Health and Fitness

Current Health Tip-Today

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:03:00 +0700

"Diligent exercise makes the brain to be more clever because with a strong cardiovascular system will increase blood flow to the brain that makes one a better concentration and focus to do something."

"Intake of vitamin A that is excessive or in high doses can be harmful to the fetus that lead to birth defects and liver toxicity (liver toxicity)."

"Simply by reducing the levels of methionine in the proteins of meat, fish or nuts, a person can live longer without reducing calories desperately."

"Dada's mother gives the appropriate temperature for the baby. If the baby feels cold automatically mother's body temperature will rise 1 degree Celsius. Likewise when the baby feels the mother's body heat temperature will drop 1 degree centigrade."

    "1 in 5 new brides who are officially living with his partner gained weight a few pounds after the first years of marriage."

    "Loneliness can be a negative impact on health such as stress can trigger the onset of premature aging, impaired quality of sleep and high blood pressure and heart beat faster."

    "The average man strong to walk 4 miles per day or 24,000 miles throughout his life the same around the world. While the maximum walking distance is 12 miles (19.2 km) every day."

    "Having problems breathing during sleep can cause the body to produce more urine at night, so people urinate frequently at night."

    "The body needs iron to produce hemoglobin protein that carries oxygen to the blood work. But the excess iron can be toxic to trigger dizziness and headache."

    "Vitamins and minerals in supplements will not provide any benefit if a person already has a balanced lifestyle and eating a healthy diet."

All-Day Fit Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:30:00 +0700

Throughout the week we work, from morning till evening. Not infrequently in the end weeks we are still working.
Do not be surprised, because our bodies are designed perfectly to work, build this earth as well as possible for the welfare of us and the generations future. Sometimes we go through a day with passion, energetic, seemed tireless. Instead, too often we are content a day with lethargy, sluggish and morose.
Indeed, the mood and the physical is always up and down. Even so, work full day with heart and physically fit is always fun. Meanwhile, working with complicated mind and body is sluggish, far from the word fun. Because it's good we can anticipate how our develop fitness, find the energy and enthusiasm to work all day. Legal work is simple: when the liver is happy, the work was good.
Here are some tips you can try to find the soul and fitness body of work is solid throughout the day.
1 - Start your day with positive thoughts.
When you first open the eyelids in the morning, say thanks that you are given the opportunity to undergo today. Be prepared to give something to the best of yourself to the earth. Perform khusyu, contemplation, meditation or whatever. It's good for the mind Your clear and positive. After that, it helps you set the cheerful music your favorite. Then, go, go, go, ready to work. http://www.gsn-soeki.com/wouw/
2 - Perform light exercise.
Give fitness in your body by doing light exercise. Breathe lots of air. Let your body moving and sweating. However, no be less ngoyo. Better yet, if you do it together with spouse, children, or your friends.
3 - Do not forget breakfast taste.
Breakfast is the most important supplier of fuel (blood sugar) for the body. Breakfast is not only beneficial in the morning, but afternoon and evening. Breakfast will prevent you from spending on office hours, thereby helping you keep your body weight, strengthen and sustain the spirit of thinking power work. However, what is important is the type of foods you eat must be complete, especially proteins that can maintain blood sugar levels throughout the day. If necessary add milk. For your taste, set menu varied.
4 - Organize your day's activities as well as possible.
Before you work, arrange your work plan today. Flats as well as possible in accordance with the scale of the achievement of priority tasks. Arrange your duties in such a way so that you do not easily exhausted in the morning days. Create an alternating schedule and make time for rest. Even so be flexible to change your plans. All things can happen. Learn to share and delegate tasks. http://www.gsn-soeki.com/wouw/
5 - Keep your body continues to freshness.
Do not merely sit behind a desk, occasionally moving and sweat. Feel your blood flow and oxygen to meet the cavity your chest. Fresh drinking water a lot to maintain fitness body.
6 - Rest is important.
Work continues is fine, but without the interspersed rest, you will rapid fall in lackluster. In fact, the boxer who competed had to break during one minute every third minute. Do relaxation and stretching for your body, pull a deep breath, close your eyes for a moment, in sidelines of your job. Do not waste time for lunch breaks, but Do not eat too full. It even makes you sleepy. Eat lots of vegetables and fresh fruit. Do not be tempted to consume food mild except when you really need it.
7 - Find joy in every circumstance.
Fit is not only strong, but fresh and full of joy. Do not keep humor of your work. Problems as severe as there is a way discharge. Serious but relaxed. Keep continue your positive thoughts. Stay away from emotions who spend only negative energy. Stay establishes social relationships with your colleagues. http://www.gsn-soeki.com/wouw/
8 - Finish the job in the office of office
Complete office work in the office. It encourages you to work productive. Use the time after work to private life, family and the people you love. Fill well with social activities attention to others, spiritual fire yourself, fix environment, and so forth.
9 - both ends meet the needs of your sleep.
Vehicles also need to rest. Also your body and soul. And place The best of rest is sleep soundly and fairly. Arrange hours of sleep and regular wake. This is good for your fitness tomorrow.
10 - Expand grateful.
Open your day with gratitude, also close your day with gratitude. Watch keep your positive thoughts. Anyway, keep the anxiety because it is too many hopes and dreams. Enjoy what you bestowed on so far. Feel how kaaaaayanya your life ...!

Healthy Diet Tips - How to Lose Weight Fast

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:47:00 +0700

Diet tips - how to lose weight is dedicated to friends who actively seek work hard to diet or lose weight. Just to share a healthy diet tips, quick and practical. Luckily I was petite (read: skinny skinny) so these guns need diet tips, hahahha. These diet tips may also be suitable for Marja Matt Khai really that far in sono, Ciputat area. He attended guns in sini.xixixi yah ...
Well directly aja deh, info diet tips his way to lose weight:

At breakfast if I could choose a high fiber diet plus orange juice drink
If you like to drink tea, mild green tea every day can help burn about 70 calories more a day
If you like to drink milk, you should not select the full cream. Please consumption of low fat milk beverage
Drink plenty of water. Many people can not distinguish between hunger and thirst. When the thought was hungry (though, really thirsty), you will eat foods (that actually do not need you consume) and then, how do I tell? Drink a glass of water and wait until 10 minutes to see if you are still hungry. If yes, then you are hungry.
Eat slowly way. Why are Americans more prone to obesity than the French? the answer is, not only because Americans are eating more, but also because the French people really enjoy their food in every cud, so tend to eat slowly. This causes the stomach will feel full more cepal which in turn helped to suppress appetite and eating. For those of you who are not familiar, try this trick: put a spoon or fork when you're chewing, drinking mineral water after each chew, and chew food a few times before swallowing.
Use smaller plates. Habits in our country is spending food presented on a plate, no matter how many calories of food and size of these plates. To work around this, use smaller plates. You will feel full by eating less.
Limit your carbohydrates. Foods high in protein, such as fish, is the best dinner option to control body weight. This is because protein makes you full longer. If you want to consume carbohydrates, avoid simple, because it is more likely to be stored as fat rather than used as energy.

Maybe it wrote simple tips about your healthy diet. Moga diet tips can be quickly can make you slim and become more confident with weight loss.

11 Tips to Lose Weight Diet

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:42:00 +0700

Problems about how to lose weight is a problem that is often asked by our current body weight began to show an increase. Overweight and obesity especially for some of us is a nightmare especially for those of us who care about their appearance and health problems. Obesity is associated with an appearance other than a little too much surely influence the self-confidence. But actually there are weight loss diet tips that can be there to try.
Business no matter how hard you go on a diet to lose weight without knowing the tips of his tips, think it's not going to maximum results. Tips diet tips to lose weight is actually very much, here we wrote a few tips that are relatively important role in your diet to lose weight.
weight loss diet tips that you can do daily
Tip 1. Avoid fat and kurangin karhobidrat. Carbohydrate intake is needed though is a program to lose weight, so do not you get rid of this carbohydrate intake. Eat with a number of dikurangin karbodihrat.
Tip 2. Kurangin sugar in your drinks. Soft drinks contain high sugar, stop consuming soft drinks. Always make it a habit to consume mineral water if you are on the outside. If you want to drink sweet tea, occasionally not what's what. drink water at least 8 glasses per day for the program menerutkan n
Tip 3. Eat at least 3 times a day for a diet to lose weight effectively. Stay to eat 3x a day. Do not reduce the frequency of your eating into 2x a day because it will slow down your metabolism, you can can actually get an ulcer. Keep eating at least 3 times a day, with of course a little portion.
Tip 4. Eat the last 3 hours before bedtime. Eating close to bedtime you will cause the food you ate did not get converted into energy for your activity, as a result you will grow fat accumulation. If Hungry, you better eat non-fat milk or low-calorie food nutrition.
Tip 5. Cardio exercise (running, swimming, threadmill, aerobics). very effective cardio exercise to burn fat, do this exercise regularly every day.
Tip 6. Kurangin fried foods, replace it with boiled food. Do not forget that the grilled fish and roasted chicken sometimes coated oil, so keep these foods also hindarin.
Tip 7. Beautiful morning for practice. Practicing in the morning would be more effective, because your stomach is empty and of course the main combustion will take from your fat.
Tip 8. Always choose to walk instead of escalators. Select a walk if the distance is not too far away. if in the office always choose to use a ladder if you just want to go down 1 or 2 floors only. This little exercise will be beneficial to lose weight if you do every day.
Tip 9. Enjoying life. Arrange all the settings meliputin diet diet and exercise so that it becomes something fun, by making something fun for your diet the more it will increase the success of the diet.
Tips 10. Rest taste. A good resting time is 6-8 hours a day. Never more than 8 hours per day, once there is research that says that excess sleep increases the risk of death.
Tips 11. Do not try all kinds of food at dinner buffets. do not try all the food menu when there are banquet buffet. Simply select one or two kinds do you like best, then continue with a salad, remember that you are trying way to lose weight.
There are many weight loss diet tips that others who would certainly not fit for us to write here. Tips tips tips above is that diet plays a major role in your diet to lose weight.
Good luck, good luck with the diet to lose weight.

My autumn

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Tue, 6 May 2008 12:52:00 +0700

My autumn - The story of a bicycle injury and recovery
I would like to express my gratitude to my sister, my brother and his wife, my close friend, and doctors and nurses who helped me through this crisis.

On March 15, 2002, while riding my bike in the early afternoon, I suffered the worst fall of my life. I think it would be honest and straight-forward for me to tell my fall and how I recovered from it.

Since I began communicating over the Internet in 1997, I met a lot of skepticism because I claimed a few drops of more than 100000 miles of biking. I had three falls during the years 1965 to 1968, and got another three falls during the years 1987 and 1988. With two of the fall, I have the skin of the palm of my hands, I with a strained a rib (lifting has been painful, but nothing else just me), and with the other three, I almost suffered no injury.

I also dropped a number of times the bike is not moving, that I never counted with others. The damage was minimal, except for my pride. I can not remember everything falls on my bicycle as a child, even if I had two wounds to the head before I had my bike which probably contributed to making me a child cautious. Throughout childhood, I was wounded twice more just that I remember: a broken arm in 1960 when nearly 15, and scratches wrist a year later.

I never thought it would be impossible for me to have another accident on my bike, but I feel I will not repeat any of my old mistakes, and that the fall would be unlikely. I considered my biggest risk losing control in an emergency, like a car running out of me the road.

The place and the conditions under which I had my fall most serious were not at all what I have or could have foreseen. Much the opposite: if someone has described my fall in advance, I would say that it could not happen, and the only evidence that they have my memory and the events and consequences that followed .

The bicycle is an ATV that I bought for $ 50. It was a strange mountain bike with a short wheelbase and dropped handlebars, and it was not as stable as the bicycle touring, I'm used to riding. Someone has mounted the brakes too far forward, on the curve drops. The left (before) aero-style brake does not work very well, probably due to coerce the cables under the handlebar tape. The motorcycle was also extremely wide tires (2.2 inches) with aggressive working capital. I bought the bike, because it seems to be a very good case and because I was curious about riding another type of bicycle. I did not intend to use the bike to ride around town, but the road that climbs My mountain had taken its pavement removed in preparation for resurfacing, and I had the axle on my bike touring. Before the day of the accident, I had the mountain bike ridden nearly 150 miles, including three times in the city. On the way to the city on the fourth trip, stops at the local grocery store, the bike fell over, and handlebars bent sideways. I recover, but I did not immediately tighten, considering them not too loose.

When my accident, I was riding a bicycle north to a right turn from my bank on a three-way. Along the roadside were the norm and curb gutter, the gutter with a little deeper than normal because of a purge that I had just adopted. I looked back to see if anyone was behind me in preparation for a right turn (no one, it was). When I looked straight ahead, I was already in the gutter. This shocked me because I must have drifted two feet or more to the right while looking back, without noticing the fact. Then I had a choice to stop immediately in the gutter or driving out of him, climbing on a pavement edge at an angle that seems to be far less than one inch. The judgement in the gutter does not seem too desirable for me, both because I would be in the wrong position on the road and because I have quite a scope far ahead to reach the brakes, including a term work. Although I knew that crossing a road edge at an angle would tend to launch me, the danger appears to be minor because it was a slight lip and because I had these big tires.

However, when I started to cross the road at lips, cycling me violently off at an angle of 90 degrees in the lane. My body landed on the roadway horizontal to the ground, with all my weight landing on the side of my left hip. In striking the ground, I immediately felt great pain, and I found myself almost paralyzed the left side. With great difficulty, I managed to crawl off the road and, at this stage, a paramedic arrived, began to support my legs, and called for an ambulance on his phone. Within minutes, I was put in the ambulance and transported to the hospital, receiving intravenous needle en route. My doctor has arrived almost immediately, I have been X-ray, revealing a hip fracture, and he planned to operate the same day, but had then switch to the next morning due to another operation. I told him to give me more details, as I am easily disturbed by such things, and he told me that my bone was broken in three places, and that he would use a pin and a plaque to link together . The pin and plaque would be stainless steel, which is never a need to remove them.

Later, I have gradually come to recognize that the injury was to my upper femur, just below where he climbed into the hip socket, and not the pool itself. My doctor told me what is called a hip fracture by tradition. Although the interruption of certain aspects is not a problem that a broken leg, the location makes it impossible to splint and a necessary operation. As I saw it on the X-ray taken more than a month later, a fairly large rod follows the bones of the hip at any one outlet plate slows down my leg, which is held in place by four screws in the bone. I am pleased that he did not tell me all this at the time, as it would have been upsetting for me.

As I lay, I wondered what had caused my accident. Several times, when I had injured myself in the past, everything seemed to act in slow motion, but in this case, everything happened so quickly that I had hardly been able to record everything , Much less analyze. My first theory is that the handlebars must had been too vague, so I turn into the gutter and causing me to be launched when I tried to climb. However, I found myself rejecting this notion in a day or two. There is no way that the handlebars could have turned without a lot of my immediate recognition of the fact. Indeed, months later when I rode the bike again, I did not tighten the handlebars or have problems with them as a result. No, the only explanation was the bike itself. The short wheelbase caused to react differently when I looked behind. When I look back, sometimes the bike I'm riding move left or right, and short wheelbase of this bike must have caused to go beyond what I expected. What about climbing lightly lips? I made a very quick decision based on the experience zero that the escalation lips at an angle on these big tires would be less dangerous than my usual, much smaller tires. However, the opposite has proved true, and large tires had just seemed to provide much more energy to get back.

