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Lisa Guliani
Sott.net 2013-10-23 07:53:00
During a daily Mass last week, Pope Francis called ideological Christianity "an illness" that doesn't serve Jesus Christ. Instead, it "frightens" people and pushes them away from religion. Organized religion overall seems to be an illness - and a control mechanism. He's right, imo, about Christianity not serving Jesus Christ. Of course it doesn't. It's a control mechanism that exists to shape and manipulate the thinking of its adherents, in order to control their behavior - and in this way Christianity operates very similarly to other organized religions of the world. Promises of reward (the divine dangling carrot), threats of punishment (the divine dangling sword of Damocles), and all the while dictating to the masses of followers WHAT to think, not encouraging people to question this doctrine or its leadership, but to only question themselves and all those who do not subscribe to their belief systems. Genuflect, stand up, sit, genuflect, stand up, sit. Repeat. Ad nauseum. Seems to me, if the Pope wants to make a new beginning, first order of business should be to CLEAN up the mess within his own church. There's enough mess there to keep him busy till he dies. Another thing: Christianity has people believing in, idolizing, worshiping, praying to, someone who - if one actually digs deeper into the available research - apparently never even really existed as claimed in the 'bible', no matter which 'version' you read. Perhaps the Pope should come clean on what he may know about Julius Caesar and how his story and life somehow morphed into the incredible and incredulous legend of this 'Jesus of Nazareth' guy. |
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Sara Carter
The Blaze 2013-10-23 11:41:00
Nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the Obama administration this year, leading to speculation by active and retired members of the military that a purge of its commanders is underway. Retired generals and current senior commanders that have spoken with TheBlaze say the administration is not only purging the military of commanders they don't agree with, but is striking fear in the hearts of those still serving. The timing comes as the five branches of the U.S. armed forces are reducing staff due to budget cuts, and as U.S. troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan next year. "I think they're using the opportunity of the shrinkage of the military to get rid of people that don't agree with them or not tow the party line. Remember, as (former White House chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel said, never waste a crisis," a senior retired general told TheBlaze on the condition of anonymity because he still provide services to the government and fears possible retribution. "Even as a retired general, it's still possible for the administration to make life miserable for us. If we're working with the government or have contracts, they can just rip that out from under us," he said. Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, an outspoken critic of the Obama administration, said the White House fails to take action or investigate its own, but finds it easy to fire military commanders "who have given their lives for their country." |
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2013-10-22 16:40:00
Jetsetters, take note: According to a front page article in Tuesday's edition of the New York Times, the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is learning much more about airline passengers than just their meal preference. It shouldn't come as a surprise to many, but Times reporter Susan Stellin revealed this week that the TSA has access to a trove of huge databases - both federally and privately run - which it uses to keep track of information about almost anyone traveling through American airspace. Tax identification numbers, old travel plans, property records and even physical characteristics are contained in these databases, Stellin wrote, which is then shared among government agencies and often combined with other information on record elsewhere, including intelligence maintained by the likes of debt collectors and other private agencies whose profits depend on digging up personal information. This mass data-mining is being used by Department of Homeland Security agencies like the TSA as a tool to monitor suspected terrorists and other criminals, and could assist in an agency-wide goal of trimming time off of the notoriously lengthy security pat-downs currently in place at airports across the country. But while representatives from the TSA touted these efforts to the Times as necessary implements in ensuring utmost safety, privacy advocates are asking for change. According to Stellin, the TSA is now not just conducting routine background and criminal checks on airline ticket holders, but also relying on these massive databases to identify any potential red flags. With computers - not humans - calling the shots, though, it could change the face of travel to one where everyone and everything is suspect, until the system ensures them otherwise. "I think the best way to look at it is as a pre-crime assessment every time you fly," Identity Project consultant Edward Hasbrouck told the Times. "The default will be the highest, most intrusive level of search, and anything less will be conditioned on providing some additional information in some fashion." |
