Grafico Do Mes

Sad state of affairs.

(Que!!) Musica De Sexta-Feira

1st de Junho de 1967. Data oficial do lancamento de Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 

Me lembro ate hoje quando comprei esse disco sem saber exatamente o que era (alem do fato de ser um disco beatle), onde estava e quem estava por perto quando comecou a musica. Comprei-o por causa de um artigo do Rui Castro na FSP. O album celebrava 20 anos de lancamento.

Somos privilegiados. Album inteiro abaixo. Abra um bom barolo e boa musica. 

Frase Do Mes

"O bolsa família é um programa mesquinho, o dinheiro não dá nem para comprar uma calça jeans de R$300,00 para um menina de 16 anos"

Parabens a voce que paga impostos que vao para o bem, sao bem utilizados, dao retorno para nos e/ou trabalha igual um louco se arriscando a sofrer arrastao no transito, arrastao no restaurante (as vezes he bom comer fora) ou na SUA casa.


O video, triste, esta aqui: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCJdjuEbPME

Feliz feriado. Mais um.

Achei O Vinho Que Procurei A Vida Toda

Via e-mail marketing recebo uma sugestao de vinho que combina perfeitamente com carne de coelho. Agora sim meus problemas foram resolvidos.

Realmente estavamos avidos por tal coisa.




Essa turma, alem de nao contribuir, so atrapalha. Quem trabalha no dept. de marketing dessas empresas? Tirem o esnobismo do vinho, por favor! 

Duas Fotos. Qual É A Real?

O Brasil do futuro e o Brasil do presente (Via Anchieta hoje pela manha).

Esse futuro nunca chega. E voce acreditou naquilo tudo? Agora paga as dividas.....

Pequenos Vinhos, Grandes Precos

Jamais entendi o fascinio que algumas pessoas tem para falar de alguns vinhos. Creio que isso seja parte do aprendizado sobre vinhos, afinal somos bem ignorantes se comparados ao europeus, que tomam, produzem e comercializam vinhos ha milenia.

Semana passada quis arriscar (novamente) um desses vinhos badalados no Brasil. 

Aroma muito discreto em tudo. Primeiros 15 minutos com alcool (temperatura ambiente 20C) e depois pequenissima evolucao.

Na boca tem um final digno dos campeoes da brevidade. Quase inexistente. 

Por R$ 50.00 mais uma vez me decepcionei.

Paulo Laureano Premium (definicao dele de premium eu gostaria de saber) 2008. 

O lado bom dessa conversa? Estamos melhorando como consumidores; estamos aprendendo (muy despacito) a separar o bom do ruim, o meia boca do pessimo. Mais tarde terao que exportar vinho de verdade para o Brasil. Por R$ 50.00 o mercado esta lotado de bons vinhos. Acordem!

Leitura De Sabado. Cada Vez Mais Individualistas

David Brooks he awesome.

What Our Words Tell Us

By DAVID BROOKS

Published: May 20, 2013

About two years ago, the folks at Google released a database of 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008. You can type a search word into the database and find out how frequently different words were used at different epochs.

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David Brooks

The database doesn’t tell you how the words were used; it just tells you how frequently they were used. Still, results can reveal interesting cultural shifts. For example, somebody typed the word “cocaine” into the search engine and found that the word was surprisingly common in the Victorian era. Then it gradually declined during the 20th century until around 1970, when usage skyrocketed.

I’d like to tell a story about the last half-century, based on studies done with this search engine. The first element in this story is rising individualism. A study by Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell and Brittany Gentile found that between 1960 and 2008 individualistic words and phrases increasingly overshadowed communal words and phrases.

That is to say, over those 48 years, words and phrases like “personalized,” “self,” “standout,” “unique,” “I come first” and “I can do it myself” were used more frequently. Communal words and phrases like “community,” “collective,” “tribe,” “share,” “united,” “band together” and “common good” receded.

The second element of the story is demoralization. A study by Pelin Kesebir and Selin Kesebir found that general moral terms like “virtue,” “decency” and “conscience” were used less frequently over the course of the 20th century. Words associated with moral excellence, like “honesty,” “patience” and “compassion” were used much less frequently.

