I set this garden up to make mowing easier, be close to the kitchen, receive lots of sunlight, be accessible from the edges, and have access to rain from the gutter. Used the dirt to fill in low spots in the yard.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Picture of Progress
A picture is worth a thousand words so...
The Goji Berry seeds seem to be growing quite well, I must transplant them to new pots soon and eventually into the garden.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Protien Powder is Protien Power
Nine Essential Amino Acids, the ones your body cannot produce, you must eat them almost daily, and its very hard to find them in plants. Milk is a good source of them except for all that lactose milk sugar, the adult system doesn't like to digest it. Whey protein solves this it contains the amino acids that your body uses to repair and build new parts. Parts like neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, cell membranes, organs, skin, hair, nails, nucleic acids, you know nothing to important if you are dead, but deathly important if you intend on living. Shake things up a bit, try a few different brands until you find one that you like, first thing in the morning is a great time to hit up 30grams of protein. You will probably eat less empty carbs the rest of the day, because that amount of protein doesn't spike your insulin, but it is plenty to release leptin, Peptides YY and CKK, which tell your body to feel full. Oh yeah less insulin spikes, that makes your body more sensitive to leptin, sort of a nice reinforcing pattern. Shake up from Protein Power.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
You can grow your own way
Last week I just took a CLEP for Biology and aced it largely due to CrossFit and my study of Physiology and Nutrition. A product of all this study has been an interest in organic foods and home gardening. At the moment I have seven Goji Berry sprouts. I hope to plant them in different locations around my house and perhaps they can serve as landscaping and as food. Since I seem to be having luck with the Goji Berries I now plan to order some Spearmint Seeds so I can ass it to my Green tea each morning. As always check back for updates.
Since I eat carrots every day I figured what they heck, 77 days to crop for $2 and the season is right!
Perhaps I am getting carried away but I think I'll try my hand at some clover as well.
Since I eat carrots every day I figured what they heck, 77 days to crop for $2 and the season is right!
Perhaps I am getting carried away but I think I'll try my hand at some clover as well.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Run the right way.
Nike invented the cushioned heel running shoe in the 60's and Americans have been running the wrong way ever sense. Thanks to Dr. Romanov's work he is setting us straight and showing how well designed the human foot is for running. His pose method of running cut two minutes from my two-mile run time notwithstanding it felt like I only put in about half the effort. Pose running is easy to learn, its safer, and produces superior results. My shoes have lasted longer as well. I am retiring my first racing shoe the Mizuna Wave 2 and shall now try out the Inov-8 195 mountain racing shoes. More to follow when they arrive from England!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
The calories myth
Counting calories has even less utility than counting sheep. Counting sheep actually works to help relax you to sleep, while counting calories always disappoints you when the results never arrive, never ever as predicted. A scientist should then conclude that something is wrong with the model. A philosopher should note the insanity in trying to extract different results from doing the same thing over and over. I hold both positions, counting calories has no basis in science, none, as I will explain below, and it only serves to drive you nuts when you gain the fat back worse than you had it before.
Here is the old model:
Calories ingested - Calories expended = Net Calories gained or lossed
1 Gram of Fat = 9 Calories
Therefore
For every 3500 Calories I eat more than I exercise I gain pound,
and for every 3500 Calories I exercise more than I eat I will lose 1 pound of fat.
Too Easy Right, Wrong.
Not a single clinical trial has ever demonstrated this, not one.
It's not your fault, you have been deceived so as not to disrupt profits, weight loss is big business.
Why this model is total crap:
1. Your Body has nothing in common with a calorimeter. A calorie (KCal) is the amount of energy required to heat a kilogram of water 1 degree celcius. This is done in a bomb calorimeter, specifically Atwater determined that 1g of Carb and Protein yields 4 Cal and 1 gram of Fat yield 9 calories.
2. A Calorimeter is completely insulated, no heat in or out, does that work for you on a cold morning?
3. A Calorimeter always reaches equilibrium, all the energy is consumed, Not the case for you unless you have risen from the dead, a pulse rules you out of this requirement as well.
