If you're serious about losing weight you should not take dietary advice from some random slashdot poster and see a dietitian i.e. a qualified professional. Low carb, high fat & protein diets are a recent fad. There are other diets which work, and are better for you. A professional will be able to pick something appropriate to your situation.
I hope you do know that for millions of years humans did not consume anything with a lot of carbs in it? No grains, no potatoes and no HFCS and the fruits were quite subpart to what we know now. I've been reading on all of this for 2 years and I think that the dietitians are full of it. A specie does not evolve eating tons of meat with all the fat that come with it to replace that no problem with carbs.
So no, eating low carbs diet is no recent fad, it's 3 millions of year life style and evolution. Ten thousands years of gradual ramping up of agriculture will not change that. It's simple logic, no need of a dietitian for that.
Because we're in the middle of 300 millions people speaking English.
It's not only a language, it's a culture.
And I can assure you that we have not many points in common with the rest of the north america.
Symfony is more powerful, but also kind of more complicated. (And declaring my models in XML makes my skin crawl -- but it's just me.)
It's true that 2 years ago you had to declare your model with xml, but yaml files are now used, a parser does the work to translate them into xml for you. Yaml files are very human readable and you can write your entire model in a blast, as long as it is already planned.
And being a Symfony user since the very beginning, I can tell you that Symfony is indeed very powerful. And that Yahoo bookmarks was developped using it, it says a lot.
I read about that a couple of years ago and it seems quite probable that a (super) volcano that covered most of the US territory with close to one meter of ashes can take humans to the brink of extinction. Many animals were found stuck in that layer of ashes, and if you add the nuclear winter that came along, you can really bet on that event to explain the near-extinction of humanity.
Now the next threat is the yellowstone super-volcano that could erupt at any time from now to a couple of thousand years. This bulging monster has my attention more than any meteorite, as we know for sure that it will erupt. But I agree that it could take very long until it happens.
What do you do to tell how to feed an animal that you want to keep in a zoo? You study how it eat in the nature. Why is it the perfect way to eat for the animal? Simply because he evolved eating that way and his body perfectly adapted to it.
Only 10 000 years ago we were in the nature eating the way we always did, the way we evolved to eat and that was the optimal way. If you don't agree with that you're throwing away the evolution theory and while it might not be perfect, we don't have anything better, unless you prefer FSM.
And look at it any way you want but humans were getting very little amount of carbs in the nature. Forget about the grains and potatoes that was not available. Our diet was mainly made of fat and proteins. Carbs were so scarse that our body developed a way to store them very efficiently as fat for later use.
But of course the human is also made to make lots of exercise and even if you eat what I consider the 'right way', with little carbs, if you eat more calories than what you spend, your body will store it as fat.
Inuits that are still living like their ancestors have a diet of about 98% of meat and animal fat and only 2% vegetation, yet they don't have any of our westerners illnesses. Now tell me about the food pyramid BS. That pyramid is only there to make the economy move in many ways and is certainly not there to help any of us to be healtier.
Living in Canada, where it can be quite cold in the winter, I agree that a house, even well built cannot do miracles.
I wonder what kind of heating cost reduction one can achieve in an Enertia house in cold climates. Here a 'normal' house can easily cost between 1500$ to 2000$ to heat per year. Running baseboards in the envelope seems like a good solution! Could runing heating coils in the basement's concrete be an other good solution?
And also, does it need any air conditionning in the summer?
In the Enertia® Building System, solid Energy-Engineered(tm) wood walls replace siding, framing, insulation, and paneling. An air flow and access channel, or Envelope, runs around the building, just inside the walls - creating a miniature biosphere. Here solar heated air circulates, pumping and boosting geothermal energy from beneath the house, storing it in the massive wood walls. Thermal inertia causes the house to "float" between the cycles of night and day, and even between the seasons.
If you go on the home page, you'll see that Discovery Science Channel is making a report on them on August 22.
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If you're serious about losing weight you should not take dietary advice from some random slashdot poster and see a dietitian i.e. a qualified professional. Low carb, high fat & protein diets are a recent fad. There are other diets which work, and are better for you. A professional will be able to pick something appropriate to your situation.
I hope you do know that for millions of years humans did not consume anything with a lot of carbs in it? No grains, no potatoes and no HFCS and the fruits were quite subpart to what we know now. I've been reading on all of this for 2 years and I think that the dietitians are full of it. A specie does not evolve eating tons of meat with all the fat that come with it to replace that no problem with carbs. So no, eating low carbs diet is no recent fad, it's 3 millions of year life style and evolution. Ten thousands years of gradual ramping up of agriculture will not change that. It's simple logic, no need of a dietitian for that.
Because we're in the middle of 300 millions people speaking English. It's not only a language, it's a culture. And I can assure you that we have not many points in common with the rest of the north america.
Symfony is more powerful, but also kind of more complicated. (And declaring my models in XML makes my skin crawl -- but it's just me.)
It's true that 2 years ago you had to declare your model with xml, but yaml files are now used, a parser does the work to translate them into xml for you. Yaml files are very human readable and you can write your entire model in a blast, as long as it is already planned.
And being a Symfony user since the very beginning, I can tell you that Symfony is indeed very powerful. And that Yahoo bookmarks was developped using it, it says a lot.
I read about that a couple of years ago and it seems quite probable that a (super) volcano that covered most of the US territory with close to one meter of ashes can take humans to the brink of extinction. Many animals were found stuck in that layer of ashes, and if you add the nuclear winter that came along, you can really bet on that event to explain the near-extinction of humanity. Now the next threat is the yellowstone super-volcano that could erupt at any time from now to a couple of thousand years. This bulging monster has my attention more than any meteorite, as we know for sure that it will erupt. But I agree that it could take very long until it happens.
What do you do to tell how to feed an animal that you want to keep in a zoo? You study how it eat in the nature. Why is it the perfect way to eat for the animal? Simply because he evolved eating that way and his body perfectly adapted to it.
Only 10 000 years ago we were in the nature eating the way we always did, the way we evolved to eat and that was the optimal way. If you don't agree with that you're throwing away the evolution theory and while it might not be perfect, we don't have anything better, unless you prefer FSM.
And look at it any way you want but humans were getting very little amount of carbs in the nature. Forget about the grains and potatoes that was not available. Our diet was mainly made of fat and proteins. Carbs were so scarse that our body developed a way to store them very efficiently as fat for later use.
But of course the human is also made to make lots of exercise and even if you eat what I consider the 'right way', with little carbs, if you eat more calories than what you spend, your body will store it as fat.
Inuits that are still living like their ancestors have a diet of about 98% of meat and animal fat and only 2% vegetation, yet they don't have any of our westerners illnesses. Now tell me about the food pyramid BS. That pyramid is only there to make the economy move in many ways and is certainly not there to help any of us to be healtier.
Living in Canada, where it can be quite cold in the winter, I agree that a house, even well built cannot do miracles.
I wonder what kind of heating cost reduction one can achieve in an Enertia house in cold climates. Here a 'normal' house can easily cost between 1500$ to 2000$ to heat per year. Running baseboards in the envelope seems like a good solution! Could runing heating coils in the basement's concrete be an other good solution?
And also, does it need any air conditionning in the summer?
From http://enertia.com/Science/HowItWorks/tabid/68/De