Yes. He is a cardiologist. 1 cardiologist out of tens of thousands in the U.S., most of which vehemently disagree with him.
Reducing caloric intake just causes your body to stop using calories. Lethargy does not make for effective weight loss.
Depends on how many calories you cut. Fasting will make you fatter in the end, because it raises your metabolism. Also, you lose a lot of muscle mass. But if you cut about 500 calories a day (not that much, really), you can lose a pound a week without lowering your metabolism. And it is perfectly healthy. And while you cut your calories by 500 each day, of course you have to exercise. In addition to burning calories, exercising raises your metabolism.
Now if you really want to lose weight, take up backpacking. On a rigorous backpack trip in areas like the North Cascades or the Sierras, you can burn 6,000 calories a day, assuming an average of 10 miles each day on rough terrain and a 60 pound pack. On a week long trip, at least with me, you can only carry about 2,000 calories each day. Since there is about (i believe, correct me if im wrong) 3,500 calories to a pound of lard, you end up losing a little over a pound a day. In addition to that, after the backpack trip, your stomach shrinks quite a bit so you don't overeat, plus you are very fit and energetic.
From the people who brought you epidemic levels of Cancer - Western Medicine!
Western medicine is one of humanity's greatest technological triumphs. It has raised average lifespans from 45 to 80 years. (in Japan, where they are not fat, the average life expectancy is 80. I used that figure because the 78 life expectancy in the US is because we are all fat)
And you think Western Medicine is to blame for high cancer rates? Well, in effect it is. Before the advent of antibiotics and modern surgical procedures, people usualy lived only to about 45, dying young because of infectious diseases. The reason cancer rates have gone up since the 1800's is because people never lived long enough before to get cancer. Cancer usualy doesn't kick in untill about 60 or 70. People rarely lived that long.
Anyway, my psychic powers have told me that you are into herbal medicine and you live in either the Bay Area or Seattle. Anyway, herbal medicine is more dangerous than conventional medicine. Most people think that natural means safe. Munch on some Water Hemlock and we'll see.
Herbal medicines were not made for our consumption. Any supposed medicinal properties that they have is just an accident of nature. Also, levels of the supposed medicinal compounds in herbal plants vary widely. Also, herbs go through no testing for their safety and effectiveness. That is dangerous. By contrast, modern medicine was actually made to better people's health. It was designed that way. It is put though rigorous safety trails.
I will outline some harmful herbs now This is from a University of Virginia site:
Chan Su: Topical aphrodisiac sold as "Stone," "LoveStone," "RockHard." It has caused death when swallowed.
Chaparral tea: From leaves and twigs of the desert creosote bush, this is promoted as an antioxidant, a pain reliever, etc. It has caused liver failure requiring liver transplantation.
Coltsfoot (for respiratory problems), comfrey (for arthritis, infections), and sassafras (a general tonic) have caused liver problems and cancer in laboratory animals.
Jin Bu Huan: An ancient Chinese sedative and analgesic containing morphine-like substances. It causes hepatitis.
Kombucha tea: Made from mushroom culture (used as a cure all), this has caused death from acidosis.
Lobelia: Used for respiratory congestion, this has caused respiratory system paralysis and death.
Ma huang or ephedra: An herbal form of the central nervous system stimulant commonly known as speed. It is sold with names like Herbal Ecstasy, Cloud 9, and Ultimate Xphoria. It causes heart attacks, seizures, psychotic episodes and death.
Pennyroyal: This is a tea made from leaves that treats coughs and upset stomach. Its oil is highly toxic to the liver and interferes with blood clotting.
Yohimbe bark: Used as aphrodisiac this raises blood pressure and is associated with psychotic episodes.
Here are a few others:
Kava- It's used by S. Pacific islanders as an intoxicant. Causes high blood pressure as well as skin problems.
St. Johns Wort- Can cause exteme sensitivity to sunlight. Causes drug interactions.
Valerian- Sleep aid. Works like a tranquilizer. Just as dangerous as Valium.
