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This one is a better example

Don’t feed you carnivorous pet anything you wouldn’t eat, and super cheap healthy food for cats or dogs is human-compatible canned salmon in a 1-pound can, like this:

LEAVE IT !

OK!

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Note on “OK,” as opposed to “okay” : I never write “okay” and it came up in the draft of Just Ride, and …it’s a dumb thing, but to me it’s like “ax” versus “axe.” I pluralize is with the e, but only because I don’t want to pioneer a confusing spelling an look like I forgot something. But the e was added so we wouldn’t have “axs,” which–were it not for the now-strangeness of that, I would prefer.

I like to stick with the original, not the softened version in the spirit of language being fluid and all. Also, like “nauseated” vs “nauseous.” The first means feeling sickish, the second means something that makes you feel sickish. That elicits sickishness in somebody who’s not there yet. It’s always misused, an dictionaries are starting to succumb, but it’s a matter of giving in and trying to not turn off ANYBODY who might actually look up a word in the dictionary,

It’s also like “euthanasia,” which originally meant mercy killing, but the media has now used it so often to mean “killing a healthy animal that did a bad thing,” that nobody squawks when it’s misused anymore. Anyway, on OK: (might have to copy and paste)–

http://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-ok-175-years-ago

Make it easier for me to be more regular

With this column. It would help if I could use this space as a dumping ground for comments or thought-observations-discoveries-ventings that I can’t put in the regular RIVENDELL BLUG because they’d seem irrelevant. I’m not saying I’d use this as a trash bin. I don’t have time and I do have my own filter, so what I’m saying is that instead of not saying anything, because it’s too short or it has to do with something that isn’t food…I’d throw it in here regardless of shortness and see how it goes.

This is one example, but this example IS about food, so it’s not a great example of the things I’m talking about—which for the most part won’t be links.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/science/eggs-refrigeration.html?_r=0

Here’s a better example–

Last night was Halloween, I live in a house on a street in a neighborhood with trick-or-treaters, and since I believe everything I wrote in EBDJ, every Halloween finds me pulled in two directions. One one hand, yes, I understand. On the other, hooboy, it’s not great and total fun to dole out diabetes pills. Harsh assessment, but I find pleasure in calling them that. I don’t do it publicly, and don’t live “candy is diabetes pills,” I don’t chuckle to myself everytime I say it, but it makes it easier for me to mix in stuff like this:

Many of the kids didn’t know what the nuts were. Seriously, no lie. One, about 7 years old, didn’t know what the eggs were. There were a lot more eggs than shown here, but the point is, my wife was embarrassed about the eggs, but went along, as long as I got the door, which I agreed to.

The first child was flying solo–parent on the sidewalk–and I swear to god, shrieked in delight, “Eggs!” and took one–and no candy. A 16-year old boy in barely-a-costume came by, also solo, and took two eggs, no candy. Of course the candy went also, but not the nuts. Then our last group of kids came by, they were Hispanic (Mexican, I’m sure) and mom was there in costume too, and they grabbed up the last five or so eggs, yelling “Juevos!”

Of course they were hard-boiled. Anyway, that was Halloweedn around here.

OH–here’s my dog Scoutie, dressed as a platypus:

The platypus lives in freshwater creeks, ponds, and billabongs (of course) in eastern Australia. It’s one of five species of monotremes, which means “one hole” which means that — well, let’s just say that humans have two (or possibly) three holes, and then you’ll figure it out.

The platypus and the possum are also the two least-changed mammals in history and prehistory. I’m working on a book that is tentatively titled – no, I don’t want to say. It may not get published. It’s a scary book to any publisher. As always, I work on it nights and early mornings.

If you live in Australia, please send me half a dozen $0.20 coins. I hear the tails side has the platypus. It should be both sides. I’ll send you something worth as much or more in return. Deal?

See?

Grant

This is behind and beneath the Times

It’s an ancient correlation between weight and diabetes that ignores that the cause of them both is the same.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/health/type-2-diabetes-low-carb-diet.html?_r=0

This is so stupid. Diabetics cannot lose weight on a moderate carb diet because the carbs jack up their glucose super high, and the only way to stop death, then, is to inject themselves with insulin, which make them gain weight. So to say “the best way is to lose weight” while advocating a diet that requires they inject a weight-gaining hormone…dumb.

The argument that a low-carb diet is not sustainable….everybody I know who eats super low carb does it because it’s so easy. Hunger goes away.

