Fosomax is a crazy drug, it stops bone turnover and in some cases has lead to patients having to have their jaw bone removed. That's nasty!

    """
    Raisor was told her jaw bone was going to end up in a bucket. "They took some out, took some out, kept taking more out," Raisor said.

    They tried to save what they could. They used a metal plate for reinforcement.

    It didn't work.
    """

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4911501&nav=0RZF

The toothbrush has only been in widespread use for the last few hundered years, so evolution has already had it's chance to do what it could with humans who didn't brush.

You can't "evolve" past the basic fact that your mouth is a breeding ground for bacteria, and that as that bacteria piles up and dies it's going to create unsightly, disgusting plaque. Well, maybe if humans grew stainless steel teeth -- but that'd be quite the stretch in evolution, since we'd need some kind of organ to act as a smelting and refining and we'd need to digest lots of raw ore ...

Humans have done quite well without the toothbrush in terms of dentistry. Weston Price's work well documented that primitive people's had very low incidences of tooth decay and other dental problems when subsiting on a native diet, and how members of those same cultures who had transitioned to a western diet had much, much higher incidences of tooth decay.

From the article, "For breakfast every morning, he concocted a slurry of oatmeal, berries, soy milk, pomegranate juice, flaxseed, almond meal, raw eggs, and protein powder. The goal behind the recipe was efficiency: to rely on âoeone goop you could eat or drink that would have everything you need nutritionally for your brain and body.â He explained, âoeTaste was the last thing on my mind; I wanted to be able to keep it downâ"that was it.â"

I started having a nutritionally complete shake for breakfast every morning - and it rocks! But I wouldn't describe it's taste as something that I have trouble keeping down - instead it's very yummy. The recipe I usually use was designed by nutritionist Sam Graci and is:

  * 1 cup of berries (blueberries, blackberries)

  * 2 scoops of high alpha whey protein

  * 1 tbsp high-quality fish oil

  * 1/2 tsp borage oil

  * 2 tbsps flax seeds and 2 tbsps sesame seeds, ground in a coffee grinder

  * 4-6 tbsps plain low-fat organic yogurt

  * 1 cup rice milk or soy milk

That's the basic recipe, but there are lots of other ingredients you can use to mix it up: hemp protein powder, other fruits (banana, strawberry, kiwi), acai and goji juice, raw eggs.

The basic idea of the breakfast shake is that your bodies metabolism has started to slow down since you haven't eaten since yesterday evening ... you want to have a nice balance of carbs, protein and fat to get your metabolism back in the game. Nutritionally you also want to have lots of omega 3 fatty acids (flax and fish oil) which promotes healthy brain cells and also foods with high anti-oxidant properties to promote healthy blood (berries). Finally the probiotics in the yogurt promote healthy digestion.

Combine the breakfast shake with a daily green drink and a healthy diet of lots of veggies and fruits, and you will notice a marked improvement in overall energy and mental functioning -- I estimated that I could crank out 25% more lines of code after a couple months, and overall my code was of markedly better quality. Plus since your overall mood is better I was about 25% less acerbic in conversations with my co-workers :P

Good advice. Although it shouldn't be a rigid rule, sometimes it's a lot of hassle to install your own separate versions of your own stuff's dependencies. Especially for your own stuff which is install more ephemerally, such as development sandboxes.

For example, Mac OS X provides a working OpenLDAP install. You can make LDAP instances from this install into your own stuff, but rely on their openldap binaries. A lot easier than compiling your own version of OpenLDAP.

But then, it would be nice if Apple kept this rule in mind themselves, and had the distinction between, "Core Apple OS stuff" and "Apple Applications stuff". For example, the Apple Python install is pretty useless, you need to use virtualenv to isolate yourself from all the ancient libraries that are in there to support iCal server. It would be much better if Apple shipped a bare bones Perl and a Python w/ standard library only and said, "We aren't going to provide any form of library management, but we also aren't going to pollute the standard library paths with a bunch of half-maintained crap that our own Apple apps happen to depend upon."