Today is our 24th anniversary! So excited and happy to be able to play outside… what a way to celebrate an anniversary!
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Our 24th anniversary →
Five simple rules →
Five simple rules for happiness:
~ unknown
1. Free your heart from hatred
2. Free your mind from worries
3. Live simply
4. Give more
5. Expect less
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Metabolism and ketosis →
If you read any medical school biochemistry textbook, you’ll find a section devoted to what happens metabolically during starvation. If you read these sections with a knowing eye, you’ll realize that everything discussed as happening during starvation happens during carbohydrate restriction as well. There have been a few papers published recently showing the same thing: the metabolism of carb restriction = the metabolism of starvation. I would maintain, however, based on my study of the Paleolithic diet, that starvation and carb restriction are simply the polar ends of a continuum, and that carb restriction was the norm for most of our existence as upright walking beings on this planet, making the metabolism of what biochemistry textbook authors call starvation the ‘normal’ metabolism.
~ Michael Eades from, «http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ketones-and-ketosis/metabolism-and-ketosis/»
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Stop. Right. Now. →
Our brains are the most bug ridden pieces of junk since Internet Explorer.
To replicate one common bug, try telling your brain to “go to the gym”. Most brains will respond by updating their Facebook status, and watching cat videos. This is not the desired behaviour.
~ Oliver Emberton from, Our brains are the most bug ridden pieces of junk since Internet Explorer.
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The forsaken art of pedagogy →
In other words, you actually belong to a wider group: you are one of the increasingly commonplace factions of society that takes pride in not bothering to make yourself understood. You feel entitled to let others worry about what you really mean, and even revel in the tribalism of `being in the know’ rather than letting others into your secret world, as if playing the role of an ignorant tourist in a foreign country.
~ Mark Burgess from, The Forsaken Art of Pedagogy
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Lofty goals (part two) →
The difficulty, for we who seek it, is that as an art does grow and change this jewel can become harder to find in the confusion, the noise and the bright lights. Indeed, it can become so buried that newer generations, new audiences, who never experienced the idea in its raw form, may not even know it exists. That, to me, seems a great shame as that rough-hewn gem at its heart is the real gift of parkour – or indeed of any good art-form.
~ Dan Edwardes from, The Athletic Philosophy
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Spring! →
Sun is out… just sayin’
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Motivation →
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!
~ unknown
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Organ Pipes (aug 29) →
We picked Organ Pipes to be our last climb on Lumpy Ridge. This was our last day in Estes Park Colorado. We had been camping just inside the Rocky Mountain National Park at the Aspen Glen campground and it was a short drive to the Lumpy Ridge parking area.
As we approached the parking area, the Twin Owls are impossible to miss. They look exactly like two roosting owls. Below them, just in front of them, is a light colored triangle of rock. It actually took us a bit of hiking around to find our climb. But as we drove away, we realized Organ Pipes is tucked in the shadow, just to the left of the big triangle of light-colored rock. When we reached the top of the climb, we were at the base of the Owls.
(more…)Inflammation and intermittent fasting →
These posts, particularly the one on inflammation, inspired a host of questions on whether intermittent fasting decreases inflammation. Based on my knowledge of the medical literature on inflammation and intermittent fasting I’m pretty sure that it does. A recent paper presents data indicating that it indeed does.
The April 2007 issue of Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism includes an article on the positive changes in inflammatory markers brought about by the intermittent fasting Muslims undergo during Ramadan.
~ Michael Eades from, «http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/intermittent-fasting/inflammation-and-intermittent-fasting/»
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