The American Diabetes Association recommends a breakfast with 50+ grams of carbs. It pretends to care, but recommends diets that make diabetics ever more dependent on insulin and other drugs. It doesn’t seem like a diabetic’s friend.

two more bad stories, good to read

I love canned fish as much as fresh fish. I think I said it in the book, and it’s true. So naturally I liked this story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/t-magazine/food/tinned-fish-shop-conserveira-de-lisboa.html?_r=0

Here’s another story for your bandolier. Kind of an old one for veterans, but always a good read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0

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It’s easy to make this personal. If you have a relative who died of heard disease or diabetes while trying to be conscientious, there’s a good chance the bad advice played a role. My dad would have loved to eat steak and burgers and eggs and brussells sprouts every day, and he died at 77 of a heart attack after being on blood thinners and medication for fifteen years or so. That was in the late ‘90s, and I’m “over it” and all…but I remember him changing his diet to bread and pasta, and hoo boy on that. Most of you have your own stories.

In June 2015, her husband was fit a 57—a tough, long-distance, all-weather, let’s-do-the-hard-ride bike rider, and had been that kind of rider for 38+ years. He was blessed or otherwise infused with good genes that made hard rides easier for him than for most other fit & healthy riders, and he died on a short ride, not even a ride ride, from atrial fibrillation. That’s when your heartbeat is rapid and irregular, and what should be strong pumps are instead weak flutters that don’t push the blood out.

The blood pools and clots, leading to blockage, strokes, heart attacks.

The fascinating-infuriating thing is that a common cause of AF is overexercise. Not for a week or even a month, but definitely for years. In RR44 in a story called something like “A Million Reasons to Blow Off the Next Double Century,” I summarized a much more thorough and better-written article in VeloNews on the same topic. Cut and past this if you want to read it:

http://velonews.competitor.com/cycling-extremes

It includes a few case histories of current bike athletes who, in trying to be healthy, wrecked their hearts and in at least one case, died.

If you have RR44, you probably don’t need to read the VN story–even tho it’s better. But not many people have read RR44–only about 500 went out there, because people didn’t like the idea pf $7, which I get. But the point here is: Read stuff that may help you stay alive and healthy.

Mark and Brian are great mechanics and they often do extra and invisible work that must go unnoticed.

Brian adapted a brake cable housing barrel adjuster to this rear derailer, because Shimano no longer includes them on all the models.

The Wald CLEM rack mounts without any modifications, but depending on the fork-dropout configuration, it may benefit from some grinding. Here’s stage one..

…and here’s stage 2. It just makes a flusher, no-bendy fit. The vise is mounted on a three-foot high x 9-inch diameter metal tube that’s on a two-foot dieameter x 1-inch thick round plate, and I rescued it from the dumpster in 1997, and we’ve used it almost every day since then.

Well, here it is:

As described?

I think Wilton is still a brand. This one, I think, is sand-cast. The mold is made of sand, molten steel or iron is pouted in, and… voila, a little later. I visited a sand caster in San Leandro, where Bstone was. Saw the whole neat process.

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At some point in the next few months I have a few questions for an astrophysicist, and then a few for an evolutionary biologist. Not work related, but if you are one, send me an email with astro-Your name or Evo-Your name in the subject field, and then some contact info. It won’t be lucrative or time consuming, and do it only if you’re qualified, patient, willing. Thanks.

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These are some – well, they were labeled “lamb oysters.” Not for the squeamish, and I’m not getting them again. I’m about to show you them uncooked, but if you’re squeamish, fast forward past them. I’ll put them way down so you don’t automatically see them:

They are creep things. Taste like liver, though. Mild liver.

==========This if from Sunday’s NYT. You know how I had an anti-ADA chapter in the book? This is why:==========

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/before-you-spend-26000-on-weight-loss-surgery-do-this.html?_r=1

RELATED TO DIABETES…

If you read EBDJ you’ll know why histpanics are at a diabetes disadvantage. I recently bought (I don’t get them free, fyi) 20 copies of the Spanish edition–the other copies are in Spain, so I have the only 20 Spanish ones in the country–and I’ll give half of them away to anybody who’d read it in Spanish but not in English. Probably not one of you, but you may know somebody. I’ll send it to you, you give it to them. The other ten I’ll give to an encocrinologist who works at a local hospital. Do I know that person? No, but I can sniff one out.

I’ll post at least twice a week. I’m working on – lots of stuff – and I’m always afraid that what I post–you’ll be bored by it.G

Aug 10, two more bad things from a paper I almost always love

Entry No. 97 on p 175 of EBDJ addresses this and the one below. This is a terrible waste of time masquerading as a study, and should not have been reward with this space in the New York Times. But they do it a lot.

