Did you know, that, right now, there is some place on the planet, (probably only one?) where the temperature and pressure is exactly the same as it is at that place's antipodal point?

For those of us who are convinced that you need to exercise old brains to ward off dementia youtube is pretty good. Can't say my head's around the proof of this one but at least it's getting a workout.

Thinking too hard gives you the munchies though. You're risking a death by something food related before you get completely overrun by dementia.

Sex Drugs and Rocking Roll, Mick Jagger still living his best life.

Chris_M said..
I think I'll take up vaping

I tried smoking but it was too much effort

I was skeptical when I was reading that 'someone' was worried that vaping was going to see an increase in the number of kids that are 'smoking'. After seeing a few people vaping at the ski fields, I wonder if there might be some truth to this?

Is it about replacing smoking with something else to help quit, or something that makes them feel special? I think some people definitely have the need to stand out, so I wonder if this is what I saw down there?

yeh the youth today - I tell ya! There was so much less unhealthy choices like smoking for the Baby boomer and X generation... They are so much healthier than our over stimulated youth.... Really?? Come on...nearly every one who breathed did smoke in the 70s and 80s and the advertising was definitely centered around being "cool". N one chewed on nico' gum nor took energy drinks, but they smashed down a packet or more of winie Reds every day.

FormulaNova said..

Chris_M said..
I think I'll take up vaping

I tried smoking but it was too much effort

I was skeptical when I was reading that 'someone' was worried that vaping was going to see an increase in the number of kids that are 'smoking'. After seeing a few people vaping at the ski fields, I wonder if there might be some truth to this?

Is it about replacing smoking with something else to help quit, or something that makes them feel special? I think some people definitely have the need to stand out, so I wonder if this is what I saw down there?

I don't even smoke, but I heard vaping was healthy.


If that doesnt work I'll try replacing pizza with fruits

Harrow said..

FormulaNova said..
I was skeptical when I was reading that 'someone' was worried that vaping was going to see an increase in the number of kids that are 'smoking'. After seeing a few people vaping at the ski fields, I wonder if there might be some truth to this?

Is it about replacing smoking with something else to help quit, or something that makes them feel special? I think some people definitely have the need to stand out, so I wonder if this is what I saw down there?

A few of the young engineers at work vap. I think it's a combination of doing something trendy, but they also used to add a small amount of nicotine to the mix, so it's also partly influenced by the energy drink/coffee/Berocca culture about being a high performing young professional. Better than copping the bad side of cigarettes I guess. There was one young girl that used to come to her desk in the morning with a can of Vee and her double shot coffee, while chewing a piece of nicorette gum (she's never smoked). Gotta hand it to the marketing guys, they've obviously done their job well.

Wow, a V and a double shot coffee.. and nicorette gum! Crazy. I wonder what she was trying to counteract with all that?

I don't mind V, and I don't mind coffee, but I would be all jittery over the place with that load.

I think if you are pursuing a healthy lifestyle it has to be a whole intrinsically motivated lifestyle choice, not just an unfit sedentary person who reads a David Goggins book then runs 20km and winds up injured or never does exercise again, that won't cut it.

Also, you must define what you call fitness and what your goals or target sport/ability is. A person at the peak fitness in one sport would be considered useless in another;depends what your goals are.

I have left surfing and pursued distance running as passionately as I can. For me, fitness is converting air (aerobic) into the most efficient and fastest forward movement I can for prolonged time. By sport standards, I'm acutely slow. Even surfing, I've lost that much upper body strength it is much harder to paddle onto waves. It all depends what your goals are.

Anyway, by pursuing an outcome and adapting over time you become supremely fit in your given field. If I'd have to choose, I'd say a healthy choice is a little bit of everything; doing what I've done, is not healthy overall. Then again, it depends if you want to be the best in your field or live in the twilight of mediocrity across many disciplines.

90kgs??? 100kgs+++++OMG 100cm or more around the waist ????? OBEEEESE
Over 100kgs and over 100cm waste.. morbidly obeeeese. Sound scary?? It is, soooo many morbidly obese people that don't realize or think they aren't ?????? Wake up people
Time for healthy choices, lifestyle changes to avoid early death, diabetes and strain on the already stressed health system.
Get off the computer, put down your beer and get moving.......NOW

Cool, there is now a link, and for what its worth, I agree, that its probably true that nutrient levels are falling.

So, do you eat enough vegetables to get enough nutrients? Even with the falling levels, most people probably do, but couldn't you make it up with a multivitamin anyway if you were malnourished?

Hardly a conspiracy though. What would be gained by this? Cheaper food? I suspect the rate of malnourishment in the USA is not very high, if you remove from the data set the people that are intentionally not feeding their kids correctly.

If it was a conspiracy, you would have to nominate the intent and how they are doing it. From what it reads, they are just using GMO to increase food production. Hardly a conspiracy. It would make more sense if they used GMO to reduce food production.

petermac33 said..
87 kg average male and 72 kg for women and climbing every year.

Rarely see a 50 kg women anymore.

www.smh.com.au/healthcare/weight-surge-in-young-australians-sees-7-in-10-overweight-or-obese-20181212-p50lvu.html

I'm missing the point. What are you trying to say? That vegetables now don't have nutrients and at the same time that people are getting obese?

How does that work? Is it normal to get obese without nutrients?

www.sott.net/article/420003-The-Australia-first-study-Alcohol-causes-most-overall-harm-of-any-drug

Stay away from food packaged in plastic.


www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/6577664/Chemicals-in-plastics-feminising-baby-boys-says-study.html

Simpler explanation is higher water content in the veggies due to supermarkets priority of good appearance and a bit less water loss in transport from farm to shop.

Tomatoes from Coles or WW basically have next to no taste.

Eat a organic one and you will taste what a tomato tasted like 30 years ago.

Of course they also tells us organic food is no healthier than pesticide infested crops.

Most up of us have had our health seriously comprised by big corporate agriculture methods.

Watch the documentary Food Inc.

True that. I worked/ traveled the fruit/ veggie picking seasons in my younger years. Riper product went local markets or production, backward crop went for interstate. My Mrs is a Southern gal and reckoned tropical fruit had a soapy taste texture and didn't like most of them. Now that she has traveled to warmer climates, has picked n tasted tree n vine ripened crops she has new hungering appetit for fresh as food