Susan Rosenberg Jones photographs the residents of her high-rise complex in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, most often inside their apartments. Her subjects include a diverse mix of teachers, social workers, nurses, and writers, among other middle-income tenants, many of whom have lived in the community since the 1970s. As a break, she began venturing out to Brighton Beach to document daily life on the sand. There she found her fellow New Yorkers, famously suspicious and buttoned up, becoming less guarded in the heat of the summer sun.
"I have an interest in what brings people together in a community, especially in the communities of New York City. One of them that has always interested me is Brighton Beach. It's not easy to get to—it's an hour by train from Manhattan. The thing I like about Brighton Beach is that it's not as crowded as Coney Island because there aren't as many tourists. A lot of people go there just for the beach and not for amusements. It also has a lot of immigrants from Russia—the actual neighborhood is called Little Odessa by the Sea—along with people from other ethnic groups. But mainly, I want to observe the culture of people from the neighborhood interacting on this beach.
I like the idea of capturing moments between people who don't know each other, or some who do, and watching this all play out on the street. I'm a little shy when it comes to photographing people on the street, but on the beach, I'm not at all. People on the beach see a woman with a camera, but they don't care. They're having too much fun to care about me. They are running and jumping through the water and grabbing buckets to make sand castles.
On the beach, people are spontaneous—they're happy. It's nice to see so many people relaxed because of the sun, sand, and water. But it still feels like city life because you get such a diverse mix of people. You see interactions between strangers, but everything is very calm. When you're on the streets, there's a lot of tension. Even just navigating the sidewalks, people are walking quickly or New Yorkers are annoyed because they're trying to walk around tourists. You don't see that on the beach. Everyone is just chill. There's an openness at the beach that you don't get in the city.


At the most basic level, a Foodie is someone who loves food. Interviewing students and friends, studying Instagram Foodie profiles, and analyzing scholarly articles revealed that the Foodie identity includes much more than a love of food. The Foodie identity is an exclusive privilege accessible mainly to white upper class females with access to smartphones and internet. Some themes that I explore include the relationship of food consumption to modernity, gender, and social class, and the racism implied and perpetuated through the Foodie identity.


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The Indian 'Miss Marple' snooping on election candidates
Mumbai: As India's best-known female private eye, Rajani Pandit has posed as crazy, blind and deaf to solve murders and unmask unsuitable fiancés. But election time is boom time for the woman dubbed "Miss Marple".
In the world's biggest election ending on Sunday, Pandit and others like her are in high demand from political parties to dig up dirt on the opposition and make sure their own candidates are squeaky clean.
"It's confidential but whenever a party finds one of its own candidates or an opposition candidate suspicious they ask us to investigate them," Mumbai-based Pandit said.
"Often we are asked to look into their finances and how they have procured money to fund their campaigns. We try to maintain a low profile," the 57-year-old added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is up against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the world's largest democratic exercise, which is awash with cash. Some experts say the polls could cost $10 billion.
Pandit says her team has been busy "integrating" themselves into political parties since January, inspecting finances and attending rallies before submitting reports to their clients.
"There's usually a surge of cases ahead of the elections. We've been inundated with requests and were only able to take on a few," she said.
Kunwar Vikram Singh, chairman of India's Association of Private Detectives and Investigators, said "there's a lot of due diligence".
"(A candidate's) local reputation, influence, his stance in his own caste… all these things are looked into," Singh said.
Private detective agencies are popular in India, with sleuths tasked with solving everything from petty household thefts to business deals gone wrong.
Pandit has been conducting covert operations across India for over 30 years out of her small office in the Asian giant's financial capital.
The investigator — who does own a magnifying glass — was dubbed India's first female private detective by media outlets when she began cracking cases in the early 1980s.
She has been featured in countless newspaper articles, often referred to as India's "Miss Marple" or "Nancy Drew", Agatha Christie's fictional spinster sleuth and the ever-evolving US amateur detective.
This has encouraged scores of women in India to follow in her footsteps.
Several women-dominated investigative firms now operate in the country, such as Lady Detectives India and Venus Detective which are both headquartered in the capital New Delhi.
"Clients are open a lot more to having a female investigator. They feel we are more empathetic and that they can talk to us," Lady Detectives CEO Tanya Puri said.
Pandit first started snooping as a 22-year-old at college, informing the parents of a fellow student that their daughter was drinking, smoking and hanging out with boys.
Her most difficult case was when she worked undercover for six months as a maid for a woman who was suspected of poisoning her husband to death and then killing her son through a hitman. She gathered evidence and handed it over to police who arrested the hitman and the woman.
Pandit has won numerous awards, written two books, and says she has completed more than 80,000 cases — most of them pre-matrimonial investigations. "Detectives are born, not made. I will keep doing this job until I am no longer alive," she said.
— AFP
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If there is one constant thing in life, it is change. Sometimes we cause the change such as buying a new house or having a baby. Other times, the change sneaks up on us when we least expect it. We may lose our job or our relationship may suddenly come to an end. Surprisingly, whether you chose to experience the changing environment or not, change can be difficult. Most people think that if you are choosing to move, you are ready for that change, but such is not always the case. When change comes we just be ready to adapt. If you have problems adapting to new situations or environments, we believe crystals can help you. They can make the process much easier, whether you asked for it or not. We suggest always have one of the following discussed crystals around in case an unexpected change comes into your life.
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Judy Hall suggests Bloodstone which is a well-known talisman and meditation crystal.
