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It is just something we, the children of those who fought, promised to our grand parents on their deathbed. Such things matters.

I think you may be forgetting the big picture, which is to never have Europe spawning a World War again. In that regard, the fears (rational and irrational) of those with tendencie…

Bulgaria has already pegged its currency (the lev) to the euro through a currency board since 1997. This means it already lacks independent monetary policy, and joining the euro wo…

> (Github Copilot allows selecting different models, but I didn't check more carefully whether that also includes a local one, anyone knows?). To my knowledge, it doesn't. On Emacs…

> looking at VO2 max in relation to all-cause mortality, we see a very clear trend. Simply bringing your VO2 max from ‘low’ (bottom 25th percentile) to ‘below average’ (25th to 50t…

Yeah, I'm in Team Rowing (indoor) myself, and 30min of HIIT every week is HELL. My next session is in 1h...

There's also value in spending some time in zone 5 [1]: this is where the heart is really trained as a muscle, and where the cardiovascular system is pushed to its limit (the famou…

I’m all ear actually, if you could kindly point me to the relevant material.

Meta-analyses are not a panacea, that's clear. As I suspect you know well, two further meta-analysis came to the same conclusion: Chowdhury 2014 [0], De Souza 2015 [1]. More recent…

> If the diet is (too) high in saturated fat, increased cardio vascular risk. You may want to take a look at this meta-study [0]. > “A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic st…

Yes, we are borg, we will adapt.

> or do you include it as an epigenetic factor? Well, in my mind `epigenetic = biological age * food intake`, where `food intake` is 'is he eating a consistent healthy diet, given …

That's terrible, I hope you're recovering to the best possible. Do you happen to know what was your blood pressure prior to the heart attack, and/or your apob level? At least you s…

Not really Fukushima, more likely Chernobyl and the disastrous handling of governments trying to hide things instead of taking action, explaining complexities and planning further …

> I can say something like ‘a tiger is just a lion with stripes’ to a 3 year old and they now ‘understand’ what a tiger is almost as well as if they saw a picture of one. They coul…

I'm curious: do you have noticed any connection between what you eat (macro and micro) and the symptoms level? Because what you're describing could match dysbiosis and/or leaky gut…

> You were generalizing, The GP was! > I'm sorry, I can't agree with your point. At least we're getting somewhere! gp: Screens are extremely addictive to kids me: wrong, any kid wi…

> Wrong. My 2-year old loves videos of trains, both from this perspective and showing the trains themselves. She can last longer than 30 seconds, and is thrilled by them way longer…

> Screens are extremely addictive to kids. (Adults too, I suppose, but that's their own responsibility.) No, wrong. What can be addictive is the content displayed by the screen and…

> Once the body is starving for carbohydrates it begins a process to break down fats and even protein into an energy source. This produces toxins, ketones. You may want to read som…

> but secondly the auto-antibodies that caused the destruction of the beta cells can often be detected in their blood. That's actually really interesting, I still have got much to …

I second that. Looks to me that the author is more knowledgeable in T1 than T2, and is almost categorizing the latter as a subspecies of the former, for example: > Some type 2 pati…

> I got sick, I lost 8 more kg (16lb) in weight in 5 days: when I got out of hospital I over-ate sugar and carbs for two weeks and got fitter, faster than anyone would believe. If …

> Is a glas of (pure) orange juice the same as a glas of coke? About the same, both are high on fructose (orange's being nature made, whereas coke's is added from corn syrup), and …