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Achieving Awareness and Google Analytics

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 03:54:00 +0000

Achieving awareness is a process that breaks down the filters that protect our consciousness from information overload. The filters are algorithms that, like Google Analytics, may block, arrange and organize our "view" of world data. The protection offered by the filters is essential, but little by little we can experiment to see which senses can be gently opened --like enabling our eyes to see more colors around us. To gradually become aware of all that is around us and what we are made of.

The photo is of my mentor, Michael Henry Dashwood Dormer -who saw the world very differently than the rest of us.

Cataracts, Contacts & Rainbows by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 06:41:00 +0000

How to prepare for cataract surgery if you wear contact lenses.

The image above is how my world looked without contacts and prior to cataract surgery.

Cataract Surgery Spring, 2013.

And this is what I see today when I go to my local Rite Aid in Aptos. The packages burst with color, there really are three dimensions and the detail is striking.

Cataract Problem

For background, I recommend reading the overview available at Wikipedia.

Cataracts affect millions of people and as the population increases in longevity, the number of surgeries will likely continue to increase.

Cataract Statistics

Number of Americans age 40 and older who are affected by Cataracts 20.5 million

Percent of Americans age 80 and older who have Cataracts 50 %

Annual amount spent by the federal government to treat cataracts through Medicare $3.4 billion

Cataract Surgery Statistics

Average cost of cataract surgery per eye $3,279

Number of Americans who have cataract surgery each year 3,000,000

Success rate of cataract surgery 98 %

Percent of patients had no severe postoperative complications 99.5 %

Source: Statistic Brain

The following overview of the cataract problem iis from the National Eye Institute.

What is a cataract?

A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision. Most cataracts are related to aging. Cataracts are very common in older people. By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.

How can cataracts affect my vision?

Age-related cataracts can affect your vision in two ways:Clumps of protein reduce the sharpness of the image reaching the retina.The lens consists mostly of water and protein. When the protein clumps up, it clouds the lens and reduces the light that reaches the retina. The clouding may become severe enough to cause blurred vision. Most age-related cataracts develop from protein clumpings.

When a cataract is small, the cloudiness affects only a small part of the lens. You may not notice any changes in your vision. Cataracts tend to "grow" slowly, so vision gets worse gradually. Over time, the cloudy area in the lens may get larger, and the cataract may increase in size. Seeing may become more difficult. Your vision may get duller or blurrier.

The clear lens slowly changes to a yellowish/brownish color, adding a brownish tint to vision. As the clear lens slowly colors with age, your vision gradually may acquire a brownish shade. At first, the amount of tinting may be small and may not cause a vision problem. Over time, increased tinting may make it more difficult to read and perform other routine activities. This gradual change in the amount of tinting does not affect the sharpness of the image transmitted to the retina.

If you have advanced lens discoloration, you may not be able to identify blues and purples. You may be wearing what you believe to be a pair of black socks, only to find out from friends that you are wearing purple socks.
What can I do to protect my vision.

Wearing sunglasses and a hat with a brim to block ultraviolet sunlight may help to delay cataract. If you smoke, stop. Researchers also believe good nutrition can help reduce the risk of age-related cataract. They recommend eating green leafy vegetables, fruit, and other foods with antioxidants.

If you are age 60 or older, you should have a comprehensive dilated eye exam at least once every two years. In addition to cataract, your eye care professional can check for signs of age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and other vision disorders. Early treatment for many eye diseases may save your sight.

What to Expect if You Must Wear Contacts Full Time

Dr. Jason Ludsich Bringing Life to Light

If you must wear contacts full time, due to acute astigmatism that is non correctable by glasses (as did I), it makes the fairly involved series of pre and post cataract surgery even more time and effort consuming.

Pre-Surgical Assessment

For example, since contacts may cause a certain degree of corneal distortion, the pre-surgery mapping requires removing contacts for two weeks prior to the exam. This poses a problem for someone that cannot function without contacts. The solution for me was to extend the assessment stage into two sessions, one for each eye doubling the surgery time span.

You will be given a prescription for several eye drops that have a variety of application schedules. Be sure to check with your eye doctor to see if your are required to remove your contact lenses prior to applying the drops. Each eye requires a unique surgical procedure. I chose to have my left eye operated upon first because my right eye was originally my "weak" eye and I wanted the best vision possible as soon as possible.

Post Cataract Surgery

The drop schedule for each eye requires planning and discipline which is more complicated if you are contact lens dependent. This is because of the change in focal length for the new lens that is selected by you and the opthamologist. For example, if you select optimal viewing distance acuity, then post surgery the eye with the synthetic lens will experience great distance viewing, but for close up it will require glasses.

The problem is that your right eye (which is yet to be worked on and still requires a contact lens for distance viewing and still offers good near vision) will be out of focus when wearing the reading glasses. The solution is to purchase inexpensive, off-the-shelf close up glasses and remove the right lens from the frame. Your optometrist can do this very quickly. Be sure to save the glasses' lens because you will need to replace it after the right eye gets a new synthetic lens until you receive a new set of high quality, prescription "reading" or "computer" glasses.

Note: This strategy may not apply if you elect to have a new set of lens optimized for different distances in either or both eyes.

The Good News and the...Great News

Now that I am an enhanced cyborg, I have the best vision ever, even better than when I was a child. Even though my left eye is now my "weak" eye astigmatism correction-wise, when I use both eyes somehow my brain is Reprogramming the Human Operating System to give me incredibly sharp, vibrant color, clear cut three dimensional layering, and distance vision. When driving at night I do use my original half-pair reading glasses with a single lens which gives me the same razor sharp vision as in daylight. For some reason, a reading glass lens now sharpens my distance vision.

No more contacts. My whole life routine is changed. For example, waking up at night and being able to see well is just part of being liberated from the cost, care and feeding of contact lenses. However, I would not have visually managed so well for so long without special attention, patience and guidance of Dr. Farberow at Plaza Lane Optometry.

Unexpected Color Feast

Places and scenes which I had walked by for years, have suddenly come to life. Do these images burst with color for you too? Comments are welcome. Now that I am color sensitized, I recognize for the first time how top flight graphic designers use blazing colors to lure us into a product purchase -- just like a flowers attract bees.

or the security of blue skies

Possible Explanations for Enhanced Color Vision

Faulty Recollections

This explanation assumes that my cataract clouding process has gone on so long that I have lost an accurate appraisal of color intensity from my childhood.

I regard this as unlikely in that over time, the high-intensity color effect should weaken or "normalize." But nine months after surgery, this is not the case. Everyday is an astonishing parade of color from the Blue Buddha figurine in front of my monitor, to car brake lights at night, and deeply saturated American Flags flying from RVs on the beach during the day.

Sensations Vs. Reality

However, I do recognize that the perception of color may be more than first meets the eye,

Do you see the same color red that I see?

Even if we quantitatively agree upon a shade of red matching a specific wave length, qualitatively we may see and interpret the input differently. In other words, we both see the top traffic light signal radiate light that we both know as "red." but there is no way to confirm that we interpret the light in the same way.

The nuances of senses and sensing was explored in detail by famed philosopher, Bertrand Russell in The Problems of Philosophy (1912). The document is publicly available at Project Gutenberg,

To make our difficulties plain, let us concentrate attention on the table. To the eye it is oblong, brown and shiny, to the touch it is smooth and cool and hard; when I tap it, it gives out a wooden sound. Any one else who sees and feels and hears the table will agree with this description, so that it might seem as if no difficulty would arise; but as soon as we try to be more precise our troubles begin. Although I believe that the table is 'really' of the same colour all over, the parts that reflect the light look much brighter than the other parts, and some parts look white because of reflected light. I know that, if I move, the parts that reflect the light will be different, so that the apparent distribution of colours on the table will change. It follows that if several people are looking at the table at the same moment, no two of them will see exactly the same distribution of colours, because no two can see it from exactly the same point of view, and any change in the point of view makes some change in the way the light is reflected.

For most practical purposes these differences are unimportant, but to the painter they are all-important: the painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the colour which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear. Here we have already the beginning of one of the distinctions that cause most trouble in philosophy—the distinction between 'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and what they are. The painter wants to know what things seem to be, the practical man and the philosopher want to know what they are; but the philosopher's wish to know this is stronger than the practical man's, and is more troubled by knowledge as to the difficulties of answering the question.
To return to the table. It is evident from what we have found, that there is no colour which pre-eminently appears to be the colour of the table, or even of any one particular part of the table—it appears to be of different colours from different points of view, and there is no reason for regarding some of these as more really its colour than others. And we know that even from a given point of view the colour will seem different by artificial light, or to a colour-blind man, or to a man wearing blue spectacles, while in the dark there will be no colour at all, though to touch and hearing the table will be unchanged. This colour is not something which is inherent in the table, but something depending upon the table and the spectator and the way the light falls on the table. When, in ordinary life, we speak of the colour of the table, we only mean the sort of colour which it will seem to have to a normal spectator from an ordinary point of view under usual conditions of light. But the other colours which appear under other conditions have just as good a right to be considered real; and therefore, to avoid favouritism, we are compelled to deny that, in itself, the table has any one particular colour

Other Possibilities

Assuming that I suddenly can see colors as never, ever before, what could cause this? Furthermore, do I see colors differently than most other people? In "The Ambiguous Existence of Color" by Jeffrey P. Bignam speculates with regards to Russell's thesis:

Additionally, just because a color-blind person and a person wearing colored spectacles receive a different sense datum when viewing an object does not mean that the color of the object itself has changed. The human eye is only able to detect three wavelengths of light and the brain combines and interprets these to come up with the colors that are perceived. A color-blind person is usually missing one or more of these detectors, which means that he or she can detect only one or two unique wavelengths and, therefore, can combine them into far fewer distinct colors. Furthermore, a small number of people are able to detect four wavelengths of light, which allows them to distinguish many more colors than people with "normal" vision can. While such a person may not be able to see what those with normal vision consider to be "red", for example, they still see the same color whenever they are presented with something red.

Perhaps the blue-tinted lenses that I wore post surgery combined with the shifting polarity of dominant eye and the neural processing involved in Reprogramming the Human Operating System for visual acuity at a distance rather than near viewing, have given me a gift that I shall never overlook. I wish you well in your vision quest.

You may also be interested in my more recent articles

Spinach Diet Vs. Cataracts.

and

+RonNolan, Human Cyborg?

My Eye Care Recommendations

Dr. David Farberow
Plaza Lane Optometry

1537 Pacific Ave., Suite 100
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831-429-2020

Jason Luksich, M.D.
Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Main Clinic (Santa Cruz)
2025 Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, California 95062

Thanks

I extend my sincere thank you to Dr. Luksich and his the great staff at Palo Alto Medical Clinic and Dr. Farberow at Plaza Lane Optometry for bringing new light into my life.

www.new-humans.com

nolan@new-humans.com

Cataracts, Contacts & Rainbows is

dedicated to Michael Henry Dashwood Dormer
a good friend who is much missed.

Perhaps I am beginning to see color like he did?

Diabetic Foot & Torn Achilles Tendon

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 04:46:00 +0000

Diabetic Foot May Lead to Torn Achilles Tendon

If you have diabetic foot that required toe amputation, (which I did), you may want to be especially careful when starting to exercise again (which I must not have). This is because even though you may seem to be able to compensate and walk normally, there are subtle differences in balance and weight loading that can result in a partially torn Achilles tendon. This is painful and pretty much eliminates walking as a form of cardio exercise and any workout which applies pressure to your legs and feet.

Caution Alert

Diabetes is an extremely potent disease and you should be cautious of unintended consequences in any corrective program that you adopt. Furthermore, I have no formal training in medicine and urge you to consult your physician and health counselor before engaging in a spinach diet and exercise program.

The good news is that after about three months of hobbling around, I woke up one morning and the pain was gone. I attribute my recovery to morning and evening Achilles massage and the ProTec Achilles Strap—a deceptively simple device that worked wonders.

The strap takes the pressure off of the tendon when exercising so the tendon has a chance to self-heal. It sports an elegant, yet simple design and is made of tough material. I remove the strap or loosen it when not exercising to promote circulation.

I have added some strap selections to our Amazon Store.

www.new-humans.com

nolan@new-humans.com

Reprogramming the Human Operating System to Conquer Diabetes...by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 04:26:00 +0000

As someone that has conquered obesity, and in turn Diabetes II, I am presenting a system that has completely eliminated Diabetes from my life. My goal is to encourage you to know that there are simple solutions that with the right "Reprogramming of the Human Operating System" are not only easy, but can be quite an enjoyable experience.

Caution Alert

Diabetes is an extremely potent disease and you should be cautious of unintended consequences in any corrective program that you adopt. Furthermore, I have no formal training in medicine and urge you to consult your physician and health counselor before engaging in a spinach diet and exercise program.

My Record of Healing

I was diagnosed with Diabetes Type II with Diabetic Foot that required toe amputations in November, 2010. Since then I have completely recovered. The key was weight loss (70 pounds) through diet and exercise that I call the New-Humans Health and Fitness Program and present here with the hope that it will aid you in your journey to fantastic health.

The following are the results of my glucose levels from the initial hospitalization to recent months.The New-Humans Health and Fitness Program in based upon my personal research findings and observations, however, most would consider this an extreme regimen—or perhaps one that lacks variety.

Key Hemoglobin A1c Levels

Normal <5.7%

Pre-Diabetes 5.7-6.4%

Diabetes ≥ 6.5%

Source: University of Michigan

Diabetes Quick View

Here are a few references that I frequently consult. They will provide you with a quick overview of the disease background and the role that diet and exercise may play in the battle to conquer both obesity and diabetes.

What is diabetes?

What is the connection of diabetes to obesity?

What is the glycated hemoglobin measured in A1c tests?

Can diabetes be reversed?

What causes diabetes? (one point of view)

How many of us have diabetes?

Alignment of Mind, Body and Spirit

The New-Humans Health and Fitness Program is based upon three components.

· Visionary Diet (see New-Humans Diet Program)
· Exercise (described here)
· Motivation (described here)

New-Humans Exercise Program

Create a personal space and time The key to my exercise regimen is my New-Humans Exercise Stick. Even on a day when I am running late and thinking about not working out. As soon as I put the stick over my shoulders, I relax, focus and am totally committed to a full session. It is a form of magic because I have Reprogrammed the Human Operating System to make it so

These are selections from our rapidly growing collection of exercise articles.

New-Humans Exercise Stick Workout

Exercise Stick Basics

Fast Twitch Fibers and Body Sculpting--are fitness enthusiasts missing out?

Spirt/Body Sculpting Stick Exercises to Lose Weight Fast

How I Lost Weight Doing Stick Twist Exercises

Exercise Stick Beach Party!

