May 2009
9 posts
Omega-6s and Heart Disease
What does correlate strikingly well with both dietary intake and heart attack risk is the proportion of omega-6 HUFA in tissue, which reflects the amount contained in cell membranes. That’s what we’re looking at in the graph above: the proportion of omega-6 HUFA in the total tissue HUFA pool, vs. coronary heart disease death rate.
You can see that the correlation is striking, both...
“Weight and fat mass in rats and humans increases with increasing omega-6 in the...”
– Whole Health Source
Don't hate the CA Supreme Court... it's the...
People, before you go bashing the California Supreme Court READ the opinion. The boogeyman here isn’t the court, it’s the state constitution that allows stupid propositions left and right. The shame isn’t the court’s; the shame is ours for letting the initiative pass with a diffuse, poorly messaged campaign (ads without gay people?) and for abiding our current constitution....
“I wanted the listener to get a sense of what is going on inside my head and my environment as much as possible. Samples are a detour from that connection. Samples express what you like, but it’s someone else’s idea and product. To really connect with the listener it was essential that I play everything. While making the record I had the live show in mind the entire time. The new...
Question: Why do you think the Japanese have such a way with elegance?
Answer: From a practical and business point of view, there’s a historical event. The first helps you understand the second. Culturally, as the Zen philosophy took hold in Japan during the 12th and 13th centuries, Japanese art and philosophy began to reflect one of the fundamental Zen aesthetic themes, that of emptiness.In...
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made of.”
– Bruce Lee (via kareem)
obama to ASU students: focus on shit that matters
“…in the face of these challenges, it may be tempting to fall back on the formulas for success that have been pedaled so frequently in recent years. It goes something like this: You’re taught to chase after all the usual brass rings; you try to be on this “who’s who” list or that top 100 list; you chase after the big money and you figure out how big your...
“The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Genius - The Modern View - NYTimes.com