Please don't depend on Dr. Mercola (or the Huffington Post, for that matter). Mercola either don't know the difference between, or deliberately and dishonestly equates, insecticides and insect repellants. He is very careless about a number of other faddish issues.
The recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamins and minerals were originally set by analyzing an average diet and assuming those quantities were adequate and optimum, modified a bit with the limited knowledge of the day about deficiency diseases. Subsequently, the values have been adjusted a little to take into account advances in scientific knowledge.
Note that individual variations mean that what's enough for one person is not necessarily enough for another.
Importantly, consider that the RDA is a guideline for the minimum needed to avoid obvious problems. It is not the optimum, which is a larger amount. Many nutrients have multiple uses, and the less essential uses (which nonetheless are beneficial) are only engaged when there are nutrients left over after the most important stuff is done.
B vitamins won't hurt you because they're impossible to absorb in toxic quantities.
Just off the top of my head: B3 (niacin) causes painful skin flushing at a 1 gram level. It feels like a sunburn. B12 (cyanocobalamin) causes tingling of fingertips at 2 milligrams/day. Both B6 and B12 will cause nerve damage if grossly over-consumed for a long time.
Not only are the claims of the climate scientologists (that's deliberate) deceitful, as noted it the preceding posts, the claims that they're like atomic scientists are pure hubris. Have they created anything, much less climate? Of course not.
Severe speeding falls into the category of "reckless endangerment", like firing a pistol into the air in midtown Manhattan. Do you really think that should only be illegal if the bullet hits someone?
FWIW, Kinsey was a perv, and part of his purpose in making his studies was to normalize degeneracy. Nonetheless, your very inspecific "double digit percentages" could be as low as ten percent, and I agree that's not surprising.
It is not a law, until EVERYBODY who is affected by it has understood it fully, and agreed to it.
So laws against rape and murder and burglary aren't possible until all rapists, murderers, and professional burglars agree with them. Please think before posting.
I live in a house built in 1830. The garage was probably once a stable. One of the posts in the framing - an 8 x 8 piece of lumber - is oddly sculpted, apparently nibbled to a depth of 2 inches by a horse.
Space colonization. Small crew arrives at distant planet, starts producing 50% mental defectives, can't manufacture the antidote; can't meet the challenge of foreign environment, nascent civilization dies.
If the effort to maintain a Down's syndrome child keeps an otherwise middle-class family in squalid poverty for the rest of their lives, please tell me how that's better than having it aborted. Everyone loses, and the portion of the child support that comes from tax money is stolen money, immoral from the start. There are more to costs than dollars, there's the destruction of established human lives.
Being able to follow through a math problem that someone else is showing the solution of is very much less difficult than being able to solve symbolically (for instance) a complicated system of differential equations. Much of math is very difficult, and I say this with a bachelor's in math from MIT.
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Please don't depend on Dr. Mercola (or the Huffington Post, for that matter). Mercola either don't know the difference between, or deliberately and dishonestly equates, insecticides and insect repellants. He is very careless about a number of other faddish issues.
Thank you VERY much for the "Body By Science" reference.
The recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamins and minerals were originally set by analyzing an average diet and assuming those quantities were adequate and optimum, modified a bit with the limited knowledge of the day about deficiency diseases. Subsequently, the values have been adjusted a little to take into account advances in scientific knowledge.
Note that individual variations mean that what's enough for one person is not necessarily enough for another.
Importantly, consider that the RDA is a guideline for the minimum needed to avoid obvious problems. It is not the optimum, which is a larger amount. Many nutrients have multiple uses, and the less essential uses (which nonetheless are beneficial) are only engaged when there are nutrients left over after the most important stuff is done.
Just off the top of my head: B3 (niacin) causes painful skin flushing at a 1 gram level. It feels like a sunburn. B12 (cyanocobalamin) causes tingling of fingertips at 2 milligrams/day. Both B6 and B12 will cause nerve damage if grossly over-consumed for a long time.
Except in a pressure cooker, at 190 C water is vapor. Your McDonald's coffee will be brown dust plus humidity.
And when S&P degrades the federal government's credit rating, the gov't sues.
Not only are the claims of the climate scientologists (that's deliberate) deceitful, as noted it the preceding posts, the claims that they're like atomic scientists are pure hubris. Have they created anything, much less climate? Of course not.
The moral flaw is with the people who told you that you were educated. "Bare" isn't "bear". Can you find the flaw in your second paragraph?
If this is the quality of grammar available from future lawyers, anyone using a lawyer is doomed.
#1 implies #2.
Severe speeding falls into the category of "reckless endangerment", like firing a pistol into the air in midtown Manhattan. Do you really think that should only be illegal if the bullet hits someone?
FWIW, Kinsey was a perv, and part of his purpose in making his studies was to normalize degeneracy. Nonetheless, your very inspecific "double digit percentages" could be as low as ten percent, and I agree that's not surprising.
So laws against rape and murder and burglary aren't possible until all rapists, murderers, and professional burglars agree with them. Please think before posting.
I live in a house built in 1830. The garage was probably once a stable. One of the posts in the framing - an 8 x 8 piece of lumber - is oddly sculpted, apparently nibbled to a depth of 2 inches by a horse.
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold.
Space colonization. Small crew arrives at distant planet, starts producing 50% mental defectives, can't manufacture the antidote; can't meet the challenge of foreign environment, nascent civilization dies.
If the effort to maintain a Down's syndrome child keeps an otherwise middle-class family in squalid poverty for the rest of their lives, please tell me how that's better than having it aborted. Everyone loses, and the portion of the child support that comes from tax money is stolen money, immoral from the start. There are more to costs than dollars, there's the destruction of established human lives.
I've read about pimps forcing their women to have abortions, to get them back on the street quickly.
The Little Black Bag, C. M. Kornbluth, 1950 (Astounding Science Fiction).
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The 1960s is LBJ's "War On Poverty". Also the ratcheting up of the war in Vietnam. Also, in 1965, medicare and medicaid.
The only way a street legal car decelerate at 3 G is a collision. Tire traction just isn't good for much better than 1 gravity.
People who have something better to do with their lives than digging ditches.
That DC should be considered a primary destination is a horrid comment on modern civilization. Politics in preference to production or pleasure.
Being able to follow through a math problem that someone else is showing the solution of is very much less difficult than being able to solve symbolically (for instance) a complicated system of differential equations. Much of math is very difficult, and I say this with a bachelor's in math from MIT.
There is nothing civil about the concept of god.