Look, the data you're talking about is ambiguous at best and doesn't come close to applying at worst.
I regularly consult with PhD level people that specialize in therapeutic nutrition or athletic nutrition and we're close to being on the same page.
I have been a world-class competitor and trained world-class competitors in power sports. Weight-lifters, power lifters, sprinters, shotputters, bobsled, skeleton, football, and rugby. At one time, of the 30 people I trained 15 held world records at the time, and 27 had broken a record in the last five years. We're talking about two completely different levels of knowledge and experience.
I hate to disappoint you but the only time I've ever seen blood lipid or liver enzymes go out of whack with someone I was working with was when he started taking steroids. In the association he lifted in steroids were not tested for so I let him continue but we altered his diet and conditioning, and put him on a bi-weekly blood panel schedule. He cleared up within two weeks of adjusting his saturated fat intake and upping his carb intake.
You can believe what you will, and you can wait for experimental evidence to catch up to empirical evidence, or you can live on the bleeding edge and whup some ass. (It took 20yrs for JAMA to publish a study that proved steroids improved physical performance. Athletes had figured that out within 5.)
As for the little dig about my workload... You obviously have no idea what intensity is. IF you could work at my capacity for the training times I listed... you wouldn't be complaining about whatever diet made you work well at it. For me, that's a high protein, high fat, high fiber, low carb diet.
Actually I have personally met with Dr. Mauro DiPasquale, Charles Poliquin, Dr. John Berardi, and Dr Lonnie Lowery.
Drs Lowery and Berardi thought that I was over the top. DiPasquale gave me tips on how to fine tune through carb cycling. I mentioned this in my post. I go over 300 grams of carbs on my loading days, mostly from pumpkin, and sweet potato (though the occasional cheesecake does sneak in.) I load twice weekly.
Most bodybuilders don't really eat the way that they say they do. I spent a lot of time talking to Craig Titus (before he whacked that girl) and a few other no names. The diets given in the Muscle Fiction mags are just fluff that some pencil neck thought of.
Taking the diet of a well-known and successful bodybuilding coach Christian Thibaudeau, at a lean bodymass of 206lbs and doing a lot less physical activity you get 380grams of protein. That works out to 1.8 grams of protein per pound of lean mass. At the same rate of consumption I would require 450 grams of protein per day. Considering I spend more of my day training, and the training that I do is high-intensity Olympic lifts, weight/shot/hammer throws, and tackling... the extra 150 grams of protein can be easily justified.
Triple my bodymass in grams of protein is 726.75 grams of protein.
1. I have been eating like this for over 7 years, and zero indications in kidney or liver panels of detrimental effect.
2. The Eskimo used to live on a 90% animal diet without ill-effect.
3. The Maasai have a 90% animal product diet and have zero heart disease, and no arterial plaque.
4. The Bantu people are vegetarian and have been for hundreds of years if not more. They have levels of arterial plaque nearing those of Western civilization.
5. The Northern Indian populations who consume 17x the saturated fats of the Southern Indian populations are 7x less likely to suffer from heart disease.
Anecdotally, I have good or very good scores on every blood/urine panel that I have taken. I may be genetically predisposed to this sort of diet, as it has helped my father's blood sugar and cholesterol, or maybe I'm a little more current in my data and my feeding habits are more controlled that the average american.
My average training week includes 30mins of weight lifting upon waking, 1hour of training for lunch, and 1 hour of weights/football/throwing everyday for 4 weeks. I take the nights off for two weeks(except for football practice/games).
Perhaps, you just need to catch up on your studies. Things are not as simple as you would have them be.
The first article links a well-known study that if read in it's entirety is shown only to indicate that people with _already_ compromised renal function will suffer deleterious results from a high protein diet.
I am not familiar with the second study but it seems that it is more interested in the high-fat content of the diet. The Atkins diet has always troubled me in the amount of saturated fat that it allows to be consumed.
As for heart disease indicators, vegetarians in general are worse off than their counterparts. The vegetarians, who are more likely to have a low bodyfat percentage, are more likely to survive their heart attacks. Due to chronically low B12 in vegans and Ovo-Lacto vegetarians they are more likely to have elevated homocysteine levels, a very good indicator of compromised heart health.
The colon cancer study has been ripped to shreds six ways from Sunday. The more interesting and global indicator is fiber consumption, the average American takes in 13grams per day, 30 has been test with no effect, but between 60 and 80 has been shown to have a positive correlation in a meta-analysis.
I get over 70 grams of fiber per day.
Keep the factoids coming, it keeps my research notes fresh.
Sure is. However, if you refer to the coaching notes of the time he was on taking regular shots of B12 to augment the lack of absorbable B12 in plant foods. He was also on IV amino acids once weekly and oral aminos in extremely high doses daily.
