drsoos' starred items
It’s been a little over 24 hours since iOS 5 was released, and already, the jailbreak devs are putting in work. Case in point: AppsCenter, from jailbreak developer, Filippo Bigarella.
AppsCenter is a jailbreak widget that allows you to launch apps directly from Notification Center. In fact, this can ultimately become your de facto method for launching apps.
Take a look past the break for a video preview of AppsCenter in action…(...)
Read the rest of AppsCenter: Launch Apps Directly From iOS 5′s Notification Center
"AppsCenter: Launch Apps Directly From iOS 5′s Notification Center" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. Make sure to follow us on Twitter and friend us on Facebook.
So...I know most of the curly haired brethren, and i mean curly( not slightly curly, wavy, curled at the tip, styled with a curling iron, etc.) have had a fantastic romance with what you call conditioner. But since condemning shampoo to the bottom of the sink behind the leaky pipe ive been looking for ways to tame the mane. I mean I dig the whole Jayden Smith-going-rasta vibe but Im just looking for some post-shower/dry treatment? the extra frizz takes away depending on the setting. I got a wedding coming up, mad females (domesticated tho, meaning not paleo) and Im not trying to cave, man...get it, caveman?
Ahh forget it...
Per capita wheat consumption increased accordingly. Wheat consumption today is 26 lbs per year greater than in 1970 and now totals 133 lbs per person per year. (Because infants and children are lumped together with adults, average adult consumption is likely greater than 200 lbs per year, or the equivalent of approximately 300 loaves of bread per year.) Another twist: The mid- and late-1980s also marks the widespread adoption of the genetically-altered dwarf variants of wheat to replace standard-height wheat.
In 1985, the Centers for Disease Control also began to track multiple health conditions, including diabetes. Here is the curve for diabetes:
Note that, from 1958 until 1985, the curve was climbing slowly. After 1985, the curve shifted sharply upward. (Not shown is the data point for 2010, an even steeper upward ascent.) Now diabetes is skyrocketing, projected to afflict 1 in 3 adults in the coming decades.
You think there's a relationship?
Ever get the feeling those drugs they are giving you aren't doing a darned thing? Maybe that's because more often then not, they aren't and now they are even admitting it! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glaxo-chief-our-drugs-do-not-work-on-most-patients-575942.html So is this them finally coming clean and admitting the truth, or is it just them changing tactics and getting ready to start selling hoards of genetic tests instead?
Is Less Really More?
This followup to photographer Nathan Schroder shows another bath of everyday people, and the things (gadgets included) they carry inside their pockets / bags -- some of the things are just plain strange.
more...
Thailand and Cambodia Are in War
Thailand and Cambodia are at war. over a 900-year-old temple
more...
Unexplainable Images
Bizarre and weird photos. See it!
more...
Weird Lift High Nose From Japan
Push up that nose of yours to create the perfect profile with this handy Beauty Lift High Nose
more...
Ice Diving
Few people are as lucky as the divers who get to participate in the ice diving events on the Alps
more...
Some Really Bizarre Celebrity Wardrobe Malfunctions
Here is the list of most stunning moments of some celebrities who had to go through weird wardrobe malfunctions.
more...
Anna Kournikova Has a Virus?
Today we?d like to wish a happy 10th birthday to the Kournikova Virus
more...
10 Animals, Which Saddled the People
The desire to be first was inherent in man always, but because it is noticeably inferior in speed to representatives of environmental fauna to jump on fellow tried to bridle, saddle and gallop to let any trapped under the hand of livestock. And while nowa
more...
Cute Polar Bear Cubs Learn to Walk
Only eight weeks old polar bear cubs were first time to leave the cave in the spring sun. They were learning to walk.
more...
Celebrities in Panties Part 1
Can you imagine how celebrities look in pants?
more...
Cute Deers
This deers are very awesome!
more...
Russian Astronauts To ?Land? On Mars [Video]
The longest spaceflight simulation in history ? a 500-day mission to Mars is reaching its destination, as the astronauts prepare to land on the Red Planet later on Saturday
more...
The New Orthopedic Shoes
Photos of the New Orthopedic Shoes.
more...
Astounding Watzmann Mountain in Germany
The Watzmann is, depending on one's definition, the second, third or fourth highest mountain in Germany
more...
World?s Largest Human Body Parts (18 Pics)
Categorized by many as ?Weird!? and defined by terms like amazing pictures, bizzare pictures, body, records, world records.
more...
New Zealand Woman Partially Paralyzed by Hickey"Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel. There was a clot in the artery underneath where the hickey was."
Wu said the clot dislodged and traveled to the woman's heart, where it caused a minor stroke that led to the loss of movement.
"We looked around the medical literature and that example of having a love bite causing something like that hasn't been described before," he said.
