Rice Warning

[Mtn.man]

FastMan is Bad for you.

[Sawin]

To give FastMan a smidgen of credit, I didn't know Jerrymrc is a forum moderator/founder, either. His original post might not have been "valuable" necessarily, but he was just trying to get the word out so to speak. Granted, the content is a prime example of sensationalist journalism, I don't think FastMan did anything to warrant banishment. Well, not unless, a really disgraceful comment was removed from the thread before I read it.
It's Friday guys! Let's be happy and friendly

[Mtn.man]

It would behoove newbies to read the TOS and other posts at the top of each subforum, and to try and understand the managers and mods of our forums.
Hell I even fuk up once in awhile (On purpose so I look like a regular guy not the Superior being I am of course).

And control the instant foot in mouth reaction to posts.

[jerrymrc]

To give FastMan a smidgen of credit, I didn't know Jerrymrc is a forum moderator/founder, either. His original post might not have been "valuable" necessarily, but he was just trying to get the word out so to speak. Granted, the content is a prime example of sensationalist journalism, I don't think FastMan did anything to warrant banishment. Well, not unless, a really disgraceful comment was removed from the thread before I read it.
It's Friday guys! Let's be happy and friendly

Nothing has been done to him. He posted a comment that basicly said I had no rights to moderate this forum or him......... I guess we need to have a class but I thought because almost every VB is the same that everyone knew how to tell the staff. Blue is members, Green is IP's, Orange is mods/super mods and red is Admins. We also have purple for the server jocky's but they have admin power as well. We have added pink for a couple of "special" members.

[00tec]

Good rule of thumb, don't piss off the red name guys.

[Delfuego]

Watch your backside around those "pink members" too...

[Sawin]

Nothing has been done to him. He posted a comment that basicly said I had no rights to moderate this forum or him......... I guess we need to have a class but I thought because almost every VB is the same that everyone knew how to tell the staff. Blue is members, Green is IP's, Orange is mods/super mods and red is Admins. We also have purple for the server jocky's but they have admin power as well. We have added pink for a couple of "special" members.

Very good to know! I have noticed the moderators names along the right-hand column of the home page/outermost forums list before, but had never memorized them all. And it never dawned on me that the colors had an underlying code behind them. Thanks .

[SA Friday]

Hmmm, interesting. I can see plants accidentally utilizing arsenic in some molecules. It will react similar to phosphorous, but it's a larger molecule, so it could be able to incorporate itself into organic phosphates disrupting ATP production, citrus cycle, glycolysis, and might even work as an inhibitor to some phosphate activated enzymes.

Ah, here ya go. Much better article. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-1...-exposure.html

Basically we know it's there, but we haven't really determined the potential impact (if any) of the As levels. For pregnant women and infants, it's a fairly safe bet even low levels are concerning enough to not eat too much, but for a healthy adult? Don't know. It's As's affinity to oxidate and then react with other molecules that makes it so dangerous, this and it's not part of the human pathways but readily replaces phosphorous which is everywhere. I suspect you would have to have a fairly high level and long term exposure to As to see serious damage. P is even more oxidatively reactive and we have harnessed this to our advantage millions of years ago in our bodies. P also produces more peroxides within our cells than As would also, but we have peroxidase enzymes to counteract these effects.

I would like to see more information from current research on acceptable levels of As ingestion before calling this one alarming. For all we know, rice plants have always had an affinity to absorb As and we have always ingested these levels without any serious health problems. It does beg to have a few questions answered though.

[HoneyBadger]

Hmmm, interesting. I can see plants accidentally utilizing arsenic in some molecules. It will react similar to phosphorous, but it's a larger molecule, so it could be able to incorporate itself into organic phosphates disrupting ATP production, citrus cycle, glycolysis, and might even work as an inhibitor to some phosphate activated enzymes.

Ah, here ya go. Much better article. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-1...-exposure.html

Basically we know it's there, but we haven't really determined the potential impact (if any) of the As levels. For pregnant women and infants, it's a fairly safe bet even low levels are concerning enough to not eat too much, but for a healthy adult? Don't know. It's As's affinity to oxidate and then react with other molecules that makes it so dangerous, this and it's not part of the human pathways but readily replaces phosphorous which is everywhere. I suspect you would have to have a fairly high level and long term exposure to As to see serious damage. P is even more oxidatively reactive and we have harnessed this to our advantage millions of years ago in our bodies. P also produces more peroxides within our cells than As would also, but we have peroxidase enzymes to counteract these effects.

I would like to see more information from current research on acceptable levels of As ingestion before calling this one alarming. For all we know, rice plants have always had an affinity to absorb As and we have always ingested these levels without any serious health problems. It does beg to have a few questions answered though.

Thanks for the good info!

[ronaldrwl]

(Jedi hand wave) jerrymrc never said that.