You can pull it off, even at a high level, but a lot of those guys can do extraordinarily well on junk food.
I knew a Olympic level shotputter that swore by grits. He ate grits five times a day. Not exactly nutritionally sound advice.
Some of us need a little more than others, and it is rare that a vegetarian can obtain optimal sports performance especially without supplementation. The B12 deficiency alone will kick your tail per the reference below over 40% of vegans have that problem. Ovo-lacto vegetarians overcome this deficiency through egg yolk.
1. Haddad et al, Dietary intake and biochemical, hematologic, and immune status of vegans compared with nonvegetarians, Am J Clin Nutr 1999;70(suppl):586Sâ"93S.
Meaning you don't process carbohydrates well. There are many carbohydrates that are either indigestible or can resist digestion to the point where they increase microbe growth in the lower intestine causing a variety of digestive disorders.
Personally though, my lineage is particularly disposed to diabetes mellitus which obviously is exacerbated by a high carbohydrate diet.
My father was advised to begin insulin therapy by his doctor if his blood sugar didn't return to normal as indicated by hourly tests. By switching him to a diet that resembles mine, only for someone with a high normal activity level he's well within normal ranges again.
The primary foods in his diet: Lean grass finished beef grass-finished buffalo wild caught salmon free-range chicken from Whole Foods
spinach, kale, brocolli, greens, etc walnuts and almonds as a snack 1/2 cup mixed raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries prepared without sugar for dessert.
Different kind of athlete. Probably a vastly different bodyweight. I play semi-professional football as a hobby, my primary love is power athletics; weightlifting, shotput, hammer, and scottish highland games.
Bodyweight 285lbs, height 6'1", bodyfat by water displacement analysis 13% when slim 16% on a fat day.
Kidney function has been tested and is optimal. Liver enzymes good, cholesterol excellent, bp 120/90, and resting pulse while seated 54.
Thanks for your worries.
Vegetarianism can actually benefit tri-athletes and cyclists, as they often have very urgent need of energy to replenish glycogen stores. They also tend to have to diet down to prevent additional muscle building to keep their times down.
I trained a few Olympic level cyclists and their main issues were keeping fed and strong without gaining weight. The high satiety gained from vegatarianism helps.
The EPA/DHA levels of grass finished beef are 2:1 which is almost the same as salmon. Also grass finished beef contain more minerals and less heavy metals than fish. Lean beef also has a lower fat content than salmon.
Another factor would be unintended calorie restriction caused by the increased satiety of a high fiber diet, or the gastric bloating/distention for some vegetable protein intolerant people.
Problem is that although the bio-availability of soy is 100 (equal to egg) the ratio of amino acids lead to an imbalance in your blood amino acid profile which decreases overall protein synthesis and increase waste load on the kidneys.
For those of us that are serious athletes (even as a hobby) the dietary inefficiency and possible consequences of refined plant proteins (the only sort of plant protein that gets close to a protein per pound ratio of meat) is too great.
I personally consume over 600grams of protein per day, mostly from meats. I also consume 6 cups of spinach, 6cups of brocolli, 1 cup of pumpkin seeds, 1 cup of walnuts, 1 cup milled flaxseed. I will mix in kale, mustard greens, collard greens on low-carb days. Pumpkin, sweet potato, apples, or berries on high-carb days.
So, now, tell me how, without resorting to a highly processed food powder, do I get that much protein without going over 70 grams of carbs per day?
You can't do it on a vegetarian diet.
So, if you're carbohydrate intolerant, as northern europeans tend to be, or if you tend toward zinc deficiency (very common in athletes) or EFA deficiency, vegetarian diets can be detrimental to your health. There are non-meat sources of the above nutrients but they tend to be less well absorbed than the animal versions of the same.
Also you may want to note that the more intelligent a primate gets the more efficient it becomes at obtaining animal protein sources, this is shown by homo habilis, homo erectus, and the chimpanzee. Gorilla's our large and folivorous/frugivorous buddies have the benefit of more durable teeth and a longer digestive system with more varied intestinal flora to allow them to meet their caloric needs on a restricted diet.
For the average sedentary individual the vegetarian diet will probably be beneficial in that the increased fiber consumption will increase satiety which in turn will decrease 'empty' calorie consumption. This in turn will lead to a loss or stabilization in bodymass.
When you eat meat, I encourage you to stick to game, and grass-finished meat as much as possible. If you are an athlete, embrace vegetarianism at your own risk.
He was a self-proclaimed Christian but like much in his life it was mostly used as a tool to further his ends. He was often critical of the peaceful stance of Christian religions preferring the more militaristic Islamic traditions.
He took up the teachings of Arthur de Gobineau who espoused eugenics as the legacy of Darwin.