(Image: File:Love bite.jpg, Janek B./Wikimedia Commons)
 |
| Source: Edmonton Journal |
"During 10 years of follow-up, 1,680 of the women (4 per cent) had a stroke....From the first sentence in the passage immediately above, we know that in this study, 96% of the women did not have a stroke. If we go to the abstract of the original study, "Red meat consumption and risk of stroke in Swedish women, we find that the so-called 22% greater risk was calculated on a relative rather than absolute basis.
"When the researchers divided women into five groups based on how much red meat they reported eating, they found that those in the top fifth, who ate at least 86 grams daily (3 ounces) were at 22 per cent greater risk of cerebral infarction than women in the bottom fifth (less than 36.5 grams, or 1.3 ounces, daily).
"Women who ate the most processed meat (at least 41.3 grams, or 1.5 ounces, a day) were at 24 per cent greater risk of this type of stroke than women who consumed the least (less than 12.1 grams, or less than half an ounce a day)."
"During a mean follow-up of 10.4 years, we ascertained 1680 incident cases of stroke, comprising 1310 cerebral infarction, 154 intracerebral hemorrhage, 79 subarachnoid hemorrhage, and 137 unspecified stroke. Total red meat and processed meat consumption was associated with a statistically significant increased risk of cerebral infarction, but not of total stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, or subarachnoid hemorrhage. The multivariable RR of cerebral infarction for the highest versus the lowest quintile of consumption were 1.22 (95% CI, 1.01–1.46) for red meat and 1.24 (95% CI, 1.04–1.49) for processed meat. Fresh (unprocessed) meat consumption was not associated with total stroke or with any stroke subtype."
To clarify, if 4 of every 100 people had a stroke (as in this study), the absolute risk for stroke was 4%. If in one of the subgroups 5 of every 100 people had a stroke, their absolute risk was 5%. But if you compare the two groups, the subgroup had a 25% greater risk than the other, because 5% is 25% greater than 4%. Yet in the one group, 96% of people did not have a stroke, and in the other, 95% did not have a stroke.
According to the abstract, they recorded 1310 cases of cerebral infarction among the entire population, which means that cerebral infarction occurred in 78% of all stroke cases (i.e. it was the main type of stroke in this population). Thus, we know that the absolute incidence of cerebral infarction in the low meat group was not more than 4%, and conclude that in the high meat group not more than 5% of subjects had a cerebral infarction type stroke--which means that more than 95% of women eating the so-called high meat diets (more than 3 ounces daily) did not have a stroke. The absolute difference between the two groups was not more than 1%, but by using relative risk, the authors get to report it as a 22% increase in risk. Creative accounting.
If you read "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" you will learn that if a study finds a relative risk difference of less than 100%, the odds are that the findings occurred either by chance, poor study design, or investigator bias. This study falls in that category, bad science--which is true of almost all epidemiological studies like this.
Now take a close look at the last sentence of the abstract of the journal article:
"Fresh (unprocessed) meat consumption was not associated with total stroke or with any stroke subtype."
What? In the immediately previous sentence, they stated that red meat was associated with a 22% relative risk in cerebral infarction type stroke, but the last sentence says that fresh meat was not associated with total stroke or any subtype, which would include cerebral infarction.
I feel confused. How can "high" red meat consumption be associated with a 22% greater risk of stroke, and yet not associated at all with total stroke or any stroke subtype? It seems that the trick must be in combining both fresh and processed red meat to get the positive association.
As you can see from the title of the Reuters report, the first claim got plastered on the headlines, but the last was ignored. What's up with that?
This study didn't show that eating a diet rich in red meat causes strokes. On the contrary, it showed that at least 95% of people who eat the so-called high meat diet don't suffer strokes. It also showed that if you massage the data correctly, you get get a result that will get media attention and support conventional preconceptions.
P.S. If you like this post and want to see more like it, please consider making a small donation or a recurring subscription payment using the PayPal buttons in the right hand column. Fighting fallacies is a full time job I love to do, but I need support to continue doing it. Also consider sending a link to this post to all of your Facebook and other friends.
There have been quite a few question about books on this site recently. As someone trying to follow a paleo lifestyle in a relative isolation - (my friends and family listen to me ramble on but they aren't particularly interested in the nitty-gritty) - sometimes I don't so much have a specific question about a book but just want a chat about it. For instance I have just finished reading Coming Home to the Pleistocene by Paul Sheperd. I thought it was wonderful and would love to hear other people's opinions on it but that isn't really an appropriate question for this site. So I wondered if anyone knew of a discussion board dedicated to talking about paleo and evolutionary lifestyle books? If there isn't one out there already then I have set one up but I have never tried anything like this before so not sure if it will work. http://www.thepaleobookshelf.proboards.com/