The Kesebirs identified 50 words associated with moral virtue and found that 74 percent were used less frequently as the century progressed. Certain types of virtues were especially hard hit. Usage of courage words like “bravery” and “fortitude” fell by 66 percent. Usage of gratitude words like “thankfulness” and “appreciation” dropped by 49 percent.

Usage of humility words like “modesty” and “humbleness” dropped by 52 percent. Usage of compassion words like “kindness” and “helpfulness” dropped by 56 percent. Meanwhile, usage of words associated with the ability to deliver, like “discipline” and “dependability” rose over the century, as did the usage of words associated with fairness. The Kesebirs point out that these sorts of virtues are most relevant to economic production and exchange.

Daniel Klein of George Mason University has conducted one of the broadest studies with the Google search engine. He found further evidence of the two elements I’ve mentioned. On the subject of individualization, he found that the word “preferences” was barely used until about 1930, but usage has surged since. On the general subject of demoralization, he finds a long decline of usage in terms like “faith,” “wisdom,” “ought,” “evil” and “prudence,” and a sharp rise in what you might call social science terms like “subjectivity,” “normative,” “psychology” and “information.”

Klein adds the third element to our story, which he calls “governmentalization.” Words having to do with experts have shown a steady rise. So have phrases like “run the country,” “economic justice,” “nationalism,” “priorities,” “right-wing” and “left-wing.” The implication is that politics and government have become more prevalent.

So the story I’d like to tell is this: Over the past half-century, society has become more individualistic. As it has become more individualistic, it has also become less morally aware, because social and moral fabrics are inextricably linked. The atomization and demoralization of society have led to certain forms of social breakdown, which government has tried to address, sometimes successfully and often impotently.

This story, if true, should cause discomfort on right and left. Conservatives sometimes argue that if we could just reduce government to the size it was back in, say, the 1950s, then America would be vibrant and free again. But the underlying sociology and moral culture is just not there anymore. Government could be smaller when the social fabric was more tightly knit, but small government will have different and more cataclysmic effects today when it is not.

Liberals sometimes argue that our main problems come from the top: a self-dealing elite, the oligarchic bankers. But the evidence suggests that individualism and demoralization are pervasive up and down society, and may be even more pervasive at the bottom. Liberals also sometimes talk as if our problems are fundamentally economic, and can be addressed politically, through redistribution. But maybe the root of the problem is also cultural. The social and moral trends swamp the proposed redistributive remedies.

Evidence from crude data sets like these are prone to confirmation bias. People see patterns they already believe in. Maybe I’ve done that here. But these gradual shifts in language reflect tectonic shifts in culture. We write less about community bonds and obligations because they’re less central to our lives.

SP, Capital Do Sorvete

Ainda se pode dizer sorvete ou tenho que dizer gelato? Ou Iced-cream (como diz Mr. Burns)?

Nos ultimos 5~10 anos houve uma verdadeira revolucao nos sorvetes paulistanos. Muita gente que viveu nas Europa ou ate mesmo estrangeiros (maioria italianos) voltaram a abriram uma gelateria (sorveteria para a periferia). Nivel subiu muito, e mesmo pagando R$ 15.00 por uma porcao de duas bolas, fico contente -- as vezes me permito isso. E quem diz que um ser comum consome tudo? Normalmente levo ao freezer metade da ordem.

E varias mais estao sendo abertas. Sera que havera espaco para todos? Lo dudo, ja vi algumas balancando, mas para nos quanto mais sorveterias, melhor.

Estive degustando varias sorveterias, selecionei entre elas a Stuzzi, Cuor di crema, Bacio di latte (a queridinha de quem quer ser in, hoje).

Competicao acirrada e de alto nivel, mas a cuor di crema leva o trofeu JR Incorporated LLC Awards. Realmente merecem meu aplauso por ficarem na frente numa cidade com tanta qualidade. Textura, sabores, acucar... tudo extremamente harmonioso e delicioso. Um show.

Mas as outras citadas tambem merecem uma visita. 

Quem quiser opinar sobre a vita sorvetis em outras cidades, be my guest

Cha Verde Pode Nao Ser Tao Saudavel Quanto Que Voce Pensa

What’s in Your Green Tea?

