FK506's comments

The article did not link to the sources. It doesn't take a lot of factors into account. They did not mention that much of the long term research is based on low fat diets that were popular some time ago. I suspect much of the research was done in order to prove fad dieting did not work this is important for SoCal and scientific reasons but not really an indication that all hope is lost. It is only recently that we have started doing the basic research to really see what is good for you and it is amazing how many mistaken.

More recent studies involving low carb diets are encouraging. There is also encouraging research directly relating the number of servings of fresh fruit and vegetables to mortality. This article is more properly referenced and based on more resent research.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-weight-f...

Good enough for dad good enough for me but is there any research to support it? There is no shortage of research supporting low carb whole grain and fresh fruit over highly processed foods. There are also numerous well documented incidents of people moving from native foods to processed grain and other food suffered negative health effects. Personally I dont think whole grain foods are all that bad in reasonable amounts.

I got lazy as there it doesn't take much work finding research supporting increased fresh fruits vegetables and lean meat. http://www.ars.usda.gov/news/docs.htm?docid=9234 http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=23004 http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=22791

The most important question is not what are they doing but how you expect them to use this In the future. Good or bad intent is beside the point. Google wants to grow in a serious way and they not against some unethical actions to reach those goals. If groth continues they are going to have a near monopoly is many areas. It is best to have a fall back plan. I really don't want to have them as my omeaning ome or acess with the world. The above comment to early Microsoft was apt. The people that trust google would also have trusted MS before they threw all there loyal coustomers under the bus to lock out Netscape. I am sure they had no idea how much the tight integration with IE would hurt security and stability but they did control the market for some time.

The benefits of completly relying on google are minimal the potential costs are nontrivial.