Eugenics was a very popular topic at the time throughout the world. Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) was a very influential proponent of similar precepts here in the US.
He was racist. That view biased everything that he touched. Saying that Hitler was a good or even middling example of a Christian is like saying that taking a birth control pill is like wishing for the demise of the African American population like Sanger did.
You'll find that most times the provider isn't causing the restriction in a large building. It's your landlord. They often don't want to rewire or have more/new equipment installed to server their customers. Usually because there is some expense involved.
I lived in an apartment in CA in which I upgraded the wiring in the telco closet for my building for cost of materials so that I could get better DSL speed.
Tell that to my neighbor, my dad, my uncle, my dad's priest, my ex-business partner, an entire building of nurses... Crap dude. Wifi is a bit more complex than Ethernet. That's just the way it is.
However, my default builds of Debian and Ubuntu both detect the on-board wifi in my laptop and the PCI card in my wife's computer with zero issues.
It's mostly a chipset thing. Spec your chipset before you buy to make life much easier.
Actually, they were invented as a means to create separation so that benefits can be awarded based on a particular racial profile.
I'm Native American therefore I am _entitled_ to certain benefits. African-Americans, Asian Americans, Native American (Non-Polynesian) are all ethno-types that are treated differently by college scholarships, gov't jobs, gov't benefits, and EOE demographics.
Maybe if we didn't have to categorize ourselves for this that and the other, then we wouldn't spend so much time worrying about which bin we belong in.
The Dead Sea effect is something that I think is more endemic to very large population centers where competition for employees is low because management has a skewed view of the supply.
I have worked in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, for varied companies from extremely large super-conglomerates to relatively small movie studios. The Dead Sea effect was usually only seen in places that observed the supposed glut of IT people as a reason to lower their valuation of those positions. Unfortunately for them, they were way off and they ended up losing anyone of talent that wasn't approaching retirement. Otherwise, it seemed more like a flood plain, in the spring it get flooded and new silt would be deposited resulting in an excellent couple years of production. Then the drought came, frustrations with budget constraints or management issues dries out the talent until it blows away. Another flood soon brings new silt.
Here in the Mid-South of the country, most of the employers have figured out that outsourcing sucks. I currently work for a Fortune 10 company and I am currently being propositioned by several large and profitable companies. However, I am not considering leaving owing to a great benefit package and a great management team. I am currently working with some of the most talented people I have ever worked with. They were collected by a very bright manager. There are pockets of incompetence but that is an area controlled by the mid-level manager assigned to the team... not a corporate culture as a whole.
Comparing the two, the West Coast and Mid-South, I find that the expectations and treatment of the workers is vastly different. The Mid-South companies seem to place a higher value on the contribution that a healthy and happy family can make to the worker's outlook and productivity. The West Coast companies seemed to think that the worker was there solely to fulfill the needs of the company, and if there was time left for the family... good for them.
That where the "living document" line becomes a apology for doing something that horribly violates the constitution. Like regulating intra-state pot use, or withholding funding from a state to enforce a speed limit within that sovereign state (I'm sorry Montana).
The 10th amendment has been butchered to the point that one wonders if it should be included or just skipped like the 13th floor. The 10th Amendment is vital to limiting the power of the federal gov't and should be upheld even when we would like to have that power. The compromise that begat the Constitution was a beautiful thing for the most part, and by holding true to the word of the Constitution (no "penumbra") you protect and preserve the power of the people to influence the gov't. I don't think anyone would argue that the people need less power over their gov't.
Regarding the 2nd Amendment. I don't own a gun anymore (I used to teach marksmanship whilst in the Marines and for a time after) but the ability to prevent someone from unlawfully harming you or seizing your property, by force if necessary, is a fundamental right that no one should be denied. (Imagine a group of gun owners get pissed off enough that a local hero is being forced out of his/her home for a "shopping mall" eminent domain case. I would prefer a little rebellion to remind the police and politicians who actually runs the show... whenever we get up the nerve.)
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment, during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" - Adolph Hitler, Chancellor, Germany, 1933
Huh? Invaded Iraq because they were trading in the euro? Crap dude, come up with a better argument than that please.
Reasons might include:
1. Known subsidies from Iraq to terrorist organizations such as the PLO(March26th,2002, NY Times), AbuNidal, Ansar Al-Islam, Hamas(surprise),Al Qaeda and Mujahedin-el-Khalq. (Most stats collected from State department in 2002, some from the "Time of London, March 2003", Al Qaeda funding derived from data brought to light by the OFF scandal.
