DATA SIMPLIFICATION: Doublet Lists
Over the next few weeks, I will be writing on topics related to my latest book, Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools (release date March 17, 2016). I hope I can convince you that this is a book worth reading. Blog readers can use the discount code: COMP315 for a 30% discount, at checkout.Yesterday's blog covered lists of single words. Today we'll do doublets. Doublet lists (lists of two-word terms that occur in common usage or in a body of text) are a highly underutilized resource. The special value of doublets is that single word terms tend to have multiple meanings, while doublets tend to h...
Source: Specified Life - March 13, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: complexity computer science data analysis data repurposing data simplification doublet lists n-grams open source tools word lists Source Type: blogs
Without Any Evidence, CDC Continues to Claim that E-Cigarettes are a Gateway to Youth Smoking
CDC Also Continues to Lie About E-Cigarettes Being Tobacco ProductsBack in 2013, the CDC began to wage a campaign of deception about electronic cigarettes, claiming that e-cigarettes were a gateway to smoking despite the lack of any evidence to support that contention, lying about e-cigarettes containing tobacco, and falsely claiming that Big Tobacco fought the FDA's efforts to regulate e-cigarettes.Despite plenty of opportunity to correct these false statements, the CDC failed to do so. My hope was that things would change in 2016.However, as today's story reveals, things have not changed, and instead, the CDC has brought...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 5, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Holiday Swaps
Yes, you can have pumpkin pie!
Some people worry that, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, they will have to suffer through a Thanksgiving dinner of dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves and miss out on all the traditional tasty dishes. But that is simply not true. You can enjoy a glorious, delicious, and healthy Thanksgiving dinner while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle. But, in order to preserve your health and not gain, say, 3 pounds from the holiday, there are some easy swaps you can use to replace unhealthy holiday staples with a healthy and Wheat Belly-compatible alternative.
So here is a list of easy swaps to make ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 24, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle eating gluten grains holiday Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Thanksgiving swaps
Yes, you can have pumpkin pie!
Some people worry that, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, they will have to suffer through a Thanksgiving dinner of dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves and miss out on all the traditional tasty dishes. But that is simply not true. You can enjoy a glorious, delicious, and healthy Thanksgiving dinner while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle. But, in order to preserve your health and not gain, say, 3 pounds from the holiday, there are some easy swaps you can use to replace unhealthy holiday staples with a healthy and Wheat Belly-compatible alternative.
So here is a list of easy swaps to make ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories eating gluten grains holiday Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Eggplant Mini-Pizzas
A great recipe from the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox.
Here is an easy way to make a quick and portable single-serving-size pizza that can be handily transported to school or work. Of course, any number of variations are possible by adding different ingredients, such as green bell peppers, sausage, mushrooms, etc.
1 medium eggplant, sliced crosswise in 1/2″ thick slices
1 cup pizza sauce
2 ounces sliced pepperoni
4 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Preheat the oven to 375ºF.
Arrange the eggplant slices on a baking sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until just lightly browned....
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
Foods made for dippin’
Wheat Belly Chili Sesame Seed Crackers
Dipping foods into various dips and sauces surely ranks among the favorite ways to enjoy food: dipping chips into salsa, crackers into cheese, shrimp into cocktail sauce, etc.
So how do we go about resuming our dipping habits sans wheat and grains? Here are some ideas for foods to use for dipping, healthy choices that contain no wheat or grains and provide limited exposure to carbohydrates, while remaining otherwise healthy. And coming soon: What to dip into–the part that really helps spice things up.
Sliced veggies:
Asparagus stalks, steamed, roasted, or grilled
Bell peppers, r...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 7, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle crackers dipping dips gluten grains Source Type: blogs
Human Ingenuity and the Future of Food
A recent article in Business Insider showing what the ancestors of modern fruits and vegetables looked like painted a bleak picture. A carrot was indistinguishable from any skinny brown root yanked up from the earth at random. Corn looked nearly as thin and insubstantial as a blade of grass. Peaches were once tiny berries with more pit than flesh. Bananas were the least recognizable of all, lacking the best features associated with their modern counterparts: the convenient peel and the seedless interior. How did these barely edible plants transform into the appetizing fruits and vegetables we know today? The answer is huma...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 8, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Chelsea German Source Type: blogs
Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair
The food we eat serves many purposes. It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table. It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level. In fact, the latest research from the field of nutrigenomics[1], reve...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly safe thickeners
In the Wheat Belly lifestyle, we’ve removed all the standard gravy and sauce thickeners from our kitchen shelves: no wheat flour or cornstarch, despite their widespread use in culinary practices. Even though cornstarch is mostly amylose/amylopectin carbohydrates, there are zein protein and other protein residues that are problematic in a grain-free lifestyle, not to mention the excessive carbs, as well.