Mentally, Bloodstone calms the mind, dispels confusion, and enhances the decision-making process. It can revitalize the mind if you are mentally exhausted. This stone assists in adjusting to unaccustomed circumstances.
Michael Gienger recommends Biotite lenses which is a stone that helps us seek balance and flexibility.
Biotite lenses stimulate individual self-fulfillment. They allow flexibility and adaptation as long as the wearer does not become untrue to him/herself.
Robert Simmons advocates Cinnabar Quartz which brings growth and development.
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Life can move quickly and change as regularly as the tide. We cannot always prepare for these changes such as a change in job, a move to a new home, or an end of a relationship. Sometimes when we have prepared, we are still not ready for them. What we need to learn is adaptation or how to become adjusted to new conditions. When confronting change in your life or if you would like to prepare for unexpected ones in the future, we suggest using dark turquoise colored crystals. These crystals color rays bring you adaptation, flexibility, openness, new perspective, and inner strength. Which are all essential in adapting to new circumstances in life. We suggest using dark turquoise crystals such as Amazonite and Chrysocolla. You can also try crystals other authors have suggested such as Bloodstone, Biotite lenses, and Cinnabar Quartz.


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Keep Fitness Legal
Defending the brand from junk science, yellow journalism, and invincible ignorance
David Katz: Junk Food's Slyest Defender
Big Sugar's paid expert witness, David Katz.
Yale University's David Katz writes frequently on sugar and health-related conflicts without disclosing his apparent myriad conflicts of interest. Katz has managed to become one of the foremost nutrition researchers in America. He is founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, current President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, writes for US News and World Report, and has over a half-million followers on social media. Greatist named him the 13th most influential person in health and fitness.
Yet Katz did not reach fame through any particular scientific breakthroughs, nor through prominent achievement in public health. Rather, Katz owes his fame to frequent quotes by journalists and prolific blogging. Unfortunately, there is reason to believe that neither Katz nor the journalists regularly fulfill their ethical duties and inform readers of Katz's lucrative ties to Big Soda, Big Sugar, and other junk food companies. One site even described Katz as "not being on the take from industry."
Katz is the junk food industry's subtlest paid advocate. He has developed a strategy that allows him to introduce junk food industry talking points without coming across as a shill. First, Katz concedes a minor point to the public health crowd in order to establish his bona fides and come across as a credible source. Then he comes across with a sweeping claim that defends the junk food industry and its paid research.
Katz's one-two strategy, combined with journalistic negligence, has allowed him to escape serious scrutiny. But no longer–it's time to correct the record.
David Katz and Chobani's Sugary Yogurt
David Katz.
This 2012 ABC News piece mentioned a lawsuit against the yogurt company Chobani for calling sugar "evaporated cane juice." The lawsuit alleged that Chobani used "evaporated cane juice" to disguise its excessive added sugar content. Hey, juice is healthy, right?
In the ABC News article, Katz conceded that the junk food industry may deceive consumers, but then rejects the comparison between Big Tobacco and the junk food industry, saying,
"With tobacco the product is just bad and we can eradicate it. No one needs to smoke. But we're not going to eradicate food,"
To be sure, no one needs cigarettes, but does anyone need Chobani Yogurt, with 36% more sugar than protein, either? Katz's misleading contrast between tobacco and junk food prompted the ABC journalist to argue in favor of collaborating with the junk food industry rather than confronting it for damaging public health. Eight months later, Katz revealed that Chobani paid him $3,500 an hour to serve as an expert witness in the same sugar lawsuit the 2012 ABC News piece covered. It's not clear if Chobani hired Katz before ABC ran its article or afterwards.
As Chobani's expert witness, Katz attacked the opposing side's expert, Dr. Robert Lustig of UC San Francisco. Katz alleged that Lustig "inaccurately vilifies sugar." His statement mentioned diabetes just once: to allege that yogurt might protect against it (Surely this does not apply to Chobani yogurt, overflowing with added sugar).
Katz rested his defense of the junk food company Chobani on the claim that, "any distinction as to the source of sugars … is immaterial." Thus he implied that the sugar in fresh oranges affects the body just the same as the added sugar in Coca-Cola, ignoring the fact that the sugar in fruit comes in lower concentrations and is accompanied by fiber, polyphenols, and vitamins that affect the metabolic response to sugar. In his Chobani expert report, Katz favorably cited the FDA's decision not to distinguish between added and naturally-occurring sugars.
Three years later, Katz contradicted his previous position on sugar and publicly agreed with Dr. Lustig's distinction between added and natural sugars. He even attacked the FDA's regulations for NOT addressing added sugar. What changed? Well, Katz developed a new source of food industry funding, for one. KIND Bars hired him as their "Senior Nutrition Advisor," and Kind Bars was confronting FDA scrutiny for its claim to be healthy. Katz began by defending the bars' added fat content as well as attacking the FDA's inaction on added sugar. Yes, this is the same FDA inaction he had once defended for Chobani (The FDA has since decided to begin labeling added sugars).
Distinguishing Coca-Cola from oranges made no sense when Chobani paid Katz, but it made perfect sense when Kind Bars funded him.
NPR and NIH Ignore David Katz's Hershey's Funding
Sugar-sweetened yogurt is just the beginning of Katz's apparent conflicts. The Hershey's Company has paid Katz over $731,000 for research. Unsurprisingly, the Centers for Disease Control partnered with Hershey's chocolate in funding Katz's research on the supposed health benefits of cocoa, just as the CDC has partnered in Katz's Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center.