Another important question is why did I have such a serious injury? There are three answers to this question. Firstly, I am 56. Although my doctor confirmed that my bones were strong, but one gets older the chances of a fracture more. However, a cyclist wrote and told me he had fractured hip to 22. Secondly, the way I landed on the ground threw all the weight of my body in my hip socket. Indeed, I did not have a bruise, nothing, or another sign of injuries elsewhere on my body. If my body had been turned to the left or right or if I landed on my feet or arms first, the hip injury would not have happened. Hip injury while cycling are fairly rare since my accident, I learned of five other cyclists with the same injury. Thirdly, despite the requirement of surgery and hospital stay, my hip fracture is a simple bone fracture, only the result of this situation is more serious than normal broken a leg or arm .

One of the nurses present when I was caught up in my room and said, "I'll never ride a bicycle." Well, this is certainly the latter reaction, I want people to have. I have never denied that there is an element of risk in cycling. Although I've never been concerned by a simple fall, I had to make emergency maneuvers to avoid being hit by automobiles on a number of occasions, so I realized that the threat of injury or death there. For me the blessings conferred upon my life while cycling - the vast experience, improving health, and economic independence - all outweigh the risks involved. Admittedly, my this accident, while creating a need for a few months of recovery and which cause heavy expenditure, is far from being sufficiently serious to me, I wish had remained dependent car. There has been some indirect recognition of the benefits of cycling by the hospital staff and my doctor while I was there, as they can not help but notice that my body was lean, strong and healthy.

I was not depressed by my injury. I have maintained a positive state of mind from the time paramedics arrived until I returned to Scottsboro seven weeks later. Although the accident was not desirable, I made my mind to focus on better rather than on the consequences of whatever ill-attended. It is true that when I watched some stupid television show that suddenly emotions that the tears were quickly and easily. All my emotions were stronger and closer to the surface.

Having lived in the area off and Scottsboro since 1978, I was aware that many people in the community have a poor opinion of their hospital. Having spent time with my parents while they were in more than a half-dozen hospitals in three cities, I can say that care at the hospital Scottsboro was good or better than care elsewhere. It is true that nobody came a few occasions when I buzzed for help (I buzzed only when necessary), and there were a couple of nurses who were obviously indifferent, but most nurses were willing to help and extremely cooperative, often in the course of their way to be helpful. I considered one of them to be my angel, because it solve so many problems for me.

What do you do when you're in bed almost unable to move? Well, I called friends and family on the phone to let them know what happened, and I used my laptop (I had carried with me in the ambulance rather than leaving them on cycling) during the night. I did not use my laptop to a large extent for writing 1) lying flat on his back is not the best position to write and 2) I was not exactly in my writing more productive mood . It was four days after my accident, I said that before the e-mails, and I did not my son sent by e-mail and newslists about what happened to me after I left the hospital, mainly because I needed to gather my courage. Although I usually do not watch television, I watched a good blow to the hospital. I was in a good mood to watch passively entertainment. It was also a regular flow of nurses check my pulse and blood pressure, taking blood samples, I breathe, food, removing the tray, get water, emptying my urinal, and moving around me. Every couple of hours, I would like to make what I could exercises while in bed, using a guide therapists had given me. As a result of all these activities, the days passed fairly quickly.

My most notable physical problem, which is true both before and after the merger was that the muscles in the left thigh injured were all in full mode cramps. The position of my leg can be adjusted very slowly without pain or problem, but any attempt to move at normal speed would cause me to cry. I was at home lying in bed flat on my back with my legs apart, but any change of position has created pain. At the beginning, I felt a little good pain all the time and took morpheme, but after a few days, my pain has fallen to a level unless my leg was moved too quickly, then it was off the scale. Since morpheme was not necessary for the first pain or useful to the second, I asked them to stop it. Towards the end of the week, I stopped collecting cramps in my leg that pain, and that shortly afterwards, leaving my leg cramps. Also, paradoxically, much of the pain during these days was felt in my lower leg and foot, who were not injured. My foot was more sensitive to touch or be moved from my thigh. As cramps have disappeared, as well as muscles. I am firmly thigh muscles melted, and a roll of fat appeared in the leg. I found I had to develop new muscles, and I had to learn to use them again, as if I had never before market.

The first three days involved only minor modifications. During the first day I had the opportunity to relax my leg in a folded position to a position and make myself comfortable. I was able to move my left foot very well. My operation was on the morning of the second day, and I asked to be placed during sleep, so my neighbor is the memory of my brother and his wife to come see me, but I was too sleepy to answer . My doctor said I spoke to him after my operation and I was in good spirits, but the memory evaporated without trace. I think I slept most of the third day. During this initial period, my leg was extremely sensitive and nurses made me scream when they came for me to go to sleep partly on my side.

I believe that it is on the fourth morning that the doctor asked for me to sit in a chair for most of the day. Fortunately, a nurse who came to help me to sit down was the most understanding, and I was able to lead them then I'm on the chaise with a minimum of pain. However, before an hour, I was so unfortunate that I tried to get on the pot by myself, and I was even more uncomfortable. Finally, the nurses came and helped me get back to bed, where I was finally comfortable. That night, I was relaxed enough to answer some questions by e-mail on the site for the first time.

The fifth morning, when I had to rise, a student and his instructor helped me. The student had a similar injury and was cautious. The instructor accidentally stepped on my foot. This should have been me cry a day or two earlier, but my sensibility is decreasing. That day, two therapists are in the afternoon and gave me some exercises I could do in bed. It also gave me some instructions about getting and out of bed, and I got out of bed with less pain than ever before.

The next morning, I was helped by an indifferent nurse, who felt that pain was good for me, and another which I would describe as unempathetic. I tried to go to pot again and they were not much help. At one point, they left my left leg unsupported when I shouted. Finally, I had a nurse to support the foot, in order to be able to relax and gradually lower himself to the ground. In the afternoon, despite my being exhausted by close of the morning, therapists are new. This time, with their suggestions, I realized that I could block my two legs at the same time whenever they had to be moved. Therefore, moving me was not a problem - after all locked my legs and instructed nurses to manage than the right leg. I also made my first step on this day. It was not much, I just lifted my foot just swing my leg forward on the walker, but I was crying with joy to walk a bit (I had been before moving, but making Slide the foot rather than by lifting).

On the seventh day I was moving more traumatic, as I kept my legs locked. I even learned to myself on the bed. With therapists, I could make three steps real (I moved further than that, but it remains to drag my foot).

I remember just the eighth day. In the morning, the doctor told me that I could probably leave the next day, so most of my attention was directed towards getting ready. I walked a little in the afternoon, but I could not make it as far as the door.

My last day to trauma in the morning, as I had become quite constipated and has not been able to use either the pot or bed pan (at this time, I was in able to get in and out of bed by myself). My doctor (a surgeon) had to give their permission to be able to give me something to soften the stool and allow me the last few relief. A good friend had made trips to my house to round things that I wanted to take with me, and he finished this task in the morning, and my brother and his wife arrived in the afternoon to take me to their homes . For me in the car was not as difficult as I thought, and travel by car did not bother. Leave the car at home, I am surprised by "walking" twenty feet inside, but I stayed at the bottom of the first night because I was afraid of stairs.

In the morning, I walked around some and then I was able to get up the stairs by meeting and the lifting of my background with my right foot while my brother slowly lifted my left foot at the same time. That night, while in the bed, I was able to lift my knee for the first time. As was similar to all my other relearning process, let me explain more about how it happened. Although I kept trying to lift the knee (he was one of my exercises I tried to do after a few hours), the muscles have refused to work. But this time, after I lifted his leg in his hand while trying the first time, he lifted without my assistance the second time, and from that moment, I could lift my knees whenever I wanted (lifting my leg, however, was the future weeks). In all cases, relearning seems to be to try to move while using my hand to make the motion. Once I could perform the function with the muscles of my leg alone, I've never forgotten the case, although I had to spend some time strengthening these muscles.

Initially, the plan was for me to spend a week with my brother and his wife, but they were keeping me almost two weeks before sending me on an airplane to see my sister, presumably to give my leg more time to heal before the trip. I will not continue to try to chart my progress from day to day as the outline of my day of activities has remained roughly the same.

In principle, each day, I would like to try to walk as much on the walker as possible. I could walk a long distance in the house of the room at the other end and back. Of course, at the beginning, I put almost no weight on my left foot but the support was myself with my hands and with the other foot. Feeling tired or feeling pain in my leg was a sign for me to do less; feeling strong and energetic signs of trying. Sitting on a chair to cause pain after a while, so I spent most of my time in bed. After I was there a few days, my brother's wife, a nurse, removed the staples in my leg. Initially, I was not able to get in the shower because I could not get my leg over the threshold, so I washed down the drain, but after I finally managed to get in the shower I would sometimes go in and soak my leg or foot when they are painful. I also learned how to put a sock on his left foot. If my brother, I could not increase or decrease my left leg by cradling except in the right leg (they share mattresses for me to be able to get in bed at all), and I still could not lift my left heel out of bed, with the exception of my hands. Shortly before my departure, my brother is interested in seeing if I could use a cane or a crutch instead of the walker, to enter the plane easier, but it was too difficult. I thought a crude way to measure the strength of my leg by pressing down on the scale with my left foot. During my first attempt, I could press 40 pounds for a few seconds before my departure, 45 pounds. Two days before my departure, I am too much and was in great pain, so I did very little walking the day before my trip.

My trip to my sister on March 7, has not been very difficult, as skycaps pushed me in a wheelchair to the aircraft and on an electric trolley to my people on the other side. There was a misunderstanding when I planned to walk on the plane, a task that is impossible for me.

At the beginning, my sister at home in New Jersey, I have not been able to get up the stairs. At the bottom were a bedroom, den, bathroom and small, without bath or shower, so I went back to sponge baths. As the distances were short at the bottom, I had planned to do most of my walks outside. During my first trip, I was able to make it as far as the stop sign closest two houses, but I was exhausted and had to rest before starting back. Fortunately, a neighbor has arrived just in time to keep my sister occupied. I was very pleased that the next day when I was able to walk as much as other other stop sign, at least four times further. After setting up for a few days, I walk up to three times a day, mostly by myself. My soon extended walks around the block, which would take 40 minutes, and I also made some long walks during the visit of stores with my sister. One of these walks is a killer, as we traveled the entire length of the mall and back, but I was tired than ever, even when you travel further. My speed on the walker increased in proportion to the distance I could travel. Between walks, I rest on the couch, and very often I fell asleep.

Whenever I was able to master a new skill, I called myself "Superman" or "bionic man", but finally I arrived with my own moniker: "hamper-Along," pronounced "plaque-a-long" or "long-plates. "

After ten days to my sister, I have done up the stairs by hanging on the railing and make it by sitting down and hit a step at a time. The floor, I could take a shower, and I could also check to see my strength on the ladder. He had reached 75 pounds at the time, and have continued to increase by five pounds, then ten pounds per day. At the 20th, I could reduce the scale of 120 pounds for one or two seconds, and I walked outside until one hour and 45 minutes per day. At the same time, I began to be able to lift my leg in bed instead of having to pick it up. I could not even lift my leg when lying on the floor. At that time, I made several stays of up and down stairs all day, pushing my walker in front of me and walk more bumping.

After briefly managed to bring down the extent of 140 pounds, I could not use use the scale to chart my progress. The problem is that I myself had to balance, and which has put all my weight on my leg impossible. After the abandonment of this method of measurement, I came with another: instead depress the scale briefly, I would like to see how much pressure I could continue indefinitely. The weight began 90 pounds and quickly and erratically rose to 135 pounds, after which I could not increase it because of my need to balance. At that time, I felt ready to abandon the walker. Indeed, I was doing three trips of 40 minutes or more each day, a few days to reach three hours a day. As I had swelling in my leg, I kept it propped whenever possible. I had a dream in which the doctor asked me what I was doing about the swelling, and I told him that I walked 13 hours a day!

I started to use two canes on March 25. For some time I have had experiences with the help of one, but a cane was not enough. Two canes worked well, the left provide strong support and help the right balance. Once I started to use them, I used the walker only once or twice more. Walking up and down stairs has become easy with canes, but walking around the block has been more difficult. I basically had to start all over again, making it as far as the stop sign closest and so forth. In the other week and a half, I've never been back a few places that I had reached on the walker, but I did build up to walking that included several blocks. Before leaving, I realized that I could walk a short distance without using any cane, but I flapped my arms as if I was about to take off. I told my sister that I did not know if the problem was the strength, balance, or fear. I hoped that I would be able to walk on a cane while switching back on the plane, but that did not quite true.

The return journey is easier than the trip. I had the skycaps to carry me at the airport, however, because the march would never have taken. My brother to me, and the next morning my mother gave me the car to drive. I found I had no problem driving, and I am back in Scottsboro, stopping to get food and my mail before stopping at my doctor's office.

However, disaster to be done. My X-ray considered good, but after seeing the swelling in my leg and foot, the doctor wanted me to have an ultra sound scan at the hospital. The discovery of mass digitization of blood clots, which put me on a wheelchair, wheeled to a bed, and connected to a bottle of blood thinner. The danger is that a blood clot to travel to my lungs, causing pain and permanent damage. Caillots blood are often fatal. In addition to being depressed to be back in the hospital (I cried for the first time when I said that I had blood clots), I became very sick and nausea, although blood tests never determined the cause. After four days, my blood was quite thin, and I was allowed to leave. J'étais tellement faible que je presque évanoui dans le magasin, alors j'ai vérifié moi-même dans un motel au lieu de retourner à la maison.

Le lendemain, j'ai pris plus de l'accueil de jour pour aller chercher, que je n'ai pas pu préparer à la maison, du fait d'avoir à utiliser deux cannes pour se déplacer. Sur le chemin, je me suis arrêté chez un ami de la ferme, où la marche est difficile. À la maison, j'ai trouvé mon chemin vers la cabine pour être trop difficile, et j'ai dû trouver un autre itinéraire. Il va de soi, je mis trop de pression sur mon épaule droite, et il mal très mal cette nuit-là. Le lendemain, j'ai dû quitter la cabine, passer la journée en ville, et de retour ce soir-là, que je ne pouvais pas encore préparer des repas ou obtenir de l'eau de mon printemps. La deuxième nuit, la douleur était terrible, et je me demandais si j'avais un caillot de sang dans mes poumons. J'ai été rassuré par le fait qu'il n'y avait pas de douleur aussi longtemps que je gisait à plat sur mon dos, la seule position sans douleur.

Le jeudi, lors de ma visite du médecin, je me sentais un peu mieux, et le vendredi, avril 12, je commençais à sentir de nouveau normal. Parfois, au cours de cette période, je ne me souviens plus quand, j'ai constaté que je pouvais obtenir autour d'une seule canne, l'utiliser sur mon côté droit, sauf lorsqu'ils se déplaçaient dans les bois. La balance est la seule raison pour l'utiliser, que j'ai trouvé parfaitement équilibre sur le pied droit, et sur le pied gauche et de la canne, mais pas sur le pied gauche seul.

Ma routine pour le reste de la avril était de se lever tôt et le dynamisme du centre-ville (où je pourrais obtenir des repas bon marché) et passer la journée entre la bibliothèque et le parc. J'ai trouvé seulement à pied près d'un demi-mille sans mon poignet et de la main trop mal, mais je voudrais faire le voyage jusqu'à cinq fois par jour. Chaque demi-mille voyage prend environ 20 minutes. Je tiens également à Wal-Mart visite le soir où je pouvais marcher en utilisant le panier d'épicerie. J'avais découvert cette méthode de la marche de retour à New Jersey sur le temps que j'ai commencé à utiliser deux cannes. Dans un premier temps, il a été trop difficile de faire long, mais maintenant, je pouvais marcher autant que je voulais avec la légère l'appui de la charrue. Pour la plupart, cependant, il s'agissait de décourager un mois, que j'ai pu voir aucun progrès de jour en jour. Les pluies fréquentes et le ciel sombre ne pas aider mon humeur, même si la pluie était très nécessaire pour la culture de choses.

