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Food sellers don?t just want you to like their products, they want you to crave them in increasing quantities. The more salt a person eats, the more salt he or she wants.
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The Institute of Medicine concluded this week that there is no reason for people to keep their sodium consumption below 1,500 milligrams per day, as had been previously recommended for most adults. The panel?s approved level of 2,300 milligrams per day, however, is still far below the average of 3,400 milligrams of sodium that Americans consume per person per day, much of it from processed foods. Why do processed foods have so much salt?
Because salt tastes great. Salt is often lumped together with fat and sugar, two other ingredients that humans find irresistible. (Michael Moss? recent best-seller, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, has an excellent discussion of the power of salt.) But one of those things is clearly not like the others. Sugar and fat are indicators of high caloric content, something that would have helped our ancestors survive. Salt is required only in small amounts, so it?s not entirely clear why we love it so much, or why we love so much of it. But we clearly do. Young people love salt. Old people love salt even more. Infants crave salt. It?s not surprising that food manufacturers pile salt into their products.
Commercial food-makers, indisputably, use more salt than we do at home. Almost all of the top sources of sodium in the American diet?including meat pizza, white bread, cheese, hot dogs, ham, ketchup, white rolls, and flour tortillas?come from foods typically purchased in prepared form. There are several possible explanations for this. After years of nagging from public health experts, home cooks may hold back on salt for dietary reasons. Some commentators believe that packaged foods have higher salt content because they are otherwise bland, perhaps due to a lack of freshness. That?s possible, but the Explainer is skeptical. There?s little evidence that salt-free processed foods would be otherwise flavorless, and, besides, restaurants that use fresh foods also salt their foods well above home-cooking levels.
The more likely explanation is the quasi-addictive effect of high salt consumption.?Food sellers don?t just want you to like their products, they want you to crave them in increasing quantities. The more salt a person eats, the more salt he or she wants. In 2011 researchers at Philadelphia?s Monell Chemical Senses Center, the source of many salt consumption studies, found that babies who eat salty, starchy foods almost immediately begin to crave salt at higher levels than their salt-naive peers. There are even indications from rodent studies that a mother?s salt intake, transmitted to her baby in her breast milk, can affect its salt cravings later in life. Perhaps even more importantly for the processed food industry, people who lower their sodium intake for just two to three months experience a measurable decrease in salt cravings. (Jonathan Swift was aware of this effect: After a prolonged period of salt deprivation, the main character in Gulliver?s Travels becomes convinced that salty foods are merely a way to sell alcohol.)
In 1937 Irish-born physician Robert Alexander McCance convinced several colleagues to join him on a salt fast and to further reduce their internal sodium levels with heavy exercise and sweating. After several days, they had very little appetite and their experience of flavor completely changed. McCance claimed that rinsing his mouth with sodium restored the taste of food, suggesting that salt is an important contributor to our interest in any foods, not just those with high salt levels.
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Making a Star Trek movie must be hard. A movie like Star Trek Into Darkness has to simultaneously treat its source material with acknowledgement, if not respect, and make itself feel new and original. There are a lot of ways to do that, but JJ Abrams seemed to choose, ?Just make it fun and figure the rest out.? He chose wisely.
Some spoilers ahead, obviously. Including the villain.
Let?s be clear up front: I'm by no means a Trekkie. I?ve only seen a few of the original series episodes, and none of the older movies. Enough of TNG, Deep Space 9, and Voyager sunk in on Saturday afternoons that I'm familiar with those worlds, but not much beyond understanding internet pop culture jokes. This seems important, since Into Darkness feels like it was made exactly for me.
Star Trek exists in this weird, long-running common knowledge pool where even a lax science fiction fan is familiar enough with the tropes and story pillars to understand a large amount of references. It?s almost like Greek mythology in that way. You might see a tribble on the screen, and not remember exactly what it?s called or what it does, but know it was in that one episode or something. And that?s enough. For some more hardcore fans, the references might be excessive or even hand-holdy. But for casuals, they suggest a deeper, only slightly offscreen history to nice effect. We know there was a different timeline. We know Spock and Kirk ought to be best friends. We know who Khan is.
Oh, right. Benedict Cumberbatch is Khan. And he?s marvelous, mostly, as a Terminator force of hyper-intelligent, amoral nature. You never feel like anyone around him is remotely safe while he?s on screen. But while he?s set up as a grand villain, attacking highly visible Federation targets, he?s never given a very big stage to play on.
The rest of the performances are generally strong without really standing out; Kirk and Scotty get some good turns (Simon Peg squeezes out a ton of genuine concern and fun into his limited role), but everyone else mostly goes where the next explosion or threat of an explosion demands they do. Zachary Quinto's Spock is especially trapped in this loop, as his predictable I?m-feeling-more-emotions thread has to be played out, largely, in action scenes.
What makes character development difficult, though, also keeps the film humming along at a brisk pace. Abrams? ability to do two or even three things at once without making a scene feel like a noisy mess keeps the storytelling clear. Even when Kirk is fighting off an impromptu checkup from Bones while debating Federation law with Spock and ambushed by a brand new member of the crew?all at once?you always have a clear sense of what?s going on and why.
That Abrams is such an adept juggler makes it even more flummoxing that the stakes never seem very high. The worst potential outcome, it seems, is that one (or two) crews might eliminated and an Admiral could start a war with the Klingons. That would be bad, of course, but it?s not the same as the threat of literally exploding the Earth in the first movie, and worse, you get the sense that everyone in the theater would probably rather see a Klingon war anyway.