Katz has escaped scrutiny for his candy funding, even among the government regulators and left-leaning media. For example, the NIH's Clinical Trials database failed to mention Katz's Hershey's funding for one of his chocolate studies, an inexplicable omission given the conflict of interest. And NPR's Allison Aubrey quoted David Katz on the health benefits of chocolate. In NPR, Katz defended the Mars Inc./Pfizer/Harvard study on cocoa we covered earlier on this blog. Neither the NPR reporter nor Katz himself mentioned the nearly three-quarters of a million dollars Hershey's has paid him. This is an especially harmful omission for NPR to make–he is the article's sole expert.
Could you imagine an NPR reporter covering the supposed health benefits of whiskey and exclusively citing Jack Daniels' research and Jim Beam's paid scientist?
Criticizing and Working for Coca-Cola Proxies, at the Same Time
When Anahad O'Connor exposed Coca-Cola's Global Energy Balance Network last year in the New York Times, Katz swiftly stepped in to defend industry-funded research. Katz employed his usual one-two strategy. First he conceded that the GEBN was "a scandalous betrayal of public health." Yet he then warned against drawing conclusions beyond this particular case, claiming that,
"An expansive disparagement of 'industry funded' research, for instance, is not justified"
To support his point, Katz cited his industry-funded research on walnuts. Katz protected his walnut research against his own bias, he averred. Yet he neglected to mention his work for candy and added sugar purveyors. It gets worse.
Katz concluded his article by claiming that the GEBN,
"is mired in conflict and cannot be what it purported to be. The scientists running it cannot serve public health, and their funder- for the two are at odds."
And Katz went on to claim that Coca-Cola should not fund any projects related to food and health since,
"Coca-Cola is not merely biased on the topic of energy balance; they are conflicted. If the truth about energy balance inveighs against their product, as it does, they will work against the interests of public health and attempt to conceal that reality- as they have. They have no business funding a campaign about calories and truth, because the truth about calories is not in their interest."
This makes sense, but Katz neglected to mention his own ties to a Coca-Cola proxy, as did Time Magazine when it quoted him while covering the GEBN fallout. Let us employ the principle of charity and assume Katz forgot. In that case, here is a reminder that he has maintained a long-term relationship with a Coca-Cola-funded health initiative.
Katz became President-elect of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in 2012. Later that year, the ACLM chose The Coca-Cola Company as the "Platinum Sponsor" of its 2012 Lifestyle Medicine Conference.
From research by Noor Greene. Image available here.
Coca-Cola's transparency database fails to mention its payments to the ACLM. And the soda proxy has kept its site clean of any reference to its Coca-Cola funding. Katz even wrote an ACLM "President's Report" criticizing the Global Energy Balance Network, advocating for "carefully vetted" funding sources and promising that ACLM is "proceeding accordingly." As usual, Katz's ACLM report failed to mention ACLM's own Coca-Cola relationship, despite his prior admonition that "funding sources and conflicts of interest (real or potential) should be reported and entirely transparent."
If Coca-Cola money presented an inherently corrupting conflict for the GEBN, Katz must explain why it was perfectly acceptable for his own organization, of which he is now President, to accept Coke's dollars. Furthermore, if Katz really thinks the GEBN was a "scandalous betrayal of public health," why does his organization continue to employ GEBN founder, Steven Blair, on its Board of Advisors?
David Katz's PepsiCo Relationship
David Katz has maintained a relationship with PepsiCo through its Quaker Oats brand. Quaker Oats has paid Katz at least $633,000 for research over the course of his career. PepsiCo completed its acquisition of Quaker Oats in August 2001.
Katz's Quaker relationship continued after the PepsiCo merger, meaning that it morphed into a relationship between Katz and PepsiCo. In September 2001, Katz published this "Scientific Review of the Health Benefits of Oats" for what was then PepsiCo's Quaker Oats brand. He also spoke on cardiovascular health at a PepsiCo/Quaker conference in 2002. In 2004, he published a Quaker Oats-funded study on oatmeal that found "no significant differences" in endothelial function between the intervention and control groups, but nonetheless managed to draw conclusions about the "suggested effects of oats" by pooling the data together.
Big Sugar Hired David Katz as Expert Witness
Refinery 29 quoted David Katz to defend sugar in its January 2015 article, "Quitting Sugar is Not the Answer." He first denied that sugar is anything like a toxin or addictive drug, but then added that sugar,
"does have addictive elements … If you're used to eating lots of sugar, you're going to crave it more."
But Katz would not have you conclude from this fact that sugar is an addictive drug that you should eliminate from your diet. He instead stated that cutting out sugar is "just not necessary" and recommended that people include sweets in as part of a healthy diet. Refinery 29's Kelsey Miller failed to mention that Big Sugar hired Katz as an expert witness on the metabolic effects of sugar in the lawsuit Western Sugar Cooperative, et al. vs. Archer-Daniels-Midland, Inc., et al. His previous Chobani contract would suggest that Big Sugar's paying Katz roughly $3,500 an hour.
Similarly, Yahoo published "How to Eliminate Sugar From Your Diet in 21 Days" by Jacqueline Andriakos. There Katz recommended that people trying to eliminate sugar add a "low-sugar Kind Bar" to their bag. That's right–Katz recommended that people trying to cut out sugar eat sugar. A search for a "low sugar" Kind bar yields one that contains a teaspoon of added sugar per bar. The only way to make sense of this is to remember that Kind Bar has paid Katz over $154,000. Andriakos did not mention Katz's financial relationships with Kind Bar, nor did she mention his ties to the Western Sugar Cooperative, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola.