En Mai, toutefois, j'ai pu voir beaucoup de changement. J'ai trouvé que je pouvais obtenir à l'intérieur sans l'aide d'une canne, et que j'avais besoin de seulement une canne dans les bois. Cela fait de nombreuses tâches possible ou plus facile, comme l'eau dans le printemps, l'exercice d'épicerie à la maison et la cuisine mon repas, je arrêter de manger tous mes repas centre-ville et a commencé à prendre soin de moi. Au magasin, je n'ai plus le cap sur le panier d'épicerie, mais plutôt un procédé panier. J'ai aussi découvert que je pouvais marcher beaucoup plus loin qu'auparavant, car je n'étais plus afin de mettre beaucoup de pression sur ma main droite. Le 5 Mai, je marchais six milles (5 ½ distinct voyages), et deux jours plus tard, je suis presque aussi loin, mais plus lente cette fois. J'étais incapable de marcher beaucoup le jeudi ou le vendredi, en raison de la météo, mais le vendredi, j'ai eu sur le vélo j'ai eu l'accident et à cheval sur six milles!

Parce que ce vélo est difficile à obtenir sur (j'ai eu à poser sur le sol, à cheval, et tirez-la en vertu de moi - tout le temps en danger de chute) et parce que j'étais un coureur très fragile , je besoin d'une autre nature de vélo, au moins temporairement, qui a été plus facile à obtenir sur. Sur Internet, j'ai reçu des recommandations pour obtenir un trike, un simple Racer, un BikeE, de vélos et vendredi. Tous ces vélos serait plus facile à obtenir sur, mais la plupart n'étaient pas facilement disponibles. J'ai été en mesure de tester une balade facile Racer EZ-1, et j'ai vite découvert que l'équitation, c'était comme apprendre à rouler une fois de plus, pas une tâche facile dans mon état. Par conséquent, j'ai acheté une femme de confort de vélo la semaine prochaine, sur Mai 15, trois mois après ma chute. En gardant le siège bas, j'ai pu rouler cette moto OK, mais j'ai été un peu de mouvement. J'ai vite roulé 12 milles en un jour. Quand j'ai parlé à mon médecin le 17 juillet, il a pensé que j'étais trop loin à pied, mais il a recommandé l'équitation, autant que je le voulais. Dans le mois qui a suivi, je tiens à rouler cette moto quatre ou cinq jours par semaine, en terrain assez plat, généralement de deux ou trois voyages de six milles, avec arrêt au magasin pour prendre un verre au milieu de chaque trajet. Après l'équitation dans un magasin, je pourrais sans entraver autour de ma canne. J'ai appelé ce pingouin à pied, comme tout mon corps se pivotant sur ma hanche droite chaque fois que mon pied était dans l'air, de toute évidence à aider mon équilibre jambe gauche.

Au début du mois de Juin, alors que j'étais déjà la marche et le vélo plus que la moyenne personne, j'étais toujours pas de retour à la normale. J'ai toujours besoin de la canne parce que ma jambe gauche, bien que maigre et musclé, n'ont toujours pas la force musculaire, la flexibilité, de mobilité et la motricité fine. Mon chef de bob côté à l'autre en marchant sans elle, et je voudrais rapidement pneu. Simple des actions tel que se pencher et ramasser un morceau de papier a pris des efforts et de renforcement sur le câble à travers mon entrée sans la canne à sucre est impossible. J'ai également besoin de perdre des graisses de mon ventre. Même si mon montant quotidien moyen de l'exercice a été d'environ 1 ½ heures par jour avant l'accident et a augmenté à 2 ou 3 heures après, j'avais gagné une dizaine de livres, pour la plupart au cours de la troisième et quatrième mois, car l'exercice est devenu moins difficile .

I have not mentioned one important aspect: the cost. Medical costs in the US are a very strange creature. One person has complete medical coverage, another has partial coverage, a third has Medicare, a fourth has Medicaid, and a fifth has no insurance at all, because the cost of individual health care is prohibitive. As a result, their ability to pay varies significantly. In addition, insurance companies often negotiate their fees, and the government pays greatly reduced amounts for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Thus, the amount of money that an individual and/or that the insuring agency pays varies greatly, and the amount that the hospital receives varies as a result. Of course, when the hospital gives a discount or writes off a fee because the person has no money, those costs must be passed on to others. Medical costs are also higher due to malpractice suits and insurance, and also because the users have no choice in their treatment. A person in my condition, having money on hand and no insurance, must accept whatever discount is offered, which varied in my case from 50% to nothing. Nearly 90% of my expense was the hospital bill, which was discounted little, due to my lack of experience with such settlements. My total bill was over $20,000.

Someone could make the argument that bicycling is not worth it due to the high cost for this kind of injury. However, very few cyclists have hip fractures; since my accident I have heard of seven. There's a lot of people in my community who have had hip fractures without ever getting on a bike, and many are having hip and knee replacements due to lack of exercise. Anyway, the money I have saved by riding a bike over the years would cover these costs easily. The average person spends $3700 a year on health care, which I haven't spent because of the good health furnished by cycling. My most expensive illness was due to an allergy problem in the mid-70's, which cost me considerably less than a thousand dollars over two years. One time I was visiting a doctor I hadn't seen in eight years, and she asked me who my regular doctor was. I told her, "You are." In addition, if I had never ridden a bike, I would have the risk of traveling in an automobile for an even greater number of miles plus the health risk from less exercise. Health problems created by lack of exercise can be much more expensive than a hip operation; a neighbor told me that his heart bypass cost $100000

The stages of fitness

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Tue, 6 May 2008 12:50:00 +0700

Wait a minute! You guys have been a mountain biking. I read cyclists need to eat a lot to avoid losing too much weight. In my 3 months of shuttle 10-20 miles per day, I lost a lot of weight, so much so that I tried to eat more than I want to eat a slow weight loss. Yesterday evening, I ate a meal additional tonight 2 doughnuts, muffins for a break each weekday for the last 2 weeks ...

But you guys are writing as if some cyclists must limit their food intake??! I am confused.

People go through different stages as they exercise more. It is not just eating but the smell of sweat and production, and other aspects of our body.

Let's start-what someone who has never exercised before. Suppose a woman, so I do not have to mess with the double singular or plural pronoun-problems.

The first step will be the hardest. It is better than it plunged into heavy exercise, or she might discover that exercise can be dangerous. Instead, it must gradually walk further and further with the speed and care. At this point, his appetite could be better, not because it is exercising a lot, but only because she feels healthy.

In the second stage, it begins to cycle starts and construction speed and distance. As a first step, his appetite will decrease because of the heavy burden placed on the system. It does not matter at this level, it was the increase is what brings about this change. For example, during the first days of a bicycle tour, my appetite always drops.

In the third phase, it has become accustomed to this new load. Now she is terribly hungry and want to eat as much as two or three people. To some extent, the body plays catch up, but it is also having to eat to create new muscles. His weight continues to fall. This is my second week on a trip by bicycle.

During phase four, the muscle increasingly has virtually ceased, it has stabilized at a new level. His body continues to adapt fine however, and she began to feel less hungry. Now, his weight has become stable. I have reached this stage of the third week or so a bike tour.

During the five-year phase, assuming that the cyclist continues to exercise the same pace, his body continues to become more efficient. Today, the cyclist not eat much it was before she started training. At this stage, it can begin putting weight if it continues to eat.

In addition, age, time of year, sex, and every body type to enter, so a cyclist will have a greater tendency to gain than another, even if they are just as well cycling.

Someone might ask what is the meaning of the year if you'll have to watch your weight? 1) The cyclist is now thinner, stronger and healthier than before, so it is not a case of non-profit, and 2) the battle of the books will be both easier and less important than it was before.

Sweat and body odor also change during this period. Initially, the cyclist is sweating a lot and has problems with body odor. After the body has become adapted, she sweats and smells less than when it began. (This is a good idea to use synthetic clothing as it does not retain body odor or create odors of its own.)

Of course, another problem is that the cyclist can not ride all year, so down during the season, it could have the same weight problems as mere mortals.

Ways to be tired

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Tue, 6 May 2008 12:49:00 +0700

Bicycles are tired before the journey,
Cyclists are tired after the journey.
Thanks to Adam Rice, Jessica L. Mosher, Garry Jones, David Martin, Jim Balter, WR Chan, Bob von Moss, Brian O'Brien, and Bill Yoder suggestions. I have known all these forms of fatigue personally, with the exception of hypothermia, and have blackened a few times.

When sedentary people are tired, there is only one solution: take a nap, so most people think it is just a type of fatigue. In fact, there really are many ways to become tired, each in both the production of fatigue or loss of energy, but each type of fatigue has its own cause, consequences, and healing. It is extremely important for the cyclist to be able to diagnose the type of fatigue occurs and to respond with countermeasures against before serious side effects result.
Drowsiness

1) The drowsiness, the most common form of fatigue, is caused by lack of sleep. The symptoms are yawning, nodding head, dreaminess, and a slight reduction in energy costs. For a cyclist, is the least important cause of fatigue, but it can reduce the speed of a mile or two per hour. The only remedy is a nap, although people sometimes use drugs to keep more alert. Several cyclists reported nearly falling asleep or hallucinations. Certainly, stop for a nap in these circumstances; recent reports suggest that other methods to stay awake are not safe. Also, if there is no real cause to be drowsy or if the problem persists, see a specialist in sleep disorders.
Skin Burn (Sun Burn Burn or Wind)

2) burn the skin is caused by too much sun and sometimes by too much wind. The symptoms are red or blush skin hot to touch, a feeling washed away, dizziness and mild. Wind burning produces only mild effects, but sunburn can be life-threatening and is a leading cause of cancer. Even mild forms are much worse than missing a few hours of sleep. Burning the skin can easily be avoided by the use of sunscreen, clothing (and hats), and limiting sun exposure, especially by stopping in the middle of the day. The only cure for skin burn healing is slow, although skin creams can help.
Heart fatigue

3) Heart fatigue is caused by pushing too hard for your fitness level. The symptoms are a beating heart, breath away, lack of energy on the hills, a sense of internal stress, and more flush with the heat. This problem is more likely to occur after the journey beyond the normal and distance learning is most likely to occur when climbing a hill. The remedy is to stop, cool, pause and give the heart a chance to recover. Prevention may come from cycling at a slower pace or training to a higher level of fitness.
The muscular exhaustion

4) muscle exhaustion is caused by the burning of energy stored in muscles, sometimes called bonk. If fatigue heart comes mainly from pushing too hard, this problem occurs mainly pushing too far. The symptoms are difficult to ride, a desire to shore, and sometimes cramps. The effects of muscular exhaustion can last more than a day. Take a break, ingest sugars, travel at a slower pace, and training.
Pain

5) pain, if not caused by (2) or (4), is caused by poor adjustment or position on the bike, too rigid a position, hammering the road, or a few muscles not in as good form as others. Sometimes, sleeping position, an injury or mild arthritis may be involved. Clothing, shoes, and parts of the motorcycle may also be responsible. Very dry skin can cause cracks. Some areas that are most likely to become painful are the neck, back, hands, arms, shoulders, feet, crotch and down. The muscles may also cramps. Pain should not be neglected, because it worsens few real problems can follow. The solution varies from one state to another, but in general, the cure consists of 1) and off the bike and make periodic mild exercise during these times, 2) and extends slightly varying the position of body when riding, 3) adjusting the handlebars and seat positions and heights, 4) using another seat, the handlebars synthetic gloves and / or shorts, 5 ), While more horseback, 6) using strengthening exercises off the bike, 7) reduce the amount of daily cycling, and 8) change the type of bike. Some creams and ointments may provide some relief. Note: It is better to try the cheaper solutions first. It is also noteworthy: everyone some pain from time to time.
The heat fatigue

6) The heat fatigue is caused by high temperatures, humidity, and / or hot sun. The symptoms are an almost complete loss of energy, hot skin, dizziness, nausea and / or inability to eat. A lack of fluids in these circumstances is very dangerous. It is a life-threatening: the bike down immediately, take shade, cool off with wet towels, and drink liquids. To avoid this problem in the future, drive only in the morning and evening, during very hot weather.
Fatigue cold

7) cold, fatigue is caused by riding at low temperatures and cools. A headache can be a side effect. A greater variety, hypothermia, a life is in danger of lowering body temperature, and can sometimes occur fairly quickly when not wearing enough clothes at high altitude or in the rain. The only symptoms are fatigue, lack of energy, fatigue, skin and cold, hypothermia is often accompanied by drowsiness and confused thinking. The solutions are more warm clothes and come in a friendly atmosphere.
Dehydration

8) Dehydration is caused by not drinking enough fluids. Hot and dry or hot and humid and hot sun can cause rapid loss of cash. The symptoms are thirst, dizziness, and washed-out feeling, though sometimes thirst is deleted. Drink plenty of fluids, especially water, wet your clothes, and rest out of direct sunlight. A myth is that the urine yellow indicates dehydration: yellow urine is caused by vitamins and other dissolved solids, not dehydration. Waiting until you need to urinate or even, until you are thirsty is unwise; making a habit in hot weather sipping of water constantly and stop frequently for beverages.
Oxygène fatigue

9) Oxygen fatigue is a lack of oxygen reaching the brain. It can be caused by overwork complicated by a sharp rise, fatigue and / or blood is diverted to the stomach. The symptoms are dizziness and points in front of the eyes, like a migraine. Stopping to rest is important, because dresser or a blackout May result. No other treatment is necessary. Oxygen fatigue is completely different from the oxygen debt, which is insufficient oxygen reaches muscles, leading to huffing and puffing.
Boredom

10) The trouble seems to be a minor problem, but it can cause fatigue-like symptoms and can lead to failure in a bike trip. The causes are the monotony in the landscape, no one to talk, nothing to think, and nothing to do except pedal. The speed decreases, and each hill is higher. The remedy is to find a way to reinvent or hiking trip in order to make it interesting.
Stress

11) The stress fatigue is a common problem on employment, it can produce extreme fatigue in a short period of time without any exercise or work. Cycling normally reduces stress on the tensions that can be released, but some days when traffic is bad, real strain can set in. This stress can lead to fatigue or muscle fatigue. The best solution is to get off the bike and relax.
Fatigue bones

12) Bone fatigue is probably a combination of the foregoing, the need to sleep to stress. This is the bonk to end all bonks; the accident which prohibits companies. Find a place to stop as soon as possible and get some real rest.
The real solution

When cycling on the road and the feeling of fatigue is first barely perceptible, pay attention, is the cause, and implement a solution immediately, following the Velocio rules: eat until you're hungry , Drink before you're thirsty, coverage before you are cold, and rest before being able to sleep. More miles, an average speed higher, and a happy trip will be the result.

Stroke South belt!

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:48:00 +0700

Last evening on my twenty miles fatigue, I stopped for a drink and noticed a newspaper item above by the name.

In case you missed it appears that the entire Deep South (except for Florida, which became a Yankee) was an incident many more shots than the rest of the country. And along a stretch between the Blue Ridge and the Sea (especially in the Carolinas), the incident is twice as high.

The article said that researchers were surprised.

