Mindconnection eNL, 2010-04-04

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When you're 20% sleep-deprived, you have the mental acuity of someone who's drunk, and it takes at least three weeks to reset the circadian clock. The governments of most countries do this deliberately to their citizens. This makes the people who run those governments criminal psychopaths, by definition.

However, you do have the choice to opt out so at least you aren't one of the sleep-deprived zombies endangering his job and everyone on the road during the commute. Yes, you'll still be at the mercy of those who are impaired, but at least you won't be contributing to the problem.

And during the 3 week "stupidity period" that we get twice a year, you have a chance to stand out compared to your coworkers and maybe cinch that raise or promotion.

How can you do this?

Go ahead and reset your clock so you're in step with the idiots, but do everything an hour later. Naturally, this won't work if you have to be somewhere at a specific time bookending your day (for example, you must be at work at 0600 and you're getting up now at 0430).

There is another method, and you'll need to start it a couple of months ahead of Daylight Wasting Time next year. Unfortunately, you can't use this method very well when coming off DWT. Here it is....

If you want to get onto the same time as everyone else, just go to bed 10 minutes earlier each night until you rise 10 minutes earlier two days in a row. Once that occurs, go to bed 10 minutes earlier again. Repeat until you've shifted by an hour. You will suffer little or no brain impairment during this process.

Interestingly, CONgress sets the clock back in the fall. This is, like everything else they do, bassackwards. It puts the "extra" hour of daylight at the wrong end of the day. But anyhow, this is when we once again make roads dangerous and make the workplace an error-prone accident zone.

If you're coming off DWT, as we will this fall, don't prepare ahead. You may find that not changing a thing works really well for you. If you have been using an alarm clock, use this time to stop that insane practice. Go to bed "an hour earlier" per the clock, and get the extra rest you probably need.

If you really want to change your body clock to match the mandated clock change, then go to bed at your normal clock time except do it 10 minutes later. When you get up 10 minutes later consistently, repeat the process until you have shifted by a total of an hour.

For most people, there will be a huge benefit to changing your sleeping habits this fall instead of adjusting them to the clock. That's because, according to the Sleep Institute, most people are in sleep deficit. This means your brain is working well below its inherent ability. Fix that by sleeping more. You will be amazed at the flow of benefits this brings.

On 10 Mar, I received this e-mail:

"The US Treasury says the deficit for February was $220.9 Billion. The debt clock says the number of taxpayers in the US is 109,565,000. So, in ONE MONTH, a person with a job went $2,016.15 further in debt. That's staggering, both literally and figuratively. How many people do you know who can afford that? I know I can't."

Your single greatest cost is the cost of the plundering done via the US CONgress. Look at the spending records of these people (info is available from the National Taxpayers Union, www.ntu.org) and:

1. Vote against those inDUHviduals.
2. Each month, send a letter or e-mail to the 3 to 5 top offenders and cc: your CONgressional misreprentative. It takes only a few minutes to do, but even if you're not a whiz at this stuff and it takes you an hour it's time well-spent.
3. Let others know who the top thieves are.
4. Repeat for the Senate

It's worth noting  that, as a senator, B. Obama had a score of "zero" in terms of spending. That is, he never turned down a chance to transfer your money to special interests. This misbehavior has been his primary characteristic during his term as president. Had his voting record been on the minds of voters, he would not have made it into the Primaries. Being disinformed by the mudstream media, voters handed him their wallets, bank accounts, and other property. This is when we were already reeling from the Clinton-Bush spendathon.

If readers express an interest, I'll publish the names of the top thieves in future issues. It's really good, though, if you review the NTU information so you can see the extent of the damage and treachery.

While the key to being lean is to not add on extra fat in the first place, knowing this doesn't help the person who now wants to shed that extra fat. The questions is "How do I do it?"

The typical answer to this question is going on some new "diet." We've all read that these "diets" don't work, yet desperate people try them anyhow.

I have some friends who, despite being really hare-brained, have managed to figure out the secret. Do you know what it is?

Portion control. Just eat a little less with each meal. This reduces total calories, and if you are taking in fewer calories than you are using up the fat will eventually come off. And stay off.

By the way, I wasn't trying to insult my friends wit\h that hare-brained remark. They really are hares. They live in my backyard, with 24-hour access to more food than they can possibly eat. Yet, they stay lean throughout the entire summer. For them, it's a survival advantage because this area has large ferruginous hawks with a taste for rabbit. Fat rabbits don't run very fast.

For you, being lean is also a survival advantage. That brown fat that accumulates around organs is essentially a cancer factory. For an average male, each ten pounds of extra body fat is an order of magnitude risk for prostate cancer. For women, there are similar relationships between excess fat and various diseases.

The single best thing the average American can do to reduce, or even eliminate, medical costs is to eat smaller portions rather than the typical oversized ones.

When CONgress passed its Job Destruction and Debt Acceleration Bill in March and for some reason called it "health care reform" even though it had nothing to do with health care and basically makes reform of medical care impossible, a much better alternative for the alleged purpose of this mis-legislation would simply have been to tie health care to the availability of ongoing medical care.

That is, for example, if someone has an obesity-related disease then treat the cause of that disease rather than just the symptoms. Anything else is basically assisted suicide, and the health-oriented approach just seems like the better alternative.

As regular readers know, I was 48 years old in the picture (above, right), taken in December 2008. I don't diet down for summer. I don't have good genes for maintaining a lean body, either. I really have to be conscientious and disciplined about it. That doesn't mean I suffer, eat bland foods, or starve myself.

At www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:

• The best workouts are short and intense.
• A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.

Nor does it mean being hungry all the time (you are less hungry on six small meals a day than three large ones), being weak from hunger (on a proper dietary regimen, you will have much more energy than otherwise), or "giving up pleasures" (I have no idea where this concept comes from, unless a person considers being sick a "pleasure").

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