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Then in 2000, a group of scientists called the Cochrane Collaboration analysed 27 of the most rigorously controlled studies involving more than 18,000 participants and found that diets low in saturated fats have no significant effect on mortality, or even on deaths due to heart attacks. Two years ago came the Women’s Health Initiative trial involving 20,000 women over eight years, which found that a diet low in total fat and saturated fat had no impact in reducing heart disease or weight.

Low fat diets: Not fit for purpose – Features, Health & Wellbeing – The Independent.

What a difference a year makes: Just a little more than 1 year ago Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paid $100bn for ABN Amro (80% cash).

For this amount, RBS could today buy:

Citibank $22.5bn,

Morgan Stanley $10.5bn,

Goldman Sachs $21.0bn,

Merrill Lynch $12.3bn,

Deutsche Bank $13.0bn and

Barclays $12.7bn,

And still have $8bn change

A Mulligan on ABN AMRO Anyone? | Kevin Hoffberg’s Blog.

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Measurements of the planet’s celestial path suggest it is 1½ times the size of our home planet, and orbits close to its sun, with a year of just 13 days. The planet’s orbit brings it 14 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. But Gliese 581 burns at only 3,000C, half the temperature of our own sun, making conditions on the planet comfortable for life, with average ground temperatures estimated at 0 to 40C. Researchers claim the planet is likely to have an atmosphere. The discovery follows a three-year search for habitable planets by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla in Chile.

A “Second Earth” has been found 20 light years away. Do you think there is life over there?.

These are my links for December 5th

• Grassroots is best – Wiki Patterns – Any grassroots, or bottom-up, strategy is the best place to start since the success of a wiki depends on building active, sustainable participation and this only happens when people see that the software is simple enough to immediately be useful, and meets their needs without requiring them to spend lots of extra time.

“I am the greatest!” the great boxer Muhammad Ali famously declared—later adding, “I said that even before I knew I was.”

Teen Self-Esteem May Be Too High | LiveScience.

These are my links for December 3rd

• famfamfam.com: Silk icons – That’s your lot – After a hiatus for website updates, I have spent a little time tidying up the free Silk web icons, adding a few of the many requested icons and a sprinkle of others to complete the set. The original idea was to add another 100 or so and call it a day, but the closer I got to 1000 of the little things, the more it felt right to make it up to a nice round figure.

YouTube – Seriously Funny – Ferret VS Jalapeno Pepper.