Comments by "" (@HigherPlanes) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. Well that's a firm accusation you're making there, buddy!
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  2. Oh, and your logic is so out of this world...because you're saying that because there's scientific evidence for something, that makes it safe. So adderall, concerta, zoloft, ritalin, lexapro, zyprexa, etc.... all these drugs distributed to kids to control their behavior, and which they continually bash on this channel, are safe, because they have scientific documents attached to them? Winning argument there my man. How do you feel about big macs?
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  3. I'm a guy and I agree, men have run things long enough and have led humanity into a blind alley.
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  4. Well, most people are stupid and repeat everything they hear, so don't listen to them. So I guess you have to trust your own instinct on this and ask yourself why the Planet would make something that is only aesthetically pleasing.
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  5. Do you have any concept of how many billions of dollars a year companies make by selling sunscreen? It's many many billions. I'll never see even one billion in my lifetime. And you're asking me if I've seen a document that shows that sunscreen is harmful to humans? LOL man. A think layer of mud can protect you from harmful sun rays, and being organic, it's probably less lethal. Sunscreen is obviously not good for you otherwise why bother printing all the health risk warnings on the bottle?
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  6. he got me too lol
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  7. I get the feeling folks were a lot smarter back in those days
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  8. maybe it's both.
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  9. Alex Delarge  You're misinformed.
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  10. CENB71 Why would you want to get fatter?
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  11. ***** Alive and kickin'
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  12. suzyr82 Avacados have a high fat content.. I'm not surprised you eat a lot of those and gained weight. It's easy, eat the right foods and stay active. Easier said than done for many westerners, but that's the formula. We just complicate everything because we have this idea that we can improve on nature.
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  13. Pitchoo973 I get what you're saying about the survivability aspect and why we gravitate towards bad foods, but that can be circumvented by getting the body clean through fasting then eating natural foods. I never said it was easy, it's difficult, especially given our 9-5 work culture and accessibility to cheap and unhealthy food alternatives. But readily available and unhealthy foods is why disease is rampant in Western society and other cultures around the world. If we aren't willing to make a few sacrifices and changes to the way we eat, we can't expect optimal health.
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  14. LordDragox412 Do you derive your protein from a specified source, like say, cooked meat?
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  15. drummer265 yea I just pulled the number out of my ass. lol. Probably more like a thousand.
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  16. Eric Koh I wish I could take credit for it, but all this is widely known amongst healthy eaters.
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  17. sonicpsycho13 I've never tried the paleo diet and I don''t know much about it other than what I've read in an article or two, but I believe it allows the consumption of cooked meat. I don't eat any cooked or processed food. I do agree however that the landbase and soil is probably not what it once was, but I take what I can get, try to stay organic (and I use that term losely) whenever possible and I grow my own food as much possible. I'm relatively new at this, and I don't think there's much data either way supporting the long term health benefits of eating raw fruits and vegatables, but I have nothing to lose becuase the typical western diet isn't working and there IS plenty of evidence to support that.
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  18. sonicpsycho13 Honestly, I didn't study chemistry so I can't run my own experiments and varify how many calories would be released from an apple for example, if I were to consume it cooked vs eat it raw. But to borrow from your example, I can't imagine that heating a ripe piece fruit would release 8,500 additional cal vs the 1,500 that would be released in its raw form. That just doesn't make any sense to me as fruits are farily simple compunds- sugar and fiber- compared to other foods. Either way, if you can provide me with the data I'd gladly take a look. I come from a country where meat and cheese is the staple food. We love our beef and we're actually one of the largest exporters of quality beef in the world. Colon cancer afflicts a large portion of our population, and much like in the West, most people die from cancer. So you have to assume one of two things, humans beings are condemned to suffer disease and illness or there's a problem with consuming meat and cheese. So I think saying that we evolved to eat meat is just a huge unverifiable claim. How can we really know? It's just another debate that will probably never be settled. So you try to make decisions based on the raw data and common sense. What is the raw data? Well, apparently, as I mentioned earlier, cancer and disease is rampant in modern society. What are the culprits? Look at the typical human diet. What do people typically consume? The big list is sugar, flour, meat, dairy, fruit, vegetables, legumes, grains, etc. Armed with this inforamtion you make lifestyle changes. That's honestly how I've approached this situation. I don't do it to be right, or becuase I think there's only one type of food humans must eat, after all, when I was a kid I survived primarily on junk food and candy, I'm doing it becuase I see the evidence before me and what people consume and I think to myself, "something's not right", then I stop thinking and surrender to nature. Look me up when I'm 80 and I'll let you know how it's going. I don't want to live forever, just want to die gracefully  
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  19. Mncdk I would support that claim if we all hunted and prepared our own meat, but we have to rely on the stuff from the grocery store that's mass produced and it just gets ugly from there.
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  20. LordDragox412 Hey man, our ability to digest a certain type of food isn't a good argument to support what we evolved to eat that type of food. Or else I'd be eating chocolate bars every day. I think what we evolved to eat is the fruit that ripens and falls naturally from the tree. How quaint is that?
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  21. Brian Saturnino It's fine to disagree. I guess if your goal is to gain muscle I can see why you'd want to count calories or consume special diet that facilitates building muscle, but I'm not sure why you'd want to gain fat. But if your ultimate goal is a healthy immune system, healthy digestion and a body that functions optimally, I think it's less important. I just don't see the need for it.
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  22. Brian Saturnino Hey no problem. Someone once said when you first meet people, treat them the best you can, then after that treat them as good as they treat you. I think we're all learning here. No one can claim to know more than anyone else. None of this is written in stone, but I wish it were because it would make life so much easier =).
