air conditioning may be making us fat
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From: Carole Allen on 20 Jul 2006 00:13 On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:39:24 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I don't know who the Aspergers are. > >-- google it.
From: Carole Allen on 20 Jul 2006 00:15 On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:39:24 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I don't know who the Aspergers are. > >-- Asperger's Syndrome: Individuals with AS can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the disorder can range from mild to severe. Persons with AS show marked deficiencies in social skills, have difficulties with transitions or changes and prefer sameness. They often have obsessive routines and may be preoccupied with a particular subject of interest. They have a great deal of difficulty reading nonverbal cues (body language) and very often the individual with AS has difficulty determining proper body space. Often overly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells, and sights, the person with AS may prefer soft clothing, certain foods, and be bothered by sounds or lights no one else seems to hear or see. It's important to remember that the person with AS perceives the world very differently. Therefore, many behaviors that seem odd or unusual are due to those neurological differences and not the result of intentional rudeness or bad behavior, and most certainly not the result of "improper parenting". By definition, those with AS have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Because of their high degree of functionality and their naivetĀ, those with AS are often viewed as eccentric or odd and can easily become victims of teasing and bullying. While language development seems, on the surface, normal, individuals with AS often have deficits in pragmatics and prosody. Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in a social context.
From: Carole Allen on 20 Jul 2006 00:23 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:20:05 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: Most people don't go around with their feet in cold >water, even in cold weather. Oh, you have never been to Seattle in the winter then? Most natives have webbed feet, we spend so much time with wet feet in cold weather.
From: jeremyrh.geo on 20 Jul 2006 01:08 Dave Frightens Me wrote: > On 19 Jul 2006 09:46:36 -0700, jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > > > >Mxsmanic wrote: > >> jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com writes: > >> > >> > What makes you imagine that? > >> > >> It's not imagination. Personal attacks are one of many fallacies in > >> debate; people who resort to them erode their own positions. > > > >Indeed you do. > > > >Another thing that erodes your position is dishonest snipping, > > It's not dishonest, just irritating. I beg to differ - the effect, and I believe the intent, is to misrepresent his interlocutor's position. It's like a straw man made by Edward Scissorhands B;
From: jeremyrh.geo on 20 Jul 2006 01:19
Mxsmanic wrote: > jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com writes: > > > We've been here before: > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4433496.stm > > No, we have not. The majority of studies show no link at all between > cold temperatures and cold infections. The fact that you found what > might be an exception in a popular newspaper does not invalidate this > reality. Had you done more research, you would already know this. > Even the methodology of the one study mentioned in this article is > highly suspect. Most people don't go around with their feet in cold > water, even in cold weather. The fact that the research was reported in a popular media source does not invalidate the work done, which is also reported in peer-reviewed medical journals, which either you are too lazy to have discovered, or too dishonest to mention. The work shows a link between cold temperature and cold illness, which you claimed does not exist, and furthermore postulates a causal mechanism between them. Or then again - we could just believe your blather. B; |