Anchoring Resistance Bands

New-Humans Motivational Program

These articles provide tips on how to "Reprogram the Human Operating System" to make our exercise and diet programs not only effective, but a joy to look forward to every day.

Reprogramming the Human Operating System

Reprogramming the Human Operating System Part 2: Reward Credits

How to Develop and Maintain a Healthy Attitude

My Cure for Obesity

CREATE A HEALING SPACE AND TIME BY CONVERTING YOUR OFFICE INTO A GYM!

How I Lost Weight Doing Stick Twist Exercises

Big Toe Buddha Featured as a "Health Hero"

Thank You for the Healing!

I wish to extend my sincere gratitude and to the healing provided by Dr. Andrew Wu, Dr. Jon Nordgaard, and Dr. Kathleen Halat of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Dr. Catherine Forest of UC San Francisco Medical Center for helping me conquer my diabetes and become a New-Human! I would also like to thank the physicians and staff at Emeline Clinic in Santa Cruz who have assisted and monitored my recovery including Dr. Linda Lou and John Suwinski

www.new-humans.com

nolan@new-humans.com

Reprogramming the Human Operating System Part 2: Reward Credits by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:25:00 +0000

This is Big Toe Buddha after Losing 80 lbs

This is Part 2. Here is Part 1

In a prior article. I examined the connection between human operating system errors and obesity. Here in Part 2, I will expand upon the concept of consciously Reprogramming the Human Operating System to improve health and fitness. Early on I recognized the importance of rewards in behavior modification as a form of operant conditioning.

When I began this part of my journey, it seemed reasonable that if I wanted to lose my fat stomach, I should focus on exercises that would impact the abdominal region. Exercises with stick twists (along with crunches and leg lifts) seemed like an obvious methodology. After a only a few days, I noticed that there was something sort of magical about the way using the stick made me feel. It straightens your back and really strains the abdominal muscles that are buried under layers of fat. In fact, I became so interested in exercise sticks that I started making a limited number of special sticks for my friends. You can check them out in our Spirit/Body Sculpting Stick Store.

The New-Humans Fitness Program is an extreme diet and exercise program that has done wonders for me, but is definitely not for everyone. Consult your physician or trainer before trying any "lose weight fast!" program.

A Life or Death Matter

There are two alternative motivations to adopt an overnight, permanent lifestyle change:

1. The first is an unexpected visit to the hospital emergency room due to serious, sudden illness or injury. This type of wake up call will certainly get your attention, at least it did mine! Learning that I was diabetic with toes in need of amputation certainly was the single-most significant catalyst in my life.

2. Or if you choose door number two; you can read the accounts written by me and other survivors, and if you are brave enough, try imagining that it's you that is going through the same trauma. Throw in some poignant moments, like lying in a hospital bed late at night watching your hear beat in real time on an ultrasound monitor, and you get the picture. Now that I have lost 80 pounds and completely cured my diabetes, I am sharing my experience with others. ("I Am Health"). And if my writing is good enough and your imagination is vivid enough, then maybe--just maybe--you will avoid experiencing your own crisis by consciously engaging in the concept of Reprogramming Your Operating System.

As soon as you recover from the medical crisis--or if you decide to reign in your imagination and say, "It will never happen to me," will you go back to beer, pizza, sodas and burgers? Or will you see behind the scenes of the corporate fast-food-alcohol-induced fantasy land where slim boys and girls chug big cans of Aussie beer and hot-chick models recommend a classy drink like Russian vodka, and you say to yourself "Never Again! I AM A NEW-HUMAN.COM."

The Zen of Sacrifice & Rewards

Generating "Reward Credits" offer the ticket to a New-Human life for any person no longer content with sitting around, procrastinating, and wishing....and doing nothing about getting fit. The premise is that by exerting more effort and making the proper decisions today (Reward Debits), you will enjoy the benefits tomorrow (Reward Debits).

But...and this is the key, you can also enjoy the Credits today even though they won't clear he bank until tomorrow.

" Nearly 65 percent of dieters return to their pre-dieting weight within three years, according to Gary Foster, Ph.D., clinical director of the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at the University of Pennsylvania." (Source)

Why? Because they didn't get enough Rewards to offset the Debit cost of the 'hard' decisions they needed to make about exercise and diet. The New-Humans Fitness Program is different is because it offers immediate Rewards--both spiritual and physical that keep you engaged and eager to participate. Here I will show you how a little discomfort, pain and denial can be converted from a negative into a positive experience.

Start Redeeming your Rewards Credits Now!

Keep reading to find out how

The Zen of Reprogramming Your Operating System

Reprogramming the Human Operating System is based upon a circular cause/effect viewpoint of time, i.e., what decisions we make and actions we take today not only affect tomorrow, but the future actually has a feedback effect upon us today.

The extra effort or hard decision about diet or exercise made this afternoon is a Reward Debit which is offset by a Reward Credit which will be redeemed tomorrow. But there is more, because the satisfaction of making that Reward Debit is also experienced today.

What you may not expect though is that the very activities you may think of as Debits today, will likely become less and less of a negative until they turn into a positive. For example, eating fruit daily may seem like a bit of a chore, but in time you will look forward to and savor every bite and wonder how you could have lived so long ignoring these self-contained morsels that come conveniently packed with nutrients, energy, vitamins and fiber. In the beginning, passing up a Big Mac and fries for an apple at lunch may seem to be a significant Debit, but as you experience the positive results of our strenuous exercise and diet program, you will very much look forward to that delicious apple at lunch time and doing the first stick twists in the morning.

Your Nearest Rewards Credit Redemption Center

....is located in the information processing system located between your ears. If your operating system has bugs, or is infected with the corporate food-alcohol virus, you will need to become the diligent reprogrammer of your own mind; delete the bugs and worms and perform an upgrade with your own set of health-promoting algorithms. No restart needed.

Redeeming a Reward Credit today for something that you will experience tomorrow is a way of Reprogramming your Operating System to feel pleasure in spite of any discomfort from today's workout or run. This applies to all of the New-Humans Fitness Program's exercise and diet recommendations..

Here is an example. Your task is to discover and modify your algorithm for hunger. Your biological program for satiation most likely is based upon stretch receptors in your stomach. Once they start firing signals back to your processor, you feel full. You likely also link the sensation of felling full with pleasure. However, fat deposition is caused by an excess of caloric intake, so if you fill your stomach to capacity, you may be exceeding your expenditure of calories and will get fat. Some carbonated drinks, like beer and soda additionally stretch your stomach to its capacity limit with CO2 gas. so a regular diet of beer and pizza will continue to stretch your stomach and receptors, with the results that you have to eat more and more to feel full. Your program is out of whack due to an error in the satiation algorithm's feedback loop.

The programming modification is straight forward. You only need to associate the Reward Debit of passing up a burger and fries with the feeling of gratitude and fulfillment that you will experience tomorrow. This Reward Credit will offset any temporary negative feelings, thoughts or experiences related to staying on your diet or exercise program (Reward Debit). For instance, some may find the strenuous New-Humans daily spinach diet boring and uninteresting. With reprogramming, it becomes a great source of dining pleasure which you will look forward to every evening. The same applies to daily exercise with the advantage that

dopamine levels are increased by exercise which is extremely pleasurable and

your spirit will have an opportunity to enjoy an opportunity to drop out into a creative space where you can engage in creative thinking accompanied by the rhythm of your mantra in sync with your breath cycle. In essence you will learn to connect to your spirit through your body

All you need to do is to make a few changes in your operating system program's satiation algorithm. For example, 'feeling full" equals "overeating." therefore as Big Toe Buddha says, "It is best to always be a little hungry."