David Katz recommends people trying to cut out sugar eat sugar-sweetened Kind Bars, his sponsor's product.
Journalists, before you interview David Katz, remember the words of Shawn Carter: "Type it in, Google's your friend bruh." It is one thing to quote Katz as junk food's paid advocate, but it's quite another to present him as an independent and objective source of credible information.
Public Health Advocate / Junk Food Defender: David Katz's Double Life
David Katz covertly reviewed a book he wrote under a pseudonym.
When he was not advocating for junk food, Katz wrote a novel under the pseudonym Samhu Iyyam. We are told Iyyam is female. This information may seem strange, but at least it is ethically neutral. That neutrality ended when Katz reviewed his female alter ego's work in the Huffington Post. The review may go down in history as the foremost example of self-reverence. Without revealing that he wrote the book, Katz exclaimed that he found the writing,
"as enthralling as the story was riveting. In reVision, Colleen McCullough meets John Milton. Yeats meets Yourcenar. In the blend of rollicking adventure with utopian aspiration, J.K. Rowling meets Gene Roddenberry. Where characters are vividly rendered and complex ideas distilled to stunningly simple clarities, Dickens meets Dawkins. As a clash of other worlds illuminates the better ways our world might be, Plato's Republic meets Lord of the Rings. Where lyrically beautiful writing and deep currents of humanism traverse expanses of law and folklore, science and faith, passion and politics — the Bible, Bill of Rights and Bhagavad Gita commingle."
Fred Brown, the Society of Professional Journalists' spokesman rebuked Katz's review as unethical, explaining, "You should not review something without revealing you wrote it." When this scandal broke, Huffington Post removed Katz's covert self-reviews, though he claims to remain on a HuffPo editorial board. Yet, as strange as Katz's career as a novelist has been, it pales in comparison to what Katz has pulled off with nutrition.
Katz has managed to live two lives, one as a paid junk-food apologist, the other as an independent source for public health information. But what makes his story more remarkable is that he successfully played both roles under a single name. And the media and government failed to adequately vet him for conflicts of interest, all the while promoting his work to the unknowing public. Thanks to the CDC, US taxpayers provided the "core funds" for Katz's research.
Logically and physically, only one Dr. David Katz can exist. His public health persona may be a facade, but the million-plus he has accepted from junk food companies remains a matter of fact.
by Russ Greene on September 26, 2016
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William Wilson
David and I have exchanged many emails over the years and I always sensed that there was more to his story than he let on. Of course I thought his NuVal food rating system was a bad joke. I usually sent him copies of my blog posts that typically trashed one aspect or another of the Food Industrial Complex and David would respond stating that my ideas certainly weren't "mainstream". It now looks like David's ideas are "Payolastream". Katz makes Professor Haub of Twinkie diet fame look like Mother Teresa. It's always good to expose a shill and now David Katz has no place to hide.
mmalip
As someone living with sugar addiction, I am not surprised by this article. I used Weight Watchers tools and some guidelines for managing sugar addiction to learn how to regain control of my impulses (and lose a lot of weight). I could not go to the Weight Watchers meetings at first because of the influence of sugar there (products sold on commission and insistence that nothing was off limits). When I went to the meetings to claim lifetime benefits, I was asked to downplay my sugar addiction when I told my success story. After I published my story, they insisted that there was no scientific evidence or research proving sugar addiction. Perhaps Mr Katz is one of their sources.
The only reason I continue with Weight Watchers is because I use their tracking tools and online community support.
I have to rely on my own personal data–how I feel, mentally and physically, when I eat. Greatly reducing and then eliminating processed sugar (cane, date, maple syrup, agave, etc.) has made a huge difference to my quality of life. I have lost, and kept off over seventy-five. And that's just a side effect of just paying attention to how I feel.
Good article. (I trust your facts are checked!)
Metabolic_Man (@Metabolic_Man)
Thanks for sharing this info. INCREDIBLE that the CDC does not care about obvious conflict of interest….
Meanwhile Big Food profits, USA and world obesity and diabetes hit all time highs and public health + quality of life drop.
I agree completely with your perspective. This clown has been viewed as an "dietary expert" by the media and medical profession for years. Now it looks like he would have to improve to become a prostitute!
Jay Wortman
I had his number when we had a conversation in the comments on one of his HuffPo pieces and he started deleting my politely reasoned replies. If there remains any doubt that he is nothing more than a narcissistic wanker, the book review fiasco alone should be enough evidence to the contrary.
In 2006 he made this comment to my friend Jimmy Moore: "The fact that you've lost weight does not make you a nutrition expert," he wrote to me in an e-mail in 2006. "I have driven over suspension bridges–doesn't make me an engineer." What a complete jerk!
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ninat12
My comment was also deleted from the Huffington Post–twice. Did you know that the medical editor of the Huffpo is none other than Dean Ornish? Ornish and Katz are involved in a quite a few ventures, it turns out. And the Huffpo is less than transparent about its lack of objective editorship.
puddleg58
In this recent article, the egregious Dr seems to be saying that type 2 diabetes and obesity can be reversed by the elimination of meat. However, the question of whether one eats meat, or instead eats eggs, dairy, nuts, fish or whatever with one's non-starchy vegetables and low-sugar fruits is irrelevant to the question of whether carbohydrate restriction is an effective therapy.
