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Diabetics have to limit carbs so you might want to look into that. My MIL was 60g per meal after she became full diabetic IIRC. Although she “likes” white bread so its academic.

Consider drastically cutting down or eliminating meat. Almost everything available in supermarkets is industrialy reared and processed garbage. High omega6. Incude farmed fish in that too.

Fruit, veg, nuts, carbs and exersise… you dont need more than that really. Maybe a bit of wild fish once or twice a month… squid is a good one.

Fruit gets a bad rep ref diabetes. Thing is the fructose is bound with fiber and slow to absorb so most fruits are low gi; as long as you eat normal portions no worries. Same with other complex carbs, like wholewheat pasta or rice, meduim gi.

Doctors seem confused on this. My MIL was pre diabetic and was told not to eat oranges… which are low gi, like 5!

“The conditions under which ISIS has been able to seize control of major Iraqi cities is directly connected to the last Gulf conflict.”

Fwiw. Its directly conected to regional sunni loyalties, the confilct in Syria, Arab nationalism, the idea of creating an Islamic state, the ideology of holy war, the gulf wars, the house of Saud giving preference to American forces in 91, israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of afganistan, the betrayal post WW1, the collapse of the ottomans, the reconquest of iberia, the iraqi supergun… and on and on and on! Its fueled by disenfranchised men from around the world and their mad ideological leaders. The idea that any one event caused this is ludicrous.

“why you might want to absolve those responsible for instigating the Iraq War.”

Hahaha!!!!! Nice try. Did I actually say that? Why indeed? I meerly pointed out a but of history further back than new labour.

“I dont know why that makes you laugh”

It just does… the handwringing alone is worthy. Its a black humour sort of laugh mind… its a real human tragedy all this religeon BS. All this over fairy stories, dubious morals and imagined ramblings. LOLZ!!!

LOLZ. The ideology goes back much much further than the gulf conflicts.

Muhumed Ali (not the boxer one) circa 1800, his son Ibrahim and the early “revolts”. TE Lawrence and the “arab revolt”. The betrayal post WW1…. even all that is pretty recent.

Heck, OBL even harped on about Andalucia being brough back into the Arab kingdom. They lost that circa 1600 with the reconquest.

The whole caliphate thing…. this is what they are after

Although this time I doubt they are bringing science and a new system of numbers.

Being obese, esp morbid obesity, is disabling though isn’t it?

Is how it occurs immaterial to this classification, and a separate issue?

That article is pure clickbait fwiw

+1 dakota 20

“If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million,” David Pimentel, professor of ecology in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat

Its stile not style!

You’se the one wanting a speller cheker.

I can deffo load GPXs and follow lads yeah ?

The dakota 20 yes. Ive used it loads by pulling a gpx of the web, drop it into a folder on the device. Hit navigate and you’re off.

I preffer the compass pointing method. You just ride with the compass screen and there is a big arrow the points direction. As you cone to turns it starts to swing off a touch in advance. Go wrong and it points backwards or towards the track ( if its parallel for eg). Its not foolproof. Loose the sat and it rools to 30degrees and stays there. Coming to a fork the point can be vauge until youve gone through it.

You need to check the route on a map first really and have that as a backup. I wouldn’t blindly follow it out into the wilds. If youve loaded up a good basemap that would be good. You can alway check the tracknon the map view using topography landmarks etc.

Caveat! Unless they’ve changes the spec.

I found garmin really helpful online. Emailed them a bunch of questions about the top end edge… thinking thats what I needed. Someone from garmin sales called me and said the 20 does all that for much less money. Might be worth an email to them.

I have a dakota 20. It will do what you want and has a bunch of other good features. Handlebar mounts available. You can also load open source maps ITIY.

You can follow tracks via on screen map or pointer.

My understanding is that your body burns less fat as the intensity increases. Hence the long slow miles thing. There must always be glycogen present or you bonk and start to break down lean tissue (muscle) to keep going..

Although with HI you burn calories at a higher rate for hours/many hours after you finish. EPOC.

If you mix both you get the best of both.

I read the boi about that trek. They were pure skeletal by the end. Not surprised they had to eat what they did.

