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Four nutrients known to offer powerful protection during cold and flu season are vitamins C and D, zinc and beta glucans. These can also be used acutely if you feel like you’re coming down with a cold or flu
Research supports the use of vitamin C during a common cold to reduce the duration of symptoms. Try taking 3 to 4 grams of liposomal vitamin C every hour until you feel better
Low vitamin D increases your risk of contracting a cold or flu. If you are coming down with cold or flu-like symptoms and have not been taking vitamin D regularly, or you know you have low levels, take 50,000 IUs a day for three days to treat the acute infection
A third nutrient deficiency associated with increased risk for cold and flu is zinc. Zinc may also reduce the duration and severity of your cold if taken at the first signs of infection
Beta-glucans found in mushrooms enhance NK cell activity and function, and research shows that if you have enough NK cells in your system, you will not contract influenza
The common cold is the leading cause of doctor visits in the U.S.1 There are several factors that increase your risk for a cold, including:2
• Season — A majority of colds occur during fall and winter months,3 and research reveals there is more than one reason for this. For starters, cold weather drives people indoors where exposure to those who are already ill increases. Cold temperatures also weaken the first line of immune defense in your nose.4
Research5 reveals the immune system responds slower at cold temperatures than at body temperature, and the rhinovirus — known to replicate faster at lower temperatures — typically invades your body through the nose, where the air tends to be cooler than body temperature. Dry winter air may also dry your mucous membranes, making the symptoms of a cold worse.
• Age — The immune system in children younger than 6 is still developing and they have not yet developed resistance to many viruses, which is why children tend to have far more colds than adults.
• Weakened immune system — Poor diet, lack of sleep, stress, food allergies, overtraining and concurrent or chronic illness are factors that can weaken your immune system.
• Smoking — Compared to nonsmokers, smokers are more prone to colds and have a greater risk of developing subsequent infections.6
• Exposure — A cold passes through direct physical contact with one of nearly 200 viruses that can trigger symptoms.7 Someone who has a cold can pass it to you by touching your hand, sneezing near your face, or through contact with their body where the cold virus has been sprayed after a cough or sneeze. Hence, being in close proximity and contact with others, such as at school, day care or on an airplane, increases your risk for contracting a cold.
Once inside your body, the virus attaches itself to the lining of your throat or nose, triggering your body's immune system to send white blood cells. If you've built antibodies to this virus in the past, the fight doesn't last long.
However, if the virus is new, your body sends reinforcements to fight, inflaming your nose and throat. With so much of your body's resources aimed at fighting the cold, you're left feeling tired and miserable. The good news is there are simple ways to strengthen your immune function to ward off both the common cold and influenza.
Four nutrients known to offer powerful protection during cold and flu season are vitamins C and D, zinc and beta glucans. These can also be used acutely if you feel like you're coming down with a cold or flu. Getting plenty of prebiotic fiber and sleep are also important.
Vitamins C Offers Powerful Protection Against Cold and Flu
Research8,9,10 supports the use of vitamin C during a common cold to reduce the duration of symptoms. Typically, the higher the dose you take the better the results during a cold. However, there are limitations when taking oral vitamin C, as it can cause loose bowels.
You can get higher doses when using intravenous vitamin C or liposomal vitamin C. Personally, I use 3 to 4 grams of liposomal vitamin C every hour in the rare occasion when I get sick, with great results.11
As a general rule, I don't recommend high doses of vitamin C unless it's in liposomal form. I also don't recommend long-term or chronic high-dose vitamin C supplementation as this may cause nutritional imbalances.
For example, taking large doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) on a regular basis lowers your level of copper, so if you are already deficient in copper and take high doses of vitamin C, you can actually compromise your immune system.
So, whereas temporarily taking megadoses of liposomal vitamin C to combat a case of the cold or flu will be helpful, for year-round support, get your vitamin C from food instead.
Kiwi fruits, for example, are exceptionally high in vitamin C. Research12 published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that a kiwifruit-packed diet reduced the duration and severity of upper respiratory tract infections symptoms in older individuals. Other foods high in vitamin C include: citrus fruits, red bell peppers, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, papaya and sweet potatoes.
High-Dose Vitamin C for Viral Infections
According to Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, a biochemist who was the first to isolate vitamin C and who received a Nobel Prize for his work with the vitamin, "health" occurs when there is an ample flow and interchange of electrons in your cells. Impaired or poor electron flow and interchange equals "disease," and when the flow and interchange ceases entirely, your cells die. Oxidation, caused by free radicals in your body, involves the loss of electrons.
Antioxidants counter the disease process caused by oxidation (loss of electrons) by supplying electrons. Vitamin C is a major antioxidant, and perhaps the most important electron donor to maintain optimal electron flow in your cells. As reported by Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (a nonprofit and noncommercial informational resource):13
"High dose vitamin C is a remarkably safe and effective treatment for viral infections. In high doses, vitamin C neutralizes free radicals, helps kill viruses, and strengthens your body's immune system. Taking supplemental vitamin C routinely helps prevent viral infections."
For severe types of influenza, such as swine flu, very high dosages of intravenous vitamin C are recommended, typically between 200,000 to 300,000 milligrams or more.14 For this, you would need to see a physician. Vitamin C, at saturation, can even replace antiviral drugs in many cases.
Vitamin D Deficiency May Be an Underlying Cause of Cold and Flu
Low vitamin D also increases your risk of contracting a cold or flu.15 Vitamin D — produced in your skin in response to sun exposure — is a steroid hormone with powerful antimicrobial activity, capable of fighting bacteria, viruses and fungi. The evidence is clear that the lower your vitamin D level, the higher your risk of developing a cold or the flu.16
Dr. John Cannell, founder of the Vitamin D Council, was one of the first to introduce the idea that vitamin D deficiency may actually be an underlying cause of influenza. His hypothesis17 was initially published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection in 2006.18
His hypothesis was subsequently followed up and supported by studies published in the Virology Journal in 200819 and the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2009.20 Since then, a number of other studies have come to similar conclusions. Most recently, a scientific review21,22 of 25 randomized controlled trials confirmed that vitamin D supplementation boosts immunity and cuts rates of cold and flu.
Like Cannell before them, the researchers believe vitamin D offers protection by increasing antimicrobial peptides in your lungs, and that "[t]his may be one reason why colds and flus are most common in the winter, when sunlight exposure (and therefore the body's natural vitamin D production) is at its lowest …"23
According to this international research team, one person would be spared from influenza for every 33 people taking a vitamin D supplement, whereas 40 people have to receive the flu vaccine in order to prevent one case of the flu. Among those with severe vitamin D deficiency at baseline, 1 in 4 people taking a vitamin D supplement would be protected from the flu.
For optimal protection, get tested at least twice a year and aim for a level between 60 and 80 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) year-round. While sensible sun exposure is your best source of vitamin D, many cannot get enough sun during winter months, which may make oral supplementation a necessity. Your best source is sensible sun exposure.
