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Go fishing for healthful fats
With all the press they are getting lately, omega-3s look to be among the superheroes of nutrition. This month, a study showed they appear to slow mental decline in those who have mild Alzheimer's disease, and Spanish researchers found that eating walnuts, rich in omega-3s, might be better for arteries than olive oil. Though they have long been one of the darlings of health-food-supplement stores, omega-3 essential fatty acids still raise questions in consumers, such as what they provide or how to add them to their diets. .
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As described in this article: Open Enterprise: Rebooting HTML for the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of what we now know as the Web, is promoting the next phase of web development, called the Semantic Web. Tim has made some interesting comments on the development of the web, including the failure of people to adopt XML in a logical way that could affect everybody. HTML and many of the functions in modern browsers have caused problems over the years, leading the confusing mix of standards and 'Built for Netscape' type logos at the bottom of the page. The Semantic Web is not, though, about mark up. The Semantic Web is about adding information to the data that is displayed so that it's obvious what it is. You see, the problem with the current web environment is that when browsing a page about books on Amazon, I know it's about books, and you know it's about books, but the computer doesn't.
Vicious Hack Job Gets It Bad Wrong About Low-Carb
In the two years I have been writing about low-carb diet and health, never has anything caused more anger and disgust from my readers than this Augusta Free Press article about the low-carb lifestyle. I quite literally received a link to this article from nearly a hundred different people begging me to respond. When I saw it earlier this week, my first reaction was to ignore it and move on. But the more I thought about it and the more people who kept telling me about it, I changed my mind and decided to confront Jefferson's thoughtless column directly. As a registered nurse for the past decade, she has been sharing others her wealth of wisdom about health. I think her patients should demand a refund of their money for her health advice because this woman is clearly delusional about diet and nutrition.
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