the only way anyone can benefit is by becoming as healthy as anyone else
You know, if you like the idea of the NHS, then fine. But just because you would never abuse it doesn't mean that nobody can, and if you really think that's true you need to rethink your underlying assumptions.
The NHS offers the opportunity for doctors, nurses, and bureaucrats to featherbed themselves in comfortable positions. Patients get to be legally high all the time ("oh, I don't drink any more, I just take a Xanax"), and some of them even get the holy grail: disability. (Not sure if there's a different term in UK. In USA, "disability" is paid by Social Security to anyone that is certified as too disabled to hold a job. For life. I've seen plenty of people in their mid 40's who are on the permanent dole that way.) There's Munchausen syndrome, too.
I made them both myself. From scratch, for the ranch (and I mean I made my own mayo), and from Louisiana Brand hot sauce(ingredients: aged peppers, vinegar, salt) and fresh butter, for the Buffalo sauce. What, you can't cook?
You're talking ideology. I'm talking about weight loss. And don't underestimate the value of modern medicine: my wife suffered a nasty broken arm about two months ago. In the pre-X-ray era, that break would have to have been diagnosed by manipulation, and they would have set it as best they could, then immobilized it for six weeks. And it still probably would have healed very slowly and out of alignment, leaving her without full use of one arm for at least two months and quite possibly forever. Instead, she had surgery that afternoon and began rehab a week later. She has almost no limitations now and will almost certainly regain full range of motion in the arm. Not bad for a break across the attachment of the rotator cuff. In the Paleolithic era, that would have been extremely bad and if it happened to the dominant arm of a hunter could very well be a death sentence.
I am an evangelist, not a proselyte, so please understand the following is not meant to start a flame war. I seek to inform. Whether you convert or not is up to you. However: I did not lose 50 pounds of water, the brain will happily run on ketone bodies, although the red blood cells will not, and I never will eat carbs in anything like the former quantity again. So I'm not really worried about that. I'm glad you have found something that works for you.
Zero. I do drink diet soda, maybe three or four cans over the work day (it's free). I might give that up later on, if I get stuck, but as of now I'm steadily losing about eight pounds a month, and I enjoy drinking them, so why change?
I'm not in this for the ideology, which is why the paleo arguments about dairy just aren't my cup of tea. Whether or not my diet perfectly replicates what primal man ate is irrelevant to me. (I find it extremely improbable that primal man didn't eat primal cheese fresh out of the bellies of unweaned calves of various ungulates, but since I don't really care whether or not he did, I don't get into those arguments.) Losing weight and maintaining that weight loss by manipulation of the quality, not the quantity, of my diet - that's the goal.
You know, on second thought, I was just talking about this the other day with a friend of mine who's a type 1 diabetic. I was telling him about how well it had worked out, and he said he had kept them low but always felt a little afraid of trying to cut them out altogether. Would you mind emailing me your general regimen and how it's worked for you? I know he'd love to hear from someone in the same situation. You can reach me at my/. username @gmail.com.
Take the cab to a tourist location that is at least an hour's drive away, but is within a twenty minute walking distance from the nearest Amtrak station
You know, that's a tall order if you don't live in a pretty big city already.
It used to be pretty easy to do this. Not sure how easy any more. Probably still easy if you steal a dead person's identity around the age of 15-16, when they would start getting jobs, getting driver's license, etc. Teenagers, take note! Strike now! Even if you're caught you'll be tried as a juvenile for a nonviolent crime, and if you succeed (and if you're smart about it) you'll have a well-established second identity for the rest of your life.
Hey, whatever works for you. I tried a lot of things. This worked. A week of pooping water vs losing 50 pounds without being hungry or portion controlling...
I should have specified: when I say GI disturbance, I mean that your GI tract will be the vehicle by which you rid yourself of a lot of water weight early on. Don't trust that sensation that feels like a little air needs out until you're used to it, or it could be messy. Not a good thing to start while traveling, for the same reason.
The obesity "epidemic" is getting press because people are tipping over the 30 BMI point in bigg numbers. But the average weight of Americans has been a steady climb since at least the 50s.
I was 275 pounds on March 13 this year. I'm now at 225 and still falling. If you haven't tried it before, and there isn't a medical reason you should not, I would really strongly recommend you try a low carb plan for a month. Don't even weigh. Just go buy yourself an item of clothing that is just a little too small (cheap end of season deals on t shirts and shorts) and see how much looser it gets in that month.
