Butter Flavoring Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

A new study published in Chemical Research in Toxicology showed that the butter flavoring diacetyl (DA) increases the type of protein clumping linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The chemical is found in many processed foods, iA new study published in Chemical Research in Toxicology showed that the butter flavoring diacetyl (DA) increases the type of protein clumping linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The chemical is found in many processed foods, including microwave popcorn, snack foods, baked goods, and margarine. In fact, the researchers say that diacetyl is “ubiquitous” in the modern diet.ncluding microwave popcorn, snack foods, baked goods, and margarine. In fact, the researchers say that diacetyl is “ubiquitous” in the modern diet.

via Butter Flavoring Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease | Food Poisoning Bulletin.

Popcorn anyone?

Why Idleness Is the Best Investment You Can Make

In today’s Western culture, we mistake productivity for the appearance of productivity. The frantic attentiveness to smartphones which characterizes corporate ambition, for example, is a display of how hard someone is working, not an actual measure of their productivity.

via Why Idleness Is the Best Investment You Can Make | IdeaFeed | Big Think.

I am not doing very much today so that I can be more productive.

How to Rewire Your Brain For Success

In neuroscience, the previous prevailing belief had been that the adult human brain is essentially “hardwired,” so that by the time we reach adulthood we are stuck with what we have. Now we understand that the adult brain retains impressive powers of “neuroplasticity”—the ability to change its structure and function in response to experiences real or imagined.

via How to Rewire Your Brain For Success | Experts’ Corner | Big Think.

Luck v. Skill – Finding Success as an Expert Witness in Life Underwriting

Economist’s View: Luck vs. Skill.

Here’s a nice blog post to get your cognitive processes started on this fine Sunday morning.  Success – luck or skills and hard work?  This is a topic I’ve been thinking a lot about recently.  Unlike other missives I will purposely avoid politics.  To me,the answer is quite simple.

Both.

I work hard and have worked hard for a very long time to achieve success.  But at the same time, I recognize and appreciate how luck is as crucial a factor to success as skill and hard work.  Think about it.

The War to Our South – Mexico Dissolves Their FBI And Moves To Legalize Drugs

President-elect Enrique Pena and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who won control of Mexico’s government on July 1st, moved to dissolve the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI). Modeled after the United States FBI, the AFI was founded in 2001 to crack down on Mexico’s pervasive government corruption and drug trafficking. With rival drug cartels murdering between 47,500 to 67,000 Mexicans over the last six years, the move by the PRI represents the total surrender of Mexico’s sovereignty back to the money and violence of Mexico’s two main drug cartels, the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas. Coupled with the Obama Administration’s “Dreamer” Executive Order curtailing deportations of illegal aliens, a hands-off policy on both sides of the border foreshadows a huge increase in “narco-trafficking” violence and corruption flooding into the United States.

via Testosterone Pit – Home – Mexico Dissolves Their FBI And Moves To Legalize Drugs.