Well, I am not, except I wonder why this belt is worse than anywhere else in the South. It has probably remained farther south!

In the tradition of the South, fat pork is cooked with all foods and included in every meal. The vegetables are cooked for a long time with large pieces of fat, or they are fried in fat (green tomatoes, okra, squash and sometimes). Almost all meat is fried, often dipped in batter and drops of fat. Includes French fries, corn dogs, Hush Puppies, and hash browns. The favorite "salad" slaw is, the more fat than green. My students have indicated that they would start after eating in the cafeteria (I've never been able to stomach either).

From the south do not believe in aerobic exercise. If ever I see someone on a bicycle, the poor soul trying to save up energy (and moving at roughly the same speed). Bike shops survive in the South mainly due to sales of mountain bikes, they should call sidewalk bikes here; only young people buy them and use them on sidewalks. If you are a man, you do not expect a woman to have to walk to the car, get the car to her. Thirty years ago, I saw a girls basketball game, there were ten girls in each team because they have been barred from running! They passed the ball from one court to another. Fortunately, this policy has changed.

While football is the # 1 spectator sport, the most common are the participation of sport golf and baseball. In golf, players use carts and never lift the golf bag or walk a hundred feet while the round holes. In baseball, which is much less common, players chew good time production equipment and are not useful until suddenly they have to Sprint. Of course, most people do not engage in these activities too harsh.

The beer is a common feature of the South. My understanding is that fat is actually the courage to push out of the abdominal cavity. Most women do not present a beer belly, but they are heavier on average than men. When I was a child at school, everybody laughed at me because I was thin! Years later when working construction, I was given advice on several occasions on how to fatten! Because I'm thin, rarely South women find me attractive, but I have the opposite problem.

Some have argued that the cause for the weight is the nature of different types of people. But even if I know that we are not all the same, I do not think there is any genetic reason why almost everyone is overweight in certain regions. At the University of Alabama, on the other hand, about 21000 students, there was not a fat coed anywhere (some had difficulty if). As I travel across the country, I notice I spend a "thin" and zones "bold" zones, that is where most people are thin and where most people are heavy. The weight is related to culture than genes.

Routes in the South are a dream to ride. Last night, I drove twenty miles and was adopted by fewer than twenty cars! While drivers are still quite ignorant on the bike, they are generally tolerant, I mainly on the lookout for stupid mistakes, like someone turning right after me. The woods come right up the road. Fences and non-trespassing signs are rare, I can stop hiking and anywhere. The time for nine months a year is pending. The poor month? June, July, August and in particular. Beginning November (Indian summer) is the most delicious climate anywhere in general. December, January, February and do not hesitate rotten day, but there are beautiful day and, with temperatures up to the 60's and 70's. In fact, we usually tickled to get a little snow. As I am a teacher, summer is a good time for me to ride my bike north. The terrain is ideal in Alabama, mostly flat, but some good small hills or mountains at hand is strengthened.

From the south have excuses for not rolling. Many people here argue that their ride bikes except to the hills. What Hills? Most roads are flat and are well sheltered from the wind by trees. Another excuse is traffic. What traffic? I hope they can see the Mennonites and Amish riding their bicycles in Michigan and Pennsylvania, where he is the traffic.

Although bicycles are rarely seen, cycling typical South is a joy to see. The vast majority of bikes are refugees from Wal-Mart and Kmart that have stood in the rain for years. Anything that is not painted is covered with rust (one wonders how the chain even managed to turn), the brakes are rusted solid rays are so loose that you can watch wiggle the wheel spins, and the ten-speed was a speed for the last twenty years (mostly in small-small combination). The tires are so cracked and under-inflated that you believe that the rider must go to the rim. Of course, the college of children were brand new chrome-moly ATV, but they treat their bikes the same way their parents, we know what a few years.

Do not use exotic terms with these bike riders. They do not "derail", "tooth", "rings", "change" and so forth. Some of them do not recognize that their bikes have brakes and gears, or how these things are supposed to work.

Now, you might think that these people are incredibly stupid. Not at all! Look in the garage in a suburban house: everything but the bike is in good condition. In the region, the fellow riding a bicycle collapse will take apart a carburetor and repair it within twenty minutes. The most intelligent person I ever knew rode a bicycle with two wheels in the fall (though not a Southerner).

They are not too weak to ride their bikes faster than a crawl. It is very popular in the South, and how men work hard. But the race? Taking works? These ideas are foreign, although men will be hunting in the fall. Women are more likely to go to the parkway than men, usually walks, but they get much less exercise otherwise. TV "aerobics" have become popular among young women, but not aerobics. Men who feel the need to exercise still lift weights.

If you are a Southerner, you might think that I say these things because I do not like the South. Once upon a time in the past when there was a strong hostility against the Yankees or liberals, and I was not happy there, but times have changed. People in the South are now too tolerant than anyone else and more friendly than most.

I would love to be able to convert these people to a healthier lifestyle.

And that's really the whole issue - the lifestyle. Their bikes are a deplorable state because they would not be death on anything that looks good. A $ 20000 car is cheap, and a $ 200 bike is outrageous. They do not because their culture does not include it.

At the national level, I see signs favourable. When films, TV programs and ads represent a healthy lifestyle that includes exercise, you know that the movement of fitness has been extremely successful. Unfortunately, children are less exercise than ever before. In the South, the number of adults exercise has increased, so I still hope. They could be persuaded to abandon the lifestyle South until you are really healthy.

Perhaps, ultimately, is what it will take. Already, the Southern accent is mostly disappeared (found mainly on television). But I would like to see stronger signs of change in the most important areas of health and the environment.

Why do I cycling

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:54:00 +0700

The reason for cycling are not listed in order of importance, nor can they be.
1) Cycling is fun.
As a child, my bike was my favorite toy, it was my horse, my Fokker triplane, my bike and my race car. But he also is pleased as a bicycle. We played children hunting, waterfalls made, on horseback and thousands of kilometres in our neighbourhood.

As a young man in college, I thought of my bike as a magic carpet or seven league boots. With little money, I was able to travel across Alabama and northern Ontario.

After I returned to cycling to forty. I noticed that I was a little drooling while cycling. The party was due to have just quit smoking, but part is due to this little boy inside me really enjoy himself.
2) The bicycle is an opportunity to experience a different world.
Is there something more beautiful than the race late at night with the stars above and, occasionally, down stars?

Is there something more enchanting than riding after dark with your beacon of light and agitation snowfall?

Is there anything more satisfying than deeply seated beside a lake or river, next to your tent, bicycle, and cook, and eat the food you caught and / or collect?

Is there anything Stranger Than explore a cave you've discovered by the roadside, using your bike a little low light?

Is there something hairier trip through a dark tunnel on your bike when you can not see or wall or ceiling?

Is there anything more than exultant bicycle in the clouds in the high mountains and see spots of green and the toy houses below?

Is there anything more humiliating than a flat tire during a heavy rain without shelter?

Is there anything more nostalgic than being a bicycle route on a long bike trip and suddenly recognize where you are from childhood memories?

Is there a greater satisfaction than to return to the place where another trip had ended, and go?

Is there something more powerful than to make after being put in place all summer that you can cycle all day and all climb the mountain without getting tired?

Is there anything more wonderful than to transform your dream into a reality?
3) The bike is in good health.
In the midst of a hundred miles of racing, I was climbing a mountain when I noticed measures have been reduced to a huge boulder to search. As I pulled off the road, a car stopped and the occupants themselves painfully from their seats and discuss these measures. "I'm not climbing up there," the woman said flatly: "I'm too tired to travel, and these measures are too strong." At this point, I had reached the base of the rock. I am appuyais against my bike and it ran up. It is good to have a chance to catch my breath! I'm down, jumped on the bike, and began to climb again.

One day, returning to Alabama in cycling, I stopped to wash my clothes in Roanoke, Virginia. Two fellows were also doing laundry. They admired the courage and my physical condition, and one of them said: "I want to do something like that, if I were as young as you are." "How old are you?" I asked. He said: 'forty-three. "As I said," I am almost fifty-one. "

When I started my first trip to Canada in 1966, I weighed 150 pounds, and when I came back, I weighed 165, without a trace of fat. When I started my last trip to Canada in 1995, I weighed 193 pounds, and when I returned I weighed a lean 165 pounds. My final weight is roughly the same on all long journeys.

I've never lifted weights, I've never my abs, I never stretch, I never diet, I rarely see a doctor, I just walk and ride my bike. My weight increases only when I'm riding less than 100 miles per week. Cycling keeps me lean, fit, healthy and happy.
4) The bicycle is economical.
A bicycle should not cost much. Unlike a car, a chrome-moly cycling will survive the owner, and some parts will never break or fail. Some parties will focus on: tires, chain, cogset, gables, the brake pads, and bearings. The wheels fatigue. Replacement tires is the biggest cost of maintenance. When I had little money, I was able to keep my costs about one cent a mile using tire chains and discount stores and rear wheels of a flea market. My costs are now, I paid $ 2000 over ten years and 50000 miles (4 cents per thousand), but I still have my two motorcycles and other equipment in good condition.

On the other hand, the average car costs about $ 5700 per year. These costs fall to $ 2883 for depreciation, $ 724 for insurance, $ 696 financial charges and 9.3 cents a mile for fuel, maintenance and tires, for a total cost of 45 cents per mile. For some reason, the government figures do not include repairs, the costs of parking, or taxes. They do the necessary income to $ 5700. They include a series of hidden costs, indirect costs and costs passed on to others. If all costs are included, the amount could be as high as $ 1.25 a mile.

A cyclist unmarried living in the South can live very comfortably on $ 5700 per year. An apartment costs $ 200 per month, utilities (gas, electricity, telephone, Internet, and water) from $ 100 to $ 150, and food $ 60 to $ 100, leaving $ 300 to $ 1400 per year left over for miscellaneous expenses, such as bicycle tires. Because to be a cyclist, I can save half of my income while I'm working or I can afford to take a year off to return to school or write.

Some people have said that a cyclist must buy special clothing or eating more foods. First, no clothes are needed, with the exception of a rain as well in place of an umbrella. Secondly, if the cyclist would buy special clothing and footwear, articles take the place of other clothing and shoes the cyclist would have to buy anyway. The clothing and bicycle lasts only as long as the others. Cycling clothes must not be expensive. With regard to eat more, I do eat more when on a long journey, can I add more rice or pasta to my diet.
5) Cycling is environmentally sound.
Each person who rides a bicycle rather than drives a car is to help save our planet. Our civilization has been burning huge quantities of coal, natural gas, oil and its byproducts, thus pumping of carbon dioxide in the ecosystem. The living creatures absorb much of this carbon, but too much accumulates in the atmosphere. The result was 1) a longer growing season, 2) more hot days, 3) more rain, and 4) strengthening drying. Prédits, but not the results are as follows: 1) more frequent violent storms, 2) drought, famine and destruction of forests, and 3) the flooding of coastal cities. Of all our uses of fossil fuels, automobile travel is the least defensible.

The amount of carbon dioxide from motor vehicles products is enormous. The average car to the USA burns about 650 gallons of gas, producing eight tonnes of CO2 (total production is 20 tons per person). Although fuel economy has risen to 19 mpg, travel has reached 1.6 trillion kilometers per year, then (adding the use of trucks), we burn 338 million tons of gasoline and 246 million tonnes of diesel and other fuels each year. Global oil consumption rose to 3.2 billion tons of oil, so 10 billion tonnes of CO2 are produced annually from oil alone.

But 3/4rds of automobile travel to the USA are for distances of less than ten miles, and more than half are distances of less than five miles. In riding my bicycle on errands, work weekends for recreation and summer holidays, I have greatly reduced the use of automobiles, and I had a better life.
6) Cycling is environmentally friendly.
Ronald Reagan used to announce GE, "is our only product." People are often so committed to this ideal of progress that they do not see that "progress" has been very destructive. We sold our birth and have little to show for it. Our forests have been stripped clean, our farms are heavily polluted, our children are abandoned and bear arms, our cities have become slums, our countryside is a maze of highways, our lives are empty, taxes and fees make sense eat up our salaries, the trade balance and public debt has reached crazy amounts, and our heroes are constantly in trouble on sex and drugs.

Henry Thoreau, speaking 150 years ago, foresaw the problems of our civilization was headed toward. He did not challenge the change "(" When a man made a reduction of the imagination to be a reality in his understanding, I foresee that all men throughout their lives on this basis. "), But it pointed out that we were not happy ( "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."), we had the wrong objectives ( "Our inventions are used to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from the serious things . They are only improved means to an end naked One end of which it was already too easy, but to arrive at. ") And what we were expecting a free meal at a given moment (" Men an indistinct notion that they maintain this activity common stocks and pique long enough that all goes to last round somewhere, in no time, and for nothing. ").

The solution, both for us as individuals and as a nation, is to quit following the Piper and to reorganize our priorities. True improvement is not always outward ( "The kingdom of heaven is in you"). We must learn to appreciate people over property, the more upscale nature, love and affection over sex and money, and experiences on financial success. If I recognize that the bicycle can not solve all these problems, I think that cycling can help people start making healthy changes in their own life. Cycling, by itself, can be a good alternative to massive traffic jams, a million wounded and 42000 deaths per year, high insurance costs, double bypass surgeries, high taxes, and miles of sterile, God abandoned asphalt.

I know that my back on the market of the motorcycle was the best decision I ever made.

(Louis J. Halle, Jr. spring in Washington)

In these circumstances it is right to wonder why our trap multitudes do not seek escape from the hive, once again assert their independence than men. The door is open to the outside world. I conclude that we lost our knowledge of the outside world, and fear of the unknown is greater than all the usual horror. I saw a bird cowering in his cage when the door was open for his escape.

The high-fat

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:47:00 +0700

The high-fat, diet low in carbohydrates compared to cycling for good health
NOTE: The first version of this story was written in July 2002. During the fall and winter, which has published articles submitted additional information on high-fat controversy and added a new high in fat, low-carb diet lawyer with a completely different Dr. Walter C. Willett. Therefore, I shortcut previous material and added new information.

After writing my article on diet and health, I thought I had covered the issue and will not return, then I encountered an interview on National Public Radio to sponsor a high-fat Gary Taubes, which caused me to do something new research on Dr. Aktins feeding schemes and other low-carb. I believe that since my last examined Dr. Aktins guestbook in 1971, he has added a number of new applications, most of them described by Gary Taubes, so I thought it would be useful to clarify the issue here. It is also important to look at Dr. Walter Willett of food, which was confused with Dr. Atkins

Cycling is dangerous?

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:41:00 +0700

The idea that cycling is very dangerous is common. When I ask people why they do not ride a bicycle, the most common reasons are: "It's too dangerous" and "It is too difficult." The perception that cycling is dangerous even some causes that value of the bicycle and are not worried about this being too difficult to limit their off-road bicycle trails. And it has also led to calls for mandatory helmet laws and the separation of bicycle paths. Part of this fear comes from our own fears to drive cars off the road between aggressive drivers. But for those who obey the traffic rules, cycling is actually safer than travel by automobile.

Why sidewalk cycling is dangerous

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:42:00 +0700

People wonder how riding bicycles on sidewalks can be dangerous. First, there is a greater chance of minor collisions with cyclists and pedestrians poorest because of the visibility and restricted room and also a greater chance of falling down. However, the likelihood of a collision with a motor vehicle is also increasing. These accidents occur at intersections and entrances, the former more deadly. Refusing to dismount and often do not want to wait for the light, the rider starts cycling through the intersection parallel to the main road, completely hidden from a motorist turning until the last second, when it is often too late to motorists to stop. A study of these risks have been made in 1994 and showed that cycling east sidewalk nearly two times more dangerous than cycling in the street, and the bicycle against traffic on the sidewalk more than four times more dangerous than cycling in the streets. For a good discussion, see the dilemmas of planning bicycle.