If this is not an option where you live, using an oral vitamin D3 supplement is advisable. In this case, keep in mind you may also need take additional calcium and vitamin K2 (MK7 form) to protect your arteries, and magnesium to activate vitamin D.
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If you are coming down with cold or flu-like symptoms and have not been taking vitamin D on a regular basis, you can take 50,000 international units (IUs) a day for three days to treat the acute infection. (Cannell believes the dose could even be as high as 1,000 IUs per pound of body weight for three days.)
That said, there's still the possibility that vitamin D won't work, even in these mega-doses, if you've never been exposed to the antigens before. (Ultimately, your best bet is to maintain a vitamin D level between 60 and 80 ng/mL year-round.) Alternatively, take 3 to 4 grams of liposomal vitamin C every hour until you feel better.
Low Zinc Also Raises Your Risk of Viral Infections
A third nutrient deficiency associated with increased risk for cold and flu is zinc. Zinc may also reduce the duration and severity of your cold if taken at the first signs of infection. Your body has no way to store zinc, so it depends on a daily supply through diet. For a list of foods rich in zinc, see "Zinc — One of the Best Supplements to Fight Cold and Flu."
Zinc is a constituent of at least 3,000 different proteins in your body and a component of more than 200 different enzymes. In fact, zinc is involved in more enzymatic reactions in your body than any other mineral.
Zinc increases your production of white blood cells and helps them fight infection more effectively. It also helps your immune system release more antibodies. If your body has inadequate zinc stores, you will experience increased susceptibility to a variety of infectious agents, as your white blood cells simply can't function without zinc.
Zinc affects multiple aspects of your immune system, including neutrophils, natural killer (NK) cells, phagocytosis, cytokine production and even gene regulation within your lymphocytes.
Zinc Lozenges May Cut Duration of a Cold
As with other nutrients, your best bet is to make sure you're getting enough zinc in your diet year-round. However, if a cold strikes, you could use zinc lozenges. A meta-analysis24 of seven randomized trials published in 2017 concluded people taking zinc lozenges shortened the duration of their colds by 33 percent on average.
Zinc acetate may be slightly better than zinc gluconate, although the difference was not considered significant. A third form is zinc citrate. It's advantageous to take a supplement with a variety of forms, if possible. Zinc sulfate is one of the inorganic forms of zinc and can cause stomach irritation, so I don't recommend using this form. According to this study:
"Five trials used zinc doses of 80 to 92 mg/day, common cold duration was reduced by 33 percent, and two trials used zinc doses of 192 to 207 mg/day and found an effect of 35 percent. The difference between the high-dose and low-dose zinc trials was not significant …"
Beta-Glucans Protect Against Flu by Boosting Natural Killer Cells
Beta-glucan is a polysaccharide known for its immune-boosting and cancer-fighting activities. Mushrooms such as shiitake, maitake and oyster mushrooms are a good source.25 Importantly, beta-glucans enhance NK cell activity and function,26 and recent research27,28 shows that if you have enough NK cells in your system, you will not contract influenza.
As reported by Live Science,29 a specific gene called KLRD1 "could serve as a proxy for a person's levels of natural killer cells." KLRD1 is a receptor gene found on the surface of NK cells, and the level of KLRD1 found in a person's blood prior to exposure to the influenza virus was able to predict whether that individual would contract the flu with 86 percent accuracy.
According to senior study author Purvesh Khatri, associate professor of medicine and biomedical data science at Stanford University School of Medicine, KLRD1 is "the first biomarker that shows susceptibility to influenza, across multiple strains."30 As reported by Eurekalert:31
"[O]n the whole, those whose immune cells consisted of 10 to 13 percent natural killers [NK cells] did not succumb to the flu, whereas those whose natural killer cells fell short of 10 percent wound up ill.
It's a fine line, Khatri said, but the distinction between the groups is quite clear: Everyone who had 10 percent or more natural killer cells stood strong against the infection and showed no symptoms. Khatri said his findings could help health professionals understand who's at the highest risk for flu infection."
Beta-Glucans — Powerful Cold and Flu Prevention
A number of studies have confirmed beta-glucans offer powerful protection against cold and flu, including the following.
A 2013 study32 found that taking 900 mg of beta-glucans in the form of brewer's yeast for 16 weeks reduced the rate of cold infections by 25 percent, and eased symptoms in those who got ill by 15 percent
Marathon runners who took 250 mg of brewer's yeast for 28 days following a marathon were 37 percent less likely to contract a cold or flu compared to those taking a placebo33
People who took 250 mg of a beta-glucan product called Wellmune WGP per day for 90 days reported 43 fewer days with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection compared to those taking a placebo34
A 2015 animal study35 found feeding mice beta-glucans for two weeks "significantly reduced the effects of influenza infection in total mortality." According to the authors, "these effects are caused by stimulation of both cellular and humoral immune reaction resulting in lower viral load"
Get Your Z's
The importance of sleep also should not be underrated. Studies show that not getting enough sleep (which for most adults is around eight hours per night) will quickly decrease your immune function, leaving your system wide-open for environmental influences, including cold and flu viruses.
Missing as little as just one hour of sleep per night increases the expression of genes associated with inflammation, immune excitability, diabetes, cancer and stress.36
An interesting animal study37 published in 2012 found that the circadian clocks of mice control an essential immune system gene that helps their bodies sense and ward off bacteria and viruses. When the level of that particular gene, called toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), was at its highest, the mice were better able to withstand infections. As noted by lead author Dr. Erol Fikrig from Yale University School of Medicine:
"These findings not only unveil a novel, direct molecular link between circadian rhythms and the immune system, but also open a new paradigm in the biology of the overall immune response with important implications for the prevention and treatment of disease."
Optimizing Your Immune Function Can Keep You Healthy This Winter
As you can see, there are simple ways to dramatically reduce your risk of cold and flu this winter. Ideally, optimize your vitamin D level and make sure you're getting enough zinc and vitamin C in your diet on a daily basis. This will lay the groundwork for healthy immune function.
To further boost your immune function in preparation for cold and flu season, you may want to consider a beta-glucan supplement. And, should a cold or flu strike, you may significantly cut its duration and severity using either high-dose vitamin C or D (or a combination of both, short-term) and/or zinc lozenges. Fiber, a source of prebiotics, and sleep are also important factors, both for the prevention of cold and flu, and during the treatment of these infections.
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Brett J. Fox
What's The One Trait All Successful Entrepreneurs Have?
By Brett Fox
We were literally down to our last dollar. In fact, truth be told, we didn’t even have a dollar.
Times were so tough that every week I had to get down on my hands and knees and beg our investors for enough money to cover payroll and basic expenses.
It was humiliating. It was painful beyond belief. And it was absolutely what I had to do.