4. A Calorimeter only allows reactions in one direction, from Carbs, Proteins, Fats to ashes, ever seen ashes in your toilet, didn't think so. Your body can convert C, P, F, back and forth.
5. A Calorimeter has one gear, it just burns everything up as fast as available oxygen allows. Your mitochondria and cytoplasm offer many gears and routes for metabolizing, i.e. your body can release and harness the energy at different rates, no spontaneous combustion right?
6. Enzymes, you have them, lots of them hopefully, the calorimeter doesn't. What, when, and how you eat, as well as what, when and how you move your body around object, and object around you body affect what enzymes you produce, as well has the inhibitors and co-factors. Think of this like gears within gears within each of your 60 trillion cells.
So do we have it clear that you share nothing in common with Lab equipment, great, now tell your doctor so he can quit repeating non-scientific nonsense about calories in minus calories out, its total fantasy and not based on repeatable observations, (science) kind of like evolution but lets stay on track today.
Summing it up in vitro does not equal in vivo, or what happens in a test tube does not always apply to what happens in me. Lots of people, even doctors, and clinicians screw this up regularly.
So now you are wondering what works in vivo.
I am living proof, I lost copious amounts of unwanted fat by get this, eating more fat! Yup today I get about 50% or more of my calories from Fat. Yes it is totally misleading because my body uses fat to make things like cell membranes, and hormones, and other important stuff, things you might be starving your body of on these Fad Low-Fat diets. And of course I want things like neurotransmitters and neuro-peptides and muscles, those are great cause they raise my metabolism, so I eat lots of protein as well, no so much that I fart a lot that is the sign you are eating enough protein (not withstanding other causes, like milk). And the carbohydrates I eat, I keep those pretty low lets say around 100 grams on a rest day, but on a High-Power workout day I'll bump it up close to 180, most of that extra is right after a workout mind you which helps keep the insulin in check. So in sumary
Carbs are for high powered activities 100g is probably enough for you on a rest day (average American day)
Protein: a gram per pound of body weight is a good starting point adjust from there based on your bio-feedback.
Fat: bring it baby, unless it comes from soybeans, canola, or most vegetable oil. Nut oils are generally good, avocados and coconuts are great. (100 grams is a good starting point, I sit closer to 200 most days). Oh an saturated fat, eat it unless you don't want to produce testosterone, you know the hormone that makes you shed fat and put on muscles, muscles being those things that raise your metabolism.
It's odd how it all works together, like synergy, almost like it were designed to work that way. GOD, yes God did that, bow down if you know whats good for you.
If you get fat eating like this, call me as you are a freak of nature and I will make you famous for having unique metabolic pathways not found anywhere in the animal kingdom.
Here is the old model:
Calories ingested - Calories expended = Net Calories gained or lossed
1 Gram of Fat = 9 Calories
Therefore
For every 3500 Calories I eat more than I exercise I gain pound,
and for every 3500 Calories I exercise more than I eat I will lose 1 pound of fat.
Too Easy Right, Wrong.
Not a single clinical trial has ever demonstrated this, not one.
It's not your fault, you have been deceived so as not to disrupt profits, weight loss is big business.
Why this model is total crap:
1. Your Body has nothing in common with a calorimeter. A calorie (KCal) is the amount of energy required to heat a kilogram of water 1 degree celcius. This is done in a bomb calorimeter, specifically Atwater determined that 1g of Carb and Protein yields 4 Cal and 1 gram of Fat yield 9 calories.
2. A Calorimeter is completely insulated, no heat in or out, does that work for you on a cold morning?
3. A Calorimeter always reaches equilibrium, all the energy is consumed, Not the case for you unless you have risen from the dead, a pulse rules you out of this requirement as well.
4. A Calorimeter only allows reactions in one direction, from Carbs, Proteins, Fats to ashes, ever seen ashes in your toilet, didn't think so. Your body can convert C, P, F, back and forth.
5. A Calorimeter has one gear, it just burns everything up as fast as available oxygen allows. Your mitochondria and cytoplasm offer many gears and routes for metabolizing, i.e. your body can release and harness the energy at different rates, no spontaneous combustion right?
