Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to Wednesday! Is anyone else finding this week incredibly long? It’s time for your open thread, so tell us what’s on your mind.
Hey, I love this news but with all news about diet take it with a grain of salt:
Led by Dr. Lu Wang, preventive-health experts at Brigham conducted the first long-term study of women’s drinking habits and weight gain. The study involved 19,220 women over the age of 38 who were of normal weight. Researchers asked the women about their alcohol consumption over the past year and recorded how much of four different types of alcoholic beverages they consumed — beer, red wine, white wine and liquor. The researchers measured the average ethanol content of each beverage and then calculated each volunteer’s average alcohol intake; they also weighed each woman five times over the course of the follow-up period.
After 13 years, women consuming the highest amount of alcohol per day (more than two drinks daily) were 30% less likely to be overweight and nearly 70% less likely to be obese than nondrinkers, the team found. “We certainly don’t want to encourage nondrinkers to adopt alcohol as a method for weight control, but we were surprised by the strength of the association,” says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s and a co-author of the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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The association led the team to consider several possible explanations. First, it could be that women who drink more simply substitute alcohol for other sources of calories — in essence adopting a form of the liquid diet. Indeed, when the researchers analyzed the data, it appeared that the women who drank the most got fewer of their total calories from nonalcoholic sources than other women, but also consumed the most calories overall. Women having one to two drinks daily, for example, consumed 1,738 kcal/day, compared to the 1,670 kcal/day of teetotalers, but they took in 177 fewer kcal/day from nonalcoholic sources. Whether or not this substitution is a conscious decision on the women’s part still isn’t clear and the study wasn’t designed to find out.
My thoughts on this study is that the source of calories is as important as the amount of calories. Now we shouldn’t all get excited and start drinking two drinks a day thinking this will cause us to lose weight. The best way to control weight is to eat less and exercise.
Pain-in-the-ass Congressman Bart Stupak is getting a lot of attention, not all of it good. Rachel Maddow has been investigating his membership in the Family and his residence at the C Street (Cheat Street House). He’s also got a primary challenger, one who is specifically citing his blockade of health care reform.
Connie Saltonstall, a former commissioner in Charlevoix County, told me this evening she’s challenging Stupak over his refusal to allow health care reform to move forward without abortion language attached.
Saltonstall told me her “two passions” are health care reform and choice. And after spending the last 20 years voting for Stupak, Saltonstall said he managed to run afoul of both of them.
“I’ve had to vote for him because he’s a Democrat and not a Republican — he was not as bad as the other side,” she said. But Saltonstall said Stupak’s stance on abortion in the health care debate “crossed the line” for her.
We’ll see if a primary challenger affects Stupak’s behavior.
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President Obama, March 8, 2010: “Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people’s premiums.”
Sen. Dick Durbin, March 10, 2010: “Anyone who would stand before you and say ‘well, if you pass health care reform next year’s health care premiums are going down,’ I don’t think is telling the truth. I think it is likely they would go up.”
Rahm will not be pleased…
so phuny is the new name lizard/geko/romeo is using now right?
as a forum neophyte why does that happen? are you guys blocking the old ones or is he creating new names to make us think there are multiple conservatives who agree with him and are bad at posting links?
also i think that maybe the women that drink more ARE eating less. either because the wine in their stomach is taking up room so they feel full (kind of like how when you’re on a diet you’re supposed to drink lots of water)or because when those women are a little buzzed they aren’t really hungry.
I haven’t bothered to check, V. That’s how little he concerns me. I’m sure you’re correct, tho. That 2nd grade cut and paste, linkless style is quite telling.
As far as I know, lizard/gecko/phuny/whoever changes names on a routine basis of his or her own volition.
Alan Grayson(D-Fla) introduces Medicare buy-in option HR 4789.
Anyone know where Carney stands on public option?
I haven’t bothered to check, V. That’s how little he concerns me
I thought you guys didn’t like outing people.
We don’t know anything other than the email you enter and the IP address, but IPs can change. We don’t really have any way of knowing who’s commenting.
But sockpuppets are sockpuppets and lizard/gecko/phuny/whoever certainly is one.
“blocking the old ones” ding, ding, ding we have a winner!
the name changes, the keen intellect remains the same.
Is this the same keen intellect who copied and pasted a bunch of lies about the HCR bill that we smacked back with such glee? Because we were the only ones who bothered to — you know — read the bill?
Yes, that intellect — the one that couldn’t possibly function unless there was something to cut and paste from somewhere else.
Too bad you can’t hear the NJ comments section calling your name buddy — because those people are all your speed.
It appears I put this post in the wrong place. To straighten things out:
Which Dem is lying?
Durbin Admits Premiums Will Go Up If Health Care Bill Is Passed
Sen. Dick Durbin, March 10, 2010: “Anyone who would stand before you and say ‘well, if you pass health care reform next year’s health care premiums are going down,’ I don’t think is telling the truth. I think it is likely they would go up.”
Obama Says Health Premiums Will Go Down
President Obama, March 8, 2010: “Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people’s premiums.”
Aqui: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/10/durbin-of-course-premiums-will-still-go-up-with-obamacare/
Y aqui: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/03/10/durbin_admits_premiums_will_go_up_if_health_care_bill_is_passed.html
Y aqui: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/03/10/obama_says_health_premiums_will_go_down.html
Just heard O’Donnell on WHYY-FM coming out swinging, attacking Castle from the right, calls him “liberal.” There’s audio up on WDEL too but I haven’t listened yet. Go Christine! soften him up good.
Watching the WDEL video of the O’Donnell announcement. She Palined the first question.
She Palined the first question.
Imagining all the connotations of that statement. The most likely meaning: she babbled incoherently. Other possible meanings: she wrote on her hand, she lied like a rug or she babbled incoherently while turkeys were slaughtered behind her.
The Obama Moratorium: No offshore drilling while he’s in office
Washington Examiner ^ | 03/10/10 1:19 PM EST | Barbara Hollingsworth
The Obama administration’s six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday. Which means that no new oil and gas leases will be approved during President Obama’s term even though two –thirds of the American public supports such activity, according to a December 2009 Rasmussen poll.
Sixty percent also believe that gas and oil prices will drop if the government allows offshore drilling, opening up an estimate 14 billion barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas
On July 14, 2008 President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on Outer Continental Shelf leasing. On October 1, 2008, in a bipartisan agreement, Congress lifted another longstanding ban on new oil and gas leasing in the OCS.
Drilling was supposed to begin this July. But Salazar said he intends to discard the 2010-2015 lease plan developed by the Bush administration in favor of a new plan that won’t even go into effect until 2012.
“Secretary Salazar has finally confirmed what had long been feared – that the Obama Administration has no intention of opening up new areas for offshore drilling during his four-years in office,” said Rep. Doc Hastings, the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee.
So for the next three years and probably more, trillions of dollars in domestic energy assets will remain untouched while billions of dollars more are spent on foreign oil.
OR we will invest where we SOULD … solar, wind. and abandon oil all together.
if you are addicted to heroine, and you have to go to a dangerous part of town to get smack, the solution is NOT to find a safer place to buy it.
but then again, without gas guzzling Hummers, how would we know how big Conservative’s… “patriotism” is?