Thursday, May 31, 2012

iron summary


High stored iron is a symptom of metabolic syndrome.


 

http://itsthewooo.blogspot.ca/2012/05/high-stored-iron-is-symptom-of.html



Also it take about one gram of calcium to neutralize the acid produced by one large fissy pop carbonated beverage. 

Did your doctor tell you to lay off the pops when he diagnosed arthritis, osteoporosis, or other bone issues? 
Did he just suggest calcium and vitamin D?  
What about real food?

What is the connection between coffee and arthritis anyway?

Friday, May 25, 2012

OK. yeh sure


Obesity is a dis-regulation of fat storage and excess storage.
Insulin controls storage.
Low insulin equals low storage.
Low carbohydrates are necessary but not sufficient to cause weight loss.
Low calories are also necessary.
Life between meals is crutial in weight control and no evening eating.

Friday, May 18, 2012

instinct 2

The most basic instincts are hunger, attachment and fear. These control us as children, and are basic instincts. These are overlain with ongoing imprinting until these are essentially covered, but can arise at any time, should the situation arise.

It is likely that hunger causes overeating if we are under weight, and perhaps slightly overweight; however, if survival is the main factor, instinct should not be driving gross obesity. It is more likely some twist of the mind.

The ego is part of the mind, built up in our minds, which is the reflections of those who went before, mainly learned, or collective ego. It is learned; therefore, impersonal. It is not me, I just carry it, just as all knowledge. It can be changed, unlearned, or learned over. It is impermanent. There is no fixed me.

I am just the awareness that is behind the thoughts. Mostly free of time, but I age, so even awareness changes. I am impermanent. The awareness came at an early age, and memory came after that. Awareness may start developing at conception or shortly after. We humans are not, as individuals, senescent beings, for we would die out without other. We all come from the joining of two parents, and by birth, become totally separate beings, dependent but separate. From then on we are separate, often toughing but still separate. We may join with another to create life, but we remain separate. Through intimacy we can reduce that separation but we can never be "one with everything". 

instinct

If instinct is enough to manage food intake in animals, is my (our) instincts damaged? Or is the brain overriding instinct?

So does this hunger come form the instinct or the mind? Id or ego? Natural or learned? Imprinted? Real sensation or a miss-interpretation of some physical generated feeling?

Is the physical being wrong or the brain wrong? Is it stress, anxiety, pressure, boredom, indecision, that I am considering to be hunger? Am I feeling a miss-interpretation of the foregoing list of situation induced feelings?

Is the hunger real or imaginary? It it adrenaline or cortisol out of line? If I have not eaten for 14 hours, it might be hunger; or ever 5 hours of awake activity.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Kruse

Listening to Jack Kruse (http://jackkruse.com/), he pointed out cold acclimatization take energy. OK, but I knew that. Winter in Canada, every winter, happens. Cold reduces infections. Ice can be used to reduce pain. Watch out for too much cooling. It takes time.

Brown fat burn fat and produces heat. Really? How much? Well in the research it is about 3 calories per hour per pound of fat.

Jack is a neurosurgeon,  typically over confident, like the typical surgeon. He has a tendency to overstate a bit (100 pound fish on seven pound line). They need to believe that they know it all to overcome the natural human reluctance of cutting into someone. This is all ego built up in the mind. The reflection of there training, the reflection of the overgrown collective egos that are the medical community. We often work with collective superegos, - municipal governments planning and development departments, to differentiate big egos from super egos.

Even on Paleo, I get bloody hungry. He does not touch on that issue. No help there. The other issue I have not resolved is a tendency to get hungry when stressed, anxiety is high, or boredom strikes (trapped with people). Oh well, shit happens.


Saturday, May 5, 2012

Stumbled on

I stumbled across this post and thought I should keep a copy for future reference, so here it is, but the thing was fixed width so I had to play with it. My notes

http://www.radicalhappiness.com/all-blog-articles/365-we-are-all-doing-the-best-we-can


We Are All Doing the Best We CanPDFPrintE-mail
Written by Gina Lake   
Friday, 04 May 2012 18:33

When we judge ourselves or other people, we are assuming that we or someone else can be or should be different. Many factors contribute to how we respond and behave in any moment, factors such as personality (as described in the astrology chart), maturity, soul age, genetic inheritance, past experiences, desires, beliefs, self-images, and other perceptions and conditioning (learned behavior). In many respects, all of this conditioning (collective ego) predetermines or at least makes it likely that we will respond a certain way in any given moment. Until these patterns, beliefs, and other conditioning are seen for what they are, we are likely to respond and behave according to them (learn to watch our thoughts). So when we catch ourselves judging another person, it is wise to take this into account. If you were that person with that personality, that past, those genetics, that soul age, and that conditioning, you would likely respond and behave similarly. To expect people to be any different than they are is to not appreciate that they are doing the best they can, given their history, personality, body-mind, and conditioning.


When we examine our own past and behavior, we can have the same compassion: Could I really have responded any differently than I did at the time? Not really. (first time through life, we make mistakes, some we recognize as mistakes, some not) Many factors lead up to every response we have to life, and until we become conscious (awake)  of these factors and make a conscious effort to choose differently, we are likely to continue to act out our conditioning unconsciously.


Waking up is largely a matter of becoming aware of our programmed personality and conditioning and then aligning ourselves with the wisest and most loving response in the moment rather than following the path of least resistance—our conditioning (programmed into us by other collective egos) . We wake up out of the conditioned self—the ego—and see that we have a wider range of choices than the conditioned self allows. This is freedom. We become free to choose to follow our conditioning and programming or not. Some of our conditioning and programming isn’t a problem, so we keep what is useful and move beyond what is not. (to our authentic personality, not what we had to be to do the career, job, position, profession, or what we did out of training, without questioning)


What makes this freedom possible is becoming aware of who we really are. We are not our personality, what we believe, what we have experienced in the past, what we desire, or what we think. We are what is experiencing this character who has a personality, body-mind, beliefs, desires, a past, opinions, preferences, and hopes and dreams. We move in and out of identification with this character at will(at will after awaking, but we were in character only before because we did not realize we had a choice), all the while knowing that it is a character we are playing. Once we are aware that we are what is beyond the character, we can have much more fun with this character, and this character can become a much more loving and kind person. This is the greatest blessing of all—to wake up out of this character and rediscover life anew as that which is enlivening this character and enjoying the play of it all. (Become our authentic self)


Our judgments assume our character and everybody else’s character can or should be different from what it is in any moment, that we could make different choices and behave differently. But this freedom to choose other than the conditioned response is only possible after we have realized who we really are and have seen the conditioned self for what it is, and even then it may be challenging to not identify with the conditioned self.


When we not identified with the conditioned self and we are in touch with our true nature, life feels lighter and is recognized as the gift it is. It was so much work to try to get this imperfect character to be more perfect. No matter what it did, it was never good enough. Once we recognize who we are, we accept the imperfections of this character (which are actually perfect!) and those of others. The character can be whatever it is, while we bask in the perfection of our being and of all of life. All is well—even these characters and everything they have ever done. It is all life unfolding as it is meant to. (eating is learned behavior, conditioned into us. We start eating when and only when we become hungry, not by the clock.) Is another cause of obesity the society obsession with time?