Stop spreading that crap already, will you. The human body is complex indeed, but first, your description is wrong and second, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
As I already mentioned, sugar goes to muscles and liver first, and only THEN to fat - if there is any unused sugar left so it cannot leave the muscles starving in first place. And even this fat doesn't matter much, it only gets excessive if you eat more than you use. It is a simple mathematics equation and treating carbohydrates as the one and only reason is what killed Atkins.
And that poor 350-pound-bastard is starving because he lost his feeling for satiation long ago and has replaced it with the the feeling of a stuffed stomach.
Sorry, but this is wrong on so many levels. You see, while you get energy from stored fat, it is a quite energy intensive process itself if fat should be the main energy source. You can experience the "hitting the wall" effect yourself after a long endurance training. When the glycogen storage is depleted, the body switches completely to fat burning and suddenly you don't have any energy to go on and breathe much faster, might even faint.
Fat burning is meant to be an additional energy source, not the primary one. The reason why fat is stored is:
1) you have eaten too much food. Otherwise the fat would be all used up
2) You have got far too much fat mixed with carbohydrates in the food. Well, duh, the body takes what it can use right away and stores what it can use only with some effort.
Your example with lab rats is very misleading because in the experiment the own control mechanism of rat's organism was artificially overridden. This matters to healthy organisms who don't receive additional insulin exactly how? Right, not at all.
Oh, by the way, the insulin doesn't just tell "fat cells to open up and absorb it", it also (and this is actually its primary task) tells the muscle tissue and liver to absorb sugar so they can convert it to glycogen, which is the primary source of short- and middle-term energy for your body. Only the absolute excess of carbohydrates is stored as fat - and fat, of course, for already explained reasons.
Of course, if your glycogen storage is still almost full, then most of what you just ate would be in excess and will be stored as fat. So yes, you indeed get fat because you overeat. Either don't overeat (which is difficult) or deplete your glycogen storage by using your muscles, then you'll be fine.
The only reason why these "carbs are bad" - posts are marked as insightful is that most people don't want to admit that their own behaviour is a part of the problem.
Oh, and don't even try to mention Inuit, they are a result of selective breeding and adapting from childhood on. They eat rotten meat that would kill many Europeans due to high levels of cadaverine.
It goes the same way with software. There is a shitload of medium sized software businesses in Germany, offering special solutions for special markets instead of running after the latest fad. It is not very visible, but the software running the ECU of your car, the scheduling of your communal services, or the ATM in your neighbourhood is probably from Germany.
Yes, but the diplomas from that kind of schools aren't worth much and become worthless when one gets older. The guy who asked the question has probably got one of these (they count as "no degree").
Your elitist attitude towards education in general really demonstrates why there is so little true entrepeneurship in Germany
And this is where you've got it completely wrong. In the USA "true entrepeneurship" means you either have got a startup that makes it big fast due to some or another fad, or a startup that gets bought fast. In Germany, it means a startup that establishes itself in its niche and stays there for decades. Such medium sized businesses are the core of German entrepeneurship, selling their products to both large companies and small shops all over the world, paying most of the taxes and employing most people. Biggest tech companies are good for dick waving only.
Your right to live your lifestyle ends where my right to live my lifestyle begins. This way you get a great big Fuck You if you want to continue to pollute the environment I have to live in.
Quick explanation: C25K is the "Couch to 5 km" running, a good program for running beginners. B210K is "Bridge to 10 km" for those who have managed the first one.
Both programs are very easy to understand, not more complicated than that "100 pushups" one.
Hypertrophy is just a fancy word for muscle growth, diminishing returns is the condition that when you start a training, any training, your fitness levels improve very fast until you reach a point where the pace of improvement suddenly comes to a crawl, or even a halt.
At this point you'll have to push yourself way harder if you want any further improvement, which is exactly what EvilAlphonso suggests.
Unfortunately in this case a self defence training would not help that much. From your description your friend was taken by surprise and was, as you have written, in the way.
Also best self defence against a knife-armed person is running away. Knife against knife - or even worse, unarmed against knife - is far too dangerous, even for well-trained people.
Just try to raise your distance gradually and don't forget adequate rest (as you probably do with weights already) and you can do it. I mean, I am still 30 kg overweight and I manage that on a heavy bike.
Start with 5 km three times a week, then 8 km, then 12 and so on. If you feel that you are too tired, stop, catch your breath, drink some juice and continue. Just don't stop too long or else you'll cool down. Well, it is actually really like weight training, only except raising weights you raise the distance.
Also helps if you have to bike uphill a lot, that does wonders to your condition.
Hear hear. Biking is surprisingly fun easy to pick up. Went from 1 km daily to 45 km three times per week (on a heavy MTB no less) in just three months. Never been in a so good shape as now.
Well, here is one. Lost 48 kg in 30 months by going lower fat (50% carb, 30% protein, 20% fat). Fat doesn't satiate me, so replacing fat with carbohydrates or protein gram for gram does help in my case.
Also hitting the wall while pedalling uphill for two hours isn't fun.
They are running on full blast, these are non-dimmable CFLs. That's why they need either a LED or a lightbulb to start up at all when hanging on a dimmer.