It's not for everyone, and some GI disturbance is normal in the first week or two. But it works for me, very well, and it works because I'm never forced to be hungry. If I want food, I eat something from my list (which is actually pretty extensive, even with some pretty extreme carb limits of < 10 g/day). My long term plan is to stay off all the sugars and starches, eating a more or less paleo type diet (carbs come from veggies and fruits only), and I'm basically cool with never eating sugar/starch on a regular basis ever again. Why? Because this has transformed my life. I'm 37, I've almost always struggled with weight, and this has been pure magic to me. So if you haven't, give it a shot. And stay away from all the processed crap that is being sold in the Atkins name. It's processed crap. Have a couple of chicken breasts tossed in Buffalo wing sauce and served on some nice green leaf lettuce with a little Ranch dressing instead. That whole meal has less than 5 g carbs.
IAAD, IANYD, this isn't medical advice. Just personal experience. But it's an amazing experience.
If you think it's such a good deal, apply to med school and go. Nobody's stopping you. The truth is that it's a long and painful investment for a future that is very uncertain right now.
Doctors aren't normal people. They're not uniformly brilliant; there are plenty of relative clods who can memorize the necessary facts to get in and get through, but even those are pretty damned sharp by general standards. So people who go into medicine in the US have other options, and if you make medicine too much less attractive you'll only succeed in giving us crappier doctors.
Well, minus the seven years he spent in med school and residency earning nothing (but borrowing living expenses!) or earning a pittance. And of course taxes go up quite a bit after around $80k as a lot of deductions (like student loan interest) are phased out. So yes, so long as someone who has top 5% intellectual ability is willing to live for at least ten years at a standard far below his income, he could pay off his debts quickly. It's not terribly realistic, but there you are.
Doctors, with the exception of high-volume neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons, don't have houses in the Hamptons unless they live there year-round. Most family physicians would love to break $200k.
Oh, just wait until the first time some attractive young mother dives to push her child out of the way of an oncoming train and is herself cleft twain! What a harvest of blood shall you have then! No, you must pancake your moose on a hard nose, then dispose, not carve it in half to leave two twitching halves swiftly bleeding out as the sky.... gets.... darker....
The problem with the unions and airlines is that there are three separate unions, any one of which can paralyze the company. This effectively transfers money from creditors to union members, as the unions serially absorb any earnings, eventually pushing the whole thing into bankruptcy when the company has a few off years. Even GM only had one union to deal with, really...
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the only way anyone can benefit is by becoming as healthy as anyone else
You know, if you like the idea of the NHS, then fine. But just because you would never abuse it doesn't mean that nobody can, and if you really think that's true you need to rethink your underlying assumptions.
The NHS offers the opportunity for doctors, nurses, and bureaucrats to featherbed themselves in comfortable positions. Patients get to be legally high all the time ("oh, I don't drink any more, I just take a Xanax"), and some of them even get the holy grail: disability. (Not sure if there's a different term in UK. In USA, "disability" is paid by Social Security to anyone that is certified as too disabled to hold a job. For life. I've seen plenty of people in their mid 40's who are on the permanent dole that way.) There's Munchausen syndrome, too.
But Pitfall didn't scroll the whole screen like a regular side scroller.
You know what lets through even more current? All the 1 ohm resistors and shorts that people are going to mod into their boards to fix this problem.
... but those are unauthorized modifications that break your warranty.
I made them both myself. From scratch, for the ranch (and I mean I made my own mayo), and from Louisiana Brand hot sauce(ingredients: aged peppers, vinegar, salt) and fresh butter, for the Buffalo sauce. What, you can't cook?
They make seats that aren't perineum-crushers, if you want to bike. Google "split bicycle seat".
You're talking ideology. I'm talking about weight loss. And don't underestimate the value of modern medicine: my wife suffered a nasty broken arm about two months ago. In the pre-X-ray era, that break would have to have been diagnosed by manipulation, and they would have set it as best they could, then immobilized it for six weeks. And it still probably would have healed very slowly and out of alignment, leaving her without full use of one arm for at least two months and quite possibly forever. Instead, she had surgery that afternoon and began rehab a week later. She has almost no limitations now and will almost certainly regain full range of motion in the arm. Not bad for a break across the attachment of the rotator cuff. In the Paleolithic era, that would have been extremely bad and if it happened to the dominant arm of a hunter could very well be a death sentence.
Cute story. Of course, you'd never get 2% acetone in air from the body.
I am an evangelist, not a proselyte, so please understand the following is not meant to start a flame war. I seek to inform. Whether you convert or not is up to you. However: I did not lose 50 pounds of water, the brain will happily run on ketone bodies, although the red blood cells will not, and I never will eat carbs in anything like the former quantity again. So I'm not really worried about that. I'm glad you have found something that works for you.
Zero. I do drink diet soda, maybe three or four cans over the work day (it's free). I might give that up later on, if I get stuck, but as of now I'm steadily losing about eight pounds a month, and I enjoy drinking them, so why change?
I'm not in this for the ideology, which is why the paleo arguments about dairy just aren't my cup of tea. Whether or not my diet perfectly replicates what primal man ate is irrelevant to me. (I find it extremely improbable that primal man didn't eat primal cheese fresh out of the bellies of unweaned calves of various ungulates, but since I don't really care whether or not he did, I don't get into those arguments.) Losing weight and maintaining that weight loss by manipulation of the quality, not the quantity, of my diet - that's the goal.