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Michael Krieger
LibertyBlitzkrieg 2013-10-21 21:20:00 - From the EFF's must read article: Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy The above passage was written in early 2012, but I had never taken the time to look into Argentina's burgeoning and extremely creepy biometric database until now. It takes on increased importance to Americans now that Apple has rolled out its iPhone 5NsA. |
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Jens Glüsing, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark
Spiegel Online International 2013-10-20 11:37:00
The National Security Agency (NSA) has a division for particularly difficult missions. Called "Tailored Access Operations" (TAO), this department devises special methods for special targets. That category includes surveillance of neighboring Mexico, and in May 2010, the division reported its mission accomplished. A report classified as "top secret" said: "TAO successfully exploited a key mail server in the Mexican Presidencia domain within the Mexican Presidential network to gain first-ever access to President Felipe Calderon's public email account." According to the NSA, this email domain was also used by cabinet members, and contained "diplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexico's political system and internal stability." The president's office, the NSA reported, was now "a lucrative source." |
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Steve Holt
Take Part 2013-10-18 19:26:00
Landmark island-wide 'Right to Know' bill passes council, moves on to Mayor's desk. Since the 1990s, there's been trouble in Paradise. Biotech companies - including Monsanto, Dow, and Syngenta - have used the fragile Hawaiian ecosystem on the island of Kaua'i to test and refine their pesticides, herbicides, and other agrichemical products. Some of these testing fields, 15,000 acres in total, are near schools, homes, hospitals and waterways, putting many residents on the tiny island at risk of exposure. Following the landmark passage of a bill by the Kaua'i County Council this week, Kaua'i residents are one step closer to greater peace of mind. A new law passed Wednesday would require the largest biotech companies to report and publicly disclose the pesticides and genetically engineered crops used on the island, and would prohibit all pesticide use near schools, medical facilities, parks and waterways that flow into the ocean. Kaua'i County would also be required to study and report on the environmental and health impacts of pesticides and GE crops. Measure 2491, which passed the Council in a 6-1 vote, and now must be signed by Kaua'i's mayor, Bernard Carvahlo, is seen as an enormous victory for anti-GMO activists and Hawaii residents alike. |
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Mike Masnick
techdirt 2013-10-21 18:58:00
So much attention concerning the intelligence community lately has been focused on the NSA. There has been a bit of looking at the FBI as well, but for the most part the CIA has been left untouched -- even though when the Washington Post released details of the US's black budget (thanks to Ed Snowden), it surprised many people to discover that the CIA still has a significantly larger budget than the NSA. Late last week, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer had a fantastic article revealing some details of a still-classified report put together by the Senate Intelligence Committee which apparently rips the CIA to shreds over its torture program, both in how ineffective the program was, but also in how the CIA tried to avoid any real oversight from Congress. The CIA, apparently, has been "defiant and defensive" in response to the massive report (over 6,000 pages, and which apparently cost $40 million to produce). CIA boss John Brennan has apparently been especially aggressive in trying to challenge the report and in blocking it from being declassified. |
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A man has told how he woke up covered in blood after being attacked by a stray cat as he slept in bed 2013-10-23 14:03:00
Paul Goodrum, from Leicester, said he thought he had a runny nose until he saw the cat in front of him. The stray had clawed his face near his eye and bitten his nose. Mr Goodrum, 26, said: "I thought I just had a runny nose but when I felt my face it was blood. "I pushed the animal away and put on the light to see a very large white-grey cat. I chased it out of my bedroom and examined the damage on my face. "The cat had scratched my eyelid and my cheek and forehead. There were also bite marks on either side of my nose. It was very frightening." |
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Adam Withnall
The Independent, UK 2013-10-23 13:58:00
