From the While We Wait post: 1. Black Death - B
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Posted On: 01/14/2023 9:00:08 AM
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From the While We Wait post:
1. Black Death - Bubonic Plague - Caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium, not a virus.
2. 'Lactose sugar is a long-lasting source of energy' - No. When you see the word sugar, you know that's short-acting. Glucose (a monosaccharide-single sugar) fuels our brain and body. Lactose is a disaccharide (glucose and galactose), still short-acting. Starches (mentioned in the post) are polysaccharides, various chains of glucose, slower to be used as fuel than simple (mono- or di-) sugars. The rice or potato provides longer lasting fuel than my Frosted Flakes or Starburst. It's not true that the Mongol lactose energy source was longer lasting than the Chinse starch energy source,as stated in the article.
3. Horses as mobile drinking fountains? Funny. Did horses produce enough milk for the army? Did the local invaded-territory grasses and forage provide enough energy to horses for all that milk production? We use cattle, goats for milk production today because they're much more efficient producers. (Of course, today, if we are kind enough to our almonds, we can carefully and gently milk them as well.)
4. Protein (amino acid chains) in our diet (including in milk, even horse milk) and access to it increased the health of populations, advancing civilizations.
$*$*$ - At first read, I think a name-switch to Livimmune is Marketing Strategery 101 to appeal to LIV Golf and its money piles (livgolf.com). Three fingers, baby!
1. Black Death - Bubonic Plague - Caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium, not a virus.
2. 'Lactose sugar is a long-lasting source of energy' - No. When you see the word sugar, you know that's short-acting. Glucose (a monosaccharide-single sugar) fuels our brain and body. Lactose is a disaccharide (glucose and galactose), still short-acting. Starches (mentioned in the post) are polysaccharides, various chains of glucose, slower to be used as fuel than simple (mono- or di-) sugars. The rice or potato provides longer lasting fuel than my Frosted Flakes or Starburst. It's not true that the Mongol lactose energy source was longer lasting than the Chinse starch energy source,as stated in the article.
3. Horses as mobile drinking fountains? Funny. Did horses produce enough milk for the army? Did the local invaded-territory grasses and forage provide enough energy to horses for all that milk production? We use cattle, goats for milk production today because they're much more efficient producers. (Of course, today, if we are kind enough to our almonds, we can carefully and gently milk them as well.)
4. Protein (amino acid chains) in our diet (including in milk, even horse milk) and access to it increased the health of populations, advancing civilizations.
$*$*$ - At first read, I think a name-switch to Livimmune is Marketing Strategery 101 to appeal to LIV Golf and its money piles (livgolf.com). Three fingers, baby!
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