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  • Drink Diet Coke to Gain Weight   1 day 7 hours ago

    LET ME ADD THAT IT IS NOT THE COKE ITSELF THAT CAUSED YOU DEPRESSION AND GAIN WEIGHT. IT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS CONTRIBUTES NEGATIVELY ON THE WHOLE UNHLEATHY LIFESTYLE OF A STUDENT. WE STUDY ALL THE TIME, WE DONT EXERCISE. WE EAT READY MADE FOOD, SWEETS, WE DONT GET ENOUGH SLEEP..THEN WE NEED CAFFEINE TO ENDURE ALL THAT..AND THEN WE BLAME IT ONLY ON THE COKE. IT IS ALL TOGETHER. I THINK. NOT ONLY THE COKE. ALSO, HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING COKE ON ITS OWN. OR HAVE U BEEN COMBINING IT WITH FOOD?? I HAVE A SUSPICION THAT WHEN YOU COMBINE IT WITH FOOD IT IS DISUSTRUS. WHEN YOU DONT, NOT THAT MUCH.

  • Drink Diet Coke to Gain Weight   1 day 8 hours ago

    YEAH I AGREE...
    DC INCREASES APPETITE.
    IF YOU WANT TO DRINK IT AND YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO FIGHT YOUR INCREASED APPETITE.. THEN WELL DONE DUDE.

    I THINK THAT YOU ARE SO MUCH ADDICTED TO CAFFEINE THAT CUTTING IT OFF, WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO EAT AGAIN. YOUR CASE IS DIFFERENT MAYBE. IT REMINDS ME OF HEAVY SMOKERS WHO CUT DOWN ON SMOKING AND IN ORDER TO SATISFY THEIR ADDICTION THEY TURN UP EATING FOOD INSTEAD. SO THEY GAIN WEIGHT WHILE TRYING TO CUT DOWN.

    REGULAR COKE HELPS ME LOSE WEIGHT..WHEN I DO NOT EAT ANYTHING ELSE WITH IT. EVEN IF I DRINK THE REGULAR ONE. TODAY I DRANK 3 BOTTLES.DIDNT CONSUME ANYTHING ELSE.SO IN TOTAL 600 CALORIES.. THAT'S NOTHING COMPARED TO THE GDA* (*GUIDANCE DAILY AMOUNT). BUT NOT MANY PEOPLE CAN DO WHAT WE DO..
    THIS IS MAYBE COZ I HAVE HIGH LEVELS OF PROLACTINE. ( I AM AN EXEPTION TO THE RULE)

    MAYBE YOU HAVE HIGH LEVELS OF PROLACTINE TOO?? HAVE YOU CHECKED THAT?

  • Drink Diet Coke to Gain Weight   1 day 8 hours ago

    jason must be wrong. everysort of coke is harmful. but diet coke makes us put on weight because it opens up our appetite. regular coke since it has many sugars in it. it doesn't. is like when you eat a lolypop and then you dont want to eat food anymore.

    maybe dieting has also to do with calories. hovewer, here we talk about people's appetite as well. our point is that drinking DIET coke increases people's appetite... i dont know.. for me , what happens is that normal coke does not increase my appetite but diet it does.

    coz when i need something sweet, if i drink the died coke for one second i feel satisfied but then again it comes back stronger...and eventually i burst out on eating.

    i know coke in general is very very very bad and fattening. (diet is worse than the regular.) However, i made a very harmful experiment. i said i am going to drink only normal coke without food when i am hungry..i did that for one week and i lost weight. this make me think that sugars themself dont coz a lot of fat production. but the problem is when they are combined with fat..or proteins. when we combine coke with food is fattening. when we drink it alone it is harmful, but maybe not that fattening.

    really, it is not really an issue of carolie intake ... because some foods/drinks may increase or decrease your metapholism as well becuase they have effect on our hormones. These things are relevant, and also depend on the individual organism as well. i will make you one last question. why people who are given cortisone , which has zero calories, gain weight even when they dont eat????????????????

