Ok, this article has inspired me to do some digging into High Fructose Corn Syrup.. I found this great article which points to twin studies and obesity. This confirmed a lot of my theories on weight and metabolism and a few of my pet peeves (like breast feeding and childhood obesity).
(a) sleep in the cold without the down, thick, fleece quilts (the myth about catching cold is a wives-tale)
(b) people should be arrested for child abuse when their 8 yr old is 200+ lbs
(c) it's all the High Fructose Corn Syrup that mfg-ers found they could make for cheaper than regular sugar
(d) breast feeding is one of the few obvious things in life.. if you are too lazy to breast feed for the babies first six months then give it up for adoption or pay someone to lactate for you
(e) if you are fat and it isn't from just eating too much over the last ten years, then dieting won't help.
A few points I found interesting:
95% of the obese had not been breast fed.
Recent research indicates fructose is much more damaging to the body than glucose. Massive increases in dietary fructose correspond with the rise in obesity and diabetes.
Normal adults do not retain weight brought on by a period of overeating.
Conversely, individuals whose weight gain was not caused by overeating are rarely successful at long term weight loss. The weight they lose usually comes back with considerable "interest" (rebound) which may be caused by an increase in the number of fat cell during dieting.
The commonly-held belief that the best diet for the prevention of coronary heart disease is a low saturated fat, low cholesterol is not supported by the available evidence from clinical trials.
Maternal diabetes, smoking, and malnutrition predispose the unborn to grow up fat.
Early withdrawl of breast feeding and early introduction of a high carbohydrate diet predispose the child to grow up fat.
Smokers gain weight when they quit smoking. Average is 16.7 pounds for men, 19.2 for women after 5 years. Nicotine reduces weight by increasing metabolism, not by reducing appetite or food intake.
A combination of ephedrine, caffeine, and aspirin supports modest, sustained weight loss even without prescribed caloric restriction, and may be more effective combined with diet. (though you risk insomnia, palpitations, tremor, and high blood pressure) The FDA is considering regulating ephedrine.
It has been suggested that early exposure to cold might promote adult leaness. Improvements in household heating in this century may contribute to an increase in obesity.
I guess I wasn't clear.. In the parent I am refering to the introduction of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP as a cheap, mass-produced, revolution of agriculture. It appears in everything we buy in a package from the store and I've never read much on how the body reacts to fructose vs. sucrose
Introducing (world premier on/.) the patented low-protein diet.. You are only allowed to eat butter and candy (doughnuts are the bastard child of these two).. I fear this will come to be known as the "Anna Nicole Diet"
Two things people miss is that the troubling "American" diet, is a post-60s phenomenom. It's a diet of non-whole foods and chemical additives. What Adkins does in a queer way is to have you avoid eating things which are the two biggest problems, processed sugars and processed wheats/grains.
Look at the post-70s 'revolution' of being able to manufacture sugars cheaply from corn (Akin to the corn-based fuel revolution). Cheaper fructose, glucose and sucrose syrup (sucrose = glucose-fructose di-saccharide) are the real problem in our diets.
Forget the chemical additives that we have no idea how they effect our diet (and no studies planned)... It's all the pre-processed foods that basically make it into our blood easier and cause all hell with our insulin (hence diabetes will be staggering to baby-boomers).
Research by the American Cancer Society indicates that regular users of artificial sweeteners tend to gain weight not lose it. It is believed this is because artificial sweeteners may slow down digestion and increase appetite.
Saccharin is 300 times sweeter than sugar. Acesulfame-K is 200 times sweeter than sugar.
There was a new 'sugar' I saw on a fark article that I can't remember the name (tuctose or something) that is 'natural' and less caloric than conventional sugar and they've found a way to mass-produce it cheaply.
Yes, there are evolutionary effect of diet (like the American Indians who thrive on low-calorie nut & berry diet) but this is a recent problem thanks to fast-food and mother "all-natural" chemical.
Why can't people see this is the same FUD as RIAA/MPAA is using against file-sharing. A few lawsuits that are largely irrelevant, some press (good and bad), and some political action and interest.
At the end of the day the majority walk away with this subliminal-message (maybe it's SUPER-liminal) that linux / GPL / free-software / file-sharing / mp3's //etc/ is the realm of the thieves, pirates, copy-ers, teenage punks, hackers..
This isn't *news*.. basically most states are trying to be the next nano-silicon-valley. The funding for most of these new research facilities has come most often each the state's tobacco settlement $$.
Give the information to your local newspapers and TV news programs. . . and the reporters will love you because you saved them from doing any pesky work for themselves.
