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[evwhore]

This is goddamned hilarious, however it contains spoilers for Breaking Bad, so DO NOT watch unless you've watched S5E5, "Dead Freight" all the way to the end.

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[adb_jaeger]

"3, but it is now 4". classic.

[tom_bayes]

Don't people die from alcohol poisoning with a BAC < 0.627?

[krblack]

I would guess so.

Back when I was defending people for DUIs, I learned that .3 is the point at which most people become unconscious, unless they are in very good practice.

Using the BAC tables here, if we assume that homes weighes 200 lbs, he would have had to drink over 41 ounces of 80 proof liquor to achieve .627 (more if there was any significant passage of time since the start of the drinking). So, two fifths of bourbon would do it, or chugging a whole 1.14 liter bottle of Jack Daniels if he started out with a buzz, or if I've overestimated his weight.

[krblack]

Wikipedia says that a BAC >0.5 produces "High risk of poisoning" and "Possibility of death."

[rcfox]

Mark's Daily Apple (a paleo-friendly website) panned the study on egg yolks. We’re looking at a study in which a trio of researchers (two of whom with extensive ties to the statin industry) quizzed a group of middle-aged and elderly stroke patients about their lifelong egg intake and smoking history, making sure to stress the importance of accuracy and honesty in their answers. Yes, you heard me right: they expected people to remember every last egg they ever ate. Still, everyone in the study was assumed to have supernatural memory, so I guess it evens out.

Now, there's bias from that site (obviously), and I don't have time to read the underlying study to know the truth. But I'm going to follow the advice of my mother: Anything in moderation is likely fine.

If you hadn't heard, Red Square supposedly is closing in November.

[gunga_galunga]

Yeah, I was wondering about the egg yolk study. The other question is what else do egg eaters eat at the same time that could be the actual trigger (if there even is one). Maybe bacon. Maybe toast. Maybe eggs help your memory, so you can remember you ate eggs after having had a stroke.

The other health story Andrew Sullivan pointed to that was interesting was that ticks can make you allergic to meat.

(An anecdote you may find interesting is a friend of mine ended up with Lyme disease and had a lot of problems. One of the things that finally got it to turn around was to go gluten free.)

Meanwhile mjoseph is telling us now we need to worry about killer cows. It's a world gone mad, I tell you, to say nothing of mad cow disease.

Bummer about Red Square. I liked that place the two times I went. Need places like that so we can forget about killer cows, hyperallergic ticks, and other nightmares.

[hgfalling]

About that egg yolk study: If you are going to make claims that contradict a pretty big mass of evidence that BOTH SIDES of the usual nutrition debate accept, don't do it with a kind of half-assed study using food frequency questionnaires and dividing things up into ridiculous groups.

OTOH, IIRC the authors of the study, as usual, said "this is what we found, maybe we should take another look at these things." Then the news media reported it as "Nutrition Experts Prove That Holding Eggs In Your Hand As Bad As Huffing Asbestos For Thirty Years."