It also depends on the extraction methods. Since stevia is extracted from a plant, high quality stevia will have less of those chemicals, because it uses a better extraction methods. It could also be that the people in Japan are better at the art of extracting the stevosides from stevia. But again, people taste very different, so YMMV. I've tasted some pretty bitter stevia before, and I've tasted some REALLY sweet stevia before.
Right now I use Sweet Leaf liquid. The Sweet Leaf powder was bitter. I've also tried NuNaturals granulated stevia, and it's not bitter at all.
I think that, unlike manufactured sweeteners, stevia can be of varying qualities. I always get a stevia extract with the bitterness removed. In this form, it's a white powder. It's at least as good as other artificial sweeteners.
Stevia can also have some flavor of its own, much like honey. Sure, honey is a sweetener, but it tastes like honey. For most people, sugar (and artificial sweeteners) just taste sweet. Of course, there is a much wider variance in how people taste than most of the other senses, so YMMV.
But my comment was more to the issue that in the US, stevia can only be marketed as a "dietary supplement" and not as a sweetener.
This is very true. It's the same argument I make about people being poor. People don't choose to be fat OR poor. I think they either (1) don't know how to be anything else (lack of education) or (2) exist in an environment where they cannot overcome it. Or a little of both. No finance classes in schools, no nutrition classes in schools. At least not the public schools I went to. I was class of '01, so maybe things have changed since.
You can do the math yourself. Figure how how many calories per dollar you get at fast food vs. buying food from the store. That's actually a poor way to measure it, but it's much harder to measure "nutritional value". Pasta with sauce isn't as diverse nutritionally as a cheeseburger, sad to say.
A double cheeseburger from McDonalds costs $1. That's 440 calories. Use that as a starting point. Might figure in a little extra on the food you cook yourself, because you're supplying electricity(or gas), time, cookware, and dishes (which you have to wash afterwards).
Actually, frozen dinners are typically very healthy because they control portion sizes. And since most of the vegetables are flash-frozen, probably fresher, too. But they ARE still more expensive than $1 cheeseburgers, both in terms of kCal's and their ability to offset hunger.
Another question: What if I always wear sunscreen when I am outdoors? Will that block the UV light that causes vitamin D? It sounds like a balancing act. I think I'm just going to pick up some supplements. Thanks for the info, doc.:)
Or the wealthy stockholders who demand more and more profits. At least the MBAs work everyday instead of living a life of luxury. They're just doing what they have to do to keep getting their piece of cheese from the people with all the cheese, just like the rest of us. They facilitate the greed, but they're not the necessarily source of it.
Wikipedia has gone beyond a traditional encyclopedia, though. Both in how many topics it covers, and that detail of information on each topic. For some articles, the information listed it more detailed than some textbooks I've seen, but of course YMMV. I'm not saying it should be a primary source, but not for the reason of "it's an encyclopedia!"
Also, the smart kids are going to be the ones that solve society's problems. Why would you want to impede their development by focusing on getting the slow kids up to a minimum? I mean, enough smart kids being pushed into science, and we might be able to avoid having slow kids at all. We can't do that as long as we're spending tons of money on the low end of the spectrum.
What makes it *your* money? And what makes little slips of paper or numbers in a bank's computer worth *anything*? Ponder those questions.
I'll elaborate a little. Money is only worth anything because it exists in a system where it has value. You also only have any of it because of that same system.
Sometimes the mechanics of that system benefit you, sometimes they don't. If you make a lot of money, and thus pay high taxes -- you're probably benefiting quite well from the system. If you need to ride on the free bus to your low-wage job, you're probably not benefiting very well from the system. But without those low-wage jobs being filled by *someone* (who you probably want to be someone other than you), the whole system would come crashing down, and *your* money wouldn't be worth anything.
I don't think they people who cite race as an obstacle for Obama are necessarily bigoted -- they just realize a lot of voters are. They see a win for the party as more important than a win for a candidate, and are trying to get whoever they think has a better chance of beating McCain into the running.
In defense of that argument, being electable in the general elections versus a republican can be different from being electable in primaries -- mainly because it's almost exclusively the party's base (political junkies) voting in primaries. With the general elections, you have a lot more moderate and independent voters thrown into the mix, who don't identify enough as a republican or democrat to be registered, and to go vote in the primaries. I'm a strong liberal, for example, but I didn't vote in the primaries. I will definitely vote in the general election.