Coming up after the break, weather and the world series, but first let's go out to Field Reporter Trisha Takinowa with this report on a man and him crusade... Trisha..
Thanks Don. We are here to interview a man who used nmap and DNS records to trace down a serial.. um, emailer. Please tell us how you did it, knowing that the community is a little safer tonight and forever in your debt. The hard part of tracking these criminals down is now over, and all that is left is to praise you and love you for all that you have done for us. Please leave no details out, tell us about every IP, URL, exe, port, traceroute and DNS entry.
So I got out my Internet Explorer(cause that's what the article says the website needed) and clicked on all those websites mentioned in the article, but nothing loaded... The page was just blank. Oh, my firewall did ask me something about something called DNS, so I clicked 'OK'.. Could someone please email me what was on the site that I was supposed to look at? He said it might be pron;)
Something must be up. They are contracting with auditing firms to check up on licenses which seems rather expensive in my opinion.
They have recently decided to audit my University (the formerly largest single campus in the country) and the IT folks have required everyone to report every version of Adobe products (even the fonts!) that happen to be installed in any machine on the network..(even personal boxen) (and yes, that includes the campus-wide wireless network and laptops from home) Which I don't really get cause I believe there are university-wide agreements, edu only uses, and many students and mostly just the 'free' reader is installed.
Would *you* invest even $10 unless you saw the source code that has caused all this commotion?! Clearly they have (NDA or sleazy-laywer-special-handshake) viewed the key documents and invested.
Geeks of the world unite. If every engineer would build software and hardware that would mysteriously fail if coming across certain lawyer words, maybe there would be hope. Maybe we can drive the lawyers back into using typewriters and snail mail and their lawyer bad words wouldn't transmit over VoIP
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 16, @02:10PM vb4hire writes "What if you took today's "3D Grand Theft Auto" playing 12 yr olds, and put them in front of the classic games of the 70s and 80s?? Electronic Gaming Monthly has a hilarious article where the author has done just that. "(Pong) It takes this whole console just to do Pong?" "(Mattell Football) EGM: It's one of the first great portable games. Brian: I thought it was Run Away From the Dots." "(Tetris) Which button do I press to make the blocks explode?""
How these guys can reverse engineer in the day of DCMA astounds me. Speaking of greyscale images are interesting.. And I'll hint people towards looking at a Transmeta chip.
Isn't this the same as the Tamagotchi electronic pets that you have to feed at certain times and sleeps based on internal clock. Also those robotic pets (AIBO, etc) that have similar behaviors.
Jim Alchin (Windows OS Chief) on Open-Source:
CNET 2/14/2001 "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business."
"I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
"We can build a better product than Linux. There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free."
Bill Gates on Linux IP:
CRN 7/25/2003 "There's no question that in cloning activities, IP from many, many companies, including Microsoft, is being used in open-source software."
Bill Gates on beating Linux at any price:
USA Today 6/30/2003 "Well I'm not sure what you mean by undercutting. We will never have a price lower than Linux, in terms of just what you charge for the software. We compete on the basis of, if you look at the value you get out of the system and the overall cost that the system has that apply in our software.
Bill Gates on standards:
CNN 9/18/2003
Gates said the Redmond, Washington-based company's work toward Web services standards would be "royalty free."... "I can't believe I said that," Gates joked.
Balmer on Linux:
E-week "Can IBM give you a product roadmap for Linux? Can they deliver new features and fixes to Linux? Does it indemnify the intellectual property in Linux? No, no and no,"
Just let the cheaters go on their merry way. Your prof doesn't want to deal with it.. Your school doesn't want to deal with it.. And if it ever went to a judicial review thingy, you won't want to deal with it.
Besides, people who cheat in these classes will just go on to be your managers and bosses eventually (assuming you leave academia)... Move along people, nothing more to see here.
I'm asuming the next posted Ask Slashdot will be to explain kbs vs. kB/sec (print screen and scroll lock have already been covered)
I actually think this concept is more confusing and harmful to consumers than the old 1024/1000 problem. With wireless networks going crazy in sales at the Best Buy, I could see people not liking the whole 1Mbps and transfer rates of 'up to 4 MB/s'
Not only is a transfer rate MB/s possibly a MiB/s, but I've noticed USB2.0 uses bandwidth rates and not baud and/or 54Mbps. (Are we allowed to refer to baud anymore?)
'resale' value of our files is very large -- who else can ask for $100,000 for a single mp3?
IT department is clueless and even hostile AND our network is so outdated -- who do we know that is technologically clueless?
