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Stephan: Here is some health research I suggest you discuss with your physician.
Supplements offer no apparent benefits for already healthy people.
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Despite the sheer number of vitamins and health supplements on the market today, little proof exists that these pills and powders have health benefits for the general population. Some research even suggests supplements can actually harm your health.
A new study offers even more evidence that vitamin supplements aren’t helpful — and could even create risks for otherwise healthy people. According to the study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, dietary supplements don’t help people live longer or offer any other notable health benefits.
Researchers looked at a variety of supplements, including vitamin A, vitamin K, and zinc, and found that they offered no health benefits, but also no health risks.
Vitamin D was a different story. Researchers found that people in the study who took 10 micrograms of vitamin D supplements daily— but had no pre-existing vitamin D deficiencies — increased their overall risk for cancer and death.
“The potential harm of vitamin D supplement use among […]
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Narayan Ammachchi, News Editor - Nearshore Americas
Stephan: A short while ago I ran a piece about the effect on coastal septic systems as a result of searise, something few have ever thought about, an unexpected consequence. Here is another one, involving the effect on fiber optic cables.
In my view, this is just the beginning of a growing recognition that a whole spectrum of effects for which there has been almost no planning are beginning to occur.
Workers laying fiber optic cable
Thousands of miles of fibre optic cables could go under water in the coastal regions of the United States if the sea level rises as a result of global warming, according to an analysis by the University of Oregon.
Environmentalist scientists have long warned that climatic changes will leave a large part of American coastal cities, particularly New York City, Seattle and Miami, knee-deep in water.
Now, computer scientists are warning that fibre optic cables could be the first victims of the rising sea level, potentially causing huge descriptions to the internet service across the United States.
According to a research paper submitted by computer scientists at the university, 4,000 miles of cables could be drowned in water.
The fibre optic cables that make up the internet are designed to be water resistant, but they are not waterproof.
It is perhaps too late to replace the cables, because scientists say the damage could come within the next 15 years. Along with the cables, power stations and collocation centers could also be hit.
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