http://www.cropscience.bayer.com/en/Media/Backgrounds/Safety-of-clothianidin-to-bee.aspx?overviewId=01BC0BC0-950A-4B79-8643-B64CB395744E

"The bee die-offs which occurred in spring 2008 in Southwest Germany as the result of faulty application of the active ingredient clothianidin set off a controversial discussion on the use of pesticides for seed treatments."

This admission?

The iPhone runs a touch based shell. It was an inevitable design, and it predated the iPhone. Hence Apple didn't invent touch based interfaces for phones with rounded rectangles. Got it?

Last reply; this is getting painful. The overly simplistic viewpoint was for your benefit. The whole point was that your "sugar" weight gain was temporary...so who cares? I'd have been more interested if you'd debunked my own weight loss. Take a look at the twinkie diet; it's obviously not for peope to follow, but it further proves the point: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/06/health/la-he-fitness-twinkie-diet-20101206 Regarding sodium, is subway a neutral enough nutrition source for you? I can pick out other sandwiches which have literally double the sodium content for the same size serving of bread, but I don't need to. Tell me again that bacon is higher sodium than bread (I can only assume you meant for similar serving sizes...even if you up the mass of bacon by 50%, the bread still comes out higher). Hint - you can't always taste the sodium in food. http://www.subway.com/nutrition/NutritionList.aspx?id=breadtop&Countrycode=USA Also bear in mind that people tend to include other things when they eat bread; it's not a direct swap out. There are many confounding factors.

After asking a couple of questions to better understand the weight gain - yes, I concluded that your supposed sugar weight gain, due to being temporary and apparently coincidental with your eating high sodium foods is likely due to increased sodium intake and associated water retention. I'd be interested to know your hydrostatic results before and after these large weight changes (along with error margins of course). Do you really believe that several ounces of carbs turn to two pounds of fat overnight? And that your metabolism subsequently burns it off over the next day and night (without you noticing a marked increase in your body temperature?)

I'd stop blaming salt and water when it becomes evident that the weight is due to fat and not water retention. One's weight is an inherently noisy measurement, and you're confusing this noise for fat (and for some inexplicable reason blaming sugar rather than the obvious candidate). What's with *your* religious need to proclaim that high sugar diets make people gain weight? I've lost 40lb on what you would call a high sugar diet by maintaining a calorie deficit. I lost weight at the exact rate predicted by the calorie deficit (to within 15%). Tens if not hundreds of thousands of people do the same every year. It's how people who "don't diet" but who are a healthy weight maintain their weight. I don't doubt there may be a tiny proportion of people who whom this isn't true, but for the majority of people it evidently works.

Increased sodium really does cause that amount of weight gain - I'm 2lb heavier today than yesterday after eating at a restaurant last night. The other foods you list are also notoriously high in sodium content (just because you don't taste it doesn't mean it isn't there). I bet the weight comes off in a day or two if you return to your regular diet. You simply can't put that much fat on so quickly without making an incredible effort to do so.

What makes you attribute the weight gain to "sugar"? Don't you think it's much more likely that you're seeing water retention due to increased sodium intake? Why blame carbs on this?

Wrong.

There's nothing in homeopathics to "bind to the receptors and stuff". There's nothing in homeopathics to "change the chemistry".

It's more like giving a glass of water to someone with a broken leg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#High_dilutions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon

Disclose it.

We already have:

http://dev.www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapGPLLicence