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Kaleva

(36,298 posts)
Wed May 21, 2014, 09:58 PM May 2014

Vitamin D deficiency may be reason Sauron lost his bid to rule Middle Earth

"...the evil denizens of Middle Earth—the focus of the Hopkinsons' analysis—all suffer a consistent problem: their diets, short in fresh fruits and vegetables, and their affinity for dark places, leaves them deficient in vitamin D."

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-scientific-reason-super-villains-always-lose-180948173/?no-ist


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Vitamin D deficiency may be reason Sauron lost his bid to rule Middle Earth (Original Post) Kaleva May 2014 OP
Okay shenmue May 2014 #1
The Lord of the Rings might have had a different ending had Sauron provided supplements Kaleva May 2014 #2
Or used UV lamps like they do in the Arctic KamaAina May 2014 #3
Internetsing hypothesis, however ashling May 2014 #4
I didn't see any bread and pastries restaurants, so I'm guessing Baitball Blogger May 2014 #5
If Sauron was taking his meds, he wouldn't feel compelled to rule Middle Earth LiberalEsto May 2014 #6

ashling

(25,771 posts)
4. Internetsing hypothesis, however
Thu May 22, 2014, 02:17 PM
May 2014

a more in depth analysis would have looked into
whether nutritional deficits contribute to these "villains" becoming
so cranky in the first place.

In fact, the term "villain" is needlessly derogatory and certainly a misplaced,
if not intentionally bigoted response to a situation no doubt created by Republicans in the first place.

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”

― Thomas More, Utopia





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Baitball Blogger

(46,705 posts)
5. I didn't see any bread and pastries restaurants, so I'm guessing
Fri May 23, 2014, 08:50 AM
May 2014

that diabetes is not a problem in Middle Earth.

 

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
6. If Sauron was taking his meds, he wouldn't feel compelled to rule Middle Earth
Fri May 23, 2014, 06:23 PM
May 2014
One Prozac to bring them all
and with the Trazodone bind them
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