mostly harmless

The EU Bio label is only trustworthy to some extend. In practice, it is probably not bad, test for pesticides did not have problematic results. But there is potential for problems. It allows the manufacturer to use non-certified regular ingredients if they don't have enough organic grade ingredients available. That sounds like a joke but it's apparently in the law. That's basically legalized fraud. To what extend it actually happens, I don't know. A few days ago, I watched a report on blueberry imports. These imports were from overseas and bought in Germany. The berries were sent to a lab. Result: No pesticides in the EU Bio certified berries. So it's probably not that bad but it does not make me trust the label more that fraud is legal, potentially. Producers outside the EU can still get certified for the EU Bio label. I see potential for fraud here because the producer chooses and pays the people who are supposed to control them. It is obvious that this can be a problem. I always look where the stuff is from. The EU Bio label also allows producers to have some conventional production aside their organic production. The German BIOLAND, DEMETER, and NATURLAND labels are more strict and I trust these more than the EU label. Producers must only have 100% organic output, no 'conventional' business in the same production facility allows. Bread production: No enzymes and ascorbic acids allowed. Juices: No concentrates + water allowed, only direct juice (100% what was in the fruit, vegetable). Animals must get 100% organic food, must have more space, cutting the horns of cows is not allowed (DEMETER), etc.. Probably the strictest of all labels worldwide is the German DEMETER label. https://en.bluefarm.co/blogs/theblue/bio-siegel-im-vergleich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioland https://demeter.net/ https://www.naturland.de/en/

funny on multiple levels

Just read the regular official reports from the UK.

The premisses you start with are the fundamental weak spot of logic. Logic is useless when the question is really about meaning.

thank you for sharing. worth a look

I assume that typical traditional diets in Japan depend on region. Also the situation with Soy sauce and fermented Soy (Natto) might be different in terms of effects on health.

@Average Investor I just updated my previous post. I am more or less confirming what you are saying here: It makes sense to take care of leveling up your income first.

@Average Investor Gains or loss in percent in relation to time is everything. If you started with 1k and made 10k, that's 10x or 1,000%. If you started with 20k and made 10k, that's 50%. If you start with 1,000 USD and you make 15% gains per year for 20 years, you will have 16,000 USD. If you start with 1,000 USD, 15% gains per year for 20 years, and you add 200 USD per month, you will have invested a total of $49,000.00 and will have a balance of $322,906.49. 30 years: $1,280,977.91 35 years: $3,156,593.74 If instead, you work for 10 years and invest nothing. Then you invest 100,000 USD, add 200 USD per month, and make 15% gains per month for 10 years, you are at $499,064.73 total. If you compare that with the first example, you are a lot better off. Compared to the second example, you are still better although not by the same margin. The optimum is probably a combination of working to have more money to invest, but also start early. You can use the calculator to find your sweetspot for what you can earn by work versus yearly gains from investing that you find realistic. Things change, if you are able to find stocks that multiply in value in a short time. You can see a few things in these quick hypothetical examples: 1. If you start with very little money, it can make more sense to first skill up so you can work and earn as much per hour as possible, and then start investing a couple of years later. 2. It makes sense however to start investing early, at the same time work and add to your investments each month. 3. Compounding can lead to significant gains in short time later in the game, despite early on, you see very little. Everything depends on the yearly interest and what amount of research work you have to put in for it to be worth it. https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/finance/calculators/compoundinterestcalculator.php

@Carl-Richard The advice says that prior to learning one would not do more than 20-30 minutes. My sport was running in the forest for 2 to 4 hours. I don't think that would be conducive to learning, either.

@Carl-Richard Does your personal experience seem to confirm the claims that you can learn better on these days?

Ideally, you would do that before learning sessions.

I want to add something: Since you mentioned that you are currently studying from exams, I recommend that you do sports once your health permits. Reason: Learning is neuro-plasticity and that is promoted/depends on BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor) . Physical activity significantly increases the amount of BDNF in your body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_factor https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60124-0 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2019.00363/full https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-88496-x https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/L_Wideman_Effects_of_Acute_2016.pdf youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+ratey https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bdnf+sports more https://www.google.com/search?q=brain+derived+neurotropic+factor+%2B+learning+%2B+sports&sxsrf=ALiCzsa768cXwv9RaLzeVOlKFc-Bn-P0IQ%3A1652283859382&ei=09l7YujtFpmNxc8P08G5gA8&ved=0ahUKEwioo4aE5df3AhWZRvEDHdNgDvAQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=brain+derived+neurotropic+factor+%2B+learning+%2B+sports&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBwghEAoQoAE6BwgAEEcQsAM6BAgAEA06BwgAEAoQywE6BggAEA0QHjoGCAAQFhAeOgQIIRAVOggIIRAWEB0QHkoECEEYAEoECEYYAFCIBFiEImDgImgBcAF4AIABvwGIAfQQkgEENi4xM5gBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