The largest of the wildfires wreaking havoc across New South Wales was started by the Australian military, investigators have found. One man has died and more than 200 homes destroyed in the country's most populous state since Thursday as a result of more than 100 different fires. Investigators were called after reports that the biggest of them, near the city of Lithgow to the west of Sydney, started at around the same time as the army was performing training exercises. Today, the Rural Fire Service issued a statement which said the blaze "was started as a result of live ordnance exercises" at an army range. Though it has not caused any deaths or injuries, as the single biggest fire it has burned through 47,000 hectares (180 square miles) of land and destroyed a number of homes. It was only downgraded from the highest emergency category this morning. The Australian Defence Department said it would not comment further on the fire service investigators' findings, but it had previously confirmed it was engaged in exercises at the time and has been carrying out its own inquiries. |
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Craig Whitlock
The Washington Post 2013-10-23 01:54:00
The U.S. Navy is being rocked by a bribery scandal that federal investigators say has reached high into the officer corps and exposed a massive overbilling scheme run by an Asian defense contractor that provided prostitutes and other kickbacks. Among those arrested on corruption charges are a senior agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and a Navy commander who escaped Cambodia's "killing fields" as a child only to make a triumphant return to the country decades later as the skipper of a U.S. destroyer. The investigation has also ensnared a Navy captain who was relieved of his ship's command this month in Japan. The chief executive of the Singapore-based defense contractor, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, and another company official were arrested last month at a San Diego harborside hotel after federal investigators lured them to the United States by arranging a sham meeting with Navy officials, according to court records and people involved in the case. The unfolding investigation is shaping up as the biggest fraud case in years for the Navy. Federal prosecutors allege that Glenn Defense Marine, which has serviced and supplied Navy ships and submarines at ports around the Pacific for a quarter-century, routinely overbilled for everything from tugboats to fuel to sewage disposal. Investigators are still assessing the scope of the alleged fraud, but federal court records filed in San Diego cite a handful of episodes that alone exceeded $10 million. Since 2011, Glenn Defense Marine has been awarded Navy contracts worth more than $200 million. The company also services ships from several navies in Asia. The U.S. military has never been immune from contracting scandals, but it is extremely rare for senior uniformed commanders to face corruption charges. |
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Bob Wilson
News 8 WTNH 2013-10-22 21:21:00
New Canaan -- Police in New Canaan are trying to solve a gruesome mystery. Someone there has been beheading animals and pets and leaving the heads on people's property. It's happened at least a couple of times over the last few days. "Normally we are putting up signs for neighbors who are missing animals, not torturing them," said Lillian Worthley. Police say two animals have been decapitated. A third killed and left in the backseat of a neighbor's car. It happened last week in three different neighborhoods in New Canaan. The cat was the neighborhood pet that went missing. "We are not 100%, we believe that is the same cat. The cat goes missing and the head turns up a day later in the vicinity of where the cat went missing," said Sgt. Carol Ogrinc, New Canaan Police. |
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Lance Hernandez
ABC 7 2013-10-22 21:10:00
Lakewood - Lakewood police are investigating the discovery of possible human bones and items which, they say, may have been used in "occult" religious ceremonies. The bones were found in a tool shed outside a vacant home on Kline Street. They were discovered by a cleaning crew hired by the realtor, to help prepare the property for possible sale or rent. That cleaning crew called police. |
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Scott Sonner
Associated Press 2013-10-21 00:01:00
A student at a Nevada middle school opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two 12-year-old boys and killing a math teacher who was trying to protect children from their classmate. The unidentified shooter killed himself with the gun after a rampage that occurred in front of 20 to 30 horrified students who had just returned to school from a weeklong fall break. Authorities did not provide a motive for the shooting, and it's unknown where the student got the gun. Teacher Michael Landsberry was being hailed for his actions during the shooting outside Sparks Middle School. "In my estimation, he is a hero. ... We do know he was trying to intervene," Reno Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said. |
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Metro UK
2013-10-20 19:10:00
