No. A dinner serving of "roast chicken" is around 23 grams of protein. So, no, that's not enough to give you balanced nutrition for the day. A handful of almonds is only going to be about 5 grams of protein. Most women need 50-60 grams per day.

Interesting. A frenetic life? It actually seems more complicated for me to get a kale smoothie for breakfast and lunch than it would be to get food. Where do you get the smoothies? Most people don't work near an organic smoothie factory, and the idea of making these in the blender at home twice a day sounds messy…

Tons of people respond to me and disagree with me. You're the only one I would call a troll, out of dozens? You know why? Because you responded to some of my posts more than 3 times each, and because you are mean instead of constructive. Also, all those bridges you keep guarding...

I agree with you about circumcision in general, and how it is odd that we don't question it more as a society. But I think labiaplasty is very different because women seek it out on their own as teenagers or adults because of a deep shame in how their body looks. This shame is one that has been taught to them and is…

Yup, that is why I did not say that.

I totally agree. However, some government agencies think only 1.5% of vaccine adverse effects get reported to the government. But I'm sure the worst effects do get reported. There is likely some under-reporting of other causes of death to the CDC too, even those through official channels, just because an accurate…

Sure. "Approximately 30,000 VAERS reports are filed annually, with 10-15% classified as serious (resulting in permanent disability, hospitalization, life-threatening illnesses or death). "

Oh, I totally agree that the autism-vaccine link thing is stupid. I just am also constantly dismayed by Jezebel's science writing...

First of all, it wasn't 18 kids, it was 18 total people. My point is only that many more people than that die from vaccines, for instance.

Sure, whooping cough is bad (I know a few people who had it last year!), but I just thought its inclusion in this post was random, since the flu kills more people, and so do many other diseases with available vaccines. I thought most of the pertussis cases in the last year in the US were not among unvaccinated, but…

Couldn't agree more — I have read a ton of mainstream news articles about how the number 1 problem leading to the pertussis epidemic was that the current vaccine wears off faster than researchers anticipated.

I have no problem with vaccines, but wanted to point out two things. First, what you have linked to is not a "study," as you call it, or even a meta-analysis of studies about vaccine safety. It's a report.

I certainly don't think it is Uncle Poodle's fault that these laws exist or that he was advised to press charges. But I do think that HIV criminalization law are counter-productive and harmful.

My point was that throughout American history, women have been sterilized for passing along genetic conditions, and woman have been prosecuted for the transmission of diseases like HIV to their children. I do see them as interesting issues to compare, as are all civil liberties issues...i.e. where and how does the…

I like a person who argues with facts! (Thank you! Sadly, they are lacking in most of the debates I'm having on here). I am painfully aware that 37 states have criminalization laws. I'm happy to live in one that doesn't, where public health policy has won out over a sort of knee-jerk legislative desire to lock the…

We disagree on the efficacy and uses of criminal law to achieve public health outcomes. I am glad to live in a state that does not have any HIV criminalization laws, because I believe they have the opposite of the designed public policy effect, and if one were proposed in my state, I would organize against the…

"... and, you know, possibly preventing other people from being infected with a deadly disease for which there is no cure? "

I'll see you in court, MyrnaBradwell! :-) I did not use the phrase "legal gray area," although you have put it in quotes and attributed it to me. Unfortunately, I understand how the American legal system works in reality all too well. My concern is not how laws are *supposed* to be applied, but by how they are…

Sure, but these laws are not taking into account all of your gray-area criteria like "continually, knowingly" adding risk to someone's life, or doing it "over a long period of time." That is just not how they work, and that is the problem. Criminalization, finger pointing, and temporary incarceration is not the…

No, it is really not slow, torturous murder. Don't cast victim-blaming stones without looking at the ridiculous stones you are throwing here!