Men aged 51, 53, 58[1] may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemiclas'
[1] born in June (** p < 0.01)
Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
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Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
#92I assume a lot of people 50+ were exposed to a lot more lead and cigarette smoke than younger people.
Yes, for those under 30 you have no idea how normalized smoking was right thru the 90s. Restaurants reeked of it, bars more so. A ridiculous percent of men smoked. I have memories of being quite young sitting in a relatives lap at a baseball game while they smoked. Or my coach in little league smoking a pipe in the dugout filled with 11 year olds.
My grandparents didn’t smoke. They didn’t allow smoking in their house and that was seen as super weird in Texas. Even if you didn’t smoke, it was just expected that smokers can smoke wherever. Having ashtrays in the common area was the normal polite thing.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
They still are. Measles was on the road to being eradicated until 10 years ago.
The part you are leaving out is that illegals (now in the millions), living in the US are almost never vaccinated for measles.
Is there any issue in US society that is NOT caused by “illegals”
It’s incredible how dominant they are!
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#94So hard to believe all the skiers and snowboarders were putting PFAS as wax just until couple years ago. Also in Germany, you can buy "permanent baking paper" that is pure PTFE without a problem, which is insane to me.
I mean, did you know most dental floss has PFAS? You have to go out of your way to get PFAS free
Do you know what "countertop sealer" is made of? It's PFAS! Lots and lots of people rub PFAS on their food surfaces on purpose!
The stuff is everywhere even if you think you are avoiding it.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Teflon is so useful when cooking that I'm going to use it until the moment it gets banned regardless of health impacts.
I'll keep using teflon frying pans for eggs, but we do most cooking in stainless steel pots and pans anyway.
There is no advantage for eggs. I use a seasoned iron or steel pan and it's just as easy with better results.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard good things about carbon steel. Particularly, nitrided carbon steel. The pans are treated to be non-stick and are safe. It's what Alton Brown, the host of Food Network's Good Eats who also just launched a new cooking show on YouTube, uses.
Alton Brown had the best cooking show that ever existed. It was maximal knowledge with minimal BS (compared to most other TV shows in this space).
True but it owes a strong debt to Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking.
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#97People born before the 1980 are also of significantly lower IQ up to a 7-8 points due to leaded gas use. The boomers and gen X really did a number on themselves with environmental hazards.
Question is what is worse for IQ development in children/teens: exposure to leaded gas or TikTok?
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#98I assume a lot of people 50+ were exposed to a lot more lead and cigarette smoke than younger people.
Yes, for those under 30 you have no idea how normalized smoking was right thru the 90s. Restaurants reeked of it, bars more so. A ridiculous percent of men smoked. I have memories of being quite young sitting in a relatives lap at a baseball game while they smoked. Or my coach in little league smoking a pipe in the dugout filled with 11 year olds.
Smoking was allowed on planes!
The first time I ever flew as a kid, I was so excited to be on a plane! And then it turned out to be a 5 hour+ flight with negligible entertainment options and I was so bored...
And then, another dude got bored so he moved to the empty back rows of the plane and smoked for the rest of the flight, and the whole plane was suffused with the smell, and I was so sick.
Like, even those who smoke generally hate the smell of that stale second-hand smoke, especially if locked up in an enclosed space for hours.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll keep using teflon frying pans for eggs, but we do most cooking in stainless steel pots and pans anyway.
There is no advantage for eggs. I use a seasoned iron or steel pan and it's just as easy with better results.
I recently switched from teflon to stainless steel, and after a few false starts figuring it out I like it more now. Also for something that leaves a lot of grease like sausage and bacon, the stainless steel surprised me by being easier to clean.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US is one. If you live by a small airport frequented by personal aircraft, you're getting bombarded by lead. Now just imagine living next to a teaching airport that does aerial laps around the neighborhood.
Why the hate on the gens? Most of this stuff was not widely known. There was no internet, so you only got info from 3 tv channels and a newspaper, magazines and conversation. Blame it on the corps.
Intelligent people read books.