    In addition,
    i am sad to say that i am the exception to the rule regarding coke. i now how harmful it is. but i need coke and this is the reason why:

    i am one of the few people who suffer from high levels of prolactine,and hence regular coke helps me lose weight instead of gain.

    my problem is that i have high levels of prolactin, somethng that makes me put on weight. But coke, as other drugs do, help in the production of dopamine, which is a blocker of prolactine from the hypothalamous. high levels of prolactine, can ruin one's sexual life and make them put weight.

    when i drink coke, the dopamine produced in my body makes me feel good.... and also the dopamine reduces automatically the prolactine in my body so i feel sexier, my metabolism rises, and i feel hence, better. this gives me strenght to reduce the amounts of my food intake..and i lose weight.

    be careful. this does not apply to people whose prolactine's levels are healthy becuase low levels of prolactine can have similar effects too. !!!!
    our prolactine should be on the normal levels for our metabolism to function well.

    i am sad coz i know how bad is for my health, there are a lot of chemicals that coz cancer in coke. these are the flavouring and colours.e.g. E150d.

    also, as i said before,
    i try to drink coke without food..because when sugar is combined with fat it is turned to fat more easily.

    another issue is the cafeine in the coke. i dont really know what cafeine does, and if the cafeine makes me feel good or bad. but my doctor told me not to drink cafeine because it gives me migraines. but, caffeine helps me study to be honest. and hence i feel happier again. and happiness is the most improtant thing for me to be healthy. my dietician told me that caffeine dicreases metabolism and helps gaining weight. and increases appetatite.

    i dont know if my doctors has right on the long term. but i feel surely that on the short term when i consume caffeine, my metabolism increases. it is true, i can feel it.

    my physiotherapist told me that caffeine makes the blood cells harder and so they cannot absorve oxygen quickly and so our heart has to work faster so as to inctrease the movement of oxygen in the blood and promoute the oxygen consumption by the cells. so, it looks like caffeine on the short term makes your body overworking. but on the long term it may plug you down. so we should not drink it every day but only when we need to stay awake at night or concetrate to study.

    do you think that caffeine increases your appetite?? it decreases mine when my coffee has sugar in it. which is again, a property of sugar and not of caffeine. sugar can decrease your appetite on a short term basis.. after 20 minutes you will feel hungry again,...so you have to take some sugar again and not eat. but on the long term this procedure may cut down your appetite..but on the other hand on the lond term it can make you a diabetic. this is since , the glances that produce insulin will get tired.. and will stop functioning properly if they have all the time to produce insuline in order to regulate the socks of sugar in your blood.

    if would like to find something, like coke but without the caffeine try it and see if i am going to feel even more better.?? any suggestions??

    TO CONCLUDE:

    any way i am being stupid..
    i am doing a diet.. by drinking only coke.. i will lose weight i know but on the long term i will become a diabetic.

    dont try to do that .. at least i have some more reasons for that:
    1) HIGH PROLACTIN (COKE HELPS COZ IT PROMOTES THE PRODUCTION OF DOPAMINE)
    2) HYPOGLYCEMIA ( I AM ALL THE TIME HUNGRY COZ I NEED SUGAR INTAKES, SO I KILL MY HUNGRINESS WITH COKE.)
    3) I FOLLOW AN ECXUSTING STUDYING SCHEDULE AND I NEED THE CAFFEINE TO CONCETRATE AND PRODUCE WORK WITH FEW HOURS OF SLEEP.

    I LOOKS TO WORK NOW FOR ME.. I HOPE I WILL QUIT ON IT SOON, SINCE I GRADUATE IN ONE MONTH.. WHEN I GRADUATE I WILL QUITE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. BESIDES I DONT LIKE MUCH THE TASTE OF COKE, I AM JUST TRYING TO FIND A SOLUTION NOT TO GAIN WEIGHT AND STUDY. THIS METHOD APPLIES ONLY TO PEOPLE WHO STUDY AND HAVE HIGH PROLACTINE. NO ONE ESLE.

  • Wave Gadget Example - flickr recent photos   3 days 14 hours ago

    Hi there,
    I've tried the gadget, works well in Google Wave.
    Thanks,

  • Reading and writing JPEG metadata (EXIF) from Java with Sanselan   6 days 9 hours ago

    Had the same problem myself. Turns out throw new ImageReadException("Sanselan cannot read or write JPEG images."); is the best it can do though.

    getEXIFThumbnail searches the TIFF directory structure used by JPEGs for a thumbnail. Unfortunately it only searches for "tiffImageData" once it has found a folder with a JPEG thumb in it.

    The SVN does contain an update which allows you to extract a byte[] of the raw JPEG thumbnail though.

