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Value Collector said:
The link with dairy and osteoporosis is the calcium (and it’s malabsorption in diary form)

As the link you put up suggests, low calcium intake is a big risk factor for osteoporosis, so if you are lactose intolerant like 65% to 70% of the population are, then you will be suffering malabsorption of calcium (and any of the other vitamins and minerals) you eat along with the diary products.

This would be made worse if your solution to low calcium is to eat more diary.

However if you instead replace the dairy products with other foods that are naturally high in calcium, then you will absorb a lot more of it, especially because a lot of the vegetable based sources of calcium also have the other minerals and vitamins your body needs to absorb it.
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I thought of you when I read this -

Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn't drink milk​

 
Basically Russia has never cared about hunger, that of others or it's own population.

Stalin caused huge famines in Ukraine and the Urals, Putin will repeat. The Romanovs did it when they were Czars.

The average Russian peasant is used to it happening, and lives on vodka and reflected glory from the Empire.

It is to be hoped that the orcs will be stopped at Kyiv or if not further West when Putin decides to go all in.

gg
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
Basically Russia has never cared about hunger, that of others or it's own population.

Stalin caused huge famines in Ukraine and the Urals, Putin will repeat. The Romanovs did it when they were Czars.

The average Russian peasant is used to it happening, and lives on vodka and reflected glory from the Empire.

It is to be hoped that the orcs will be stopped at Kyiv or if not further West when Putin decides to go all in.

gg
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If Putin wins his war in Ukraine all he will care about is getting cash for all the wheat being produced and in storage. So he needs to push hard to get in an exporting position before the next harvest comes in. Otherwise they will have to pile the harvest on and alongside last years.

Harvest time in Ukraine | Farms.com

www.farms.com

So Putin is now pushed to move on Kiev and surrounding areas. He needs to bring long range rockets into play and supply Belarus to attack from the West.

It looks as if Germany, France, Italy and Spain are wobbling and need to pump about $100 billion in to save Ukraine's
bacon.

From the point of view of lookers on who are gambling on the eventual outcome only, something has to give during July and August as recession gets even closer.

Their will be some winners and many losers as the crunch comes and last years supplies of wheat rot once we reach December.
 
noirua said:
If Putin wins his war in Ukraine all he will care about is getting cash for all the wheat being produced and in storage. So he needs to push hard to get in an exporting position before the next harvest comes in. Otherwise they will have to pile the harvest on and alongside last years.

Harvest time in Ukraine | Farms.com

www.farms.com

So Putin is now pushed to move on Kiev and surrounding areas. He needs to bring long range rockets into play and supply Belarus to attack from the West.

It looks as if Germany, France, Italy and Spain are wobbling and need to pump about $100 billion in to save Ukraine's
bacon.

From the point of view of lookers on who are gambling on the eventual outcome only, something has to give during July and August as recession gets even closer.

Their will be some winners and many losers as the crunch comes and last years supplies of wheat rot once we reach December.
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Considering India and China are not boycotting Russia, with a third of the world population or so, i doubt Russian wheat will rot.
They can and will use it and stockpile more recent harvests for next year when the situation will be more extreme as the oil and fertiliser crisis hir6s production
 
qldfrog said:
Considering India and China are not boycotting Russia, with a third of the world population or so, i doubt Russian wheat will rot.
They can and will use it and stockpile more recent harvests for next year when the situation will be more extreme as the oil and fertiliser crisis hir6s production
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And France has lost majority government with far left and or nationalist right in control so Ukraine will be the last of Macron problems.
Do not expect any initiative there.
 
qldfrog said:
Considering India and China are not boycotting Russia, with a third of the world population or so, i doubt Russian wheat will rot.
They can and will use it and stockpile more recent harvests for next year when the situation will be more extreme as the oil and fertiliser crisis hir6s production
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I meant the Ukrainian wheat in storage.
 
noirua said:
I meant the Ukrainian wheat in storage.
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Yes, high chance it rots.Ukraine does not want to remove mines in Odessa supposedly to avoid Russia landing there..fair enough.. Turkey was trying to negotiate that.
What is more surprising is that every tiktok star and his her dog,especially EU leaders or Angelina Jolie can take a train to Kiev Central station but supposedly wheat can not leave the country?
Let you think about that..
But the next Ukrainian crop is gone that is a given, and substantial
 
qldfrog said:
What is more surprising is that every tiktok star and his her dog,especially EU leaders or Angelina Jolie can take a train to Kiev Central station but supposedly wheat can not leave the country?
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A kid in my small rural town is now in Ukraine sending pics and stories back thru every social media outlet to raise money for the Ukrainians...these people grew up when gore.com and LiveLeak were active, they should know what happens you end up in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people, Nucking Futs.
 
