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Everyone wants bullshit psychological reasons for depression. However, much depression is a result of omega-3 deficiency. Since a fetus takes as much omega-3 from the mother as it can get, the mother becomes seriously
deficient resulting in post-partum depression. Feed the woman wild salmon three times a week (farm raised may not have omega-3 in it). She might recover from her deprssion. Double-blind experiments in Scandinavia demonstrated that pregnant women fed fish oil bore children averaging 15 IQ points higher than the women who got corn oil. This IQ increase persisted for many years. Research in Australia recently demonstrated that omega-3 supplements cured ADHD more effectively than the poisonous pharmaceuticals presntly used, with no side effects. We were able to convince (very easily) our daughter who now has a 3.5 and a one year old to take fish oil supplements during and after her two pregnancies. She never had a trace of post-partum depression and both children are significantly ahead of their peers in mental development. I realize that this is not scientific proof, but at least it did not disprove the thesis.
All of this information is readily available on the web. It takes a lot of weeding through sales pitches for supplements, but the peer-reviewed research is there in the original journal articles.
Costco and Sams have the lowest cost omega-3 supplements. They cost about two cents a capsule. Our whole extended family takes 6-8 capsules a day. I'm 72 and before I started I was losing the ability to do spatial visualization (for a scientist, even a retired one that's not good). A few months after starting I had it all back.
Study the science behind depression, but not the bullshit science sponsored by Big Pharma and their shills in the medical profession.
To all you feminist idiots who are desperate to make Mary Kay into a child molester. Most of the (aging) men I know would have fond memories of being "molested" by a woman as attractive as Mary Kay when they were 12. Men and women are different, the man is the fucker, the woman is the fuckee, no matter their respective ages. Ugly feminists cannot stand attractive women using their attractiveness to get what they want. That twelve year old boy would not have looked twice at Mary Kay if she was fat and ugly, and you know it.
To the LW: Get off the poisons the pharmaceutical industry provides (at a very high cost) and fix your nutritional deficiency with 2-3 grams of combined DHA and EPA a day. You had a deficiency before pregnancy and the kid took what little you had left. Find a holistic doctor to work with, not one beholden to Big Pharma. Your brain is one third dry weight DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid. There is no way it can work right when omega-6 fatty acids are in your diet to the exclusion of the omega-3's. Google some of these terms and you will get real smart real fast, or you can continue wallowing in bullshit psychological explanations.
These people love war and the supposed clarity it brings. Black is black and white is white. They might be right, however. The world seems to need a big war every few decades. Maybe the longer we put it off using institutions like the UN, NATO, etc, the worse it will have to be. Kind of like a fault that hasn't slipped for too long. When it finally does we get one big magnitude 8 instead of a lot of 6.5's. Our institutions have managed to keep it down to a continuous series of 5.0's that are not sufficient to really ease the strain. It sure doesn't help to have assertive and bureacratically competent idiots at the helm.
Dick Cheney has had five heart incidents. Has he had any bypass surgeries? A common side effect of open-heart surgery is brain damage. Surgeons call those that have damage pumpheads, because the damage results from clots produced by the heart bypass pump. Typical IQ losses are 20 points. Some recover in a few months, others never do. The more primitive brain functions are probably the least damaged, including aggressiveness, which Cheney has in spades. His reasoning abilities would be the most damaged, which appears to be the case.
Most American beer is drunk by a small percent of beer drinkers. They drink it to get drunk, any taste would reduce their ability to imbibe the quantity they require. A-B and Miller know this. The cutomers they want are the ones who kill a case a day. Those who have an appreciation for good taste will probably not even drink a six-pack a day.
Since corn sweetener is being rapidly exposed for the poison that it is, another use has to be found for corn. Ethanol, of course, for powering SUV's. The same holds true for soybeans. Omega-6 soybean and corn oil is deleterious to human health. What else can we do with it? Biodiesel to the rescue.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. If someone is not attractive to you, it is not superficial, it really does go clean to the bone.