Or maybe it was the time, early on in my company’s existence, when my two cofounders “Jim” and “John” quit the company right before we were about to be funded. Jim and John then stole the company’s IP (down to the slide deck we were using to raise money) and left me for dead.
Or maybe it was the time the Great Recession hit right in the middle of our initial fundraising efforts. Silicon Valley was effectively shut down for close to one year. And someway, somehow, we had to make it through the abyss.
Or maybe it was the time one of our investors blocked every term sheet we received for reasons to this day I don’t fully understand. The investor was literally cutting his own throat. We had no money, and it looked like we were going to have to shut the company down.
Or maybe it was the time one of our manufacturing partners had a quality problem that potentially was going to stop us from shipping.
Or maybe….
Okay. Enough already. You get the idea.
There are a lot of things that stand in the way of succeeding in a startup. And there are a lot of things that stand in the way of you succeeding in life.
The only things that gets you through the tough times is determination, belief, and (most importantly) grit.
Why is grit so important?
You will not get through the tough times without grit. And there are always tough times running a startup.
What is grit?
Grit is passion and perseverance to achieve your goals over a very long time. Grit is stamina.
Grit is living life like it is a marathon and not a sprint.
Grit is getting back up every time you are knocked down. Every. Single. Time.
The defining moment for my “grittiness” came during my junior year of college.
I was an Electrical Engineering major. There were roughly 200 of us at the beginning of my junior year.
The first quarter was the toughest quarter. We had four EE courses, back to back every Tuesday and Thursday:
Third Year Calculus. I still remember it today. The course was taught by Dr. Lewak. This was the weed-out course.
Stochastic Processes. This beauty was taught by Dr. Helstrom. My memory of this course is that it was very theoretical…and tough.
Analog IC Design. Taught by Dr. Coles. This was my favorite class, but it wasn’t easy. Coles was tough.
Queuing Theory. I can’t remember who the teacher was. It was another theoretical course.
The worst part was that each course had homework due every Tuesday. That meant you usually didn’t sleep Monday night.
All-nighters were the norm during my junior year. It was nothing a lot of coffee and No-doze wouldn’t cure.
Oh, and I haven’t even gotten to the tests. The tests were brutal.
I remember in my senior year giving copies of my tests, with my answers, to a junior. The scores were in the range of 40% or so.
“Dude,” the junior said to me. “I’m sorry.”
Little did he know those were some of the best scores in the class! Thank goodness the tests were graded on a curve or everyone would have failed.
I grew my hair really long and I had a beard. I remember calling my Mom up before I came home for Thanksgiving and telling her, “Mom, I have a beard.”
“Shave it!” Mom said to me.
I didn’t shave my beard or cut my hair.
My mantra was, “I can do anything if I can get through this.”
It was brutal. But somehow, someway, I did it. Of the original 200 EE students starting my junior year, only 60 of us made it through.
And I knew, after my junior year in college, that I could do anything I choose to do in life. I didn’t call it grit back then, but I knew I could grind with the best of them.
What are the keys to developing grit?
The great thing about grit is that grit doesn’t require you have great intellect. Grit is all about doing the same things over and over again.
Even when you don’t have hope, you keep going.
Even when you don’t want to, you keep going.
For example, Blossom and I like to go on runs together. There are some mornings where one of us or both of us really don’t have the energy.
I looked at Blossom after one particularly tough run. I asked, panting, “How’d you do?”
“It was really tough, but I made it. It’s days like today that make it possible to have easy running days.”
Blossom has grit.
So, how do you develop grit?
Here are the tricks I use:
A. Have a plan and stick to it. You need a plan to know where you’re going. It doesn’t have to be complicated, but you need a plan.
B. Have a daily schedule. My plan becomes my daily schedule. I don’t like to do lists, so I use my calendar to plan my day. I find it keeps me focused throughout the day.
Hint: Give yourself small time-breaks between tasks. You’ll find it easier to get everything done, so you feel good at the end of the day.
C. Set small incremental goals to achieve. Kaizen is a really powerful tool that I now just began using. It’s the art of setting small goals.
This doesn’t mean you don’t have big goals too, but you can use the small goals as stepping -stones to the big goals. Try it.
D. Celebrate your successes, no matter how small. The celebrations don’t have to be big either. Maybe go out to the movies with your spouse. How about a cup of coffee or buy yourself that new book. Just celebrate.
E. Don’t quit if things don’t go your way. Not everything is going to work out the way you want. Just don’t give up. Keep moving. And learn from your mistakes.
F. Visualize your success. Maybe I should have put visualization first. It’s another great tool that I’ve recently learned.
I visualize the day ahead going exactly like I want it to every night before I go to bed. And, I visualize the day ahead going exactly like I want it to when I wake up in the morning.
And the one thing you can’t be taught….
I can’t think of another way to say it. It’s resolve.
It’s this ability to get up, every time you get knocked down.
Even when you don’t feel like getting up…
Even when you’re bone tired…
Even when you’re down to your last dollar…
Even when you’ve lost hope…
Just get up. That’s grit.
And you’ll know you’ve got grit when you can just get up.
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What's The One Trait All Successful Entrepreneurs Have?
By Brett Fox
We were literally down to our last dollar. In fact, truth be told, we didn’t even have a dollar.
Times were so tough that every week I had to get down on my hands and knees and beg our investors for enough money to cover payroll and basic expenses.
It was humiliating. It was painful beyond belief. And it was absolutely what I had to do.
Or maybe it was the time, early on in my company’s existence, when my two cofounders “Jim” and “John” quit the company right before we were about to be funded. Jim and John then stole the company’s IP (down to the slide deck we were using to raise money) and left me for dead.
Or maybe it was the time the Great Recession hit right in the middle of our initial fundraising efforts. Silicon Valley was effectively shut down for close to one year. And someway, somehow, we had to make it through the abyss.
Or maybe it was the time one of our investors blocked every term sheet we received for reasons to this day I don’t fully understand. The investor was literally cutting his own throat. We had no money, and it looked like we were going to have to shut the company down.
Or maybe it was the time one of our manufacturing partners had a quality problem that potentially was going to stop us from shipping.
Or maybe….
Okay. Enough already. You get the idea.
There are a lot of things that stand in the way of succeeding in a startup. And there are a lot of things that stand in the way of you succeeding in life.
The only things that gets you through the tough times is determination, belief, and (most importantly) grit.
Why is grit so important?
You will not get through the tough times without grit. And there are always tough times running a startup.
What is grit?
Grit is passion and perseverance to achieve your goals over a very long time. Grit is stamina.
Grit is living life like it is a marathon and not a sprint.
Grit is getting back up every time you are knocked down. Every. Single. Time.
The defining moment for my “grittiness” came during my junior year of college.
I was an Electrical Engineering major. There were roughly 200 of us at the beginning of my junior year.
