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  1. kaniths

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    Solvers have all dis'solved'!! Its just us now......! shakehead
     
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    PriyaSrini Moderator Staff Member Platinum IL'ite

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    Solution to Puzzle # 6200


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    John Yudkin was a physiologist, nutritionist and Professor of the Department of Nutrition at the Queen Elizabeth College, London. He gained an international reputation with his recommendation of a low-carbohydrate diet for those wishing to lose weight, and with his warnings that excessive consumption of sugar, was dangerous to health.


    Yudkin's " Pure, White and deadly" published in 1972, to educate people about the ill effects of excess sugar consumption, from dental caries to diabetes, coronary thrombosis and even cancer. The book was a huge success.

    The last paragraph of Chapter 1 begins 'I hope that when you have read this book I shall have convinced you that sugar is really dangerous.' The message was naturally extremely unwelcome to the sugar industry and to the manufacturers of processed foods who used (and use) sugar in large quantities in their products, and these firms employed a number of methods to impede Yudkin's work. The final Chapter of '’Pure, White and Deadly'’ lists several examples of attempts to interfere with the funding of his research and to prevent its publication. It also refers to the rancorous language and personal smears that the American epidemiologist Ancel Keys, who had proposed that saturated fat was the primary cause of heart disease, employed to dismiss the evidence that sugar was the true culprit. The efforts of the food industry to discredit the case against sugar were largely successful, and by the time of Yudkin’s death in 1995 his warnings were, for the most part, no longer being taken seriously.

    In 2009, Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist of the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School who has a special interest in childhood obesity, made a video,Sugar: The Bitter Truth.Lustig and his colleagues had discovered, independently of Yudkin’s work, that sugar has serious deleterious effects, particularly in the etiology of diabetes and obesity. In his video, Lustig referred to his re-discovery of and admiration for Yudkin's research. The popularity of the video, which has been viewed several million times, has contributed to a resurgence of interest in Yudkin's work. Pure, White and Deadly was republished in 2012.

    Image 1, 4 & 5 : Reference to Books written by John Yudkin.

    Image 1 - Pure, White and Deadly. Image 4 - This Nutrition Business. Image 5 - This Slimming Business ( this image also refers to the cover up by Food corporations).

    Image 2: Ancel Keys

    Image 3 : Dr. Robert Lustig

    For further reading, click here
     
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    Answer to the Puzzle # 6212


    Sagrada Família


    [FONT=&amp]Image 1 – The famous Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi (@jskls referred in her hint as one letter change to our moderator’s name) was responsible for this wonderful architecture.
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    Image 2 - Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

    Image 3 – This is located in Barcelona, Spain very close to where Olympics 1992 was held

    Image 4 – This project was started in 1882 and it is one of the longest and most controversial project ever executed in the history of Spain

    Image 5 - Since 2013, AVE high-speed trains have passed near the Sagrada Família through an underground tunnel that runs beneath the centre of Barcelona. The tunnel's construction, which began on 26 March 2010, was controversial. The Ministry of Public Works of Spain (Ministerio de Fomento) claimed the project posed no risk to the church. Sagrada Família engineers and architects disagreed, saying there was no guarantee that the tunnel would not affect the stability of the building. The Board of the Sagrada Família (Patronat de la Sagrada Família) and the neighborhood association AVE pel Litoral (AVE by the Coast) had led a campaign against this route for the AVE, without success. In October 2010, the tunnel boring machine reached the church underground under the location of the building's principal façade. Service through the tunnel was inaugurated on 8 January 2013. Track in the tunnel makes use of a system by EdilonSedra in which the rails are embedded in an elastic material to dampen vibrations. No damage to the Sagrada Família has been reported to date.

    [FONT=&amp]Image 6 - The Basilica of the Sagrada Família was the inspiration of a bookseller, Josep Maria Bocabella, founder of Asociación Espiritual de Devotos de San José (Spiritual Association of Devotees of St. Joseph). After a visit to the Vatican in 1872, Bocabella returned from Italy with the intention of building a church inspired by that at Loreto. The apse crypt of the church, funded by donations, was begun 19 March 1882, on the festival of St Joseph, to the design of the architect Francisco de Paula del Villar, whose plan was for a Gothic revival church of a standard form. This Basilica is built based on Gothic architecture (as mentioned by @Kaniths).
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    Image 7 – Interior of Sagrada Familia

    Image 8 – This is expected to be completed only by 2032 (150 years after it was started).

    Additional information: Every year, so many visitors are coming to see this engineering marvel and they are charged a visiting fee to tour this facility. The total construction cost of this Basilica per year is approximately Euro 25 million and all of that cost is met from the visitor’s fee. I had the opportunity to go to this site in 2008 when I took a Mediterranean Cruise to celebrate our 25[SUP]th[/SUP] wedding anniversary.
     
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  4. Amica

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    I reported because nobody was giving me multiple likes. Harhar
     
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    It's been a hectic few days for me. I'm trying to catch up now. :spin
     
  6. kaniths

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    Lol! Rule No 1 to the rookies orrrr just you Amica! :p
    ...Don't report favorable glitches to the admin & kill the joy for rest of us!! :p :p

    Rule 2 : Ditch Rule no 1 anyway & have fun!! ;-) :2thumbsup:
     
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  7. kaniths

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    You too Brutus?! :p

    Hmmmm....

    Uma is busy!

    Surekha is busy!

    E is 'hectic' busy!

    G ji is on 'radio silence' (whatever that is!)

    So What? @jskls Pls post your puzzle, Let's play! :)
     
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    Gauri03 Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    Why has the ji been reserved for me? I'm not that old. :biggrin2:
     
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  9. kaniths

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    You are theeee MOD 'ji'! :bowdown The mod with really cool 'super powers'....!! ;-) :p
     
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    Viswa sir, somehow I managed to get to the answer. Gaudi was killed by a tram and the coins that had AlfonsoXII , Gaudi built a gothic structure for him. Nice puzzle
     
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