Although the fine points of the glycemic index and glycemic load may seem complicated, the basic message is simple: Whenever possible, replace highly processed grains, cereals, and sugars with minimally processed whole-grain products. And only eat potatoes - once on the list of preferred complex carbohydrates - occasionally because of their high glycemic index and glycemic load.
Stereo components and computers are both too big (most stereo components are 90% air inside the box. I opened my dvd recorder-- it has a dvd drive, a 6"x8" circuit board and a fan. Nothing else. It could have easily fit in a box 1" thicker than the dvd drive and the same dimensions otherwise.
For the laptop- the key is getting the video card in a separate box with it's own power. The rest of your computer doesn't have to generate that much heat unless it is a top of the line, overclocked monster gaming rig.
So I see a laptop-sized computer with a native 500 gig drive, memory, processor, dvd rw drive. No option for more hard drives. All other upgrades, extra drives, etc (and video) connect via firewire, etc. Most of my storage is in a terabyte server with wireless connectivity (or 1 gig wired if I need high bandwidth).
Hey man-- Irish farmers... great example of how good potatoes are for your health... you go for that 40 year life expectancy. I'm hoping for a little longer myself. Personally, I'm going to avoid the type 2 diabetes with the early heart attacks, amputations, and impotence that go with it.
Granted on your protein mitigating point about totally empty calories. Since the mars bar has 8 grams of protein the same argument would apply to mars bar consumption. Mars bars are not cotten candy or fruit juice.
However, I don't recommend eating potatoes OR mars bars. You really need to be eating reasonable portion sizes of food with much lower ratings (sub 40) for the majority of your diet. There is nothing wrong with candy (or potatoes) as a treat. By treat, I mean under 5% of your diet. Many americans easily consume 600 calories a day of sugar and another 600 calories of "starches" which are really just non-sweet sugar. 1200 calories is about 80% of what most people should be eating.
Then they wonder why they can't lose weight. Sugar, bread, and potatoes are treats-- as in one or two slices at the outback, not 2 mini-loafs-- as in 4 to 5 ounces of potatoes with a meal-- as in total candy per day (if you simply must have it) being 1/3 of a mars bar (so why not go with girhadelli or godiva if you are eating that little). As in averaging under 80 calories a day for these kinds of food.
Caveat being that all this depends on your native stock and is only true for the great majority of people. A large minority of people do better on other specific diets. Some people can't eat grain at all (allergic).. some tolerate salt well... some probably are adapted to a rice diet. A large number of people are bitter tasters and can't stand certain vegetables like brussel sprouts.
---
Please note that I'm not against *sweet* or *treats* or indulging. There are many other sweeteners without the issues of sugar. Xylitol (widely used in europe), stevia (widely used in japan), maltitol, malitol, isomalt (europe) and of course the artificial ones sacharine (very safe- victim of a smear campaign by aspartame), aspartame (reasonably safe if you are not an "absorber"-if you get headaches do not use this), and sucralose (reasonably safe if you are not an "absorber" but have your liver checked at your annual physicals). You can make much healthier, delicious ice-cream with xylitol, bake with xylitol and isomalt, and sweeten your coffee or tea with stevia (if you are not a bitter taster- if you are, stevia is out).
I'm sure they are a great sustenance food but they contribute greatly to type 2 diabetes (the kind you get from your diet).
However, potato's hit your body with sugar harder than sugar does. They will wear out your pancreas and/or make you insulin resistant over time. I'm sure that *some* potatoes are fine in a balanced diet.
Granted A large baked potato, about 3 1/2 to 4 inches in diameter can have up to 275 calories. The average female needs to stay at about 1,500 calories a day. Average males are about 1,800 to 2,000.
Glucose === 100 Glycemic index... Potato, baked High 85 Potato, micro waved High 82 Doughnut High 76 Chips High 75
Potato, mashed Medium 70 Table sugar (sucrose) Medium 65 Mars bar Medium 64 Cherries Low 22 Grapefruit Low 25 Apricots (dried) Low 31 Apples Low 38 Pears Low 38 Plums Low 39
Do you really know how small 100 calories of potatoes is? I can assure you that it is not a 6" x 3" beast that you are served at most restaurants. It's roughly 3" x 1.5". I probably have half a portion of potatoes a day.