The first quarter was the toughest quarter. We had four EE courses, back to back every Tuesday and Thursday:
Third Year Calculus. I still remember it today. The course was taught by Dr. Lewak. This was the weed-out course.
Stochastic Processes. This beauty was taught by Dr. Helstrom. My memory of this course is that it was very theoretical…and tough.
Analog IC Design. Taught by Dr. Coles. This was my favorite class, but it wasn’t easy. Coles was tough.
Queuing Theory. I can’t remember who the teacher was. It was another theoretical course.
The worst part was that each course had homework due every Tuesday. That meant you usually didn’t sleep Monday night.
All-nighters were the norm during my junior year. It was nothing a lot of coffee and No-doze wouldn’t cure.
Oh, and I haven’t even gotten to the tests. The tests were brutal.
I remember in my senior year giving copies of my tests, with my answers, to a junior. The scores were in the range of 40% or so.
“Dude,” the junior said to me. “I’m sorry.”
Little did he know those were some of the best scores in the class! Thank goodness the tests were graded on a curve or everyone would have failed.
I grew my hair really long and I had a beard. I remember calling my Mom up before I came home for Thanksgiving and telling her, “Mom, I have a beard.”
“Shave it!” Mom said to me.
I didn’t shave my beard or cut my hair.
My mantra was, “I can do anything if I can get through this.”
It was brutal. But somehow, someway, I did it. Of the original 200 EE students starting my junior year, only 60 of us made it through.
And I knew, after my junior year in college, that I could do anything I choose to do in life. I didn’t call it grit back then, but I knew I could grind with the best of them.
What are the keys to developing grit?
The great thing about grit is that grit doesn’t require you have great intellect. Grit is all about doing the same things over and over again.
Even when you don’t have hope, you keep going.
Even when you don’t want to, you keep going.
For example, Blossom and I like to go on runs together. There are some mornings where one of us or both of us really don’t have the energy.
I looked at Blossom after one particularly tough run. I asked, panting, “How’d you do?”
“It was really tough, but I made it. It’s days like today that make it possible to have easy running days.”
Blossom has grit.
So, how do you develop grit?
Here are the tricks I use:
A. Have a plan and stick to it. You need a plan to know where you’re going. It doesn’t have to be complicated, but you need a plan.
B. Have a daily schedule. My plan becomes my daily schedule. I don’t like to do lists, so I use my calendar to plan my day. I find it keeps me focused throughout the day.
Hint: Give yourself small time-breaks between tasks. You’ll find it easier to get everything done, so you feel good at the end of the day.
C. Set small incremental goals to achieve. Kaizen is a really powerful tool that I now just began using. It’s the art of setting small goals.
This doesn’t mean you don’t have big goals too, but you can use the small goals as stepping -stones to the big goals. Try it.
D. Celebrate your successes, no matter how small. The celebrations don’t have to be big either. Maybe go out to the movies with your spouse. How about a cup of coffee or buy yourself that new book. Just celebrate.
E. Don’t quit if things don’t go your way. Not everything is going to work out the way you want. Just don’t give up. Keep moving. And learn from your mistakes.
F. Visualize your success. Maybe I should have put visualization first. It’s another great tool that I’ve recently learned.
I visualize the day ahead going exactly like I want it to every night before I go to bed. And, I visualize the day ahead going exactly like I want it to when I wake up in the morning.
And the one thing you can’t be taught….
I can’t think of another way to say it. It’s resolve.
It’s this ability to get up, every time you get knocked down.
Even when you don’t feel like getting up…
Even when you’re bone tired…
Even when you’re down to your last dollar…
Even when you’ve lost hope…
Just get up. That’s grit.
And you’ll know you’ve got grit when you can just get up.
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National Review/Kevin D. Williamson: Rage Makes You Stupid
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Rage Makes You Stupid
By Kevin D. Williamson
October 28, 2018 11:01 AM
Rage on display at an anti-Kavanaugh protest near Trump Tower in New York City, October 4, 2018 (Reuters/Stephen Yang)
People have the strongest feelings about the things they know the least about.
What are we supposed to think about political rage?
Before and after the arrest of Cesar Sayoc, the suspect in the recent string of bombs sent to prominent Democrats and media figures, we were treated to any number of homilies about “rage” and its origins in “toxic” political rhetoric. Many of these homilies were pointed directly or indirectly at President Donald Trump and his immoderate Twitter habits. That political rage is necessarily linked to political violence was assumed, and sometimes asserted, but rarely argued.
Five minutes before that, rage was all the rage. Rebecca Traister, an editor for New York magazine, has just published a book celebrating the “revolutionary power” of anger, which was celebrated at The Atlantic on 4 October under a headline noting the “seismic power” of “rage.” On 21 September, the Washington Post affirmed that “rage is healthy, rational, and necessary for America.” On Friday, NBC news praised a television show for depicting “anger as righteous and necessary.” Before that, it ran a segment encouraging certain political partisans to “embrace their rage.”
Earlier in the year, Leslie Jamison wrote a very interesting and intelligent essay for The New York Times Magazine exploring anger as a “tool to be used, part of a well-stocked arsenal.” Right as the bombing suspect was being arrested in Florida, Rewire shared “All the Rage That’s Fit To Print,” its assessment of four books on “fury.”
I’ve omitted the word “women” in several instances above, on the theory that we’re all adults here, and that we would recognize the obvious hypocrisy and illogic of any “my rage good, your rage bad, bad, bad,” construct.
Except . . .
On 28 September, the admirable Max Boot published a lamentation of “Republican rage” in the Washington Post, arguing that Howard Beale, Network’s embodiment of outrage, “would feel right at home in the Republican party.” On the same day, The Week, which may be the least intelligent non-pornographic publication in these United States, was also in a the mood for lamentation, anguished over “the rage of Brett Kavanaugh.” The day before, Esquire moaned that “This Was the Hour of White Male Rage.” On Thursday, the Washington Post tied incendiary devices to “incendiary rhetoric,” while Philippe Reines, who used to work for that weird lady who recently disavowed civility in quite specific terms, went on MSNBC to insist that “Donald Trump’s Rhetoric Can’t Be Ignored in Wake of Bombs.” Eugene Robinson encouraged Democrats to “get mad” and “get even” — “harness your rage,” as the headline in the Chicago Tribune put it — even though he blasted Brett Kavanaugh for being “rage-filled.” Ta-Nehisi Coates has written “in defense of political anger,” and Darryl Pinckney, writing in The New York Review of Books, gave readers 4,000 words on “The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates.”
And then there are the Subarus, legions of them with bumper-stickers reading: “If You Aren’t Outraged, You Aren’t Paying Attention.”
The signals, then, are decidedly mixed.
Put me in the anti-rage camp. Rage makes you stupid.
(Rage and Wild Turkey . . . . Well, enough said.)