The idea is to shine a light on the framework of your subconscious, bring it to the surface and modify it so that you can enjoy life to the fullest. It is better to give than receive, so give yourself a gift—save some fruit from dinner for tomorrow’s breakfast!

The Next Step: Guaranteed Rewards

As you reach another step towards enlightenment and if you should go ahead and eat all of the cereal and leave none for the next day, you will still have the reward of having enjoyed them at least once and that is a positive thought. This thinking is part of becoming enlightened, It demonstrates that it is entirely possible to Reprogram the Human Operating system and change negative algorithms into positive energy Instead of complaining about no cereal today, you will feel happy that you enjoyed it yesterday and you are complete. (added 12/03/12).

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Keep your fire burning!
Big Toe Buddha

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Reprogramming the Human Operating System to Facilitate Weight Loss by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:26:00 +0000

The New-Humans Fitness Program incorporates high repetition/moderate weight workouts (for example bench pressing 70-75 lbs, fifteen times per set). You may be surprised about how effective a moderate to light weight, high-rep 90-minute program can be. Note that the New-Humans Fitness Program is an extreme diet and exercise program that has done wonders for me, but is definitely not for everyone. Consult your physician or trainer before trying any "lose weight fast!" program.

Here is an analysis of one of the three rotating exercise programs that I joyfully execute on a daily basis.

I was amazed to realize that in this single (one of three alternating) daily routines, I bench press over 13,200 pounds in a period of 80-90 minutes! This doesn't even include the energy expended for alternating the bench presses sets with sets of leg lifts, crunches, push ups and pull ups. This workout alone will total up to nearly 2 million pounds per year--and this is less than half of the workout routine.

Do I sweat a lot?
You bet!

Do I ever miss a workout?
Very seldom. At the most, I missed five workouts in the last year due to a camping trip.

Do I ever NOT want to workout?
No. Never! I have been on this daily program for over 19 months. Every night I look forward to my morning workout routine. As soon as my eyes open, I am excited to get up and get started. This is also a interruption-free time when I find inspiration for my projects and essays. It is a magnificent way to start the day. Make sure to have a notebook and pen handy to jot down new ideas.

Obesity = Operating System Error!

It wasn't always this way. When I belonged to gyms in San Diego and Honolulu, I shined-on many days when I "should" have been working out, but "didn't want to," or "didn't feel like it."

I was also easily tempted by good old American certified pepperoni pizza and the beer that made 'Bud wiser'. After all, if Big Time Athletes and hot rod NASCAR drivers could stuff their face and chug big mugs of beer on TV commercials, they must be OK right?

Not any more. I am not the least bit tempted to chow down junk food and I don't do it! Actually, I turn away from those TV commercials during the games and races. Not to avoid temptation, but the greasy burgers and chicken parts are completely unappetizing and sort of 'gruesome' to watch. But most importantly, I directly associate fried food and beer with becoming an obese diabetic and that is a very powerful negative stimulus. But from a student of marketing's point of view, it is fascinating what fantastic motivational gimmicks corporations will invent and ram down our throats, just to get our a slice of our paychecks. Forget the fact the obesity and diabetes are killing our friends and family. See my essays "Marketing is the Meaning of Life," "The Brainwashing of Society" and "Playing Chicken."

How I Regained Control of My Operating System Program

So what has changed? How did I take control of my program and fix the errors? I have undergone what to me personally is a wondrous metamorphosis--not only in my body but my spiritual being. I have essentially re-programmed my operating system.

This transformation wasn't planned (at least not be me) and only now can I see how my new attitude about my physical body and mind/spirit took place. Many of my methods are extreme, but keep in mind that I started at 245 lbs and am now down to 170, so extreme methods are being rewarded with extremely favorable results. Although I am sharing this with you here, please do what you think is right for yourself and well being. You should consults your physician before undertaking any of the diet, exercise, or motivational ideas presented on the New-Humans.com website.

This essay describes the realms that I am currently exploring Note that this is an ongoing learning experience--there always seems to be some new aspect of the spirit/body program to decode, update and upgrade.

The Zen of Rewards: Immediate Vs. Deferred Compensation

The New-Human Fitness Plan is based on stick twist exercises because I have found them to be incredibly effective way of sculpting away mid-section fat. Many fitness experts maintain that target-site-specific-body sculpting is not possible. In my essay, "Fast Twitch Fibers and Body Sculpting--are fitness enthusiasts missing out?". I argue that it is at least possible for the mid-section using stick twist exercises.

When I began this part of my journey, it seemed reasonable that if I wanted to lose my fat stomach, I should focus on exercises that would impact the abdominal region. Exercises with stick twists (along with crunches and leg lifts) seemed like an obvious methodology. After a only a few days, I noticed that there was something sort of magical about the way using the stick made me feel. It straightens your back and really strains the abdominals that are buried under layers of fat. In fact, I became so interested in exercise sticks that I started making a limited number of special sticks for my friends. You can check them out in our
Spirit/Body Sculpting Stick Store. There are several essays and videos about stick exercises in the New-Humans Metamorphosis Club—no membership required. (link)

The point here is that I started feeling the results of the stick exercises after only a couple of days of workouts and that reinforcement encouraged me to carry on. It is a basic example of operant conditioning in which the effort of a task (in this case stick twisting) is matched by a reward (a slimmer waistline).

Another operant conditioning effect is the release of dopamine. “There is considerable evidence that dopamine participates in both reinforcement and aversive learning.” (Source) and that "Dopamine plays a major role in the brain system that is responsible for reward-driven learning. Every type of reward that has been studied increases the level of dopamine transmission in the brain..." (Source) After over a year and a half of daily workouts, my muscles seem to look forward to exercise, By being consistent, my circulatory and storage systems for the components that will fuel the workout are ready, on schedule and dependable. Doing the first and the last repetition of stick twists and weight lifting is extremely pleasurable. There is no pain, only a rush of good sensations. It is this feedback along with achieving measurable improvements every day, that make each workout a centerpiece of my life.

After I complete my workout, my day is a success—no matter what happens afterwards. I refer of this uplifting physical and mental state as the 'Zen of Rewards'. Even if life's demands are way out of sync and you have burdensome problems to solve, your workout and diet regimen will put you in a healthy, creative frame of mind to solve those very problems and worries.

Change your program mindset so that you go for a run or walk every day and workout in the gym because it feels good, not because you feel that you have to or will feel guilty if you don't. That is the big difference. The results you achieve provide will positive reinforcement. Feeling thin again is a wonderful experience.

The Zen of Repetition and Meditation: Workout Mantras

All of the exercises in the New-Humans Fitness Program are based upon low to moderate levels of exertion and high numbers of repetitions. Every exertion is matched by an intake of breath, every relaxation by an exhalation of breath. High reps keep your heart rate up and provide wholesome, aerobic training. But just as important, they offer an avenue to connect with and exercise your spirit. Workout mantras take your mind off your worries, stop the world and let your spirit breathe. Walking or jogging or stick twists can be superb forms of meditation as you consistently time as you sync your mantra with your exertion. Here is one of my favorites that I do daily when I jog at SeaCliff Beach in Aptos, CA.