6. Enzymes, you have them, lots of them hopefully, the calorimeter doesn't. What, when, and how you eat, as well as what, when and how you move your body around object, and object around you body affect what enzymes you produce, as well has the inhibitors and co-factors. Think of this like gears within gears within each of your 60 trillion cells.
So do we have it clear that you share nothing in common with Lab equipment, great, now tell your doctor so he can quit repeating non-scientific nonsense about calories in minus calories out, its total fantasy and not based on repeatable observations, (science) kind of like evolution but lets stay on track today.
Summing it up in vitro does not equal in vivo, or what happens in a test tube does not always apply to what happens in me. Lots of people, even doctors, and clinicians screw this up regularly.
So now you are wondering what works in vivo.
I am living proof, I lost copious amounts of unwanted fat by get this, eating more fat! Yup today I get about 50% or more of my calories from Fat. Yes it is totally misleading because my body uses fat to make things like cell membranes, and hormones, and other important stuff, things you might be starving your body of on these Fad Low-Fat diets. And of course I want things like neurotransmitters and neuro-peptides and muscles, those are great cause they raise my metabolism, so I eat lots of protein as well, no so much that I fart a lot that is the sign you are eating enough protein (not withstanding other causes, like milk). And the carbohydrates I eat, I keep those pretty low lets say around 100 grams on a rest day, but on a High-Power workout day I'll bump it up close to 180, most of that extra is right after a workout mind you which helps keep the insulin in check. So in sumary
Carbs are for high powered activities 100g is probably enough for you on a rest day (average American day)
Protein: a gram per pound of body weight is a good starting point adjust from there based on your bio-feedback.
Fat: bring it baby, unless it comes from soybeans, canola, or most vegetable oil. Nut oils are generally good, avocados and coconuts are great. (100 grams is a good starting point, I sit closer to 200 most days). Oh an saturated fat, eat it unless you don't want to produce testosterone, you know the hormone that makes you shed fat and put on muscles, muscles being those things that raise your metabolism.
It's odd how it all works together, like synergy, almost like it were designed to work that way. GOD, yes God did that, bow down if you know whats good for you.
If you get fat eating like this, call me as you are a freak of nature and I will make you famous for having unique metabolic pathways not found anywhere in the animal kingdom.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Resonance
"Take not the path of least resistance as water does in obedience to the laws of physics, rather arise to the path of most resonance as an intelligent being in obedience to the passion that the Creator placed in you." -B.E.Neusse
Do the things, go the place, chose the routes that resonate with passion inside of you. Sure easier things to do exists, sure there are other places available to you, of course easier routes lay before you, but you have the choice to live and chose your path. Gravity shall always accompany you, even gravity keeps astronauts in orbit though they do not perceive it. Astronauts have learned to work with it rather than against it to follow the path that draws their heart and excites passion within their spirit. This is resonance, this is harmony, this is working with the system, rather than complaining about it and taking the easy way out.
You may never escape resistance, better to at least live life in resonance with that tiny spark inside you. Then perhaps you will feel that spark grow from within to a raging fire capable of igniting others to seek the unique path available to them. God started the spark in me, I can continue the work by living the abundant life He came to offer.
John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Do the things, go the place, chose the routes that resonate with passion inside of you. Sure easier things to do exists, sure there are other places available to you, of course easier routes lay before you, but you have the choice to live and chose your path. Gravity shall always accompany you, even gravity keeps astronauts in orbit though they do not perceive it. Astronauts have learned to work with it rather than against it to follow the path that draws their heart and excites passion within their spirit. This is resonance, this is harmony, this is working with the system, rather than complaining about it and taking the easy way out.
You may never escape resistance, better to at least live life in resonance with that tiny spark inside you. Then perhaps you will feel that spark grow from within to a raging fire capable of igniting others to seek the unique path available to them. God started the spark in me, I can continue the work by living the abundant life He came to offer.