2. The unsuccessful attempt by Saddam to purchase uranium from Africa. (Not the forged documents referencing Niger but actual credible evidence.) The evidence of which could not be disclosed by the French or the Brits . Jack Straw statement to CNN July, 2003. Often the documents were wrongly linked to the intelligence that was considered "reliable" when reported in the media (MSNBC, Hardball, Washington Post, etc.)
3. Violations of the non-violence armistice between the US and Iraq. (I was in Kuwait during one of the violations, which included an incursion of Iraqi troops into Kuwaiti terrority, no armed engagement was precipitated, they were given a buzz by a couple Marine pilots.)
Dictator: GWB is hardly a dictator. He will be out of office soon, and has been a lame duck for a while yet.
Fascist: Somewhat. Luckily, people are getting pissed off and taking the legislators on. Please review the history of the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill for further insight. Also note Ok lahoma House Bill 1804. Other crap coming down the pike? Don't know, but watch closely. I imagine the feces is about to hit the rotary air mover.
Now, about the decline of American power. I agree, it is pretty much inevitable that America's influence will decline somewhat. However, that decline is contingent upon larger markets coming up to consumer parity. How fast will that happen? Can it happen in the current government environments of the likely contenders? I think India is more likely than China actually, as the Chinese will likely have several setbacks due to their gov't. We'll see. However, with a great natural resource environment, including several key energy sources, and an entrepeneurial outlook toward using those resources effectively driven by the third largest populace in the world, don't count us out of the game just yet.
Today's decline of the dollar? It will sink as everybody waits for the economy to recover from the loan idiocy (as it did in the 80's) and rebound as we take off again to do more wheelin' and dealin'.
However, then you get into the 'tyranny of the majority' problem. There are some things that are 'off limits' to regulation by the gov't. At least according to the philosophy under which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were composed.
That is the problem that I have with a great deal of legislation that goes on within the US. Some of it should not be even considered, but the reading of the Constitution has become so alive that one wonders if any of the Congress Critters can catch it to read it.
Sort of, but like the summary you're kind of out of whack with the real issue.
The real issue is, can the US gov't spy on communications that have a domestic origin but a foreign gov't or a foreign citizen as a destination. The answer to that has been yes, historically. That was the purpose for the establishment of FISA. However, is FISA relevant and Constitutionally valid? That's a Supreme Court issue.
Personally, communications that originate within the states but are destined for foreign nations should be fair game. That was one of our means of discovering spies during the War of 1812, and World War II from my knowledge.
To some extent several other governments have used such powers in the past and may be using them now. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK all participated in the Echelon project which is just an automated form of this same power.
Don't muddle the issue with worries about someone listening to your conversation with your mom.
That's another issue entirely.
FTFA:
In 2006, the Department of Justice has asserted that "that warrantless communications intelligence targeted at the enemy in time of armed conflict is a traditional and fundamental incident of the use of military force authorized by the AUMF." The DOJ also asserted that "the NSA activities fit squarely within the sweeping terms of the AUMF. The use of signals intelligence to identify and pinpoint the enemy is a traditional component of wartime military operations." As the DOJ sees it, "In the present conflict, unlike in the Korean War, the battlefield was brought to the United States..." The NSA is part of the Department of Defense.
The debate is whether or not the employer should be allowed to import employees from other countries so that it can mistreat them and thus leverage domestic workers into accepting less pay and benefits.
Actually the H1-B visas have not played a role in decreasing the movement of jobs overseas. The cost that has to be overcome is the cost of doing business in the infrastructure provided in India or China.
What we should focus on is providing a stable and provocative business environment. Things like business tax codes. (25 states in the US have corporate income tax rates when combined with the federal corporate income tax rate results in the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.)
We also have to be willing to accept that some jobs will move overseas. That is as inevitable as the low-grade steel industry leaving the US.
You state the MS should try to drive profits up and costs down, but what they are trying to do is maintain artificially large margins. As software becomes more of a commodity the margin shrinks but the volume grows. MS is trying to grow volume while maintaining margin. As we can see with the Vista debacle, people are becoming frustrated with paying a premium to use hardware.
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Look, the data you're talking about is ambiguous at best and doesn't come close to applying at worst.
I regularly consult with PhD level people that specialize in therapeutic nutrition or athletic nutrition and we're close to being on the same page.
I have been a world-class competitor and trained world-class competitors in power sports. Weight-lifters, power lifters, sprinters, shotputters, bobsled, skeleton, football, and rugby. At one time, of the 30 people I trained 15 held world records at the time, and 27 had broken a record in the last five years. We're talking about two completely different levels of knowledge and experience.
I hate to disappoint you but the only time I've ever seen blood lipid or liver enzymes go out of whack with someone I was working with was when he started taking steroids. In the association he lifted in steroids were not tested for so I let him continue but we altered his diet and conditioning, and put him on a bi-weekly blood panel schedule. He cleared up within two weeks of adjusting his saturated fat intake and upping his carb intake.
