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- Scientists have invented a new way to measure body fat The 3D scanner is about to undergo a large test using over 20,000 people.
- Edible Origami
If you're feeling really bored with your food - consult the Evil Mad Scientist's guide to making origami wontons. - Consumption of beef can damage sons sperm
There's been a lot of talk about how mens sperm count has been getting lower and lower over the last half century. New research points to the mothers consumption of beef. This may be due to the growth hormones that are used in beef production. - Blowing the lid on the obesity "epidemic"
Penn & Teller's BullS**t TV show delves into the some of the falsehoods behind the so-called obesity epidemic. Interesting to watch. NOTE: The guy swears a lot (but then the title of the program kind of gives that away!). - Teenagers less healthy than their parents generation
"Between 1970 and 2000, obesity in adolescents has increased fourfold, sexually transmitted diseases have increased threefold, drinking has increased." Not a good sign for the future of the human race.
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I think all you have to do is go to the mall to see that today's teens aren't as fit as their parents generation.
ReplyWell Jim, hopefully some of those STDs will render them infertile and it is natural selection at work?
ReplyI have a lot of issues with the beef/sperm count study. There's a very significant issue of recall bias, these men were born between 1949 and 1983 and their mothers were asked about prenatal beef consumption in the year 2000. That's at least 17 years later. Not to mention that the hormones and drugs used in beef have changed significantly with new developments and regulations in the intervening 17-51 years.
Plus, (from the CNN article) these were all men who's partners were pregnant. They were not *actually* subfertile, because they had all actually impregnanted their wives or girlfriends. They just had a "subfertile" sperm count. Which is not the same thing.
Side note: I'm not some kind of red meat booster here, I don't actually eat beef. I don't like it too much and it seems to be a migraine trigger for me. But I think it's silly to scare people away from it, as long as they're conscious of saturated fat.
ReplyHow about we just raise the cutoff age for abortion to 19 years? I live right by a high school. Such a shock after coming out of college and being out of the loop for 4 years. Every day, they walk to McDonald's and Starbucks for lunch, litter, have iPods, and dress like gansters or prostitutes depending on gender. I've never seen a group of people begging so hard to be aborted :-)
ReplyI suspect that age at death has peaked as well.
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