  • Backing up your Android SQLite database to the SD card   1 week 4 days ago

    Just a pointer, I have an Android backup and restore DB example (taking this one step further) here:

    http://code.google.com/p/and-examples/

  • Android SQLite Basics: creating and using a database, and working with sqlite3   1 week 6 days ago

    Actually, i am new in the android development,
    so
    This article help me lot to learn about android database...........

  • No, THEY are the Stupid Ones   1 week 6 days ago

    I've been hearing a lot about iPad, and it seems it has captured a lot of attention lately. It's like a lot of people were excited to have one! And you're definitely right, it will only give you 70% of what you want. People tend to get excited whenever there's a new thing out in the market, without even realizing what they can really get from it or if that would really satisfy them or even fulfill their expectations. The reality is a lot of people are always looking forward to get new things and be updated.

  • Tech Support Excuse Generator   2 weeks 16 hours ago

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  • Charlie's super short JPA example   2 weeks 1 day ago

    Exception in thread "main" javax.persistence.PersistenceException: No Persistence provider for EntityManager named default: The following providers:
    oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider
    oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider
    Returned null to createEntityManagerFactory.

    hey!! EntityManager named default: ==> default you must replace DEFAULT with your EntityManagerFactory's name!!!!!!! the XML's name created by jpa !! persistence.xml==> there u have a name, u must use it. Persistence Unit Name

  • Charlie's super short JPA example   2 weeks 1 day ago

    hello my friend i will help u NOW.
    to read all from a db:

    package persistiendo;

    import java.util.ArrayList;
    import java.util.List;
    import javax.persistence.*;

    public class Hospital {

    private List persons;

    public static EntityManager em;

    public Hospital(EntityManager em) {

    Hospital.em=em;
    persons=new ArrayList();
    persons=em.createQuery("SELECT p FROM person p").getResultList();

    // person is obviously an Entity, this way u "load" all //instances of Person into persons Array

    using the example above u can

  • All the android.R.drawables are belong to us   2 weeks 2 days ago

    it's a lot harder to browse now that you have them inside some sort of annoying scrolling internal frame instead of using the scrolling built into the browser, which works better for everything including find

  • Dumb as we wanna be   2 weeks 3 days ago

    is that "words mean
    what i want them to mean"...

    just because a bunch of
    hard line religious fanatics
    have apropriated some of the
    English language, shouldn't
    prevent us from intelligent
    discussion.

    charles zeitler

  • Dumb as we wanna be   2 weeks 3 days ago

    "natural selection" can be
    considered (part of) a _form_ of
    intelligent design. there is
    certainly intelligence involved
    in producing higher ordered
    systems from lower ordered systems.
    ( increase of information )

    charles zeitler

  • Sendmail as SMTP AUTH client for ISP mail server relay   2 weeks 3 days ago

    Thx a lot for the guide. But I had to change one bit before it worked:
    In the entry for the authinfo file, I had to omit the brackets around the remote relay name. I.e. in the example above the entry should start with 'AuthInfo:smtp.bellsouth.com', not with 'AuthInfo:[smtp.bellsouth.com]'.

  • Drink Diet Coke to Gain Weight   3 weeks 6 hours ago

    Diet Coke has been a "faithful friend" that got me through college exams and stressful work schedules over the past 15 years. At times, I was drinking 5 - 7 diet sodas daily. Three years ago I gave up DC for 1 year when I decided to get fit and be healthier. I started working with a nutritionist and fitness trainer (who's also a former Mr. America). I learned to eat "clean" -meaning avoiding processed foods, white flour, sugar. At first, I thought my trainer was nuts to suggest I quit Diet Coke. But I missed the bigger impact it was having on my health. When I finally cut it out, yes, I started to lose weight and feel great. But more importantly, my appetite was under control, cravings in check, great energy, fewer body pains. I thought it was just due to the weight loss...until I started drinking Diet Coke again and noticed the return of the headaches, cravings, appetite, brain fog and bloating. I also noticed it seemed linked to mild depression that had gone away and returned. I was not even aware of it until I quit and started drinking it again.

    My OB/GYN is also an endocrinologist and she indicates I'm allergic to artificial sweetners. I've noticed Splenda and Aspartame make me very sick. She confirms what others say about the inflammation and insulin response and cravings related to artificial sweetners.

    I'd say this isn't just limited to Diet Coke or artificial sweetners. A majority of boxed and pre-pared foods have so many artificial additives. I'm just rejecting all this processed Franken-food junk. Coupled with our stressful lifestyles it must all take a toll.