By ANAHAD O'CONNOR

Everett Kennedy Brown/European Pressphoto AgencyA basket of freshly picked green tea leaves at a farm in Fujinomiya, Japan.Update: se pararmos para analisar tudo que esta no ar, na agua e na comida, teremos que desistir de tudo.A new report by an independent laboratory shows that green tea can vary widely from one cup to the next. Some bottled varieties appear to be little more than sugar water, containing little of the antioxidants that have given the beverage its good name. And some green tea leaves, particularly those from China, are contaminated with lead, though the metal does not appear to leach out during the brewing process.For many, no drink is more synonymous with good health than green tea, the ancient Chinese beverage known for its soothing aroma and abundance of antioxidants. By some estimates, Americans drink nearly 10 billion servings of green tea each year.

The report was published this week by ConsumerLab.com, an independent site that tests health products of all kinds. The company, which had previously tested a variety of green tea supplements typically found in health food stores, took a close look at brewed and bottled green tea products, a segment that has grown rapidly since the 1990s.

It found that green tea brewed from loose tea leaves was perhaps the best and most potent source of antioxidants like epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, though plain and simple tea bags made by Lipton and Bigelow were the most cost-efficient source. Green tea’s popularity has been fueled in part by a barrage of research linking EGCG to benefits like weight loss to cancer prevention, but the evidence comes largely from test tube studies, research on animals and large population studies, none of it very rigorous, and researchers could not rule out the contribution of other healthy behaviors that tend to cluster together.

Green tea is one of the most popular varieties of tea in the United States, second only to black tea, which is made from the leaves of the same plant. EGCG belongs to a group of antioxidant compounds called catechins that are also found in fruits, vegetables, wine and cocoa.

The new research was carried out in several phases. In one, researchers tested four brands of green tea beverages sold in stores. One variety, Diet Snapple Green Tea, contained almost no EGCG. Another bottled brand, Honest Tea’s Green Tea With Honey, claimed to carry 190 milligrams of catechins, but the report found that it contained only about 60 percent of that figure. The drink also contained 70 milligrams of caffeine, about two-thirds the amount in a regular cup of coffee, as well as 18 grams of sugar, about half the amount found in a can of Sprite.

Another phase of the study looked at green tea in its more natural forms – loose tea leaves sold by Teavana and tea bags sold by companies like Bigelow and Lipton. A single serving of Teavana’s Gyokuro green tea, about one teaspoonful, was chock-full of antioxidants, yielding about 250 milligrams of catechins, a third of which were EGCG. It also contained 86 milligrams of caffeine, slightly less than a regular cup of coffee.

A single bag of the green tea sold by Lipton and Bigelow contained somewhat smaller amounts of antioxidants than Teavana’s green tea and generally minimal amounts of caffeine. But Teavana’s recommended serving size was large, and the tea was also far more expensive, resulting in a higher cost per serving. The report calculated that the cost to obtain 200 milligrams of EGCG ranged from 27 cents to 60 cents with the tea bags, and $2.18 with the Teavana loose tea leaves.

But the most surprising phase of the study was an analysis of the lead content in the green tea leaves. The leaves in the Lipton and Bigelow tea bags contained 1.25 to 2.5 micrograms of lead per serving. The leaves from Teavana, however, did not contain measurable amounts.

“Lead can occur in many botanical products because it is taken up from the ground,” said Dr. Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com. “The green tea plant is known to absorb lead at a higher rate than other plants from the environment, and lead also can build up on the surface of the leaves.”

Dr. Cooperman said the tea leaves containing lead probably originated in China, where studies have found that industrial pollution causes the leaves in some regions to gather substantial amounts of lead. The Teavana leaves came from Japan, where that is less of a problem, he said. The decaffeination process also helps remove lead.

Still, the study found that there was no real prospect of a health concern from the lead. The liquid portions of the teas that were brewed and tested contained very little if any of the metal, Dr. Cooperman said.

“The majority of the lead is staying with the leaf,” he said. “If you’re brewing it with a tea bag, the tea bag is very effectively filtering out most of the lead by keeping those tea leaves inside the bag. So it’s fine as long as you’re not eating the leaves.”