We are a likely target of pirates -- hmmm.. who could possibly have made themselves intraweb-public-enemy-no.1?? (no, not SCO, they are ruled out by the first item on the list)
I've been tasked with securing our electronic files -- and who could possibly be just now in 2003 thinking about *finally* securing their files... BTW, Who says 'electronic files'?! What other files could you be refering to on/. !? And what kind of IT guy gets this info by posting online??!
Geez, this is not news, Vegas (and other resorts) have been doing this for awhile. If you are staying at a hotel you are encouraged to use your equivalent of the grocery-store shopper card. This serves two purposes, (a) hotel guests spend more money gambling in their casino owned by their hotel and (b) Vegas can optimize their payout... (oh and (c) you spend more when it's virtual cash). They can track consumer behavior and demographics. All the more reason to only play with cash and forego the comps. The same goes for grocery-store cards.. consumers get screwed in the long run.
I mean (of course) not that they modify any odds, but that they can "comp" certian guests and give free meals, shows, etc. to guest to 'perceive' they got something for all the cash they lost at the slot machines and more likely to return and/or spend more gambling. And after all the 'odds' we are speaking about is really return on investment (negative in most cases).
As far as Nevada gaming commision goes, slot machines don't have to meet any 'perfectly random' requirement. Machines can be (I mean ARE IN FACT) designed to payout differently depending on how full they are, where in the casino they are (ie. by the entrances/exits), what time of day, what time they were last serviced. What the casino must maintain is an overall average payout (usually around 95% on the strip and 98%+ in the suburbs).. Which means best case you are losing money over the long run.
However, many professional gamblers make a living playing video poker which *if* you play *perfectly* can payout >100%.. I've heard that 40hrs/wk in front of a video poker machine can earn you at least $20k/yr (asuming you have enough cash to ride out a losing streak) (Oh and don't believe what you hear on Travel Channel or ABC about casinos and resorts, they are designed to bring in customers
Wouldn't it be tastily IRONIC if the telemarketing folks did battle with the direct mailing / spammer folks?! And they both influence legislation to abolish each other's busines practices!
I think all the/. effort should be put into:
adding telemarketer's email to spammer's lists
adding spammers home phone #'s to the 'prior-business-relationship' list for ATA, et. al.
adding laywers for both groups (and the RIAA/MPAA) to both of the above
Slashdot Mirror
(a) sleep in the cold without the down, thick, fleece quilts (the myth about catching cold is a wives-tale)
(b) people should be arrested for child abuse when their 8 yr old is 200+ lbs
(c) it's all the High Fructose Corn Syrup that mfg-ers found they could make for cheaper than regular sugar
(d) breast feeding is one of the few obvious things in life.. if you are too lazy to breast feed for the babies first six months then give it up for adoption or pay someone to lactate for you
(e) if you are fat and it isn't from just eating too much over the last ten years, then dieting won't help.
A few points I found interesting:
95% of the obese had not been breast fed.
Recent research indicates fructose is much more damaging to the body than glucose. Massive increases in dietary fructose correspond with the rise in obesity and diabetes.
Normal adults do not retain weight brought on by a period of overeating.
Conversely, individuals whose weight gain was not caused by overeating are rarely successful at long term weight loss. The weight they lose usually comes back with considerable "interest" (rebound) which may be caused by an increase in the number of fat cell during dieting.
The commonly-held belief that the best diet for the prevention of coronary heart disease is a low saturated fat, low cholesterol is not supported by the available evidence from clinical trials.
Maternal diabetes, smoking, and malnutrition predispose the unborn to grow up fat.
Early withdrawl of breast feeding and early introduction of a high carbohydrate diet predispose the child to grow up fat.
Smokers gain weight when they quit smoking. Average is 16.7 pounds for men, 19.2 for women after 5 years. Nicotine reduces weight by increasing metabolism, not by reducing appetite or food intake.
A combination of ephedrine, caffeine, and aspirin supports modest, sustained weight loss even without prescribed caloric restriction, and may be more effective combined with diet. (though you risk insomnia, palpitations, tremor, and high blood pressure) The FDA is considering regulating ephedrine.
It has been suggested that early exposure to cold might promote adult leaness. Improvements in household heating in this century may contribute to an increase in obesity.
I guess I wasn't clear.. In the parent I am refering to the introduction of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP as a cheap, mass-produced, revolution of agriculture. It appears in everything we buy in a package from the store and I've never read much on how the body reacts to fructose vs. sucrose
All this talk of low-fat, and low-carb diets...
/.) the patented low-protein diet..
Introducing (world premier on
You are only allowed to eat butter and candy (doughnuts are the bastard child of these two)..
