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I think the theory was that vegan food is less palatable and often less calorie dense and harder to find so vegans eat less.

IIRC a study showed low carb diets worked in a similar way, people just ate less as they found it harder to find enough calories.

Not so fast, if you're under 55 years old and drink more than 4 cups a day then this study found that it is pretty bad for you.

>A study of more than 40,000 individuals found a statistically significant 21% increased mortality in those drinking more than 28 cups of coffee a week and death from all causes, with a greater than 50% increased mortality risk in both men and women younger than 55 years of age.

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-much-coffee-is-healthy-...

Did you factor in inflation into your calculation? By 2010 that 1990 $5 is worth $8.80. So you'd have to look at how many people were living on below that number to get your equivalent.

If i remember correctly, a 1981 $1 is now worth $2.50 if you factor in inflation so the fact they've chose to lower the bar at $1.90 reeks of politics.

More than that 90% of the world still live on less than $10 a day. If you incorporate inflation into the 1981 $1 a day world bank poverty threshhold it would be about $2.50 a day now. At that $2.50 there are something like 300 million more people living below that absolute poverty line than there were when it was created.

Unfortunately those great Hans Rosling presentations really only deal with mortality at birth, which has consistently improved but probably only down to improvements in neonatal technology.

It's really about time people came to realise the World Bank/IMF neoliberal "free trade" globalisation experiment really only works to enrich western asset holders at the expense of the rest of the world through debt bondage.

>the group without would be more likely to be hired for low wage jobs because that salary is much more important to them.

That's not necessarily how it would work. In the UK we've had a top up with tax credits for low paid jobs. What we've seen is an explosion of low paid part time jobs as businesses know people will take them as their income will be topped up by the govt.

I used to think this but then I read a few studies showing larger breakfast breaking the overnight fast result in better blood sugar/insulin/body fat scores.

In comparison to intermittent fasting, chronic fasting/starvation everyday like you're doing is probably not good for your body. It responds by keeping more bodyfat to last you through your 16 hr window, giving you a belly and raising your insulin when you start eating.

It seems the best balance for insulin/optimum bmi is a large breakfast, medium lunch and small dinner http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/08August/Pages/Is-breakfast-the-...

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90% of the world still live on less than $10 a day. If you incorporate inflation into the 1981 $1 a day world bank poverty threshhold it would be about $2.50 a day now. At that $2.50 there are something like 300 million more people living below that absolute poverty line than there were when it was created.

Unfortunately those Hans Rosling presentations really only deal with mortality at birth, which has consistently improved but probably only down to improvements in neonatal technology.

It's really about time people came to realise the World Bank/IMF neoliberal "free trade" globalisation experiment really only works to enrich western asset holders at the expense of the rest of the world through debt bondage.

Well suicide can either be a cry for help or a decision that life isn't worth living. Maybe more men decide the latter.

I also think the financial/work aspect is being overlooked. At around 40 a man will be most likely to have kids/mortgage/wife to support.

For him, it looks like another 25 years of the same 9 to 5 drudgery. This is probably made worse by the face that his spouse is at home or working part time looking after the kids and is pretty much put to pasture, the hard part of her life is over, alot of women don't pick up their career after having kids and will rely on their spouse for support.

You say it wasn't successful but they industrialised to an extent that they were one of the dominant superpowers within a generation. Aside from China, another planned economy I can't think of any other examples of that pace of economic development.

>Even something technological like Facebook earned most of their money from an artificially pumped stock market, not from the real world selling products and services. I have profited enormously from the stock market because I understand this, it is not so hard.

It must be pretty hard to everybody else or most funds would be beating the market. What is your strategy in picking stocks that takes advantage of these inflated equities?

If they don't call them creddits they've missed a trick.

One big thing this article misses is that crime has been falling worldwide by a similar rate as in America (http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-s...).

So prisons do disproportionately imprison the lower classes and far far too many people are put in disgusting prisons to be tortured and treated like subhumans in the US but that doesn't necessarily mean it has caused the big drop in crime.

I used to use tineye but google has enabled reverse image search and being google it has far more results. Go to google images and click the camera button in the search box. It's really useful for detecting scams like this, used to for an email flat scam in New Zealand too.

We just had a run in with a scam for a place in Majorca on Airbnb. The place looked amazing and was reasonably priced for what it was so I reverse image searched the pictures and it turns out they had lifted them from a resort in the Carribean. The google maps view of the place lined up nicely with the other property so they'd obviously put some time into choosing the right fake. Luckily we cancelled our booking within 15 mins. To their credit airbnb have taken it down pretty quickly.