Dica Cultural. Sobre A Origem De Universos

De tempos em tempos me deparo com um artigo daqueles para ficar lendo, relendo e pensando....

Leitura gostosa e curta, para os impacientes.

Serve como dica cultural. Livro custa R$ 18.00 via kindle amazon brasil.

On the origin of universes

By Clive Cookson

How Darwin’s theory of natural selection is helping cosmologists to refine the idea that universes produce daughter universes via the formation of black holes

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The Darwinian theory of evolution through natural selection is increasingly being applied to fields far from biology. In cosmology, theorists are refining the mind-boggling idea that the laws of physics have been fine-tuned by an evolutionary process in which universes produce daughter universes via the formation of black holes.

The eminent physicist Lee Smolin, who first proposed the theory of “cosmological natural selection” 20 years ago, returns to the idea in his new book out next week. At the same time, two Oxford university academics, Andy Gardner and Joseph Conlon, have published research showing that the mathematics of evolutionary biology really can describe the evolution of universes.

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At the heart of the theory is the idea that we live in a “multiverse” containing an extremely large number of universes, each with slightly different laws of nature. New universes are born inside black holes. These regions of space-time are so dense that, according to conventional physics, nothing can escape their clutches; but some cosmologists believe they may spawn new universes inaccessible to their mother universe.

The physical constants vary slightly and randomly each time a new universe appears – a process akin to the asexual reproduction of organisms that gives rise to slightly different characteristics through genetic mutations. In each case natural selection favours the universes/organisms that produce the largest number of offspring that then reproduce themselves.

What makes cosmological natural selection such a fascinating theory is that black holes are most likely to appear in a universe containing galaxies, stars, planets and a wide range of chemical elements – the features favouring life.

Therefore the theory helps to explain a great cosmological mystery: why the underlying laws of the universe are so precisely tuned to provide the conditions that have led to life on Earth (and almost certainly elsewhere too).

According to multiverse theory, in a vast multitude of universes, all with different characteristics, some are bound to have values capable of generating life – and of course we live on one of those. Cosmological natural selection takes this a stage further by showing how evolution could drive the process by making universes more capable of forming black holes and, as a consequence, more hospitable to life.

Since Smolin, now at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario, first proposed the theory, evidence has grown that the universe is riddled with black holes – at least a billion of them, he estimates.

“This idea of cosmological natural selection is controversial and physicists have pointed out all sorts of problems with it,” says Gardner, an evolutionary biologist. “But we were interested in seeing if its basic evolutionary logic actually works.”

In a paper in the journal Complexity, Gardner and Conlon, a theoretical physicist, confirm that the mathematical tools of biological evolution – and, in particular, a key theorem in genetics called Price’s equation – would in principle allow cosmological natural selection to “design” the universe for the purpose of producing black hole.

Grandes Cervejas, Pequenos Precos

Sabado foi dia de degustacao de cervejas novas. Abri algumas preciosidades e fizemos teste as cegas com clientes.

De longe a grande vencedora do dia foi a Amnesia , feita pela mistura classica com lupulos extremamente felizes, frescos, potentes. 

Uma Imperial IPA tipica, com longo, mas muito longo final (!!!) de boca e garganta. Show no nariz tambem. Creio que se falassem que era feita na europa todos diriam "mas he claro, la sim se faz cerveja boa".

Ultra amarga, mas para quem tem tolerancia e gosta de amargor, vale cada gota. 300ml que sao suficientes (mais que isso da overdose) por R$ 12.00 (no RJ TEM QUE SER MAIS BARATA, pois nao paga imposto de SP, claro).

As cervejas nacionais (as boas) nao ficam muito para tras em relacao as europeias. Nao opino sobre cerveja made in USA pois ha milhoes de microbreweries la que jamais chegariam aqui. Mas tambem sabem o que fazem.

Abra sua mente, joga fora o lixo de cerveja de supermercado e tente as boas/otimas nacionais. A Amnesia surge como seria concorrente a melhor cerveja que tomei no ano, junto com a Wals quadrupel. MG e RJ na ponta. Acorda SP!

E voce ainda tomando aquele malbec argentino de laboratorio....ou vinho portugues que comprou na internet por R$ 19.00. Tsk, tsk. 

