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Comment Another treatment that doesn't address the problem (Score 0) 121

This is an example of how medical research dollars are used to create expensive treatments to this problem. The hospitals would go broke if diabetics regulated their blood sugar not with expensive medicine, but by restricting how much carbs they eat.

Why should they regulate the amount of carbs? Well consumption of an excessive amount of carbs (low and high glycemic) naturally get converted into sugar for our body to use as fuel. The problem is that when we consume too much (> 100g per day), it causes our blood sugar to rise too much, and if our body doesn't respond to it fast enough, we can easily die (hence Type 1 and 2 diabetics needing to closely monitor their blood sugar).

Our bodies can use Carbs, Fats, or Proteins as its main fuel source. If you switch from using carbs, to using Fats (such as the ketogenic diet), suddenly your blood sugar isn't changing very much, and you usually can reduce your insulin usage over time. It helped me a whole lot, so perhaps it can help you too...

Comment Re:Self mortification (Score 1) 79

Debian Testing exists for those who want newer packages, aka "Debian Mainstream". I believe its impossible to make everyone happy, and I agree with the Debian approach to their product.

I think there are at least two kinds of people when it comes to linux, there are people who want to get things done, and people who want everything to be perfect. For those people who want everything to be perfect, they switch DE's, switch distros, and try to find the perfect combination of tools, often giving up on a distro that is good enough, to find one that is 'perfect'. The other kind of people realize that their operating system is just a tool that lets them do other things (create things, surf the web, look at kittens), and once they find a OS that lets them accomplish what they really want to do, they stay with it because they aren't looking for something that is perfect, they only want something that is good enough and reliable.

Comment No competition in this industry (Score 1) 151

This is what happens when there is no competition in this industry, reliance on a single provider can cripple you if there is no alternative. It boggles my mind that we trust private for-profit corporations to design and administer tests.

Since there isn't much hope of a government testing center solution, perhaps an alliance of professionals should agree on a set of standards. Those standards would be open and would allow institutions to bid the work out to multiple contractors. When you have one contractor, such as pearson, without any competition, you know they won the monolopy game.

Comment Re:Ad blocking == security measure (Score 1) 82

It is amazing to see how people can handle so many advertisements. I always block ads and scripts from running, simply because I can't trust the advertising networks. They have shown repeatedly that they are willing to push malware. I also install a Host's file which does a good job at blocking ad's (I don't buy a platform that I can't install at least that).

Comment Re:Great Value. Open source. Muliple Maufacturers. (Score 1) 82

To understand what gets modded up on Slashdot, you have to see what's in the bandwagon that everyone has hopped onto. If it isn't in the bandwagon, then your criticisms will get modded up.

Bandwagon: Google, Android, Linux, GCC, Windows 7

Not in Bandwagon: Apple, iOS, Windows 8, CLANG, Nook, Yahoo, Bing, Windows Phone, Apple OS etc..

So my comments like: "I'd rather trust a dirty whore with telling me the truth, than to trust Google's advertising platforms such as GMail, Google Search, Google Calendar, Andriod." Is modded down, even though Google is an advertising company who's profit is derived from selling your private information.

Comment Re:Is Kobo paying Dice for these stories? (Score 1) 132

If it smells like a fish, and tastes like a fish... Why else would a eink reader, that no one has heard about, get so many stories?

It sounds like a good marketing strategy IMO. The only problem is that it would almost be impossible for anyone to unseat Amazon's Kindle from the #1 spot because Amazon has apps for not only Kindle, but the iOS and Android platforms.

I myself would never buy an Amazon eBook because you don't really own it, as they showed when they deleted everyone's 1984 copy. Good luck deleting my physical copy asshat's!

Comment Can you trust Google, when you are the product? (Score -1, Troll) 32

Google has shown that they will take away the free services they offer at any time, or even increase the advertising in them to make them almost unusable to some (such as Google Maps).

What Microsoft learned is that you are still going to be profitable if your platform is the major one that people use. Google's free services are really good, but if you choose to use them, you prevent a better alternative from appearing. Since Google supports CISPA, that alone should make you ban all Google products.

Comment Re:What to eat, then? (Score 1) 130

Are there Eskimo's left that stick to their past diet?

From the book "Fat of the Land", published in the 1950's, the author gave me the impression that the Eskimo culture was increasingly being influenced by the American/European diets. I assumed that by now, the majority of Eskimo's would consume more carbs and less fat, than before. I may be mistaken though.

Comment Re:What to eat, then? (Score 1) 130

Yes you are right, Eskimo's really enjoyed the fat of the animal, in combination with the muscle. You would die if you tried to just live off of the muscle. Fully cooking meat destroys some of the vitamins in it, so its better to eat it not fully cooked (pink on the inside). Eskimo's ate what we would call a high fat diet, consisting of about 70-80% fat.

A diet of seal fat and slightly boiled seal muscle will save you from scurvy :)

Comment Re:Evolution (Score 2) 130

Your assumption about unrefined foods is incorrect, Look up the teeth of the Indians and Eskimo's before they were "civilized". From what I've read, eating a meat diet, or one that included some vegetables, didn't have cavities. Cavities seem to be associated with the consumption of sugar and starches.

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