You know, on second thought, I was just talking about this the other day with a friend of mine who's a type 1 diabetic. I was telling him about how well it had worked out, and he said he had kept them low but always felt a little afraid of trying to cut them out altogether. Would you mind emailing me your general regimen and how it's worked for you? I know he'd love to hear from someone in the same situation. You can reach me at my /. username @gmail.com.
Sounds delicious. Don't forget the hot sauce.
Yeah, I always figured that was the crux. Now you have to find one who disappeared overseas...
Most homeless people are severe schizophrenics who live out their lives in a several-block radius. You will stand out. Severely.
Take the cab to a tourist location that is at least an hour's drive away, but is within a twenty minute walking distance from the nearest Amtrak station
You know, that's a tall order if you don't live in a pretty big city already.
In 24 hours I should be able to get anywhere in the U.S.
Yeah, for that you're going to need another identity to be able to get on a plane. By ground it's going to take a while.
It used to be pretty easy to do this. Not sure how easy any more. Probably still easy if you steal a dead person's identity around the age of 15-16, when they would start getting jobs, getting driver's license, etc. Teenagers, take note! Strike now! Even if you're caught you'll be tried as a juvenile for a nonviolent crime, and if you succeed (and if you're smart about it) you'll have a well-established second identity for the rest of your life.
Hey, whatever works for you. I tried a lot of things. This worked. A week of pooping water vs losing 50 pounds without being hungry or portion controlling...
I should have specified: when I say GI disturbance, I mean that your GI tract will be the vehicle by which you rid yourself of a lot of water weight early on. Don't trust that sensation that feels like a little air needs out until you're used to it, or it could be messy. Not a good thing to start while traveling, for the same reason.
The obesity "epidemic" is getting press because people are tipping over the 30 BMI point in bigg numbers. But the average weight of Americans has been a steady climb since at least the 50s.
I was 275 pounds on March 13 this year. I'm now at 225 and still falling. If you haven't tried it before, and there isn't a medical reason you should not, I would really strongly recommend you try a low carb plan for a month. Don't even weigh. Just go buy yourself an item of clothing that is just a little too small (cheap end of season deals on t shirts and shorts) and see how much looser it gets in that month.
It's not for everyone, and some GI disturbance is normal in the first week or two. But it works for me, very well, and it works because I'm never forced to be hungry. If I want food, I eat something from my list (which is actually pretty extensive, even with some pretty extreme carb limits of < 10 g/day). My long term plan is to stay off all the sugars and starches, eating a more or less paleo type diet (carbs come from veggies and fruits only), and I'm basically cool with never eating sugar/starch on a regular basis ever again. Why? Because this has transformed my life. I'm 37, I've almost always struggled with weight, and this has been pure magic to me. So if you haven't, give it a shot. And stay away from all the processed crap that is being sold in the Atkins name. It's processed crap. Have a couple of chicken breasts tossed in Buffalo wing sauce and served on some nice green leaf lettuce with a little Ranch dressing instead. That whole meal has less than 5 g carbs.
IAAD, IANYD, this isn't medical advice. Just personal experience. But it's an amazing experience.
If you think it's such a good deal, apply to med school and go. Nobody's stopping you. The truth is that it's a long and painful investment for a future that is very uncertain right now.
Doctors aren't normal people. They're not uniformly brilliant; there are plenty of relative clods who can memorize the necessary facts to get in and get through, but even those are pretty damned sharp by general standards. So people who go into medicine in the US have other options, and if you make medicine too much less attractive you'll only succeed in giving us crappier doctors.
Well, minus the seven years he spent in med school and residency earning nothing (but borrowing living expenses!) or earning a pittance. And of course taxes go up quite a bit after around $80k as a lot of deductions (like student loan interest) are phased out. So yes, so long as someone who has top 5% intellectual ability is willing to live for at least ten years at a standard far below his income, he could pay off his debts quickly. It's not terribly realistic, but there you are.
Doctors, with the exception of high-volume neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons, don't have houses in the Hamptons unless they live there year-round. Most family physicians would love to break $200k.
Oh, just wait until the first time some attractive young mother dives to push her child out of the way of an oncoming train and is herself cleft twain! What a harvest of blood shall you have then! No, you must pancake your moose on a hard nose, then dispose, not carve it in half to leave two twitching halves swiftly bleeding out as the sky.... gets.... darker....
The problem with the unions and airlines is that there are three separate unions, any one of which can paralyze the company. This effectively transfers money from creditors to union members, as the unions serially absorb any earnings, eventually pushing the whole thing into bankruptcy when the company has a few off years. Even GM only had one union to deal with, really...