Europa Aperta Cerco Contra Azeite Tabajara.

Apos o anuncio de uma medida -- como sempre 'polemica' -- os consumidores nos restaurantes europeus terao a certeza que a partir de 2014 os azeites de oliva que estiverem nas mesas serao letigimos e nao aquelas aberracoes do tipo ''compro um balde de azeite e coloco o liquido em uma garrafa qualquer sem a menor higiene, protecao".

Sabe aquela garrafa de padaria sem marca, de vidro branco? Exato, essa mesma. 

Aboliram aquilo na Europa. E muita gente foi contra, por que sera???

Para quem tem acesso ao Financial Times, aqui

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9fe5a71a-bf10-11e2-a9d4-00144feab7de.html#axzz2TjfqOXQZ

Se quiserem, eu alugo minha senha.

O seu azeite do dia a dia.... 

Muito Preocupante, Mas Nao Surpreendente

Talvez com mais informacoes a turma que se considera 'desprivilegiada" veja que ha grande perigo no grande mismanagement que acomete o pais ha alguma decada. Para nao dizer coisa pior.

Estamos ferrados, mais uma vez. Espero que algumas pessoas aqui entendam porque "ciencia" ou "conhecimento" sobre "coisas" nao interessa a governos. Voces que sao mais jovens deveriam saber que com a tal de inflacao nao se brinca. Ficamos mais pobres, ponto -- A nao ser aqueles que tem acesso a investimentos que sempre ganham da inflacao. 

E com a pobreza vem a tiracolo varios problemas, inclusive mais violencia.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2013/05/1281132-indicador-defasado-esconde-22-milhoes-de-miseraveis-do-pais.shtml

Virada Cultural E Arrastao. Inseparaveis. Perguntar Nao Ofende

Que vergonha - e medo - de morar nesse lixo. Medo. E nada indica que a situacao melhora.

http://blogs.estadao.com.br/radar-cultural/tumulto-provoca-correria-na-virada/

Quer mais? Toma:

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2013/05/1281347-ninguem-viu-quem-estava-armado-diz-pai-de-jovem-morto-na-virada.shtml

Nao se cansou ainda?

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/gilbertodimenstein/2013/05/1281296-fui-uma-vitima-da-virada-cultural.shtml

O que as pessoas AINDA vao fazer nessa tal de virada cultural todo ano alem de arriscarem assaltos, estupros, arrastoes, e etc? Voce sabe? Nem eu.

O que fazemos AINDA nesse pais? Nao sei, mas conheco muita gente que esta indo embora, para sempre. Desejo o mesmo para voce e familiares.

Afinal, De Quanto Sal Voce Precisa?

Leitura de Sabado. Voltou....

No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet

By GINA KOLATA

Published: May 14, 2013 312 Comments

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In a report that undercuts years of public health warnings, a prestigious group convened by the government says there is no good reason based on health outcomes for many Americans to drive their sodium consumption down to the very low levels recommended in national dietary guidelines.

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Those levels, 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day, or a little more than half a teaspoon of salt, were supposed to prevent heart attacks and strokes in people at risk, including anyone older than 50, blacks and people with high blood pressure, diabetes or chronic kidney disease — groups that make up more than half of the American population.

Some influential organizations, including the American Heart Association, have said that everyone, not just those at risk, should aim for that very low sodium level. The heart association reaffirmed that position in an interview with its spokesman on Monday, even in light of the new report.

But the new expert committee, commissioned by the Institute of Medicine at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there was no rationale for anyone to aim for sodium levels below 2,300 milligrams a day. The group examined new evidence that had emerged since the last such report was issued, in 2005.

“As you go below the 2,300 mark, there is an absence of data in terms of benefit and there begin to be suggestions in subgroup populations about potential harms,” said Dr. Brian L. Strom, chairman of the committee and a professor of public health at the University of Pennsylvania. He explained that the possible harms included increased rates of heart attacks and an increased risk of death.

The committee was not asked to specify an optimal amount of sodium and did not make any recommendations about how much people should consume. Dr. Strom said people should not eat too much salt, but he also said that the data on the health effects of sodium were too inconsistent for the committee to say what the upper limit of sodium consumption should be.