I’m sometimes described as an angry writer, which always surprises me. I am much, much more frequently bored by American politics than outraged by it. (More than one cable-news producer has suggested to me that I should present with more outrage.) Senator Feinstein does not fill me with rage; she has the exact aspect of a woman who is very, very sad that the bingo game didn’t break her way this time, and it is difficult to be angry at that. I do not think she should be in the Senate, but I do hope that wherever she ends up, there’s someone there to make her a nice cup of hot tea.
Our politics is full of performative outrage, histrionics that are designed to imbue unserious people with an air moral seriousness and to keep the rubes emotionally invested long enough to get them to a commercial break. It almost inevitably is the case that people have the strongest feelings about the things they know the least about; people who actually know about any subject of genuine interest understand that such subjects tend to be complicated, and that expressions of outrage, however cathartic, do not render them any less recondite. Compare Paul Krugman on economics to Paul Krugman on politics and you’ll see what I mean.
I would suggest that we make a concerted effort to abolish cheap outrage from our political discourse, but that proposal would be stillborn: There’s just too much money in outrage. Instead, I would suggest taking a different attitude toward those histrionics, understanding that what people such as Sean Hannity and Chris Hayes are engaged in is not really political discourse at all, but something much more like sports commentary or The Real Housewives of Wherever: The emotional frisson is the point, and the political content is just a McGuffin, the ball in this cynical game of for-profit fetch.
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At the very least, we do ourselves the favor of understanding that political rhetoric, however rage-filled or — dread cliché — “toxic,” belongs to an entirely separate category of human endeavor than sending people bombs in the mail, that exhortations to vote are a different thing from exhortations to violence, that Ann Coulter speaking on a college campus is a different thing from firebombing the building in which she is scheduled to speak. There are many voices in our politics that do in fact countenance violence, from Slavoj Žižek (“for the oppressed, violence is always legitimate”) to every dimwit who has promised to “Punch a Nazi.”
Sorting all that out sometimes requires careful thinking, which is difficult to manage when you are high on rage.
Kevin D. Williamson — Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent for National Review.
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Rage Makes You Stupid
By Kevin D. Williamson
October 28, 2018 11:01 AM
Rage on display at an anti-Kavanaugh protest near Trump Tower in New York City, October 4, 2018 (Reuters/Stephen Yang)
People have the strongest feelings about the things they know the least about.
What are we supposed to think about political rage?
Before and after the arrest of Cesar Sayoc, the suspect in the recent string of bombs sent to prominent Democrats and media figures, we were treated to any number of homilies about “rage” and its origins in “toxic” political rhetoric. Many of these homilies were pointed directly or indirectly at President Donald Trump and his immoderate Twitter habits. That political rage is necessarily linked to political violence was assumed, and sometimes asserted, but rarely argued.
Five minutes before that, rage was all the rage. Rebecca Traister, an editor for New York magazine, has just published a book celebrating the “revolutionary power” of anger, which was celebrated at The Atlantic on 4 October under a headline noting the “seismic power” of “rage.” On 21 September, the Washington Post affirmed that “rage is healthy, rational, and necessary for America.” On Friday, NBC news praised a television show for depicting “anger as righteous and necessary.” Before that, it ran a segment encouraging certain political partisans to “embrace their rage.”
Earlier in the year, Leslie Jamison wrote a very interesting and intelligent essay for The New York Times Magazine exploring anger as a “tool to be used, part of a well-stocked arsenal.” Right as the bombing suspect was being arrested in Florida, Rewire shared “All the Rage That’s Fit To Print,” its assessment of four books on “fury.”
I’ve omitted the word “women” in several instances above, on the theory that we’re all adults here, and that we would recognize the obvious hypocrisy and illogic of any “my rage good, your rage bad, bad, bad,” construct.
Except . . .
On 28 September, the admirable Max Boot published a lamentation of “Republican rage” in the Washington Post, arguing that Howard Beale, Network’s embodiment of outrage, “would feel right at home in the Republican party.” On the same day, The Week, which may be the least intelligent non-pornographic publication in these United States, was also in a the mood for lamentation, anguished over “the rage of Brett Kavanaugh.” The day before, Esquire moaned that “This Was the Hour of White Male Rage.” On Thursday, the Washington Post tied incendiary devices to “incendiary rhetoric,” while Philippe Reines, who used to work for that weird lady who recently disavowed civility in quite specific terms, went on MSNBC to insist that “Donald Trump’s Rhetoric Can’t Be Ignored in Wake of Bombs.” Eugene Robinson encouraged Democrats to “get mad” and “get even” — “harness your rage,” as the headline in the Chicago Tribune put it — even though he blasted Brett Kavanaugh for being “rage-filled.” Ta-Nehisi Coates has written “in defense of political anger,” and Darryl Pinckney, writing in The New York Review of Books, gave readers 4,000 words on “The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates.”
And then there are the Subarus, legions of them with bumper-stickers reading: “If You Aren’t Outraged, You Aren’t Paying Attention.”
The signals, then, are decidedly mixed.
Put me in the anti-rage camp. Rage makes you stupid.
(Rage and Wild Turkey . . . . Well, enough said.)
I’m sometimes described as an angry writer, which always surprises me. I am much, much more frequently bored by American politics than outraged by it. (More than one cable-news producer has suggested to me that I should present with more outrage.) Senator Feinstein does not fill me with rage; she has the exact aspect of a woman who is very, very sad that the bingo game didn’t break her way this time, and it is difficult to be angry at that. I do not think she should be in the Senate, but I do hope that wherever she ends up, there’s someone there to make her a nice cup of hot tea.
Our politics is full of performative outrage, histrionics that are designed to imbue unserious people with an air moral seriousness and to keep the rubes emotionally invested long enough to get them to a commercial break. It almost inevitably is the case that people have the strongest feelings about the things they know the least about; people who actually know about any subject of genuine interest understand that such subjects tend to be complicated, and that expressions of outrage, however cathartic, do not render them any less recondite. Compare Paul Krugman on economics to Paul Krugman on politics and you’ll see what I mean.
I would suggest that we make a concerted effort to abolish cheap outrage from our political discourse, but that proposal would be stillborn: There’s just too much money in outrage. Instead, I would suggest taking a different attitude toward those histrionics, understanding that what people such as Sean Hannity and Chris Hayes are engaged in is not really political discourse at all, but something much more like sports commentary or The Real Housewives of Wherever: The emotional frisson is the point, and the political content is just a McGuffin, the ball in this cynical game of for-profit fetch.
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At the very least, we do ourselves the favor of understanding that political rhetoric, however rage-filled or — dread cliché — “toxic,” belongs to an entirely separate category of human endeavor than sending people bombs in the mail, that exhortations to vote are a different thing from exhortations to violence, that Ann Coulter speaking on a college campus is a different thing from firebombing the building in which she is scheduled to speak. There are many voices in our politics that do in fact countenance violence, from Slavoj Žižek (“for the oppressed, violence is always legitimate”) to every dimwit who has promised to “Punch a Nazi.”