Instead, we get an intricately plotted story whose second half resembles a hostage movie?set almost entirely on a disabled Enterprise and another ship?more than the action-packed first Star Trek. That?s not entirely bad! But if you?re going to set up a claustrophobic atmosphere, it would be nice to take a breath and have some quieter character moments, not just cram the (still fun) action set pieces into the smaller space.
There are a lot of places Into Darkness could have gone, or decisions it could have made, that would have made it a more impactful film. It?s no The Dark Knight, for sure. But every last second of it is enjoyable, even if it doesn?t seem to be aiming for much more than that. And frankly, why would it?
Source: http://gizmodo.com/star-trek-into-darkness-review-the-fun-of-war-507643153
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By Belinda Goldsmith and Piya Sinha-Roy
CANNES/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As a tattooed wild child wearing her husband's blood in a locket and luring Brad Pitt away from Hollywood rival Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie was dream fodder for the tabloid press.
But her transformation into a humanitarian campaigner and now poster girl for the fight against breast cancer with her revelation that, faced with a high cancer risk, she had undergone a double mastectomy has elevated her to heroine status in the media.
Her deeply personal account of the decision to undergo the operation, published in the New York Times, won her wide praise for her courage and Pitt's support of her move has put the couple in a new light in and beyond Hollywood. Jolie said she made the difficult choice in order to "tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
"This week they have shown that they are real people and a real couple with a solid relationship," said Wendy Mitchell, editor at trade magazine Screen International, speaking at the world's largest film festival in Cannes.
"They have both grown up and even though the tabloid press will still chase them, there is a new respect there for them."
Jolie, 37, has managed to put her wild reputation behind her, staying out of the public spotlight with Pitt and their six children and only taking to the stage to promote films and causes in which she is involved.
In April, she stood alongside British Foreign Secretary William Hague at a G8 meeting in London, her hair in a bun and in a business suit more typical of Wall Street than Hollywood, to pledge an end to sexual violence and rape in war zones.
A month earlier, in her role as a special envoy for the U.N. Human Rights Council, Jolie accompanied Hague to refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, never giving an indication of the personal health traumas she was going through at that time.
The actress, whose past roles have included the "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" films, still makes big studio entertainment such as next year's "Maleficent," a twist on "Sleeping Beauty" in which she stars as the wicked sorceress who puts a curse on the princess.
She also has combined her humanitarian campaigning with filmmaking, marking her directorial debut with 2011's "In the Land of Blood and Honey," a love story between a Muslim woman and a Serbian man with the Bosnian war as a backdrop.
Industry insiders at the Cannes film festival this week, the year's biggest movie industry gathering, were stunned by Jolie's mastectomy announcement but said the way she released the news, in her words in the Times, was a sign of her maturity.
Jolie and Pitt, 49, also are talking about marriage.
"She's somebody who has transformed herself in so many ways from the very beginning when she was dismissed as more or less some kind of kooky bimbo," said Jay Weissberg, a movie critic at industry publication Variety.
"She has pushed that idea of the public figure having responsibility to the public ... coming forward to be a spokesperson for cancer, it's not only going to help her in Hollywood but help her outside of Hollywood as well."
RESPECT FROM MEDIA
The headlines following Jolie's announcement signaled enhanced respect for the actress.
"Angelina Jolie praised for revelation over double mastectomy," said British newspaper The Guardian, while CNN's headline read "Angelina Jolie's brave message."
Bob Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University, said that while Jolie's decision to write about her surgery may bring an added "gravitas" to media stories about the actress, it is unlikely to end tabloid attention.
"I don't know if suddenly this couple is going to be elevated to a new status and talked about and treated in a different way," Thompson said.
"(Jolie's surgery) is a different subject from the usual stories but there will still be speculation on whether she and Brad Pitt are getting married or breaking up, and that's not going to change very much."
As for Jolie's status as a sex symbol, Thompson said that while he hoped it would not diminish her appeal within audiences regarding her as such, he added that the surgery may bring her a "street cred" from a wider public.
"This personal story gives her a sense of street cred that comes from having gone through something particularly trying ... Angelina might get some gravitas from this simply because it's a serious and frightening experience," he said.
Amongst their peers, the Hollywood power couple have won respect for using their status to make a difference.
Thierry Fremaux, the director of the Cannes film festival where Jolie has been a frequent guest with films such as "Changeling" and "A Mighty Heart," said the actress has been an avid campaigner for her causes.
"There is no difference between the star Angelina Jolie and the woman Angelina Jolie ... She has pledged to end sexual violence and rape in conflict in an historic announcement," Fremaux said.
(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith and Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Mary Milliken and Bill Trott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/angelina-jolie-caps-journey-wild-child-doting-mother-010239105.html
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Flowboard is trying create the best tools for "interactive storytelling" on a tablet. And the best way to illustrate those tools is through a demo, so founder and CEO Brent Brookler stopped by the TechCrunch office today to show us the app. First, Brookler showed us the beginning of creating a presentation. He chose a template, imported media, and was able to directly manipulate that media using the touchscreen. Then he showed us a finished presentation (it was kind of a like cooking show, where you skip all the boring stuff in the middle). The presentations look great on the iPad and, by allowing users to zoom in on specific images or topics, Flowboard enables the creation of presentations that "go deeper."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/AL5jea-U1D4/
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