Comments for Higher Thought http://higher-thought.net Reason vs. The Status Quo Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:40:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Good Calories, Bad Calories summarized in point form! by Dr. Stan De Loach http://higher-thought.net/2010/01/good-calories-bad-calories-summarized-in-point-form/comment-page-2/#comment-2499 Dr. Stan De Loach Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:40:19 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=120#comment-2499 Thank you for this summary; I did buy the book as a result. I know it is brash, but I would like to request that you do the same type of summary for WHY WE GET FAT.... IF you ever have time. The points are often similar but the presentation is briefer and more easily absorbed. I am a Certified Diabetes Educator (in Mexico) and along with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's take on the low-carb lifestyle for persons with diabetes, Taubes' book and your notes have really eased my explanations and questions to patients. I tell them to use their own experience (with measures of blood sugar levels) to decide for themselves if it works or not to produce more "normal" metabolism. Those who try, are rewarded in 99% of the cases with blood sugar levels and lack of food cravings like they have not seen before. Best wishes to you! Dr. Stan De Loach México, Distrito Federal Thank you for this summary; I did buy the book as a result.

I know it is brash, but I would like to request that you do the same type of summary for WHY WE GET FAT….

IF you ever have time. The points are often similar but the presentation is briefer and more easily absorbed.

I am a Certified Diabetes Educator (in Mexico) and along with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein’s take on the low-carb lifestyle for persons with diabetes, Taubes’ book and your notes have really eased my explanations and questions to patients. I tell them to use their own experience (with measures of blood sugar levels) to decide for themselves if it works or not to produce more “normal” metabolism. Those who try, are rewarded in 99% of the cases with blood sugar levels and lack of food cravings like they have not seen before.

Best wishes to you!

Dr. Stan De Loach
México, Distrito Federal

]]> Comment on A Negative Review of Site Build It (SBI) by JamesB58 http://higher-thought.net/2009/02/a-negative-review-of-site-build-it-sbi/comment-page-2/#comment-2495 JamesB58 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:27:15 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=30#comment-2495 I've been SBIer since 2007 but I've had enough and will move my site. It gets a lot of traffic and makes money but the whole sitesell thing is just too much of a cult. I reviewed <a href="http://www.howcultswork.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howcultswork.com/</a> and about everything you read applies to SBI. Man, I'm actually afraid to post this under my real name. I guess that says it all. I've been SBIer since 2007 but I've had enough and will move my site. It gets a lot of traffic and makes money but the whole sitesell thing is just too much of a cult. I reviewed http://www.howcultswork.com/ and about everything you read applies to SBI.

Man, I'm actually afraid to post this under my real name. I guess that says it all.

]]> Comment on A Negative Review of Site Build It (SBI) by Mandy http://higher-thought.net/2009/02/a-negative-review-of-site-build-it-sbi/comment-page-2/#comment-2494 Mandy Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:13:42 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=30#comment-2494 Thank you for this review Toban. Starting a website(not just a blog) is something I plan on doing and for awhile, I thought that SBI! was the only way for me because I don't know any HTML. There is a lot of options out there for new people like me if you are willing to take the time to look for it. Well after reading reviews from previous SBIers as well as others who did it on their own, I am pleased to say that getting SBI! is something I will not be doing! There are many who like SBI and that's great but I much prefer going at this on my own. By taking a little extra time to do research, any newbie to websites can find all the information they need to start their own site without having to shell out $300 a year for just one site. Many web hosting sites offer site builders that contain templates that look far better then what you see on a SBI site and you can create your own using coding. Not to mention you pay less for more with a hosting site. One of the hosting sites I'm considering is Hostgator and if I get the Baby plan, I will get unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains all for $230 for 3 YEARS! I can make, for example, five websites for $230 whereas five sites with SBI would cost me $1500. As for keywords, there are many great keyword tools out there that are free and at least with hosting sites, you can leave and get your site(s) transferred to another hosting site. I've read from previous SBIers that is pretty much impossible to do with an SBI site. Thank you for this review Toban. Starting a website(not just a blog) is something I plan on doing and for awhile, I thought that SBI! was the only way for me because I don't know any HTML. There is a lot of options out there for new people like me if you are willing to take the time to look for it.

