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Frontiers | Plant-based diet and risk of all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis AbstractObjective: A systematic analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between a plant-based diet and all-cause mortality.Methods: The PubMed, ...

Sure, but vegetarians generally have similar overall life expectancy to omnivores, with some cohorts showing a modest mortality advantage that seems to depend more on how plant‑based the diet is (healthy vs ultra‑processed) and on overall lifestyle than on vegetarian status per se. shorturl.at/bwvPm

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Denver Moved To Arrest Trump’s Federal Agents. Courts Ordered $175 Billion Returned. 24 States Sued The Regime. Big Tech Blocked. The Resistance Won The regime had a very bad week. We made sure of it.

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Huffman, 29 other lawmakers call for investigation into claims of end times ideology driving Iran war “Right now, extremists are enacting foreign policy, and in this case, life and death stuff involving war powers based on their interpretation of biblical prophecy,” Huffman said. &#8220…

MSN says it's on the website of the foundation.

Some representatives are taking it seriously: www.times-standard.com/2026/03/06/h...

Or because it's inherently just plain difficult.

People are calling vaccine hesitant parents "abusive." Are all the parents abusive who feed their kids processed food, don't push them to exercise, or don't pressure them to excel at school..?

Everyone's judging everyone else. Must be a better way.

I've observed one thing in my 40 years in medicine: medications for the most foundational body functions are the hardest to get right: sleep, weight, mood, energy…

The systems that control these are linked to everything else in the body.

That said, they are still a good thing or some people.

No, I think it introduces uncertainty where none exists.

We're at the point of needing more creative studies (if any) than just an observational study that's going to be confounded in various predictable ways.

The Quiet Chemistry of Childhood A new U.S. study made headlines—but the deeper questions remain unanswered

I wonder what toxicologist Bruce Lanphear would say about this study.
blanphear.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Well, it's one of those measurements that need to be interpreted in the context of the patient's entire history and other labs.
We oversimplify at the patient's peril.

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Azalea plays the "rug game," where I wrap her up and she escapes, over and over again.

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Yes, this is how I see it as well. I think many people her age don't really see a different path to a fulfilling or creative life.

Some of the dog owners she's helping might not just be the rich, rather perhaps the disabled or working too many hours in a cubicle.

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It has "Off with his head!" vibes.

Yes, and also, looking back at the dot-com crash, history suggests two things can be true at once: a speculative bubble in financial assets can burst painfully, while the underlying general‑purpose technology (internet, AI) keeps diffusing and reshaping the real economy for decades afterward.

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Azalea's "action" look.

Yes, and an opportunity for everyone to do some soul-searching re: what we compromise in order to gain power, fame, + fortune.

Not blaming anyone, but some of the people involved should have known better.

That's the realization we should be hearing instead of some people arguing they were naïve.

Have you read his response on X? Someone linked to it on LinkedIn, so I saw it there. Happy to send screenshots if you're interested.

Basically PR, of course, but interesting to see what defensive arguments they went with.

News Every Day, a poem by William Stafford. Birds don't just say it once. If they like it they say it again. And again, every morning. I heard a birth congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again. Many people are fighting each other, in the world. You could learn that and say, "many people are fighting each other, in the world." It would be true, but saying it wouldn't make any difference. But you'd say it. Birds are like that. People are like that.

News Every Day, by William Stafford

" I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay."

It's good that this is becoming more mainstream. Many people can be helped with this focus.

That is a useful timeline, thanks.

I am hoping you are right and that they were not slow walking this as they slow walked other things, or so it appeared.

Along the same lines, now that we do know some of these, what are we doing about them?

Are there some people in positions that are so incompatible with ingratiating themselves to criminals, that something should be done about them?

It's just that we hold them up as paragons of virtue, but they are political creatures and we've been let down so much.

Not saying one should not vote or that one should vote against one's beliefs, just saying that there seems to be a lot we don't know.

I've been wondering today, did Biden and Harris not know anything about what was in those millions of pages of files?

Yes, I fully agree. First of all, let's wish them all happiness because happy people don't act like that.

I guess that's where that saying comes from, that the price of peace is the happiness of your "enemies."

Untrue. We need to know about the shenanigans (I'm using an extreme euphemism) of the people we look up to and promote.

It's how the stain spreads and spreads with each of us overlooking just a little bit because everyone else is and because it's useful after all, and because the person whose overlooking we're overlooking did a whole lot more overlooking than we are doing.

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