There is no solution to market psychology.. Lending restrictions might help… but then who is going to jump off the gravy train??

Best retraining you can give your body is to lose the processed foods and all the factory/industrially farmed meats and dairy. Drink more water.

Exercise wise; a mix of high volume low intensity and low volume high intensity should do the trick.

“Genuine question here: where do you lot who run single rings tend to ride? What are the gradients like?”

Im using a 1×10 for guiding in the Spanish mountains. Max gradient is about 15% but mostly less than 7%. Daily gains in the region of 1,000m to 1,500m.

Chain/ring/block wear. I ran one for 2 years, using 2 chains on rotation (KMC and Shimano back to back test ;0)). The rivets were not that worn really, just beyond “replace the lot”. Which I did when one of the chains finally broke. But Id say thats a pretty good lifespan given that I am riding about 150km per week on it and grinding up to the top of mountains..

Reasons for using. One less thing to wear out/maintain. Dont need the granny ring, the ratios I have are good to go. I can run a short cage mech and a really closed in top guide and bash ring, so I never ever drop the chain. Its a really neat setup for hammering around the rocky singletrack..

I might get a smaller chain ring one day (currently 32T) but im not going to break the bank for it. I reckon it would be good for technical climbing, Id be in the middle of the block so less tension on the mech when the suspension compresses.

IMO the rehash of gears is a great step forward for off road bikes.

A pro nutritionist (US Navy) once told me chocolate milk is the best. Something about the ratio of carbs, protein and fat. Also very cheap and easy to buy or make yourself.

3 cups milk
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 tablespoons powder sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla

Heat, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk down are all equal. Heat gets it due to the sound, sweat, wounding (rather than cinematic kill shots) and the realism of the firing actions and reactions.

However, none come close to the Aliens nest gun battle. Particularly the dithering bad decision making of the CO.

Cant find the scene but here is the trailer.

Trek Remedy. Very fun bike to ride down and a breeze to ride up. You’ll get a good bike for that money.

if its on facebook right click the image and click “copy image url”

Not sure if you can do that off a phone tho, maybe only from a desktop.

I did mine from the sheldon brown site, using his wheel jig bodges. Its easy but time consuming at first. Plan to do it in stages.

Btwin Unscar (decathlon house brand) 40 euros.

Comes as low as a FF at the back. Not that well vented but its not as hot as it looks. It has channels on the inside leading from front to back that keep the air flowing as long as you are moving as a reasonable speed; on very hot days you wont want to climb with it on (but that goes for pretty much all helmets). You could always ride with an xc lid as well if riding bare is an issue.

Doesn’t have a plastic adjustment band, it uses elastic instead, which imo is better.

The square seen in the top view is a flat spot for a gopro sticky mount.

Just checked thier site, it’s changed a fair bit. You used to be able to select from a list an add “risk” or take it away from a specific sport.

I think they mean free ride kind of stuff. Ive emailed them in the past and they were pretty helpful with a bespoke policy. Might be worth getting a definition of “stunt” off them via email.

You can for 11 quid a kilo over the stated per bag wieght.

Physics aside there is also a psychological aspect. Some start a big climb with a sick grin, others with a little wimper.

Yes. But must be eaten raw to benifit from the fatist acid.

Harison Beaumont do activity specific cover.

Making what too easy?

It was a joke really. Someone names a steak eating athlete as an alternative to the fruitarian athlete The steak eater sadly died age only 53 of stomach cancer. Rather ironic example I thought.

Well that’s such a glaringly obvious and useless thing to say I’d assumed there was another point I was missing.

There was actually. I was using that as an illustration of my statement that humans frugivore roots and the common misconception that humans are biological omnivores. We are not designed to eat animal protien but have adapted to it… not that well actually.

Im not a no meat advocate, unless we are talking modern farmed animals or red meat which should be avoided at all costs. Even if you are getting wild animals, more than once a week is too much imo.

Ohohohoh

Which means?

Read the link. Could be cause by pathogens, not just diet. Those tanzanians could have been eating loads of animal protien, but an environmental pathogen caused anemia in the population.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire:_How_Cooking_Made_Us_Human

If you are bored stop reading. You’re edging into the lowest form of argument.

