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From Dave Bowie

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/42535724

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In China, the burden of diet-related diseases remains substantial. While the overall age-standardized disease burden has declined, marked regional and demographic disparities persist.

Certain dietary risks, such as high red meat and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, are rising, and high sodium intake remains a serious concern. These trends highlight the urgent need for comprehensive, adaptable, and evidence-based nutrition policies to be implemented to address the evolving diet-related disease burden across diverse populations in China.

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In 2021, dietary risk factors accounted for 1.70 million deaths and 38.39 million DALYs [ disability-adjusted life years] among Chinese adults aged 25 years and older. The leading contributors were high sodium intake, low fruit consumption, and low whole grain intake. Cardiovascular diseases were the largest contributors to diet-related DALYs. The burden was more pronounced in males than in females and highest among older adults aged 80 years and older.

Substantial regional variation was observed, with the Northeastern and Western regions showing higher burden.

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Low vegetable intake, once ranked the third in 1990, dropped to the 12th by 2021, while high red meat consumption rose from the 15th to 7th place. Although the ranking of high-sugar beverage consumption did not change, the ASR-DALYs rate increased significantly, with a percentage change of 689.14% between 1990 and 2021.

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If I download e-mails from my account using a client like Thunderbird, can I just somehow copy them to a thumb drive and open them in whatever program later, without logging in to the account etc?

I want to delete my account, but need access to all my e-mails off.

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The Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield has stepped away from the ice-cream brand after nearly 50 years, claiming it has lost its independence and accusing its parent company, Unilever, of having “silenced” its social mission.

Greenfield said in a letter posted by his co-founder, Ben Cohen, that he could no longer “in good conscience” remain an employee of a business that he argued had been muzzled by the UK-listed Unilever, despite an agreement protecting its social mission when it was taken over in 2000.

“It is profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone,” he said. “If the company couldn’t stand up for the things we believed, then it wasn’t worth being a company at all.”

Greenfield, who along with Cohen has no control over operations but had remained an employee to help maintain its founding social mission, called it one of the “hardest and most painful decisions” he had ever made.

Greenfield’s resignation is the latest development in a bitter dispute since Unilever backtracked on an agreement allowing Ben & Jerry’s to not sell ice-cream in occupied Palestinian territories, which had been heavily criticised in Israel.

Unilever subsequently sold Ben & Jerry’s Israel division to a local operator, prompting the ice-cream maker to sue its parent company before reaching a settlement in 2022.

Last year, Ben & Jerry’s launched a legal action against Unilever, accusing it of threatening to dismantle the board and sue directors over their public statements in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

The letter comes as Unilever prepares to spin out its ice-cream division, Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC), which also includes Wall’s, with a main listing in Amsterdam and secondary listings in London and New York.

Before the new business’s first capital markets day last week, Cohen and Greenfield published an open letter to the board and potential investors, calling for the brand to be “released”.

The letter also argued that Unilever’s move to dismantle Ben & Jerry’s social mission had devalued the business.

Cohen and Greenfield have been looking for investors to help them buy the brand back, but Unilever has insisted it is not for sale. Cohen said that, amid tensions with Unilever, the brand had tried to engineer a sale to investors at a fair market value of $1.5bn-$2.5bn (£1.1bn-£1.8bn) but the proposal was rejected.

“The problem is that Unilever and Magnum don’t want to sell, so they are not allowing any of these potential investors to see the financials,” said Cohen.

A spokesperson for TMICC said it would be “forever grateful” to Greenfield for his role co-founding the company, but that the business “disagreed with his perspective” and had sought to engage both co-founders in a “constructive conversation” on how to strengthen the brand.

In May, Cohen was charged with “crowding and obstructing” others after he was arrested while protesting against the Gaza blockade during a US Senate hearing.

Video footage recorded at the hearing and posted by Cohen on social media showed him being hauled out of the committee room, handcuffed and escorted away.

Ben & Jerry’s was founded in 1978 after the two friends took a $5 correspondence course in ice-cream making.

The pair – who met while at school in Merrick, on Long Island in New York – opened their first store in a renovated petrol station in Burlington, Vermont, with a mission to “advance human rights and dignity”.

They chose fun, hippy names for their flavours, such as Cherry Garcia, after the late guitarist Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead – and even Cool Britannia.

Hi everyone [mini GB]

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This is a mini group buy open for only 48 hours. Shipping starts after 30 business days. We’ll try to ship earlier to customers in Asia so they can get their orders before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Each keycap includes one 1u mooncake tray (holds one “mooncake”) like in the preview photos. We also have 2u, 3u, 4u, and 6u sizes. All sizes are $15 each. The keycap trays ship for free when purchased together with keycaps.

Can confirm. My pet pig had gotten into the cabinets, TWICE, and downed a 12-pack of Keystone Light. Had to put the toddler locks back on. Weirdly, he seemed just a little sleepy. This fat boy was hitting the moonshine!

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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen calls the current security situation serious and believes that Russia will be a threat to Europe for several years to come.

"I do not think that Russia will stop with Ukraine. Russia is testing us. They are testing our willingness to cooperate and our ability to respond, she says at a press conference", she says.

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At the same time, she emphasizes that there is no direct threat to Denmark and that Danish citizens should not go around being worried about a military attack.

Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (The Moderate Party) emphasizes that the purpose is not for Denmark to go to war, but to deter Russia.

"It's about buying weapons that should never be used," he says.

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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: An American cancer patient and Trump supporter was confronted by British police and told to apologise for her online posts or face an investigation.

Deborah Anderson, a mother of two, was visited at her home in June by an officer from Thames Valley Police. He told her someone had lodged a complaint about her social media posts. She told him she was an American citizen and a member of the Free Speech Union and he should be investigating burglaries and rapes, not hurty words on social media.

Chillingly, he told her he was there to get her to apologise to the person who was offended by her posts. If she refused, she’d be questioned down at the station.

What was Deborah’s supposed crime? The policeman didn’t tell her. Was it her passionate support of President Trump and the MAGA movement on her Facebook and X pages?

To make it worse, Deborah is in the midst of cancer treatment, including chemotherapy. She ought to be have been convalescing. Instead, she was harassed for her tweets.

The Free Speech Union took on her case and, as a result, the police have now dropped their investigation. But they still haven’t told Deborah which of her posts got her into trouble, claiming they’ve accidentally deleted the record of the complaint.

Thames Valley Police are responsible for guarding President Trump this week. What would he make of the fact that those same officers are visiting the homes of his supporters – including US citizens – and threatening them with arrest.

Source: The Free Speech Union, on X/Twitter.