He and his co-author are also conflating the question of what causes diabetes with the question of what is a sufficiently effective treatment – these are not identical questions.
https://www.verywell.com/is-low-carb-better-than-bariatric-surgery-for-diabetes-4095306
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Wolfram Alderson (@wolframald)
Dr. Katz has also made lots of hay by denigrating leaders in the field who have NO financial conflicts, like Dr. Robert Lustig. He has written at least 8 articles making disparaging comments about Dr. Lustig and questioning his motives. I don't have a problem with debating the science, nor does Dr. Lustig, but the personal attacks are really low. Decency and ethics should prohibit a true professional from attacking leaders in the field on a personal basis. Civilized and rigorous academic debate is most welcome however.
Jeffrey (@approfre)
I am not a sugar person at all, and Katz is obviously bought off. But a Chobani yogurt is an excellent alternative to donuts, bagels, and the other junk most people eat. It (and others) is also responsible for the destruction of Yoplait, which had up to 30mg of sugar.
The Kind Bar with 5 mg of sugars blows away all the other bars when it comes to sugar.
So let's not get carried away here. We are not fat and sick because of Chobani yogurt and Kind bars.
Brett Chrest
What the heck is Crossfit turning into? This entire article is misinformation. THIS ISN'T NEW. He talks about this! Katz has articles about some of these cases with iffy funding and connections:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/research-funding-when-is-_b_5493613.html
https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/Dr-David-Katz-Industry-funded-research-11343482.php
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sugar-my-position-david-l-katz-md-mph-facpm-facp-faclm/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/a-world-with-no-pharmacie_b_8763456.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/industry-funded-research_b_8016628.html
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/putting-sugar-trial-david-l-katz-md-mph-facpm-facp-faclm/
Researchers have interests, but that doesn't mean they have conflicts of interest. He is not paid to promote the products but to do research on them. All the connections this article makes are not all there.
He has written about not enjoying the tedious work of being a legal witness as it is a very long process, etc but he agrees to it when he already agrees with the side engaging him and when his is compensated (as most if not all people would.) Chobani was being sued for labeling. While he agreed that Chobani may have been contributing to the problem, they were better than most products and health cases and singling them out was not right.
He does not compare the nutritional value of Coke and Fruit, he compares the sugar content in the context of Nutritional Labeling, and how in the labeling, "sugar is sugar" and they are both harmful in excess no matter what they are labled.
KIND Bars are mostly nuts and dried fruit and even then there are many non industry-funded studies about nuts. He says KIND Bars are good for snacking and are better than most of what the public is snaking on.
One of the cocoa studies, Katz wasn't involved in the interpretation of the study.
One of the cocoa studies wasn't even done by Katz, and the actual author regularlly researches cocoa.
The Hershey's studies are strictly about Cocoa, there are tons of benefits from raw cocoa. ALL of his quotes and studies on chocolate are on non sweeted no sugar added cocoa! He talks about DARK CHOCOLATE…not milk chocolate, not cocoa added with sugar. There are many non industry-funded studies on dark chocolate and cocoa.
https://nutritionfacts.org/?fwp_search=cocoa&fwp_content_type=video
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dark-chocolate-and-artery-function/
If there are benefits to nuts is it not right for those who sells nuts to use those claims? If there are benefits to dark chocolate is it not okay for that company to promote their dark chocolate based on those studies? Just like how there are studies done on Crossfit and HITT training?
The ACLM made strict efforts to only show the health brands Coca-Cola company has such as Smart Water. They recognize how this looks and have changed their sponsors. Coca-Cola has stopped sponsoring such assosiations.
https://nutritionfacts.org/2015/11/10/coca-cola-stopped-sponsoring-the-academy-of-nutrition-and-dietetics/
When these other blogs and articles quote him, it is taken out of context. Katz doesn't have a direct relationship with PepsiCo, he was doing research on Oats, which did help Quaker but PepsiCo owns many brands. They own water bottle companies, should we stop drinking bottled water? There is no actual connection about him promoting Pesi!
Katz again was taken out of context for sugar. What he says isn't necessary is NEVER touching sugar again in our lives, we can have it on special occasions like birthdays and holidays, etc. That was his idea and many others, that a lifestyle approach should be taken not hard to follow restricting rules. As well as getting rid of all sugar is not the quick fix to all problems.
Again, KIND Bars are 5 grams of sugar which is "low sugar"!! Better than the Kill Cliff endurance drinks which are 24 grams.
As for his book reviews, we all make mistakes. Just like how Crossfit's conference speaker was under investigation and has now been officially silenced from talking about nutrition!
Let's get this straight. As Katz talks about, having an interest is NOT the same as conflict of interest: "[Drug companies] fund studies hoping to show their drugs work well. The public shares an interest in drugs that work well. The motivation is transparent, and unconflicted. If the drug companies were funding studies designed to refute the notion that drugs can be harmful in any way, while the public was interested in exposing those harms, there would be a conflict."
"The same applies to any other funder. The idea that research can be entirely unbiased in its objectives is naïve. No researcher wastes time conducting studies without an "interest" in the outcome. That interest constitutes a bias, and it is generally shared by the funder."
"But biased hopes are not the same as biased methods, and bias is not the same as conflict. Robust research methods are specifically those that protect researcher, and funder alike, from their own biased motivations."
"[Where it becomes a problem is when industries and authors] engage in a marketing campaign to refute or discredit the weight of evidence. [If they did] they would no longer constitute a respectable research funder, for they would be conflicted."
"Bias does not discredit research funding, but conflict does. When we are connecting dots to see the big picture, this distinction is important."