Tom_W1987 – Member Tanzania reveal that the child had porotic hyperostosis, a type of spongy bone growth associated with low levels of dietary iron and vitamins B9 and B12, the result of diet lacking animal products in a species that requires them.Ohohoh so much for chemicals ruining our ability to produce B12

Study into death by malnutrition discovers vitamin deficiency shocker. This example was a breastfeeding child so the difficiency was the mothers. Its not possible to know why she was deficient…

But…

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porotic_hyperostosis

“low level of iron in the blood is also a defense against pathogens, so a high incidence of the disease in a population could also indicate an attempt to fight off an infectious disease.[4] From this perspective, porotic hyperostosis could be viewed as a biological attempt to adapt to the environment, rather than an indicator of malnutrition”

Fwiw I only said its possible for b12 synthesis. Its an embryonic area of research.

Gorillas are vegan = falsehood. Gorillas are biological frugivores who can and do eat other animals… uncooked.

The reasons human brains grew is complex and largely unknown, but current theory suggests likely due to cooking than anything else because it allowed rapid consumption and absorbtion of nutruents… 2, 000cal/hour easily.. Human brains have lost the volume of a tennis ball in the last 30k years. How does that reconcile with increased meat consumption in that period?

Btw im not a no meat advocate. See previos posted food pyramid, thats my view.

I think of this

because we started cooking veggies.

Worth a read “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human”

Jacques Anquetil

Is this the same Jacques Anquetil that died of stomach cancer at the ripe old age of 53? Coincidently the average life expectancy of a traditional Inuit…

Come on, you’re making this too easy!!

allmountainventure
I’ll give up expensive cheese and wine over my cold dead cancer ridden body.

Its a free country bro 😆

Plant based diet pyramid

Eat like an inuit if you want to. Some of them even live to 60 years old.

Just like the Inuit don’t.

You mean the inuit that have a life expectancy of 40 or 50 years? Bad control group because they don’t live long.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.sg/2008/07/mortality-and-lifespan-of-inuit.html

Sick on 100% fruit? You judge.

Like I said, try training on meat alone.

For balance

B12 is actually a bacteria that, if not for modern chemicals and pesticides in the environment, we would probably synthesize naturally in our intestines. Gut flora basically.

801010 diet is pretty damn healthy. Look up 30 bananas a day on the web or fruitarian athlete.

30 Days, 900 Very Ripe Bananas

http://www.thefruitarian.com/

So rather than being ill you can be a top end endurance athlete. Try that with steak.

I’m not saying we should all become acting frugivores. I’m saying that’s what we are biologically. the more we deviate from it the unhealthier we get. This is also why heating veg is good, our guts are best for digesting soft fruit, not hard veg. That why meat rots inside human guts and doesn’t digest (even after cooking it). Plant based (PLANT) is the nearest we can get to our natural diet.

Fwiw frugivores observed in the wild can an do eat animal protien, sometimes frequently. Eggs would be plentiful and very easy to get, so are insects and so on. But it doesnt mean they aren’t still frugivores, nature doesnt fit neatly into scientific boxes and most frugivores are acting omnivores/opportunistic feeders.

One thing you can say about human society that is based around animal protien. Short lifespans or longer lifespans but riddled with diseases and propped up by drugs.

Show me where i said “fruit”?

We share the same/similar biological charateristics and genetic heritage as other apes. Frugivores; plant based plus very small amounts of animal protein (more or less animal protein depending on location and species). Acting omnivores but not biological omnivores.

The common mistake is to confuse to “be” with to “do” when thinking ‘ivore etc.. If I start to eat only meat it doesnt suddenly make me a carnivore… We have cooked food for up to 2.5 million years so human digestive tract has evolved on its own, but we are closest anatomically to our frugivore relatives.

Another way to look at it is eat only meat and youll be very unhealthy and develope cronic illness. Eat only plants and the opposite occurs. Thats because plants are what we are primarily evolved to eat…. more recently cooked plants.

Its not that hard if you base your diet around veg. Meat isnt all that necassary for humans… biologically frugivores aren’t we. The main problem is too much meat.