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2010-02-08, 17:59 | Link #5983 | |
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So even if we dismiss the economic context which is not exactly friendly. This whole sexless trend means that even those who would be ready to have a baby will simply never see one coming.
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2010-02-08, 19:31 | Link #5984 | |
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Just an update on the 4Chan article I posted... yep, it's the same situation like AT&T... some kind of DDoS attack:
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2010-02-08, 21:46 | Link #5986 | |
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While it's certainly true that couples that don't have sex don't have children, much more relevant to the story is the fact that that the types of couples that have sexless marriages are not generally the types of couples who choose to rear families. There certainly may be other types of couples that also choose to not rear families, but that would be a separate issue. The reasons why Japan has so many of these marriages is a subject deep and wide (ie, outside the scope of this particular thread).
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2010-02-08, 22:11 | Link #5987 | |
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As Japan property prices slump, Chinese interest spikes up
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2010-02-08, 22:42 | Link #5988 | |
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2010-02-08, 22:55 | Link #5989 | |||
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Spoiler for A bit off-topic and save space:
Dubai skyscraper (Burj Khalifa) now closed to the public Quote:
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2010-02-09, 02:48 | Link #5990 | ||
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2010-02-09, 05:59 | Link #5992 | |
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Soft drinks boost pancreatic cancer risk Oh no...looks like it's time to give up the diet coke.
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2010-02-09, 08:46 | Link #5993 | |
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But I highly doubt soft-drinks can cause a higher chance of that type of cancer opposed to alcohol.. does not make sense really.
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2010-02-09, 09:07 | Link #5995 | |
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Moderation is supposed to be the key, but anything more than a litre per day, it is abit too much. The last time I remembered a health sciences professional in the army told me that 500ml per day is the limit for Coke, though I am not exactly sure of it right now.
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2010-02-09, 10:28 | Link #5996 |
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Don't kid yourself; two cans a day is a LOT in the course of a lifetime. Just think about what coke is... not really something the body is designed to be consuming, let alone on a regular basis. That it is carcinogenic doesn't surprise me one bit. The old woman you mentioned is an outlier and probably has a combination of genetic longevity and other, healthier habits than her coke one that have allowed her to live so long.
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2010-02-09, 10:50 | Link #5997 |
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Excess soft drinks consumption is a one way trip towards pancreatic carcinomas, which have a mortality rate of almost 90%, making it one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Developments of pancreatic tumors have been linked to an increase in pancreatic secretions needed to digest and control dietary and blood sugars, which in turn necessitates cellular hypertrophy and/or hyperplasia, which in turn increases the risk for genetic mutations during mitosis, which leads all the way towards uncontrolled tumor formation.
And you can't exactly say either that person X drinks more than person Y therefore the study is incorrect. Cancers are multifactorial in nature, as such disease progression and manifestation is very, very different between individuals.
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2010-02-09, 11:12 | Link #5998 |
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I am one of those people who are very concerned about their health. I don't drink soft drinks and I think they are disgusting. Seriously, there are much better things to drink that won't do something funny to your health or weaken your bones. Even I you pay more for a natural juice, it is better for your health and tastes great.
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2010-02-09, 11:25 | Link #5999 | |
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Besides, "natural juice" comes from what the plant is watered/fertilised with. It isn't all natural if synthetic fertilisers like ammonium nitrate is used. Fancy a cup of ascorbic acid with a different kind of lime? The bottomline of consumption is : Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. Eat and drink until full, but don't waste food. I am the kind who don't keep leftovers, I would eat slowly and try and finish it while it is still fresh, because there are many out there who would relish at the food if they are going to be thrown away.
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2010-02-09, 13:00 | Link #6000 |
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Long before you should worry about pancreatic cancer -- you should worry about Type 2 Diabetes. That has some extremely nasty end-stage complications.
Stressing your body with far more fructose than humans were designed for. 1) Fructose (corn syrup) is something the system isn't designed for. It can use and store it but it doesn't signal the brain that "you've had enough" like old-fashioned sucrose (sugar) does. Direct consequence: obesity. 2) Persistent overload of the pancreas with sugar or fructose. Direct consequence: Type 2 Diabetes. End stage complications: blindness, poor healing, necrosis, amputation, gangrene, organ failure, premature death. I love microbrew colas (made with real cane sugar) and 'mexican Coca-cola' (real cane sugar). But I have maybe one a week, usually less. The *odds* are very much against a good result with drinking a liter of flavored corn syrup a day. Corn syrup is very likely a major vector in the obesity levels in the US today since almost all major producers of manufactured "foods" use it.
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