From: Earl Evleth on
On 31/01/10 13:41, in article vbuam5h005ae58fqjo4plfhlv823d48svq(a)4ax.com,
"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>> Golf did not seem like that much exercise, except the long
>> walk.
>
> I've never played it, but I get the impression that the actual swing requires
> that one be in reasonable shape, because it moves a lot of muscles and joints
> through a wide arc.

but taking the Golf cart does nothing, exercise-wise

From: Earl Evleth on
On 31/01/10 13:44, in article hnuam59df2lo9osvu5cosll6ps0jh32rbb(a)4ax.com,
"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>> If you ask me, cereal serves one and only one purpose: fattening up cattle.
>
> Cereals are the most important staple foods in the world, for human beings.
> Rice, wheat, corn ... most of the world lives on these.


without sugar. They have fiber but the energy content is mostly carbs,
which are merely complex sugars.

From: Earl Evleth on
On 31/01/10 13:46, in article hsuam5pr7q2pepch45hma44vlgkk6sroi9(a)4ax.com,
"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It is the same for me in the industrialized world. I'm continually amazed by
> how much money buying groceries consumes.

We buy expensive food, I got a duck and half a kilo of veal for today
and tomorrow, that was 43 euros. We also less less expensively
but those items are expensive in France.

From: Mxsmanic on
Earl Evleth writes:

> without sugar. They have fiber but the energy content is mostly carbs,
> which are merely complex sugars.

I haven't had too many rice or corn dishes with sugar in them in the developed
world, either.
From: Mxsmanic on
John Rennie writes:

> I'm surprised at that. Generally in the western world anyway
> food has become cheaper and cheaper

Not in the past few years. The trend is going the other way.