The movement is smooth and continuous and the number of steps taken between exhales and inhales increases as you progress from walking to sprinting. The point is that you sync your mantra to your left or right foot and stay consistent. Exhales should be sharp and vigorous, while inhales are slow and relaxed allowing the lungs to expand naturally as much as possible, except when air must be sucked in during anaerobic sprints.

Action Mantra Breath

Left Step "Warm" Sharply Exhale
Right Step Silence Slowly Inhale

Left Step "Sun" Sharply Exhale
Right Step Silence Slowly Inhale

Left Step "Cool" Sharply Exhale
Right Step Silence Slowly Inhale

Left Step "Breeze" Sharply Exhale
Right Step Silence Slowly Inhale

...and start over

Soon you will find yourself sailing along in the warm sun and feeling the cool breeze on your face. New insights and ideas will form spontaneously. I carry a pen and slip of paper to write down the exceptionally inspirational thoughts.

The Zen of Control: Always Be a Little Hungry

How we become overweight is ultra simple, if you eat more calories than your burn, your operating system brain/CPU executes an algorithm that directs myriad chemical reactions that convert, transport and store excess food in lipid cells...and we put on the pounds. Our fat storage system is an evolutionary adaptation that allows us to survive periods when food is scarce. But those of us that are fortunate enough to have refrigeration and the ability to store our perishables no longer need to employ the same strategy as hibernating bears. Fat is remarkably heavy. After you have lost forty pounds, put a couple of 20 lb dumb bells in a back pack and tote it around for a day. That's the extra burden you used to carry 24/7. Lose a big chunk of fat and you will feel light as a feather.

Diet is the counterpoint to exercise. Diet involves not just selecting food items, but becoming conscious of their caloric content and matching calorie inputs vs. expenditures. You may have tried binge diets in the past but lost momentum and gave up and went back to stuffing your self or drinking six packs of beer. Like many people who have suffered with weight problems, I have gone on and off diet/exercise programs because they were either "too hard" or "no fun" and I eventually caved in to temptation. I have now been on the New-Humans Fitness Program for two years and I am absolutely convinced that I will stick with it through the Singularity when technological advances enable dramatic increases in human longevity.(link). How does the New-Humans Fitness Program differ from others that claim a miracle cure for obesity? The short answer is that it reprograms your operating system.

Caloric reduction has been associated with improved health and increased longevity in many organisms ranging from yeast to dogs and may apply to humans as well. Here I will share some tips on how I learned to say NO to stuffing myself. This is a key component of the behavior modification strategy that I am proposing, so please bear with me as I describe this mundane example. In the evening, I always have a bowl of organic granola cereal about an hour after my spinach salad. This cereal is healthy and delicious, especially with a fruit of the day, like slices of fresh plum, apple, banana, blueberries and raisins. You can buy this and other great cereals from Puritan's Pride (click image).

From Puritan's Website. "Boulder Granola Original Boulder Granola-12 oz-Bag

From the Manufacturers Label: Unleash Your Inner Hippie! From the heart of groovy, granola-crunching Boulder, Colorado comes the most rockin primo granola ever! Boulder Granola is chock full of protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants to support active bodies and active lifestyles. Organic, premium, scrumptious granola with the just-right blend of oats, nuts and seeds, and lightly sweetened with pure maple syrup for anytime enjoyment or snacking with milk, with yogurt, over ice cream or straight from the bag."

It is extremely tasty and very healthy with vitamins, fiber and bulk for smooth digestive flow.. So tasty, that I feel a temptation to not only finish off the bowl a MOMENTARY urge to not only finish it off, but to go for a refill. Alas I do not because II have reprogrammed my algorithm for satiation to the effect that I consciously slow down my intake and savor each spoonful. When I have finished about 80% of the bowl, I stop eating and leave the rest for my morning breakfast. The urge to eat more is gone only seconds after I stash the bowl for tomorrow. I feel superb that I have managed my satiation program and that I have 'done the right thing'. Another example is during the morning I leave halves of apples, oranges or bananas for later in the day. I call this reprogramming "deferred compensation."

It is as if in the morning you can thank yourself for something done in the past, but feel the reward for doing so in the present. So you get a double bonus. First, you are pleased that you gave yourself a gift and second you are pleased that you didn't over-eat. Don't wait for the stretch receptors in the walls of your stomach to tell you that you are stuffed. Always stay a little hungry and reprogram your operating system to live in harmony with your physical body. I no longer have cravings for pizza and beer; no desire for anything but fruit, nuts and spinach salads, plus a daily protein milkshake made with prune and blueberry juice instead of milk, Available here direct from Amazon at a great price!

It's not like you can get fat just by touching or looking at food. You have to plan ahead to purchase and prepare it, then manually pick it up, put it in your mouth, chew and swallow. There are a lot of steps that have become automatic—so why consume food that is unhealthy and makes you fat? Think of sunny days at the farm when eating spinach, feel the breeze on the leaves, listen to the workers singing folk songs. Enjoy every bite. Be patient, eat right and exercise every day. Just get started. Try the stick twist exercises using my handmade New-Humans Exercise Stick.

The New-Humans Exercise Sticks is very
effective weight reduction tools and
break down for easy transport.

Check out the New-Humans Metamorphosis Club for more information on exercise and diet.

Take charge of your operating system and get connected with your body and spirit.

Get Reprogramming!

Chek out the sequel....

Reprogramming the Human Operating System Part 2: Reward Credits by Big Toe Buddha

Remember to stay a little hungry,
Big Toe Buddha

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Advice from Ernest Hemingway

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:50:00 +0000

My good friend and fishing buddy, Jack Hemingway, once shared with me advice he had received from his father, Ernest. The gist was that once a writer feels in control of his story and starts to see the plot unfold, its time to quit for the day.

I apply the same philosophy to my diet program. In the evenings I usually have a bowl of natural cereal with fruit of the moment. Just when I reach the ¾ mark and have experienced the first urges to go for a refill, I stop and leave the rest for breakfast.

In spite of missing the short term gratification, I am proud of myself for restraining the urge to stuff myself I like to always feel a little hungry...plus in the morning, I am thankful for the gift. I think that Ernest and Jack would approve.

Visit the New-Humans Metamorphosis Club for my exercise and diet recommendations.
Big Toe Buddha

Big Toe Buddha Featured as a "Health Hero"

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:37:00 +0000

I am very grateful for this honor.

Click the image to read about the New-Humans Fitness Plan that uses extreme measures to achieve extreme results.

http://www.myrebody.com/blog/ron-nolan-a-new-mind-in-a-new-body/

How I Lost Weight Doing Stick Twist Exercises...by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:33:00 +0000

Stick Exercises Burn Fat Fast

The Spirit/Body Sculpting Stick is the cornerstone of my daily workout—yes I do stick twists 7 days a week and love every moment of my workout! I have combined daily stick twists, ab routines, and weight lifting to cut away 80 pounds of fat and feel great. In my article “Fast Twitch Fibers...", I examine how stick twists exercises work to trim belly fat and examine some of the reasons why stick twist methods may be so effective.

[Please consult your physician or trainer before undertaking any of the exercises described here. Although I have a Ph.D. in a biological field, I am not a medical expert.]

There are many exercise routines possible and I encourage you to experiment and make up your own.

