Archive for April 2009

Arrived in San Antonio and settled in. Photo from the condo onto the River Walk on Facebook and TwitPic via Twitter. I’ll post some photos here, too; tomorrow. Amazing number of comments to review and weigh in on where needed; again: tomorrow AM. But carry on. We’re headed out to find a big chunk of grilled meat. It’s great to spend a day traveling, only to arrive with high energy, ready to go.

After today’s earlier post, upon which I continue to fume: “TEEVEE Commercial Care.” What defense has the average person? It’s hand in hand. Doc prescribes, and patients see it on TEEVEE!!! Makes them feel special, important, and cared for, I suppose. Zoo animals could feel so special, if they understood.

As I reported a while back, my mom, a Type 2 diabetic on insulin injections for years, has gotten off them as a result of a grain free, very low carbohydrate diet (duh, that’s how they all do it, in contradiction to the advice of the American Diabetes Association, that seems intent on keeping people on these medications). I will add that, as you can see from her own story, linked above, this happened when she began following my dietary advice in blatant, explicit, in-your-face, doc, contradiction to the “medical” authorities. Is that a general qualification in my case? No, absolutely not. But most doctors know shit-all about diet, nutrition, and metabolism. They know drugs. She has stayed off them and her blood glucose readings have stayed below 95. She’s still on Metformin, an oral medication, but so far, so good. However, she has been having problems with nausea and vomiting every morning when she gets up. She’s going to see her doctor about that tomorrow morning. But here’s an interesting datapoint: last weekend she went camping for four days, forget all medications, and felt great, with no nausea at all. Gets back, gets on the meds again, and guess…

The first video is about food, the second about conditioning. The first video is about a sustainable, delicious, easy, fun, anti-inflammatory, and gene expressing way of eating that will shed fat, promote lean mass, and get rid of that awful “carb face” most of you start getting at age 40, or even before for the most serious carb junkies. The second video is about lazy, fake, fool yourself “conditioning” that, even beyond being a scam fraud, will once again reinforce the false notion that getting in shape requires inhuman drudgery rather than fun. Carb face? I’ll demonstrate. To the left is me, 2 1/2 years ago, age 45, on a trip to Europe. And to the right, age 48, just a month or so ago in Puerto Vallara. What I did do is replace my cauliflower brain with a real brain (watch the video) and ate mostly in a way that Methuselah has outlined, and for exactly the same reasons. What I didn’t do was pretend to work out, like the folks pretending to jump rope using the “Jump Snap” and twirling their wrists. As one commenter pointed out, “Why not just use two hair brushes and save the money?”…

First a bit of an administrative note. I am doing fewer posts that primarily highlight what another blogger posts. Want to still get wind of those great things I find out there? Then you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or both. That’s now my primary means of disseminating worthy work by others. If you don’t want to follow both, all I can tell you at this point is that beyond announcing my blog posts and the good stuff from others that I find, on both, I do a few things differently. Facebook is more for interacting with friends and some family. A decent number of Facebook friends are readers of this blog. Twitter is more for what I call “diarrhea of consciousness.” I’m more likely to post mundane updates and photos of what I’m up to on the weekends. Anyway, that’s the current method. It will probably evolve. I thought I’d hate Twitter, but I actually don’t and have begun to see its value to the purpose for which I am now am beginning to understand. So, now to the meat of this post, which is an exception to all the above. Very simply, Stephan has an excellent entry…

Reader Rory Hodgson passed along this beautifully done Parkour video this morning. There’s a ton of skill, here, but done also with tremendous grace and agility.

A small percentage of current readers will remember this survey I initiated early last September. I say small percentage, because as you can see from yesterday’s March ’09 review, I was getting 8,000 visits per month with 10,000 page views, and now we stand at 40k and 70k, respectively. That is many magnitudes of growth, and from the comments and emails I receive, I see nothing but up up up, from here. That survey convinced me of the market potential of this endeavor, as well as a top-notch marketing professional with whom I’ve had a personal and business relationship with for 15 years. However, it was not enough, at the time, to bank on or to risk other people’s money on. So, we decided to see if I could build traffic while we worked on a comprehensive business plan behind the scenes. Well, the time has come to move forward. Could I beg of you to take this brief, 10-question survey? If you took it the first time last September, please take it again. It is somewhat modified. I will leave this up for all weekend while I head out of town. I will also leave it up next week,…

Cousin Adam went bird hunting. Chukar and Pheasant. And then on the table, same day. Says he: “Paprika, salt, pepper, cayanne; red and green bell peppers; onion; white wine, and chicken stock. Brown the bird, sauté the veggies, add stock, wine and simmer uncovered to reduce. Killed and eaten on the same day!”