A teenage bully was forced to apologise to his victim after 100 Facebook users staged a rally outside his school. Halsey Parkerson, who had been taunted and verbally abused by the unnamed bully, has his aunt to thank after she arranged the meet-up at South Salem High School in Oregon. She had gone to meet Halsey for lunch last Thursday when she witnessed another student telling him that he 'didn't have any friends and no one cares'. After taking to Facebook to rally support from her local car club, the word quickly spread, with impressive results. Around 100 people, in around 50 cars, turned up outside the school on Friday, with one person even making the journey from Vancouver in Canada - over 350 miles away. |
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While America lectures Russia on the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine, Russian
historian Boris Borisov asks what became of over seven million American
citizens who disappeared from US population records in the 1930s.2008-10-22 01:40:00
RT: What made you research the history of what you call 'American Holodomor'? B.B: It was very simple. As I was doing comparative research of the American Great Depression in the 1930s, and the Great Depression of the 1990s in Russia, I grew interested in the social dimension of the tragedy. It was logical that I looked up official American documents and found out that the discrepancies were so obvious that any independent researcher would not but have doubt about the official U.S. statistic data. All appears to be rather interesting. I will come to that later. The U.S. Congress added fuel to the fire by adopting resolutions nearly every year blaming the Soviet government for alleged staged famine in the 1930s in Ukraine. The first resolution came in 1988, 50 years after the events described. The current members of Congress wonder about the following, and I quote, "people in the government were aware of what was going on, but did not do anything to help the starving". At that very period of 1930s, the wealthy city of New York saw kilometre-long lines of people for free soup. There were no queues on the city's main streets though, but not because there were no hungry people but because most of the cities did not have any money - they were just bankrupt. So, I became curious about that and carried out some research that brought about interesting results. |
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Boris Borisov
U.S. history contains a serious crime against its own people - the
Great American Holodomor of 1932/33, which cost the lives of millions.
Historian Boris Borisov suggests the U.S. should not lecture Russia on
Holodomor in Ukraine, but take a cl[oser look at its own history.]RT 2008-04-04 01:00:00 "Golodomor ad usum externum"1 The United States of America constantly try to teach us the "Holodomor lessons". "A special commission, created by the US Congress in 1988, came to the conclusion that during the Holodomor period 25 per cent of the Ukrainian population - millions of people - were intentionally annihilated by the Soviet government through genocide, and did not just die as a result of famine."These news lines make headlines. They are repeated by the press before making their way on to TV and into legal structures. In this way they are forced on millions of people around the world.
But a question comes up when we hear such news - why does the US Congress pay so much attention to things that happened 75 years ago in a far-away country? Why didn't well-informed Americans protest back then, in 1932-33? Is it just a political interest in Russia's influence on the post-Soviet territory, or an attempt to split Russians and Ukrainians forever, that tempts Americans again and again to repeat the fascist propaganda of Goebbels in the 30s: that "millions of Ukrainians were intentionally annihilated by the Soviet government"? The ultimate compassion and justice felt by American congressmen is hardly believable - just try to find at least one Congress resolution (one, not three), where genocide of Native Americans would honestly be called genocide, or at least "mass annihilation". Even though most of the peoples inhabiting the territory of the USA were wiped out completely and their total number was radically reduced. American history records another crime against its own people - the Great American Holodomor, also in 1932-33, when the USA lost millions of citizens. |
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Annalee Newitz
io9 2013-10-22 22:28:00
We know that many ancient peoples practiced tattooing, based on the body art we see represented in figurines and wall carvings. But these tattoos found on the skin of the mummified 5,000-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman reveal that body art wasn't just ceremonial. Over at Archaeology magazine, there's a fantastic article on ancient tattoos, many of which were incredibly elaborate. But perhaps most fascinating are the tattoos on Ötzi. Partly that's because they are our only examples of real-life ancient tattoos. Every other example of ancient tattoos comes from art, and we can't be certain that they show actual tattoo patterns or an idealized version of them. Ötzi's markings reveal how tattoos were made, at least in Copper Age Europe. And they hint at why they were made, too. |
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Rachael Rettner
LiveScience 2013-10-23 10:02:00