You can believe what you will, and you can wait for experimental evidence to catch up to empirical evidence, or you can live on the bleeding edge and whup some ass. (It took 20yrs for JAMA to publish a study that proved steroids improved physical performance. Athletes had figured that out within 5.)
As for the little dig about my workload... You obviously have no idea what intensity is. IF you could work at my capacity for the training times I listed... you wouldn't be complaining about whatever diet made you work well at it. For me, that's a high protein, high fat, high fiber, low carb diet.
Actually I have personally met with Dr. Mauro DiPasquale, Charles Poliquin, Dr. John Berardi, and Dr Lonnie Lowery.
Drs Lowery and Berardi thought that I was over the top. DiPasquale gave me tips on how to fine tune through carb cycling. I mentioned this in my post. I go over 300 grams of carbs on my loading days, mostly from pumpkin, and sweet potato (though the occasional cheesecake does sneak in.) I load twice weekly.
Most bodybuilders don't really eat the way that they say they do. I spent a lot of time talking to Craig Titus (before he whacked that girl) and a few other no names. The diets given in the Muscle Fiction mags are just fluff that some pencil neck thought of.
Taking the diet of a well-known and successful bodybuilding coach Christian Thibaudeau, at a lean bodymass of 206lbs and doing a lot less physical activity you get 380grams of protein. That works out to 1.8 grams of protein per pound of lean mass. At the same rate of consumption I would require 450 grams of protein per day. Considering I spend more of my day training, and the training that I do is high-intensity Olympic lifts, weight/shot/hammer throws, and tackling... the extra 150 grams of protein can be easily justified.
My lean body mass is ~242.25 lbs.
Triple my bodymass in grams of protein is 726.75 grams of protein.
1. I have been eating like this for over 7 years, and zero indications in kidney or liver panels of detrimental effect.
2. The Eskimo used to live on a 90% animal diet without ill-effect.
3. The Maasai have a 90% animal product diet and have zero heart disease, and no arterial plaque.
4. The Bantu people are vegetarian and have been for hundreds of years if not more. They have levels of arterial plaque nearing those of Western civilization.
5. The Northern Indian populations who consume 17x the saturated fats of the Southern Indian populations are 7x less likely to suffer from heart disease.
Anecdotally, I have good or very good scores on every blood/urine panel that I have taken. I may be genetically predisposed to this sort of diet, as it has helped my father's blood sugar and cholesterol, or maybe I'm a little more current in my data and my feeding habits are more controlled that the average american.
My average training week includes 30mins of weight lifting upon waking, 1hour of training for lunch, and 1 hour of weights/football/throwing everyday for 4 weeks. I take the nights off for two weeks(except for football practice/games).
Perhaps, you just need to catch up on your studies. Things are not as simple as you would have them be.
The first article links a well-known study that if read in it's entirety is shown only to indicate that people with _already_ compromised renal function will suffer deleterious results from a high protein diet.
I am not familiar with the second study but it seems that it is more interested in the high-fat content of the diet. The Atkins diet has always troubled me in the amount of saturated fat that it allows to be consumed.
As for heart disease indicators, vegetarians in general are worse off than their counterparts. The vegetarians, who are more likely to have a low bodyfat percentage, are more likely to survive their heart attacks. Due to chronically low B12 in vegans and Ovo-Lacto vegetarians they are more likely to have elevated homocysteine levels, a very good indicator of compromised heart health.
The colon cancer study has been ripped to shreds six ways from Sunday. The more interesting and global indicator is fiber consumption, the average American takes in 13grams per day, 30 has been test with no effect, but between 60 and 80 has been shown to have a positive correlation in a meta-analysis.
I get over 70 grams of fiber per day.
Keep the factoids coming, it keeps my research notes fresh.
I hate to reply to my own post but I was wrong about the ovo-lacto vegetarians...
;-P
Good thing I went back to check my notes.
The study below finds B12 deficiency in 7th Day Adventist Ovo-lacto vegetarians.
Hokin and Butler, Cyanocobalamin (vitamin B-12) status in Seventh-day Adventist ministers in Australia, Am J Clin Nutr 1999;70(suppl):576Sâ"8S.
I occasionaly eat quinoa, but it's still a far cry from animal protein.
quinoa per serving has 8grams protein and 39 grams of carbohydates. Net carbs 34g.
Quinoa also has a high methionine content which will be very important in a vegan/vegetarian diet.
Sure is. However, if you refer to the coaching notes of the time he was on taking regular shots of B12 to augment the lack of absorbable B12 in plant foods. He was also on IV amino acids once weekly and oral aminos in extremely high doses daily.