I fear this will come to be known as the "Anna Nicole Diet"
Two things people miss is that the troubling "American" diet, is a post-60s phenomenom. It's a diet of non-whole foods and chemical additives. What Adkins does in a queer way is to have you avoid eating things which are the two biggest problems, processed sugars and processed wheats/grains.
Look at the post-70s 'revolution' of being able to manufacture sugars cheaply from corn (Akin to the corn-based fuel revolution). Cheaper fructose, glucose and sucrose syrup (sucrose = glucose-fructose di-saccharide) are the real problem in our diets. Forget the chemical additives that we have no idea how they effect our diet (and no studies planned)... It's all the pre-processed foods that basically make it into our blood easier and cause all hell with our insulin (hence diabetes will be staggering to baby-boomers).
Research by the American Cancer Society indicates that regular users of artificial sweeteners tend to gain weight not lose it. It is believed this is because artificial sweeteners may slow down digestion and increase appetite.
Saccharin is 300 times sweeter than sugar. Acesulfame-K is 200 times sweeter than sugar. There was a new 'sugar' I saw on a fark article that I can't remember the name (tuctose or something) that is 'natural' and less caloric than conventional sugar and they've found a way to mass-produce it cheaply.
Yes, there are evolutionary effect of diet (like the American Indians who thrive on low-calorie nut & berry diet) but this is a recent problem thanks to fast-food and mother "all-natural" chemical.
Why can't people see this is the same FUD as RIAA/MPAA is using against file-sharing. A few lawsuits that are largely irrelevant, some press (good and bad), and some political action and interest.
/etc/ is the realm of the thieves, pirates, copy-ers, teenage punks, hackers..
At the end of the day the majority walk away with this subliminal-message (maybe it's SUPER-liminal) that linux / GPL / free-software / file-sharing / mp3's /
This isn't *news*.. basically most states are trying to be the next nano-silicon-valley. The funding for most of these new research facilities has come most often each the state's tobacco settlement $$.
Your GF sucks. Leave her for a pop-up free GF, maybe even one with tabs!!
Thanks Don. We are here to interview a man who used nmap and DNS records to trace down a serial.. um, emailer. Please tell us how you did it, knowing that the community is a little safer tonight and forever in your debt. The hard part of tracking these criminals down is now over, and all that is left is to praise you and love you for all that you have done for us. Please leave no details out, tell us about every IP, URL, exe, port, traceroute and DNS entry.
So I got out my Internet Explorer (cause that's what the article says the website needed) and clicked on all those websites mentioned in the article, but nothing loaded... The page was just blank. Oh, my firewall did ask me something about something called DNS, so I clicked 'OK'.. Could someone please email me what was on the site that I was supposed to look at? He said it might be pron ;)
Thanks in advanced.
torrents buck the /. effect and actually improve the overall transfer of the files to you. (Assuming you can get the torrent
downloaded.
Something must be up. They are contracting with auditing firms to check up on licenses which seems rather expensive in my opinion.
They have recently decided to audit my University (the formerly largest single campus in the country) and the IT folks have required everyone to report every version of Adobe products (even the fonts!) that happen to be installed in any machine on the network..(even personal boxen) (and yes, that includes the campus-wide wireless network and laptops from home) Which I don't really get cause I believe there are university-wide agreements, edu only uses, and many students and mostly just the 'free' reader is installed.
Would *you* invest even $10 unless you saw the source code that has caused all this commotion?! Clearly they have (NDA or sleazy-laywer-special-handshake) viewed the key documents and invested.
Geeks of the world unite. If every engineer would build software and hardware that would mysteriously fail if coming across certain lawyer words, maybe there would be hope. Maybe we can drive the lawyers back into using typewriters and snail mail and their lawyer bad words wouldn't transmit over VoIP
How funny.. on the main page:
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 16, @02:10PM
vb4hire writes "What if you took today's "3D Grand Theft Auto" playing 12 yr olds, and put them in front of the classic games of the 70s and 80s?? Electronic Gaming Monthly has a hilarious article where the author has done just that. "(Pong) It takes this whole console just to do Pong?" "(Mattell Football) EGM: It's one of the first great portable games. Brian: I thought it was Run Away From the Dots." "(Tetris) Which button do I press to make the blocks explode?""
The story looked oddly familiar..
The silicon zoo page is so old and busted.
Here's a dose of new hotness: Chipworks
How these guys can reverse engineer in the day of DCMA astounds me. Speaking of greyscale images are interesting.. And I'll hint people towards looking at a Transmeta chip.