A portion of pasta is about 3" x.75" cylinder. You probably get four to five times that on most meals.
A portion of pancake is one- about 3" in diameter.
A portion of hamburger -- well they now sell those as "junior" burgers at most restaurants.
There are a ton of caveats to what I said. If you come from stock from the russian steppes, then you come from stock adapted to eating a lot of salted meat. I don't think the irish were on potatoes long enough to adapt to them. A lot of people can't eat any grains with gluten in them. But it was a short toss off post, not a doctoral thesis.
I don't do atkins diet per se, but it has simplified things enormously for me to just basically eliminate bread, sugar, and potatoes. I have a tiny amount treating them as treats/deserts more than as food.
I think you are missing the point here. If parents talked to their children about it and showed that they cared and trusted them, there would be no need to monitor them.
ROFL. Oh my god.. that's such a good one. You really should go into comedy as a career./wipes tears from his eyes.
I had an honors student daughter. Even she agrees these days that she was basically irrational for much of her senior year of high school.
Kids brains are not finished developing until they are 12 to 13 years old. So on average they are incapable of making certain logical connections.
Then kids are on a massive dose of hormones for the next 6 to 10 years. Then they are finally adults, though they are still ignorant as hell until their early 30's and likely to make the classic stupid mistakes even if you warn them about all of them in advance.
I really think you underestimate the appeal of sugar in all it's wonderful forms. Or just how bad a mere extra 80 grams of sugar can be for you. Or how easily "healthy" starch converts to sugar in your body. And then there is the salt.
I've lost weight after raising the amount of fat I eat (to the tune of a couple pints of heavy cream a month) by cutting out sugar, bread and potatoes. Down 21 pounds.
Healthy food consists of protein about the size of your palm (cut off the thumb and fingers mentally and there you go) combined with enough of a variety of vegetables until you are full.
Potatoes in all their glorious forms are pretty bad news. Ground grain is roughly the same as eating the same amount of sugar (check out the glycemic index of white bread some time).
I would say schools need healthy, well prepared proteins (fish, chicken, beef) and lots of *lightly* cooked vegetables and absolutely no candy, sodas, or sweetened drinks. Part of the reason people do not like vegetables is our history of overcooking them so the sulphur is released and they smell bad.
It's terribly misleading here as everything is tax plus, and on little things like phones, cell phones, and cable television, the tax rate can exceed 25%.
1) Would love a link to DC air conditioning. 2) Our state allows you to roll your meter back but that requires
a) a new fairly expensive meter (About $1500) that does reverse metering.
b) the current electrical system of the house brought up to code (About $4000-only a L.E. can do it)) 3) My other figures are based on a quote from an actual solar power company. 4) I think you are being selective about the way you apply inflation. 5) 5% on 8,000 is $400 per year. Electricity for the window unit is $71 (by the tag on the unit).
So my 8,000 grows by $300 a year which accounts for inflation fairly nicely.
I have platinum savings and checking so I have no service fees. 6) After 7 years, I have to pay for all the batteries again (including disposal fees here). 7) There are no grants here except in Austin. B(
At the current time, I'm waiting until I build a new house or we get an order of magnitude drop in panel costs (say from Nanosolar or a similar companie's advances).
In the U.S., we see a price like "26 dollars a month for 100 channels".
But by the time state, local, federal, spanish war, indigent korean war veterans with dependents, and other taxes are added on the bill is double that.
How is it in france? Is that $85 really going to be $150?
So you need multiple panels to make 120 wall current.
Whenever I do the numbers so far, it makes more sense to put the money into a 5% CD and use that to pay the electric bills except for...
1) Power Failure- no power available at any price-- be really nice to have 8 4'x1' panels pumping out 110 watts of wall current. 2) Big War. Prices go insane. 3) Period of high inflation (buy solar at $45k now.... but after 10 years, you are making $25k per month minimum wage and your electric bill is $18,000 a month).
A modest system to run a small window AC was estimated at $8000 if I used batteries and $17000 if I did not. This is for an estimated annual usage of $130 worth of electricity at current prices.
Something not considered in most of these studies is:
Is RED meat bad for you or..