Well, bugger me sideways. I use three CFLs (and a LED, otherwise the CFLs wouldn't even start up) in an enclosed fixture in a bathroom, on a dimmer. Five years so far, no losses yet. The fixtures do get very hot, though and I do expect the CFLs to die eventually, but they have already paid for themselves (I used only around 2550 kWh last year).
I probably earn way more than you, but I pay my taxes and endorse socialism gladly in the knowing that it helps me to avoid living near sad and bitter buggers like you.
When I wrote "central heating" I had a hot water central heating system in mind. You don't need electricity for that if you've got a gravity heating system which works by the density difference between hot and cold water.
But even if you use a forced circulation hot water heating system, modern circulator pumps need maybe 20-50 kWh of electrical power for the whole winter, that is not much.
No, it doesn't. If plants could actually increase their growth, they'd had used all atmospheric CO2 up already.
Simply speaking, for plants to grow they need both energy (in form of sunlight) and building material (in form of CO2). If you want to increase plant growth, you need both more CO2 and more sunlight at the same time (not to speak of nitrate, phosphate, potassium and so on). If you just add CO2, it won't help at all.
Besides, a greenhouse (as a device) does not increase plant growth. It just bewares foreign plants from freezing or lets some local plants grow out of season.
Apparently Japanese do not understand winter very well, or else they had more houses with central heating. Besides, heating with electricity is very inefficient.
You have lived for too long in the Fallout universe, time to return to real life. Fission reactors are - at best - an intermediate technology until fusion power is finally working, not some kind of a holy grail.
You've got to see where Arabic alphabet comes from. It is an ancestor of the Aramaic alphabet, which itself was derived from the Phoenician one, which was incised with a stylus, which is, as you have mentioned, easier from right to left. Later, ink writing was introduced, but the writing system was already established. To make ink writing from right to left simpler, Arabic script was introduced, which started as a cursive Aramaic (more or less, there were more intermediate steps) and developed into what we have today because calligraphy was encouraged by Islam.
Hebrew alphabet, on the other hand, stayed almost as boxy as Aramaic, just with some added serifs. In fact there is only a little difference between Aramaic and Hebrew alphabets, sort of like the difference between Comic Sans and Times New Roman.
You confuse "sweet" and "tastes good". Two different things altogether. I cannot stand honey, gagging from the taste alone. But it does taste sweet. Just also repulsive.
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Stop spreading that crap already, will you. The human body is complex indeed, but first, your description is wrong and second, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
As I already mentioned, sugar goes to muscles and liver first, and only THEN to fat - if there is any unused sugar left so it cannot leave the muscles starving in first place. And even this fat doesn't matter much, it only gets excessive if you eat more than you use. It is a simple mathematics equation and treating carbohydrates as the one and only reason is what killed Atkins.
And that poor 350-pound-bastard is starving because he lost his feeling for satiation long ago and has replaced it with the the feeling of a stuffed stomach.
Be a functioning addict. If you want to eat a lot, go for a workout first.
Sorry, but this is wrong on so many levels. You see, while you get energy from stored fat, it is a quite energy intensive process itself if fat should be the main energy source. You can experience the "hitting the wall" effect yourself after a long endurance training. When the glycogen storage is depleted, the body switches completely to fat burning and suddenly you don't have any energy to go on and breathe much faster, might even faint.
Fat burning is meant to be an additional energy source, not the primary one. The reason why fat is stored is:
1) you have eaten too much food. Otherwise the fat would be all used up
2) You have got far too much fat mixed with carbohydrates in the food. Well, duh, the body takes what it can use right away and stores what it can use only with some effort.
Your example with lab rats is very misleading because in the experiment the own control mechanism of rat's organism was artificially overridden. This matters to healthy organisms who don't receive additional insulin exactly how? Right, not at all.
Oh, by the way, the insulin doesn't just tell "fat cells to open up and absorb it", it also (and this is actually its primary task) tells the muscle tissue and liver to absorb sugar so they can convert it to glycogen, which is the primary source of short- and middle-term energy for your body. Only the absolute excess of carbohydrates is stored as fat - and fat, of course, for already explained reasons.
Of course, if your glycogen storage is still almost full, then most of what you just ate would be in excess and will be stored as fat. So yes, you indeed get fat because you overeat. Either don't overeat (which is difficult) or deplete your glycogen storage by using your muscles, then you'll be fine.
The only reason why these "carbs are bad" - posts are marked as insightful is that most people don't want to admit that their own behaviour is a part of the problem.
Oh, and don't even try to mention Inuit, they are a result of selective breeding and adapting from childhood on. They eat rotten meat that would kill many Europeans due to high levels of cadaverine.
McDonalds food tasty? Really?!
Atheism is a belief the very same way not collecting stamps is a hobby.
It goes the same way with software. There is a shitload of medium sized software businesses in Germany, offering special solutions for special markets instead of running after the latest fad. It is not very visible, but the software running the ECU of your car, the scheduling of your communal services, or the ATM in your neighbourhood is probably from Germany.