More of the same stuff. Correlations aren’t causes. This should make everybody in the world mad, but there are bigger things to be mad at. Still…sheesh. Really”

August electric book deal rehash reminder

The electric version of Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog is available for $1.99 wherever eBooks are sold..thru August. The pub asked that I let you now. Not the paper version, just the eONE. The classic paper version remains healthy and available, to be sure.

G

August electric book deal

he electric version of Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog is available for $1.99 wherever eBooks are sold..thru August. The pub asked that I let you now. Not the paper version, just the eONE. G

I’ll be back here on a normal schedule next week. Up to my skulltop in work these days!

G

When to say No to low-carb

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/world/what-in-the-world/china-dongyang-eggs-urine.html?_r=0

Bike riding exercise thing that’ll go on our main BLUG in a few days.

Maybe this is pushing the fight against status quo too far. It doesn’t feel like that to ME, but I can understand how it might look that way on the other side, but this pedaling-effort notion came to be from real life, and I’m just passing it along as something worth thinking about, not as The New Way. I’ve written on this topic before, but this is a new take on it.

Cadence, effort, efficiency—in a racer’s world they have to be nailed to the nanometer, or you’ll come in second or worse. The point of those isn’t to maximize the health benefits of the ride. It’s to tax your muscles and heart minimally, and when the race is long and your best chance is a matter of maintaining your oomph as long as possible, then you maximum your speed and efficiency and minimize your drainage by nailing your cadence. That’ll put it between 92 and 105 rpm, depending on your percentage of slow-twitch to fast-twitch muscles.

Racers already have all + the fitness they need, and in a race they’re trying to take advantage of it, not get more. The twiddly-spinny way works for their mission.

But let’s say your lifestyle doesn’t include 20,000 miles a year, and you want your five-to-twenty minute rides to contribute your fitness. Then you should do everything wrong, and I’m totally deadly insanely serious about this. See if this makes sense.

The challenge is a 12-minute commute on flat-to-rolling streets with a normal amount of stop signs. Obeying the normal rules of cadence, you shift to a gear that lets you sweatlessly cover the ground. You gear down as you come to a stoplight, so you can restart in a nice easy gear. I think you know exactly where this is going. Breaking the rules!

I’ve been doing it lately. Sticking it in the big ring up front and a small one in back and riding like a rookie who doesn’t know the rules. I think I prefer rebel more, but the point is to work your muscles harder and deeper, to maintain or grow them. Like, if you were on the leg press machine at a gym, you wouldn’t set it at 60lbs. You’re there to stress your muscles, because without stress, all they do is atrophy. So, on a short ride on your bike, do the same.

The argument for high cadence, low-stress pedaling has always been Knee Protection and Efficiency. But KP isn’t an issue on short rides, and unless you’re bringing busted up knees with special care requirements as ordered by your orthopedists, there’s less than zero danger is pedaling a high gear. Essentially you’re just turning a flattish road into a steeper one. If your knees can handle hills, they can handle high gears on flat roads. They won’t ask, you don’t need to tell.

Efficiency is left, but there’s two kinds of efficiency at work here. A high-cadence, low-pressure pedaling way is cardiovascularly efficient, but (ironically?) is inefficient and ineffective at improving the efficiency of your cardiovascular system, because it doesn’t stress it. It’s also an efficient way of using your muscles, but is the same inneficient and inneffective at making them stronger.

That’s enough to go on. Consider this, see if it makes sense to you, and try it out. You can mix it up. Do the ride your normal way on Monday, then ramp it up through the week. It adds variety to a monotonous ride and helps you more. Right? How can it not? – Grant

Mixed bag, but you’ll find something here.

The first two links are from June 14th’s NYT. There’s a column that summarizes “studies” that aren’t really actual studies, and then draws conclusions. They’re correlational non-studies masquerading, though not really well, at science. I post these now and then because it’s good practice to recognize these things for what they are:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/frequent-moves-during-childhood-may-be-bad-for-health/?_r=0

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/churchgoers-may-live-longer/

And this one is from today’s NYT. It’s not relevant to this blog, but it’s relevant to life on earth in 2016, and I hope not too many of the too few remaining here drop off the list because of it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/opinion/lessons-of-hiroshima-and-orlando.html

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Wait. That wasn’t the image I meant to upload. This one’s related to the HHH tandem. Let me try again.

There we go–today’s lunch. Sardines, avocado, parmesan, and salsa. There’s nothing wrong with that, other than I should have tripled the proportions. Wait–dang, I forgot my hard-boiled egg, too. Well, you get the point. There are lots of ways to combine good foods.