So, as you can see, herbal drugs can cause psycotic episodes, liver failure, heart attacks, strokes, skin problems, death, etc. I'm not saying that some RX drugs don't do the same. But at least the RX drugs are more effective and they are better tested. And a knowledgable doctor prescibes them to you, which is a bonus.
Most herbal drugs have no effect other than placebo. Just go with the vitamins. It's not worth the risk to take an innefective drug with unknown dangers.
To dead penis bird:
You really should get off the Atkins diet. Virtually all doctors think it is dangerous to avoid carbs altogether. Besides, you will get much more fat off of bacon. I guess the thing with your diet is you're supposed to go into some kind of digestive state where you don't absorb many calories. That has to be extremely unhealthy. Stay away from the fad diets. Just reduce your caloric intake around 500 calories a day and exercise.
to CaveDave: The agricultural revolution did not take place 100 thousand years ago. More like 10,000 years ago. 100,000 years ago H. Sapiens had just evolved and we were in the early paleolithic.
I've always eaten whole wheat. Especialy after you get used to it, you won't go back to white bread. Whole Wheat is much more flavorful, as well as more nutrious. White bread just tastes bland to me.
I'm I the only one who noticed this: The San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster, also known as MoFo Sums up most law firms I know.
Seriously, I think it's great that somebody is finally going after those crooked spammers. I especialy hate the scams. Those are blatantly illeagal. I'm sure this shitty spam company sends out pyramid scheme scams and shit, so they could be sued for that, as well. What we need is to have is a class action lawsuit against spammers on behalf of the people who fell for these scams. However, no matter what we do, there will always be spam. No way, no how, will we ever get rid of spam.
But in my special email account, the spike hay at charter dot net adress above, I never have gotten one spam. I just do a few simple things. When I have to give my email out to websites, I give them my hotmail account. But then if they are obviously going to use it to spam me, and they don't need to contact me, I give them a phony address and leave the little "Yes. I would like to recieve information about special offers from 3rd parties" box checked. I do this just to fsck up the spammer's mailing lists. I also set Opera to not accept 3rd party cookies, like DoubleClick. And I also run AdAware regularly. Some spyware can get your email.
Anyway, the golden rule for spam is to never, ever, ever, give out your email address. (except to colleagues, friends, family, of course)
BTW, could someone explain to me how on earth DoubleClick is legal? They never gave me a privacy statement. And, it violates the Children's Online Protection Act or whatever because they collect information about children uner 13.
What is really funny is that we're hearing how bad DoS attacks are from/. Slashdot commits numerous DoS attacks everyday. Friggin hypocrites, I'm telling ya.
Thousanth comment!! Seriosly!
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This is great. Id like to get some new flying cars from the future.
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You still stay in the time machine. It's just like sitting in the room you are right now. You are moving around the earth's axis, around the sun, around the galactic center, etc, all while in your room. It is just like that except the room you are in happens to be in warped time, that's all.
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While transporting a person is obviously very, very far off, I wonder if there are applications for this in the shorter term. Could you communicate by sending neutrons back it time? It seems like you would. That would open all kinds of possibilities.
You could have a message from the future. I'm still really fuzzy on how these things work, but if you could get a message from 100 years in the future then you could implement their high-tech today. They could send us info on 22nd century tech like nanotechnology, space travel, and medicine. That would be great.
Another thing I wonder about: Intersteller travel. Is it possible to send a long-lived low speed probe like Voyager to Alpha Centairi? I wonder if after 40,000 years when the probe arrives at alpha centauri, it could send it's radio signals back to earth. Then the signals would be recieved by a time machine, which would in turn transport them back to our time. So you in effect have a fast intersteller flight while only sending out a cheap probe going 30,000 MPH.
Anyway, would those scenarios work? Any physicists here? Human time travel is a long ways off, but it seems like these things could be implemented in the near term.
I think memory is still declining, especialy DDR. In January, I was building a new computer. I ordered 2 256 sticks of PC 2100 DDR off of Pricewatch. They cost $105 dollars each. Now DDR costs $39 for a 256 stick. In a few months, DDR went from $105 to $39!!
