X-Message-Number: 24090 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:40:02 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Inappropriate rating practices/Article: Discoveries Show How Obesity The last time I posted a health warning, about Mad Cow disease showing up in New Jersey, I got an Off Topic rating from someone. I would have thought that health issues that directly impinge upon the suspension quality or the question of a timely one, as an identity robbing disease advances making suspension moot, would be On Topic and one warning folks about a particular danger to avoid equally On Topic. I was especially surprised when the topic was one so often spoke of here in the past and by the highly regarded likes of M. Darwin, no less. When I noticed that someone else sharing the same level and type of information did not get an Off Topic rating it caused my support of the rating system to fall to zero. It seems to have become a a little too much of a 'popularity of the poster according to the individual giving the rating', system for rating poster popularity, rather than a 'rate the message' rating system. If an unpopular poster, due to past abuses, posts a non abusive post worthy of high ratings they should be rated on the message not the amount of like or dislike people have for them. How otherwise can they raise their rating and gain back lost posting privileges? One way to avoid this is make it non anonymous. This way one has to own up to the rating one has given and if repeatedly excessively skewed negatively against a particular poster and inconsistent with favorable ratings given to like posts of others then possibly answer to a charge of misrating someone purely for disliking them. So with that said I will post another health warning. I think new information regarding health issues especially one overturning long held assumptions should be On Topic to folks trying to live as long as possible in order to avoid suspension if possible but in the very least hold out fr the latest advancement. We'll see I guess. But some won't be happy until all that is posted to cryonet is cryo suspension protocol data. This post below is about new findings for obesity and how it kills by means not before understood. It seems obese people are flooding their systems with an excess of deadly chemical information in the form of hormones and the like. The body becomes overloaded with certain chemical information and substances toxic to organs. The long held assumption that the excess weight merely taxed the system and heart is totally wrong. Without further adieu.... ** Discoveries Show How Obesity Kills By DANIEL Q. HANEY, AP Medical Editor - Research into the biology of fat is turning up some surprising new insights about how obesity kills. The weight of the evidence: It's the toxic mischief of the flesh itself. Experts have realized for decades that large people die young, and the explanation long seemed obvious. Carrying around all those extra pounds must put a deadly strain on the heart and other organs. Obvious but wrong, it turns out. [cont.] http://www.comcast.net/News/HEALTHWELLNESS//XML/1500_Health__medical/67bf42db-b024-48b0-9166-89b690b14ebb.html James -- Member: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org Methuselah Foundation http://www.methuselahfoundation.org Methuselah Mouse Prize http://www.methuselahmouse.org [Give $$$ for life!] World Transhumanist Association http://www.transhumanism.org/ Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org Nat. Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org Act For Change http://www.actforchange.org People for American Way http://www.pfaw.org MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24090