Access Denied – The Awl
We’re right in the middle of the communication shift thanks to the internet and social media. There’s still the big question regarding authenticity for smaller players, but the traditional media can see the writing on the wall.
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Link Blog 02/24/2016
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Evil Mad Scientist Valentines: 2016 Edition | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Late for this season, but something to remember for next year
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Why the calorie is broken | Mosaic
Calorie count serves as an upper limit to the energy that can be extracted, but it depends on a variety of factors including your gut bacteria and nature of the food.
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Nash and Haelle are in good company: more than two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. For many of them, the cure is diet: one in three are attempting to lose weight in this way at any given moment. Yet there is ample evidence that diets rarely lead to sustained weight loss. These are expensive failures. This inability to curb the extraordinary prevalence of obesity costs the United States more than $147 billion in healthcare, as well as $4.3 billion in job absenteeism and yet more in lost productivity.
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Measuring the calories in food itself relies on another modification of Lavoisier’s device. In 1848, an Irish chemist called Thomas Andrews realised that he could estimate calorie content by setting food on fire in a chamber and measuring the temperature change in the surrounding water.
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Using the Beltsville facilities, for instance, Baer and his colleagues found that our bodies sometimes extract fewer calories than the number listed on the label.
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For example, it seems that medications that are known to cause weight gain might be doing so by modifying the populations of microbes in our gut. In November 2015, researchers showed that risperidone, an antipsychotic drug, altered the gut microbes of mice who received it. The microbial changes slowed the animals’ resting metabolisms, causing them to increase their body mass by 10 per cent in two months. The authors liken the effects to a 30-lb weight gain over one year for an average human, which they say would be the equivalent of an extra cheeseburger every day.
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Other evidence suggests that gut microbes might affect weight gain in humans as they do in lab animals. Take the case of the woman who gained more than 40 lbs after receiving a transplant of gut microbes from her overweight teenage daughter. The transplant successfully treated the mother’s intestinal infection of Clostridium difficile, which had resisted antibiotics. But, as of the study’s publication last year, she hadn’t been able to shed the excess weight through diet or exercise. The only aspect of her physiology that had changed was her gut microbes.
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The discrepancies between the number on the label and the calories that are actually available in our food, combined with individual variations in how we metabolise that food, can add up to much more than the 200 calories a day that nutritionists often advise cutting in order to lose weight. Nash and Haelle can do everything right and still not lose weight.
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Today, excess weight affects more people than hunger; 1.9 billion adults around the world are considered overweight, 600 million of them obese.
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As a result of her research, Roberts has created a weight-loss plan that focuses on satiety rather than a straight calorie count.
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teens given instant oats for breakfast consumed 650 more calories at lunch than their peers who were given the same number of breakfast calories in the form of a more satisfying omelette and fruit
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He points to research demonstrating that high-fructose corn syrup and other forms of added fructose (as opposed to fructose found in fruit) can trigger the creation of compounds that lead us to form an excess of fat cells, unrelated to additional calorie consumption. “If we cut back on some of these things,” he says, “it seems to revert our body back to more appropriate, arguably less efficient metabolism, so that we aren’t accumulating fat cells in our body.”
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Peter Turnbaugh cautions that the science is not yet able to recommend a particular set of microbes, let alone how best to get them inside your gut, but he takes comfort from the fact that our microbial populations are “very plastic and very malleable” – we already know that they change when we take antibiotics, when we travel and when we eat different foods. “If we’re able to figure this out,” he says, “there is the chance that someday you might be able to tailor your microbiome” to get the outcomes you want.
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Customer-Tracking Technology Can Work Without Being Creepy
Some interesting suggestions from the likes of what Disney has done in their theme parks and also what healthcare providers are looking into. User consent and awareness is the key.
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Healthcare links 07/10/2014
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We streamed live surgery from South America using … – Explorers Community
Lots of promise, but the hardware has some way to go before it can be used reliably
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Direct streaming worked about 30% of the time. The majority of failures were due to inadequate wi-fi signal (60%), Glass overheating (20%), power failures (10%), or Glass’s OS freezing (10%).
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Surgeons who wore Glass could either see the display OR capture the surgical field, but not both at the same time.
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a >300Kbps stream generated a halfway-decent picture
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30 – 40-second delay in the stream
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Healthcare links 07/09/2014
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Hospitals Are Mining Patients’ Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick – Businessweek
Replace credit card with your Google data and imagine your online habits being pushed analysed to send you Google Now alerts and that you just might form a picture of healthcare a few years from now, especially considering the recent foray of the major mobile OSes into healthcare.
Also, Google did try using search data to make predictions with Google Flu.
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Healthcare links 01/25/2014
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Find Specialist Doctors | Book Doctor Appointment Online | Consult Specialist Doctors
One for the Indian cities
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Find a Doctor You’ll Love – BetterDoctor
US centric of course
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2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths About Foreign Aid – Gates Foundation
The world is actually improving after all
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Healthcare links 01/23/2014
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Apple continues hiring raid on medical sensor field as it develops eye scanning technology | 9to5Mac
A space to watch, especially if Apple gets into healthcare devices through iWatch or whatever device they plan next.
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Healthcare links 01/20/2014
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One diabetic’s take on Google’s Smart Contact Lenses — Tech News and Analysis
A different take on the problem & solution
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why would they ignore the fact that as a diabetes patient, it is generally recommended that I not wear contact lenses. Yes, I understand that there are many different opinions about this, but it is generally thought of as smart to not wear contact lenses, as they always carry the risk of increased complications for diabetics. And on top of that if you have say, astigmatism (like I do), then contacts are less of an option.
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Diabetes is a growing problem in countries in South Asia and parts of Asia and Latin America, especially among those who fit in the lower income category; you know, the kind of people who might find contact lenses an expensive luxury.
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It also highlights Google’s fundamental challenge: it fails to think about people as people, instead it treats them as an academic or an engineering problem. Instead of trying to understand the needs of actual people, they emerge with an elegant technological solution.
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As a diabetic, the only solution I am looking for is non-invasive and one that keeps me in a state of constant alertness about my blood sugar levels while matching that data with advice about what I should do.
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Healthcare links 01/18/2014
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Official Blog: Introducing our smart contact lens project
Something with an easier to digest utility than Google Glasses?
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