It should be just the opposite. Since fragmentation isn't really a big issue on SSD's, and since wear leveling would use free space that's been written to the least times -- it seems like a sector marked as "free" during a delete wouldn't be overwritten until the rest of the disk filled up.
I eat fast food all the time, and I've LOST 10 pounds in the last month and a half. I just count calories. A large diet coke and a double cheeseburger (no fries!) from McDonald's is only 440 calories, and reasonably filling. McChicken is 360, but a little less because I get it without mayo.. Chicken Nuggets are 420 for a ten piece.
It's probably not very nutritious to eat those things, but it's certainly not going to make you gain weight as long as you control your potions. I take a multi-vitamin daily, and do eat lots of fruits. Mostly because they're low calorie, yummy, and convenient.
I suggest the GP check out The Hacker's Diet. Your body is a machine, and losing weight is just an engineering problem.
The ticket I had didn't even come with a court date. To get a court date, you had to go, in person, to the police station on particular days of the week on particular hours. Something like Tues-Thurs, 1-4 p.m. I am not kidding. Trying to take it to court was the most inconvenient thing ever, because I was seriously going to.
Another interested thing about my ticket, is that it said if I didn't pay, I would be sent to collections. Not that they would suspend my license, but that I'd be sent to collections. As far as I could tell, it was civil court, not criminal. I figured my odds against "preponderance of evidence" was a lot less than "beyond a reasonable doubt" anyway. They didn't even have a photograph showing that I was actually driving.
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It also depends on the extraction methods. Since stevia is extracted from a plant, high quality stevia will have less of those chemicals, because it uses a better extraction methods. It could also be that the people in Japan are better at the art of extracting the stevosides from stevia. But again, people taste very different, so YMMV. I've tasted some pretty bitter stevia before, and I've tasted some REALLY sweet stevia before.
Right now I use Sweet Leaf liquid. The Sweet Leaf powder was bitter. I've also tried NuNaturals granulated stevia, and it's not bitter at all.
I think that, unlike manufactured sweeteners, stevia can be of varying qualities. I always get a stevia extract with the bitterness removed. In this form, it's a white powder. It's at least as good as other artificial sweeteners.
Stevia can also have some flavor of its own, much like honey. Sure, honey is a sweetener, but it tastes like honey. For most people, sugar (and artificial sweeteners) just taste sweet. Of course, there is a much wider variance in how people taste than most of the other senses, so YMMV.
But my comment was more to the issue that in the US, stevia can only be marketed as a "dietary supplement" and not as a sweetener.
I did not know that. I don't have mod points, but wanted to tell you thanks for sharing. :)
This is very true. It's the same argument I make about people being poor. People don't choose to be fat OR poor. I think they either (1) don't know how to be anything else (lack of education) or (2) exist in an environment where they cannot overcome it. Or a little of both. No finance classes in schools, no nutrition classes in schools. At least not the public schools I went to. I was class of '01, so maybe things have changed since.
You can do the math yourself. Figure how how many calories per dollar you get at fast food vs. buying food from the store. That's actually a poor way to measure it, but it's much harder to measure "nutritional value". Pasta with sauce isn't as diverse nutritionally as a cheeseburger, sad to say.
A double cheeseburger from McDonalds costs $1. That's 440 calories. Use that as a starting point. Might figure in a little extra on the food you cook yourself, because you're supplying electricity(or gas), time, cookware, and dishes (which you have to wash afterwards).
And don't get me started on corn syrup vs. sugar vs. STEVIA. For god's sakes, why can't we sell stevia as a no-cal sweetener?!
Actually, frozen dinners are typically very healthy because they control portion sizes. And since most of the vegetables are flash-frozen, probably fresher, too. But they ARE still more expensive than $1 cheeseburgers, both in terms of kCal's and their ability to offset hunger.
Yeah, I was going to say, "But you're discounting vamprism!"
Another question: What if I always wear sunscreen when I am outdoors? Will that block the UV light that causes vitamin D? It sounds like a balancing act. I think I'm just going to pick up some supplements. Thanks for the info, doc. :)
Or the wealthy stockholders who demand more and more profits. At least the MBAs work everyday instead of living a life of luxury. They're just doing what they have to do to keep getting their piece of cheese from the people with all the cheese, just like the rest of us. They facilitate the greed, but they're not the necessarily source of it.
