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Thu Apr 11 09:32:31 EDT 2019
Slept from eleven to six without waking.
High of fifty with a chance of rain in the evening.
Woke this morning to a thin sheet of snow on the ground and roofs, though it melted by the time I got to work.
Saw a seagull and a blue jay.
Work:
- Investigate SMART error on Mizzen
Done.
- Restore Ubnt VM
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Cold and windy.
Saw eight turkey vultures whirling in the wind.
Home:
- Buy stock
Done.
- Go to bed a little early
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/the-nutrition-study-the-30b-supplement-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-see/#p3
> Moreover, the study didn’t just find a lack of benefits from supplements. It also found potential harms. Getting high doses of calcium (1,000 mg or more per day) from supplements—but not from foods—was linked to higher cancer mortality risks in the study. Likewise, people taking vitamin D supplements who didn’t have vitamin D deficiencies may have higher risks of all-cause mortality and death from cancers.
> At first glance, those taking supplements seemed to fare well—showing a reduced risk of all-cause mortality during the survey. But that association vanished when the researchers considered demographic and health data. “Our results and those of others suggest that supplement users have higher levels of education and income and a healthier lifestyle overall (for example, better diet, higher levels of physical activity, no smoking or alcohol intake, and healthy weight) than nonusers,” they wrote. Thus, “the apparent association between supplement use and lower mortality may reflect confounding by higher socioeconomic status and healthy lifestyle factors that are known to reduce mortality.”
> When the researchers picked apart effects of individual micronutrients, they found that adequate intake of vitamin K and magnesium linked to a lower risk of all-cause mortality. Also, vitamin A, vitamin K, zinc, and copper were associated with a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease. But these benefits were restricted to intake only from foods—not supplements.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryAnecdotes/comments/bby15u/p_t_barnum_and_joice_heth/
> The legendary showman and humbug artist made his debut in 1835 with an exhibition of what he called “the most astonishing and interesting curiosity in the world,” an elderly black woman named Joice Heth. She was 161 years old, Barnum trumpeted, and had served as a nurse to none other than George Washington when he was just a baby. A master of publicity, Barnum corralled huge audiences in New York with handbills, posters, and paid newspaper features announcing the “most ancient specimen of mortality” Americans were ever likely to encounter, the first person “to put clothes” on the father of the nation.
> So successful was the New York exhibition of Joice Heth that Barnum put her on a tour of New England to regale the public with tales of little George and the Washington family. When interest began to wane, Barnum was prepared. He planted a letter in a Boston newspaper that claimed Joice Heth was a fraud, “a curiously constructed automaton, made up of whalebone, india-rubber, and numberless springs, ingeniously put together and made to move at the slightest touch, according to the will of the operator.” It was a brilliant ploy. Now people paid to see whether Joice Heth was real, or some kind of robot.
> An autopsy performed on Joice Heth after her death in 1836 indicated that she was at least half the age Barnum claimed she was. The New York Sun excoriated Barnum for the fraud, but his associate Levi Lyman planted a story in the New York Herald that the autopsy itself was a fraud and that Joice Heth was alive and well.
Watched more Occult Academy on Crunchyroll.
Entertaining.
Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 8/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: migas, cucumber, carrots, banana, mandarin, coffee
Lunch: carrots, tomato, banana, grapefruit, yogurt
Afternoon snack: coffee
Dinner: Philly cheesesteak (ugh, bad call)
124/77
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