You can pull it off, even at a high level, but a lot of those guys can do extraordinarily well on junk food.
I knew a Olympic level shotputter that swore by grits. He ate grits five times a day. Not exactly nutritionally sound advice.
Some of us need a little more than others, and it is rare that a vegetarian can obtain optimal sports performance especially without supplementation. The B12 deficiency alone will kick your tail per the reference below over 40% of vegans have that problem. Ovo-lacto vegetarians overcome this deficiency through egg yolk.
1. Haddad et al, Dietary intake and biochemical, hematologic, and immune status of vegans compared with nonvegetarians, Am J Clin Nutr 1999;70(suppl):586Sâ"93S.
Meaning you don't process carbohydrates well. There are many carbohydrates that are either indigestible or can resist digestion to the point where they increase microbe growth in the lower intestine causing a variety of digestive disorders.
Personally though, my lineage is particularly disposed to diabetes mellitus which obviously is exacerbated by a high carbohydrate diet.
My father was advised to begin insulin therapy by his doctor if his blood sugar didn't return to normal as indicated by hourly tests. By switching him to a diet that resembles mine, only for someone with a high normal activity level he's well within normal ranges again.
The primary foods in his diet:
Lean grass finished beef
grass-finished buffalo
wild caught salmon
free-range chicken from Whole Foods
spinach, kale, brocolli, greens, etc
walnuts and almonds as a snack
1/2 cup mixed raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries prepared without sugar for dessert.
Different kind of athlete. Probably a vastly different bodyweight. I play semi-professional football as a hobby, my primary love is power athletics; weightlifting, shotput, hammer, and scottish highland games.
Bodyweight 285lbs, height 6'1", bodyfat by water displacement analysis 13% when slim 16% on a fat day.
Kidney function has been tested and is optimal. Liver enzymes good, cholesterol excellent, bp 120/90, and resting pulse while seated 54.
Thanks for your worries.
Vegetarianism can actually benefit tri-athletes and cyclists, as they often have very urgent need of energy to replenish glycogen stores. They also tend to have to diet down to prevent additional muscle building to keep their times down.
I trained a few Olympic level cyclists and their main issues were keeping fed and strong without gaining weight. The high satiety gained from vegatarianism helps.
Not true.
The EPA/DHA levels of grass finished beef are 2:1 which is almost the same as salmon. Also grass finished beef contain more minerals and less heavy metals than fish. Lean beef also has a lower fat content than salmon.
Eat more beef!
Another factor would be unintended calorie restriction caused by the increased satiety of a high fiber diet, or the gastric bloating/distention for some vegetable protein intolerant people.
Problem is that although the bio-availability of soy is 100 (equal to egg) the ratio of amino acids lead to an imbalance in your blood amino acid profile which decreases overall protein synthesis and increase waste load on the kidneys.
For those of us that are serious athletes (even as a hobby) the dietary inefficiency and possible consequences of refined plant proteins (the only sort of plant protein that gets close to a protein per pound ratio of meat) is too great.
I personally consume over 600grams of protein per day, mostly from meats. I also consume 6 cups of spinach, 6cups of brocolli, 1 cup of pumpkin seeds, 1 cup of walnuts, 1 cup milled flaxseed. I will mix in kale, mustard greens, collard greens on low-carb days. Pumpkin, sweet potato, apples, or berries on high-carb days.
So, now, tell me how, without resorting to a highly processed food powder, do I get that much protein without going over 70 grams of carbs per day?
You can't do it on a vegetarian diet.
So, if you're carbohydrate intolerant, as northern europeans tend to be, or if you tend toward zinc deficiency (very common in athletes) or EFA deficiency, vegetarian diets can be detrimental to your health. There are non-meat sources of the above nutrients but they tend to be less well absorbed than the animal versions of the same.
Also you may want to note that the more intelligent a primate gets the more efficient it becomes at obtaining animal protein sources, this is shown by homo habilis, homo erectus, and the chimpanzee. Gorilla's our large and folivorous/frugivorous buddies have the benefit of more durable teeth and a longer digestive system with more varied intestinal flora to allow them to meet their caloric needs on a restricted diet.
For the average sedentary individual the vegetarian diet will probably be beneficial in that the increased fiber consumption will increase satiety which in turn will decrease 'empty' calorie consumption. This in turn will lead to a loss or stabilization in bodymass.
When you eat meat, I encourage you to stick to game, and grass-finished meat as much as possible. If you are an athlete, embrace vegetarianism at your own risk.
He was a self-proclaimed Christian but like much in his life it was mostly used as a tool to further his ends. He was often critical of the peaceful stance of Christian religions preferring the more militaristic Islamic traditions.
He took up the teachings of Arthur de Gobineau who espoused eugenics as the legacy of Darwin.
