Jaff's stupid shit

[Colts And Orioles]

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When I was in health class in 10th grade in the Spring of 1981, Mr. Racicot told us that Americans were the fattest people in the world ...... 41 years later, Americans may or may not be THE fattest people in the world, but they are certainly up there near the top of the list.

I'm a strong advocate for National Health-Care, like they have in Canada and Great Britain ...... but all of the health-care in the world won't help if people don't exercise enough and have bad diets.

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[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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When I was in health class in 10th grade in the Spring of 1981, Mr. Racicot told us that Americans were the fattest people in the world ...... 41 years later, Americans may or may not be THE fattest people in the world, but they are certainly up there near the top of the list.

I'm a strong advocate for National Health-Care, like they have in Canada and Great Britain ...... but all of the health-care in the world won't help if people don't exercise enough and have bad diets.

o

1,000,000+ Americans died from covid in the past 2.5 years. Right now it looks as if it will never go away. So estimates are that 600,000 are going to die from this virus every year. Thats about the same number of annual deaths due to SMOKING.

Crazier still, dying from Covid and smoking can be avoided. But some people cant figure it out.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by JAFF

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/healt...021/index.html

Another way Biden is screwing people over in this country

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Another way Biden is screwing people over in this country

The data comes from 2021. 1 year of biden. The pandemic is the biggest causation and that is the reason for the biggest drop. If the republicans in office had not fought over masks and vaccinations the deaths could have been cut by 40%.

One year of any administration cant account for this drop. As I posted above, every smoker kicking the habit and increase the number of people getting a flu shot and the numbers go up.

BTW, cut back on booze and we would all be better off. Wow, I just noticed my ice cubes are a little dry, so to quote a movie, “Jobu needs a refill”

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by JAFF

The data comes from 2021. 1 year of biden. The pandemic is the biggest causation and that is the reason for the biggest drop. If the republicans in office had not fought over masks and vaccinations the deaths could have been cut by 40%.

One year of any administration cant account for this drop. As I posted above, every smoker kicking the habit and increase the number of people getting a flu shot and the numbers go up.

BTW, cut back on booze and we would all be better off. Wow, I just noticed my ice cubes are a little dry, so to quote a movie, “Jobu needs a refill”

So, this is just more Trump hate. Guess I should not be shocked, coming from you.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

So, this is just more Trump hate. Guess I should not be shocked, coming from you.

No, its statistics

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Scroll down to the graph with weekly deaths. The inaction of the trump administration is responsible for a large percentage of Americans dying. It took Trump getting infected to turn him around. He was even booed by his maga followers when he told them to get vaccinated.

[JAFF]

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/...ata_corrupted/

Wed 31 Aug 2022 // 14:15 UTC
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NASA knows the "how" but not the why of a telemetry data routing snafu that caused "garbled" information about the 45-year-old Voyager 1 probe's position to be sent to mission controllers on the ground.

The space agency's engineers announced a fix of the issue last night, saying they'd discovered the data was being routed through the wrong place altogether – an onboard computer the team said was "known to have stopped working years ago," which then "corrupted the information."

Calling the fix from billion of miles away the "ultimate telesurgery," Voyager propulsion engineer Todd Barber said the team were "delighted" after being left "flummoxed" over the nonsensical attitude control telemetry. "We couldn't get any health and safety info about the pointing of the spacecraft or any of the thruster operation," he noted.

The ground crew needs data from the venerable 1970s probe's attitude articulation and control system (AACS) to control the spacecraft's orientation. One of the most crucial functions of AACS is to keep Voyager 1's high-gain antenna pointed precisely at Earth, or else it won't be sending any data home.

When the problem first cropped up in "March or April", the Pasadena techies were quick to point out that the craft, which entered interstellar space in 2012 and is currently the farthest human-made object from Earth, was operating normally.

43 years and 14 billion miles later, Voyager 1 still crunching data to reveal secrets of the interstellar medium
Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
How's your night sky looking? The Reg chats to astroboffin Mark McCaughrean about Starlink and leaving a mark
'That's here. That's home. That's us': It's 30 years since Voyager 1 looked back and squinted at a 'Pale Blue Dot'
It was receiving commands from Earth and executing them, as well as gathering and returning science data, all without any compromise of the signal, suggesting those AACS values were actually in good shape. The team said at the time the data they were receiving didn't actually reflect "any possible state the AACS could be in," adding: "Voyager 1's signal hasn't weakened, either, which suggests the high-gain antenna remains in its prescribed orientation with Earth."