@Average Investor Here's where your time horizon, risk tolerance, and propensity for complexity come into play. When you are young enough and patient enough (that's why I mentioned patience and cited Warren Buffet, paraphrased actually) to do this for 20 years before harvesting your gains, then you can utilize the compounding effect. If you are able to handle more stress and are smart enough, then you can make gains from shorter term opportunities. That can be but doesn't have to be speculation bubbles. There are always sectors and individual stocks that make large leaps in relatively short times. When nVidea added products for AI and self driving cars, their stock made a 8x in about 6 years (2013 to 2019). If you had invested in plant based meat substitutes when Bill Gates first talked about it, you would have made great gains as well. Same for investing in legal cannabis like Canopy Growth at the right time. And in crypto, if you got in in 2016 at the latest, you could have 100,000x'd your money by now. There's always opportunities to get a quick 2x, 5x, 10x here and there in a time frame of a few months. If you are able to find these and repeat that a couple of times over the years, gains can be huge. I do not however want to say that only huge gains in short time are worth it. If you are patient enough to wait some years, then you can make great gains slow and steady. So that is a get rich slow scheme, if you will ;-). It depends on you which route works. And again, with an investment in companies like nVidea at the right time*, you can stay conservative and still multiply your capital. *I am not suggesting that you can 8x your money in 6 years if you invest in nVidea now. The time for that was a couple of years ago. But opportunities like it exist now.

@Carl-Richard Did you recently get an injection declared as vaccine, based on mRNA technology? It seems very likely that many people have inflammation and auto-immune disease after those. My understanding is that the protein that the mRNA makes them produce, causes immune cells to attack those body cells when they release these proteins. In that case, people report that cortisol helps. Again, Omega 3, especially EPA I think, can dampen inflammatory processes. The best source is algae oil, second best fish oil. Capsules have the disadvantage that you only know if it is rancid, after you take them, or if you sacrifice one by opening it, could be messy. Linseed and chia oil have lot of Omega 3 but that is ALA. The conversion factor to EPA is low and the conversion factor to DHA is either 0% or at least much lower still than to EPA. Some algae oils have significantly more EPA, some have significantly more DHA. I want to point out that I am neither a medical professional nor a pharmacologist. I share things that I researched to make decisions for family, friends and myself. Always DYOR (do your own research). If you think that something I mentioned might be helpful, definitely ask your doctor what she/he thinks.

Frédéric Bastiat

it is not my job to lay out all of my previous education and thinking of and about the topic. It is presumptuous to assume superficial analysis or lack thereof because i don't spell everything out for you. I make an effort to communicate concisely, and do not intend to spoon feed you insights and information. Last not least, I don't think that it is helpful for a real dialogue to dump everything you have to say about a topic in one post. Instead, I want to leave room for a discussion. I intend to post a few videos that you can watch and process if you want to form an opinion. Communism is the unrealized ideal. Socialism is the practical form.

@DocWatts Socialism is a totalitarian ideology. Totalitarian means there are no compromises. The individual is nothing, owns nothing. The collective is everything. Not advertised but consequential: There is an elite, an oligarchy, who control the entire things. As a result, socialism in practice is neo feudalism. Klaus Schwab wrote in his book 'The Great Reset': 'You will own nothing and you will be happy.' Schwab has a statue of Lenin in his office. There is an article on the WEF website that discusses wether capitalism could use a little bit of Marxism. That of course, is incompatible: Socialism is absolute. You either have a totalitarian rule or you have something else. You can't add a little bit of a totalitarian system. Schwab knows that of course. It's appeasement. It wouldn't be very appealing to people if you tell them that you want to take all their rights, including ultimately all property and right to live. It is not a mistake, misunderstanding, or coincidence that Nazi is short for National Socialists. Hitler's party was the NSDAP which in English means National Socialistic German Workers Party. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/could-capitalism-need-some-marxism-to-survive-the-4th-industrial-revolution/ Language is German. But you can see the statue of Lenin

Regular people can be successful in investing. People who are following their impulses with no plan and no self reflection or self control have no chance. But with a little bit of common sense, education, self discipline, it is far from impossible.

Sending heavy weapons into a crisis region to end war.

Antibiotics are a simple way to 'solve' an issue. Likewise cortisol. Doctors (allopaths as in the Rockefeller doctrine) are typically convinced that what they learned is definitely 100% the way to go. And very often allopathy is actually helpful. But not always.