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A software developer now living in Copenhagen with interest in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology. rokhline/yahoo/com/au
There are showers and the locker room where I keep a set of clean work clothes at my work. This is normal for a medium to large company, and some small ones have the same utilities. Copenhagen.
Putinesque.
Wow, narod.ru still alive. One of the first websites I remember.
One of the top comments on the penguin video is
"The bastards destroyed the entire spaghetti crop last year. I don't see why anyone still fawns over them."
I guess technically you are right, even meat has some carbs in it because muscles hold some glycogen.
The closest thing I can quote is the experiment that Vilhjalmur_Stefansson and Karsten Anderson took part in, eating only meat for a few years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson#Low-carb...
http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com.cy/2009/09/two-brave-m...
In the end, the one-year project stretched to four years, during which time the two men ate only the meat they could kill and the fish they could catch in the Canadian Arctic. Neither of the two men suffered any adverse after-effects from their four-year experiment. It was evident to Stefansson, as it had been to William Banting, that the body could function perfectly well, remain healthy, vigorous and slender if it used a diet in which as much food was eaten as the body required, only carbohydrate was restricted and the total number of calories was ignored.
low-carb "lazy Keto" diet where all I did was keep carbs under 20g net per day
Looks like a strict keto to me, anything under 30g net carbs per day will put you into ketosis.
if you ate 0 grams of sugar for more than a couple of weeks you would die
No you absolutely would not. Your body can synthesize glucose from protein and fat, you can survive indefinitely on zero sugar. This is called ketogenic diet.
I have to agree on the no fine-grained control. My point was that it is easy to opt out of the notifications by email in general. I'm positive that there is an option where you receive a notification when someone send you a message, but I don't think it is possible to get event invitation notifications only.
It is fairly easy to configure Facebook notifications the way you want them to be (for example, I want to know when someone logs into my account, but nothing else). I post on my timeline less than once a month, and receive no notifications. Not to defend Facebook, but notifications are hardly its biggest annoyance.
I wanted to make a small donation but I am not comfortable entering my credit card information on a website I know nothing about. This is the first time when I wanted to make a donation, and there was no PayPal option to do it.
Stephan Guyenet had a series of blog posts called "Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization" on dental health. As I remember, as usual, decline in dental health was linked to moving away from traditional diets. The problem with teeth "overcrowding" was linked, basically, to not chewing enough of tough foods. People that ate plenty of tough foods as part of their diets had better developed jaws and space enough for all their teeth.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.dk/search/label/dental%20h...
I thought I have a severe case of deja vu, but actually I have seen it before - this guy was discussed previously!
I have never heard the name before, but:
Kerala has the lowest positive population growth rate in India, 3.44%; highest Human Development Index (HDI), 0.790 in 2011; the highest literacy rate, 93.91% in the 2011 census; the highest life expectancy, 77 years; and the highest sex ratio, 1,084 women per 1000 men.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala
Interesting!
Legend says he also did some unethical things to his competitors
He himself mentions some of this on Tim Ferriss' podcast:
http://fourhourworkweek.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-transcript...
By the time I came to America and started competing over here, it was very clear when I said to someone, “Let me ask you something, do you have any knee injuries or something like that?” Then they would look at me and say, “No, why? No. I have no knee injury at all. No, my knees feel great.” And they say, “Why are you asking?” I said, “Well because your thighs look a little slimmer to me. I thought maybe you can’t squat or maybe there’s some problem with leg extension.”
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People are vulnerable about those things. Naturally now when you have a competition, you use all this.
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It throws people off in an unbelievable way.
Tim: And they get defensive.
Arnold: They walk away like this didn’t bother them at all, but then you can see, you watch them as they walk around the pump up room, and when you warm up for the competition, and you can see them kind of thinking to themselves, kind of them going to the mirror and checking it out secretly and all that stuff.
Different people have different metabolisms too, turning food into energy to be spent, or locking it away instantly as fat -- makes a huge difference
This is not true - at least the "huge" part.
https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-t...
"Metabolic rate does vary, and technically there could be large variance. However, statistically speaking it is unlikely the variance would apply to you. The majority of the population exists in a range of 200-300kcal from each other and do not possess hugely different metabolic rates."
Calories-In-Calories-Out is a rather limited view of the situation.
https://examine.com/nutrition/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-l...
