Every few years I think about going Mac. I make a list of the pros and the cons.
I’m in that process right now.
I found a lot of verbiage on the internet to the effect that “Java is deprecated on the Mac”.
I discovered that this is not true, so I thought I would put up this lonely post for other people Googling on this issue the way I was to counteract the confusion.
Apple has rolled their own Java through version 6 update 31.
Oracle will be picking up support for Java on the Mac as of version 7.
Oracle currently offers the JDK 7 update 4 for Macs packing the 64 bit Intel chips, which covers most of the Macs released in the past 4 – 5 years:
I got into reading about nutrition for fun when I was a teenager. I started off with the pop diet and nutrition books found in the local mall. I remember, from all of those years ago, a book called “Are You Confused?” by Paavlo Airola. The rhetorical question from his title was referring to the cacophony of contradictory nutrition advice in popular books. He wrote that if someone was to adhere to each rule from all of those systems that person wouldn’t eat any food at all.
It looks like there are some people that do that.
Its called orthorexia, a term for a new eating disorder. Orthorexia is about being obsessive with rules for healthy eating( true or not ) to the point where adherence to those rules starts destroying your health or taking over your life.
I found this interesting piece from ABC New’s “20/20″ with John Stossel on youtube.
I wasn’t 100% comfortable with John Stossel confronting one of these nutrition folklore gurus ( part 2, 5:20 ), Viktoras Kulvinskas, in a harsh way, but part of me felt like what Stossel said had to be said. You will see that this particular guru looks like anything but the picture of health, yet he preaches his system with an almost religious-like fervor. Stossel stopped him in the middle of the conversation, pointed out that he was only 8 years older than Stossel, but looked several decades older.
I felt really bad for the recovering orthorexics interviewed. I was amazed that people could be that thin and still be alive. I felt badly for them.
I usually couldn’t care less about vegan faux cheese, but Galaxy Nutrition Foods has done something different. The company is fortifying their rice and soy based vegan faux cheese slices with calcium. Each slice contains 20% of the DV for calcium. The Rice Vegan cheese is a particularly good deal nutritionally. 1 slice only has forty calories and only has 2 grams of fat. It comes in a variety of flavors. It is a nice option in addition to other calcium fortified foods like orange juice and the various plant based faux milks for those who don’t like calcium pills.