John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Two Wolves
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -Benjamin Franklin
Today I see two wolves in our country, one is big brother government, and the other is big business. Each one has the support of supposedly opposing political parties. These wolves seem to be fighting over the same lamb, the American People. Though they fight with each other at times, I believe they each have agreed to eat us for lunch. One wants to enslave us to their programs and handouts to fatten us up and lull us into a sense of false security. The other wants to enslave us to their products and services to fatten us up and lull us into a sense of false independence. We have given up our freedom to chose what we eat, how we communicate, how we make it to work and how we care for our health by letting a few large companies monopolize the market. They did not get into these oligopolies on their own. It was our desire to get "help" from the government with bills that artificially inflated the price of food commodities like corn and sugar, and the price of labor as in unions and minimum wage. It was our desire to sue everyone and get something for nothing that destroyed our legal system. It was our desire to get paid for 40hrs a week while only working 38. We sold our integrity for 2 hours of work. These were the things we did to price mom and pop out of the market, to sue them into bankruptcy, to force them to plant garbage Frankenstein corn to feed unnatural and inhumanely treated chickens, cows, and pigs. To force them to sell out to big companies who now fund the research to tell you tobacco is safe. Research money that doctors take to pay off their student loans because we price them out of the market with managed health care and faith in miracle drugs rather than adjusting our lifestyle and owning our part in making ourselves sick. Benjamin Franklin is right, we have given up our food security, our health security, and our job security to a small handful of wolves. Hopefully we are either so sick they will die from eating us, or we are sick and tired of their lies and deception that we stand on what little integrity we have left and take back our food supply, our health, and our liberty.
Also From Benjamin Franklin:
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Today I see two wolves in our country, one is big brother government, and the other is big business. Each one has the support of supposedly opposing political parties. These wolves seem to be fighting over the same lamb, the American People. Though they fight with each other at times, I believe they each have agreed to eat us for lunch. One wants to enslave us to their programs and handouts to fatten us up and lull us into a sense of false security. The other wants to enslave us to their products and services to fatten us up and lull us into a sense of false independence. We have given up our freedom to chose what we eat, how we communicate, how we make it to work and how we care for our health by letting a few large companies monopolize the market. They did not get into these oligopolies on their own. It was our desire to get "help" from the government with bills that artificially inflated the price of food commodities like corn and sugar, and the price of labor as in unions and minimum wage. It was our desire to sue everyone and get something for nothing that destroyed our legal system. It was our desire to get paid for 40hrs a week while only working 38. We sold our integrity for 2 hours of work. These were the things we did to price mom and pop out of the market, to sue them into bankruptcy, to force them to plant garbage Frankenstein corn to feed unnatural and inhumanely treated chickens, cows, and pigs. To force them to sell out to big companies who now fund the research to tell you tobacco is safe. Research money that doctors take to pay off their student loans because we price them out of the market with managed health care and faith in miracle drugs rather than adjusting our lifestyle and owning our part in making ourselves sick. Benjamin Franklin is right, we have given up our food security, our health security, and our job security to a small handful of wolves. Hopefully we are either so sick they will die from eating us, or we are sick and tired of their lies and deception that we stand on what little integrity we have left and take back our food supply, our health, and our liberty.
Also From Benjamin Franklin:
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Democracy & Liberty
From Benjamin Franklin:
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
source: John Petrie’s Collection of Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
source: John Petrie’s Collection of Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Hydrate or Dry
The summer heat rapidly approaches, making it all the more important to consume our most essential nutrient, Water. This season rather than spending money on bottled water I have decided to give this top notch, inline filer a try. It has some price to it, but it make streams and even municipal water clean and safe to drink. Cheers!
Snack Over Time
So far I really enjoy my snack mix of Hemp, Goji, and Cacao. I like it so much that I eat it as much lunch everyday. Its a perfect 4-Block Zone© meal at 4xFat and 2 Carb blocks swaped for Fat. (2-4-25). For those who still follow the defunct calorie model its 544 calories 22g of Carbs, 28g of Protien and 38g of Fat. Its quick to make, and quick to eat at only 4oz (112g). Anyhow scooping it all out every day takes up the most time, so I am looking at a dry food dispense in which to store and dispense. Now if I can find a neat resuable container for on the go I will be all set!.
Pre-Requisites
I'm signing up to take an A&P course but need to CLEP a basic biology course as I did not have one as part of my undergrad coursework. Time to learn a semester of Biology in seven days!
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