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Coffee genome sheds light on the evolution of caffeine(sciencedaily.com)
3 points by shanev 12y ago|0 comments
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by shanev 12y ago
I was just going to post this! First thing I thought of.
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by shanev 12y ago
Pairs well with this book review of Bad Pharma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8012263 .
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by shanev 12y ago
It's called cold thermogensis [1]. Fat burning could be one benefit, but apparently it can help your body get more adapted to changes in temperature. Some people who do cold plunges or cold showers feel that they can handle temperature
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by shanev 12y ago
I started a company (LLC) for my own app business. It's not a startup, but it's not contract work either. I make apps and sell them on the App Store. It's been profitable for nearly six years now. It's just a regular bus
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by shanev 12y ago
Desi is bit of a strange term for some. As a person of Sri Lankan origin, I don't know any other Sri Lankans who refer to themselves as desi. I didn't hear the term myself until college. I don't know why we need a new term wh
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by shanev 12y ago
Apparently it still is unfathomable that fat may actually be good for you since that sentence was included in the article.
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by shanev 13y ago
This is not surprising to me at all. Pathogenic bacteria linked to diseases such as Crohn's and IBS are only pathogenic if we get them later in life. When we get these bacteria in childhood, before the age of 7, they grow symbiotically
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by shanev 13y ago
Hiring bias is alive and well. My cousins, one guy, one girl, are half South Asian and half white, both with a long "ethnic" last name. The girl cousin always had trouble getting a job deserving of her skills until she married a g
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by shanev 13y ago
I believe another reason teenagers are leaving Facebook is the insistence of using your real identity. Teens don't want their mom finding them online. That's why they're flocking to services where they can be anonymous, like
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Most doctors don't have a clue about proper nutrition and promote the Standard American Diet, which is a recipe for diabetes and heart disease.
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It’s great to see other tech people educate themselves about health and help break the stereotypes of the ramen eating, soda drinking nerd. This story reads almost like what happened to my dad last year. He complained of shortness of breath
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Apps that use Mixpanel are most likely the kind of apps that folks with 5s's would use. Therefore I'd take this data with a grain of salt.
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The consequences of sugar addiction don't manifest themselves in an acute form immediately. They usually happen later in life, in the form of diabetes or some other inflammatory disease. Being harmful doesn't necessarily have to b
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by shanev 13y ago
To fix healthcare we need less technology, not more. People are getting cancer and diabetes because we've gone from eating nutrient dense high quality food to industrially processed corn, soy, and wheat-based junk. We have to stop th
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by shanev 13y ago
Even better. Doesn't necessarily have to be in pill form. Alternatively you can have your kids visit a farm every weekend, although that might be leaving too much to chance.
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There's a flip side to this story. While it's true that rates of certain acute diseases have gone down since NYC has gotten cleaner, rates of chronic diseases such as asthma have gone up. There's a school of thought that thin
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by shanev 13y ago
Latest in Paleo is a great resource to keep up with health news, and Anthony Coppola is a very inspiring guy. I really like Robb Wolf's podcast as well as it occasionally has some science (scary!) for us who like to geek out on this st
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by shanev 13y ago
Despite the sensationalist headline, the author knew exactly what he was doing. He basically did a paleo diet, and references a bunch of books that are popular in the community. Mark's Daily Apple features a success story like this eve
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Korea's other major airline, Korean Air, has the 5th worst safety record among international airlines [1]. In that case, cultural issues was the problem: http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/12/04/ma
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by shanev 13y ago
Companies that market these products is what bothers me the most. I read somewhere that some women in Africa were feeding their babies Coca Cola because they thought it was healthier than breast milk.
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by shanev 13y ago
This article should be renamed "How to sustain yourself on £1 a day". It's amazing how the word "healthy" can mean different things based on your knowledge of nutrition. This article is a perfect example of someone whose nutritional knowled
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by shanev 13y ago
Scientists also once thought the Earth was flat. All matters of health and nutrition should factor in biological anthropology (hippie bullshit, apparently). That kid that you don't breastfeed is going to end being more expensive in the futu
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by shanev 13y ago
Babies shouldn't be eating crap that comes in a package anyway. They should be drinking breast milk, and eventually graduate to eggs (not the plastic kind) and normal human food.
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by shanev 14y ago
The solving world hunger aspect of this post is laughable. This highly processed shake can be made from local agriculture. Great! Why not just eat the local agriculture itself ? You wouldn't have to build the infrastructure to process real
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by shanev 14y ago
My thinking exactly. Cool science project, but doesn't resemble a real life pit at all. The circle pit and people pushing along the perimeter are required.
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It's relevant because they were mostly disease free on that diet. We switched our diet on a dime and now we're sick.
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by shanev 14y ago
Who is Instacart's target market? Are people really too busy to go to the grocery store and are willing to pay a premium for delivery? Amazon works because their items are actually cheaper than retail. If Amazon items were priced at a premi
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by shanev 14y ago
A diet we've been eating for 3 million years is a fad? Wow, I'd like to know what you think of Italian food then, a nano fad?
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by shanev 14y ago
A digestive system simulator. Input your biomarkers and some other statistics about yourself and your level of activity. Select a food and quantity. It will tell you how your body would process it. How much would turn to fat, how it will af

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