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Comment Not someplace I could eat. (Score 1) 273

Since I have food allergies and science-based preferences on what to eat I simply could never find anything I would order if there was no human taking the order and answering detailed questions and acknowledging my choices. Grain-free? No meat? No fish? bad reaction to tomato, unwilling to eat foods at the bad end of glycemic index?

I am unimpressed by this restaurant idea. Won't be entering such.

Comment Re:Irrelevant, to Greed. (Score 1, Informative) 70

The only reason you suppose no one lives in the rainforests is A) nobody talks about it on the evening news, or B) you are not aware that the Amazon was entirely *planted* by its millions of residents, 95% of them killed off by European Germs in the 1500's 1600's. See 1493 book by Charles Mann and Dawn of everything by Graeber and Wengrow.

Comment Re:I could not read the summary because (Score 0) 72

Aside from the idiocy of the posting here , note that many sources are now speaking directly about the distinctly negative connotations (for non-white readers) of many terms used in computing and electronics. master, slave are just two such, and there are plenty of usable alternatives with no connection to 400+ years of slavery in the USA. Lets all agree to start changing our vocabulary. It's no joke to those whose families were slaves.

Comment Re:Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! (Score 1) 286

No, there is never new advice. The advice is always the same; eat a traditional diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, fiber, and whole grains, limit sugars, fats, and highly processed foods.

The advice of Doctors Gundry, Perlmutter, and some others is not the same at all. Read their books
to find the research.

Comment Medical Reductionism (Score 1) 286

Most research into diet involves Medical Reductionism, which means the study changes some one thing in the diet and measures what happens. But that's irrelevant (as a way to measure things) because only a substantial change in the diet is actually meaningful. Read the works by doctors Steven Gundry ("Plant Paradox") and David Perl mutter ("The Grain Brain") to understand a meaningful change and read T Colin Campbell ("The China Study" to understand the pernicious effect of medical reductionism. There has been much meaningful research done since 2000, but since the best recommendations involve a serious diet change and *no* drugs lots of researchers and doctors are not interested.

Comment And then there are special needs (Score 1) 374

An unknown number of people have special eating needs. Driven, I suspect,
by the total revision of what and how food is grown and created
over the last 100 years. By needs I mean not hospital,
necessarily, but at least discomfort and immune system issues.

The Gluten Free and Paleo Diet consumers are a symptom of this great
change. Big Food prefers not to know about any of this as
it reflects on *all* their current product lines. Very
uncomfortable for grocery stores and more so for
restaurants.

it's not going away. I and many others can no longer eat
the 'Standard American Diet'. Period.

Comment Actions hard to interpret (Score 1) 161

Decent drivers give a fairly early indication of a turn with small movements of the steering wheel (invisible from outside the car), but plenty of not-so-good drivers will turn the steering wheel left before starting the intended right turn. And you wait till it's clear you have turned to turn on the turn signal that's maybe avoiding a ticket with no improvement in safety. Unless this is really meant for slow city traffic and pedestrians in which case...ok...maybe.

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