But, when looking for alternative ingredients to use as thickeners, it would be silly to replace one problem ingredient with another problem ingredient, like replacing unfiltered cigarettes with low-tar cigarettesR...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle coconut flour cornstarch dairy grains gravies sauces thickeners Source Type: blogs
5 Tips To Feel Better This Summer
These days it seems like we are bombarded by “Beach Body” messages telling us summer is the time to look better. Let’s get real!
Summer is the time to FEEL better.
With ample sunshine, fresh fruits and vegetables aplenty, and longer days, summer is a great time to kick heart healthy habits into gear. Here are five simple strategies to feel better this summer.
Quit the Beach Body Baloney:
Studies have shown images of ridiculously skinny (and most likely photoshopped) bodies is skimpy clothing do nothing to motivate us to exercise or eat right. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Rather than focusing on wheth...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - June 4, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health summer exercise tips summer nutrition tips summer wellness tips Source Type: blogs
Stuffed Eggplant with Lamb & Pinenuts from Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem
I know the year’s barely begun, but this dish from Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem is well on its way to being my most memorable meal of 2015. Maybe even the past decade.
And this from a gal who says she doesn’t like eggplant.
If you don’t own Jerusalem, you must. Every recipe in it is a gem. The day after I was given it from my dear friends Karen and Steven, (OMG thank you!), my book club was over for dinner. They all gathered round and placed stickies on their favorite recipe in the book that I simply must make. The entire book is one giant sticky collection, but somehow this recipe escaped t...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 10, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Vegetables Augergines Jerusalem Lamb Ottolenghi pine nuts Pinenuts Sami Tamimi Stuffed eggplant Yotam Ottolenghi Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of January 2015
The third week of January is generally the coldest, most bitter time in the New England winter season. Temperatures dip to the single digits, snow/ice/winter mix cover the barnyard, and shoveling manure requires an ice chipper. Eggs laid overnight in the chicken or duck pen crack when they freeze solid. Every creature gets extra food to keep their internal furnaces stoked.The ground is frozen and all the outbuildings are below freezing inside. Even the plants in the hoop house are need to be protected by row cover blankets. Nothing will germinate at below freezing temperatures.Much of the w...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 15, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal Second Week of November 2014
The mood at Unity Farm has been somber this week with the death of my father-in-law on Sunday. He was a significant part of seasonal farm activities and was a kind of third parent to my daughter. His death from pancreatic cancer was so rapid that we’re all stuck in the first stage of grieving - denial that it happened so fast.We find ourselves still calling for him to come to dinner, and expecting him to be sitting in his Morris chair as we gather around the hearth in the evening. He will be missed.The duties of farming - seasonal preparation, animal care, and the harvest do no wait for anyone,...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - November 14, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of August 2014
As a doctor for over 20 years, I’ve learned how to treat critical healthcare issues. As a father, son, and husband I’ve learned how to support my own family through injury, sickness, and death.As a farmer responsible for over 100 animals, life and death are part of the daily experience.Sunny, our baby alpaca, is now doing extremely well. She did not successfully receive the immunoglobulin transfer that happens between mother and baby with consumption of colostrum, the first mother’s milk. Her tests revealed she had an incomplete immune system and was unlikely to survive an infection. She w...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 14, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - First Week of August 2014
We continue to be on cria watch, as our last pregnant alpaca, Mint, waddles around the paddock. The alpaca gestation period is 11.5 months and Mint is just about there.Just as 17 keets (baby guineas) appeared from the forest last week, 10 appeared this week. One of the teenage keets that was raised by ducks disappeared into the forest and likely was eaten by a coyote. That means our current guinea inventory is27 adults3 keets born June 9 - will be released to the barnyard on August 179 keets born on July 4 - will be released to the barnyard on September 1217 keets born on July 27 will be released...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 7, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