The three primary ones that I use daily are

Standing Vertical Twist

Seated Vertical Twist

Seated Horizontal Twist

[Note that I don’t personally do Standing Horizontal Twists because it feels uncomfortable to my lumbar vertebrae. But seated, I can easily pump away with no strain whatsoever.]

Big Toe Buddha’s Regimen

Each super set consists of fast-paced exercises with no rest breaks. This keeps the heart and breathing rates continuously elevated.

I recommend pointing your toes inward on both seated and standing stick twists and allow your heel to natural lift with each swing--sort of like running in place. Pull the stick down to your shoulder blades and continuously tense your abdominals.

A. Stick Twists--Abs

50 standing vertical cycles
100 seated cycles
50 standing cycles
50 sit ups, crunches and leg lifts

B. Weight Training (alternating daily routines for chest/abs, arms/abs and legs/abs)
60 reps

C. Stick Twists--Abs
50 standing vertical cycles
100 seated cycles
50 standing cycles
50 sit ups, crunches and leg lifts

Each superset (A through C) is repeated three times over a period of approximately 90 minutes with no rest longer than it takes to change equipment or positions. I also question the practice of rest intervals between workouts, instead I do the above routine, followed by Yoga--plus a 60 minute brisk run/walk seven days a week with fabulous results. The portable feature of my stick allows daily workouts anywhere. My “extreme” approach to sequencing and interval training and diet will be the subject of future essays.

Stick Twist Exercises Burn Fat Fast

Our new Spirit/Body Sculpting Stick

You won’t believe how wonderful life can be when you don’t have to carry around two, 40 pound dumbbells everywhere you go. Walking is nearly effortless and you will get to wear all of your favorite clothes again!

The trick is to get started, get some results, then keep at it until you’ve taken control of your body. Diet is also a major factor. During the day, I feast on a variety of fruit and nuts, but every evening without fail, I eat a spinach, avocado, cucumber and tomato salad. I will devote future posts to the biology of fat and the connection of obesity to diabetes. Here is a good article on the benefits of eating spinach.

Spinach Is One of the Most Nutritious Foods Available

Low in calories and high in vitamins, spinach is one of the most nutrient-dense foods in existence. One cup of the leafy green vegetable contains far more than your daily requirements of vitamin K and vitamin A, almost all the manganese and folate your body needs and nearly 40 percent of your magnesium requirement. It is a good, very good or excellent source of more than 20 different measurable nutrients, including dietary fiber, calcium and protein. And yet, 1 cup has only 40 calories! Spinach is an excellent choice for nutrition without high calories. Read more.

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My Cure for Obesity by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Creating a Healing Space and Time

by Big Toe Buddha

New-Humans Fitness Program^TM

In these two images of yours truly taken 2 years a part you can see that I have indeed metamorphosed from a fat caterpillar into a spider with muscles. I consider this to be the first step in my journey to becoming a New-Human. In addition to the miracle of losing 75 pounds of fat, I have begun to learn how to reprogram my CPU brain and see many things much differently than during my fat cat stage.

Like many others, my writing about personal events may also be a part of my healing journey. But I hope that some of you may avoid needless problems, many of which are, at least in part, due to corporate greed and meme manipulation.

On this journey, I will be seeking information about health and diet that is accurate and not spun by slick marketing mavens. Please feel free to join in my journey with comments, ideas, and suggestions. First...

...do any of these sound familiar?

“I know I should start getting in shape. I promise to start tomorrow.”

“I am so busy, I just have to eat whatever is fast and convenient.”

“I’ll skip today and go to the gym tomorrow. One more day can’t make any difference.”

“I do plan to quit drinking...”

...What If?

You could get up every morning and do exactly what your body needs and wants--not what your job or family or bank account needs or wants?

Sounds good until you think about it. Because you might already sense pangs of guilt that you are being selfish or insensitive because you put your health and dreams first, but if you are seriously overweight and/or have diabetes, your attitude may need some adjustment. In fact by taking care of yourself first, you will be doing your family, friends and job a favor by taking on a more self-centered, self-absorbed, self-concerned viewpoint on life and how precious and beautiful it is.

I was lucky when I hit the wall because I had a good friend and top flight medical gurus who put me back together physically, but it was I that took care of the mental and spiritual heavy lifting. Here I will share my findings to develop what I call the New-Humans Fitness Program. No matter how wealthy and powerful you are, you can’t buy a lean body (at least not yet), only sweat and self-determination lead the way--sweat through exercise and self-determination through diet and meditation.

Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor nor do I practice medicine. Please consult your physician or a fitness expert before beginning any diet or exercise program. I am however, a biologist and my goal is to interpret into everyday common sense language and logical thinking, the overwhelming glut of information and self-help online resources on obesity and diabetes. I will retrace the same conceptual road map that I used to educate myself in order to make important decisions that literally changed my life. Please consult other web sources as well in case any of the publications I cite might have inaccurate Information. I welcome comments—especially if I have overlooked important medical or health advances.

In some cases, I will provide my own personal regimen—be warned in advance that my approach is very extreme and I am not recommending or suggesting that it may be suitable for anyone else. I think of it as part of my sharing my healing experience with others who may find a path that avoids DB and obesity all together, or help to fully recover as I did.

The New-Humans Fitness Program consists of four components:

1. space MY-SPACE!
2. time MY-TIME!
3. exercise/meditation MY-FLOW!
4. diet/meditation MY-DIET!

MY-FLOW! and MY-DIET! will be the subjects of many posts to come. In this essay, I will examine the two foundations of the New-Humans Fitness Program, space and time.

The first step is to establish MY-SPACE! for healing.

...MY-SPACE!

This should be a small, quiet, disturbance-free room or office which has been custom personalized by you. Here, I will share with you my first design for a hybrid office/gym that may give you some ideas to build your own space. We New-Humans are adaptable and creative, so it may take you some time and effort, but you will be able to set up your space at work or at home. And going to a gym is great if you really do go...that is.

But some of the gym rats may wonder about what’s up with all the stick twists you will be doing with your

The Spirit/Body Sculpting Stick is your ticket to easily and quickly burn off fat.

(The Spirt/Body Sculpting Stick is available in the New-Humans Metamorphosis Club along with the Leg Mother Bench that Warms the Legs and the Heart):

But by far, the best manifestation of the New-Humans Fitness Program is when your office is both office and gym There are plenty of neat ways of stowing and arranging equipment so that the office fits into the gym and the gym fits into the office.

The advantage is privacy and solitude. Yes you could take an important business call if you had to, but just tell them you will call back in an hour. Having all of your handpicked equipment around you while you work is comforting and inspirational. I am lucky to work from home, so within a half our of getting up, I am working out. Every day...more about routine when we get to the exercise/mediation component.

All other intrusions should be eliminated. I have made a poster for you to stick on your door.

In other posts, The Brainwashing of Society and Playing Chicken, I assert that “strict, very determined, people are calling the shots on how most of us think and what we eat and drink. They are defining who we are. They have most of us brainwashed.”

So maybe that explains why our minds don’t always act like they are close partners with our bodies. Blame it on brainwashing that a sugar-sweet, fizzy beverage naturally seems to be the perfect companion for a juicy, greasy steer burger with steak fries--judging by the couples smiling faces as they wolf down and slurp while being taped by a pair of top-of-the-line HD cameras for a highly crafted, highly edited, highly conceived and very costly to produce and air video commercial carefully designed to urge you to get in your car and get one.

