What we eat and what we drink are life or death choices we make everyday. We just don’t know it.
Got Milk
Milk, It does a body good.
Modern milk production in the US involves artificial insemination, growth hormones, antibiotics and results in high productivity and high profits. The milk contains growth hormones that promotes cancer in humans. Milk is promoted as healthy and wholesome. But it is another man made factory product that is a deadly poison.
Milk, it does cancer good.
Why Run
- It’s good exercise
- It’s free
- You can run wherever you are
- You can run whenever you want
- Don’t need a lot of gear
- It’s a safe activity
- Activity boosts mood and makes you feel good
The Wall
The greatest wall of all time was a failure. The Great Wall of China did not prevent invasion. A border wall with Mexico will not prevent whites in the United States from becoming a minority.
A wall is high cost and low benefit. It is high initial cost and will still require manpower and maintenance in the long run.
Money is better spent on infrastructure that supports the long term needs of the country. Cleaner energy, bridges, tunnels, water treatment, technology and science.
A border wall is simply a mob reaction to problems created by tax policies that have failed the many and benefits the few. Mobs don’t understand that because they are simple minded and emotional.
Cost benefit analysis should always help guide spending decisions.
Trade War
Trade wars are good and easy to win.
Our current trade war is neither good or easy. In wars there are victims on both sides. Trade wars are no different. Consumers, producers, businesses and traders are the first victims. Higher prices for consumer goods, lower prices on our agricultural production, fewer jobs, lowers consumption, lower confidence and higher levels of uncertainty and anxiety.
Free market? Trade war is not free market.
Recession has become almost inevitable, Stock prices are not the only economic indicator. It will be ironic when a re-election is lost because of another broken promise.
Space Cowboy
Some people call me a space cowboy yeah
Some people me the gangster of love
Some call me Maurice cause I speak of the pompitous of love
Some people talk about me baby
Some people say I’m doing you wrong doing you wrong
But don’t you worry baby don’t worry
Cause I’m right here at home
Cause I’m a picker I’m a grinner I’m lover and I’m a sinner
Playin my music in the sun
I’m a joker I’m a smoker I’m a midnight toker I get my lovin’ on the run ooh ooh
Your the cutest thing I ever did see
I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey lovey dovey love dovey all the time
Oh we baby I sure show a good time
Steve Miller Band, 1973
Why Train
Physical fitness training is practice and repetition that can improve:
- speed
- strength
- power
- balance
- flexibility
- coordination
- endurance
These various measures of fitness can sometimes be forgotten because for many people ‘losing weight ‘ is the primary goal of physical fitness training. Improvements in in fitness occur during rest periods between training sessions.
Improvements in physical fitness occur over different time scales. Fat metabolism can be activated in hours. Muscular improvements can happen in days. Nervous system and muscle recruitment in days. Mitochondrial, cellular and blood cell and new capillary growth take place over some weeks. Connective tissue and bones will adapt in months of training.
Gains can be maintained with consistent training. Training intensity and volume levels can increase. With poor nutrition injury and breakdown is inevitable. There are metabolic systems and processes that are super efficient and are the body’s primary function. The body will also have secondary less efficient back up processes to keep us alive and performing physically. But sometimes at a cost. Lower immunity, reduction in essential vitamins and minerals and weakness in muscles and organs.
It is vital, especially during heavy physical activity, that nutrition is adequate. The measure of adequacy is this: can your body repair and rebuild tissues that are full strength and fully functional? A complete and optimal diet does not just replace calories. A focus on calories is wrong.
Food should be essential fats, vitamins and minerals. These elements allow cellular rebuilding. Carbohydrates, especially highly refined carbs may be harmful to training goals and physical fitness. Carbohydrates for goal races or occasional use should be okay.
Don’t reduce training effects with a bad diet.
Six Pack
Beer cans or abdominal muscles. Funny that these two are almost mutually exclusive. In order for one’s abs to show, one has to have a low body fat percentage. Five to thirteen percent is not common these days. But that’s what it takes.
Paleo, fasting and Keto are good pathways to a low body fat percentage and a six pack. Beer on the other hand is liquid calories. Large or regular consumption of six packs of beer will make it very difficult to achieve low body fat percentages and visible abdominal muscles.
So choose wisely if your goal is a six pack of abs.
Fortunate One
Some folks are born made to wave the flag oh they’re red, white and blue
And when the band plays hail to the chief oh they point the cannon at you Lord
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one no
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord don’t they help themselves oh
But when the taxman comes to the door
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale yes
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son no
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one no
Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Oh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them how much should we give
Oh they only answer more more more
It ain’t me it ain’t me I ain’t no military son son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one one
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no no no
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate son, no no no
Lyrics by Credence Clearwater Revival, 1969