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  • Okay. Coconut oil really is good for you, no BS

    I was surprised to see what seemed like a reputable source questioning the good health values of coconut oil. See our blog post here.

    But I like this discussion much better by Dr Hyman. He discusses how coconut oil always has been good for you. The “battle against cholesterol” is generally a bogus war being won by billions of dollars in Staten drug pharma. Hyman discusses island countries that have no cancer and no heart disease, but eat tonnes of coconuts off the trees!

    In short, coconut oil increases your good cholesterol (HDL) and improves your cholesterol ratio. What it might do to total cholesterol is in no way relevant. It leads to heather outcomes and lower risk of heard disease.

    Dr Hyman complains that the FDA shows a bias toward the existing huge organizations, avoiding the most basic foundations of health and science. Hyman observes how they caution against cholesterol, without scientific foundation, yet allow sugary cereal and soft-drinks.  After watching them tap-dancing around the labeling for GMO, you gotta believe it. (GMO labeling is required, but it does not have to be on the purchase label, just off in space on a web site somewhere.)

    Doc H argues that coconut (oil) is still one of the most healthy and wholesome super foods in existence. He presents the evidence. He wrote the book. It looks like he’s got it right.

  • For a More Productive Workforce, Scientific Know-How Helps – WSJ

    For a More Productive Workforce, Scientific Know-How Helps – WSJ:

    So a plant run without scientists and engineers will be 4.4% less productive. This might be for several reasons, but most likely because off efficiency. Scientists are always trying to figure out a better way to do stuff.

    It is good to have empirical evidence to support the value of scientists outside of the labs. Engineers could help improve the entire production and supply chain.

    Here is the working paper: NBER Working Paper№23484, “The Effects of Scientists and Engineers on Productivity and Earnings
    at the Establishment Where They Work,” June 2017, by Erling Barth, James C. Davis, Richard
    B. Freeman, and Andrew J. Wang.

    There’s several questions that would be interesting to know. All would require a much more careful read of the paper. Why would companies have plants that do not have scientists and engineers? These are outside of the labs where basic research is done.

    Hall & Hinkelman (2013) argue that a cross section of the organization would be use starting early in the basic research stage and going all the way through to production. This Enabling Technology Unit (ETU) team would include engineers, scientists and marketing folks. Since they would be working together, it would not make much difference if the scientist/engineer was in the lab or in the factory/plant.

    Maybe the ETU approach would offer even more efficiencies than those found by moving some scientists into the plant.

    References

    Hall, E. B. & Hinkelman, R. M. (2013). Perpetual Innovation™: A guide to strategic
    planning, patent commercialization and enduring competitive advantage, Version
    2.0    . Morrisville, NC: LuLu Press.
    Retrieved from:     http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/SBPlan

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  • Bees in Peril. Costco Connection – July 2017

    The Costco Connection – July 2017 – Page 34-35:

    Bees in Peril: Working together to find a solution

    What to do when the canary (bees) stops singing (buzzing)?

    This is a great (short) overview of where we stand on bee front, written by Stephanie Ponder. (You gotta wonder if that’s a pseudonym!:0)

    This should worry people everywhere for soooo many reasons. The economic impact of a massive, or total loss of bees, is obvious. But bees are simply an indicator of our unhealthy impacts. It’s like amphibians (frogs). Frogs live in both the water and the land, so a little pollution in one or both, can totally wipe them out…. giving a strong indicator of what destruction a lot of pollution will do.

    Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is not so much the problem anymore. The big killer now is the vorroa mite.

    We still having a die-off of 40% of the bees each year, continuing to make a huge challenge for the beekeepers to maintain and replenish. This is hard to wrap the mind around. Imagine, that 40% of your cattle crop died each year. Beekeepers are going through some major gymnastics to try to replenish the hive(s) each year.

    The 4Ps are pests (vorroa mite), pathogens, pesticides and poor nutrition.

    Massive monoculture like almonds are providing poor nutrition (and no diversity). The article compares the mono-crop of flowers to a human diet of 100% steak. Farmers are introducing (or not killing) flowers and wild-flowers among the mono-crop. This also suggests that the monocrop itself is not so healthy.

    SustainZine has prior blogs related to CCD and healthy Bees. Think of bees as the Canary in the Coal Mine. When the canary dies, its a pretty strong hint that all is no longer well in the mine; when the bees die en mass, all is not well on the land.

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  • Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy.

    Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy.:
    by Ashley May.
    *** See our update pertaining to this article. It seems like Ms May, may have overstated her case against the coconut. See the update here… okay-coconut-oil-really-is-good-for-you. ***

    Like many such as the poor egg with its off-the-charts level of cholesterol, several foods have gotten a bad rap.

    Coconut oil got a bad rap, then got a good rap, and now it’s bad again.
    *** I’m sooo confused !!!! ***

    I have a Coconut book Bible on all the healthy benefits of coconuts and coconut oils, Coconut oil for health: 100 amazing and unexpected uses for coconut oil, by Brett Brandon, 2015.

    So coconut oil for weight loss is apparently not true. Like that’s never happened before!

    Related to the health benefits, it’s all about saturated fats. High levels of saturated fats can, and will, kill you.

    So aiming for uses of coconut oil outside your body, seems like a good thing. But ingesting it, not so much so.

    Honey might be a better homeopathic remedy for antibiotic, antiseptic cures and also allergies (local raw honey). Studies on honey curing allergies are inconclusive.

    Glad to clear this all up, like the Mississippi River during floodwaters,

    Well, gotta go put coconut oil on the scar on my knee that I’m trying to clear up.

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  • Even with patents, the past can be prologue

          One might characterize the patent market of the past several years as a herd of elephants fighting over the last leaves on a tree.  This might be somewhat crude to many but a scan of the landscape of Fortune-100 corporations spending millions litigating accusations of infringement or suing for infringement makes a case.  Or, the flooding of the PTAB with requests for IPR (inter partes review procedure) to determine patent validity also makes a case.  Turmoil and conflict are the (dis) order of the day among the patent fortresses.  Unfortunately, the considerable ripple effect created reaches to the startup company attempting to file its first application.
         “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come”, said Victor Hugo roughly the same time as the sewing machine patent wars of the 1850s were raging.  The pre-Civil War sewing machine was a disruptive technology comparable today to smart phones, driverless cars and retail sales on the Internet.  There were numerous inventors of the machine and devices that improved it all with patents.  You know what happened- each machine sold infringed on a number of patents.  Elias Howe didn’t make sewing machines.  He licensed his patent on the lockstitch to sewing machine manufacturers.
         There were suits and countersuits by the score matching the complexity for their time as the suits of today.  They were heard by judges and juries largely unschooled in the technology.  Relative peace and calm came in 1856 when the patent owners created the first patent pool.  Fast forward to today, Article by TechCrunch.  Patent pools handle basic building block and Standards patents for a selected product. The reference here is to the data transmission protocols for transmitting high density digital audio content that makes up the Advances Audio Coding (AAC) patent pool administered by Via Licensing Corp of San Francisco.  Dolby, AT&T, Philips, Microsoft, NEC, Panasonic are among those participating.

         This is compensation (revenue) beats litigation (legal and court costs).  Net savings can be substantial.  The patent wars are different today – smart phones, batteries, DNA twiddling, drug targeting. History repeats itself… Sort of.