Other News Update (Cell Phone Harm, Aspartame, etc)
Saturday, 1. April 2006, 22:07:08
Just an update on previous blog entries. I hoped that April Fools would be more uplifting, but there's no joke about these updates.
I had mentioned that Cell Phone can cause harm over prolonged usage. Unfortunately, it seems my worries have been confirmed. Here's a story on ABC News amongst others.
I also previously commented on rudeness with cell phone usage. Especially interrupting a conversation that you are having with someone directly in front of you. It seems I'm not the only one who thinks it's rude. Here's another story on ABC News with a poll in the US.
I'm glad that independant research on Aspartame is finally starting to be done despite an intense fallback on those who do. Here's an article from the NY Times in Feb, 2006. I can't say enough bad things about this toxic substance. Here's one from the Guardian UK in Dec 2005. Just stay away from NutraSweet or any artificial sweetener unless it comes from a natural source. Just stay away from diet drinks and Aspartame. You'll thank me later. Two to six weeks later to be exact. You have nothing to lose but your health.
This school in the UK is trying to ban junk food. As a kid, I would have been furious, but now that I know what they put in it, I hope they ban food with any artificial sweeteners and artificial colouring such as tartrazine and sodium benzoate. Here's a direct quote from the article: "But they mainly encounter problems with tartrazine, which most soft drinks companies no longer use, or sodium benzoate, a preservative." Yeah, no shit Sherlock. Except that the big two still use them. It now makes sense why I said earlier that the lesser know brands don't seem to have as many adverse effects with their non-diet drinks. So watch out for diet and non-diet drinks. If Aspartame doesn't get you, the antifreeze will. Sodium benzoate can turn into benzine which is a carcinogen found normally in antifreeze and gasoline. Nice, eh?
One last one where the title says it all. "Sweetener 'linked' to leukaemias". I find it funny how they claim that although the effects are severe in rats, there is no evdence that the same effect will happen in humans, so it's still considered safe by the respective health associations. My question is: "Why risk it?" Multi-billion dollar industy, I guess. When 80% of complaints to all health organisations around the world is because of Aspartame, I think there's something there.
I apologize if I go on about this Aspartame stuff, but it really is dangerous. It kills and it's the duty of every citizen of this planet to oppose anything that has death as a side-effect, especially when the #1 consumer of junk food is children.
In other news, neutrinos have mass. I'm as big a fan of current physical "models" as I am current programming methodolgies. I still don't believe this neutrino business. They can never detect it directly. There's a very rare anomaly in their equations when it comes to a certain reaction. So obviously because of some preservation of properties according to the Standard Model, they either have to either create a new massless particle (mass is preserved, but not spin), otherwise there's something more fundamental that's wrong with the Standard Model. Now, they find that neutrinos have mass again through some other accepted theory where this reaction can only happen with particles that have mass. I don't think they even know what mass is. In any case, if neutrinos aren't massless, then the original equation that requires the massless neutrino is invalid. The preservation of mass is broken. I'm guessing they'll make an exception. They only detect these from stars (like our sun) or from nuclear reactions. But Tesla once said that if you could stop all radiation from the Sun, it would also stop any nuclear decay or reactions from happening behind this protective shield. There seems to be an unknown reaction that happens within stars that is still not understood.
That's it for now. The news is quite depressing in the last 6 years of this millenium. I hope it turns around soon.
I had mentioned that Cell Phone can cause harm over prolonged usage. Unfortunately, it seems my worries have been confirmed. Here's a story on ABC News amongst others.
I also previously commented on rudeness with cell phone usage. Especially interrupting a conversation that you are having with someone directly in front of you. It seems I'm not the only one who thinks it's rude. Here's another story on ABC News with a poll in the US.
I'm glad that independant research on Aspartame is finally starting to be done despite an intense fallback on those who do. Here's an article from the NY Times in Feb, 2006. I can't say enough bad things about this toxic substance. Here's one from the Guardian UK in Dec 2005. Just stay away from NutraSweet or any artificial sweetener unless it comes from a natural source. Just stay away from diet drinks and Aspartame. You'll thank me later. Two to six weeks later to be exact. You have nothing to lose but your health.
This school in the UK is trying to ban junk food. As a kid, I would have been furious, but now that I know what they put in it, I hope they ban food with any artificial sweeteners and artificial colouring such as tartrazine and sodium benzoate. Here's a direct quote from the article: "But they mainly encounter problems with tartrazine, which most soft drinks companies no longer use, or sodium benzoate, a preservative." Yeah, no shit Sherlock. Except that the big two still use them. It now makes sense why I said earlier that the lesser know brands don't seem to have as many adverse effects with their non-diet drinks. So watch out for diet and non-diet drinks. If Aspartame doesn't get you, the antifreeze will. Sodium benzoate can turn into benzine which is a carcinogen found normally in antifreeze and gasoline. Nice, eh?
One last one where the title says it all. "Sweetener 'linked' to leukaemias". I find it funny how they claim that although the effects are severe in rats, there is no evdence that the same effect will happen in humans, so it's still considered safe by the respective health associations. My question is: "Why risk it?" Multi-billion dollar industy, I guess. When 80% of complaints to all health organisations around the world is because of Aspartame, I think there's something there.
I apologize if I go on about this Aspartame stuff, but it really is dangerous. It kills and it's the duty of every citizen of this planet to oppose anything that has death as a side-effect, especially when the #1 consumer of junk food is children.
In other news, neutrinos have mass. I'm as big a fan of current physical "models" as I am current programming methodolgies. I still don't believe this neutrino business. They can never detect it directly. There's a very rare anomaly in their equations when it comes to a certain reaction. So obviously because of some preservation of properties according to the Standard Model, they either have to either create a new massless particle (mass is preserved, but not spin), otherwise there's something more fundamental that's wrong with the Standard Model. Now, they find that neutrinos have mass again through some other accepted theory where this reaction can only happen with particles that have mass. I don't think they even know what mass is. In any case, if neutrinos aren't massless, then the original equation that requires the massless neutrino is invalid. The preservation of mass is broken. I'm guessing they'll make an exception. They only detect these from stars (like our sun) or from nuclear reactions. But Tesla once said that if you could stop all radiation from the Sun, it would also stop any nuclear decay or reactions from happening behind this protective shield. There seems to be an unknown reaction that happens within stars that is still not understood.
That's it for now. The news is quite depressing in the last 6 years of this millenium. I hope it turns around soon.
