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Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by dheera »

shams93 wrote: post #4

Sleep deprivation is known to cause strokes, take a look at how many millennials are expected to put in 80-100 hours for a 40 hour check , extreme high competition overtime just to hold onto their seat.

This. The whole culture of working overtime and weekends as a "norm" is horribly unhealthy. Weekends were invented for a reason, i.e. to not work. I spend most of my weekends biking, hiking, socializing, working on personal projects, and generally trying to be healthy, both physically and mentally.

I say this as a cardiac arrest survivor. I would be terrified to be stuck in an office for 7 days a week. It's just not right for the body or mind.

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by kaizoku_ »

sevenfive wrote: post #135
MicroBerto wrote: post #113

My longshot theory: Molly. I've watched brilliant brains literally get ruined by the overuse of that garbage. I would bet anything that it's more dangerous than any of its users want to admit.

Do you know what a stroke is?

This may only be a case study, but these doctors indicate an association between MDMA use and strokes.

http://ispub.com/IJEICM/8/1/4514

Available data imply a strong association between MDMA abuse and cerebral infraction.

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by legulere »

ChristianBundy wrote: post #125
legulere wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eating a diet largely based on plants but with meat every now and then has all the benefits of a purely plant based diet but without the problems

Please name one problem with a vegan diet that's solved by meat. Meat is a carcinogen, it's highly correlated with a variety of diseases, and the "vitamin supplements" doesn't hold water seeing as how animals killed for meat have to be given vitamin supplements anyway. Eating meat is a fantastic last resort if you don't have enough food and your only other option is malnutrition/starvation, but it's terrible for you…

The aforementioned malnutrition of vegans. And no you do not need to feed properly managed livestock vitamin supplements.

Eating meat is fantastic because it contains a lot of macro and micro nutrients. With a vegan diet it is extremely hard to impossible to get all micronutrients.

2/3 of people trying to become vegetarian start eating meat again. Meat reduction simply is more viable.

Of course eating too much of this powerful food is bad for you. But also sunlight causes a variety of diseases and we don't try to live without sunlight. Obesity and cardiovascular diseases are not really an issue if you have a reduced intake of meat. Red and processed meats increase the risks of colorectal cancer with relative increases that seem really high, but with tiny absolute increases as colorectal cancer is extremely uncommon.

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by cperciva »

lostlogin wrote: post #167
cperciva wrote: post #117

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That calculator is assuming "midday sun", which doesn't last for very long. (Also, I've been told that 1500 IU/day is what I should aim for.)

That's a lot more than the likes of the Mayo clinic recommend but presumably there is a reason for that. Even if there wasn't, nearly 3 hours outside per day in winter is not that attractive sounding.

My understanding is that 600 IU/day is a "we have lots of evidence that getting less than this is bad" whereas 1500 IU/day is "we know this is completely safe, and there's some evidence that it's better than 600 IU/day". Rather like vitamin C, there's some debate about how much is optimal, but you need to take truly astounding amounts in order to cause adverse effects.

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by 8note »

toasterlovin wrote: post #158
ChristianBundy wrote: post #125

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Please name one problem with a vegan diet that's solved by meat. Meat is a carcinogen, it's highly correlated with a variety of diseases, and the "vitamin supplements" doesn't hold water seeing as how animals killed for meat have to be given vitamin supplements anyway. Eating meat is a fantastic last resort if you don't have enough food and your only other option is malnutrition/starvation, but it's terrible for you…

> Eating meat is a fantastic last resort if you don't have enough food and your only other option is malnutrition/starvation, but it's terrible for you as anything other than a stopgap until you can eat some plants/fungi. Eating meat seems like a viable strategy for many other species, not sure why it isn't a viable one for humans as well, especially given that we seem to be highly evolved as hunters (I mean, we are,…

Which meat eating animals live into their hundreds?