Yes, but the diplomas from that kind of schools aren't worth much and become worthless when one gets older. The guy who asked the question has probably got one of these (they count as "no degree").
The admission office is only for the admission limited fields, others are basically free-for-all if you come with the right qualification.
And this is where you've got it completely wrong. In the USA "true entrepeneurship" means you either have got a startup that makes it big fast due to some or another fad, or a startup that gets bought fast. In Germany, it means a startup that establishes itself in its niche and stays there for decades. Such medium sized businesses are the core of German entrepeneurship, selling their products to both large companies and small shops all over the world, paying most of the taxes and employing most people. Biggest tech companies are good for dick waving only.
Your right to live your lifestyle ends where my right to live my lifestyle begins. This way you get a great big Fuck You if you want to continue to pollute the environment I have to live in.
Quick explanation:
C25K is the "Couch to 5 km" running, a good program for running beginners.
B210K is "Bridge to 10 km" for those who have managed the first one.
Both programs are very easy to understand, not more complicated than that "100 pushups" one.
Hypertrophy is just a fancy word for muscle growth, diminishing returns is the condition that when you start a training, any training, your fitness levels improve very fast until you reach a point where the pace of improvement suddenly comes to a crawl, or even a halt.
At this point you'll have to push yourself way harder if you want any further improvement, which is exactly what EvilAlphonso suggests.
Unfortunately in this case a self defence training would not help that much. From your description your friend was taken by surprise and was, as you have written, in the way.
Also best self defence against a knife-armed person is running away. Knife against knife - or even worse, unarmed against knife - is far too dangerous, even for well-trained people.
Just try to raise your distance gradually and don't forget adequate rest (as you probably do with weights already) and you can do it. I mean, I am still 30 kg overweight and I manage that on a heavy bike.
Start with 5 km three times a week, then 8 km, then 12 and so on. If you feel that you are too tired, stop, catch your breath, drink some juice and continue. Just don't stop too long or else you'll cool down. Well, it is actually really like weight training, only except raising weights you raise the distance.
Also helps if you have to bike uphill a lot, that does wonders to your condition.
Hear hear. Biking is surprisingly fun easy to pick up. Went from 1 km daily to 45 km three times per week (on a heavy MTB no less) in just three months. Never been in a so good shape as now.
Well, here is one. Lost 48 kg in 30 months by going lower fat (50% carb, 30% protein, 20% fat). Fat doesn't satiate me, so replacing fat with carbohydrates or protein gram for gram does help in my case.
Also hitting the wall while pedalling uphill for two hours isn't fun.
They are running on full blast, these are non-dimmable CFLs. That's why they need either a LED or a lightbulb to start up at all when hanging on a dimmer.
Well, bugger me sideways. I use three CFLs (and a LED, otherwise the CFLs wouldn't even start up) in an enclosed fixture in a bathroom, on a dimmer. Five years so far, no losses yet. The fixtures do get very hot, though and I do expect the CFLs to die eventually, but they have already paid for themselves (I used only around 2550 kWh last year).
CFLs normally use electronic ballasts, this means they flicker with a frequency of 20kHz. Humans cannot see that. Probably no living being can.
I probably earn way more than you, but I pay my taxes and endorse socialism gladly in the knowing that it helps me to avoid living near sad and bitter buggers like you.
When I wrote "central heating" I had a hot water central heating system in mind. You don't need electricity for that if you've got a gravity heating system which works by the density difference between hot and cold water.
But even if you use a forced circulation hot water heating system, modern circulator pumps need maybe 20-50 kWh of electrical power for the whole winter, that is not much.
No, it doesn't. If plants could actually increase their growth, they'd had used all atmospheric CO2 up already.
Simply speaking, for plants to grow they need both energy (in form of sunlight) and building material (in form of CO2). If you want to increase plant growth, you need both more CO2 and more sunlight at the same time (not to speak of nitrate, phosphate, potassium and so on). If you just add CO2, it won't help at all.
Besides, a greenhouse (as a device) does not increase plant growth. It just bewares foreign plants from freezing or lets some local plants grow out of season.
Apparently Japanese do not understand winter very well, or else they had more houses with central heating. Besides, heating with electricity is very inefficient.
You have lived for too long in the Fallout universe, time to return to real life. Fission reactors are - at best - an intermediate technology until fusion power is finally working, not some kind of a holy grail.
You've got to see where Arabic alphabet comes from. It is an ancestor of the Aramaic alphabet, which itself was derived from the Phoenician one, which was incised with a stylus, which is, as you have mentioned, easier from right to left. Later, ink writing was introduced, but the writing system was already established. To make ink writing from right to left simpler, Arabic script was introduced, which started as a cursive Aramaic (more or less, there were more intermediate steps) and developed into what we have today because calligraphy was encouraged by Islam.
Hebrew alphabet, on the other hand, stayed almost as boxy as Aramaic, just with some added serifs. In fact there is only a little difference between Aramaic and Hebrew alphabets, sort of like the difference between Comic Sans and Times New Roman.
You confuse "sweet" and "tastes good". Two different things altogether. I cannot stand honey, gagging from the taste alone. But it does taste sweet. Just also repulsive.