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[B_M_W]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186

New research on death.

summary if anyone asks.

Also, for those of you that eat transfats, the reason they build up in your arteries is because they are fats that your body has a hard time breaking down, possibly cannot break down very much at all. So it just precipitates into your circulatory system.

Yeah, I'll be glad when they are gone. Its like feeding yourself heavy metals, except in this case its more legal.

holy fuk

after some googling i found the dutch term for this, "transvetzuren", trans fatty acids.

that's a lot of products, it's in.

gonna pay some attention to this in the future.

(ah a quick check in my kitchen cupboards shows that at least one of my usual supermarkets puts the amount of trans-fat on their items. this also tells me to use real cream butter in the future instead of that plant-oil-fat produced stuff, so it doesn't seem too bad for me yet .. apparently according to some site NL was in 1996 the top 2 of most transfat intake, together with iceland, at 1.4g a day)

okay, heres the news on transfat.

First, it is not a naturally occuring fatty acid. Transfatty acids, that is, those fatty acids which have double bonds with hydrogens on opposite sides (trans) rather than on the same side (cis), are created by partially hydrogenizing poly unsaturated fats. Now, polyunsaturated fats are those that have 2 or more double bonds. As already stated, in their naturally occuring state, these are cis fatty acids. However, when in factory operations they hydrogenize these double bonds (break the double bonds, and add the hydrogens where the bonds used to be. Carbon atoms get four bonds, so instead of being double bonded to one carbon, and single bonded to another carbon and a hydrogen, the carbon has one bond to two carbons, and bonds to two hydrogen.) The process of partial hydrogenization doesn't remove all the double bonds from the molecule, there are usually one or two left over. However, something about the process causes the hydrogens attached to these double bonds to flip from cis to trans position. Thus, a transfat is formed.

There is much evidence to suggest that our lipase enzymes (which break down fatty acids) don't break these down very well, and/or they are poorly recognized by other protein receptor sites. Therefore, the majority of these transfats sit in the blood, and in time precipitate out of solution to form deposits which cling to the smooth muscled arteriole walls, called plaque. And we know where plaque build up leads....

So yeah, you are better off eating butter than margerine, because butter in small quantities is less likely to kill you over time.

[Triple Zero]

okido.

gonna check for "trans vet zuren" (transfatty acids) and "gehard plantaardig vet" (hardened vegetable fat) and avoid it like the plague.

cause even though the world might be going to shit, i wanna be there when the fireworks start.

[Suu]

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2007/05/wildfires_blank.html

My parents are dealing with this right now.

[Cain]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/6633979.stm

Herod's tomb found.  BBC fail to point out that the Massacre of the Innocents never happened and that for a foreign Arab infidel, Herod was a surprisingly good and popular ruler.

[Thurnez Isa]

Roman-appointed King of Judea from around 37 BC to 4 BC
A bloody ruler who killed political rivals
Ordered the Massacre of Innocents to protect his throne, the New Testament says
Behind ambitious building projects including expanding Second Jewish Temple and walls around Jerusalem

if its in the bible it must be true

[Cain]

Yet, no other contemporary historical account ever mentions it.  Funny that.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Contemporary history is the work of the devil 

[Triple Zero]

dunno if anybody's been following the HD DVD / Blu-ray encryption / AACS thinks they can own 128bit integers news, but this one is hilarious:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155

[P3nT4gR4m]

The fact tha AACS seem to imagine that they can stop me stealing films is laughable enough but to base a business model on this is patently ludicrous.

I must have at least 10 grands worth of stolen intellectual property in my possession - come get me!

[B_M_W]

Oral sex can cause throat cancer*

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11819&feedId=online-news_rss20



















*Don't worry, its not oral itself, its through the transmission of HPV.

Gotcha. 

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

great...

[LMNO]

Eh, just get yrself vaccinated, Noodle.  Then you can give all the head you want.

[Suu]

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2007/05/10/armless_one_legged_driver_leads_chase/

This man...is a Tampa Bay LEGEND.

[Cain]

Convienient timing:


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1687360.ece

AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first ,Äúlarge-scale,Äù terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.

Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on ,Äúa par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki,Äù in an attempt to ,Äúshake the Roman throne,Äù, a reference to the West.

Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by Al-Qaeda planners as a ,Äúchange in the head of the company,Äù.



Did you catch them all?

Iran reference (check)
Nuclear veiled reference (check)
Tony Blair having a reason not to step down (check)
Murdoch publication (check)

I do believe we have Grade A Propaganda here, ladies and gentlemen.

[Thurnez Isa]

"The report, produced earlier this month and seen by The Sunday Times, appears to provide evidence that Al-Qaeda is active in Iran and has ambitions far beyond the improvised attacks it has been waging against British and American soldiers in Iraq.

There is no evidence of a formal relationship between Al-Qaeda, a Sunni group, and the Shi’ite regime of President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad, but experts suggest that Iran’s leaders may be turning a blind eye to the terrorist organisation’s activities."

doesn't Al Qaeda only make up something like 10 percent of the violence in Iraq?
and what happens with the insurgancey finally has no use of Al Qaeda?