Is RED meat raised on pesticide polluted corn instead of grass, shot full with hormones and drugs bad for you.
Is CHICKEN bad for you...
Is CHICKEN raised in pens with thousands of others in a highly stressful, low exercise, drug/hormone/pesticide polluted environment bad for you.
I personally think that a lot of the benefits of vegetables, beef, and chicken are not present in factory raised conditions. You have a tomato that *looks* like a tomatoe but which is 80% fiber (so it ships well) and lacks the nutrients. Chicken and beef are good because they eat tons of bugs and plants and concentrate the nutrients and minerals in those plants and we adapted to eating those kinds of animal meats. We have not yet adapted to eating meat that looks like meat but which has different nutritional value than it used to.
I guess we won't know for sure until we start wearing shirts cut to the bottom of our chests right along the edge of our nipples. B)
I did get a joke card for a friend once that talked about a guys face but he really buff and shirtless and inside it had a punchline like *his FACE... his FACE* and yup.. she'd been looking at his chest.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow- seriously?
I could until march.
Then it just stopped one day.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH for the info! happy happy joy joy.
Link probably not work safe.
And vaguely disturbing that it apparently happens enough to have an official slang term.
There was a short period when harris county, texas listed the voter registration cards online... which all had SSN's on them.
And because the government says they are going to deliver 85kbps, you believe them?
I agree with you that businesses are overselling.
Government has a long tradition of promising more than it deliver at a much higher cost than it promised.
Not at all...
h ydrates.html
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbo
Although the fine points of the glycemic index and glycemic load may seem complicated, the basic message is simple: Whenever possible, replace highly processed grains, cereals, and sugars with minimally processed whole-grain products. And only eat potatoes - once on the list of preferred complex carbohydrates - occasionally because of their high glycemic index and glycemic load.
At 1 billion humans, the planet would basically be a paradise.
At 11 billion, it is going to be hell on earth.
But... on global warming- they are correct this time... for sure!
There is no reason you can't have both.
Stereo components and computers are both too big (most stereo components are 90% air inside the box. I opened my dvd recorder-- it has a dvd drive, a 6"x8" circuit board and a fan. Nothing else. It could have easily fit in a box 1" thicker than the dvd drive and the same dimensions otherwise.
For the laptop- the key is getting the video card in a separate box with it's own power. The rest of your computer doesn't have to generate that much heat unless it is a top of the line, overclocked monster gaming rig.
So I see a laptop-sized computer with a native 500 gig drive, memory, processor, dvd rw drive. No option for more hard drives. All other upgrades, extra drives, etc (and video) connect via firewire, etc. Most of my storage is in a terabyte server with wireless connectivity (or 1 gig wired if I need high bandwidth).
LOL.
n troduction.htm ... . Life expectancy was short, just 40 years for men.
A trivial search (irish farmer life expectancy) hit this...
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/i
Ireland in the mid-1800s was an agricultural nation,
Hey man-- Irish farmers... great example of how good potatoes are for your health... you go for that 40 year life expectancy. I'm hoping for a little longer myself. Personally, I'm going to avoid the type 2 diabetes with the early heart attacks, amputations, and impotence that go with it.
Granted on your protein mitigating point about totally empty calories. Since the mars bar has 8 grams of protein the same argument would apply to mars bar consumption. Mars bars are not cotten candy or fruit juice.
However, I don't recommend eating potatoes OR mars bars. You really need to be eating reasonable portion sizes of food with much lower ratings (sub 40) for the majority of your diet. There is nothing wrong with candy (or potatoes) as a treat. By treat, I mean under 5% of your diet. Many americans easily consume 600 calories a day of sugar and another 600 calories of "starches" which are really just non-sweet sugar. 1200 calories is about 80% of what most people should be eating.
Then they wonder why they can't lose weight. Sugar, bread, and potatoes are treats-- as in one or two slices at the outback, not 2 mini-loafs-- as in 4 to 5 ounces of potatoes with a meal-- as in total candy per day (if you simply must have it) being 1/3 of a mars bar (so why not go with girhadelli or godiva if you are eating that little). As in averaging under 80 calories a day for these kinds of food.
