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From: John Rennie on 31 Jan 2010 16:16 Mxsmanic wrote: > Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) writes: > >> Complex carbs take longer to digest, giving you energy over a >> longer period. When backpacking, I'd avoid the simple surgars until >> the end when I needed quick short term energy for the final push. > > All carbohydrates are digested very rapidly. Fats and proteins take much more > time and do not produce the massive spikes in blood glucose that carbohydrate > loads can produce. It can stun a poster but the fact is that Bill is sometimes 'on the ball'. He is here. Not all carbohydrates are digested very rapidly. The ones that have a high GI (Glycemic Index) are but the ones that have a low GI are not. Those are the ones that fill you up and that it is not necessary to eat too much of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
From: John Rennie on 31 Jan 2010 16:22 Mxsmanic wrote: > John Rennie writes: > >> Is obesity that much of a problem anyway? Won't it help >> to kill off this ageing population that might overwhelm >> us? Or will the problems connected with obesity overwhelm >> us even before ageing does. > > Obesity isn't just a problem of old people. > >> Which brings me to a very pressing problem facing the >> Health Service in the UK. Should very obese people requiring >> stomach reduction surgery take precedence over others >> requiring urgent operations? They are even being actively >> encouraged to put on even more weight to jump the queue. >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/21/obesity-weight-loss-surgery >> >> I'm inclined to think we should make these operations >> be paid for privately anyway. The patients condition >> is, after all, self inflicted. I bet Bill agrees with >> me on this one unless of course he's in the queue. > > If the UK had a working public health system, there would be no queues, and > this problem wouldn't arise. Yes well - we would need a socialist government before that happens and we haven't had one since 1951.
From: John Rennie on 31 Jan 2010 16:34 Magda wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:53:48 +0000, in rec.travel.europe, "Bill Bonde {Colourless green > ideas don't sleep furiously)" <tribuyltinafpant(a)yahoo.co.uk> arranged some electrons, so > they looked like this: > > ... You sound like you may have an eating disorder. Someone who is "all > ... skin and bones" and then swears off a food that caused them to > ... "gain[] a pound" is a bit off. > > I was ten years old, stupid. Your mother must be utterly ashamed of having produced such a > brainless child. You are an abusive person aren't you, Magda? I think Bill's response was perfectly reasonable whether you were 10 or 40 years old when you forswore cereals. You were all skin and bone and you put on a whole pound in weight which took you a month to gain. It was a strange reaction > > > ===== > It sounds much better in French, but then, everything does.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 11:00 Mxsmanic wrote: > > Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) writes: > > > They found no evidence that runners were more likely to have > > injuries in those areas that people claim they are more likely to > > be hurt in. I've heard this before and from other studies. The > > problem is if you hurt your knee, let's say playing a sport, and > > that damage gets worse over time. A normal knee can take running. > > It's the stress that is important for the bones. This is why > > running (or backpacking I suspect) are important. > > Fine. Go ahead and jog. I'll pass. > > > It's well known that people who aren't too skinny tend to live > > longer. > > Unusually skinny people die younger, but so do unusually fat people. > But that's what the studies show, that being obese is unhealthy, but having a little more fat than what is supposedly ideal actually seems to correlate to longer life on average. I've explained one possible mechanism. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 31 Jan 2010 17:03
Reminds me of the pizza promotion that McD's had in Canada nearly 20 years ago. Cheeze pizza: $2.49 Pepperoni pizza: $2.79 Special - This Month Only! Pepperoni Pizza $2.19 (no discount on plain cheese.) My vegetarian friend discovered that he could get the discount by ordering the pepperoni pizza, "hold the pepperoni". -- K. Lang may your lum reek. |