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Look. I am a traveler from the future. I can tell you that time travel is possible. This Alan Guy is full of Arcturan Mega-shit.
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Jeez. Everyones talking about getting future tech, warning people of their doom, and seeing ancient Egypt.
But winning lottery numbers sent back through time. Now thats a good idea. I think this UoC professor has got it made!
While transporting a person is obviously very, very far off, I wonder if there are applications for this in the shorter term. Could you communicate by sending neutrons back it time? It seems like you would. That would open all kinds of possibilities.
You could have a message from the future. I'm still really fuzzy on how these things work, but if you could get a message from 100 years in the future then you could implement their high-tech today. They could send us info on 22nd century tech like nanotechnology, space travel, and medicine. That would be great.
Another thing I wonder about: Intersteller travel. Is it possible to send a long-lived low speed probe like Voyager to Alpha Centairi? I wonder if after 40,000 years when the probe arrives at alpha centauri, it could send it's radio signals back to earth. Then the signals would be recieved by a time machine, which would in turn transport them back to our time. So you in effect have a fast intersteller flight while only sending out a cheap probe going 30,000 MPH.
Anyway, would those scenarios work? Any physicists here? Human time travel is a long ways off, but it seems like these things could be implemented in the near term.
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Actualy, there are many deep subs with large portals. The trieste ha small ones. This sub only goes to 900 feet. You could have very large windows on it.
We're pumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere - which is a closed system.
Now, it's perfectly logical to draw a correlation between the two.
Um, no. There are many other factors influencing climate.
The Kyoto Petition was signed by 2,500 scientists. Only a few were involved in actual climatology. Most were social scientists and gov't functionaries.
However, another petition urging congress to reject the treaty, was signed by 15,000 scientists!
Here is a good page explaining global warming and it's relation to CO2 emissions: here I will talk about the results of this study later, so read it.
But by the time we WILL have reference, we'll all be dead if we are the cause. Therefore the only logical course of action is to stop.
What do you mean we will all be dead!? 3,000 years ago things were vastly warmer than they are today. CO2 isn't even one of the main causes of the greenhouse effect. It just happens to have more of a greenhouse effect than other gases. Just use your head. The reason the earth is warming is because we are still coming out of the little ice age 300 years ago!!! We're still below the temperature levels of the middle ages and way below the levels of ancient times. The global warming article I referred you to has an excellent graph showing the average temperatures for the last 3000 years. The earth warms and cools all the time. This new global warming is just us entering into an average temperature period. It's nothing to be worried about.
If you look at the global ocean temp. graph for the past 3,000 years, we seem to be going through a slow rise in temperature right now. Compare that to the dramatic up an down of several degrees between 1000 and 500 B.C.
In our warming since the Little Ice Age, we had a dramatic increase of a little less than a degree between 1600 and 1700, before there was a lot of CO2 emissions. It has been a gradual rise since then. We aren't even up to the average historical ocean temperature yet.
There is no credible evidence linking C02 emissions to global warming. It is just another warming and cooling cycle. Please, before you flame me, look at the article I linked to. It contains valuable information about the subject historically.
I use an analog alarm clock. It kicks the arse of a digital. Instead of fumbling around with buttons, to set it I just move a little knob in back. Also, it is backlighted, to provide just a bit of a glow.
And I can even make it go backwards when setting the time. The thing I hate about digitals is that if you accidentaly to one hour over when setting it, say to 7:00 instead of 6:00 A.M., you have to scroll through 23 hours. It pisses me off.
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Thank you for mirroring the NYT article. My NYT account has mysterously stopped working.
Gee, Yahoo selling personal info. Almost as bad as NYT requiring an account and then selling your personal information to spam companies!
Of course photons have inertia. Haven't you heard of light sails? Those are pushed by sunlight.
I'd mod you up if i had my points, Random
Dickens:
And Atkins is a cardiologist !
Yes. He is a cardiologist. 1 cardiologist out of tens of thousands in the U.S., most of which vehemently disagree with him.
Reducing caloric intake just causes your body to stop using calories. Lethargy does not make for effective weight loss.