"In conclusion, losing weight requires a negative energy balance, which can be obtained by eating less, as we have seen, but also by exercising more."
I actually changed my approach to lifting a little and now following the principles described by Greg Nuckols in his article about increasing work capacity
http://strengtheory.com/increasing-work-capacity/
So essentially every week I'm doing just a little bit more volume in every exercise, either by adding a little weight, or an extra rep. So far I'm able to do it consistently for a few months so I guess I'm recovering well.
Then of course there is all that "getting used to it" thing where you do something long enough and get into it gradually and increase little by little and you're fine.
I worked originally about 5 km from home and it felt like it was enough cycling there and back. Then I changed my job and now I was 11 km from home so I started combining bike + train for a while because that felt like too much to cycle. Then one sunny day I cycled all the way home. I realized two things: 1) I'm not that tired and 2) I cut 10 minutes off my train + bike commute. So now I bike all the way and save time and money at the same time! Win-win!
How can you eat 5,000 kcal a day and not be a huge fat pig? How many miles a day do you need to run to burn that off?
On the days when I lift weights I eat close to 5K calories, sometimes even a little more, depending on the commute. All of my daily commute is by bike, including taking my kid to and from the kindergarten, and later to some extra activities (welcome to Denmark), which can be anywhere between 20 and 35 km total for the day.
I'm 178 cm and weigh around 79 kg.
His hypothesis (and he is a smart guy) is that science will allow people to live longer, but probably not much longer than 125.
Not exactly! I just finished the same book and the exact quote is: I doubt we will ever find a way of living much beyond 120 by merely fine-tuning our physiology.
So he's a smart guy indeed! He says that there still may be ways to extend lifespan, but they have to be more radical compared to just fine-tuning physiology.
I've tried everything in the book to lose weight
What is your daily caloric intake? What about height / weight? What is your estimated TDEE?
Once you've been in the military, the circus isn't funny anymore.
Now that I read it in translation, I can see the second meaning. What I thought originally:
- You get so dumb after being in the military, you cannot appreciate that circus is funny anymore.
Another possibility:
- Military is so ridiculous, circus is not funny at all in comparison.
There are also heavy smokers and drinkers who live to 100 and more.
Awesome, I wasn't even expecting a reply by now!
I'd always thought evolution was heavily biased in favor of rapid reproduction.
It's an arctic scavenger that grows both massive and very old without any natural predators worth mentioning. It doesn't make any sense for it to have a high reproductive rate.
Jerry Talley who taught intimacy at Stanford some time ago has a great lecture on this
Do you know if it is available online?
There are roughly three stages in extra-personal development.
I'm interested to learn some more. Is it your personal classification or do you base it on some research, literature etc.? Could you recommend something to read on a subject of extra-personal development?
I make almost half of what Stack Overflow would pay, that seems wrong.
It probably is wrong (1). This website in my experience gives a good estimation of how much you should earn:
https://www.jobindex.dk/tjek-din-loen
Just do not put "Software developer", use "Softwareudvikler" :). I am personally quite happy with my compensation, it is a bit higher than what Stack Overflow could offer.
(1) Depending on your education, experience ...
Another good book on the subject is "The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health"
As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford and Tesla.
Also, four entities have launched rockets into space: the US, China, the Soviet Union (Russia) and Elon Musk.
This guy is thinking and planning on a scale I find it hard to even imagine, to fit in my brain.
The Greek style yoghurt only has 3.6% sugar and yes, there probably is a lower limit on sugar in yougurt as lactose is a natural component of milk and classifies as sugar.
http://www.arla.se/produkter/arla-ko/mild-yoghurt-grekisk-10...
http://stm.sciencemag.org/node/186102.full
Interestingly some lysosomal enzymes are only activated after 10 days of fasting, today how many people fast for this length of time?
This is super interesting. What is the source for the 10 days number - is it in the article you linked? Do you know where I can get full text - it is behind a paywall for me.
I was always interested how long does it take to get most benefits out of fasting, but research on anything over 72 hours is very scarce.
Edit: found it here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608686/
Animal studies again. Nothing wrong with that, I'm convinced that fasting has a range of benefits, but human studies would be just so much more interesting.
Still looking for the source of the 10 day figure for lysosomal enzymes and humans.