> If I'm understanding that correctly, I'd think this would count as a motive for various food industries to intentionally use excessive fructose in various food products to manipulate people to buy excess food/drink against their will/better judgment. It would also probably count as evidence of harm caused by including it in food/drink products. One would need harder evidence to prove that they deliberately and knowingly did so, though.

80% of packaged foods (in some mini-markets, it's closer to 100%) have added fructose. They are not adding it accidentally. They're adding it because they know it increases sales.

Hmmm didn't we see research recently that says coffee intake protects the kidneys?

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/coffee-consumption-linked-to-reduced-risk-of-acute-kidney-injury-study-finds

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-06-07/coffee-is-kind-to-your-kidneys

Are soy and hemp complete protein sources or are there caveats?

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They didn't attempt to reproduce the sound? What the!!!!!

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Why not both? It could be a feedback loop where people with attention issues are more likely to check their phones frequently, which further exacerbates their attention issues.

Using your horse-and-cart analogy, I wouldn’t be surprised if the horse initially pulls the cart, but then the cart plummets downhill and starts dragging the horse.

Yea we need to get good at hydro geo engineering to capture those monsoons and fast

What if I already have ADHD? Is it making it worse? I don't think it could get worse.

This is exactly why I'm switching to half caff

You'd think so. But the glycemic index is higher for the potato than the pure table sugar; meaning that its broken down into sugar faster

I'm in my 50's and Froot Loops are a great once-in-a-decade treat. Don't diss weirdly colored milk! Also, they've changed a lot. They're bigger, foamier, and have far less coloring than they used to. They're frankly not nearly as good as they used to be.

I have ADHD, which as a disorder is associated with the things the article described as "cognitive failures", such as inattentiveness and forgetfulness (any psychiatrist could tell you that). ADHD is correlated with certain dopamine seeking behaviors, such as frequent phone use. My gut instinct is to say there might be a correlation-not-causation relationship going on here.

Glucose is the essential carbohydrate. Your body would not function without glucose.

Thank you for the ethanol! My truck runs e85 and it is smooth and quiet.

So, smart phones are causing people to develop ADHD like symptoms? Is this why ADHD diagnosis has gone up and why there's a shortage on the meds for it?

But the government does not tell us to eat low-fat foods? It tells us to eat healthy foods, which include nuts, avocados, olives, and other high-fat plant nutrients…

CBD and THC just do different things.

It is somewhat like comparing green tea and red wine. They both have a set of pros and cons.

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The patent is not exactly on the compounds (or meant to make cbd exclusive or restricted to being a government product), it’s for a method to treat severe oxidative stress in the brain (such as what is seen clinically following stroke or heart attack), the compounds that they are using for this purpose are cannabinoids. The structures of the major cannabinoids were determined between the 30s to the 60s - that means the compounds are not new inventions and can’t be subject to being patented as an invention in what you linked (filed in the late 90s and granted in early 2000s). This is unlike other newly discovered drugs (synthetic or natural) that can be patented because they were previously not known. You can however patent a new unexpected use of some old compound, in this case protecting the brain following a stroke or a heart attack. In fact that is a way that companies have tried to keep their drug patent “evergreen” and extend their exclusivity, get it approved for new applications. Now, why is the process of getting a patent important, and not necessarily a bad thing? Because if you want a drug to be recognized and approved by the FDA and therefore administered by legitimate medical professionals with confidence to their patients, it needs to get patented for a specific use. Physicians can still prescribe things “off label” but it’s a physician and consumer confidence thing that a drug gets FDA approved for specific uses where it shows effectiveness as proven by rigorous, documented testing.

Is your Alexa reminding you throughout the day? No? Why not~~

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Unbound sugar. When you eat a fruit, the sugar in that fruit is bound by fiber. It releases slower and thus gradually increases your sugar level, not spike it.

If you drink fruit juice, the sugar has no fibers, so it spikes your sugar level

CBD is less potent than THC. People would benefit more from 80:20 CBD carts - but that’s price prohibitive for most people who have the tolerance and want to consume a lot of THC. You would also have to vape more material overall.

I prefer CBD oral, but I’ll take at least 100mg at a time for a noticeable benefit.