"Coca-Cola is not merely biased on the topic of energy balance; they are conflicted. They have no business funding a campaign about calories and truth, because the truth about calories is not in their interest."
Some researchers want nothing to do with industry but Katz proposes "that industry-funded research is not the problem; conflict of interest is the problem."
At least Dr. David Katz is not as bad as the silenced, unqalified low carb promoters like Dr. Gary Fettke who spoke at your conference.
There is a difference in HOPING for an outcome, and influencing that outcome.
Interest is not the same as conflict of interest.
When Paleo and Low Carb fad diets form your biases and obstruct your critical thinking and transparency, dishonest conflicts and collisions show through.
When the amount of money is at play, the extreme costs of the research have to be taken into consideration. That is not an attempt to justify the funding, but a reason for studies costing thousands of dollars. Salaries, operation costs and equipment have to be dealt with, there's a budget like in anything. The longer the study, the more expensive it will be. Some being millions of dollars. And grant is not a salary. So no, $731,000 is not going directly into Dr. Katz's bank account. A researcher might laugh at that idea.
In these studies, Katz is the Principal Investigator. "A Principal Investigator is the primary individual responsible for the preparation, conduct, and administration of a research grant." "The principal investigator (the PI) usually writes and submits the grant application" Dr. David Katz receives the grant…which goes towards conducting the research trial.
Where it becomes a bigger problem that we are missing here is if the food is considered healthy in the world of evidence-based nutrition. Funded by industry is not ideal, though there are many groups that will fund and carry out research. Such as "ICAR-Indian Institute Of Vegetable Research", "VegFund", "World Vegetable Center", "Michigan Vegetable Council", "Hass Avocado Board", "California Avocado Commission." Then there's health research in oil, technology, etc. This is where the "interest" part comes in.
The misinformation and manipulation that is in this blog article with words like "candy funding." As said above, dark chocolate or unsweetened cocoa is not the same as the candy bars. That is a fact Katz (and many many others) recognize.
It falsely says "Katz defended the Mars Inc./Pfizer/Harvard study on cocoa" – that is not true if you read the whole story!! "Researchers are recruiting volunteers to participate in a four-year study trial of cocoa extract [conducted by Dr. JoAnn Manson.]" Yes the funding was from Mars Inc. and Pfizer Inc. BUT… "not everyone is jazzed about the idea of turning chocolate into a nutritional supplement. "One of the beautiful things about chocolate is that it's a source of great pleasure," Katz told me. Katz was savoring a vegan creme au chocolate recipe made with dates." Katz explained if there was some benefit to cocoa extract then extracting those compounds may have some benefit. There are extracts from many different foods and there's even cocoa supplements already produced. Katz does not promote candy bars, but is open to the idea if cocoa extract had benefit, then it could be useful. That's what research is all about…asking questions, testing, and the process goes on. Cocoa doesn't mean candy.
Again as said above with Katz's Coca-Cola connection and him talking about industry funding. He isn't talking about all industry-funded research, he is talking about ones with conflicts of interest. He isn't bragging about the Walnut Commision funded study, he is using it as an example (and being way more transparent than most) of how these things can be done poorly or properly. How a study should get "published however it turns out. Talk about the weight of evidence, rather than working to refute it." This goes back to "what does the evidence say?" – "The weight of evidence is in favor of health benefit from walnut consumption." If the study showed that walnuts were unhealthy and they kept funding research and created some campaign to promote walnuts…then thats a conflict of interest. "Bias does not discredit research funding, but conflict does. When we are connecting dots to see the big picture, this distinction is important."
The ACLM partnership with Coca-Cola's "health brands" was maybe a bad choice, though this was maybe selfish as it was for their annual conference. ACLM has since grown and improved. IF ACLM had promoted the sugary soda Coke THEN it would have been a conflict! In Katz's Presidental Report he explains how GEBN's work on "calories out" was funded by Coca-Cola…but was an effort to "emphasize calories out as the easy remedy for any number of calories in", thus GEBN was not making a big deal about food or soda consumption. It highlights that there was clear conflict and influence. For Katz there is interest as a researcher and scientist, but that doesn't mean there's conflict or influence.
Quaker did not directly pay Katz. The blog article says "Katz's Quaker relationship continued after the PepsiCo merger, meaning that it morphed into a relationship between Katz and PepsiCo." – That's not a direct relationship, and if it is he is still doing research for Quaker Oats, NOT Pepsi. The Quaker study "does not confirm a beneficial influence of oat ingestion on endothelial function" and that further study is needed. They added "suggests"…true…this was considering short term and sustained treatment but there was no influence from Quaker on the conclusion.
He talks about even publishing industry-funded studies with negative results the funder did not love – Natural chromium supplementation does not help with diabetes. But it was funded by "National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118091/
Again with "Big Sugar": Katz's testimony using studies that were excluded by the defendant! Most likely because the "defendants are manufacturers and trade groups and associations active in the corn and HFCS industry." Katz is not even mentioned in the legal document. He was not infavor of sugar either!! He said "there is no good reason to differentiate high-fructose corn syrup from table sugar. This is a case where sugar is sugar, and our problem is excess. The dose makes the poison, of either variety…sugar is sugar. We eat too much of it." http://www.morelaw.com/verdicts/case.asp?s=CA&d=85060
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/litigation_news/archer-daniels-midland.authcheckdam.pdf
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/corn-syrup-versus-sugar-legal-fight-court/story?id=15969618
Once again, we know that KIND Bar's are only 5 grams of sugar and are much better than traditional unhealthy snacks. More importantly Katz was not paid "over $154,000" because this was a research grant.