Pedestrians are safer than cyclists sidewalk because 1) they move more slowly, 2) they can look beyond more easily, and 3) they can move from one side. However, even if these sidewalk cyclists were as safe as pedestrians, they would not be very safe, as seven times as many pedestrians are killed each year as cyclists and pedestrians have been more deaths per mile of travel that cyclists. (The environmental benefits of cycling and walking estimates 21 to 44 billion kilometer walk and 6 to 21 billion km bike.)
The most common cause of bicycle victims

Two of the biggest causes of death, then, are the following: 1) a misperception that a cyclist has no right on the road and 2) a fatalistic belief that cycling in traffic is dangerous in itself and that traffic accidents are inevitable. But not only the cyclist have all rights on the road, but the cyclist is also safer on the road as motorists. To show that accidents are preventable, here is a list of the most serious forms of bicycle-car collisions, most likely to cause death, from a recent study (crash-type manual for cyclists Carol Tan):

1. 5.1% The cyclist was released in a moved forward on a vehicle ahead.
2. 4.3% The cyclist turned left in front of a passing vehicle.
3. 3.9% The motorist was exceed cyclists, the cause of the accident unclear.
4. 2.7% The cyclist was hit while traveling on the wrong (left) side of the road.
5. 1.4% The cyclist, on the wrong side, turned right in front of a vehicle.
6. 1.3% The motorist was beyond cyclists and did not see him.
7. 1.2% The cyclist lost control and swerved into the path of the vehicle.
8. .8% The cyclist made a left turn normal, but ignored on traffic ahead.
9. .6% The motorist lost control of the car and struck the cyclist.
10. .5% Motorist struck a vehicle play (big wheel, equipped with bicycle wheels).

Together, these accidents are most likely to cause death, accounted for 21.8% of the total number of bicycle-motor vehicle collisions in the study. Let's look at some of them individually.

In the first case, the cyclist out of a driveway has a responsibility to look both directions and to ensure that it is safe. That's all that was necessary. Half of these accidents occurred at very young children and most children.

In the second case, a cyclist to turn left into the movement must look beyond and then switch to turn the correct position or lane when it is safe to do so. If the rider is unable or afraid to get into this position, he can roll to the curb, get off and walk through. Most of these accidents happened to children as well.

The fear of the third type of collision, when the cyclist was struck from behind, encourages people to ride bicycles on sidewalks or on the wrong side of the road. But the cyclist should not be naive victim of such accidents. The cyclist can listen to the approach of vehicles and / or scanning the back from time to time, looking back or using a mirror, and thus be aware that vehicles are moving carefully and safely. Keeping on the right, moving even farther to the right, or even pull off the road when it seems necessary, the cyclist can avoid being affected. See my article on fear of traffic from the rear.

The fourth type of collision is caused by the cyclist travel on the wrong side of the road (against traffic). It is both illegal and very dangerous. See Wrong Way Cycling for this discussion.

The fifth also implies a rider on the wrong side, but in this case it turns into the face of the movement. This type was more common among children. Here, the rider made two fatal mistakes.

The sixth accident involving a motorist does not see the cyclist on the road ahead. These accidents occurred almost entirely cyclists adults. The problem of visibility is mainly due to darkness or glare from the sun. Again, the cyclist should not be naive victim. Although very few bicycle riders use them, both reflectors and lights are required by law the night. Wearing brightly coloured clothes during the day can also reduce such risks. Equally important, the rider must pay attention to each vehicle when the sun is low or at night. It should also be recalled that the headlights of motor vehicles on reflectors shine only when the vehicle is intended for the bike, so a cyclist on a curve or dip May be invisible until the last moment. A bright and / or flashing light rear complete a large rear reflector is an excellent safety device. See my article on the fear of movement of the rear for more information on this property.

In the seventh accident, the loss of control by the cyclist caused the accident. Many motorists say they are concerned about this type of accident. Very young children are often victims as well as middle-aged cyclists, many of whom had consumed alcohol.

There is less to say about the last three. It should be obvious that a cyclist needs to wait for traffic to come, that motorists who lost control are dangerous, and that children play on vehicles are at high risk.

Ken Kifer on fitness

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0700

The discussions raised under "15 mph" and "Fat Cyclist" focus group discussion to me to check the Web for additional information. I found a huge quantity of quality information low. Even after I limited the results with four keywords, the search engine yet reported 1.6 million pages of information.

In particular, I could not find much more specific about Kenneth Cooper, who launched the movement aerobics - jogging, it turns out, was launched by someone else. There have been numerous mentions of him - especially by groups of welfare which requires a connection, a short interview in German, and an article by him on the issue of antioxidants. Remembering his books, I can say once it has been argued that the more often the exercise, the better health and more success in life, for example, he understood that studies have shown that children who exercised the most is the best marks in school. Then, after Jim Fixx died, he began to back-pedal, suggesting that the exercise should be limited to a number of times a week for a period of only thirty minutes. Now that the good doctor is past its first, it is the trafficking of vitamins C and E and beta-carotene. As I have said, although I think it was a positive influence, he never understood cycling. The problem of management for an exercise that is the oldest runner is the most damage and the rider must reduce.

In an article, formerly available on the Web, Dr. Joseph Levy, coordinator of the Wellness Centre at York University, Toronto, says that the whole movement fitness has been a failure. Rather than condemn the exercise itself, he says that the failure was that most Canadians have failed to do so. He denies that the "no pain, no gain" has a true value, and he said he discourages people from exercising. He does not particularly target rate requirements and provides a pleasant walk can do so well. He said he is not opposed to exercise, whether walking 10 km (6 miles) each day. He also made no mention of cycling.

An even stronger attack on the idea of aerobics is from a group of doctors who say that Cooper and one of its eminent scientists have admitted they were wrong when they said that aerobics. They believe that the ideal is to exercise slowly up and down a heavyweight. They say that the weight should be large enough to exhaust the power of muscles in two minutes. They argue that statements on aerobic and anaerobic exercise are not applicable because both are underway in all the exercise. They say it is foolish and even dangerous to try to exercise the heart, if the muscles receive enough exercise (through bodybuilding), the heart will be strong. Endurance is a genetic trait that can not be changed. The best way to reduce fat is to develop muscles.

I still see Dr. Morehouse's book for sale at the grocery store. Morehouse says that 30 minutes per week is the year that someone needs, and most of its programme of aerobic exercise a few advantages. He also sees no long-term benefit of the exercise, saying that a person loses 100% of any advantage gained after 30 days of confinement in bed.

Over the years, I have been watching food. While some of them suggest mild exercise, most say that health comes primarily from what you eat.

The person who ranked number one on the Web for teaching fitness was Richard Simmons. Although I do not want to dump on someone who could have been a little couch potato to move, if it is the first guru, God help us!

With experts in this genre, and with so much disagreement, I might as well put in my request, although I have a master's degree in English and not an MD in medicine. Let me give you an advantage to accept me as a medical authority: I will not try to force you to accept a strange exercise, medicine or food. Regarding the experience goes, I have spent many hours walking and cycling before Kenneth Cooper never thought about aerobics. Finally, I will not depend on research but on my own observation and nor do I claim that my experience applies equally to everyone. I will give my comments first and after my conclusions.

I never remember being exhausted as a child, and I have watched many children play, and I've never seen either exhausted. Sometimes they drowsy and the need to take a nap, so they get tired. But not winded. Of course, they are not difficult adults. However, I went on a hike with a group of young, a couple of adults, and a seven-year-old daughter. The girl and I were never tired and a lot of ways, other, mostly college students, complained quite often the difficulty of travel. Likewise, I took my nephew over a period of seven miles by bicycle when he was seven, no problem. Neither of his parents could have done the same thing.

Of course, children May be different now. We had to walk to school, I was not even five years when I started. I walked in the rain and deep snow. Most of our radio listening has been done during the night, so we played outside in summer and winter, only to come eat inside. As a boy in the North, I do remember my leggings be frozen. In the South, one of our games was cycling hunting, and we would not stop for hours, so I can move and turn at night. Nowadays, I seldom see children playing outside. Even when I see children who have bicycles, they are either standing around or moving slowly. Is there now fewer children, or are they mostly passively sitting in front of a television?

In high school, I walked three miles to school every day. Initially, the trip was difficult and I was happy to rides. However, once I got used to walking, I did not want any roll walking is more enjoyable. During the third year, I convinced my mother to let me walk both directions, and walking in the morning was even more enjoyable. Besides walking to school, I also went walking in the woods after I got home and on weekends.

However, I have never participated in sports activities, except for a little basketball and volleyball because I was too and understrength. Even when we had to run, because Kennedy focuses on fitness, I always come last. The operation would also like to be black-out. With all the years tried this year, I did poorly except for chinning, I suppose my ultralight contributed. I decided that I was not physically fit.

After I started college, the long march ended at school, but much longer weekend hikes in the national forest began. When I needed to visit my parents' home, sometimes I just started walking, and people offer me walking along the track. I used to walk around half the distance of 28 miles.

I also started in caves under way in college, and after we started to see more and more difficult caves, I started to notice that my friends had real difficulties. They become exhausted or sleepy, find excuses to go back, or become ill tempered. I found myself did not need to be happy and enjoying the journey.

I also travel long trek of 70 years, Professor, collecting stones, high on the side of a mountain. He once put 70 pounds of rocks reverse its position on travel broken. I never saw fatigue or Grouchy, in fact, I wear.

When I had the chance to ride a bike, I rode 45 miles the first day because I was in such good shape. I commonly used my bike to visit Anniston, 13 miles away, and I started to hike to the campaign. I was interested in neither speed nor distance nor the regularity, but I was curious to see how many places I could explore. The first year I rode a 3-speed bicycle pedals with rubber. My best time was 25 miles an hour (nice tailwind). During the same year (1965), I made my first long bike trip (573 miles), and I also rode four centuries, including one the day I crossed over Newfound Gap (5048 ft).

This first trip (the Smokies) taught me the need gear and dropped handlebar, on my second (in Canada), I learned that my legs were less tired if I pedaled downhill (I n 'had no concept of pace). Although I took 15 books on travel Canada (165), I did not feel much stronger at the end than the beginning, mainly because I was in such a form when I started ! During my best week, I covered nearly 700 miles. Although people saw me as a kind of athlete after I returned, I said that everybody can do what I did.

After I started working, my bike fell. Although I was still in better shape than others, I found myself breathing difficult caving trips. When I visited Canada in 1970, it was a car, because I felt I was no longer such a challenge bicycle. However, the trip produced a profound change, and I started to prepare for a trip by bicycle in Canada and made a winter trip, cycling terrible time. My bike capacity quickly returned only by constituency.

I found someone who wanted to ride a bicycle to Canada with me, we married, and I had the opportunity to apply my knowledge of fitness to it. I wanted to eat their carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables, and avoid meat and fat. It has a carbohydrate without food. I thought it would be better with dropped handlebars and a seat close, she chose a place and a large handlebar. I wanted to cycle nearly 150 miles per week in preparation. She actually drove about 430 miles in three months. I wanted to take only necessary, it took five pounds of cosmetics and two cats. I wanted to ride in front to break the wind, it taxied to the front and coasted down every hill and every market hill. The trip was successful in the last two weeks and 430 miles. At first, she weighted 150 pounds and looked fat at the end, she weighted 150 pounds and looks lean - for some time. She never rode with me again, but she bought Kenneth Cooper Aerobics and trying to form following its methods. Because she could never achieve the speed he has recommended, it waived.

Several years later, I stopped the bike for a long period for a variety of reasons such as my cabin, my son, my work, my parents, my position and my problems with burglars. However, I was doing physical work during the day and take long walks on weekends and when I went on caving trips, I had no trouble keeping abreast others, so I felt I was in good physical shape.

However, I was shocked in 1984 after a ten miles on foot. I had never before been so tired in my life. I had another shock five months later after a pass from 20-mile bike, which took all day. In addition to being too tired to sleep, I also noticed that my pulse and respiration are both high rates. Testing at a pharmacy, I found my blood pressure was also high (a problem that has disappeared with the regular bike).

To return fit, I tried to follow the advice in magazines cycling. I used a mixture of fast laps, sprints, ribs, slow and long distance. However, my high speed on the course has not increased. The harder I pushed, the more it will take to recover my breath (it would take me longer to recover than it took to cross the distance). My sprints has not improved either (they have slowly declined over the years - I'm down to 27 mph today). The ribs (in fact, mountains) hurt my knees (ten-speed bike) and I was black. And my long and slow journey distance has become very slow. Some people told me the problem is too bicycle, but I was dependent on the bicycle for transportation.

A simple observation let me see the stupidity of it all. Whenever my eleven years, son of visit, I wish to cancel the rides and run at my son rhythm. After he left, I discovered that I had made a rapid improvement. As a result, I stopped trying to follow the magazines' advice and began to run at my own natural, relaxed pace. My long and slow journey distance began to improve rapidly, and I noticed I was sometimes arrive at the store five kilometres from my house at the same time where I used to go to burnout.

Meanwhile, I read books all Kenneth Cooper. Although I found what he said was interesting, I found no useful. His information was really geared towards running.

Also, after cycling magazines, I tried various stretches and exercises. I also abandoned these and had no problems with pain or force as a result.

In fact, I think normal, relaxed cycling can prove good stretching. One day, I myself a lot of incredibly neck while reading. I could not turn slowly, even after hours of babying. This afternoon, I wanted to make the trip 14 miles to the city, so I started in great pain. On the way back, I remembered I had forgotten something. Search my memory, I finally realized I had forgotten to check to see how my neck was done! Of course, I no longer need. Many times I have hindered my bike to begin the ride on horseback, then miles without problems. Sometimes, I still have a limp when I get off, but I just laugh at my leg stupid.

Rather than exercise a bike ride, I create my arms by horseback. Whenever I climb a hill, my stomach and arm muscles have a good workout.

I have made the greatest improvement in making bicycle trips. 500 miles Several weeks provoke a strong improvement in my speed and endurance. Even the trips that I began my prepared conclude become tireless (but not as strong as I travel began in good shape).

During two years of higher education and four years of teaching, I did not get enough exercise during the year, if my weight is increasing every winter. This increase was aggravated by grease and oil added to food in the cafeteria. The weight was burned during my travels bike this summer.

Also, for the last half-dozen years the only exercise that I have received has come to normal daily activities, cycling and walking. I think that the cave exploration would be a good addition to help my flexibility, but it does not seem to be necessary.

So here is what my experience has taught me about staying in shape:

1) The children are healthy, because they never stop: they run and play all day. Adults are health and fitness problems because they spend most of their time sitting around, not because they are older. Health problems can begin at a very young age for those who are sedentary; active people can be very dignified in their seventies.

2) is an exercise healthy and thin, but not all exercise is equally valuable. Most things that promotion on television that the exercise had little value. Normal work and even difficult, physical work and slow walking and cycling sidewalk also offer little or no benefit. In fact, the results of long and difficult time created the belief that the exercise is bad for you (although long, difficult hours may help you to lose weight). Caving is excellent for exercising all the muscles in the body, but it does not contribute to endurance. However, several kilometers on foot to four constituency mph or ten miles or more at 12-16 mph will lead to a rapid improvement. In other words, for cycling and walking for a profit, you have to put a little energy in them, but it is not necessary to race. I often sing while I'm on my bike normal pace, but maybe I would have to stop singing when climbing a hill. When I'm riding with others, we can make a good conversation, unless the person has returned a little more trouble hearing.