Wikipedia has gone beyond a traditional encyclopedia, though. Both in how many topics it covers, and that detail of information on each topic. For some articles, the information listed it more detailed than some textbooks I've seen, but of course YMMV. I'm not saying it should be a primary source, but not for the reason of "it's an encyclopedia!"
Also, the smart kids are going to be the ones that solve society's problems. Why would you want to impede their development by focusing on getting the slow kids up to a minimum? I mean, enough smart kids being pushed into science, and we might be able to avoid having slow kids at all. We can't do that as long as we're spending tons of money on the low end of the spectrum.
I ask this question legitimately: As someone with experience in the area, what is your opinion of Windows Mobile in an enterprise environment?
What makes it *your* money? And what makes little slips of paper or numbers in a bank's computer worth *anything*? Ponder those questions.
I'll elaborate a little. Money is only worth anything because it exists in a system where it has value. You also only have any of it because of that same system.
Sometimes the mechanics of that system benefit you, sometimes they don't. If you make a lot of money, and thus pay high taxes -- you're probably benefiting quite well from the system. If you need to ride on the free bus to your low-wage job, you're probably not benefiting very well from the system. But without those low-wage jobs being filled by *someone* (who you probably want to be someone other than you), the whole system would come crashing down, and *your* money wouldn't be worth anything.
I don't think they people who cite race as an obstacle for Obama are necessarily bigoted -- they just realize a lot of voters are. They see a win for the party as more important than a win for a candidate, and are trying to get whoever they think has a better chance of beating McCain into the running.
In defense of that argument, being electable in the general elections versus a republican can be different from being electable in primaries -- mainly because it's almost exclusively the party's base (political junkies) voting in primaries. With the general elections, you have a lot more moderate and independent voters thrown into the mix, who don't identify enough as a republican or democrat to be registered, and to go vote in the primaries. I'm a strong liberal, for example, but I didn't vote in the primaries. I will definitely vote in the general election.
It should be just the opposite. Since fragmentation isn't really a big issue on SSD's, and since wear leveling would use free space that's been written to the least times -- it seems like a sector marked as "free" during a delete wouldn't be overwritten until the rest of the disk filled up.
I guess these IT guys have never heard of The Hacker's Diet. The body is a big machine, and how much is weighs is just an engineering problem.
A lot of people want to insist that it's full of vagaries and hocus-pocus, but it's really not. It's all about calorie intake vs. calories used.
I eat fast food all the time, and I've LOST 10 pounds in the last month and a half. I just count calories. A large diet coke and a double cheeseburger (no fries!) from McDonald's is only 440 calories, and reasonably filling. McChicken is 360, but a little less because I get it without mayo.. Chicken Nuggets are 420 for a ten piece.
It's probably not very nutritious to eat those things, but it's certainly not going to make you gain weight as long as you control your potions. I take a multi-vitamin daily, and do eat lots of fruits. Mostly because they're low calorie, yummy, and convenient.
I suggest the GP check out The Hacker's Diet. Your body is a machine, and losing weight is just an engineering problem.
Some students can't even pay for lunch. How are they supposed to pay for printing their books, too?
Money only really matters when you don't have enough. The less you have, the more it matters.
And I don't mean enough for a big screen TV, I mean enough to support yourself.
The ticket I had didn't even come with a court date. To get a court date, you had to go, in person, to the police station on particular days of the week on particular hours. Something like Tues-Thurs, 1-4 p.m. I am not kidding. Trying to take it to court was the most inconvenient thing ever, because I was seriously going to.
Another interested thing about my ticket, is that it said if I didn't pay, I would be sent to collections. Not that they would suspend my license, but that I'd be sent to collections. As far as I could tell, it was civil court, not criminal. I figured my odds against "preponderance of evidence" was a lot less than "beyond a reasonable doubt" anyway. They didn't even have a photograph showing that I was actually driving.
Here's the link to the actual story:
http://www.motorists.org/blog/red-light-cameras/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/
Why only private companies? The revenue goes somewhere, even if it's back into the county coffers.
In the 2000s, it triumphed over common sense.