Linking up.

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Hormone balance clue to bulimia - BBC.
Bulimia is normally viewed as a mental condition and treated with psychological therapies.

However, Dr Sabine Naessén, from the Karolinska Institutet suggests some women with the condition may have too much of the male hormone testosterone.

I wonder how this might tie in with PCOS?

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Time for me to replace that breadmaker. And yes, I do see bread for more than that around quite a bit; the prices they're talking about are a very basic white sliced loaf.

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Adding milk to tea reduces cardiovascular benefits. Drat. Ah well - more green tea it is, then, for me.

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Comet McNaught could be visible in the UK until 14th January. I might try to get up Blackheath for a look, though the wet these next few days may thwart my efforts.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

The forecast for tomorrow late afternoon and early evening - around sundown - is clear across most of southern and central England.

[kake]

Those bread prices are insane, particularly given the low quality of supermarket sliced. I recently costed out my 2lb sourdough tin bread at 60p a loaf. But I'm sure I remember supermarket loss-leader bread hovering around 15p only a decade ago.

[karen2205]

Yep, I remember Tesco Value bread being 15p per loaf (& maybe 16p for the brown loaves) in 2000/1. I keep looking in the bread sections of supermarkets and can't see any bread I want. £1/loaf hits the 'good quality bread should be about 35p and spending £1 on a loaf of bread is a waste of money' thoughts from my childhood.

[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

I remember supermarket super-cheapo value brand bread being in the 15-25p range a couple of years ago. I haven't noticed how much it is recently.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I paid £1.25 for a sliced white loaf from Grodzinski's yesterday. The difference? It was kosher.

What narks me is that when I cam to London in 2001, the price of a kosher loaf went up considerably from (IIRC) 80p in the Old Bakery in Edinburgh (a non-Jewish shop with annual inspections from the rabbi, and a contract to inform him if his manufacturing process changed) to something like 115p here from the kosher shops.

Part of this is, I'm sure, passing on the higher rent in London, and part of it paying for a shomer, but still. Which is why I'm a bit narked that when one of the mainstream brands was ruled kosher a year or two ago, this was determined to be only for when kosher bread is otherwise unavailable.

In other countries (France, for example), common-or-garden bread defaults to being kosher, not non-kosher.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I wonder how it might tie in with autism.

My life appears completely disconnected with the price of a white sliced load in Tesco, except in abstracted ways like the cost of meat and milk. I think this is good.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I rarely buy a standard white sliced loaf, and to be honest I'm not a huge bread-eater at all, except if it's from a good bakery or I've made it myself in the breadmaker.

Good bakery bread tends to cost me quite a bit more than a pound a loaf, though. Breadmaker bread will taste just as nice and be much cheaper.