Depends on how many calories you cut. Fasting will make you fatter in the end, because it raises your metabolism. Also, you lose a lot of muscle mass. But if you cut about 500 calories a day (not that much, really), you can lose a pound a week without lowering your metabolism. And it is perfectly healthy. And while you cut your calories by 500 each day, of course you have to exercise. In addition to burning calories, exercising raises your metabolism.
Now if you really want to lose weight, take up backpacking. On a rigorous backpack trip in areas like the North Cascades or the Sierras, you can burn 6,000 calories a day, assuming an average of 10 miles each day on rough terrain and a 60 pound pack. On a week long trip, at least with me, you can only carry about 2,000 calories each day. Since there is about (i believe, correct me if im wrong) 3,500 calories to a pound of lard, you end up losing a little over a pound a day. In addition to that, after the backpack trip, your stomach shrinks quite a bit so you don't overeat, plus you are very fit and energetic.
I got a water cooling sytem. OCed my 2 gig to 2400.
From the people who brought you epidemic levels of Cancer - Western Medicine!
Western medicine is one of humanity's greatest technological triumphs. It has raised average lifespans from 45 to 80 years. (in Japan, where they are not fat, the average life expectancy is 80. I used that figure because the 78 life expectancy in the US is because we are all fat)
And you think Western Medicine is to blame for high cancer rates? Well, in effect it is. Before the advent of antibiotics and modern surgical procedures, people usualy lived only to about 45, dying young because of infectious diseases. The reason cancer rates have gone up since the 1800's is because people never lived long enough before to get cancer. Cancer usualy doesn't kick in untill about 60 or 70. People rarely lived that long.
Anyway, my psychic powers have told me that you are into herbal medicine and you live in either the Bay Area or Seattle. Anyway, herbal medicine is more dangerous than conventional medicine. Most people think that natural means safe. Munch on some Water Hemlock and we'll see.
Herbal medicines were not made for our consumption. Any supposed medicinal properties that they have is just an accident of nature. Also, levels of the supposed medicinal compounds in herbal plants vary widely. Also, herbs go through no testing for their safety and effectiveness. That is dangerous. By contrast, modern medicine was actually made to better people's health. It was designed that way. It is put though rigorous safety trails.
I will outline some harmful herbs now This is from a University of Virginia site:
Chan Su: Topical aphrodisiac sold as "Stone," "LoveStone," "RockHard." It has caused death when swallowed.
Chaparral tea: From leaves and twigs of the desert creosote bush, this is promoted as an antioxidant, a pain reliever, etc. It has caused liver failure requiring liver transplantation.
Coltsfoot (for respiratory problems), comfrey (for arthritis, infections), and sassafras (a general tonic) have caused liver problems and cancer in laboratory animals.
Jin Bu Huan: An ancient Chinese sedative and analgesic containing morphine-like substances. It causes hepatitis.
Kombucha tea: Made from mushroom culture (used as a cure all), this has caused death from acidosis.
Lobelia: Used for respiratory congestion, this has caused respiratory system paralysis and death.
Ma huang or ephedra: An herbal form of the central nervous system stimulant commonly known as speed. It is sold with names like Herbal
Ecstasy, Cloud 9, and Ultimate Xphoria. It causes heart attacks, seizures, psychotic episodes and death.
Pennyroyal: This is a tea made from leaves that treats coughs and upset stomach. Its oil is highly toxic to the liver and interferes with blood clotting.
Yohimbe bark: Used as aphrodisiac this raises blood pressure and is associated with psychotic episodes.
Here are a few others:
Kava- It's used by S. Pacific islanders as an intoxicant. Causes high blood pressure as well as skin problems.
St. Johns Wort- Can cause exteme sensitivity to sunlight. Causes drug interactions.
Valerian- Sleep aid. Works like a tranquilizer. Just as dangerous as Valium.
So, as you can see, herbal drugs can cause psycotic episodes, liver failure, heart attacks, strokes, skin problems, death, etc. I'm not saying that some RX drugs don't do the same. But at least the RX drugs are more effective and they are better tested. And a knowledgable doctor prescibes them to you, which is a bonus.
