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by Dove 4y ago
> Type 2 diabetes is fundamentally caused by eating too much of carbohydrates. (Emphasis mine) Fructose, specifically, is the going theory. And I'm a big fan of Virtahealth specifically, and Dr. Fung's approach for treating
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by Dove 4y ago
>>"The idea that obesity could be avoided or cured with a little bookkeeping and self control" > It absolutely can. No it can't. ;) Well, not always. I've experienced both sides of this: an effortless loss of 6
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by Dove 4y ago
> The entire purpose of fat is to store excess energy for future use That isn't true. Though it's a primary use, the opening paragraph of the wikipedia article on fat outlines that it actually has many biological functions (an
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by Dove 4y ago
Well, blood sugar contains energy that has to come from somewhere, too, but one would hardly say this means type 2 diabetes is fundamentally caused by eating too much. Shoot, tumors contain energy that has to come from somewhere... Of cour
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by Dove 4y ago
Oh yeah, thanks! I have one of those I was going to try out for travel, and never got around to giving it a serious test.
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by Dove 4y ago
I appreciate the concern! I actually salinate and mineralize my own water, and agree that it's a necessity. I don't trust the pipes to keep my water clean, and I don't trust the local rocks to mineralize it properly either.
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by Dove 4y ago
Yes, I don't have a lot of faith in standard recommendations. It's not that I set out to drink that much -- I drink water to solve problems. That's just how much it usually ends up being. The idea of a one size fits all re
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by Dove 4y ago
Oh gosh. I didn't mean to touch off a controversy about fluoride. As I said, I suspect, but I don't claim to know. But if you want to know why I suspect, here is my reasoning: I can subjectively tell good and bad water apart in
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by Dove 4y ago
Two of my sons had problems with nasal congestion. They wanted to eat, but they needed to breathe even more. A baby who tries, screams, and tries again is the tell. Or who just can't seem to make up his mind as to whether he wants t
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by Dove 4y ago
I started aggressively filtering my water (Berkey black + white filters) during my last pregnancy, and I was amazed how much better I felt and how much more water I wanted to drink. I was trying very hard to drink lots of water to supp
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by Dove 4y ago
Ten weeks. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-shows-people...
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by Dove 4y ago
You know, I hadn't thought about it that way before. Perhaps the dream of a general purpose language was always incoherent. Perhaps the mess you get when perl tries to offer options to do everything well, and the suffocation you get
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by Dove 4y ago
I want to break up with Python, too. The one-size-fits-all philosophy that runs through the language from end to end leaves me feeling like I'm typing with three fingers. Sometimes its Right Way really is okay or even right, but some
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by Dove 4y ago
That's a really good question. I may have known the answer to it twenty years ago, but I don't now. XD What I can tell you is that it wouldn't have been so straightforward as that. We're not talking about an axiom-to-r
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by Dove 4y ago
AMS has a good summary: https://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2014/06/29/color-theorem
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by Dove 4y ago
You're remembering entirely correctly! I gave a talk on the Four Color Theorem as part of my master's degree in 2001, and it was a somewhat active epistemic debate among mathematicians at the time. I took the position that exami
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by Dove 4y ago
This isn't a threat to civilization. Civilization already has the tools to solve this problem. They're ancient, and (for better or worse) they're re-emerging all around us: tribalism, aristocracy, credentialism, reputation.
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by Dove 4y ago
While I don't agree with the doomsaying of the article, I do think the current round of thinking falls into the "late underestimation" category, in the grand scheme of things. Science fiction from the 1960's through abou
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by Dove 4y ago
>> I don't intent to change your mind, only to explain to you a perspective that you apparently find incomprehensible >I spent decades eating animals and claiming that I loved them. You are not exposing me to new ideas. I don&
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by Dove 4y ago
>> And your next point - war. > You're clearly an american. Your country is the only country in the world being involved in wars constantly for 250+ years, achieving so little for so high a price. Your viewpoints mirror the in
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by Dove 4y ago
>> "never personally eat meat strikes me as a bit of a neurotic, narcissistic response" > So avoiding killing is a neurotic, narcissistic response? Like, really? To industrialized abuse, yeah. My response is to check tha
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by Dove 4y ago
Because you've given me no indication in this conversation that you're worth my time to talk to. :) I don't mean that quite as rudely as it sounds, but it certainly is the case that your writing here doesn't make it so
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by Dove 4y ago
When I was in school studying computer science, as we learned about code reuse and libraries and whatnot, one student expressed a concern that all the software the world ever needed would be written, and we would be out of a job. The profe
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by Dove 4y ago
You know, I feel like that wasn't a very good answer, and I'm going to try to improve on it -- not because I expect to convince you (given the nature of the forum, I doubt you're even still reading ;) -- but because the under
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by Dove 4y ago
A quick scan of the books you recommended did not exactly make me want to read them - it sounded like the same sort of narcississm and bad philosophy that I've come to expect! Indeed, the apparent premise of the first - how can we eat
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by Dove 4y ago
> replace cow with slave People did once say such things, but they were wrong: dehumanizing humans is a mistake. But anthropomorphosizing animals is also a mistake! That people were wrong to once say humans were subhuman has nothing to
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by Dove 4y ago
The thing is, the death of the cow is necessary. It is necessary for the life of the cow. The alternative is not for the cow to go on living -- feeding and protecting and caring for cows costs money! -- the alternative is for the cow to
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by Dove 4y ago
Why are things this way? cowardice So many things in this story, and in corporate life in general, arise from fear and selfishness and shortsightedness, which take many forms. The process of bidding, and proposals, and counterbidding de
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by Dove 4y ago
I have, many times in my life, maintained direct primary care and insurance at the same time. The difference in the quality of care has been well worth the price for me, and your situation sounds worse than mine. It is not a requirement of
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by Dove 4y ago
Dude, you need direct primary care. When you pay the bills and no one else is involved, the doctor works for YOU. It's a profound difference, and one that it sounds like you need more than most. https://www.dpcare.org&#x2F

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