Sorting all that out sometimes requires careful thinking, which is difficult to manage when you are high on rage.
Kevin D. Williamson — Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent for National Review.
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When was the last time you reflected on your natural mental process? When was the last time you tried to refine it? Paying attention to how you think — and how your thinking affects your actions — is a huge part of increasing self-awareness and performance. We call this “thinking about thinking” metacognition. Many work to refine theirs over a lifetime.
Metacognition involves five thinking practices:
Planning and goal setting
Monitoring progress
Identifying what you know
Identifying what you don’t know
Adapting as necessary
By working through this process methodically, one can become more productive, flexible and self-reliant as they reflect on their mental processes, evaluate them and find new ways to improve. In other words, metacognition involves the ability to step back, evaluate one’s strengths and weaknesses and pivot accordingly.
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Metacognitive knowledge involves both your beliefs about how you learn and how others learn, and the task of learning — how you process information. Consider this example: let’s say you have to learn a totally new language in six months. Here’s how you might approach the task at hand using metacognitive knowledge.
Example of metacognition
The Learning Process: You think, “I am good at learning languages. I can totally handle this in the time I’ve been given.”
The Task of Learning: Then, you consider “To complete the task, I will need to think about the following:
How soon can I get the info I need to start learning this language?
How long will it take me to learn the language?
What information is available to me that could help me learn this language?
Is this language similar to one I’ve learned in the past?
Will I be able to learn the language in time?
How hard will it be for me to do so?
What do I need to do to learn this language?
The Strategy: You muse, “I think that learning this new language is going to take me twelve months, but I only have six to prepare. I will need to find other ways to meet this goal — maybe hiring a private tutor or just focusing on the basics and not getting sidetracked.
Sound like a lot? It is probably a lot more “thinking about thinking” than you’re used to. But the person who approaches their problem — learning a new language in six months — this way, will likely be much more successful than the person who jumped in without consideration for the monumental nature of the task at hand.
Why does this matter?
So many people go through life on autopilot, without truly understanding themselves and why they do what they do. Metacognition presents a strategy for expansion, growth, elevation.
“So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for the ride unknowingly and without making a choice,” said Thomas M. Sterner in his book The Practicing Mind.
Wouldn’t you rather make the choice?
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When was the last time you reflected on your natural mental process? When was the last time you tried to refine it? Paying attention to how you think — and how your thinking affects your actions — is a huge part of increasing self-awareness and performance. We call this “thinking about thinking” metacognition. Many work to refine theirs over a lifetime.
Metacognition involves five thinking practices:
Planning and goal setting
Monitoring progress
Identifying what you know
Identifying what you don’t know
Adapting as necessary
By working through this process methodically, one can become more productive, flexible and self-reliant as they reflect on their mental processes, evaluate them and find new ways to improve. In other words, metacognition involves the ability to step back, evaluate one’s strengths and weaknesses and pivot accordingly.
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Metacognitive knowledge involves both your beliefs about how you learn and how others learn, and the task of learning — how you process information. Consider this example: let’s say you have to learn a totally new language in six months. Here’s how you might approach the task at hand using metacognitive knowledge.
Example of metacognition
The Learning Process: You think, “I am good at learning languages. I can totally handle this in the time I’ve been given.”
The Task of Learning: Then, you consider “To complete the task, I will need to think about the following:
How soon can I get the info I need to start learning this language?
How long will it take me to learn the language?
What information is available to me that could help me learn this language?
Is this language similar to one I’ve learned in the past?
Will I be able to learn the language in time?
How hard will it be for me to do so?
What do I need to do to learn this language?
The Strategy: You muse, “I think that learning this new language is going to take me twelve months, but I only have six to prepare. I will need to find other ways to meet this goal — maybe hiring a private tutor or just focusing on the basics and not getting sidetracked.
Sound like a lot? It is probably a lot more “thinking about thinking” than you’re used to. But the person who approaches their problem — learning a new language in six months — this way, will likely be much more successful than the person who jumped in without consideration for the monumental nature of the task at hand.
Why does this matter?
So many people go through life on autopilot, without truly understanding themselves and why they do what they do. Metacognition presents a strategy for expansion, growth, elevation.
“So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for the ride unknowingly and without making a choice,” said Thomas M. Sterner in his book The Practicing Mind.
Wouldn’t you rather make the choice?
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By: Zoe Blarowski
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You may know corn as a delicious addition to chili or a barbecue. But corn is far from a humble side dish. Corn was valued so highly in ancient Mesoamerica that it was used as currency for trade and considered to be a gift from the gods.
Corn, also known as maize in many countries, continues to be a vital crop in our modern world. In 2017, corn crops in the United States alone were worth nearly $48 billion. And corn is now grown on all continents except Antarctica.
Let’s take a closer look at what makes corn such an important plant.
1. Corn is unable to live in the wild without human care.
Corn as we know it does not exist in the wild, it is a purely human invention. A wild grass known as teosinte, native to southern Mexico, is believed to be corn’s ancestor.
About 10,000 years ago, ancient farmers began selecting teosinte plants that had bigger and tastier kernels (seeds), then replanting these higher-quality plants year after year. This naturally developed plants with larger cobs that held more and better kernels. The first crops that looked like today’s corn appeared about 7,000 years ago.
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Corn became a popular crop throughout North and South America, and then spread to most other parts of the world once Europeans arrived. But to this day, corn can only survive if humans cultivate and care for it.
2. There are over 3,500 different uses for corn.
You’re likely familiar with many of the ways corn is used in food. It’s processed into ingredients like corn syrup, corn starch, corn oil, corn meal and corn flour that are added to a great number of commercial food products, from ice cream to soft drinks to chewing gum.
But corn’s uses don’t stop at food. Corn products are also commonly added to a vast array of items, such as fireworks and matchsticks, carpets and textiles, batteries, cosmetics, vitamins and medications, crayons, glues and laundry detergents. Corn is even being made into biodegradable plastics.
3. Corn and soybeans are the largest crops grown in the US.
Corn and soybeans are tied as the largest and most important crops grown in the United States. The US produces more of both crops than any other country. In 2018, about 90 million acres of land in the US were planted with corn, which is nearly the size of California. Another 90 million acres were planted with soybeans. By comparison, wheat only used about 47 million acres. And all fresh vegetable production in 2017 totaled about 2.5 million acres.
Related: There Is a Vegetable Shortage in the US
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4. Today, 90 percent of corn grown in the United States is genetically modified.
Many varieties of genetically modified (GM) corn are grown throughout the US, including varieties of both sweet corn and field corn. Sweet corn is typically eaten as corn on the cob or frozen corn. Whereas, field corn is allowed to mature on the cob before it is processed into products such as corn starch or high fructose corn syrup. Mature field corn is also what’s fed to animals and used for ethanol production.