"Use of the word "conflict" has become an almost reflexive disparagement of industry funded research; a meme, of sorts, invoked presumably to highlight one's own virtue." – however this can be dealt with thoughtfully and has been viewed as maybe renaming it to a "Confluence" or "merging", and not an automatic conflict of interest.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2444293?redirect=true
Again, while I am guilty of only looking at funding sources too, they are not the whole story. Biased preference will happen, always. "Biased methods, in contrast, are avoidable- or nearly so. Methods, then, and safeguards against bias in the study protocol, are the more robust measure of a study's merits than the funding source, or the native preferences of funder or investigators."
What might be more important is "the pockets of some funders, namely those who deal routinely in patents, are much deeper than those of others." Nobody is paying millions for big broccoli.
While questioning all of this, perhaps we need to question Crossfit and the article itself…
When I am able to go that indepth, analyze it and pick it apart peice by peice it is clear to anybody that there is more to the story…but people don't want to do that much digging into the TRUTH. There is no causal relationship, no actual harmful conflicts involving Dr. David Katz and very weak evidence to assert such claims.
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'STATE'S GOING TO S**T!' Aaron Rodgers Blasts California's COVID Closures That Destroyed Small Biz
(Rallying Patriots) – At this point in time, we're all pretty well used to celebrities, both in the entertainment industry and the world of sports, coming out and sharing their political opinions. And they have every right to do that, just as the rest of us do. However, most of the time what comes out of their mouths is nothing more than leftist talking points without a drip of common sense anywhere to be found. Thankfully, not every individual who works in these fields is brain dead.
According to the Daily Mail, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently stated that all of the closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic back through 2020 and 2021 obliterated small businesses in towns all over the state of California. And he's right on the money. Tyranny always leaves a wide path of destruction in its wake, and that's a lesson the strategies used to handle COVID should have taught us well by now.
Many of the stay-at-home orders ended up forcing bars and restaurants, along with thousands of other businesses in different industries like hair salons and spas to shut their doors. And this is something that impacted Rodgers deeply, having been raised in a small California town.
'I grew up in a small town, very little cases up in Chico, California, but all the small businesses? F***ing gone,' Rodgers said with sorrow.
"Business capacity limits and other restrictions were in place from March 2020 until June 2021. The decisions crippled businesses across California with 40,000 estimated to have collapsed – the highest figure in any state across the nation," the report said.
"Rodgers also spoke of his disapproval of AB 2098, a new bill heading to the desk of Governor Newsom that could see doctors disciplined for promoting COVID-19 misinformation. The law is controversial because the definitions of 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' are so broad," the report continued.
The Green Bay quarterback then went on to explain that he doesn't consider himself to be a conservative politically, going on to cite the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade as an example of where he breaks off from that particular set of ideology.
'I think there's a lot of people that believe that you should have your own decision-making on your own medical decisions,' he stated during an interview with Maher.
'My thing is I have an issue with the hypocrisy in society in general and I know you do as well, but abortion has been a hot topic, right? And especially after Roe v. Wade got overturned and sent back to the states, or whatever. I don't believe the government should have any control over what we do with our bodies,' Rodgers said.
Of course the government shouldn't have a say over what we do with our bodies. However, an unborn baby is a unique human being, a life, with the child having a body of its own, which means that it's wrong to deprive that human of the right to live by murdering it in the womb. Thus, abortion is evil and should not be legal.
'As much as I might lean more pro-life, I don't want the government to tell me I can't smoke a cigar, I can't have a drink of alcohol, I can't choose my own medical decisions. And if I'm a woman, don't f***ing tell me what to do. Like whether or not I agree with what you decide to do, who cares? And the government should not have a decision that infringes upon my own personal freedoms,' he added.
Last August, Rodgers stated that he was "immunized" and did not wear a mask in settings that many of the super leftists would have deemed it appropriate to sport one.
"Rodgers also chose his words carefully when speaking about the vaccine at a training camp back in August 2021. Instead of saying he was 'vaccinated,' Rodgers would say he was 'immunized,' which some presumed to mean that he had received the injection," the Daily Mail reported. "However, Rodgers may have meant that he had COVID-19 antibodies from a previous infection."
Which, to be fair and truthful, provides far better protections from the coronavirus than the vaccine that is seemingly useless. And even though there is a mountain of data to confirm this to be true, the left refuses to believe it, proving that it's totally cool to deny science as long as doing so fits your own ideological belief system and helps further the narratives being pushed in the media.
"Rodgers has maintained that he is not 'anti-vax' in general but that it wasn't the right decision for him, adding how he believed he was in the 'crosshairs of the woke mob right now,'" the report said. "As the podcast conversation moved onto a possible rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in 2024, Maher suggested 'the Democrats and the woke side are so much more obnoxious,' but that the Republicans are actually more dangerous.'"
Of course, Rodgers wasn't going to allow himself to be drawn out on the topic of who he would vote for in the next presidential election, but suggested Biden would be way too old to run at the age of 81.
'I'm a rational thinker. I'm not on one side or the other,' Rodgers remarked.
Honestly, Rodgers is a breath of fresh air, even if he does say and espouse certain positions that are disagreeable. He's not afraid to speak his mind and believes everyone has that same right, whether they agree with him or not. It's sad that we are all excited about something so elementary as this, but that's how much damage has been done to free speech in our era.
