Where and how a Japanese elementary school 3rd grader [and all his friends] learns "My name is Obama!" is beyond me. And why they yell it out in response to every question - 'How's the weather?'... 'My name is Obama!' - is also a conundrum.
Though if up to them, clearly we know how the next election will play out. Japan cracks me up sometimes.
Dude. When did you last eat a fruit or vegetable? I can't see any in the last few pages of your diet diaries.
ReplyDeleteMight pay to watch out for colon cancer and heart disease eh!
I studied the health factors, benefits and risks associated with low carbohydrate diets before I started...
ReplyDeleteThey've actually been shown to fight against some forms of cancer and lower cholesterol levels... not that dietary cholesterol and fat translates to the equivalents levels in people... but I digress.
Plenty of research out there, if you're actually curious. Google is your friend.
You can look here to start - http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1662484,00.html
http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/cancer_broch.html
http://www.malehealth.co.uk/userpage1.cfm?item_id=2082
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research_related_to_low-carbohydrate_diets
But this post was, um, actually about elementary school...
Never mind what the post was about. You's gonna get some nasty consequences if you don't eat better (and yeah, I read a lot about nutrition too, but thank you for the links).
ReplyDeleteReplacing simple carbohydrate-heavy foods with fruits and vegetables instead of meat would likely do you a world of good.
Not that it's any of my business. I'm just saying!
Actually, the program I've been working the last few months has been doing me a "world of good"... Energy levels are up, bodyfat and bodyweight down, muscle mass and strength has increased...
ReplyDeleteI've been looking into various dietary regimens for over a decade now, and was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for about 3 years in that period...
So I'm "just saying," I think, and there's quite a bit of research that says, that you're wrong.
And "Never mind what the post was about" is just being rude.
I'm talking about bowel cancer and heart disease, not body fat and muscle. I'm not wrong, and neither are you - we're just on different pages and talking about different aspects of health. You're like "sweet, looking good" and I'm like "pity about the early death risk aspects," that's all.
ReplyDeleteStill, I wasn't intending to be rude or offend you! My apologies. Sort of.
Takedown of the bowel cancer/lowcarb link - http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2007/06/atkins-diet-doesnt-lack-butyrate.html
ReplyDeleteCholesterol/lowcarb - http://dir.salon.com/story/news/wire/2002/11/18/atkins/index.html
http://www.modern-diets-and-nutritional-diseases.com/high-fat-foods-and-blood-cholesterol.html
Refuting the cholesterol/heart disease connection - http://www.lowcarbportal.com/archives/2004/09/26/the_benefits_of_high_cholesterol.php
Despite your superficial summation of my viewpoint - "sweet, looking good" - in your last post, I wrote in my first response that I've studied to my own satisfaction quite a bit about the potential health risks and the standard objections to a lowcarb/high fat/protein diet.
My own opinion is that the majority of mainstream concerns regarding meat consumption are misguided and mistaken. There are myriads of studies all which can show verififiable scientific causations and correlations between diet and disease... the problem is often these studies directly contradict one another.
My diet over the last decade has run the gamut from lacto-ovo veg, to pesco veg, to omnivore. I'm comfortable with my current dietary choices.
Is there some reason for you to keep criticizing my lifestyle choices after I've explained that I've studied the so-called risks and arrived at my own conclusions?
Are you honestly expecting me to substitute your judgment for my own? In matters of my own personal health and dietary decisions?
It comes off as condescending.
Typo - "verifiable" not "verififiable", obviously...
ReplyDeleteNo, Rob, I'm not expecting you to do anything at all... but I do wonder why you bother to have a comments section on a blog about your life if you don't want any comments.
ReplyDeleteComments are fine. Or not. Doesn't really matter and I haven't ever really spent any time 'wanting' or not 'wanting' comments.
ReplyDeleteAnd how exactly is my disagreeing with what you say I should be eating = to 'not wanting comments.'
But if you keep telling somebody else what they should be doing, once they've said, and explained to you why they disagree, what kind of response do you expect, exactly?