Well after reading reviews from previous SBIers as well as others who did it on their own, I am pleased to say that getting SBI! is something I will not be doing! There are many who like SBI and that's great but I much prefer going at this on my own.

By taking a little extra time to do research, any newbie to websites can find all the information they need to start their own site without having to shell out $300 a year for just one site. Many web hosting sites offer site builders that contain templates that look far better then what you see on a SBI site and you can create your own using coding. Not to mention you pay less for more with a hosting site.

One of the hosting sites I'm considering is Hostgator and if I get the Baby plan, I will get unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains all for $230 for 3 YEARS! I can make, for example, five websites for $230 whereas five sites with SBI would cost me $1500.

As for keywords, there are many great keyword tools out there that are free and at least with hosting sites, you can leave and get your site(s) transferred to another hosting site. I've read from previous SBIers that is pretty much impossible to do with an SBI site.

]]> Comment on A Negative Review of Site Build It (SBI) by Richard Baird Jr. http://higher-thought.net/2009/02/a-negative-review-of-site-build-it-sbi/comment-page-2/#comment-2493 Richard Baird Jr. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:07:09 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=30#comment-2493 I had 2 SBI! website and was happy with them but I did not like what I personally done with my own sites so I shut them down. I do have to say this, if you can NOT afford $0.83 a day ($300 a year). then you need to evaluate your life style then. if you can not afford to start a business then you don't qualify to start a business of any kind. it takes money to make money. I will be buying another site from SBI! and already saved the name for my site called <a href="http://multi-level-marketing-for-beginners.com" rel="nofollow">http://multi-level-marketing-for-beginners.com</a> I already have written a page called "Wealth from Flat Broke". $300 for SBI! and what it has to offer is CHEAP! I see more SBI! sites in the top search of google (only search engine I use) that most any other web host out there. I had 2 SBI! website and was happy with them but I did not like what I personally done with my own sites so I shut them down. I do have to say this, if you can NOT afford $0.83 a day ($300 a year). then you need to evaluate your life style then. if you can not afford to start a business then you don't qualify to start a business of any kind. it takes money to make money. I will be buying another site from SBI! and already saved the name for my site called http://multi-level-marketing-for-beginners.com I already have written a page called "Wealth from Flat Broke". $300 for SBI! and what it has to offer is CHEAP! I see more SBI! sites in the top search of google (only search engine I use) that most any other web host out there.

]]> Comment on The Myth of Overeating by Elenor http://higher-thought.net/2010/10/the-myth-of-overeating/comment-page-1/#comment-2491 Elenor Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:09:12 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=265#comment-2491 Lisa: "I don't think people care about the semantics involved in whether overeating makes you fat or whether you are eating more because you are getting fat." It's not about semantics. If you do (if one does) not CORRECTLY identify the problem you'll never solve it! If you truly believe (that is, for you, it's a matter of *faith* ("believe"), because the science shows different!), that the arrow of causality (which causes which) is "the fat glutton eats too much and gets fat(ter)" -- then all the solutions you try will fail. You're "solving" the wrong problem. If, on the other hand, you read the science (as you clearly haven't!) and realize that the overeating comes as a result of (to really short-hand it) the fat cells taking up the majority of ingested nutrition, leaving the other body cells "starving for calories" -- then you have a hope of finding a fix that will WORK! The semantics of "a fat person overeats and so gets fat" (as Gary Taubes points out more gracefully) makes as much useful progress in addressing the problem as "an alcoholic over-drinks and so is alcoholic." Lisa: "I don't think people care about the semantics involved in whether overeating makes you fat or whether you are eating more because you are getting fat."