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Apple's iOS 6 to ditch password prompt for free apps?
By Chloe Albanesius published 24 July 12
With iOS 6, users will reportedly not be required to enter a password when downloading free apps.
Developers playing around with the iOS 6 beta have discovered that Apple is not producing a password prompt for free apps, according to Cult of Mac, which pointed to a post on Reddit. It doesn't matter if it's a re-download or your first download; free app downloads do not encounter the pop-up password request.
The revelation comes shortly after Apple acknowledged a vulnerability within iOS that allows users to access in-app content without paying for it. The glitch will be fixed with iOS 6, Apple said last week.
If a free app includes in-app purchases, users will presumably still be required to provide their passwords at that time. In-app purchases have been available via Apple's App Store since October 2009. Last year, amidst concerns that children and other users were making unwanted in-app purchases on users' accounts, Apple added a password requirement for in-app purchases with iOS 4.3.
Apple released beta 3 of iOS 6 last week; the full version is expected this autumn, likely alongside the release of the next iPhone.
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SIA's India venture Vistara eyes direct flights to US
Vistara has seen a rise in demand for non-stop flights. PHOTO: REUTERS
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NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - Vistara, an Indian full-service airline owned by Tata Group and Singapore Airlines (SIA), is considering starting direct flights to the United States as the Covid-19 pandemic increases demand for non-stop travel, a senior executive said on Friday (Nov 20).
While the specific timeframe and aircraft requirements are yet to be finalised, Vistara is studying various scenarios for direct flights, Vinod Kannan, chief commercial officer, told Reuters in an interview.
Covid-19 brought air travel to a grinding halt earlier this year as nations imposed travel bans. While travel has resumed to some extent, passenger numbers remain far below previous levels and a full recovery could take years.
Vistara has seen a rise in demand for non-stop flights, as passengers try to avoid stopovers to reduce the risk of getting infected - a trend it expects will continue in the future.
Flag carrier Air India is the only Indian airline currently offering direct flights to the US.
"This means there is definitely an opportunity...to fly direct to the US, and it is an opportunity we are looking at," Mr Kannan said.
The airline, which started international flights last year, currently operates two Boeing Co widebody planes and has four more on order but Kannan said the specifications and layout were not suited for direct flights to the US.
Whether Vistara would look at ordering new planes or leasing them is under discussion.
"In today's situation it is much easier to lease a widebody compared to one year ago. Those opportunities and scenarios are being worked on," Mr Kannan said.
Prior to Covid-19, the airline flew to destinations like Bangkok and Singapore and had plans to start flying to Japan and Europe. Its international flights are now limited to destinations like London and Dubai with which India has a bilateral "air bubble" arrangement to operate direct flights.
It is in talks to start flights to Paris and Frankfurt under the same bilateral agreement, Kannan said.
By mid-2023, Vistara expects 20 to 30 per cent of its total seat capacity to be deployed on international routes, up from less than 10% last year.
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It expects to expand its fleet to 70 planes by mid-2023 - a mix of Airbus' narrow-body planes and Boeing widebodies - from 47 or 48 planes by the end of the current fiscal year.
While Vistara continues to negotiate with vendors on costs and delays taking delivery of some planes, it is starting to see some recovery in domestic business and leisure travel.
"It has not been an easy year and it will affect my break-even point and push it back," Mr Kannan said.


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Farmers across the Midwest will be glad to hear this: some grain export facilities in New Orleans are open again — at a reduced level, but it's a start. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it was feared agricultural exports from the Port of New Orleans could be shut down for a long time. Commodity broker Dan Kuetchenmeister says it's great news that some are already back up and running. He says barges are moving on the river and a couple of loading stations are already loading grain. While it's welcome to hear the facilities are starting to come back on-line, Kuetchenmeister says there are several big hurdles that remain. He says the big issue is that the river system has to be confirmed as "safe" for the deep-draft boats to come in and turn around and leave. Kuetchenmeister says it's far from business-as-usual but the bottleneck of barges that have been stalled all along the Mississippi River's banks may soon be able to start moving. He says "It sounds like they think there's a possibility that within four to seven days they may be to the point where some of these boats can actually make way up and down the river." Though he adds, it's certainly going to take a long time to get back to what might be considered normal. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns ) says current loading and unloading capacity at the port stands at 63-percent.
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Q: jquery: using uploadify invisibly i am using the uploadify plugin and was wondering, can it be used as invisible object?
which means keeping it invisible and controlling it by jquery code only, like opening the file dialog, starting the upload - or does it need to be visible for clicking on it?

A: If you want it hidden then is uploadify necessary? You can take a look at this "ajax" like file upload with iframes which can be easily hidden
http://www.openjs.com/articles/ajax/ajax_file_upload/

A: No – the File Dialog can only be opened as a result of a user event (in this case click) inside the Flash document. You cannot trigger this from JavaScript. – This is due to the Flash security model surrounding the File System.

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As a manager or executive leading an organization, you may be very clear about what you need from your team. And do you know what they need from you?
This interesting article Millennials Want to Be Coached at Work, from Harvard Business Review looks at survey results from 1,400 Millennials and what they want from their work. The shift from old-style, top-down management continues to blossom and young professionals want more from their management than simply "direction." The study shows young professionals are more open and interested in feedback and self-development than previous generations.
These same qualities reflect why business and career coaching is a continually greater and more integral aspect of business leadership programs. And many professionals today, even those further along in their career, want more self-development, authenticity, inspiration and support.