There are surprisingly high amounts of sodium in bread, milk, eggs, breakfast cereals and lots of other commonly eaten foods. It's unlikely you're actually eating a low sodium diet even if you don't use much salt.

I was on forums for people recovering from eating disorders last year, and one woman there discovered that her lifelong low sodium intake was affecting how her nerves functioned in her feet - they were numb for a long time (years) then started to *really* hurt. I can't remember what the condition was called but it…

I live part of the year in a small mountain village in Viet Nam. Rice paddies and motor bikes and some livestock. Everyone works... a lot! Nothing is "free". I have made a few observations. I do not claim to be an "expert" on anything, just sayin'. The people in the village are more cooperative than any I have…

I am sure all geopolitical ideals can be represented in a single small experiment with a dozen breeding mice.

Hey baby, it's peanut butter and jelly time!!

This story really needs a Taiwanese animation done. Mostly so I can understand it better. The lady thought saying she threw her baby in the dumpster is better than admitting to lying about being pregnant???

I routinely hear..."If only these criminals could put that genius to good use". There are many instances when that is true. This isn't one of those instances.

Also, just as the AH-64 is called the Apache and My Baby and Sweetheart.

I have been at this my entire life, the V config has nothing to do with the convo aside from LockMart embracing the fact that nobody in the F-16 community calls it fighting falcon anymore.

They want to replace these beasts!?! All you have to do is look at an F-35 the wrong way and it's grounded for maintenance. Let's not lie to ourselves, F-16's and F-18's for life, and for the sake of our country's pocketbook.

On a cosmic scale, 92 million miles is a mouse fart.

There's fairly good evidence that syphilis was brought back from the Americas by Columbus' crew, or some other returning explorer, and spread through Europe from the 16th century onwards; so it's not really a defining feature of the medieval era, although there was plenty of other disease...

Seems like every 6 months we get a "breakthrough" in new battery technology. Call me when it hits consumer electronics.

I saw her speak in 1999. Her talk made me interested in being part of the Prison Abolition Movement and fight against things like the Prison Industrial Complex.

This quote literally makes no sense.

College Republican weenies - always of high entertainment value.

fuck you bitches. let the wolves live in peace. we dont own the world, we have a duty as smart beings to protect the animals, and to make their survival possible living around humans. arent we a little old as a race to be worried about dogs?