It’s funny the topics that people choose to become overzealous about.
Whether it is for financial gain, fame, or just because they really, really believe it, there are all manner of wackos on this wide brown internet all talking nonsense. Health is one topic that is talked about all over.
As far as I can gather, a certain Dr. Linus Pauling was a great advocate for the ingestion of large doses of vitamin C. According to this site, the publication of his second book in 1970, called Vitamin C and the Common Cold may have caused an increase in the consumption of vitamin c supplaments by 300%. The author claims that this increase inversly effected the mortality rate due to coronary heart failure.
Vitamin c is also responsible for reducing the incidence of glaucoma and cateracts. It works in conjunction with things called bioflavonoids which are present in all foods containing vitamin c. One less health supplement to buy :)
Wikipedia give us more information:
As a class of compounds, flavonoids have been referred to as “nature’s biological response modifiers” because of their ability to modify the body’s reaction to other compounds such as allergens, viruses, and carcinogenic properties. In addition, flavonoids act as powerful antioxidants by providing remarkable protection against oxidative and free radical damage.
Apparently one of the richest sources for bioflavonoids is the stringy white stuff inside citrus fruit. Now I am a manderine lover, but I have always thought that the white stuff was to be taken off as much as possible. I think I may even have been told (no doubt by some peabrained schoolfriend) that you would get cancer from eating it.
Not that I ever believed such tripe.
Today I have been working with Pixelframe on a site for one of their clients.
The client has requested that their site be converted from it’s current static incarnation to “one that we can change ourselves” ie content managed.
They want to do this using Mambo (or Joomla which I haven’t used yet and would like to try).
Lo and behold, the company that hosts their website has recently undergone a “server upgrade” and now a whole bunch of scripts don’t work, including Mambo/Joomla.
These scripts make use of the /tmp directory, however after the “server upgrade” this directory is no longer accessable.
What kind of “upgrade” actually limits the usefulness of something?
I did some reading today in an attempt to discover how taking vitamin C helps clear up dark circles under eyes.
It seems to me (once again, I must stress that I am no chemist) that the vitamin C helps in the body’s production of collagen. This collagen is used by the body to maintain skin elasticity.
I have assessed my diet and I am pretty sure that I am not vitamin C deficient, but I have decided to start taking mega-doses of vitamin C for a while to see what happens.
There is a Vitamin C Foundation which look to extol the wonders of ingesting vitamin C (it will even help in the battle against avian flu – they say:
Various U.S. and U.N. agencies and the Council on Foreign Relations are spreading the word that the Avian Influenza, if it breaks out this fall or winter, could be as severe as the worldwide Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, and they are predicting hundreds of millions of deaths worldwide. This influenza, currently isolated in China, is a hemorrhagic illness. It kills half of its victims by rapidly depleting ascorbate (vitamin C) stores in the body, inducing scurvy and collapse of the arterial blood supply, causing internal hemorrhaging of the lungs and sinus cavities
I’m not sure about the truth of this claim as I am not a disease expert, but I guess I can rest easier now that imported pigeons have tested positive for avian flu in Australia
Today we bought a huge collection of classic early 90s dance music. All 12”s, all pristine condition. Fantastic – I love hauls like this.
Not because I can listen to Rotterdam hardcore these days. But I know that I still get a rush when I pick up a hard-to-find record that I know is as rare as hen’s teeth.
Some highlights from today:
There are more that I will add over time.
That means in the last week I have found not only Amphetamine but also Cygnus X – Orange Theme which are the first two tracks from the second disc of the Carl Cox mix cd F.A.C.T which has to be one of the best mixed cds ever released. Here’s hoping I find the rest soon!
Going through all those crates of records and having to put every fourth record aside for further investigation is a very pleasant experience.
eBay is about to see some awesome 12” action!
On the advice of my local chemist, I have recently switched the brand of multivitamin I take daily.
I am no science-type dude, but I think that they must have more B complex vitamins in them because my intake of Berocca has reduced from two to one tablet a day.
This is great news: I was getting concerned about the amount of the tablets I was taking to help me work.
This all ties in to the sleep thing I have mentioned before. I read another theory the other day that sleep should only be had in 90 minute lots, eg 90 mins, three hours, four and a half hours etc.
From the site:
It explains why, when I get 8 hours of sleep I feel tired and groggy, or when I get 4 hour of sleep, I can barely wake up. As human beings, we should know about this fact, as everyone always says “get your 8 hours”. Yet some people fare better than others. Why is that? Probably because the more rested people are actually getting closer to 7.5, or 9 hours, while the 8 hour folk feel constantly unrested.
I might try to get 7.5 hours tonight – but when you have a youung baby, planning these things isn’t always an option :)