Steve Walker

Same. Nuts are fine, marzipan is Satan's smegma.

All done for the NHS by this bunch; https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice-guidance/nice-guidelines

Well I suppose it might make the marzipan taste marginally less vile...

It does look as if the microbiome of the gut could have lots of previously poorly understood effects on health. I wonder - those people who do sod all exercise, eat like pigs and stay skinny, while others gain a pound if they look at a packet of crisps. Also, the rising diabetes and obesity rates, particularly in childhood, and the widespread use of antibiotics...

Vegan in "thinks their sh*t doesn't stink" shocker I think it's likely that people who eat a lot of vegetables have healthier gut bacteria than people who don't, a lot of them live off fibre, but it's more what they do eat than what they don't. This was an interesting outcome from a poo transplant; Colleen Kelly, a gastroenterologist at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, has carried out around 200 faecal transplants for people with C. difficile infections. In 2010, she gave a transplant to a 32-year-old woman whose teenage daughter was the donor. The girl was borderline obese, says Kelly, but otherwise healthy. The transplant was a success and cleared up the woman’s C. difficile infection. Around a year later the woman returned, complaining of massive weight gain. She had always been a normal weight, but had become obese despite diet and exercise regimes – even a medically supervised liquid protein diet. “She said she felt like there was a switch inside her body,” says Kelly. “No matter how much she ate or exercised, she couldn’t take the weight off. She’s still overweight now, and she’s very frustrated.” It is the first recorded case of obesity apparently resulting from a faecal transplant (Open Forum Infectious Diseases, doi.org/zzr). Since it’s a one-off, Kelly says she can’t be sure of cause and effect. The antibiotics the woman also took could instead be to blame, says Martin Blaser, a microbiologist at New York University, who has found that these drugs can trigger obesity by wiping out “good bacteria”. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530083-600-not-just-obesity-faecal-transplants-weird-effects/

The article makes a fair point about the consequences of offering the people something that you aren't willing or able to deliver. I too fear civil unrest if Brexit is cancelled. And if it proceeds, when it fails to deliver the Promised Land, which it will. There are no good outcomes now, we're into least worst.

Any heart attack you walk away from is a good heart attack!

Oh dear, get well soon, Chesters!

They're all at it.

Wouldn't fancy hooking into a coked up catfish down there - both things that shouldn't be there!

Explosives are pretty tightly controlled here, I've not heard of them being used agriculturally! I guess we just grub them up with heavy machinery.

They can when Phone is playing with dynamite!

Welcome back!

I don't see a strong ecological argument for keeping it, and there are certainly benefits to having a few eyes on the water. There's tradition, but my classic opening day involves a pond and tench, not a river, and that's history now. It seems harsh to criminalise people for the sake of tradition. So, with a little reluctance, I think it should go.

Same here, gained a few pounds over Christmas and they must go.

Those Asian carp have done in America what every species that gets loose in Australia seems to do. Which is surprising, I guess, when you consider how vicious the wildlife is!

Eutrophication been a problem there for decades, unfortunately. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.516.5093&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

Their website won't allow you to browse with adblock enabled. If you turn off adblock, you not only get absolutely bombarded with adverts and videos, but you get automatic redirects to sites hosting malware. The incompetence is shocking. They deserve to go bust.

That will be all that fibre I'm back on it Monday, similar routine. Lots of protein and veggies, low carb, resistance exercise, bit of cycling and walking. Put some weight back on in 2018, not back to where I was, but it needs to go pronto.

Sorry to hear that, John, there are some really nasty bugs around at the moment. I had it in early December and still have a bit of a cough. My elderly neighbour got it about the same time and was laid up for a month. It's not flu, but it's bloody horrible.

It's the people who don't keep their dog in sight who annoy me. Right pain if you're fishing something like cheese paste or luncheon meat and Fido is trying to get his face in it while owner is hundreds of yards up the bank.

And to you! Everyone I havent found a present for is getting a bottle of something, just have to get those and the trimmings for tomorrow and were done.

It has occurred to me that one would be a very useful tool in fishing a clear water gravel pit like Wingham. You could map out the bars and even find the bream.