3) high-speed constituency has no value, at least not for people my age or young people who want to go around. My top speed for a distance not pass or down, no matter how I trained. Much better is to train at a natural speed, or even a bit slower. Welcome aboard rather than force.

4) Long-distance riding is a great value: the more I ride, the best shape I am, and the harder it is for me to get tired. If I want to be strong enough to go on a tour, I need to drive at least thirty miles per day for a few weeks. Three to five miles of 500 weeks makes me very hard. However, short trips can keep me feeling good, although missing a few days had no effect.

5) Some aspects of "fitness" gained during last summer to another, once you're fit, it is difficult to lose that conditioning, even if very little riding, and it is much easier to recover.

6) On the other hand, a person who has been out of form in recent years, will take over a year to get fit. Children adapt much more quickly, but they also begin a higher level anyway.

7) A diet with less fat makes it possible to control weight. I always used to think it was my only exercise, but I always ate rice, potatoes, spaghetti, pasta, fruit, vegetables, with only a little chicken or Other foods containing fat.

8) The belief of mine is that I will live longer and have fewer problems of old age because of the exercise. I would like to leave as my friend does rockhounding. I went to see a few weeks before his death at 90, he and I met at the door.

Cycling health and fitness

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:35:00 +0700

People take three paths to good health: doctor, diet and exercise. Our path to the doctor's largest expense, 1035 billion in 1996, nearly 1/7th of gross national product. More than 60% of these visits involving drugs, and there were more than 70 million surgeries (source CDC). However, there are lower costs, trauma and tragedy if we had prevented many of these health problems. According to the American Medical Association, 60% of Americans are physically inactive. According to U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, the number of people at risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke is more and more, and 50% of Americans are overweight. He said that improving nutrition with 30 minutes of exercise five times a week could reduce cardiovascular disease and death by 50% and colorectal cancer by 40% (source CNN, June 11, 1999).

Unfortunately, those who decide to meet the health warnings tend to go over on nutrition and adopt the bad years. Rather than exotic nutrients, we need a diet consisting mainly of cereals, fruits and vegetables, with reduced amounts of meat and cheese. Rather than weightlifting, TV "aerobics" and from crisp, we need true aerobic exercises that help strengthen the heart, such as brisk walking, cycling, jogging, swimming, rollerblading, skating and skiing. The best exercise to change our sedentary habits is what we can and will do almost every day.

Cycling has several advantages compared to other years:

1. Cycling exercises the heart better than walking without hammering jogging.
2. You can ride a bicycle almost anywhere, at any time of year, and low cost.
3. Little or no time must be lost, as bike trip can be used to get to work, conducting courses, or enjoy the outdoors.
4. Commuting by bike reduces the pollution that causes asthma and bronchitis. A cyclist in common is also less exposed to air pollution as a car shuttle.

However, cycling involves some risk of injury which has been greatly exaggerated by fearmongers. Cycling has made similar risks to automobile travel. The British Medical Association has estimated that the health benefits of cycling outweigh the risks to twenty-one.

A very interesting question is what should get an aerobic exercise every day? Some medical authorities recommend as little as 20 minutes a day, three times a week, while others recommend 2000 Kcal, which would be at least four times that amount. Why the big difference? Well, most authorities agree more exercise the better in some indefinite, but many are afraid that if they wait too long, people will not exercise at all. Another reason for lowering the recommendation was due to damage caused by jogging, cycling a problem does not share. I fear that those requirements are very low to give people the false impression that they do not need more exercise than usual, mostly sedentary.

How much exercise do I recommend? I think that 45 minutes of bike six days a week (about 2000 kcal) keeps me feeling good, but not many, two hours a day keeps me very strong and control my weight, and six hours per day on my bike I feel like Superman after several weeks. We could say that lower amounts of exercise improved health and higher amounts improve his fitness. I would recommend a minumum of 45 minutes per day and a lot more than the bike as the weather permits. The cycling time will not be lost, in addition to having a good race, the cyclist will be more productive during the remaining time and live longer so.

A health assessment pedalling

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:38:00 +0700

Pedal Health Organization (British spelling) is an Australian site with excellent information on cycling health. I felt that the design could discourage the youngest player, so I decided to provide questions and answers on the site, in the order as the original unless another order seems to be required. Then, my readers can check the original to read more detailed information, to find sources and to seek the excellent table.

Q: What Pedalling health?

A: Pedalling health is an investigation into medical and other research on the value of the exercise, especially walking and cycling.

Q: What are the sources were used in their paper?

A: The authors have carefully documented authoritative sources for each certificate medical check their site to find these sources. In talking about traffic solutions, other sources and / or their own opinions are used.

Q: Who are the authors and what is their origin?

A: They are four Australians: Ian Roberts is a senior lecturer in computer science from the University of Adelaide, Secretary of the Bicycle Federation of Australia, and a member of the State of South Australia bicycle Harry Owen is professor of anesthesia and intensive care at Flinders University, Peter Lumb is a lecturer in social work and public policy at the University of South Australia and Vice President of the Bicycle Institute of South Australia, Colin MacDougall is a lecturer in the Department of Public Health at Flinders University.

Q: Why cycling and walking stressed compared to other years?

A: The authors claim that the exercise must be "moderate, habitual and not seasonal." They conclude that the only activities that fully meet this definition are gardening, walking and cycling. However, they did not discuss the health aspects of gardening or compare the other two. In addition, they stressed that cycling (and walk) could help economically and environmentally. This is a bike to work, school, running errands, and to visit friends could reduce the use and cost of motor vehicles. They also point out that sporting activities or "packaged" exercises that are often recommended for the year actually involve greater risks. And people are more likely to quit.

The bicycle and walking, on the other hand, at low costs for equipment or fees, serve useful purposes every day, are convenient for people with different levels of fitness - including the least-shaped And are attractive to people who are not normally. Special bicycles are still available for people with severe physical disabilities.

Q: What is meant by moderate exercise?

A: This document shows that the exercise to 70% of maximum heart rate is better than exercising at 60%, but said that the year 2000 kCal exercise per week is more important than a few sessions of breath sweat and exercise. The highest level of exercise has not been determined.

Q: Other exercises involve more risk than cycling?

A: Below are the comparative risks of the hospital for sports injuries popular:

Victims / 100 hours
Cycling .005
football .06
basketball .11
squash .13
football .19

Q: Did you say that people who are involved in sports are more likely to quit?

A: Yes, Pedalling Health does not give figures but says that the exercise diminishes with age, both for the population as a whole and for individuals. Cyclists show a smaller decline than those who are involved in sport. Lapsed May athletes have a higher risk than the non-sporting population. Girls in particular are likely to abandon the exercise while activities in their adolescence, and children become inactive adults inactive. A non-sport exercise such as walking or cycling allows everyone to participate throughout the year. In particular, on foot or bicycle to work or school is a normal, everyday activity which should lead to good health. Cycling is also an activity that the elderly can participate in safety without the risk of more vigorous exercises.

Q: Is it really matter if people get enough exercise and how is it important?

A: If you look at the risk of heart disease only for men, be sedentary is equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day, with a systolic pressure over 150 mm Hg, or having a blood cholesterol levels more than 6 , 9 mmol / L. A sedentary lifestyle also promotes coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, obesity and type II diabetes. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in Australia and has the highest medical costs as well.

Q: What are the benefits of cycling?

A: Cycling on a regular basis

1. lowers cholesterol in the blood.
2. increases the high density lipo-protein/cholesterol rate in the blood as well.
3. reduces the chances of stroke and heart attacks caused by clotting.
4. reduces the chances of diseases caused by high blood pressure.
5. is as effective as medication to reduce hypertension.
6. makes it unlikely obesity thereby reducing the risk of diabetes.

Q: How much exercise is needed?

A: The benefits of regular exercise begins at 800 kCal exercise per week, but 2000 kCal is preferred, that is two and a half to six hours of exercise per week on average for a cyclist.

Q: What are the advantages of greater exercise?

A: The exercise some more measurable benefits as well. The exercise of more than 2000 kcal per week led to a 2/3rds reduction in the number of deaths by heart attack. The risk of death by heart attack is reduced by 20% in 2000 kCal the year, but 6000 kCal year reduction of over 50%. Beyond that, the benefits to stabilize. (6000 kCal would be approximately 18 hours per week for a bike ride cyclist or the shuttle.)

Q: If the exercise is healthy, why not people do more?

A: Two reasons fast, is the amount of time spent watching television and the amount of time spent in motor vehicles, since people only have a lot of time. When asked why they did not exercise more, people in Australia have given the three most common answers: no time 33%, no confidence by 23%, and no desire to 13%. Some reasons for these responses might be people's fears major competitive sports or activities and their fear of injury during training. Also, they may find many activities for the year to be promoted to their nature. High-intensity exercise may require more skill and that many people, especially the elderly and the sick. The chances of injury are more important as well. High intensity exercise can also cause problems of cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, exercise and fitness are currently marketed as products for those whose health is already in decline. Preventive exercise is much more important.

Q: Is there a correlation between longevity and fitness?

A: One third of deaths from coronary heart disease, colon cancer and diabetes are due to physical inactivity.

The physical condition and the mortality rate:
A strong negative correlation
Age-adjusted death rate
All 100,000 cases per year
men's women's skill level
65 40 lowest 20%
Next 25 20 20%
Next 28 14 20%
22 7 20% next
20 10 20%
Q: Is not this kind of table showing only those who are naturally more healthy to live longer?

A: risk of physical inactivity and benefits of exercise are independent 1) high blood pressure, 2) ratios unhealthy fat in the blood and 3) overweight to exercise benefits everyone.

Q: Well, are not most people get enough exercise?

A: In Australia,

# 27% of people are sedentary
# 28% engage in the exercise low (less than 800 kcal or 2 1 / 2 hours of exercise)
# 25% get moderate exercise (more than 800 kcal less than 2000 - 2 1 / 2 to 6 hours)
# 20% obtain optimal exercise (more than 2000 kCal or 6 hours of exercise)

In total, we can say that nearly half the population of Australia are quite inactive to significantly increase their chances of contracting diseases.

Q: But is important that the exercise of its overall health?

A: They are the main causes of death in the USA:

# A combination of all causes 34%
# A sedentary lifestyle 33%
Chronic disease # 16%
# The tobacco and alcohol 8%
# The hypertension and overweight 7%
Family history # 2%

Q: Does that cyclists and pedestrians have proved performed in the simple transport rather than years?

A: A study compared men who happened to walk or bicycle with those who were inactive and found that walkers and cyclists with at least 1000 kCal spending a week had only 42% of coronary heart disease inactive .

Q: Why cycling is a better exercise than walking?

A walk provides exercise for the heart. In a study of Finnish men and women who have freely chosen their own method of exercise, walkers reached 60% of their maximum heart rate, cyclists and reached 70% of their own. Accordingly, cyclists bodies much improved walkers averaged a VO2 max of 38 while the average of 57 cyclists. Cyclists exercise was high enough to achieve a response training, as walkers was not. Cyclists therefore achieved better health benefits of their exercise.

In a controlled study to verify these results, which lasted ten weeks in a group that worked and a group bicycled, cyclists have shown an improvement of 7.3% in VO2 max while walkers showed an improvement of 1 , 6%. On the treadmill test, the cyclists improved by 13% and 9% walkers, although cyclists have started at a higher level.

Q: What is the effect of exercise on specific health problems?

A: To the best blood lipids and lipo-protein profiles:

# It takes at least 1000 Kcal of exercise per week (2-4 hours)
# Benefits to 4500 kcal per week (10-20 hours)
# Exercise and diet have more than twice the earnings of food only change.

To lower blood pressure:

In four weeks, systolic blood pressure decreased by 97 to 88 with three sessions per week and 84 with seven meetings per week. Here are the effects of exercise on blood pressure in men:

# Not 150/80
Moderate # 120/70
Aerobics # 60/30

In type II diabetes, those at high risk are assisted as follows:

# Less than 500 kcal, 47 deaths per 10,000 years
# Less than 2000 kcal, 35 deaths per year 10000
# More than 2000 kcal, 27 deaths per year 10000

For osteoporosis, physical activity has been shown to increase bone density, while inactivity decreases.

Q: We have examined the benefits. What are the problems caused by cycling and walking?

A: First, we must recognize that all forms of prevention and treatment have costs and side effects. For example, drugs used to treat heart disease are also known to cause depression and sudden death. Because the exercise to avoid the problem before it occurs, the costs are much lower. However, exercise can lead to injury.

A study in Australia examined the injuries in hospital and compared the time involved in the activities of the number of injuries. The results showed that football is 38 times, squash is 26 times, basketball is 22 times, and soccer is 12 times more dangerous than bicycles per hour.

It is worth noting that most cyclists are minor injuries. Only .5% of cycling injuries are essential, as opposed to 3% of pedestrians injured. Cycling injuries are less severe than those of other road users.

However, 90% of all injuries substantual cycling are collisions with motor vehicles.

Q: Would you say that, while motor vehicles are the real problem?

A: You can not deny that our concern with the safety of users of motor vehicles has been to the detriment of cyclists. The automobile, in particular, to create three threats: 1. they are dangerous for their occupants, 2. they threaten other road users, and 3. they encourage sedentary lifestyles.

The policy design cars and roads to be safe for users of motor vehicles alone tends to make cycling more dangerous.

Q: Does the risk of motor vehicle collisions equal for all?

A: No, the data show wide variations by age and sex cyclist, the type of road being done, and the age and sex of the operator of motor vehicle. In particular, adolescent and cyclists arteries show a much higher rate of accidents. For over 18 years, the chart shows the arteries as the accident rate over 150 per million hours and well below 50 for non-arteries. For teens, the accident rate is approximately 450 million hours on arterial roads. In 1991 in Australia data, with all age groups, accidents than men outnumber those for girls by two or three to one (however, no attempt was made to compare the number of hours riding or the number of riders between the two sexes). The largest number of deaths from the same investigation is between boys and adolescents. However, other data show that men in Australia to spend four times more time to cycle as women, men and adolescents are 40% of all cyclists.

Q: Are there other benefits for users of the road cycling and walking?

A: The walking and cycling are "non-polluting, non-congesting, non-infringing road, non-threatening, health promotion and environmental sustainability."

Q: What is the biggest risk for a cyclist killed while cycling or dying of heart disease?

A: For Australian cyclists on the road six hours a week, there is a reduction in the risk of heart disease by 85 deaths per 100000 years and an increase in deaths from bicycle 100000 for 19 years. Nevertheless, they still have a mortality rate of 121 per 100000 years from CHD. There are other health benefits to cycling and who do not have exact figures, but they also reduce the mortality rate among cyclists at the same time. Thus, the benefits of cycling far outweigh the risks.

Q: What is the most effective way to reduce deaths bike?

A: When asked this question, Peter Croft, Manager of the Route environmental safety, Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales has identified the reduction of speeds of motor vehicles as the answer. Lowering speed limits would be two results: 1. This would give more time to avoid the accident. 2. It would reduce the impact velocity.

Impact speeds in a collision with a motor vehicle in large part determine whether a cyclist to live or die. Looking collisions between motor vehicles and pedestrians, at impact speeds below 20 mph, only a small number of pedestrians killed, at impact speeds above 30 mph Only about 5% survive. Speed also affects the ability to stop. Between 25 and 50 mph, the distance required to stop three of 60 feet to 180 feet. Thus, accidents are more likely to occur at higher speeds.

