I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Personally, I think the risks outweigh the advantages, but it is an interesting factoid.
One holds that an abundant supply of fat tissue acts like a factory, churning out chemicals called adipokines that help fight inflammation and infections such as sepsis — overwhelming bloodstream infections that are the leading cause of death in an ICU.
In addition, during severe illnesses, the body breaks down muscle protein and glycogen, the body’s primary source of stored energy. Obese people may be better able to cope because of greater nutritional reserves.
“With the increased rates of obesity, we’re seeing more and more morbidly obese patients in the intensive care unit,” says lead author Dr. Folu Akinnusi, of the University of Buffalo’s division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine.
“We thought, if they were at increased risk and likely to die, we needed to do something, we needed a different kind of intervention to try and reduce or stem that wave of increased mortality,” Akinnusi says.
Instead, they found the opposite to be true.
Interesting. Still, given the choice, I’d rather not flirt with the increased risk of, say, heart disease or diabetes.