Eugenics was a very popular topic at the time throughout the world. Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) was a very influential proponent of similar precepts here in the US.
He was racist. That view biased everything that he touched. Saying that Hitler was a good or even middling example of a Christian is like saying that taking a birth control pill is like wishing for the demise of the African American population like Sanger did.
More important would be the BBC article. It was published April 3 and authored by Roger Harrabin.
The transcript of the email conversation that may have precipitated the change can be found at
http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/002906.html
The quasi-retraction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/04/climate_change_debate.html
Actually, the article does exist. It was published by the BBC on April the 3rd, the author was Roger Harrabin.
The quasi-retraction is here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/04/climate_change_debate.html
You'll find that most times the provider isn't causing the restriction in a large building. It's your landlord. They often don't want to rewire or have more/new equipment installed to server their customers. Usually because there is some expense involved.
I lived in an apartment in CA in which I upgraded the wiring in the telco closet for my building for cost of materials so that I could get better DSL speed.
I lived in the SFV and had 10Mb/s service to my home 4yrs ago. I lived near the intersection of Kling St and Pass Ave in Burbank/Toluca Lake.
If you live in an apartment/condo then oftentimes the restriction is on the cable plant of the complex.
Tell that to my neighbor, my dad, my uncle, my dad's priest, my ex-business partner, an entire building of nurses... Crap dude. Wifi is a bit more complex than Ethernet. That's just the way it is.
However, my default builds of Debian and Ubuntu both detect the on-board wifi in my laptop and the PCI card in my wife's computer with zero issues.
It's mostly a chipset thing. Spec your chipset before you buy to make life much easier.
Actually, they were invented as a means to create separation so that benefits can be awarded based on a particular racial profile.
I'm Native American therefore I am _entitled_ to certain benefits. African-Americans, Asian Americans, Native American (Non-Polynesian) are all ethno-types that are treated differently by college scholarships, gov't jobs, gov't benefits, and EOE demographics.
Maybe if we didn't have to categorize ourselves for this that and the other, then we wouldn't spend so much time worrying about which bin we belong in.
The Dead Sea effect is something that I think is more endemic to very large population centers where competition for employees is low because management has a skewed view of the supply.
I have worked in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, for varied companies from extremely large super-conglomerates to relatively small movie studios. The Dead Sea effect was usually only seen in places that observed the supposed glut of IT people as a reason to lower their valuation of those positions. Unfortunately for them, they were way off and they ended up losing anyone of talent that wasn't approaching retirement. Otherwise, it seemed more like a flood plain, in the spring it get flooded and new silt would be deposited resulting in an excellent couple years of production. Then the drought came, frustrations with budget constraints or management issues dries out the talent until it blows away. Another flood soon brings new silt.
Here in the Mid-South of the country, most of the employers have figured out that outsourcing sucks. I currently work for a Fortune 10 company and I am currently being propositioned by several large and profitable companies. However, I am not considering leaving owing to a great benefit package and a great management team. I am currently working with some of the most talented people I have ever worked with. They were collected by a very bright manager. There are pockets of incompetence but that is an area controlled by the mid-level manager assigned to the team... not a corporate culture as a whole.
Comparing the two, the West Coast and Mid-South, I find that the expectations and treatment of the workers is vastly different. The Mid-South companies seem to place a higher value on the contribution that a healthy and happy family can make to the worker's outlook and productivity. The West Coast companies seemed to think that the worker was there solely to fulfill the needs of the company, and if there was time left for the family... good for them.
Agreed.
That where the "living document" line becomes a apology for doing something that horribly violates the constitution. Like regulating intra-state pot use, or withholding funding from a state to enforce a speed limit within that sovereign state (I'm sorry Montana).
The 10th amendment has been butchered to the point that one wonders if it should be included or just skipped like the 13th floor. The 10th Amendment is vital to limiting the power of the federal gov't and should be upheld even when we would like to have that power. The compromise that begat the Constitution was a beautiful thing for the most part, and by holding true to the word of the Constitution (no "penumbra") you protect and preserve the power of the people to influence the gov't. I don't think anyone would argue that the people need less power over their gov't.
Regarding the 2nd Amendment. I don't own a gun anymore (I used to teach marksmanship whilst in the Marines and for a time after) but the ability to prevent someone from unlawfully harming you or seizing your property, by force if necessary, is a fundamental right that no one should be denied. (Imagine a group of gun owners get pissed off enough that a local hero is being forced out of his/her home for a "shopping mall" eminent domain case. I would prefer a little rebellion to remind the police and politicians who actually runs the show... whenever we get up the nerve.)
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment, during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" - Adolph Hitler, Chancellor, Germany, 1933
Huh? Invaded Iraq because they were trading in the euro? Crap dude, come up with a better argument than that please.