An Australian study finds that pedestrian deaths down 60% if the maximum speed of movement have been reduced by 12 mph (20kph).

I strongly recommend reading Pedalling Health or at least look at the excellent table. It is now available from two sources (see the right column of the URL).

The healthy diet for cyclists (or anyone)

noreply@blogger.com (Indra) — Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:43:00 +0700

NOTE: This Web page gives my recommendations for a healthy diet that are generally the same as those provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the surgeon general, and similar authorities. As I have indicated in this directory, I am not an expert in health and, secondly, I am very careful not to make any statement that anyone could jeapordize the health and health that some " experts. " When I disagree with or speculate beyond scientific knowledge, I will not fail to indicate this is my personal opinion. I used the RDP [Physician's Desk Reference] Family Guide to Nutrition and Health (copyright 1995) as my main source of information on nutrients because I've found to be objective, scientific and sheet. However, I used only a small portion of information from this source and the content, style, arrangement, and the message of this page is quite mine.

ALSO NOTE: In writing this I did not understand a complete list of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds each time because I needed to keep space; place, I have just enumerated choices. In addition, foods are more likely to be searched than others. I have no doubt that the kiwifruit, acorn squash, and many other extraordinary foods are excellent choices. Research is underway, and there are a number of Web sites with updated information.

"Diet" has three meanings, two and a bit (as an example of the latter, Martin Luther is associated with the Diet of Worms). Unfortunately, most people see "regime" as a temporary means of weight loss, less the value of common sense, rather than as a lifestyle food, the best sense. The food of life that I chose as a young person in place of my parents is very similar to the diet recommended by sound scientific research. It is not yet possible to identify all the desirable qualities of food, and doubtless a few changes of opinion occur in the future, however, present scientific knowledge can easily explain why food of most Americans is harmful and can suggest improvements positive.
What is wrong with Dieting?

Every few years a new way food is just disappear a few years later and replaced by another mode food. Then, after a generation or two, the former regime mode will become the new rage. Thus, the current top of the food are now many occasions in the past and will continue to be reincarnated in the future. These regimes mode, as opposed to special schemes prescribed by a doctor for specific purposes, all are almost always taken to cause weight loss, usually a rapid weight loss. Fad diets depend mainly on the limitation of the usual diet that people eat, either by allowing only a very limited selection of food or not to allow foods of a certain type or limiting the time during which certain foods that are consumed May. These arrangements include accident, high and low in protein systems, liquid feed, and even diets. These schemes have all long-term health problems, and create more immediate risks.

However, these schemes are very popular for some time because they all work to some extent. The most immediate cause rapid weight loss, reducing the quantity of liquid stored by the body. Most also create a state of imbalance within the body which acts as a partial form of famine, leading to the loss of additional weight. Finally, most lead to poor appetite and therefore a reduction in food consumption.

However, they are all fundamentally unhealthy ways to lose weight. The schemes are very likely to be a greater health risk than is the first situation overload. Some of the possible consequences are unhealthy 1) fluctuations in weight, 2) dehydration, 3) the loss of energy, 4) hypertension, and 5) changes in mood. And it is very possible that the weight that is lost is not fat anyway.

Thirty years ago when I married, I tried to convince my wife to adopt my diet and exercise, although it was worried about his weight. Instead, she said Dr Atkins diet plan, which is low in carbohydrates, high-fat diet, when she followed a plan at all, because she was worried about calories ( somehow, she could see the calories in bread and doughnuts, but not calories fried chicken).

I wrote a poem at the time (on the basis of "Jack Sprat") expressing how I felt in a funny way:

It works neat, Ken eats no meat,
His wife eats nothing more.
When sitting at the table, they are barely able
For more eat a meal for four.

Of course, meat diet, with its high fat content does not help to lose weight and did not give him the energy she needed for cycling. I am appalled to note that 30 years later, Dr. Atkins is still pushing a plan that has been detrimental to so many.

Is a regime unrealistic and unhealthy method of weight control and should be avoided.
Food is important?

As another point of view, some have come to the belief that food - which is a choice of living on food to eat - is unimportant. To some extent, I agree with this view for two reasons: Firstly, I think most cases of overweight and obesity are caused by sedentary behaviors that by excess calories . A sedentary lifestyle is so prevalent today that the doctor (who is also the most often sedentary) rarely sees as the problem and warns his patients that they are "too eat." Give someone eight hours of physical work each day, and the problem will be to maintain weight rather than lose it. As a construction worker, I've never weighed over 160 pounds, despite a huge appetite, when still working as a teacher under high pressure with no time for exercise, I reached 193 pounds very quickly. However, better (and more realistic) solution to the problem of overweight would be to get the person to engage in an hour or two of aerobic activity every day as a bicycle riding and the workplace, then bathroom scale will probably not be necessary. Secondly, I partly agree that food choice is unimportant because I think that many very different regimes are quite healthy. The man is an omnivorous and is able to live on a wide variety of foods and diets, which is evidenced by the many different foods traditional lifestyles in the world which were necessary because of limits on what could be increased (or driven) in different climates.
Some bad diets older

On the other hand, I would not go so far as to believe that all diets are satisfactory. Many diets can be quite apparently in good health and still cause long-term health problems. In the mound-builder culture, the first slaves Spanish culture, and in the South at the turn of the century, too much over-dependence on maize (corn) led to poor health and a reduction in the length of life because corn is deficient in both a source of protein and a vegetable. In the South, a system of fatback, molasses and corn among the poor has resulted in large outbreaks of pellagra, which resulted in suffering and even death. In the North, the former meat and potatoes diet that I was raised, was too dependent on meat does not contain enough vegetables and fruits and vegetables rarely included. Fortunately, Mother whom we provided the children with raw vegetables and fruit as snacks. The Common South that I have encountered in 50 years included more legumes (a healthy choice) and vegetables, but vegetables are all too cooked with animal fat have been added or breaded and fried in fat, and the beans are cooked in fat as well, then they were served with fries and meat fried corn. Because of this scheme and a lack of exercise, the South has the highest rate of obesity, heart disease, stroke and type II diabetes in the nation. By the way, there is no food in these schemes which is "bad", the diets are unbalanced. In 1974, the average American eats 250 pounds of meat, much more than is necessary or even desirable for good health, which included meat much more protein than necessary and many pounds of saturated fat.
Fast food and junk food

The diets have changed since then and seem to be lighter and more healthy. Unfortunately, they are not generally better. The fast-food and junk-food scheme which has replaced the meat and potatoes and cornpone diet contains too much salt, which raises blood pressure, and too much cholesterol and saturated fat, which increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and cancer. But even worse, the common system of America is weak in many substances that lead to a longer life and better health. You can deny that the American regime is so bad, if so, compare your choices to quickstop, fast-food, restaurant and supermarket to the suggestions I make below. In just a few parts of the country do I find good choice for a brief stop, and I rarely find a balanced meal in a restaurant, let alone a meal that is low in salt and fat. The only fast-food choices that I never take Burrito are the beans and vegetable sandwich, and the Burrito is rich in salt. If I can finally go to a good meal in a supermarket, unless it is a small shop in most regions of the country, against the majority of space is given to foods that are not good for health. A national survey (cited in the PDR) confirms my observations. On a given day more than half the population of the USA do not eat a single vegetable or fruit or drink fruit juices. And fewer than one in ten eats the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables.
Vitamins Do not solve the problem?

People are actually more likely to take vitamin pills that eating properly. However, since we do not even know yet all necessary and useful nutrients found in foods, nor the exact amounts given, using vitamin pills can lead to shortages and overdoses. Vitamins, at least, lack the fiber and phytochemicals found in food.
What is a poor diet?

The most significant "nutrients" in fast food and junk diets are saturated fat, sugar and salt. The hamburger and fries combination is a typical example of fast food. The red meat in the hamburger is rich in fat, cholesterol and salt. The chips are also heavy with fat and salt. The only vegetables with meals are a little lettuce, onion rings, a slice of pickle, ketchup and whatever used. The pickle and ketchup are also rich in salt. The combo includes a soft drink that not all nutrients. This meal can provide up to half of its daily caloric needs while meeting or exceeding the maximum recommended amount of salt, fat and cholesterol while providing little fiber, vitamins and other important nutrients needed for good health. Malbouffe - usually snacks - are even worse. In addition to being very rich in calories, saturated fat and salt, they often give rise to some nutrients and few fibers.
What a healthy diet?

With little difficulty and without extra cost, it is possible to transform a poor diet in a healthy. A healthy diet will be very tasteful way.

I have a regime that is both inexpensive and very healthy. The most important foods in my diet are grains and starches (bread, rice, pancakes, pasta and potatoes), providing complex carbohydrates, unsaturated fats, fiber, protein, iron, thiamine, niacin and riboflavin. Vegetables are the second largest (onions, carrots, celery, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, black olives and), providing fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and monosaturated fat (olives). Arrive in the third fruit (bananas, apples, plums, grape juice, berries, pears and oranges), providing carbohydrates and fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals. Fruits and vegetables overlap to some extent, so I eat more fruit when vegetables are less available and vice versa. Sources of protein are less important (supply of cereals in fact most of my protein), although these foods also provide important vitamins and minerals. My best sources is almost the reverse of the People. Beans (legumes) came first (low in saturated fat and cholesterol, high in other nutrients), low-fat dairy products seconds (calcium and low fat or cholesterol), fish and fruit Sea-thirds (of omega-3 oils and calcium, but also cholesterol), eggs fourth (high in cholesterol and fat), chicken and fifth (less than cholestrol, but more fat, even after the abolition of all that I can). If I was ready to eat beef, pork and other red meat, they would be sixth (high in cholesterol and saturated fat), meat and organ last (very high cholesterol). However, to avoid being a hypocrite, I must stress that I am currently legumes eat much less often that I recommend and chicken more often. Actually, I'm eating as follows: pulses (about twice a week), dairy (a little every day), fish (two or three times a week), eggs (one per day) and chicken (two or three times a week). Finally, I use some candy, soft drinks and honey, which are not necessary. This study has helped me improve my diet, which I will explain at the end.
Why I will not eat much meat

Although not related to the health effects of diet, I think I should explain why I will not eat beef, pork, or the flesh of other mammals. Thanks to the experience with cats and dogs, I became aware that most animals have thoughts and feelings and their own personality. It is true that they are fairly stupid compared to us, in many respects, but we do not eat people stupid. In recent years, I have vacillated between eating meat and a vegetarian diet, but after working milking cows in 1971, I realized that cows have personalities like dogs and cats, if I resign eating meat from mammals for good. However, I am not everybody and shouting people about what they eat is a matter of conscience. It was just my good fortune that, by not eating pork and beef, I was myself for the creation of a healthy diet, not only by reducing saturated fat in my diet, but also by eat more grains, starches and vegetables.
It is a mistake or an error not to eat meat?

Having learned that I do not eat red meat at all embarrassed many people a lot. I have even been told by conservative Christians that it is morally unacceptable for me not to eat meat. In fact, Saint-Paul defends vegetarians (see Romans 14), and the book of Daniel recommends a vegetarian diet (1:5-16). There are many Christians vegetarians. Nutritional, there is no need substance found in red meat, which is not found in other foods, and vitamin B12 is the only nutrient that must come from animal sources (except it is found in some seaweed and algae). Our emphasis on meat not only leads to a heart attack, stroke and cancer but also reduce our food production (16 pounds of grain are needed to make a pound of beef) and adds to global warming ( Because of compensation for timber and pasture increase feed, and because the animals produce methane, a greenhouse gas). Why red meat is the staple food? There are several possible causes. Since the powerful and the rich have always eaten a lot of red meat (because they could afford it), we tend to associate with success. The same association is more than eat by a powerful animal, especially its organs, becomes more powerful. We see these two causes acting today, because of the wealth and power of the USA, young people in other parts of the world are adapting our clothes and our food in the hope that they to make them more efficient, which often leads to poor nutrition. A third cause for eating red meat is also very high: a diet rich in meat is rich in fat. If a high-fat diet is unhealthy for those who have a lot of food, those short on calories, by choosing high-fat foods would result in more energy. In a recent study, which I heard on the radio, rats given a choice between a high fat and lean preferred that the diet rich in fat diet, even if the rats on a lean diet were much healthier.
The USDA food pyramid

The type of food I eat is not just something that I think it is not a diet. Although a simple diet based on cereals, vegetables and fruit was called for thousands of years, the wisdom of its use has been tested by solid work and recent research is supported by medical authorities. The USDA Food Pyramid illustrates a healthy diet similar to mine. References to the number of servings below are based on diets from 1600 to 2800 calories per day, the lowest calories for sedentary women and the elderly who should receive the smallest amount of servings listed below, and the highest calories is for adolescents, active men and very active women, who should receive the greatest amount of servings listed below.

According to the USDA Food Pyramid, bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, cereals and should constitute most of our calories, about six to eleven servings (this does not mean six major plates, but six tranches ounces , Or half cups). The complex carbohydrates in these foods provide the best source of energy for physical activity. The whole grain foods such as brown rice and whole wheat, are preferable because they provide more nutrients and fiber.

We need to eat three to five servings of vegetables per day. A portion would be a half-cup of cooked or chopped vegetables or a cup of leafy vegetables. Pulses include vegetables and potatoes, even if the pulses are listed with the meat and (food legumes have advantages of both groups) and potatoes are listed with the grain as well. Corn is also part of vegetables and cereals.

The pyramid calls that we eat two to four servings of fruit each day. Each portion is a unique fruit size or half a large piece of fruit (grapefruit) or a corner of a wider track (or cantaloupe melon) or a half-cup of berries or a quarter cup of dried fruit.

Dairy products are included separately in the pyramid, and two to three servings per day are recommended. A portion would be a cup of milk or one and a half ounces of cheese. For me, this is an excess of recommendation for these products, because of pressure from the dairy industry. There are other sources of calcium fine. Cheese should be eaten in moderation, because it is rich in fat.

For meat, the recommendation is two or three servings per day, but the recommendation is for lean meat, the amount only two and a half to three ounces (very small portions), and legumes, poultry, fish, nuts and eggs are regarded as of equal value to red meat.

