frazorth
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- Comment on Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show 1 week ago:
This is interesting, thanks!
Now I agree that eating 450 oranges is unlikely, however if iron is down 22% then eating another 30% more green leafy veg to cover it may not be something people are even aware of however unlikely it is that they could consume that much anyway. Hence the drastic numbers from the article.
It sounds like even “healthy eating” people could be deficient.
- Comment on Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show 2 weeks ago:
The issues with multivitamins are well documented.
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Binding agents to make the pills easier to manufacture, make them harder to digest
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Protective shells so they last longer, means you can’t digest them as well
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Sugar mixtures to make them more appealing, such as gummies, can prevent you from digesting vitamins correctly
Over the counter pills only help somewhat, my grandmother had calcium pills to help with her weaking bones, but in the end had to have surgery as the pills she was on didn’t digest and just accumulated in her stomach. Especially as you get older your digestive tract weakens.
I don’t know what the solution is, perhaps having multivitamin drinks? But while we have “news stories” that are mostly scare stores, and no leadership with solutions, it’s going to be hard.
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- Comment on Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show 2 weeks ago:
I do wonder whether there is more to it than just fast food.
Of course, bad diets are going to be a big portion of this, but I do hear repeatedly of reduced nutritional values in our food overall due to farming for colours over health. How much does this make an impact?
I also do wonder about the relationship with some of the alternative diets, I personally know one person who is “vegan” but doesn’t actually “like vegetables”, so their diet mostly consists of potato products and processed bean curds.
All this reporting is going to ignore the deeper societal questions because the obvious lead they are pushing is “too many people live off fast food” without actually saying that.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong, banning words is stupid and gives us the Scunthorpe problem and I am very glad that we have an alternative to Reddit because its just a cesspit.
The subreddit “r/unpopularOpinions” was not full of unpopular opinions, and the words banned were obviously popular opinions because everyone talked about them until the API change and the regime cracked down.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about that. People post obviously popular opinions repeatedly if they aren’t banned.
Unpopular opinion, but I dislike the top ten Christmas songs
Yeah, no shit. Even though they are the “top ten”.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2 weeks ago:
Or maybe, its not actually an unpopular opinion!
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Genitals?
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 3 weeks ago:
I don’t agree with this.
We have been moving away from family for many decades now. However I was able to travel by train in 2000 from Liverpool to Reading, I don’t think I would have done if it was £120, which is the current return price from Lime St. to Reading.
That’s insane.
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- Comment on End of an era as Radio City tower hosts final live broadcast on Christmas Eve | Liverpool 3 weeks ago:
I still listen to radio, however its almost all online radio.
Modern Pop, 2000’s Pop, 90’s Pop, 80’s Pop, just really don’t interest me or anyone else in my family, however its the vast majority of the radio.
Soma FM for me.
- Comment on Newbury: Firearms seized from suspected gun factory - BBC News 4 weeks ago:
Seizing firearms does not make it a factory
- Comment on 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' To Best 'Mufasa' at U.S. Box Office, But Disney Pic Eyes $180M Global Opening 4 weeks ago:
TIL they made another Lion King knock off…
- Comment on Ed Miliband pledges ‘most ambitious reforms to UK energy system in generations’ 4 weeks ago:
The plans come as low wind and solar power generation forced Britain to rely heavily on burning gas and wood pellets. As of Thursday, about 65% of Britain’s electricity was being generated from gas and biomass, with only 5.3% coming from wind.
Is that because although we have built “a lot” its still not much, or has wind just generally been down and we should be over-provisioning to make up for these times?
I tried to follow the link but it was shit on mobile.
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- Comment on Advice ignored by ministers could have blocked Prince Andrew ‘spy’: Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, says he advised Tories to criminalise foreign agents in 2019 4 weeks ago:
If only he hadn’t done this, he would have been universally loved!
- Comment on Advice ignored by ministers could have blocked Prince Andrew ‘spy’: Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, says he advised Tories to criminalise foreign agents in 2019 5 weeks ago:
Ffs Andrew…
- Comment on Guardian signs controversial deal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media 5 weeks ago:
These things can be confusing to understand and seems like a reasonable question, I don’t pretend to fully understand everyone’s complaints.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise_Media
Doing basic research shows it as “a British news website”, founded by a British journalist (who Murdoch didn’t like so already sounds like a nice guy) and former head of the BBC, and an American who spent 4 years here as Ambassador under Obama.
Not exactly sounding like Bezos or Murdoch levels of evil here.
The main issue is that its all been dealt with in secret, consultations with Observer employees such as the editor haven’t taken place so its just leaving a sour taste, along with a lot of questions as to how they reached contradictory positions on why they should sell the paper.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 1 month ago:
Yep. Fucking hypocrite tells people to use something he is hostile towards.
Fuck Epic, they are destroying PC gaming.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 1 month ago:
The fact that you can’t use the Epic games launcher on Linux should be telling you what you need to know.
How is their 12 foot interface these days?
How is their position on running things via wine? Tim the bellend has generally been telling Linux users to use wine, but at the same time been generally hostile to it.
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- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 1 month ago:
Only if we’re Mark Twain.
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 1 month ago:
Probably for the best. Derivative nonsense.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
Spotify is the labels and the middlemen.
- Comment on Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test 2 months ago:
The statements were
Buy local
or don’t buy honey
If you are buying local then you’ve already satisfied the first half of the OR. It’s an option, if you aren’t prepared to buy local then don’t buy but also not buying honey at all is an option instead of buying honey.
Buying non-local mass produced honey is not an option, and won’t help you with a sore throat any more than sucking on a sweet will, and you aren’t likely to be buying honey anyway.
- Comment on Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test 2 months ago:
From TFA, if you aren’t buying local then you aren’t buying honey anyway.
Might as well buy a sweet to suck on.
- Comment on Well, that escalated quickly. 2 months ago:
Why do I have to convince anyone? I’m not American.
They heard a bunch of batshit insane things and went
That sounds sensible
Nothing a Democrat could have done would have stopped them voting for fucking insanity. They could have literally done anything else, but chose to vote for that thing.
The rioting has already started with the Trump supporters, so I don’t know why you’re trying to tell Democrats to not riot. They weren’t going to anyway.
- Comment on Well, that escalated quickly. 2 months ago:
Why do Democrats have to spread the message that Trump literally said these things?
If folks are voting for a turd in a suit and not listening to the things that he is broadcasting on Fox news then this not really the Dems fault it just sums up what the average American is like.
- Comment on Well, that escalated quickly. 2 months ago:
They guy openly gets advice from Vlad “throw them from the window” Putin.
He has stacked the Supreme Court to give him immunity to murder.
He has already stated that he is planning on throwing his opposition in jail.
He has already announced that he is planning a police state from day one.
I’m only repeating what he has said, how the fuck can you say “its not as bad as all that?”.
What a fucking idiot.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 2 months ago:
I had this issue with Reddit. You need a lot of houses, making some available doesn’t fix the issue with the vast majority.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 2 months ago:
And thats fine. I’m just letting you know how I feel about this.
Banning short term rentals is one thing, but can we please at least request that hotels fill the gap that this creates?