Caveat being that all this depends on your native stock and is only true for the great majority of people. A large minority of people do better on other specific diets. Some people can't eat grain at all (allergic).. some tolerate salt well... some probably are adapted to a rice diet. A large number of people are bitter tasters and can't stand certain vegetables like brussel sprouts.
---
Please note that I'm not against *sweet* or *treats* or indulging. There are many other sweeteners without the issues of sugar. Xylitol (widely used in europe), stevia (widely used in japan), maltitol, malitol, isomalt (europe) and of course the artificial ones sacharine (very safe- victim of a smear campaign by aspartame), aspartame (reasonably safe if you are not an "absorber"-if you get headaches do not use this), and sucralose (reasonably safe if you are not an "absorber" but have your liver checked at your annual physicals). You can make much healthier, delicious ice-cream with xylitol, bake with xylitol and isomalt, and sweeten your coffee or tea with stevia (if you are not a bitter taster- if you are, stevia is out).
I'm sure they are a great sustenance food but they contribute greatly to type 2 diabetes (the kind you get from your diet).
However, potato's hit your body with sugar harder than sugar does. They will wear out your pancreas and/or make you insulin resistant over time. I'm sure that *some* potatoes are fine in a balanced diet.
Granted A large baked potato, about 3 1/2 to 4 inches in diameter can have up to 275 calories.
The average female needs to stay at about 1,500 calories a day. Average males are about 1,800 to 2,000.
Glucose === 100
Glycemic index...
Potato, baked High 85
Potato, micro waved High 82
Doughnut High 76
Chips High 75
Potato, mashed Medium 70
Table sugar (sucrose) Medium 65
Mars bar Medium 64
Cherries Low 22
Grapefruit Low 25
Apricots (dried) Low 31
Apples Low 38
Pears Low 38
Plums Low 39
Artichoke Low 15
Asparagus Low 15
Broccoli Low 15
Cauliflower Low 15
Celery Low 15
Cucumber Low 15
Eggplant Low 15
Jams and marmalades Low 49
Please make it close to the size of a laptop.
I don't want a another pretty but big object in my house.
Ah yes... forcing them gracefully to land.. in the limb chipper...
AHhhhhhhhhHHHHhhhhhhhh grrrrrriiiidddd....
I agree entirely on moderation.
.75" cylinder. You probably get four to five times that on most meals.
Do you really know how small 100 calories of potatoes is? I can assure you that it is not a 6" x 3" beast that you are served at most restaurants. It's roughly 3" x 1.5". I probably have half a portion of potatoes a day.
A portion of pasta is about 3" x
A portion of pancake is one- about 3" in diameter.
A portion of hamburger -- well they now sell those as "junior" burgers at most restaurants.
There are a ton of caveats to what I said. If you come from stock from the russian steppes, then you come from stock adapted to eating a lot of salted meat. I don't think the irish were on potatoes long enough to adapt to them. A lot of people can't eat any grains with gluten in them. But it was a short toss off post, not a doctoral thesis.
I don't do atkins diet per se, but it has simplified things enormously for me to just basically eliminate bread, sugar, and potatoes. I have a tiny amount treating them as treats/deserts more than as food.
I think you are missing the point here. If parents talked to their children about it and showed that they cared and trusted them, there would be no need to monitor them.
/wipes tears from his eyes.
ROFL. Oh my god.. that's such a good one.
You really should go into comedy as a career.
I had an honors student daughter. Even she agrees these days that she was basically irrational for much of her senior year of high school.
Kids brains are not finished developing until they are 12 to 13 years old. So on average they are incapable of making certain logical connections.
Then kids are on a massive dose of hormones for the next 6 to 10 years. Then they are finally adults, though they are still ignorant as hell until their early 30's and likely to make the classic stupid mistakes even if you warn them about all of them in advance.
I really think you underestimate the appeal of sugar in all it's wonderful forms.
Or just how bad a mere extra 80 grams of sugar can be for you.
Or how easily "healthy" starch converts to sugar in your body.
And then there is the salt.
I've lost weight after raising the amount of fat I eat (to the tune of a couple pints of heavy cream a month) by cutting out sugar, bread and potatoes. Down 21 pounds.
