Krauss's New Article on Saturated Fat Intervention Trials

Dr. Ronald Krauss's group just published another article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this time on the intervention trials examining the effectiveness of reducing saturated fat and/or replacing it with other nutrients, particularly carbohydrate or polyunsaturated seed oils. I don't agree with everything in this article. For example, they cite the Finnish Mental Hospital trial. They openly acknowledge some contradictory data, although they left out the Sydney diet-heart study and the Rose et al. corn oil study, both of which suggested increased mortality from replacing animal fats with polyunsaturated seed oils. Nevertheless, here is the conclusion:

Particularly given the differential effects of dietary saturated fats and carbohydrates on concentrations of larger and smaller LDL particles, respectively, dietary efforts to improve the increasing burden of CVD risk associated with atherogenic dyslipidemia should primarily emphasize the limitation of refined carbohydrate intakes and a reduction in excess adiposity.

*sigh*

i'm not typically one to hang out in a field w/ just a blazer and some rain boots on, but this picture is just about the cutest thing ever....and makes me long for spring....

*images courtesy of sweetie pie pumpkin noodle, tracery interiors, design sponge, porters

for those interested....

i have officially started the designer's attic again......maybe i'll see some of y'all over there :)

today's deal: ralph lauren wallpaper....

*images courtesy of the desk of annie, the designer's attic

Canadians Break Records at H.U.R.T. 100

100 Mile Finishers:
-Gary Robbins North Vancouver BC 20:12 1st Overall; new CR (photo)
-Tracy Garneau Veron BC 24:06 3rd Overall; 1st Female; new CR (photo)
-Jamie Nott Calgary AB 31:40 17th Overall
-Monica Scholz Jerseyville ON 32:02 18th Overall; 2nd Female
-Matthew Session Burnaby BC 32:10 19th Overall
-Charlotte Vasarhelyi Breslau ON 32:28 22nd Overall; 3rd Female
-Tasha Nott Calgary, ON 35:50 46th Overall; 5th Female

100K Finishers:
-Alan Haner Mindemoya ON
-John Turner Burlington ON
-Tammy Sieminowski Toronto ON
-Phillip McColl Jerseyville ON
-Sharon Zelinki Toronto ON
-Jennifer-Anne Meneray London ON

Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction

I was surfing the web today and came upon Stanford CS 223B course (Introduction to Computer Vision), which is said to be fucking hard. The first course homework is to watch the series of films "Computer Vision: Fact & Fiction" where computer vision stars (like David Forsyth and Andrew Zisserman) analyse computer vision technologies featured in Hollywood movies. The videos require no background in Vision and might be interesting to everyone. To me, it is also interesting to see how the famous vision folks look and talk.

My friend Tolya Yudanov spoke about that to talk about realistic in The Terminator movie is like "arguing about physical correctness of animé. Terminator is the complex AI of the future, and it is stupid to apply modern computer vision criteria to it." So, it is a good illustration of the concept of computer blindness. I encourage you to watch the videos, they are worth watching.