Until about 2006, almost all studies on salt and health outcomes relied on the well-known fact that blood pressure can drop slightly when people eat less salt. From that, and from other studies linking blood pressure to risks of heart attacks and strokes, researchers created models showing how many lives could be saved if people ate less salt.

The United States dietary guidelines, based on the 2005 Institute of Medicine report, recommend that the general population aim for sodium levels of 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams a day because those levels will not raise blood pressure. The average sodium consumption in the United States, and around the world, is about 3,400 milligrams a day, according to the Institute of Medicine — an amount that has not changed in decades.

But more recently, researchers began looking at the actual consequences of various levels of salt consumption, as found in rates of heart attacks, strokes and death, not just blood pressure readings. Some of what they found was troubling.

One 2008 study the committee examined, for example, randomly assigned 232 Italian patients with aggressively treated moderate to severe congestive heart failure to consume either 2,760 or 1,840 milligrams of sodium a day, but otherwise to consume the same diet. Those consuming the lower level of sodium had more than three times the number of hospital readmissions — 30 as compared with 9 in the higher-salt group — and more than twice as many deaths — 15 as compared with 6 in the higher-salt group.

Another study, published in 2011, followed 28,800 subjects with high blood pressure ages 55 and older for 4.7 years and analyzed their sodium consumption by urinalysis. The researchers reported that the risks of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and death from heart disease increased significantly for those consuming more than 7,000 milligrams of sodium a day and for those consuming fewer than 3,000 milligrams of sodium a day.

There are physiological consequences of consuming little sodium, said Dr. Michael H. Alderman, a dietary sodium expert at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who was not a member of the committee. As sodium levels plunge, triglyceride levels increase, insulin resistance increases, and the activity of the sympathetic nervous system increases. Each of these factors can increase the risk of heart disease.

“Those are all bad things,” Dr. Alderman said. “A health effect can’t be predicted by looking at one physiological consequence. There has to be a net effect.”

Medical and public health experts responded to the new assessment of the evidence with elation or concern, depending on where they stand in the salt debates.

“What they have done is earth-shattering,” Dr. Alderman said. “They have changed the paradigm of this issue. Until now it was all about blood pressure. Now they say it is more complicated.” The report, he predicted, “will have a big impact.”

But Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group that has taken a strong position against excessive salt consumption, worried that the public would get the wrong message.

“It would be a shame if this report convinced people that salt doesn’t matter,” Ms. Liebman said.

The American Heart Association agrees with her. Dr. Elliott Antman, a spokesman for the association and a professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said the association remained concerned about the large amount of sodium in processed foods, which makes it almost impossible for most Americans to cut back. People should aim for 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day, he said.

“The American Heart Association is not changing its position,” Dr. Antman said. The association rejects the Institute of Medicine’s conclusions because the studies on which they were based had methodological flaws, he said. The heart association’s advice to consume 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day, he added, is based on epidemiological data and studies that assessed the effects of sodium consumption on blood pressure.

The Institute of Medicine committee said it was well aware of flaws in many of the studies of sodium, especially ones that the previous Institute of Medicine committee relied on for its 2005 recommendations. Much of that earlier research, committee members said, looked for correlations between what people ate and their health. But people with different diets can differ in many ways that are hard to account for — for example, the amount of exercise they get. And relying on people’s recall of how much salt they consumed can be unreliable.

Even the ways previous studies defined high and low sodium consumption varied widely.

“In one study, it was high if it hit 2,700 milligrams a day. In another study, it was high if it hit 10,000 milligrams a day,” said Cheryl A. M. Anderson, a committee member who is an associate professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

The committee said it found more recent studies, published since 2005, that were more careful and rigorous. Much of the new research found adverse effects on the lower end of the sodium scale and none showed a benefit from consuming very little salt.

Although the advice to restrict sodium to 1,500 milligrams a day has been enshrined in dietary guidelines, it never came from research on health outcomes, Dr. Strom said. Instead, it is the lowest sodium consumption can go if a person eats enough food to get sufficient calories and nutrients to live on. As for the 2,300-milligram level, that was the highest sodium levels could go before blood pressure began inching up.