qldfrog said:
What is more surprising is that every tiktok star and his her dog,especially EU leaders or Angelina Jolie can take a train to Kiev Central station but supposedly wheat can not leave the country?
Let you think about that..
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easy to explain , Belarus is sanctioned ( by the EU and US ) so that took care of rail transport , Ukraine defensively mined the major ports cutting sea transport and transporting weapons and ammunition + fleeing refugees took care of the rest the bulk transport

unless somebody can prove Russia hypnotically programmed stupidity in the Ukrainian regime , i can't see how Russia is to blame for anything more than profiteering

if they REALLY wanted to export the wheat a 2kg bag of wheat in the luggage of every refugee would have probably solved the problem

more efficient would have been removing the cash that is fleeing to foreign banks off the trains , but i bet the regime would not permit that
 
Although China is the largest producer of rice, most of it goes to feed its own population.
The no 2 producer, India, is the largest exporter of rice by a long way, exporting more rice than the next four nations combined.
Indeed, India provides about 40% of all the rice exports. (source Statista Rice Exports).
Hence , the alarm in Asian net importing countries to hear that India has severely restricted exports of rice, and introduced tariffs on other exports.
From Bloombergs
India, the world’s biggest rice shipper, restricted exports of key varieties that mainly go toward feeding Asia and Africa, threatening to rattle global crop markets and exacerbate food inflation and hunger.

The government has imposed a 20% duty on shipments of white and brown rice, and banned broken rice sales abroad. The curbs apply to roughly 60% of India’s overall rice exports, according to Bloomberg calculations.
The moves by India, which accounts for 40% of the global rice trade, will put further pressure on countries that are struggling with worsening hunger and soaring food inflation. Rice is a staple food for about half of the world’s population, with Asia producing and consuming about 90% of global supply.
Rice is now the third major agricultural commodity in India to face restrictions on overseas sales this year. The South Asian nation has already curbed wheat and sugar exports, adding to a spate of food protectionism that’s exacerbated chaos in global food markets brought on by the war in Ukraine.
In contrast to the surge in wheat and corn prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rice has been subdued due to ample stockpiles, helping to ward off a bigger food crisis. With India’s latest move, that may be about to change.
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With yields falling due to high fertiliser prices, things are just getting worse.
Australia is unlikely to benefit much, as we sit at no 57 in world rice producers, with a paltry 260,000 tonnes versus India's 18 Million tonnes.
Might be tough few years at this rate.
 
Interesting to see consumer staples was up last night when it had been in the red lately. From my lay person's observation in the past: fear and uncertainty drives this sector. But oddly enough, real estate was up a tad too. Thought higher interest rates are bad for real estate.
 
mullokintyre said:
Although China is the largest producer of rice, most of it goes to feed its own population.
The no 2 producer, India, is the largest exporter of rice by a long way, exporting more rice than the next four nations combined.
Indeed, India provides about 40% of all the rice exports. (source Statista Rice Exports).
Hence , the alarm in Asian net importing countries to hear that India has severely restricted exports of rice, and introduced tariffs on other exports.
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And the premium, exported, foreign currency earning basmati might become unavailable or, at the very least, become much more expensive.

India accounted for 65% of the international trade in basmati rice, while Pakistan accounted for the remaining 35%. Many countries use domestically grown basmati rice crops; however, basmati is geographically exclusive to certain districts of India and Pakistan.
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The best basmati comes from the Punjab in Pakistan, in my opinion, and this area has been severly impacted this year by floods.

en.wikipedia.org

Basmati - Wikipedia

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The logic of politicians never ceases to amaze me.
At a time when food costs are soaring, Jacinta Ahearn has effectively put a tax on the production of meat.
Might be great for the vegaearians and vegans, but for the rest of the world who are omnivores, it will add just that little bit more difficulty.
From The evil climate deniers at Murdoch press
It seems inconceivable that at a time of hyperinflation and global unrest, any government would deliberately destabilise the agricultural sector by introducing policies that would increase costs to primary producers, reduce production, and fuel price increases. Yet that’s what Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government is planning to do.
Announcing her plan, the Prime Minister boasted: “No other country in the world has yet developed a system for pricing and reducing agricultural emissions, so our farmers are set to benefit from being first movers. Cutting emissions will help New Zealand farmers to not only be the best in the world but the best for the world; gaining a price premium for climate friendly agricultural products while also helping to boost export earnings.”
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She does not explain how pricing the emissions reduces those emissions, unless of course its a tacit admission that some producers will go out of business and thus there will be less emissions.
How being the first movers provides a benefit is not explained, nor is the idea that a tax on a product helps to boost international earnings.
But hey, she is a politician.
They can say anything they like.
Mick
 
mullokintyre said:
The logic of politicians never ceases to amaze me.
At a time when food costs are soaring, Jacinta Ahearn has effectively put a tax on the production of meat.
Might be great for the vegaearians and vegans, but for the rest of the world who are omnivores, it will add just that little bit more difficulty.
From The evil climate deniers at Murdoch press

