Participants’ mean age was 81.5 years, 44.4% were women, and 10.5% were nonwhite. There were 266 deaths (8.8%) within 6 months. The final risk model included 15 variables, 4 of which were not included in prior risk models: hearing impairment, mobility impairment, weight loss, and lower patient-reported health status
“We’re not born with unlimited choices. We can’t be anything we want to be. We come into this world with a specific, individual destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it. Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
Steven Pressfield
Message to children and young adults: Don’t believe the hype that you are hearing from Extinction Rebellion and the like. Rather than going on strike or just worrying, take the time to learn something about the science of climate change. The IPCC reports are a good place to start; for a critical perspective on the IPCC, Climate Etc. is a good resource.
Climate change — man made and/or natural — along with extreme weather events, provide reasons for concern. However, the rhetoric and politics of climate change have become absolutely toxic and nonsensical.
In the mean time, live your best life. Trying where you can to lessen your impact on the planet is a worthwhile thing to do. Societal prosperity is the best insurance policy that we have for reducing our vulnerability to the vagaries of weather and climate.
Researchers at Tel-Aviv University have found plants making airborne emission of ultrasound screams when subjected to stress. They suspect that the sounds are generated by a process called cavitation. The sound may be alerting other plants nearby. Researchers have for the first time found evidence of plants making airborne emission of ultrasound screams when subjected […]
via Plants emit ultrasonic distress screams when stressed — Science Chronicle
Wow.
The company’s chopped “chicken” is made with pea and wheat protein, herbs such as sage and thyme, and salt and pepper, without preservatives, additives, or artificial flavors or colors. “I think that in the plant-based category, there’s so much innovation and so much excitement going around with what we can develop in a lab and what science can really add to the category,” Song says. “But at the end of the day, this is ‘We’re in the food space,’ and I think people are forgetting that this needs to be food.”
Still. Not. Meat.
Read the entire article and decide for yourself.
Why do you need food that pretends to be something other than what it is?
That hasn’t escaped the notice of Dan Dahl, of Dahl Funeral Home in East Grand Forks and the former president of the Minnesota Funeral Directors Association.
“The older I get, the younger everyone else gets. I’m 59, and it used to be when I was 35, 35-year-olds didn’t die, it seemed like. It kind of sticks out now the older you get,” he said. “We’re not supposed to be burying our kids, our kids are supposed to be burying us.”
Read the source article at this link.
Reading Time: 3 minutes A common refrain of Health At Any Size people is that, “But only 5% of people achieve sustained weight loss!” Then follows the suggestion that, therefore, nobody should try to achieve sustained weight loss. This 5% figure is a fiction, as one can see from scientific reviews of the research literature.…
via Long-term weight loss is achievable and reduces the risk of death — Nutritional Revolution
A vegan is suing Burger King because its Impossible Whoppers are meat adjacent
Somehow none of this makes any sense to me.
Update 12.15.19
And it doesn’t make any sense to VegNews either.
Personal Purity and the Vegan Politics of a Shared Burger Grill
Every vegan who is connected to the internet knows about the shared grill situation, and if you’re not comfortable with it, then don’t eat at those restaurants. It’s that simple.
Nicole Axworthy is the News Editor of VegNews and author of DIY Vegan who is an imperfect human but still 100-percent vegan.
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Just another post in a sporadic series of posts on why I like Oklahoma.
Earlier posts are here and here.
You just have to get used to the weather.
For starters if you need a primer on fake burgers read the following Epicurious article:
Everything You’ve Ever Wondered About Meatless Meat, Explained
And for the GMO angle read the article below:
Earth Watch: It’s Not the Cow, It’s the “How”
While at the grocery store I saw these in the refrigerated section next to the beef.
Photo: courtesy of VegNews.
Earlier this year a veggie magazine got pretty pumped about this meat free burger (see link below).
World’s Largest Pork Producer Launches Plant-Based Breakfast Patties, Burgers, and Meatballs
But with nary a word on the downsides.
Of course I picked up the package despite the pricey price tag of $6.99 for two patties. The list of ingredients was too long to read. My mind immediately said “highly processed” and I skipped the list. Instead my eyes saw the deeply discounted price of $0.99. Ninety nine cents. Less than a buck. I didn’t buy any. No one else in the store seemed to be buying any either.
An earlier post of mine focused on meat alternatives in fast foods. My conclusion was and is fast food is fast food whether prepared with meat or with a meat alternative.
For the moment this is still a free country (I live in the US). I am not going to tell anyone what to buy or what to eat. I’ve eaten both of the leading brands of bleeding plant based meatless burgers. Both tasted fine but after digging in a little deeper I won’t be buying or eating any more of these plant based bleeders from any major corporation.
It’s better to make your own veggie burgers.
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