A brand new flu virus has been found in Peruvian bats, according to a new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus, called A/bat/Peru/10, belongs to a family of flu viruses known as influenza A, which mainly infect birds, but can also infect other animals, including people. Influenza A viruses are named for two proteins on the virus' surface, hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N), such as H1N1. Previously, there were 17 known types of H proteins and 10 known types of N proteins. But the proteins on the surface of A/bat/Peru/10 are so distinct, that the researchers designated it a new virus: H18N11. Last year, the same group of researchers identified a distinct influenza A virus, H17N10, in fruit bats living in Guatemala. |
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Sid Perkins
ScienceShot 2013-10-22 17:45:00
Stars in our part of the Milky Way seem to be doing "the wave," a new study suggests. The finding comes from an analysis of the motions of more than 70,000 red giant stars that lie within 6500 light-years of Earth - a distance that, in one direction, reaches about one-fourth of the way to the center of the galaxy. Above the horizontal plane that slices through the center of the galaxy, stars closer to the center of the galaxy than the sun are, in general, moving away from the plane at speeds of 10 kilometers per second or less. Meanwhile, those farther from the galactic center than the sun are moving toward the plane - in some cases, as fast as 17 kilometers per second. All together, the complexity of motions observed by the team is similar to that seen among molecules in a gas with a sound wave passing through it, the researchers report this month in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. As of yet, the reasons for these anomalous motions aren't clear, the researchers note. The "wave" may indeed be a ripple caused by a long-ago collision with a small companion galaxy, or it may result from perturbations in pressure triggered as the Milky Way's spiral arms (artist's concept above) push their way through space as the galaxy rotates. |
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Tia Ghose
LiveScience 2013-10-22 12:07:00
The Antarctic ozone hole reached its biggest extent for the year on Sept. 26, 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced yesterday. At its maximum, the ozone hole over the South Pole measured a whopping 7.3 million square miles (18.9 square kilometers), making it almost twice the area of Europe. [See the ozone hole form over Antarctica] The ozone hole is a region of the stratosphere, the second layer up in Earth's atmosphere, where the concentration of ozone, a molecule made of three oxygen atoms, is less than 220 Dobson units (a measure of the density of a gas in an entire column of the atmosphere). The ozone layer, which stretches between 12 miles to 19 miles (20 to 30 km) above the Earth's surface, provides the planet with an invaluable service: Ozone absorbs ultraviolet light, which can help cause skin cancer and sunburn. It is also the culprit behind damage to plants and plankton. In the 1980s, scientists first detected a depletion of ozone concentrations over Antarctica. The hole forms every year above Antarctica between September and November. The hole developed because of the proliferation of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), chemicals that were once widely used in refrigerants. In several chemical reactions, CFCs bind to oxygen atoms, breaking ozone down into ordinary oxygen molecules. |
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Meteorologist: Gulf Stream weakens to lowest level in five years...may bode ill for Europe's winter!
P Gosselin
German meteorologist Dominik Jung has a commentary today at his wetternet.de site where he looks at the Atlantic Gulf Stream. The commentary is titled: "Is the Gulf Stream Now Losing Its Steam?"NoTricksZone 2013-10-23 15:19:00 Over the last few days Central Europe has been enjoying almost summerlike temperatures as a weather system is drawing warm air from Mediterranean to the south. But this of course is a temprrfary weather situation and things will soon be cooling off. There have been a number of signs pointing to another cold winter, and meteorologist Jung today points to yet another: a disrupted Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is a powerful, warm Atlantic ocean current that originates at the tip of Florida and pumps warm water along the eastern coastlines of the North America and across the Atlantic over to Europe, thus keeping the north of the old continent relatively warmer in the wintertime. |
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2013-10-22 13:18:00