It's not about semantics. If you do (if one does) not CORRECTLY identify the problem you'll never solve it! If you truly believe (that is, for you, it's a matter of *faith* ("believe"), because the science shows different!), that the arrow of causality (which causes which) is "the fat glutton eats too much and gets fat(ter)" — then all the solutions you try will fail. You're "solving" the wrong problem.

If, on the other hand, you read the science (as you clearly haven't!) and realize that the overeating comes as a result of (to really short-hand it) the fat cells taking up the majority of ingested nutrition, leaving the other body cells "starving for calories" — then you have a hope of finding a fix that will WORK! The semantics of "a fat person overeats and so gets fat" (as Gary Taubes points out more gracefully) makes as much useful progress in addressing the problem as "an alcoholic over-drinks and so is alcoholic."

]]> Comment on Who says the whole world can’t eat paleo? by Elenor http://higher-thought.net/2011/12/who-says-the-whole-world-cant-eat-paleo/comment-page-1/#comment-2490 Elenor Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:33:51 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=348#comment-2490 Some paleo folks, -- mostly those without 'deranged metabolisms' -- are now saying (white) potatoes are okay or good or acceptable. For those of us with metabolisms already broken by years of the S.A.D.? Not-so-much. For us, a (starchy) carb is a carb is a blood sugar rollercoaster! Some paleo folks, — mostly those without 'deranged metabolisms' — are now saying (white) potatoes are okay or good or acceptable. For those of us with metabolisms already broken by years of the S.A.D.? Not-so-much. For us, a (starchy) carb is a carb is a blood sugar rollercoaster!

]]> Comment on Gluttony & Sloth: Causes or Effects of Obesity? by Elenor http://higher-thought.net/2010/12/gluttony-sloth-causes-or-effects-of-obesity/comment-page-1/#comment-2489 Elenor Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:30:30 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=274#comment-2489 Except it's NOT everywhere... If, what -- 60% of people? -- are obese? That means 40% ARE NOT! Are those people somehow immune to hyper-palatable foods? No, 'cause they also eat them to excess. Are they immune to good marketing? Apparently not, cause they're buying too. Are they somehow politically "against" overeating? Nope. So all your "explanations" explain nothing -- you've come right straight back to "gluttony and sloth." Except only the fat people have those "sins," the skinny ones don't. Are you serious!? (Or just uneducated....) Except it's NOT everywhere… If, what — 60% of people? — are obese? That means 40% ARE NOT!

Are those people somehow immune to hyper-palatable foods? No, 'cause they also eat them to excess. Are they immune to good marketing? Apparently not, cause they're buying too. Are they somehow politically "against" overeating? Nope.

So all your "explanations" explain nothing — you've come right straight back to "gluttony and sloth." Except only the fat people have those "sins," the skinny ones don't. Are you serious!? (Or just uneducated….)

]]> Comment on Cognitive Dissonance: Why Mass Delusions Persist by Jay http://higher-thought.net/2010/02/cognitive-dissonance-why-mass-delusions-persist/comment-page-1/#comment-2484 Jay Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:34:12 +0000 http://higher-thought.net/?p=136#comment-2484 In your section on confirmation bias, you lay out this sequence: factory farms are cruel --> killing animals is wrong --> eating animals is wrong (immoral) Then you switch to a different one-step sequence with a completely different end-point: factory farms are cruel --> eating animals is unhealthy Please go back and read that section and I am sure you will see the problem in your argument. Also, a vegetarian diet adds one to two years to one's life. Guess you'll have to find a different example all together. <a href="http://www.oxveg.veggroup.org/articles/1114.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oxveg.veggroup.org/articles/1114.html</a> In your section on confirmation bias, you lay out this sequence:
factory farms are cruel –> killing animals is wrong –> eating animals is wrong (immoral)
Then you switch to a different one-step sequence with a completely different end-point:
factory farms are cruel –> eating animals is unhealthy
Please go back and read that section and I am sure you will see the problem in your argument.

Also, a vegetarian diet adds one to two years to one's life. Guess you'll have to find a different example all together. http://www.oxveg.veggroup.org/articles/1114.html

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