Most herbal drugs have no effect other than placebo. Just go with the vitamins. It's not worth the risk to take an innefective drug with unknown dangers.
To dead penis bird:
You really should get off the Atkins diet. Virtually all doctors think it is dangerous to avoid carbs altogether. Besides, you will get much more fat off of bacon. I guess the thing with your diet is you're supposed to go into some kind of digestive state where you don't absorb many calories. That has to be extremely unhealthy. Stay away from the fad diets. Just reduce your caloric intake around 500 calories a day and exercise.
to CaveDave:
The agricultural revolution did not take place 100 thousand years ago. More like 10,000 years ago. 100,000 years ago H. Sapiens had just evolved and we were in the early paleolithic.
I've always eaten whole wheat. Especialy after you get used to it, you won't go back to white bread. Whole Wheat is much more flavorful, as well as more nutrious. White bread just tastes bland to me.
I'm I the only one who noticed this:
The San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster, also known as MoFo
Sums up most law firms I know.
Seriously, I think it's great that somebody is finally going after those crooked spammers. I especialy hate the scams. Those are blatantly illeagal. I'm sure this shitty spam company sends out pyramid scheme scams and shit, so they could be sued for that, as well.
What we need is to have is a class action lawsuit against spammers on behalf of the people who fell for these scams. However, no matter what we do, there will always be spam. No way, no how, will we ever get rid of spam.
But in my special email account, the spike hay at charter dot net adress above, I never have gotten one spam. I just do a few simple things. When I have to give my email out to websites, I give them my hotmail account. But then if they are obviously going to use it to spam me, and they don't need to contact me, I give them a phony address and leave the little "Yes. I would like to recieve information about special offers from 3rd parties" box checked. I do this just to fsck up the spammer's mailing lists. I also set Opera to not accept 3rd party cookies, like DoubleClick. And I also run AdAware regularly. Some spyware can get your email.
Anyway, the golden rule for spam is to never, ever, ever, give out your email address. (except to colleagues, friends, family, of course)
BTW, could someone explain to me how on earth DoubleClick is legal? They never gave me a privacy statement. And, it violates the Children's Online Protection Act or whatever because they collect information about children uner 13.
What is really funny is that we're hearing how bad DoS attacks are from /. Slashdot commits numerous DoS attacks everyday. Friggin hypocrites, I'm telling ya.
This is great.
Id like to get some new flying cars from the future.
You still stay in the time machine. It's just like sitting in the room you are right now. You are moving around the earth's axis, around the sun, around the galactic center, etc, all while in your room. It is just like that except the room you are in happens to be in warped time, that's all.
While transporting a person is obviously very, very far off, I wonder if there are applications for this in the shorter term. Could you communicate by sending neutrons back it time? It seems like you would. That would open all kinds of possibilities.
You could have a message from the future. I'm still really fuzzy on how these things work, but if you could get a message from 100 years in the future then you could implement their high-tech today. They could send us info on 22nd century tech like nanotechnology, space travel, and medicine. That would be great.
Another thing I wonder about: Intersteller travel. Is it possible to send a long-lived low speed probe like Voyager to Alpha Centairi? I wonder if after 40,000 years when the probe arrives at alpha centauri, it could send it's radio signals back to earth. Then the signals would be recieved by a time machine, which would in turn transport them back to our time. So you in effect have a fast intersteller flight while only sending out a cheap probe going 30,000 MPH.
Anyway, would those scenarios work? Any physicists here? Human time travel is a long ways off, but it seems like these things could be implemented in the near term.
I think memory is still declining, especialy DDR. In January, I was building a new computer. I ordered 2 256 sticks of PC 2100 DDR off of Pricewatch. They cost $105 dollars each. Now DDR costs $39 for a 256 stick. In a few months, DDR went from $105 to $39!!
Look. I am a traveler from the future. I can tell you that time travel is possible. This Alan Guy is full of Arcturan Mega-shit.
