Mindconnection eNL, 2010-07-18

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It featured little editorials sprinkled here and there. These used to be thought-provoking, but had become statist propaganda as if any view appreciative of liberty was foolishness. The articles became so slanted, they were insulting to any thinking person.

So, they can count me as an ex-subscriber.

This pattern of betraying the reader's trust and treating readers as indoctrination subjects is exactly why newspapers began folding across the country. Getting a few facts wrong is acceptable. Seldom getting a storey right is unacceptable.

I like having a paper magazine I can take with me or read while kicked back in my easy chair, as opposed to reading something online. I look forward to getting the next issue in my snail mail box. The problem now is I am once again in search of a general news magazine that doesn't proselytize for one political viewpoint or another.

It may well be that print magazines have gone the way of newspapers--too dangerous to expose yourself to. I see allegedly nonfiction books are headed that way, also.

With journalistic integrity and editorial integrity no longer fashionable, where can we go for information?

This problem is something to think about, even if you can't solve it. Be aware of the integrity problem, and avoid publications that are especially bad. For the others, you'll have to weigh what you read.

Mark Twain felt it was better to be uninformed than to be disinformed. But there is a third choice, if you are diligent.

I could add calcium to gasoline and claim it's a health drink, but I'd be lying. The criminals who try to pawn off calcium-enriched orange juice are also lying when they say anything good about it.

First of all, fruit juice and human health are mutually exclusive. Ask any endocrinologist about this. "But," you may ask, "Why is this?"

To make fruit juice, you separate the juice from the rest of the fruit, essentially bypassing the normal digestion process. What you have left is mostly the fruit sugar suspended in water. It's about the same as drinking uncarbonated colas, or dumping sugar into a glass of water. This is very different from eating the whole fruit. A glass of apple juice contains the juice from many apples, not just one. Similarly, a glass of orange juice is loaded with far more sugar than you'd get from an orange and it's in a form that is digested too quickly.

What happens is the sugar hits your bloodstream right away, causing insulin to spike. Insulin depresses testosterone. Testosterone is what signals your bones to store calcium. So adding calcium to a high-sugar beverage just wastes the calcium. Now ask yourself where this calcium goes and if you really want those kidney stones.

If you're concerned about getting enough Vitamin C, eat whole fruits and vegetables. If you're concerned about getting enough calcium, eat dark green leafy vegetables and take a calcium supplement. But don't drink something that is going to cause the calcium to fail to be absorbed by your body. It's like buying calcium tablets and just tossing them in the toilet. That won't build strong bones.

About 100 days before age 50

The amount of myostatin determines the limit for the amount of cell division. Certain hormones, mostly testosterone, depress myostatin slightly and allow the cell division to slightly exceed the replacement level. Voila, muscles grow.

Read more....

Photo notes

In these photos, I was at 5.1% body fat. I dropped to 5% after the shoot and am still there several weeks later, as I write this. One reason I can be that lean is the way I have these workouts scheduled. This kind of scheduling plays off the cortisol/testosterone responses the body goes through when subjected to the kind of stress that an intense workout puts on it. It may be more accurate to say I schedule my recovery windows so they don't overlap, and thus I maximize the time during which my natural testosterone level is elevated.

Of course, eating six small meals a day and paying attention to what's in those meals is another factor in allowing a 50 year old person to be at 5% bodyfat.

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.

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