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Re:Bacteria in the Intestines May Help Tip the Bathroom Scal... by ams6110 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @08:45AM (#5454432)
I think most of medicine is like this. We really haven't advanced much beyond witch-doctory in a lot of therapies... we've found things that seem to help, by experimentation, but in a lot of cases we really don't understand why.
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Re:Bacteria in the Intestines May Help Tip the Bathroom Scal... by SoftwareMaven on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:03AM (#5454776)
I've been digging deep into to biochemistry of the energy cycle this year and I'm actually impressed at how much we know. What I'm disappointed by is how little of that knowledge has worked it's way into the 60s and 70s diet dogma that "nutritionists" blanketed our country with.
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