Jeez. Everyones talking about getting future tech, warning people of their doom, and seeing ancient Egypt.
But winning lottery numbers sent back through time. Now thats a good idea. I think this UoC professor has got it made!
While transporting a person is obviously very, very far off, I wonder if there are applications for this in the shorter term. Could you communicate by sending neutrons back it time? It seems like you would. That would open all kinds of possibilities.
You could have a message from the future. I'm still really fuzzy on how these things work, but if you could get a message from 100 years in the future then you could implement their high-tech today. They could send us info on 22nd century tech like nanotechnology, space travel, and medicine. That would be great.
Another thing I wonder about: Intersteller travel. Is it possible to send a long-lived low speed probe like Voyager to Alpha Centairi? I wonder if after 40,000 years when the probe arrives at alpha centauri, it could send it's radio signals back to earth. Then the signals would be recieved by a time machine, which would in turn transport them back to our time. So you in effect have a fast intersteller flight while only sending out a cheap probe going 30,000 MPH.
Anyway, would those scenarios work? Any physicists here? Human time travel is a long ways off, but it seems like these things could be implemented in the near term.
Seems to be /.ed. Here are the google caches:
main page
monorail history
Photo tour
You know, sleeping with your own clone of the opposite sex would be way worse than normal inbreeding.
Actualy, there are many deep subs with large portals. The trieste ha small ones. This sub only goes to 900 feet. You could have very large windows on it.
Yes. I will upgrade to internet explorer from Opera. It has all sorts of exciting features that Opera doesn't.
1. Exciting new errors!!!
2. Longer loading times!!
3. Doesn't support Jave!!!
I'm upgrading right now!! Since IE is not available on Linux I will now reformat my hard drive.
!@#$#$#!@#$!@#$!#@T$##^ Forgot to hit "preview"!!!!
The first paragraph of italisized is a quote from a previous poster. The rest is of my own doing.
We're pumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere - which is a closed system .
Now, it's perfectly logical to draw a correlation between the two.
Um, no. There are many other factors influencing climate.
The Kyoto Petition was signed by 2,500 scientists. Only a few were involved in actual climatology. Most were social scientists and gov't functionaries.
However, another petition urging congress to reject the treaty, was signed by 15,000 scientists!
Here is a good page explaining global warming and it's relation to CO2 emissions: here I will talk about the results of this study later, so read it.
But by the time we WILL have reference, we'll all be dead if we are the cause. Therefore the only logical course of action is to stop.
What do you mean we will all be dead!? 3,000 years ago things were vastly warmer than they are today. CO2 isn't even one of the main causes of the greenhouse effect. It just happens to have more of a greenhouse effect than other gases. Just use your head. The reason the earth is warming is because we are still coming out of the little ice age 300 years ago!!!
We're still below the temperature levels of the middle ages and way below the levels of ancient times. The global warming article I referred you to has an excellent graph showing the average temperatures for the last 3000 years. The earth warms and cools all the time. This new global warming is just us entering into an average temperature period. It's nothing to be worried about.
If you look at the global ocean temp. graph for the past 3,000 years, we seem to be going through a slow rise in temperature right now. Compare that to the dramatic up an down of several degrees between 1000 and 500 B.C.
In our warming since the Little Ice Age, we had a dramatic increase of a little less than a degree between 1600 and 1700, before there was a lot of CO2 emissions. It has been a gradual rise since then. We aren't even up to the average historical ocean temperature yet.
There is no credible evidence linking C02 emissions to global warming. It is just another warming and cooling cycle. Please, before you flame me, look at the article I linked to. It contains valuable information about the subject historically.
I use an analog alarm clock. It kicks the arse of a digital. Instead of fumbling around with buttons, to set it I just move a little knob in back. Also, it is backlighted, to provide just a bit of a glow.
And I can even make it go backwards when setting the time.
The thing I hate about digitals is that if you accidentaly to one hour over when setting it, say to 7:00 instead of 6:00 A.M., you have to scroll through 23 hours. It pisses me off.
MP3 toothbrush!
Would I still have to replace it every 4 months?