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If you are overweight, don’t eat fruit

Posted in food, general on Jul 1st, 2008

That’s what this new research found. As this Hindu news report says:
Overweight adults who consume large amounts of fructose have been found to experience alarming changes in body fat and insulin sensitivity that do not occur after eating glucose.
They meant pure fructose, the kind you get from fresh fruit and fruit juice, not high [...]

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All about me. In six words.

Posted in general on May 9th, 2008

Vijay tagged me to do a six word memoir, with an optional photo illustration and tag six others. His own was “Aiming for accuracy in grayscale images” which is quite a good description of his work as a radiologist.
Isn’t this a great tag? You don’t have to answer long surveys. You don’t even have to [...]

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Mysterious lawn circles

Posted in Humor, Life, general on May 5th, 2008

We had the first sunny weekend of the year. Gloriously sunny, with temperature in the 50s and 60s, even going briefly to the high 60s. All right, I am not converting any of this into Celsius, as it is all below 20 deg Celsius, and you are all going to laugh at me. [...]

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