No mention whatsoever that in excess quantity, those soft drinks and sandwiches contain more caloric compounds and structural components than the body needs to reserve for future emergencies. It’s pretty basic. If there is insufficient calorie burning to match calorie intake, then we put on weight and we will have to let our belt out another inch...again...and Again...AND AGAIN!

In a future essay, I will explore the cellular aspects of obesity and diabetes and how ‘fattening foods” actually interfere with the exchange of biological information and alter the cell’s essential input/output systems.

If this seems extreme, good. Your life literally depends upon making serious changes....maybe not so extreme as mine, but the amazing thing about our bodies is that they are very willing and very able to make changes for the better. Why is it that our mind often overrides these instinctual healing programs? In my essay, Marketing is the Meaning of Life™, I noted that “knowledge is power and information is money, but marketing is the meaning of life because without advertising there would be no sex and without sex, no life—at least for us sapients.” And a great many of our bad habits, poor diet, lack of exercise are directly related to corporate marketing campaigns that put shareholder profit ahead of human sense and well-being.

We have great protein supplements available through Amazon.com in the New-Humans Metamorphosis Club.

...the Spirit part

The New-Humans Fitness Program exercises that I recommend are very simple and fun to do. They are all based upon breathing techniques and counting exercise repetitions is standard. In a quiet disturbance free environment, counting and breathing transport you into an altered state where new ideas spring into your mind like wild flowers blooming in time lapse. I keep my writer's notebook open and ready to make barely legible notes while I work out. This is a time to concentrate on the muscle dynamics of your body while letting your mind free to explore new thoughts and new channels of awareness.

Here are some images of my New-Humans hybrid office/gym/meditation chamber.

During Gym Phase
Weight exercises add muscle. The Spirt/Body Stick burns fat.

During Yoga Phase
After my daily gym workout, I stash the bench and weights and spread a mat on the floor to do Yoga.

During Office Phase

Gym equipment is stashed. Note the the side tables either fold or are on casters.

The bench becomes as seat next to the Supplement Bar.

BTW, if you work as much at your desk as I do, I highly recommend my invention the Leg Mother Bench that Warms the Legs and the Heart. It is a wonderful way to improve your circulation and keep your blood from pooling in your legs and feet. Right now we are featuring a Do-It-Yourself version. An assembled version will be available soon. Contact nolan@new-humans.com if you would like to be notified when we begin shipping.

...a Healing Time

There are obviously many permutations that may impact the space/time decision. For example, some spaces may only be available at certain times and vise versus. Ideally, you will be able to pick both your MY-TIME! and your MY-SPACE! like I did. I start every day with a 75 minute gym workout followed by 20 minutes of yoga. Since I am self-employed and work alone, it is easy for me. But I have chosen to live this way to live this way. I like to start my day in my gym because I feel in my heart that after I finish my workout and meditation that no matter what happens later, my day is already a success! I worked out. Yeah! And I enjoyed every moment of it!

Why schedule interruptions may be detrimental. Note this is conjecture, but it seems logical that regularity and consistency should streamline metabolic pathways in that cells and tissues are able to prepare in advance to receive and exchange oxygen and nutrients and combust carbs for calories on a regular schedule. If our metabolic tank levels oscillate smoothly and with the intrinsic regularity of a circadian rhythm, then are fewer gridlocks at circulatory and cell membrane bottle necks.

Although, I workout and walk roughly the same amount of time every day, I alternate muscle groups daily thus giving some support for the idea of rest and recuperation. But when Danica Patrick, NASCAR driver, said in a too personal interview that she planned to take two weeks off from her workouts then I guessed that she was going to face the same mind game as all the rest of us on why this is a good idea and when will we actually go back to the gym.

All this rest time to me is dead wrong if it leads to turning into a couch potato, pizza inhaling, beer drinker. I would rather work out every day and vary the muscle groups and not have to endure the mental torture of deciding, rationalizing, and guilt tripping about whether I workout as the excuses pour in and the weight pours on.. I just do. Everyday. And love it!

It is very important to set up and take advantage of your MY-TIME! Call it a gift which you deserve and will defend, not only for yourself, but your family, friends and job. My best creativity takes place in the morning when I am in MY TIME!

Lots more to come.

Big Toe Buddha

How to Develop and Maintain a Healthy Attitude by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:28:00 +0000

LONGevitation is of no interest if long life brings prolonged pain, incoherence or incapacitation.

So if you and I want to markedly increase our life span, it is obvious that we need to take better care of our incredible biological information systems.

It is possible, and likely, that at some stage in human evolution, our bodies may be partial or complete artificial constructs. New-Humans may eventually even metamorphosize into digital beings with nearly infinite longevity, but to get there we have to not only survive but prosper health-wise. As Spock says, “Live Long and Prosper.”

Disclaimer, although my title is Dr. I am a biologist, not an MD. The journey that I describe and the extreme measures that I take on a daily basis, could turn your life around too, or not. Therefore, I urge you to consult a qualified physician before undertaking any of the mental and physical programs which I describe. Seriously! You have been warned.

Everything about the human body, its evolution, its physiology, and its longevity has a basis in information. Whether we and the matter of our universe consist of information or whether matter and ourselves may only be described by information is a topic of debate among cosmologists and cosmogonists. Suffice to say, when things go right, the information is flowing from our DNA to our brains, muscles, and bones in a proper fashion. Errors or blockages in the flow of our bio-information causes both mental and physical disturbances. Think of disease as an error message on our CPU. If the program is corrupted, as mine was, then any number of serious manifestations may develop.

The good news for me is that I am beginning to be able to rewrite my program. So far the results have exceeded my wildest expectations. Not one of the extreme exercise and diet measures that I do daily are troublesome or unappealing to me. In fact, I look forward to every positive, productive procedure that I follow beginning as soon as I arise in the morning. I feel no sacrifice. I feel no loss. I feel wonderful!

Overcoming Excuses and Rationalizations

If a person doesn’t want to do something, then it is likely that they will find a ready excuse—some sort of rationalization—that relieves the mental stress of not doing what they know to be the right thing to do (like assigning exercise and diet to Number One Priority).

Do any of these sound familiar? I well know all of these excuses.

I don’t have time to go to the gym today. I’ll go tomorrow.

I don’t have time to walk, I have a job and have to go to work.

My shoulders hurt. I can’t workout.

I am too tired to go the gym or on a walk.

I know that fast food is bad for me, but I don’t have time to go home or to a healthy (expensive) establishment

I love beer and am into sports. Every televised game I see coaches and players pitching beer. I have been told that beer is actually a food. How can it be bad for me?

There are so many smart, fancy people drinking wine with lunch and dinner. It must be OK.

I now know that alcohol is bad for me, I just need to get through this ____________(day, project, disaster, month, year) then I will quit drinking

I promise that when I go to my neighborhood bar tonight, I am only going to have one drink!

The Bottom Line

Alcohol consumption in any form and in any amount will kill you--or turn you into a brain dead zombie. It is a dangerous chemical that is a waste product of single celled yeast organisms. Even the yeast die under prolonged exposure to alcohol! Why in the Hell would we want to consume waste products anyway?

Consumption of alcohol also affects our judgment, facilitating all sorts of negative behavior. Our biological information systems are thrown a monkey wrench.

Eating processed foods will make us obese and will kill us. Saturated fatty acids and trans fats interfere with the openings in the cell membrane through which insulin transports glucose into the cell. Without glucose, cell mitochondria are unable to function and glucose builds up in the blood stream causing diabetes.