Considering that GM corn is so common, you’ve most likely eaten at least some of it in food products without even knowing. This wide-spread use of GM corn is concerning because GM food has been linked to certain health risks as well as many environmental threats.
5. Only 5 to 10 percent of all corn grown in the US is eaten by people.
Currently, about 40 percent of the entire US annual corn crop is used to produce ethanol. Another 40 percent is used as animal feed, and 10 to 20 percent is exported each year. That leaves about 5 to 10 percent of the national crop to be used as food for humans, and a significant amount of that gets processed into high-fructose corn syrup.
Many scientists suggest this is an inappropriate use of a valuable crop. Ethanol was meant to be a renewable, green energy source, but it has been proven to be essentially pointless for mitigating climate change. It’s simply too resource-intensive to produce and inefficient as a fuel to have any benefit.
Also, feeding corn to people would have far more benefit than feeding it to animals. An acre of corn has the potential to provide 15 million calories per year if people ate the corn directly, including in corn meal, corn flour or other products. But, when corn is fed to animals, people only receive about 3 million calories of food per acre of corn per year, mostly as dairy and meat products. This is an unnecessary waste of food that could be greatly reduced with more sustainable and diverse farming practices.
Corn is an amazing plant that has provided people with food and vital materials for thousands of years. But we need to make sure this resource is not wasted and can live on to help feed and support future generations.
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You may know corn as a delicious addition to chili or a barbecue. But corn is far from a humble side dish. Corn was valued so highly in ancient Mesoamerica that it was used as currency for trade and considered to be a gift from the gods.
Corn, also known as maize in many countries, continues to be a vital crop in our modern world. In 2017, corn crops in the United States alone were worth nearly $48 billion. And corn is now grown on all continents except Antarctica.
Let’s take a closer look at what makes corn such an important plant.
1. Corn is unable to live in the wild without human care.
Corn as we know it does not exist in the wild, it is a purely human invention. A wild grass known as teosinte, native to southern Mexico, is believed to be corn’s ancestor.
About 10,000 years ago, ancient farmers began selecting teosinte plants that had bigger and tastier kernels (seeds), then replanting these higher-quality plants year after year. This naturally developed plants with larger cobs that held more and better kernels. The first crops that looked like today’s corn appeared about 7,000 years ago.
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Corn became a popular crop throughout North and South America, and then spread to most other parts of the world once Europeans arrived. But to this day, corn can only survive if humans cultivate and care for it.
2. There are over 3,500 different uses for corn.
You’re likely familiar with many of the ways corn is used in food. It’s processed into ingredients like corn syrup, corn starch, corn oil, corn meal and corn flour that are added to a great number of commercial food products, from ice cream to soft drinks to chewing gum.
But corn’s uses don’t stop at food. Corn products are also commonly added to a vast array of items, such as fireworks and matchsticks, carpets and textiles, batteries, cosmetics, vitamins and medications, crayons, glues and laundry detergents. Corn is even being made into biodegradable plastics.
3. Corn and soybeans are the largest crops grown in the US.
Corn and soybeans are tied as the largest and most important crops grown in the United States. The US produces more of both crops than any other country. In 2018, about 90 million acres of land in the US were planted with corn, which is nearly the size of California. Another 90 million acres were planted with soybeans. By comparison, wheat only used about 47 million acres. And all fresh vegetable production in 2017 totaled about 2.5 million acres.
Related: There Is a Vegetable Shortage in the US
Mature corn cobs on stalk
4. Today, 90 percent of corn grown in the United States is genetically modified.
Many varieties of genetically modified (GM) corn are grown throughout the US, including varieties of both sweet corn and field corn. Sweet corn is typically eaten as corn on the cob or frozen corn. Whereas, field corn is allowed to mature on the cob before it is processed into products such as corn starch or high fructose corn syrup. Mature field corn is also what’s fed to animals and used for ethanol production.
Considering that GM corn is so common, you’ve most likely eaten at least some of it in food products without even knowing. This wide-spread use of GM corn is concerning because GM food has been linked to certain health risks as well as many environmental threats.
5. Only 5 to 10 percent of all corn grown in the US is eaten by people.
Currently, about 40 percent of the entire US annual corn crop is used to produce ethanol. Another 40 percent is used as animal feed, and 10 to 20 percent is exported each year. That leaves about 5 to 10 percent of the national crop to be used as food for humans, and a significant amount of that gets processed into high-fructose corn syrup.
Many scientists suggest this is an inappropriate use of a valuable crop. Ethanol was meant to be a renewable, green energy source, but it has been proven to be essentially pointless for mitigating climate change. It’s simply too resource-intensive to produce and inefficient as a fuel to have any benefit.
Also, feeding corn to people would have far more benefit than feeding it to animals. An acre of corn has the potential to provide 15 million calories per year if people ate the corn directly, including in corn meal, corn flour or other products. But, when corn is fed to animals, people only receive about 3 million calories of food per acre of corn per year, mostly as dairy and meat products. This is an unnecessary waste of food that could be greatly reduced with more sustainable and diverse farming practices.
Corn is an amazing plant that has provided people with food and vital materials for thousands of years. But we need to make sure this resource is not wasted and can live on to help feed and support future generations.
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Most Americans could stand to eat more fiber, but a new study suggests that where you get your fiber can have a huge impact on your health. If you’re relying on refined fiber to meet your needs, you could be putting yourself at a higher risk for liver cancer.
What is refined inulin?
The refined fiber researchers were feeding to mice in this study is refined inulin, a relatively new food additive that the FDA approved over the summer, along with a handful of other added fibers. There isn’t much research yet on how refined inulin impacts human health, but the new FDA guidance means that companies are adding it to processed foods to boost the fiber content.
“The inulin used in this study is coming from chicory root, not a food we would normally eat,” Vishal Singh, a postdoctoral fellow from The University of Toledo and one of the lead researchers in the study, said in a press release. “In addition, during the extraction and processing of the fiber, it goes through a chemical process. We don’t know how the body responds to these processed fibers.”
Companies add refined fiber—like refined inulin—to naturally low-fiber processed foods, because consumers are catching on that fiber-rich foods improve our health. Previous research shows that a diet that includes plenty of fiber supports healthy bones and digestion while reducing your risk of chronic disease and cancer. That’s why this study’s results were such a surprise.
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No one was more surprised about the link between refined fiber and cancer than the Georgia State University and University of Toledo researchers conducting this study, though, because that’s not what they set out to study. They were trying to see if a diet rich in refined inulin (a type of refined fiber) helped prevent obesity, which it did for about 40 percent of the mice.
You can imagine their shock when the mice in their study started developing liver cancer. ”The findings shook us,” Dr. Matam Vijay-Kumar, director of the UT Microbiome Consortium and associate professor in the UT Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, said in a press release.