Scientists are trying to figure out why dozens of dead birds have been washing up on the Georgian Bay shoreline again in recent days. Local residents are concerned over what it might say about the health of the lake. The waterfront there is a popular place to walk but residents are finding numerous dead birds on the beach. It's something that has happened before. Faye Ego takes daily walks along the Georgian Bay shoreline at Allenwood Beach. Ego enjoys watching the wildlife, but sometimes she sees more dead birds than live ones. She's concerned about the bay's health. "To us and to our neighbours and friends it's about what's going on," she says. "Like why are they dying? There has to be a reason for wash ups. And some years you see hundreds and hundreds. But every year you do see some. You look at them they are young you wonder why did it die?" Over the long weekend dozens of dead ducks and loons washed in along Wasaga Beach. Wardens with the provincial park collected them. The Ministry of Natural Resources has sent some birds away for testing, but botulism poisoning is suspected because of another massive die off of ducks here in the fall two years ago. It was confirmed then that botulism was the culprit. |
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Despite a bright moon, the Orionid meteor shower produced some amazing
cosmic sights for stargazers. Here some videos coming back on the 15
Orionid meteors detected, including two brilliant fireballs.2013-10-23 14:43:00
A bright grazing fireball was caught on video over New Mexico on October 19, 2013
Fireball network catches a very bright Meteor streaking across the sky in a Southwest Motion Saturday, October 19 at 8:16 PM local time. The fireball was picked up New Mexico State University meteor camera. It looks to be a grazing fireball. Credit: NASA / N M State university Here another video showing some of the 15 Orionid fireballs caught by the NASA all-sky network on October 20 2013
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Medical Express
2013-10-23 16:06:00
Population-level studies have indicated that insufficient sleep increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. These diseases are known to be linked to inflammatory responses in the body. University of Helsinki researchers have now shown what kinds of biological mechanisms related to sleep loss affect the immune system and trigger an inflammatory response. They identified the genes which are most susceptible to sleep deprivation and examined whether these genes are involved in the regulation of the immune system. The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE on October 23, 2013. Conducted at the sleep laboratory of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, the study restricted the amount of sleep of a group of healthy young men to four hours per night for five days, imitating the schedule of a normal working week. Blood samples were taken before and after the sleep deprivation test. White blood cells were isolated from the samples, and the expression of all genes at the time of the sampling was examined using microarrays. The results were compared with samples from healthy men of comparable age who had been sleeping eight hours per night for the week. |
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Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
Diet Doctor 2013-10-23 07:08:00
Which diet is the most effective for weight loss? This could be a historic day in Sweden. Today it became official. After over two years of work, a Swedish expert committee published their expert inquiry Dietary Treatment for Obesity (Google translated from Swedish). This report from SBU (Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment) is likely to be the basis for future dietary guidelines for obesity treatment within the Swedish health care system. The health care system has for a long time given general advice to avoid fat and calories. A low-carbohydrate diet (such as LCHF) has often been dismissed as a fad diet lacking scientific foundation. The time has now come to update knowledge in this area. According to SBU, the only clear difference among different dietary recommendations is seen during the first six months. Here a low-carbohydrate diet, such as LCHF, is clearly more effective than today's conventional advice. From fad diet to best in test. Here are some more highlights from the report: Health Markers In addition, health markers will improve on a low-carbohydrate diet, according to SBU. You'll get: | |
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Comment: Mainstream guidelines cannot longer ignore
what the alternative media has been saying for years: animal fats are
good for our health. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors
practiced hunting and herding, eating a low-carb diet. We have spent most of our human evolutionary history in ice age
conditions where vegetables and fruits were simply not available, and
when they were, they were vastly different from the fruits and
vegetables available today. The fact is, our bodies are designed,
evolved, to live and thrive without consuming any carbohydrates
whatsoever, as long as there is plenty of nutritious protein and fat
available, and water to drink. Animal fat was our primal energy, as it
was - and still is - the most efficient, dense and long-burning fuel. We became smart - Homo sapiens sapiens - because we ate animal fat and meat.
For more information see: The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview Saturated fat heart disease 'myth': UK cardiologist calls for change in public health advice on saturated fat Heart surgeon speaks out on what really causes heart disease |
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Andreas Eenfeldt, MD.