Healthy food consists of protein about the size of your palm (cut off the thumb and fingers mentally and there you go) combined with enough of a variety of vegetables until you are full.
Potatoes in all their glorious forms are pretty bad news. Ground grain is roughly the same as eating the same amount of sugar (check out the glycemic index of white bread some time).
I would say schools need healthy, well prepared proteins (fish, chicken, beef) and lots of *lightly* cooked vegetables and absolutely no candy, sodas, or sweetened drinks. Part of the reason people do not like vegetables is our history of overcooking them so the sulphur is released and they smell bad.
What am I offered for this fine piece of chocolate cake. .80, i'll trade it to you for that 3.00 sandwich.
I bought it for
That's essentially what is happening here.
They are banning speech with strangers at a library-- because it's on the internet.
Thanks!
It's terribly misleading here as everything is tax plus, and on little things like phones, cell phones, and cable television, the tax rate can exceed 25%.
1) Would love a link to DC air conditioning.
2) Our state allows you to roll your meter back but that requires
a) a new fairly expensive meter (About $1500) that does reverse metering.
b) the current electrical system of the house brought up to code (About $4000-only a L.E. can do it))
3) My other figures are based on a quote from an actual solar power company.
4) I think you are being selective about the way you apply inflation.
5) 5% on 8,000 is $400 per year. Electricity for the window unit is $71 (by the tag on the unit).
So my 8,000 grows by $300 a year which accounts for inflation fairly nicely.
I have platinum savings and checking so I have no service fees.
6) After 7 years, I have to pay for all the batteries again (including disposal fees here).
7) There are no grants here except in Austin. B(
At the current time, I'm waiting until I build a new house or we get an order of magnitude drop in panel costs (say from Nanosolar or a similar companie's advances).
In the U.S., we see a price like "26 dollars a month for 100 channels".
But by the time state, local, federal, spanish war, indigent korean war veterans with dependents, and other taxes are added on the bill is double that.
How is it in france? Is that $85 really going to be $150?
I can't browse these at work to confirm...
C elebs/BarbieGal1.htmle rs/claire_lazarus/barbietwins.htm
The Barbie twins are not work safe. This law is not constitution safe.
http://www.chalo.net/models/barbie.htm
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/montserrat/213/
http://public.logicacmg.com/~photoclub/images/oth
They are more expensive than that.
120 watt panel is at 12 volts.
So you need multiple panels to make 120 wall current.
Whenever I do the numbers so far, it makes more sense to put the money into a 5% CD and use that to pay the electric bills except for...
1) Power Failure- no power available at any price-- be really nice to have 8 4'x1' panels pumping out 110 watts of wall current.
2) Big War. Prices go insane.
3) Period of high inflation (buy solar at $45k now.... but after 10 years, you are making $25k per month minimum wage and your electric bill is $18,000 a month).
A modest system to run a small window AC was estimated at $8000 if I used batteries and $17000 if I did not. This is for an estimated annual usage of $130 worth of electricity at current prices.
Something not considered in most of these studies is:
Is RED meat bad for you or..
Is RED meat raised on pesticide polluted corn instead of grass, shot full with hormones and drugs bad for you.
Is CHICKEN bad for you...
Is CHICKEN raised in pens with thousands of others in a highly stressful, low exercise, drug/hormone/pesticide polluted environment bad for you.
I personally think that a lot of the benefits of vegetables, beef, and chicken are not present in factory raised conditions. You have a tomato that *looks* like a tomatoe but which is 80% fiber (so it ships well) and lacks the nutrients. Chicken and beef are good because they eat tons of bugs and plants and concentrate the nutrients and minerals in those plants and we adapted to eating those kinds of animal meats. We have not yet adapted to eating meat that looks like meat but which has different nutritional value than it used to.
Exactly.
And who decides what god decides is right and wrong?
The human beings that wrote the texts based on the decisions of their tribal elders and oral tradition.
I guess we won't know for sure until we start wearing shirts cut to the bottom of our chests right along the edge of our nipples. B)
... his FACE* and yup.. she'd been looking at his chest.
I did get a joke card for a friend once that talked about a guys face but he really buff and shirtless and inside it had a punchline like *his FACE