Eating animal tissue soaked with hormones will shorten our lives and is not needed in spite of what the Kentucky colonel says about the quality of the meals it sells made of dead birds.

Not exercising STRENUOUSLY EVERY DAY will make us obese and kill us.

STOP CONSUMING ALCOHOL. If we buy the immense corporate marketing pitch that red wine has some health benefits, then get those benefits by taking Resveratol supplements from Ray Kurzweil's longevity company, Ray & Terry's.

I am just getting started. The next installment will be next Sunday.

Please check out our New-Humans Metamorphosis Club Amazon store where you can select from over 1,000,000 products. I have set up categories for New-Humans interested in health and long living. All transactions are made on Amazon.com’s secure, encrypted website. No registration is needed.

Live Long and Prosper

New-Human-Nolan

Playing Chicken by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:46:00 +0000

One of the purposes of this blog is to bring to light the incredible power that marketing has upon society and the environment and to analyze what forces are at work behind the scenes—where BIG Co’s fight tooth and nail for our patronage

For example, how about the sideways logic of the TV commercial for a major chicken chain that makes a joke about cows entreating people to eat chicken, not beef. This spot has been extensively aired, therefore it and must get the Chick Co’s the ROI they demand...but how the viewers are supposed to reconcile the premise that cows are special and chickens are not.

Obviously this commercial is suppose to arouse some sort of empathy with the plight of cattle and encourage viewers to substitute chicken for beef.

The cast of cows are portrayed as:

sentient--they can read and write
determined—they had to organize their skydive performance
athletic—they are expert parachutists with smooth landings
juvenile—they have misspelled words on their banners

The irony of course is that the Chick Co is not encouraging viewers to eat fruits, grains and vegetables, but another type of animal. Does the life a chicken not count as much as that of a cow? If a cow counts, why not a chicken?

Can a chicken feel love? Many parrot owners will tell you that their birds love them. But if parrots tasted good, would people savor parrot wings and thighs—no love lost?

And if hungry, breast-loving consumers have been programmed to believe that chickens are dumb, they might want to check out this video!

...go with the flow...flow with the Kaw

The Brainwashing of Society by Big Toe Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Ron S. Nolan) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:26:00 +0000

Strict, very determined, people are calling the shots on how most of us think and what we eat. They are defining who we are. They have most of us brainwashed.

Ethics—Corporate Style

Corporations face the same survival imperative as biological systems in that they must comply with the law of natural selection. Only the fittest survive. And like parasitic organisms, corporations characteristically avoid killing their hosts to prolong the essential sustenance that the host provides--money.

Although the individuals that work for corporations may hold high personal ethical standards, the survival of the corporation is paramount. As individuals join, serve and depart, they are soon replaced by new employees. Profit generation is the primary selection pressure on corporations and company men and women compete with one another for monetary and rewards and accomplishment kudos. Shareholders demand fast returns on their investment and corporate marketing is the key mandate of company officers.

The problem with corporations is that they have no soul. The people that work for them may, but the corporation only obeys the law of natural selection and survival of the fittest. Of course, there are notable exceptions of corporations doing good deeds, but this often takes the form of promotional image advertising in the guise of generous philanthropy.

Just look at the curve pitched to consumers by big oil corps widely known to be polluters who suddenly claim to be “green” businesses. Or beverage producers that portray “responsible drinking...or burger chains touting the quality of animal flesh sandwiched in tasty starch and French fries soaked in artificial fatty acids.

Cattle have no feelings...they are only delicious menu items.

There is a national chain TV commercial where a rancher on horseback describes the furry, four-legged gentle animals in the background as number One BEEF! Then he shovels down a burger perched on the back of his truck.

No closeups of sad cow eyes, no back story on how the burger he is eating was related to its kin that just walked by, no thankfulness even to justify taking their life for food when that food is not necessary. Humans function just fine on plants alone.

The killing of animals to provide food that we do not need is whitewashed by carefully designed TV commercials. It is likely that your tasty burger is loaded with hormones and herbicides and pesticides and will eventually kill you....but slowly because the corporate rancher needs to have you unconsciously and enormously addicted to the taste and texture of the dead cow meat, hiding the pain that cow felt when it was killed so you could chew it up and excrete it.

Yet the big fast food Co's sell 25 billion dead cow sandwiches a year to Americans and no one thinks that this used be a living animal that sensed fear and pain—they are merely a factory processed food product. And we accept this desensitization as just the way things are and bury any empathetic feelings that our burger component once had a heart and a tail.

Some may counter that our species is an omnivore and has consumed animals for millions of years. This is true. You should eat whatever you feel good about. The point is that Big BEEF and Big BEER will do whatever they can to keep you addicted to their products—like burgers, French fries, and beer.

Beer Bellies

Meanwhile people keep getting fatter and fatter—in spite of the manifold dangers of obesity. No matter how light, or lite, beer is fattening. We need to understand that alcoholism is hugely epidemic because it is grossly underestimated—purposely because it suits the BigALC Co's and indirectly because addicts are extremely good at hiding their alcohol intake.

Viewers of sports are inundated with pitches by coaches featured in national TV beer commercials touting the happy feeling of a belly full of beer. So the players must think, “How bad can alcohol be bad for you. The coach drinks it?” Look at all the happy people getting plastered in the “before” scene and see how it compares with the “after party” shot—not aired of course.

The reality is that once a person becomes addicted to alcohol—even if they believe that they control their drinking—they are now a valued, long-term, “consumer” for alcohol makers who will do everything to make them feel better about their addiction by showing attractive people toasting in their finery—not the drunk skunks they become by closing time.

The sober market masters are in control and they herd and massage the herd of human cattle into a dependable purchaser of their extremely addictive drugs which they camouflage just like Coke did with cocaine using sugar syrup. Beer TV commercials even brag about their special line of yeast to produce what they call a byproduct, but which is really, a waste product of yeast fermentation.

Only by entirely abstaining from alcohol will you rid it from not only your digestive and excretory system, but from all of the cells of your body that have adjusted to work around or survive the effects of lethal alcohol—the metabolic waste product of a yeast cell.

(Basically, in aerobic conditions, yeast cells go through many steps and reduce sugar completely through oxidation. But in the anaerobic conditions in which fermentation takes place, yeast cells incompletely digest sugar producing alcohol and CO². Eventually, alcohol kills the yeast when it reaches a certain level.)

Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine. When you gonna let me get sober?

As to the widely purported cardio benefits of red wine....this is another marketing coup. You should drink red wine every day to promote your circulation. Right. This feeds into the acceptability of alcohol consumption—wear your finery and sip wine from a crystal glass and you will be in great shape...or you could simply take a Reversatol tab and avoid the alcohol trap entirely.

Getting Ripped--Legally

The energy drink Co's are masters at deception and manipulation. If your fellow workers competing for higher wages and status are consuming daily does of expensive energy shot drinks, you may feel threatened because you may be less competitive You will be self-pressured to consume them as well in order to match your associate’s boosted productivity and stamina. Eventually, it may catch up with them.

Is it a conspiracy? Do CEOs plot to control information? Hell Yes! What can we do?

be aware
break free of their control
tell others
advocate that corporations be banned from political campaign financing

I am pleased to report that I have consumed my last-beef-flesh-burger and yeast-waste-product-beverage.

Big Toe Buddha

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Knowledge is power and information is money, but marketing is the meaning of life because without advertising there would be no sex and without sex, no life—at least for us sapients.

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