Diet Doctor 2013-10-23 07:02:00
Sam Feltham carried out an experiment a few months ago that caught a lot of attention. For three weeks he pigged out on low-carb LCHF foods, 5,800 calories a day. According to simplistic calorie counting, Feltham should have gained 16 lbs (7.3 kg). But in reality, he only gained less than 3 lbs (1.3 kg). Now Feltham has repeated his experiment with exactly the same amount of calories, but from carbohydrate-rich junk food. On the same amount of calories he gained more than five times as much weight: almost 16 lbs (7.1 kg)! The difference in waist circumference was even more significant: 5,800 calories of LCHF food for three weeks reduced his waist measurement by 1 1/4 inches (3 cm). The same amount of junk food led to a 3 1/2 inch (9.25 cm) increase in his waist. And you can see the difference visually. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Above are photos from the junk food experiment. Below, the LCHF experiment (with the same amount of calories) as a comparison: | |
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Sweden becomes first Western nation to reject low-fat diet dogma in favor of low-carb high-fat nutrition The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview |
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BBC News
2013-10-22 19:37:00
A UK cardiologist is calling for a change in public health advice on saturated fat. Dr Aseem Malhotra says the risks have been overstated, with other factors such as sugar intake being overlooked. It is time to "bust the myth of the role of saturated fat in heart disease", he writes in an opinion piece in the British Medical Journal. The British Heart Foundation says reducing cholesterol through drugs or other means does lower heart risk. Studies on the link between diet and disease have led to dietary advice and guidelines on how much saturated fat, particularly cholesterol, it is healthy to eat. |
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Aaron Gordon
Alternet 2013-10-02 19:04:00
If you go to the National Institute of Health's website today, you will find a section on a "Healthy Eating Plan." That plan recommends a diet "low in saturated fats, trans fat, cholesterol, salt, and added sugars, and controls portion sizes." These recommendations may well have been copied and pasted from 1977. Nothing has changed over the past 36 years, except for this: everyone is fatter. The U.S. government began issuing dietary guidelines in 1977, when the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, led by Senator George McGovern, issued the first dietary recommendations for the American people. Although these recommendations were made some 36 years ago, you probably recognize them immediately: "Increase consumption of complex carbohydrates and 'naturally occurring sugars;' and reduce consumption of refined and processed sugars, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium." And those should sound identical to your doctor's advice: decreased consumption of refined and processed sugars; foods high in total and animal fat, eggs, butterfat, and other high-cholesterol foods; and foods high in salt. | |
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Comment: Saturated Fat is where it's at! Enjoy Saturated Fats, They're Good for You!:
The saturated fat myth Wrongly Convicted? The Case for Saturated Fat Animal fats are better for you than vegetable fats The Forbidden Food You Should Never Stop Eating The Big Lie: "Saturated Fats Are Bad For You" Saturated fat is not the culprit in heart disease |
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Willy Blackmore
Take Part 2013-10-22 18:50:00
We needed a heart. It was for an art project, something Damien Hirst-esque, the organ floating in a jar of alcohol in the window of the art gallery space we had during high school in a small Iowa town. The meat department at Hy-Vee dealt with pre-packaged cuts, and beef heart doesn't play quite as well as double-cut pork chops in my hometown. But the woman behind the counter enthusiastically offered up the deer heart that was sitting in her freezer back home. The price for the butcher paper-wrapped organ, surprisingly small and un-heart-like in appearance? Free. Which makes sense for a hunk of venison that's far less desirable than, say, the tenderloin. But even if the butcher lady had been passing us a prime cut from the deer her husband felled across the Hy-Vee counter, it would have been illegal to sell. In fact, the sale of any and all wild game is banned in the United States, and has been for more than a century. But with whitetail deer populations booming, some are saying its time to bring back commercial hunting as a means of conservation-minded population control. |
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Worthing Herald
2013-10-22 21:03:00
Mystery surrounds the discovery of a skeleton found in a field near Worthing which has baffled experts. Jodie Salmon, 23, of Collingwood Road, Goring, was walking her dog near Chanctonbury Ring on Thursday, when she made the grizzly discovery. Upon showing it to friends, speculation grew it could be a big cat. She said: "At first, I thought it was a snake, but when I looked closer, I thought it could be a big cat. "I am not sure how big it was, but would guess between five or six feet long. I would love it if it was a big cat, but I am not sure what it is." The Herald has approached three wildlife experts, who have yet to confirm the mystery beast's identity. Can you solve the mystery? Email oliver.poole@worthingherald.co.uk or call 01903 282347 |