Suzanne Dodd, Voyager's project manager, said that as the team had suspicions about the underlying issue, they opted to try a low-risk solution: commanding the AACS to resume sending the data to the right computer – confirming their thesis as it apparently worked.

It's not yet known why the probe started sending telemetry to the wrong box, but NASA says it is likely it received a faulty command generated by another onboard computer. "If that's the case, it would indicate there is an issue somewhere else on the spacecraft," the JPL team added, saying it would keep looking for the underlying issue, but didn't think it a "threat" to Voyager 1's long-term health.



The fact that we still receive data 45 years later from the craft, currently 22.5 billion kilometers (14 billion miles or about 20 light-hours) away from Earth, is extraordinary, and some of the original team members were on hand to discuss it yesterday.

Voyager probe. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years
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Propulsion engineer Barber went on to list current issues with the craft. "We lose 4 watts [of power] a year on the spacecraft; things are insanely cold; the propellant lines are about to freeze; we've had computer chip issues," he said, adding that it was "kind of like keeping an old car running – they are geriatric by NASA standards and it's been the hardest engineering I've done in my entire career but also the most fun."

The probe, launched in 1977 and sporting a 3.7-meter-wide (12ft) radio antenna dish, was originally designed to last the five years the agency believed it would take to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets.

The Register found it interesting that the telemetry problem was disclosed in May, but when the Voyager engineers appeared live yesterday, it seems it may have started much earlier, in March or April, making us wonder about the vetting process for information even on veteran craft. Barber also noted that "we announced the fix today."

Speaking more broadly about Voyager's resilience, deputy project scientist Linda Spilker said during the live Q&A yesterday: "All of the computers are redundant on Voyager and we knew from an earlier flyby of Pioneer going by Jupiter that Jupiter's radiation environment was quite harsh. So we did a lot of things to radiation-harden the two Voyagers and that stood them in good stead not just for their Jupiter flybys but now in interstellar space, where those cosmic rays or high

Amazing what we can do when we just decide to go.

[JAFF]

Head of Russian oil giant Lukoil dies after falling from hospital window, reports state media

. The chairman of Russian oil and gas giant Lukoil — which spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine — has died after falling out of a hospital window, state news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS reported Thursday.

Ravil Maganov died at the Central Clinical Hospital west of Moscow, according to the reports, which cite the hospital and law enforcement sources.

"The incident occurred around 07:00 am Moscow time in the Central Clinical Hospital ... The man fell out of the sixth-floor window and died as a result of his injuries," a source told TASS.

Lukoil confirmed Maganov’s death in a statement published on its website, saying only that the executive died "following a severe illness" and making no mention of a fall.

"We deeply regret to announce that Ravil Maganov, Chairman of PJSC LUKOIL Board of Directors, passed away following a severe illness," the statement read. "Ravil Maganov immensely contributed to the development of not only the Company, but of the entire Russian oil and gas sector."

Holy shit, makes Obama care look good

[JAFF]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/healt...ess/index.html

Well, shit!

. Eating a lot of ultraprocessed foods significantly increases men's risk of colorectal cancer and can lead to heart disease and early death in both men and women, according to two new, large-scale studies of people in the United States and Italy published Wednesday in British medical journal The BMJ.

Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds
Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds
Ultraprocessed foods include prepackaged soups, sauces, frozen pizza, ready-to-eat meals and pleasure foods such as hot dogs, sausages, french fries, sodas, store-bought cookies, cakes, candies, doughnuts, ice cream and many more.
"Literally hundreds of studies link ultra-processed foods to obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality," said Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard professor emerita of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University and author of numerous books on food politics and marketing, including 2015's "Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning)."
"These two studies continue the consistency: Ultraprocessed foods are unambiguously associated with an increased risk for chronic disease," said Nestle, who was not involved in either study.
A link to cancer
The US-based study examined the diets of over 200,000 men and women for up to 28 years and found a link between ultraprocessed foods and colorectal cancer -- the third most diagnosed cancer in the US -- in men, but not women.
Processed and ultraprocessed meats, such as ham, bacon, salami, hotdogs, beef jerkey and corned beef, have long been associated with a higher risk of bowel cancer in both men and women, according to the World Health Organization, American Cancer Society and the American Institute for Cancer Research.
The new study, however, found that all types of ultraprocessed foods played a role to some degree.
Ultra-processed foods now account for two-thirds of calories in the diets of children and teens
Ultra-processed foods now account for two-thirds of calories in the diets of children and teens
"We found that men in the highest quintile of ultraprocessed food consumption, compared those in the lowest quintile, had a 29% higher risk of developing colorectal cancer," said co-senior author Fang Fang Zhang, a cancer epidemiologist and chair of the division of nutrition epidemiology and data science at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston.
That association remained even after researchers took into account a person's body mass index or dietary quality.
Why didn't the new study find the same risk for colorectal cancer in women?
"Reasons for such a sex difference are still unknown, but may involve the different roles that obesity, sex hormones, and metabolic hormones play in men versus women," Zhang said.
"Alternatively, women may have chosen 'healthier' ultraprocessed foods," said Dr. Robin Mendelsohn, a gastroenterologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, who was not involved in the study.
The study did find that eating a "higher consumption of ultraprocessed dairy foods -- such as yogurt -- was associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer in women," Zhang said. "Some ultraprocessed foods are healthier, such as whole-grain foods that contain little or no added sugars, and yogurt and dairy foods."
Women did have a higher risk for colorectal cancer if they consumed more ready-to-eat-or-heat dishes such as pizza, she said. However, men were more likely to have a higher risk of bowel cancer if they ate a lot of meat, poultry, or seafood-based ready-to-eat products and sugar-sweetened beverages, Zhang said.
Children who eat more ultra-processed food gain weight more quickly, study suggests
Children who eat more ultra-processed food gain weight more quickly, study suggests
"Americans consume a large percentage of their daily calories from ultraprocessed foods -- 58% in adults and 67% in children," she added. "We should consider substituting the ultraprocessed foods with unprocessed or minimally processed foods in our diet for cancer prevention and prevention of obesity and cardiovascular diseases."
A link to early death
The second study followed more than 22,000 people for a dozen years in the Molise region of Italy. The study, which began in March 2005, was designed to assess risk factors for cancer as well as heart and brain disease.
How processed food drives diet-related diseases
How processed food drives diet-related diseases
Analysis published in The BMJ compared the role of nutrient-poor foods -- such as foods high in sugar and saturated or trans-fats -- versus ultraprocessed foods in the development of chronic disease and early death. Researchers found that both types of foods independently increased the risk of an early death, especially from cardiovascular diseases.
However, when researchers compared the two types of food to see which contributed the most, they discovered that ultra-processed foods were "paramount to define the risk of mortality," said first author Marialaura Bonaccio, an epidemiologist at the department of epidemiology and prevention at the IRCCS Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed of Pozzilli, Italy.
In fact, over 80% of the foods classified by the guidelines followed in the study as nutritionally unhealthy were also ultraprocessed, said Bonaccio in a statement.
"This suggests that the increased risk of mortality is not due directly (or exclusively) to the poor nutritional quality of some products, but rather to the fact that these foods are mostly ultraprocessed," Bonaccio added.
Not real foods
Why are ultraprocessed foods so bad for us? For one, they are "ready-to-eat-or-heat industrial formulations that are made with ingredients extracted from foods or synthesized in laboratories, with little or no whole foods," Zhang told CNN.
Choose anti-inflammatory foods to lower heart disease and stroke risk, study says
Choose anti-inflammatory foods to lower heart disease and stroke risk, study says
These overly processed foods are often high in added sugars and salt, low in dietary fiber, and full of chemical additives, such as artificial colors, flavors or stabilizers.
"While some ultraprocessed foods may be considered healthier than others, in general, we would recommend staying away from ultra-processed foods completely and focus on healthy unprocessed foods -- fruits, vegetables, legumes," Mendelsohn said.
In 2019, the National Institute of Health (NIH) published the results of a controlled clinical trial comparing a processed and unprocessed diet. Researchers found those on the ultraprocessed diet ate at a faster rate -- and ate an additional 500 calories more per day than people who were eating unprocessed foods.
"On average, participants gained 0.9 kilograms, or 2 pounds while they were on the ultraprocessed diet and lost an equivalent amount on the unprocessed diet," the NIH noted.
"There is clearly something about ultraprocessed foods that makes people eat more of them without necessarily wanting to or realizing." said Nestle.
"The effects of ultraprocessed foods are quite clear. The reasons for the effects are not yet known," Nestle continued. "It would be nice to know why, but until we find out, it's best to advise eating ultraprocessed foods in as small amounts as possible."

Next thing, they will tell us to cut down on booze

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by JAFF

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/healt...ess/index.html

Well, shit!



Next thing, they will tell us to cut down on booze

They used to tell us butter would kill us, so we needed to switch to margarine. They have since reversed their thinking. Same with a lot of other things.