In its 2005 report, the Institute of Medicine’s committee said that sodium consumption between 1,500 and 2,300 milligrams a day would not raise blood pressure.

That range, Dr. Strom said, “was taken by other groups and set in stone.” Those other groups included the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, which formulated dietary guidelines in 2005.

But those dietary guidelines will soon be revised, with new recommendations to be issued in 2015.

Musica De Sexta-Feira

a sessao (secao?) menos clicada do blog esta de volta....

Grandes Cervejas, Pequenos Precos

Cerveja Espetacular, Vinho Meia Boca?

Fique com a cerveja, obvio. Essa vai para leitores recem chegados a esse espaco ou que cairam aqui por acidente (lamento a perda de tempo) pois ja escrevi sobre isso aqui antes.

Ha algum tempo defendi uma tese de doutorado na USP sobre o amante de vinho que esteja querendo tomar um vinho, mas por motivo de estoque ou de $$$$ nao tenha garrafa de algo bom prontamente disponivel, deveria tomar uma cerveja deliciosa.

Por miseros R$ 20.00 tomei ontem uma La Trappe Quadrupel 330ml. Quase perfeita em todos os sentidos e angulos. E um pouco dela da um residual para o restante da noite. Altamente recomendada pela associacao de bebedores de bom gosto de todo mundo.

Beba menos, mas beba melhor. 

News From The World

Inflação e preocupação com emprego reduz disposição para consumir

Creio que qualquer um com comercio hoje em dia sabe disso ha tempos.

Leia mais (de GRATIS) em:

http://www.valor.com.br/brasil/3127168/inflacao-e-preocupacao-com-emprego-reduz-disposicao-para-consumir#ixzz2TXvhmcbo

Perguntar Nao Ofende: Guerra Do Bacalhau

Voce ja reparou no numero de empresas que surgiram recentemente vendendo ''legitimo'' gadus morhua bacalhau e derivados? Toda semana recebo visita ou e-mail de vendedores...

Voce acredita que ha espaco e consumidores para todos se manterem no mercado? Nem eu.

O que esta por tras dessa bolha? Acho que metade da resposta vem da Europa. O que ha de portugues e similares vindo a essa terra rica atras de importadores ou representantes nao se ve desde que D. Joao, o comilao, veio com a corte para ca.

A outra metade fica por conta de quem nao consegue vender produtos como vinho e azeite e chegou a "facil e sabia" conclusao que vender bacalhau deve ser muito facil, como recentemente ouvi de um vendedor.

Sao Paulo. Do Ceu Ao Brasil Na Comida Japonesa

O mau gosto nao tem limites em Sao Paulo tambem para comida japonesa. No mesmo lugar que tem Kinoshita (nao, nao recebo dinheiro algum para falar deles, apesar de encontrar o chef correndo no Ibirapuera as vezes, todo sorridente), temos japa que oferece sushi com doritos.

Sao Paulo se candidata para ser o tumulo da comida japonesa tambem.

Sabe quem consome sushi com doritos? "Executivos" modernos made in USA. E brasileiro entra nessa se achando ''in''. Ate na hora de copiar mau gosto somos mirins.

A Maior Bolha De Todos Tempos No Vinho Brasileiro Ja Comecou

Essa bolha vai fazer estrago.

Por muitos motivos que nao merecem comentario aqui (todos ja sabem quem/porque/quando) esta em curso uma avalanche de vinhos feitos no Brasil. Producao muito grande e bem maior que as atuais. Patrocinio: Novas areas no RGS, principalmente na campanha. Se nao bastasse o estoque altissimo das vinicolas, vem mais ai.

Grande parte das videiras ainda nao esta em fase plena de producao, mas tem nada nao oxi bichinho, em um par de anos a riada de vinhos comeca.

Aguarde a choradeira. 

Quem leu que o Brasil era bola da vez, que consumo de vinho estava aumentando exponencialmente, que estariamos somente atras de china e usa em  10 anos, deve ter se entusiasmado mais ainda. Plante que o joao garante.

Quem paga a conta mais tarde? Adivinha.

 

Aquele consultor me custou R$ 300.000 e prometeu que eu venderia toda minha producao.....era so investir mais