If you needed proof that weight isn’t always an indicator of good health, there you have it.
At this point, the researchers pivoted. Instead of continuing to look at obesity, they tried to figure out what it was about refined fiber that was causing liver cancer in their subjects. They suspect that the issue is the way our gut breaks down refined fiber.
The researchers looked at two sets of mice: one with elevated levels of gut bacteria (a condition called dysbiosis) and one with no gut bacteria at all. The mice with no gut flora didn’t develop liver cancer, suggesting that the way refined inulin ferments when our gut breaks it down is the culprit.
“We importantly demonstrated that soluble fiber, while it generally beneficially impacts health, can also become detrimental, leading to diseases as severe as liver cancer,” Dr. Benoit Chassaing, assistant professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State said in a press release. “However, we do not want to promote that fiber is bad. Rather, our research highlights that fortifying processed foods with fiber may not be safe to certain individuals with gut bacterial dysbiosis, in whom consumption of purified fiber may lead to liver cancer.”
This is only preliminary research, and animal studies don’t always translate to human health outcomes. What is clear is that there needs to be more research on the link between refined fiber and cancer.
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Most Americans could stand to eat more fiber, but a new study suggests that where you get your fiber can have a huge impact on your health. If you’re relying on refined fiber to meet your needs, you could be putting yourself at a higher risk for liver cancer.
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The refined fiber researchers were feeding to mice in this study is refined inulin, a relatively new food additive that the FDA approved over the summer, along with a handful of other added fibers. There isn’t much research yet on how refined inulin impacts human health, but the new FDA guidance means that companies are adding it to processed foods to boost the fiber content.
“The inulin used in this study is coming from chicory root, not a food we would normally eat,” Vishal Singh, a postdoctoral fellow from The University of Toledo and one of the lead researchers in the study, said in a press release. “In addition, during the extraction and processing of the fiber, it goes through a chemical process. We don’t know how the body responds to these processed fibers.”
Companies add refined fiber—like refined inulin—to naturally low-fiber processed foods, because consumers are catching on that fiber-rich foods improve our health. Previous research shows that a diet that includes plenty of fiber supports healthy bones and digestion while reducing your risk of chronic disease and cancer. That’s why this study’s results were such a surprise.
Does Refined Fiber Cause Cancer?
Refined Fiber and Liver Cancer: An Accidental Discovery
No one was more surprised about the link between refined fiber and cancer than the Georgia State University and University of Toledo researchers conducting this study, though, because that’s not what they set out to study. They were trying to see if a diet rich in refined inulin (a type of refined fiber) helped prevent obesity, which it did for about 40 percent of the mice.
You can imagine their shock when the mice in their study started developing liver cancer. ”The findings shook us,” Dr. Matam Vijay-Kumar, director of the UT Microbiome Consortium and associate professor in the UT Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, said in a press release.
If you needed proof that weight isn’t always an indicator of good health, there you have it.
At this point, the researchers pivoted. Instead of continuing to look at obesity, they tried to figure out what it was about refined fiber that was causing liver cancer in their subjects. They suspect that the issue is the way our gut breaks down refined fiber.
The researchers looked at two sets of mice: one with elevated levels of gut bacteria (a condition called dysbiosis) and one with no gut bacteria at all. The mice with no gut flora didn’t develop liver cancer, suggesting that the way refined inulin ferments when our gut breaks it down is the culprit.
“We importantly demonstrated that soluble fiber, while it generally beneficially impacts health, can also become detrimental, leading to diseases as severe as liver cancer,” Dr. Benoit Chassaing, assistant professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State said in a press release. “However, we do not want to promote that fiber is bad. Rather, our research highlights that fortifying processed foods with fiber may not be safe to certain individuals with gut bacterial dysbiosis, in whom consumption of purified fiber may lead to liver cancer.”
This is only preliminary research, and animal studies don’t always translate to human health outcomes. What is clear is that there needs to be more research on the link between refined fiber and cancer.
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I suppose that when we try to intervene in the "work" of mother nature, we simply are too ignorant and do not know all parameters. Therefore, while trying to improve something, we simply make a mess out of it. Thanks for posting.
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Seems that processed anything turns out to be harmful in the long run. When will humanity start to connect the dots and move completely away from the middle isles of most supermarkets...
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As an integrated fintech company, Intuit seems to be firing on all cylinders. Its QuickBooks product helps millions of businesses manage their finances. More than 240 million invoices are created by QuickBooks Online customers each year. Around this core data, the company has built an ecosystem of products and services that includes payments and lending.
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What was the transition like for you to go from Google to Intuit?
It’s been incredibly fun. What’s unique about Intuit is the obsession over the customer problem. I dove into a big, unsolved problem. First, I joined Intuit to oversee our work on the capital side — to help small businesses get access to capital. Now, I also help businesses get paid, moving away from chasing their customers for payment.
I’ve always been passionate about economic development and creating opportunity for people. I did that with McKinsey in the Middle East and also at the Kennedy School of Government. I was excited to come in and make material, technology-driven improvements for small businesses — that’s been a really fun space.
You head up two units: Capital and Payments. Is there a strategic connection there?
It’s a super strategic combination. It comes down to the way we deeply understand the customer problem. When we got to the heart of understanding payments and lending, we understood that the deep problem for small businesses is cash flow. Most small businesses have opportunities to grow, but the delta between the 45 days to get paid after you do the work and the need to pay contractors and employees before you start the work — this all translates to cash flow problems for small businesses.
We stepped back at Intuit to solve this in a different way. We realized that we could put our money movement offerings together — capital and payments — and get to the heart of the cash flow problem. We could start to help businesses understand cash flow, offer them loans to smooth cash flow as they waited to get paid. It all comes together to solve the problem in a different way.
Does QuickBooks Capital include only your own sources of capital?
Intuit has a strategy that I love: an open platform. Small businesses generally use 15 to 16 different apps to run their businesses. They want to bring them all together to make sense of it all. The nice things about QuickBooks is that they connect all their apps and all that data comes together seamlessly. We can innovate on top of that data to benefit small businesses.
In the case of capital, we want to offer the best solutions for small businesses. QBO customers can use the data in their accounts to get funding from other lenders. In other cases, we can offer funding directly. It complements — some times, small businesses want longer term or asset-backed loans and they’ll turn to outside partners on our marketplace. Other times, they’ll need short term working capital loans and we can service them directly.
What are the biggest trends you’re seeing?
We’re seeing the power of data to drive innovation in everything related to money for small businesses. If you think about it, we have the largest ecosystem of small business data. On the capital side, it allows us to lend to underserved small businesses where other lenders struggle to understand their creditworthiness. 60 percent of the businesses we’ve leant to so far wouldn’t have been able to get a loan from another lender.
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