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....

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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

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