    I agree with other posts that moderation is a piece of this. Moderation just hasn't worked for me because with Diet Coke or anything with artificial sweetners. I've even noticed that if I eat something with a lot of sugar in it, I'll have a reaction that feels similar to being drunk. Yes, I'll consume these items, but I am aware of any consequences, usually headache. I typically on use stevia as a sweetner as a result, or sugar in small quantity.

    The biggest things I've learned in this experience are that eating clean, getting enough sleep, moderate exercise are the 3 keys to maintaing healthy weight. Diet Coke once in awhile, just like other indulgences, is fine. Everyone is different so some may tolerate more. This is just my experience, for what it is worth. Hope it helps someone else.

  • Wii VNC client?   3 weeks 19 hours ago

    To Googlers: This exists now

    See: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiVNC

  • No, THEY are the Stupid Ones   3 weeks 1 day ago

    But my argument is the iPad will win, right up until people want something else.

    Here is where the iPad fails: it isn't disposable. The Kindle and the other eInk "reader" devices aren't there yet, but they are on a trajectory to reach "disposable" tech -- like calculators. In another year or so they will be $70, then $30, then throwaway. The iPad wants to be a general computer, but isn't.

    People will buy it, use it, then realize they want a "Tablet Computer" and buy something better. Maybe Apple will make that, maybe they will buy an Android device. Either way, once something else does NetFlix, Hulu or Amazon video, and reads books from every store, the game is over.

    Amazon doesn't care about Razors, they sell Blades. They ship Android "Kindle" that runs on the Nook, and they don't care. They just want to sell the books to iPhone, iPad, (a throw away priced) Kindle, the Nook, whatever.

  • No, THEY are the Stupid Ones   3 weeks 1 day ago
    yep

    You are completely correct. The iPad is an appliance. But it's what 90% of people want, and will one day replace the laptop for most people. That's the world we need to be prepared to live in.

  • Dumb as we wanna be   3 weeks 1 day ago

    There is no distinction between "Intelligent Design(c)" and intelligent design. Trying to make one is pretty ridiculous. The DI came up with the term, and with all the arguments for it, and everything behind it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design

    Every actual scientific review has deemed it pseudoscience. You can believe in cryptozoology, esp, ghosts, id (and other creation myths), and whatever other made up stuff you *want* to believe in, for your own reasons, but that doesn't make any of it science.

  • Dumb as we wanna be   3 weeks 2 days ago

    when i said "intelligent design"
    i didn't mean Intelligent Design(c).

    and Darwins work is seriously flawed.
    (as he himself pointed out).

    charles zeitler

  • Dumb as we wanna be   3 weeks 2 days ago

    Intelligent design, evidence, nope.

    Sorry, but there is absolutely ZERO actual scientific evidence that ID "exists" or has any basis in any fact whatsoever. Despite what Behe and Dembski have said and published from the Discovery Institute (creationism advocacy group) pulpit. None of that is accepted peer reviewed valid science, none. No matter how much anyone wishes it were, it's not, science isn't about personal biases and wishes.

    The scientific community would welcome any actual contribution to the debate about how species evolve, or biology in general, but the ID movement is not interested in that. Instead they are interested in a mythical imaginary friend that "created" species, they offer no evidence as to who said creator is, they offer no counter evidence to the mountain of science backing up all of biology - evolution and natural selection, and instead their stated goal is to get creationism back into schools (DI memos and internal documents prove that in court cases).

    (And EVERY scientific theory "needs serious revision" that is the point of science -- though I would argue natural selection is one of the most solid theories we have ever had, concerning anything in terms if evidence and empirical tests backing it up. But that is a SEPARATE debate.)

  • Dumb as we wanna be   3 weeks 3 days ago

    i have no problem with intelligent design,
    i believe the evidence shows that it exists
    ( in nature ). but the evidence that "God"
    exists seems lacking. ( babel-fish, anyone? )

    otoh, the Darwinian model is in need of
    serious revision...

    charles zeitler

  • Blizzard's Success Story   3 weeks 5 days ago

    Finally someone with a brain. Well written and very true.

  • Android SQLite Basics: creating and using a database, and working with sqlite3   3 weeks 6 days ago

    Thanks dude, your article was really helpful to me!
    Indeed, Google could have done a better job documenting the database aspect of Android.