaps you would.
It's up to you what you put in your body. But if you only worry about dental care, you might neglect a lot more of your body. Your teeth (and gums) are only part of the total system. And you can brush, floss, and rinse to keep your teeth and gums clean and healthy.
Maybe it depends on the state or local laws.
For the rest of us, we'll still have the old, slow 'guess the filename, hope you find it somewhere' approach.
. . . because we no longer believe in innocent until proven guilty?
Management can keep holding long meetings to find out why work is not getting done.
Can the system avoid collisions with pedestrians crossing at unmarked intersections (without crosswalks)?
In the Mainland, pinyin is most commonly used.
In the past, the Wade-Giles system was more commonly used. However, in the case of Chinese names (especially for people from or in Taiwan), the punctuation is almost always dropped.
Examples:
pinyin: Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Taibei Diaoyutai Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung Teng Hsiao-ping T'aipei Tiao Yü T'aiBut I would expect Mainland Chinese people to use simplified Chinese characters (probably GB), not Roman ones.
If what you wrote was really true, wouldn't it be pretty easy to get a warrant to allow the monitoring of those suspect phone calls?
Police, firemen, and roads are paid for by state and local taxes. These are not the responsibilities of the federal government.
He's psychic!
Call me when someone can actually get useful electricity from this process.
Just add a little red cape in front too.
Problem solved.
Not true.
The natives of Gambell, Alaska (for example) eating the traditional diet (whale, seal, walrus, caribou, fish, seal oil) are extremely healthy. Global warming may eventually allow them to grow vegetables, but not right now.
And some of the scenes shot from multiple cameras look set-up or staged.
Hmmm. . .
Reality shows also have writers.
Asia has lots of both.
Is it oxymoronic to encrypt your Open Document Format files?
If 'right direction' means 'toward a police state', then he may be correct.
Now we have a real test to see which company really makes the best paper towels.
You do know E. coli gets into our food supply, right?
Why can't we prevent shit from ever getting into our meat?
Instead, we will just test for the disease, hoping to eliminate diseased cattle from the food supply.
Why try an ounce of prevention when we can spend more on the pound of cure?
Why don't you try walking to school?
See Cringely's take from last week.