Isn't this the same as the Tamagotchi electronic pets that you have to feed at certain times and sleeps based on internal clock. Also those robotic pets (AIBO, etc) that have similar behaviors.
Jim Alchin (Windows OS Chief) on Open-Source: CNET 2/14/2001
... "I can't believe I said that," Gates joked.
"Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business."
"I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
"We can build a better product than Linux. There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free."
Bill Gates on Linux IP: CRN 7/25/2003
"There's no question that in cloning activities, IP from many, many companies, including Microsoft, is being used in open-source software."
Bill Gates on beating Linux at any price: USA Today 6/30/2003
"Well I'm not sure what you mean by undercutting. We will never have a price lower than Linux, in terms of just what you charge for the software. We compete on the basis of, if you look at the value you get out of the system and the overall cost that the system has that apply in our software.
Bill Gates on standards: CNN 9/18/2003
Gates said the Redmond, Washington-based company's work toward Web services standards would be "royalty free."
Balmer on Linux: E-week
"Can IBM give you a product roadmap for Linux? Can they deliver new features and fixes to Linux? Does it indemnify the intellectual property in Linux? No, no and no,"
Just let the cheaters go on their merry way. Your prof doesn't want to deal with it.. Your school doesn't want to deal with it.. And if it ever went to a judicial review thingy, you won't want to deal with it.
Besides, people who cheat in these classes will just go on to be your managers and bosses eventually (assuming you leave academia)... Move along people, nothing more to see here.
I'm asuming the next posted Ask Slashdot will be to explain kbs vs. kB/sec (print screen and scroll lock have already been covered)
I actually think this concept is more confusing and harmful to consumers than the old 1024/1000 problem. With wireless networks going crazy in sales at the Best Buy, I could see people not liking the whole 1Mbps and transfer rates of 'up to 4 MB/s'
Not only is a transfer rate MB/s possibly a MiB/s, but I've noticed USB2.0 uses bandwidth rates and not baud and/or 54Mbps. (Are we allowed to refer to baud anymore?)
'resale' value of our files is very large -- who else can ask for $100,000 for a single mp3?
IT department is clueless and even hostile AND our network is so outdated -- who do we know that is technologically clueless?
We are a likely target of pirates -- hmmm.. who could possibly have made themselves intraweb-public-enemy-no.1?? (no, not SCO, they are ruled out by the first item on the list)
I've been tasked with securing our electronic files -- and who could possibly be just now in 2003 thinking about *finally* securing their files... BTW, Who says 'electronic files'?! What other files could you be refering to on /. !? And what kind of IT guy gets this info by posting online??!
Geez, this is not news, Vegas (and other resorts) have been doing this for awhile. If you are staying at a hotel you are encouraged to use your equivalent of the grocery-store shopper card. This serves two purposes, (a) hotel guests spend more money gambling in their casino owned by their hotel and (b) Vegas can optimize their payout... (oh and (c) you spend more when it's virtual cash). They can track consumer behavior and demographics. All the more reason to only play with cash and forego the comps. The same goes for grocery-store cards.. consumers get screwed in the long run.
I mean (of course) not that they modify any odds, but that they can "comp" certian guests and give free meals, shows, etc. to guest to 'perceive' they got something for all the cash they lost at the slot machines and more likely to return and/or spend more gambling. And after all the 'odds' we are speaking about is really return on investment (negative in most cases).
As far as Nevada gaming commision goes, slot machines don't have to meet any 'perfectly random' requirement. Machines can be (I mean ARE IN FACT) designed to payout differently depending on how full they are, where in the casino they are (ie. by the entrances/exits), what time of day, what time they were last serviced. What the casino must maintain is an overall average payout (usually around 95% on the strip and 98%+ in the suburbs).. Which means best case you are losing money over the long run.
However, many professional gamblers make a living playing video poker which *if* you play *perfectly* can payout >100%.. I've heard that 40hrs/wk in front of a video poker machine can earn you at least $20k/yr (asuming you have enough cash to ride out a losing streak) (Oh and don't believe what you hear on Travel Channel or ABC about casinos and resorts, they are designed to bring in customers
I think all the
adding telemarketer's email to spammer's lists
adding spammers home phone #'s to the 'prior-business-relationship' list for ATA, et. al.
adding laywers for both groups (and the RIAA/MPAA) to both of the above
profit!
Did you remember the cover sheet?!
Are you selling anything as a telemarketer?
Since this is a political solicitation, you are exempt from DNC lists.
Damn straight..
No Mac until I get >= 2 mouse-damn-buttons
Why can't Apple figure this simple equation out?!
You mean to say:
Two procesors are *twice* as fast ?!