Author: SupremeCmdr

Does Marijuana Have Any Bad Side Effects?

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Read a quick history lesson here.

Read about psychosis risk here.

Pass the doobie please.

Regardless of the century, physicians throughout the ages have known that real medicines carry risks. Any truly medicinal substance is able to give a little whack to one or more bodily processes. The goal is to whack the body back into normal functioning. That’s basically what medicine is all about – strategically whacking our physiology. But anything capable of whacking (which is to say any real medicine) is capable of harming at least a few of the many patients who would take it. This fact is so non-negotiable that we have a name for doctors who claim to have discovered effective medicines that don’t have any risks: we call them quacks.

CBD Is Everywhere, but Scientists Still Don’t Know Much About It

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This NYT article should be read by anyone considering the use of CBD for anything.

Here’s a list of what CBD can be used for from a local news rack publication.

Relief, the Natural Way

  • Pain
  • Depression
  • Acne
  • Anxiety
  • Cancer
  • Diabetes
  • Drug withdrawals
  • Epilepsy
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Heart health
  • Inflammation
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Insomnia
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Neurodegenerative disorders
  • Psoriasis
  • Quitting smoking
  • Quality of life

 

New study shows dietary self-monitoring takes less than 15 minutes a day

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Dietary self-monitoring is the best predictor of weight-loss success. But the practice is viewed as so unpleasant and time-consuming, many would-be weight-losers won’t adopt it. New research shows for the first time how little time it actually takes: 14.6 minutes per day on average. The frequency of monitoring, not the time spent on the process, was the key factor for those in the study who successfully lost weight.

I continuously self-monitor using estimates of calories in my head.  I have used online resources in the past which were useful.

Read the source article at this link.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #349

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Fun resource on climate science if you have critical thinking skills and are not sheeple.

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #349

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The Week That Was: 2019-02-23 (February 23, 2019)
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Policy Project

Quote of the Week:?Don?t pay attention to ?authorities,? think for yourself.?? ? Richard Feynman, ?The Quotable Feynman?

Number of the Week: Not ?1.57 billion, but closer to ?7 billion

THIS WEEK:

By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

It?s Not Real; It?s Puccini: People often suspend realism. In the movie ?Spiderman? the hero swings through the canyons of Manhattan using threads of ?spider silk? he attaches from building to building as he travels down the street. In Puccini?s La Boheme, the leading lady sings a beautiful aria on her death bed, in the last stages of consumption, tuberculous filling her lungs will bodily fluids. The realist may say that is not possible…

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Sweet Snacks Are Positively and Fruits and Vegetables Are Negatively Associated with Visceral or Liver Fat Content in Middle-Aged Men and Women

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Conclusions

Despite some variation in the strength of the associations between men and women, dietary intake of sweet snacks was positively associated with HTGC, and fruit and vegetable intake were negatively associated with visceral and liver fat content. Prospective studies are needed to confirm these results. The Netherlands Epidemiology of Obesity study is registered at clinicaltrials.gov with identifier NCT03410316.

Source: Sweet Snacks Are Positively and Fruits and Vegetables Are Negatively Associated with Visceral or Liver Fat Content in Middle-Aged Men and Women