She does not explain how pricing the emissions reduces those emissions, unless of course its a tacit admission that some producers will go out of business and thus there will be less emissions.
How being the first movers provides a benefit is not explained, nor is the idea that a tax on a product helps to boost international earnings.
But hey, she is a politician.
They can say anything they like.
Mick
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I'm not a fan of the NZ PM, but I see that a politician is like any other person, they have parents, went to school, have a family, care enough to get involved with decision making. If their decisions are wrong, and enough people don't agree, they lose their job.

And since the topic is NZ political decision's I'm not to bothered about what they do with their tax system.

However, my attention was stirred on the mention of meat due to wide range of interests. It is a proven fact that we humans are eating more meat than ever before in our history, it is also proven that high consumption of meat causes many health problems including cancers.

My background diet is Mediterranean, I grew up with meals heavily based on seasonal vegetables for all our meals, meat dishes were only once or twice a week, depending on the season. As the family grew and we became wealthier meat consumption increased, and so did our waistlines.

At 51 years of age, I was diagnosed with Crohn's, at 54 it is in remission. All through diet. I cut red meat consumption down by 3/4, milk by about the same, I basically went back to my childhood Mediterranean diet.

Meat seems expensive but it is so easy and convenient to make a meal that is not only tasty but also filling, that modern society has change its eating habits from healthy to un-healthy in just over 40 years.

If the NZ PM wants to reduce meat production and consumption, and the people vote her in again, well that is how democracy works. Everyone gets a vote, the majority wins, life goes on and we move on.

I love meat, BBQ's, hams, bacon and so on. I just eat a lot less of it these days and become a lot healthier and wealthier at the same time.


On average, participants who reported consuming meat regularly (three or more times per week) had more adverse health behaviours and characteristics than participants who consumed meat less regularly, and most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (BMI). In multi-variable adjusted Cox regression models corrected for multiple testing, higher consumption of unprocessed red and processed meat combined was associated with higher risks of ischaemic heart disease, pneumonia, diverticular disease, colon polyps, and diabetes; results were similar for unprocessed red meat and processed meat intakes separately.
Higher consumption of unprocessed red meat alone was associated with a lower risk of iron deficiency anaemia.
Higher poultry meat intake was associated with higher risks of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, gastritis and duodenitis, diverticular disease, gallbladder disease, and diabetes, and a lower IDA risk.
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com

Meat consumption and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in 475,000 men and women in the UK Biobank study - BMC Medicine

Background There is limited prospective evidence on the association between meat consumption and many common, non-cancerous health outcomes. We examined associations of meat intake with risk of 25 common conditions (other than cancer). Methods We used data from 474,985 middle-aged adults...
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mullokintyre said:
Although China is the largest producer of rice, most of it goes to feed its own population.
The no 2 producer, India, is the largest exporter of rice by a long way, exporting more rice than the next four nations combined.
Indeed, India provides about 40% of all the rice exports. (source Statista Rice Exports).
Hence , the alarm in Asian net importing countries to hear that India has severely restricted exports of rice, and introduced tariffs on other exports.
From Bloombergs

With yields falling due to high fertiliser prices, things are just getting worse.
Australia is unlikely to benefit much, as we sit at no 57 in world rice producers, with a paltry 260,000 tonnes versus India's 18 Million tonnes.
Might be tough few years at this rate.
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i hold SGLLV ( bought in November 2021 ) so i hope you are wrong , but suspect you are correct

i noticed today all the 'plain-label ' rice has disappeared from the local supermarket shelves ( repackaging coming , or all being put into premium products ?? )

also watch the local fertilizer producers/distributors ( including WES ) maybe Australia can climb a notch or two in the coming two years ( as producers of rice and fertilizer )
 
mullokintyre said:
From The evil climate deniers at Murdoch press
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???

ole Rupert was the one leaning on Johnny Howard to move away from National Party values

Rupert only mutters climate-denier stuff because that is where the uncontested AD revenue is ( why fight for one-tenth of the virtue-signalling cash , when you can get most of the 'outsiders' cash )

please note i did NOT debate 'evil '
 
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