Reasons might include:
1. Known subsidies from Iraq to terrorist organizations such as the PLO(March26th,2002, NY Times), AbuNidal, Ansar Al-Islam, Hamas(surprise),Al Qaeda and Mujahedin-el-Khalq. (Most stats collected from State department in 2002, some from the "Time of London, March 2003", Al Qaeda funding derived from data brought to light by the OFF scandal.
2. The unsuccessful attempt by Saddam to purchase uranium from Africa. (Not the forged documents referencing Niger but actual credible evidence.) The evidence of which could not be disclosed by the French or the Brits . Jack Straw statement to CNN July, 2003. Often the documents were wrongly linked to the intelligence that was considered "reliable" when reported in the media (MSNBC, Hardball, Washington Post, etc.)
3. Violations of the non-violence armistice between the US and Iraq. (I was in Kuwait during one of the violations, which included an incursion of Iraqi troops into Kuwaiti terrority, no armed engagement was precipitated, they were given a buzz by a couple Marine pilots.)
4. Violations of the oil-for-food trade agreement. Illegally trading oil with gov'ts for money above their trade cap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme
Regarding the other poorly thought out arguments:
Dictator: GWB is hardly a dictator. He will be out of office soon, and has been a lame duck for a while yet.
Fascist: Somewhat. Luckily, people are getting pissed off and taking the legislators on. Please review the history of the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill for further insight. Also note Ok lahoma House Bill 1804. Other crap coming down the pike? Don't know, but watch closely. I imagine the feces is about to hit the rotary air mover.
Now, about the decline of American power. I agree, it is pretty much inevitable that America's influence will decline somewhat. However, that decline is contingent upon larger markets coming up to consumer parity. How fast will that happen? Can it happen in the current government environments of the likely contenders? I think India is more likely than China actually, as the Chinese will likely have several setbacks due to their gov't. We'll see. However, with a great natural resource environment, including several key energy sources, and an entrepeneurial outlook toward using those resources effectively driven by the third largest populace in the world, don't count us out of the game just yet.
Today's decline of the dollar? It will sink as everybody waits for the economy to recover from the loan idiocy (as it did in the 80's) and rebound as we take off again to do more wheelin' and dealin'.
Sort of.
However, then you get into the 'tyranny of the majority' problem. There are some things that are 'off limits' to regulation by the gov't. At least according to the philosophy under which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were composed.
That is the problem that I have with a great deal of legislation that goes on within the US. Some of it should not be even considered, but the reading of the Constitution has become so alive that one wonders if any of the Congress Critters can catch it to read it.
Sort of, but like the summary you're kind of out of whack with the real issue.
..." The NSA is part of the Department of Defense.
The real issue is, can the US gov't spy on communications that have a domestic origin but a foreign gov't or a foreign citizen as a destination. The answer to that has been yes, historically. That was the purpose for the establishment of FISA. However, is FISA relevant and Constitutionally valid? That's a Supreme Court issue.
Personally, communications that originate within the states but are destined for foreign nations should be fair game. That was one of our means of discovering spies during the War of 1812, and World War II from my knowledge.
To some extent several other governments have used such powers in the past and may be using them now. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK all participated in the Echelon project which is just an automated form of this same power.
Don't muddle the issue with worries about someone listening to your conversation with your mom.
That's another issue entirely.
FTFA:
In 2006, the Department of Justice has asserted that "that warrantless communications intelligence targeted at the enemy in time of armed conflict is a traditional and fundamental incident of the use of military force authorized by the AUMF." The DOJ also asserted that "the NSA activities fit squarely within the sweeping terms of the AUMF. The use of signals intelligence to identify and pinpoint the enemy is a traditional component of wartime military operations." As the DOJ sees it, "In the present conflict, unlike in the Korean War, the battlefield was brought to the United States
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/politics/23legal.html
The debate is whether or not the employer should be allowed to import employees from other countries so that it can mistreat them and thus leverage domestic workers into accepting less pay and benefits.
Actually the H1-B visas have not played a role in decreasing the movement of jobs overseas. The cost that has to be overcome is the cost of doing business in the infrastructure provided in India or China.
What we should focus on is providing a stable and provocative business environment. Things like business tax codes. (25 states in the US have corporate income tax rates when combined with the federal corporate income tax rate results in the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.)
We also have to be willing to accept that some jobs will move overseas. That is as inevitable as the low-grade steel industry leaving the US.
You state the MS should try to drive profits up and costs down, but what they are trying to do is maintain artificially large margins. As software becomes more of a commodity the margin shrinks but the volume grows. MS is trying to grow volume while maintaining margin. As we can see with the Vista debacle, people are becoming frustrated with paying a premium to use hardware.