tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post7604556212958448553..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Odds and EndsTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-55577425420462007112014-05-19T00:01:17.849-04:002014-05-19T00:01:17.849-04:00Consumption of fat declined. Heart disease mortali...Consumption of fat declined. Heart disease mortality rates also declined. So far the anti-fat prediction is holding. OTOH, it might be <a href="http://www.tylervigen.com/" rel="nofollow">spurious</a>.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-32027840942140302562014-05-16T23:44:17.234-04:002014-05-16T23:44:17.234-04:00Similarly, skim milk in early childhood actually c...Similarly, skim milk in early childhood actually causes weight gain (something Hilaire Belloc mentioned somewhere, around 1909, with regard to the raising of piglets). The child's body says "Milk with no fat? Plainly Mom is starving. Better pack on the pounds, this is gonna be rough!"Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-46049523454980960492014-05-16T23:04:47.012-04:002014-05-16T23:04:47.012-04:00To paraphrase our host, as a historian, Fukuyama i...To paraphrase our host, as a historian, Fukuyama is an okay political economist. (And to borrow a gag from Mike Nelson, "You'd probably be better off with the historical speculations of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FiG0qdSkEE" rel="nofollow"><i>Jun</i> Fukuyama</a>.")Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-35392758230388225322014-05-16T16:47:43.450-04:002014-05-16T16:47:43.450-04:00Ironically, removing all (or even most) fat from y...Ironically, removing all (or even most) fat from your diet tends to have the adverse affect of making your body think that you are starving, and thus, makes it want to both hold onto fat and turn carbs into fat. <br /><br />If you have to choose between adding fat or carbs to your diet, generally you should add the fat, since carbs are usually what all that extra weight is made from; it doesn't take much extra fat to make you feel full, but it takes ALOT of extra carbs. That's why a type 1 diabetic diet is usually the most effective for maintaining weight loss, since it focuses on regulating carbs. Timotheoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09848027239405239382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-23605434362533211072014-05-16T12:07:56.392-04:002014-05-16T12:07:56.392-04:00The last one is an error, if it's in reference...The last one is an error, if it's in reference to Ali. She's not a muslim woman - ex-muslim, atheist activist.<br /><br />Here's part of the wiki entry regarding her:<br /><br /><i>Hirsi Ali supported the move by the Dutch courts to abrogate the party subsidy to a conservative Protestant Christian political party, the Political Reformed Party (SGP), which did not grant full membership rights to women and still withholds passive voting rights from female members. She stated that "any political party discriminating against women or homosexuals should be deprived of funding."[97]<br /><br />Hirsi Ali has also stated that she wants the Belgian authorities to ban the (non-Muslim) Flemish Vlaams Belang party, claiming that "it hardly differs from the Hofstad Group. Though the VB members have not committed any violent crimes yet, they are just postponing them and waiting until they have an absolute majority. On many issues they have exactly the same opinions as the Muslim extremists: on the position of women, on the suppression of gays, on abortion. This way of thinking will lead straight to genocide."[98]</i><br /><br />I have trouble finding much concern about her being denied an honorary degree. Crudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04178390947423928444noreply@blogger.com