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Animal Abuse: Us and Them
The best justification we have for imposing suffering and death on billion of animals every year is that they taste good. We enjoy the taste of meat, dairy, eggs, etc. We get palate pleasure from eating animal foods.
And just how is that different from any other imposition of suffering and death by people like Walter Palmer, Michael Vick, or anyone else whom we label as an “abuser”? The answer is simple; it isn’t any different.
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NIH study shows no benefit of omega-3 or other nutritional supplements for cognitive decline
While some research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega-3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons.
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Knowing What to Eat, Refusing to Swallow It
David Katz: Knowing What to Eat, Refusing to Swallow It
This is genuinely tragic, because we have known for literal decades that a short list of behavioral factors, diet salient among them, could cut prevailing overall rates of chronic disease and premature death by an astounding 80 percent. We know this from a vast, diverse, global, impressively unbiased and remarkably consistent literature.
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Cancer: Is It Just Bad Luck or Failed Research?
T. Colin Campbell: Cancer: Is It Just Bad Luck or Failed Research?
The consequences of this mutation theory of cancer are deadly. Wrongly assuming that cancer is primarily a product of genetic mutations implies that cancer progression, once started, is unstoppable. It implies that cancer control will depend on identifying and selectively killing specific cancer cells and blocking their responsible genes with targeted drugs. This strategy has been and will continue to be futile because countless combinations of genes and cancer risk factors can change cancer development. Understanding and accepting this complexity means that funding research to identify new cancer drugs, especially targeted drugs with certain but unpredictable side effects is the wrong priority.
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Magic Vegan Bacon Grease
It doesn’t really fit into my diet but I know a lot of potential vegans whose transitions would probably be eased by some magic vegan bacon grease.
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Drugs and the Demise of the Rice Diet nutritionfacts.org/video/drugs-an…
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Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-p…
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I just backed CLI for MySQL/MariaDB on @kickstarter kck.st/1xTYzHy
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Chris Hedges: Choosing Life truthdig.com/report/print/c…
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2 Ex-Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Are Charged With Fraud dia.so/1gy
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Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts dia.so/1dE
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Building Waze for the Boston subway: my first adventure in civic hacking geoffreylitt.com/2015/02/28/mbt…
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I do love a good snow photo. i.imgur.com/jCwYTzO.jpg
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Woah. i.imgur.com/X2eLp8w.gifv