It is also important to pay attention to the little food supplements and beverages, which add considerably to May calories without adding value to food. For example, a salad can be a high fat, high-calorie foods when served with a lot of bad dressing. The food pyramid suggests we use sugar and fat in moderation.
The Mediterranean food pyramid

All nutritionists disagree with the food pyramid. The Harvard School of Public Health and the World Health Organization, among others, support Mediterranean Food Pyramid, which is also the same, but is firmly beans, other legumes, nuts and fruit and between vegetables (consumption) and suggests a lesser use of meat products. The red meat is not recommended more than a few times (and a total of more than 16 ounces) per month. In this regime (as opposed to my own list), cheese and yogurt are preferred to fish, poultry and eggs is preferred. The scheme has also been the olive oil oil of choice. In addition, food recommends a moderate daily consumption of wine. However, recent research shows that red grape juice has all the benefits of wine without the dangers of alcoholism.
Dangerous substances and nutrients beneficial

To explain the value of these schemes, I think it makes sense for me to list dangerous and beneficial substances in our food, their value and their sources:
Carbohydrates

Although those who preach carbo-down schemes like to claim that carbohydrates are evil, the truth is that they are our best source of energy and building blocks of life on earth. The simple sugars found in fruits give instant energy while complex carbohydrates in cereals, starchy vegetables, some fruits and provide stable energy during the day. Since carbohydrates are burned up quickly enough, we find ourselves need to eat frequently to restore them.
Proteins

Many people think it is great danger of not getting enough protein. In fact, the lack of proteins is fairly rare, and the human body needs only a small amount, the USDA says we need only 50 grams per day. Excess protein is not stored, but is transformed into fat, the process of creating a strain on the liver and kidneys. The proteins are found not only in red meat, chicken, fish, milk and eggs, but also in legumes, nuts, seeds, grains and some green vegetables. The strict vegetarians need to plan their diet, like most animal sources have reduced the amounts of some essential amino acids and must be combined with complementary sources of protein. An excellent source of information to that effect is food for a small planet by Frances Moore Lappé. However, I will briefly add that many traditional combinations throughout the world, such as peanut butter and bread (USA), bread and cheese (France and Italy), beans and maize (Mexico), lentils and rice (India), rice and beans (CARICOM), and soybeans with rice (China).
Fats

People often believe that all fats are bad for you. This is not true. Fats are complicated chemicals that are used long-term energy storage, which helps protect the body and blood, and wearing the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. The main problem with fat is that most of us eat too much of them, resulting in cases of obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, and perhaps even cancer (not a direct link been established, but countries with high consumption of fat have higher rates of breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer). Our real needs fat is low, that our body can produce proteins and carbohydrates, and we should not eat a heavy in fat. Unfortunately, some people get up to half their calories as fat, and the average diet is 35% fat. It would be unrealistic and undesirable to eliminate all fat from our diet, but it is important to reduce fat, particularly those which cause fat to the greatest number of problems in order to reduce weight and reduce the risk of blockage of the arteries.

The second biggest problem is that we consume too much fat bad. Saturated fats are more dangerous for all the reasons given above, plus raise cholesterol. They are found in meat, whole milk, ice cream, butter, cheese, coconut and palm oils and egg yolks. They are usually added to junk food. Hydrogenated fats (sometimes called trans fatty acids) are unsaturated fats that have been converted by chemical processes (partially saturated) to make margarine and shortening. They seem to have the same health risks as saturated fats. These fats are commonly added to breads, pastries, crackers, peanut butter and improve the texture.

It is beneficial fats. Polyunsaturated fats, found in corn, soybean, safflower, sunflower and oil, are partially beneficial because they help reduce cholesterol. We should use these fats to replace saturated fats and hydrogenated fats whenever possible. Omega-3 oils, found only in fatty fish at sea, help prevent hardening of the arteries and help prevent blood clots. We must eat fish every week for that reason. Mono-unsaturated fats, especially olive oil, but also in peanut oil and carnola, have been proven to reduce heart problems. The olive oil should be used whenever possible to replace the butter, margarine and other fats and oils.
Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a substance necessary for our body, our body, but all the products we need. It is found in all foods of animal and plant foods. Organ meat has the highest level, and egg yolks ranks second. Top of saturated fat raises indirectly cholesterol while exercise is beneficial. Excess cholesterol layers arteries, causing heart attacks and stroke debilitating. There are two forms of cholesterol and LDL (the most common) is causing all the problems while HDL seems to be useful. De nos jours, même les enfants ont parfois des taux de cholestérol élevé dû à un régime alimentaire de la malbouffe.
De sodium (principalement de sel)

Chlorure de sodium est utilisé pour réguler la pression à l'intérieur des cellules, et elle est utilisée pour faire l'acidité de l'estomac. Une consommation excessive de sel entraîne une rétention excessive d'eau et l'hypertension artérielle. Américains moyenne de 12 grammes par jour, ce qui est de cinq fois le montant recommandé, dont la plupart est ajouté à l'alimentation avant de l'obtenir. Il n'est pas nécessaire de toujours utiliser une salière pour l'achat de produits alimentaires transformés, tels que les aliments offre 75% du sodium dans le régime alimentaire américain. En fait, je n'ai jamais acheté de sel dans ma vie, et j'entends toujours trop dans mon alimentation.
Les minéraux

De potassium, calcium, fer, iode, magnésium, le zinc et le cuivre sont considérés comme nécessaires à une bonne santé. Ils peuvent tous être prises à l'excès, mais cela ne se produirait pas d'un régime alimentaire normal. Autres mai minéraux nécessaires en très petites quantités, mais ne l'ont pas été attribué une valeur quotidienne par l'USDA. De potassium (ainsi que de sodium) permet de réguler la pression de cellules. Il est aussi utilisé par le cœur, le cerveau, les reins, les muscles et les nerfs. On le trouve dans les fruits, légumes, noix, le lait, les légumineuses et les céréales. Le calcium est utilisé pour faire des os et des dents et empêche également les crampes musculaires. On le trouve dans les produits laitiers, les sardines, légumes-feuilles, les fruits à coque, et le soja. Le fer est utilisé dans le sang et dans les muscles. Il se trouve dans le pain enrichi, pruneaux, noix, œufs, les légumineuses et les grains entiers. L'iode est utilisé par la glande thyroïde, les cellules, de la peau, les cheveux et les ongles. Les produits de la mer, graines de tournesol, sel de table iodé sont des sources. Le magnésium est utilisé par les os, dents, les nerfs et les muscles, et il aide à contrôler le métabolisme du corps. Sources de poissons et de fruits de mer, des fruits, des légumes-feuilles, produits laitiers, les fruits à coque, et le soya. Le zinc est utilisé dans les enzymes, ARN, ADN, et dans les globules rouges. On le trouve dans les viandes, fruits de mer, œufs, lait, des graines, des tournesols et des grains entiers. Cuivre aide l'organisme à utiliser le fer. Il vient de noix, certaines céréales, miel, fruits de mer et certains.
Les vitamines nécessaires

Les vitamines sont soit soluble dans l'eau ou liposolubles. Les vitamines solubles dans l'eau est évacuée du système très rapidement et doit être normalement dans l'alimentation tous les jours.

Vitamine A ou rétinol est une vitamines liposolubles, que le corps peut produire de bêta-carotène. Il réglemente développement des cellules, les os et les dents de la croissance, aide à protéger le corps contre la maladie, et elle est essentielle à la vision de nuit. Il (ou bêta-carotène) se trouve dans les fruits et légumes, en particulier les carottes, les patates douces, brocoli, épinards, tomates, courges et de type de légumes. Bien que liposoluble, il est nécessaire chaque jour. En 2001, le montant recommandé est doublé.

Vitamine B1 ou thiamine est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui aide à fournir à l'organisme l'énergie. Bien que très commune dans l'alimentation, l'alcool fait obstacle à son utilisation, ce qui entraîne des carences. La thiamine est trouvée dans les grains entiers, les graines, le soja, les légumineuses, la viande et le saumon.

Vitamine B2 ou riboflavine est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui aide à la production d'énergie et aide les cellules de respirer et d'éliminer les déchets. De bonnes sources sont les produits laitiers, poulet, organe viandes, légumes-feuilles, les grains et les noix.

Vitamine B3 ou niacine est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui aide à la production d'énergie, la synthèse d'ADN, de la transformation de matières grasses, et l'élimination des déchets à partir des cellules. On le trouve dans les viandes, fruits de mer, volailles, les arachides, la levure, et les graines de tournesol.

Vitamine B5 ou acide pantothénique est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui aide à la production d'énergie. On le trouve dans les viandes, oeufs, céréales à grains entiers, les légumineuses et les noix.

Vitamine B6 ou pyridoxine est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui aide à la transformation des aliments, la production d'énergie, et la croissance des cellules. Il se trouve dans les fruits de mer, produits laitiers, viandes, abats et les œufs.

Vitamine B9 ou acide folique est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui est essentielle à la production de l'ARN et l'ADN et est particulièrement important dans la production de globules rouges. Il est trouvée dans les légumes-feuilles - en particulier le brocoli, épinards, la laitue et - et dans les fruits, les céréales et les légumineuses.

Vitamine B12 ou cobalamine est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui aide à la combustion des graisses et des glucides, la fonction du système nerveux, et la croissance des cellules. Cette vitamine se trouve dans les fruits de mer, produits laitiers, des viandes et des oeufs, mais il n'est pas trouvée dans les sources végétales, à l'exception de varech. Bien que soluble dans l'eau, B12 n'est pas nécessaire tous les jours, en fait, les adultes peuvent passer des années sans lui. Néanmoins, les végétariens stricts, en particulier les enfants, nécessité de prendre des suppléments de B12.

Vitamine C ou acide ascorbique est une vitamine hydrosoluble qui aide à la production de tissus conjonctifs et le fonctionnement des globules rouges et qui fonctionne aussi comme un anti-oxydant. Sources plupart des fruits et beaucoup de légumes. Le montant recommandé a récemment doublé.

Vitamine D ou cholécalciférol est un vitamines liposolubles utilisés pour la formation du tissu osseux. La principale source est la lumière du soleil, mais il est aussi trouvée dans le lait fortifié et les produits de la pêche.

La vitamine E ou alpha-tocophérol est un vitamines liposolubles organisme qui protège les membranes de l'oxydation. On le trouve dans les huiles végétales, les noix, blé entier, et certains fruits et légumes.
Anti-oxydants

Une nouvelle valeur d'aliments qui est encore l'objet de recherches réside dans la fourniture anti-oxydants vitamines et les produits chimiques. L'oxydation (ou de brûlure) dans le corps n'est pas une seule étape, et dans de mauvaises conditions, la mauvaise molécules mai obtenir oxydées, qui peuvent endommager les cellules, favorisent les maladies cardiaques, cataractes forme d'aide, d 'accroître le risque de la maladie d'Alzheimer, et même promouvoir le cancer. Ces problèmes augmentent lorsque une personne fume ou qui est exposée à la pollution de l'air, boit de l'alcool excessive, ou est trop rayonnement solaire. En raison de la pollution de l'air et la perte d'ozone dans la haute atmosphère (ironiquement, trop d'ozone au niveau du sol est une forme de pollution de l'air), les problèmes causés par les radicaux libres ont augmenté . Les vitamines A, C et E et bêta-carotène ont été détectées propriétés anti-oxydantes. Certains de ces composés phytochimiques ci-dessous également le processus d'aide et de la recherche vient de commencer.
Phytochimiques

Une autre découverte, c'est que certains aliments contiennent des produits chimiques qui contribuent à la lutte contre le cancer et accomplir d'autres fonctions en bonne santé à l'intérieur du corps. La recherche est seulement au début étapes, mais les substances suivantes ont été identifiées: P-coumaric acide et l'acide chlorogénique se trouvent dans les tomates, les carottes, les fraises et autres fruits et légumes. Sulforaphane, l'isothiocyanate, et divers indoles se trouvent dans le brocoli, choux de Bruxelles, chou, chou, et d'autres crucifères. Sulfures d'allyle se trouvent dans les oignons et l'ail. Les flavonoïdes sont trouvés dans les tomates, poivrons, de l'igname, le soja, les carottes et d'autres aliments. The discovery of these nutrients is just another argument for a diet of grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes.
Fiber

Fiber is not a food and is not digested by the body; however, it has been shown to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Most Americans consume only half of the fiber they need. Soluble fiber (that is, fiber absorbed by body fluids) is the most beneficial. It softens stool and helps with bowl movements, and it moderates glucose and cholesterol levels in the blood. It is found in legumes, whole grains, apples and pears, and many vegetables, including crucifers and carrots. Insoluble fiber passes through the body unchanged and can help prevent constipation and diverticulosis. It is found in nuts, seeds, brown rice, unpeeled vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and fruit.
How Can a Busy Cyclist Get a Good Diet?

Different people have different reasons for not being able to make changes in their diet. Here are three possible life scenarios and improvements for them plus the problem encountered on a day trip by bicycle:

Scenario One: You'd like to improve your diet but unfortunately you're tied to your mother's/wife's/daughter's (or father's/husband's/son's) cooking or you belong to a meal plan. While you can't make great changes, you still have good opportunities. The best thing to do in this situation is to supplement by adding fruits and vegetables as snacks. A few apples, bananas, oranges, carrots, and/or celery sticks each day can improve your diet greatly. In addition while at the table, you can select smaller portions of meat and larger helpings of other foods. And don't use the salt shaker at all.

Scenario Two: You'd like to change, but unfortunately you are stuck with a fast-food lifestyle due to your job, which you can't give up right now. Well, not every fast-food restaurant is equally bad, and almost all will provide you a list of the nutrients (and fat and salt) in their meals. So, look them over and pick the healthiest meals or, if they don't have such a guide, pick the meals with the least meat and the most grains, legumes, and vegetables. Many of these places offer salads. Again, adding a late-night fruit or vegetable snack after you get home (or back to the motel) will make a major difference.

Scenario Three: You cook all your own meals, but you feel no desire to get rid of your favorite foods in order to go vegetarian. Actually, it would be a mistake to plunge full-force into a radically different diet. Instead, make one change at a time, looking to increase the amount of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes that you eat while reducing the amount of meat. Experiment with recipes and don't force yourself (or your family) to eat foods you don't like.

The One-Day Bike Trip: The problem is that it is extremely hard to find suitable foods in a country store. One solution would to be to pack a lunch before you leave, or if that is too much trouble, just carry along some fruit and/or vegetable snacks. Another is to look for the vegetable and fruit drinks where you eat. Finally, you might be able to stop at a supermarket somewhere instead of at the quick stop, and there you'll have a better selection. Roadside food markets are another option, when available. Although normally selling in quantities, the vendors will be glad to sell a few pieces of fruit or some tomatoes to you.
A Healthy Attitude Towards a Healthy Diet

Remember when looking for a better diet that this isn't original sin that you're having to deal with. A little straying from the fold is not going to send you straight to hell. If one day you eat something that is too high in fat, salt, or cholesterol, you have been hurt extremely little. In fact, it might be good to even plan some "vice" into the diet for variety and spice. However, don't fool yourself into believing you have a healthy diet when you don't. It's true that some people eat a lousy diet all their lives while smoking and drinking and still get to live to a ripe old age. But why play life with the cards stacked against you? You can't change your heredity, but you can improve your odds. So, take the light approach to changing your food lifestyle, but don't forget to change. The heart attack/stroke/cancer you prevent will be your own.

In writing this, I became aware of some improvements that I could make in my own diet. I have started eating brown rice again (I quite eating it when the flavor became too strong, but it doesn't seem strong now), I am eating lentils and sardines more often than I was, I have replaced my hydrogenated peanut butter with natural , I found low-fat graham crackers to replace the white ones (they taste better too), and, on my daily bike trip, I am buying at least one juice instead of a soft drink.

AFTERWORD: Since I wrote the above, I have given up eating chicken! It happened this way: I told a farmer friend that most people were hypocrites because they would eat food that they were unwilling to kill. My friend wanted to convince me that it was OK to eat pork as he sometimes invites me to dinner, and his logic was that if he convinced me that I was unwilling to kill a chicken that I would then have no scruples about eating pork, a logic that was utterly false. As it happened, he had been raising some chickens from when they were small, and these chickens would come to me to get me to overturn some rocks or boards, so they could hunt for food underneath. He picked up one of the chickens, now half-grown, held it upside down, and asked me to break its neck, and I would get the meat to take home. It was an unfair test, as it would have been much easier for me to kill a strange chicken with a weapon than to kill a familar chicken with my bare hands. I could not do it, but I could not go back to eating chicken again, a result he had not planned on. Dropping chicken from my diet has got my waist and weight back to the ideal amount. I have also been eating sardines more often, but I have been unable to increase the frequency with which I eat bean