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by DanBC »

8note wrote: post #175
toasterlovin wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Eating meat is a fantastic last resort if you don't have enough food and your only other option is malnutrition/starvation, but it's terrible for you as anything other than a stopgap until you can eat some plants/fungi. Eating meat seems like a viable strategy for many other species, not sure why it isn't a viable one for humans as well, especially given that we seem to be highly evolved as hunters (I mean, we are,…

Which meat eating animals live into their hundreds?

turtles.

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by jbmorgado »

taeric wrote: post #150
jbmorgado wrote: post #124

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> "Even assuming that this was true... the logic doesn't even make sense. If you have fewer people in an insurance pool, than the costs of it are higher. Pretty much by definition." What? That doesn't make any sense and it's surely not by definition. If you have a set of people, and you create a subset with the healthiest people of the subset (so, what you are doing by removing the obese), of course that the costs pe…

That isn't how insurance works. To do an insurance pool, you have to have a lot of people, knowing that you won't be paying out to most of them. Otherwise, it is not insurance, but some sort of group savings/pay as you go. That is, the main variable that gets you to lower rates, is higher participation. Anything else doesn't come close. You have to let it sink in that you can not have a small subset "save up" enough…

> "That isn't how insurance works. To do an insurance pool, you have to have a lot of people, knowing that you won't be paying out to most of them. Otherwise, it is not insurance, but some sort of group savings/pay as you go."

Seriously, not only this is clearly not how it works, but it actually makes zero economic sense, it doesn't work like that at all.

Insurance companies have people there calculating the expected costs with the different groups and - whenever legal - they DO DISCRIMINATE amongst them. Why do you think woman pay less for life insurance than men? Or why do woman pay less than men for car insurance? According to your rational that shouldn't be the case, you should just put them all together and everyone would pay less.

Let's just reduce this at absurdum for you to get it.

You have a group of 100 people. 50 completely healthy according to a medical check-up, 50 with HIV needing constant medication: Now, where do you think the health insurance premium would be lower for the 50 healthy ones:

1 - If we charged all the 100 people the same?

2 - If we divided the group and charged the 50 people with HIV differently than the 50 healthy people?

Answer this question and immediately you will understand why what you are claiming is wrong.

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by rpedela »

8note wrote: post #175
toasterlovin wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Eating meat is a fantastic last resort if you don't have enough food and your only other option is malnutrition/starvation, but it's terrible for you as anything other than a stopgap until you can eat some plants/fungi. Eating meat seems like a viable strategy for many other species, not sure why it isn't a viable one for humans as well, especially given that we seem to be highly evolved as hunters (I mean, we are,…

Which meat eating animals live into their hundreds?

Whales

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by paulddraper »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #69
cmpxchg8b wrote: post #50

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I starting working in games in the early 2000s. The first game I worked on (Black & White) had me working 16-20 hour days, 6-7 days a week for 9 months. It destroyed my health and turned me into an agoraphobic for at least a year, with related conditions lasting much longer. I've seen people have to check into mental health institutions after shipping games. At one place I worked, there was a "crack board", where the…

Do employers ever get sued for having an abusive work culture?

Having a culture of ridiculous work hours is not a crime.

And as long as thousands of developers handle/enjoy the game industry environment, there's no compelling reason to change.

Re: More Millennials Are Having Strokes

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Post by nradov »

Moto7451 wrote: post #56
pmichaud wrote: post #29

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Strictly speaking vegan is obviously a more limited subset of omnivore. But in a practical sense, it would surprise me if vegans didn't have more variety in their diet. I was vegetarian for almost a decade, basically my 20s, and what became clear immediately was that I had to figure out different stuff to eat. Default food wouldn't work anymore, so I have to branch out a lot and find foods that I would've never thoug…

I think you mean to say that veganism is a subset of vegetarianism? Omnivores by definition eat animal products. I'm typically vegetarian to suit my own wacky body chemistry and slow metabolism (tldr; lowered/normalized my blood pressure, cholesterol, lost weight etc by diet changes and exercise) and would like to underline the point you're making about finding dietary substitutes. Protein consumption was the hardest…

Has your slow metabolism been confirmed by lab tests? Many people seem to think they have a slow metabolism but very few actually do.
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