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  23. LordDragox412 Yea, sorry that my logic isn't as sound as yours : /
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  24. LordDragox412 A claim of knowledge is nothing more than a claim without the evidence to back it up. You know, exactly what you're doing.
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  25. LordDragox412 I had you nailed to the wall from the very beginning. Assertion without proof is the basis of faith. lol
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  26. LordDragox412 Verbal diarrehea is confession of falsehood. I'm laying down some real gold nuggets today!
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  27. LordDragox412 I'm all ears when you're ready to make an argument with evidence to back it up.
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  28. LordDragox412 Yea, it means that you have to resort to insults and verbal diarrhea- a confession of flasehood- to debate someone. Technically I'm correct =). That really did bring a smile to my face. Too perfect lol.
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  29. sonicpsycho13 We know fiber is a transport system and insoluble. So when drago mentioned something like an additional 8,500 calories being released by the application of heat, I assumed we were talking about nutrients available to the body- that's the point of all this- what exits as waste is not important. But that's how it is on youtube, sometimes you competence sometimes you get clumsiness lol. BTW- it's only a hypothesis that our large brain correlates to consuming protein/fats, it's not an established theory like say, for example, "the Earth revolves around the sun" That's a proven hypothesis. The brain/protein theory is speculation and there are other theories to contend with it. I'm not trying to nitpick, but I think you also might be off humans having short guts, our guts are relatively long compared to other mammals. Cats and canines do have a shorter gut becuase they do consume meat, which becomes putrid and needs to exit the gut early. BTW- what do you consider a short gut? I'm 90% sure on this but you can look it up, but the human gut length compared to other mammals is up there: I did a quick glance on this but it might be helpful: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/vestiges/appendix.html Last thing... to assume that the prevalence of cancer in modern society results from an increased life expectancy is an assertion that humans are intrinsically designed and predisposed to illnesses like cancer. I'm not convinced that's the case. For the sake of accuracy, let's avoid speculation and stick with the facts.
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  30. ***** Okay, I'll counter with "I do know what I'm talking about." lol
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  31. sonicpsycho13 I'll have to agree to disagree with most of your points as they're assertions without proof... but I'm actually very interested about one thing, link me up to the credited source that you used that factually shows that brain size correlates to early human's consumption of protein/fat. I'd like to know where you got these "facts" because I suspect they're also unsubstantiated, but if there is evidence out there, either way I'd like to know about it.
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  32. sonicpsycho13 I'm sorry, but there's a difference between stipulation and discovery. For an argument to be valid, you must have consitency, but validity is not soundness, it's not truth. If you want certainty, you need validity and sound premesis. An argument that doesn't have sound premisis, can yield false conclusions. i.e. "Homonid brain-body ratios raising along with the discovery of artifacts used for hunting, skinning, and butchering = increased brain size" which doesn't take into account other environmental factors that could have been present leading to an increased brain size. One must not pretend to know, or have answers to questions when we don't have them. We all just assume reason's realiability without foundation, without justification, to support our knowledge claims. Reason, broadly construed, is based on presuppositions. And having presupposed a pile of things, we use reason to arrive and elaborate and defend things that make up our web of belief, or pre edifice of knowledge. That's not how logic works. I assure you, that the increase in brain size theory is still up for debate.
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  33. sonicpsycho13 You're right. The way I posed the argument suggests thatI meant to say humans are intended to eat only raw fruits and vegetables. It's pure speculation on my part drawn from several factors that I've already mentioned (read back through this thread). That's not what I meant to say at all. Just so we're clear, I don't profess that raw veganism is the food source. We are adapted to eat a variety of food sources, however, not all food sources are treated euqal. All along I've been talking about food source for optimal health, and I believe that to be raw fruits and vegetables for several reasons. There's no data either way that contradicts my belief, and when data does pop up, I will incorporate it into my belief system. I'm tenacious, but not rigid in my beliefs.
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  34. The world is beyond my ability to concieve or imagine, so I gave up. Cool video tho.
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  35. Bugs? Eww no, I'll stick to my GMO corn and beef from today’s factory farms where cows are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and confined to wire cages, which makes them super tasty when you fry em up on a pan, thank you!
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  36. Too many carbs are a problem only if you never get off your ass.
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  37. Paul Mahoney The claim that there is such a thing as death is just as silly =)
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  38. I think we'll only understand the universe for just a glimpse at the moment of death/birth. It's just a bit of a can of worms downloading that into language.
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  39. We humans have more neurons in our gut than in our brain, which is the source of emotional intelligence.
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  40. +Matt Siegel Oh, my numbers were a little off lol
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  41. Thanks I'll check that out.
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  42. 3 dipshit soccer moms don't want to give up their gasoline powered SUV's
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  43. Ask me again in 500 years.
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  44. dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
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  45. smoke weed every day
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  46. TRIMISIS It works pretty good. I use it a lot for spanish. Google es muy bueno para cambiar palabras de ingles a palabras de espanol.
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  47. gabmarquis My comment was intended to be a bit satirical =). Judging by the comments I tihnk everyone agrees that google translate is only good for words. I am bilingual tho, spanish/english so I can appreciate someone who has taken the time to learn a second language. But yea, single words are okay, but sentences, and you lose the meaning
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  48. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around all the math in this video, nevermind infinity. But for a real mindfuck, what do you get when you subtract infinity minus one?
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  49. Wrong, it's still out for debate.
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  50. kuku keke That depends on what you believe about who "you" really are. If you believe that all you are is your body, then your answer is yes. But if you believe that you are more than your body, then the answer is no.
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