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leobabauta | 3 years ago | on: Saturated fat: villain and bogeyman in development of cardiovascular disease?

I think jumping to conclusions based on this paper is not a good idea:

  * The authors are not experts in this field. They seem to be experts in business management [0], other science fields [1], and the culinary arts [2] but not cardiovascular disease or anything related to it.

  * Experts in this field have done extensive reviews, and there is a strong link between saturated fat & CVD, especially if you take into account replacing SFA with PUFA.

  * All the world's health bodies agree — from Wikipedia: "Recommendations to reduce, limit or replace dietary intake of trans fats and saturated fats, in favor of unsaturated fats, are made by the World Health Organization, American Heart Association, Health Canada, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the UK National Health Service, the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, the Australian Department of Health and Aging, the Singapore Ministry of Health, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the New Zealand Ministry of Health, and Hong Kong's Department of Health." [3]

  * In my observation, many people strongly dispute the link between SFA & CVD usually subscribe to fringe health beliefs like all-meat diets, etc. Note: I do think limiting sugar/HFCS is a good idea as well.

[0] Reimara Valk: https://www.aud.edu/aud-school/school-of-business-administra...

[1] James Hamill: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author:%22Hammill%20Jam...

[2] Jonas Grip: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/jonas-karl-grip-89875a12

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat

leobabauta | 3 years ago | on: Old jokes

I know lots of family members in their twenties and teens who thought this was a joke Michael invented. I had to tell them it was lame and old even when the show first aired.

leobabauta | 3 years ago | on: The original “Bambi”

Snopes disagrees with the plague theory: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ring-around-rosie/

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

I’d find giant lenses hovering over the ocean to be pretty mysterious.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture

Just a note that the split infinitive prohibition was largely a 19th century thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: The spat between Google and Australia, as reported on HN

These publishers pay very little for the content to be written. Vast majority these days is written by a low paid writer just out of college, not even a living wage. Real journalists have been let go. Newsrooms are mostly a depressing place to work these days, compared to 20 years ago.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week

As opposed to drinking cheap crappy beer from a firehose all day long, it’s a refreshing change.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week

So there’s no option to save your reflections as an ongoing journal? That was one of my motivations for installing the app today.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: ‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Smart Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom

It’s a different kind of sex toy that will shock you, this one just locks.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent

Here’s a good visual way of exploring that: http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t...

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Crystal Ball

Digital, yeah? https://youtu.be/KuTSAeFhdZU

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Trump's flagged tweets

It means it wasn’t good for their adverts.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym

They might walk 10 minutes from home to the train station platform, 10 minutes from the station to their office, and 10 minutes to lunch. Then reverse all of that for an hour total. Sometimes it’s a 15 minute walk, so that would make up for those who only have to walk 5 minutes.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym

I will let you work out for yourself why that sounds condescending.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Vegans More Likely to Break Bones Than Meat Eaters, Study Finds

For a lot of vegans, the question isn’t so much what diet is best to thrive on (it’s clear that humans can thrive on a lot of diets), but rather, “What diet is most compassionate.”

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Patrick Collison's Questions

Can you say more about the steelmanned buddhism questions? I'm interested but not clear on what you're pointing to with the term "steelmanned buddhism" or what important ways you think it might be wrong about.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm familiar with the idea of steelmanning, but not what set of buddhist ideas you're pointing to with the term "steelmanned buddhism".

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

I think this is a great project for a 15-year-old. My own son did something like this recently, and loved it. Let's encourage that.

leobabauta | 5 years ago | on: Words that don't translate into English

It's very rarely used to convey the literal act. The link you posted is an exception, and is noteworthy exactly because of that. When the word is used, it's almost always meant to convey the feeling.

leobabauta | 7 years ago | on: Doing more than 40 push-ups shows you’re 96% less likely to get a heart attack

But the study also measured cardiovascular fitness via treadmill and didn't find the same correlation.

leobabauta | 11 years ago | on: How to Make Vegan Butter

Evidence?