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"Jeff Goldstein who has a political blog called Protein Wisdom, has been receiving threats toward his family in his blogs comment section by a University of Arizona professor."
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"Spero News has launched a digg style site for religious news and posts called Sperocite - a play on the term citations."
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"Amid the aisles of spaghetti and canned peas, cereals and breads made with mysterious-sounding grains such as amaranth and quinoa are sprouting up at major supermarkets."
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Two things:
1. I’ve known multiple hemispherectomy patients. In all cases, the hemispherectomy caused severe and profound defects, but none were done as early as described in the article. In every case, it was the only option. For one patient, the need was because of trauma, and the skull could not be properly repaired. The result was, if you imagine the skull as a sphere as seen face-on, the upper R quadrant was removed and skin grafted on to cover the wound. There was this overwhelming urge to stare and to run away. I did neither, but I had to struggle.
2. We eat quinoa with butter and amaranth spaghetti. Both (as well as plain amaranth (a bit too fine, if you ask me) can be obtained from the East End Food Co-op in Pittsburgh. The bulk bins have all three. We eat other grains as well. Birds do better eating grains than seeds, so Nancy has created a “pellet substitute” mix that birds do not have to be trained to eat, as with regular commercial pellets. We wind up eating the grains as well.
As a rule of thumb, the more processing, the higher the glycemic index for a food. The grains, with a lower glycemic index, thus help with my diet — I’m a diabetic, as FD knows.
The amaranth pasta tastes identical to normal spaghetti and is helpful for people who need to restrict purines in their diet — like gout or Lesch-Nyhan’s disease.
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