Interesting Links for 18-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. I have the kind of mind that just never ever thinks of thing. I'm rubbish at puzzles too.

(tags:language SherlockHolmes house )

2. Why rails buckle in Britain

(tags:trains temperature UK )

3. Ministers to break promise to give MPs a final say before approving trade deal with Australia

(tags:UK Australia trade lies conservatives )

4. More than 4 servings of fruit per day will mess up your blood sugar

(tags:fruit sugar insulin diabetes )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

#4 IF your insulin system / liver is already provably damaged. This is only in people who ALREADY have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

[andrewducker]

Good point!

But definitely a sign that fruit sugar can overwhelm your system, particularly if it's already under stress.

[channelpenguin]

It is suggestive that if your system tends to get overwhelmed with sugar / fructose then too much fruit is bad news.

I recall fructose is ESPECIALLY evil for the liver, moreso than sucrose / glucose. Different types of fruit have a different mix of sugar types - I didn't spot in the linked page if they mentioned which type of fruit, or if it was whole, fresh, frozen, juice... all that matters as the fibre and maybe nutrients affect metabolism too.

Fruit juice is pure evil as far as I am concerned. Up there with sugary soft drinks.

[guybles.livejournal.com]

There’s a delightful spin on Holmes by Japanese HBO, called Miss Sherlock. You can track it down on YouTube.

Most of the idea seems to have come from a throwaway line at the end of the first episode, where the bumbling assistant, up to then referred to as 和都 (“Wato”), is suddenly given the honorific Wato-san.

[bens_dad]

I would like to think that Australia would not accept a trade deal that has not been approved by our MPs.

If this government can back out of a trade deal that MPs have approved, I can't see why our next-but-one government should feel constrained by one that MPs have never approved.

[bens_dad]

2. Now you mention it I think I had seen that he lived on Baker St.

[mountainkiss]

If you are me then more than zero servings of fruit per day will mess up your blood sugar. If you're not me then I think this varies a lot from person to person.

[andrewducker]

True. A more accurate headline would have been "If you have more than 4 pieces of fruit per day then you are more likely to..."

[channelpenguin]

A more accurate one would have started with "if you already have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease" !

[channelpenguin]

Mountainkiss, you are totally correct. The same foods can have dramatically different effects on blood sugar for different people. Also, the same food in the same person can have differing blood sugar effects depending upon a number of other factors.

2015 study
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119143445.htm

https://www.weizmann.ac.il/WeizmannCompass/sections/briefs/the-algorithm-diet

Later, different, study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6484621/

[calimac]

1) I'm not good at that sort of thing either, though it belatedly occurs to me that when I wrote a puerile Sherlock Holmes parody in school I gave the character a housing estate name, "Shamrock Homes, building contractor and part-time detective."

[hairyears]

A quiet word to someone in Canberra might be in order, just to let them know that Boris Johnson's government - and his predecessor's - repeatedly negotiated treaties and agreements which the Prime Minister *knew* to be lacking support in Parliament, and knew that they would unilaterally fail to honour.

... And Parliament can, at any time, repudiate a treaty. It's a terrible thing to do, and they *mostly* know why you shouldn't: but they can.

That's the reason why it's prudent, in international negotiations, to put in an explicit 'subject to ratification' clause: it's a reality-check on the negotiators' (and the PM's) tendency to promise and sign up to things they can't and won't deliver without domestic support; and it's prudent to insist that your counterparties' legislature to ratify such agreements because, as a matter of practical politics, they are far, far less likely to repudiate their own expressed will - if they ratify! - at a future date, than to repudiate a treaty that was steamrollered-in without consulting them.


... And someone in Canberra has to know that this amazing 'win' for Australian farmers is a rotten deal for British farmers, and a fragile political liability, which will poison relations between the two countries for a generation.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely agreed. I'm amazed anyone trusts us enough to sign a trade agreement with us at all, to be honest.