asbestosman wrote:Keep your BMI in the normal range.
BMI is worthless, in my opinion. Body fat %'s are a much better measure.
According to BMI, I'm on the verge of being obese (if I gain 1 pound, I'll be obese... something to strive for I guess).
Heh. Yeah, I'm in the middle of the 'overweight' category. Even though I'm wearing the same size jeans as I was in college, when I was 35 pounds lighter than I am now.
But I want everyone else to weigh less so that it's not as easy for you muscular types to beat me up. For some reason, biking to work never seemed to give me much in the strength department even though it probably keeps me in shape. Maybe things will change a bit if I start kayaking this summer.
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asbestosman wrote:But I want everyone else to weigh less so that it's not as easy for you muscular types to beat me up. For some reason, biking to work never seemed to give me much in the strength department even though it probably keeps me in shape. Maybe things will change a bit if I start kayaking this summer.
Have you seen any UFC? Some of those dudes look like wimps, but they can kick some major butt. I guess the saying is true - size doesn't matter.
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Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
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Who Knows wrote:Have you seen any UFC? Some of those dudes look like wimps, but they can kick some major butt. I guess the saying is true - size doesn't matter.
Heh, actually you bring up a good point. Tidejwe on this board is quite skinny, but he can really kick my butt. Half of it is technique, but he's not a weakling either despite being quite skinny (I swear he doesn't eat).
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If it never existed, we would have several generations of entrenched drinkers and makers of alcoholic beverages (including the brethren), so it's unlikely they would be banned outright, especially given the health benefits of tea and wine.
- No smoking or chewing
- No recreational drugs
- No drunkenness / moderate use of alcohol
- No recreational tanning
- No tattoos or multi-piercings
- No facial hair
- No breast augmentations or botox
- Exercise regularly
- Use sunscreen
- Eat fiber
How about, kiss my rear ends at all times? Oh wait I'm thinking aloud again...
Asbestosman, Kayaking is cool. I joined the canoe club, which, ironically goes kayaking, but as I was cold in my lungs I figured watersports wouldn't help much, so when the weather gets warmer I intend to go.
While we're talking WoW, here's an article I just saw that equates a drink a day (or so) with moderate exercise, and if you do both, you get even more benefit.
If you want to live a long and healthy life, you're probably trying to eat right, exercise regularly and get enough sleep. Good steps. Now how about adding a little alcohol to your regimen?
That's right. It is well documented that tossing a few drinks back in a week (and that means a few: up to one a day for women, up to two for men) has potential heart benefits. But researchers in Denmark decided to look further. Could drinking alcohol have a benefit similar to that of exercise?
"If you don't want to exercise too much," asks Dr. Morten Gronbaek, epidemiologist with Denmark's National Institute of Public Health, "can you trade it for one to two drinks per day and be fine?" A study Gronbaek and colleagues just published in the European Heart Journal suggests the answer just may be yes. That finding, not surprisingly, has proved to be a crowd-pleaser.
There are a number of reasons a drink can be such a tonic. First, alcohol and exercise affect your heart health in similar ways. "They help increase good cholesterol, or HDL [high-density lipoproteins], and clean the circulatory system's pipes," says Dr. Arthur Klatsky, a cardiologist and researcher at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. "HDL helps remove fatty deposits, created by bad cholesterol, or LDL [low-density lipoproteins], from blood-vessel walls. The higher the HDL, the less likely vascular disease becomes. The lower the HDL, the more likely."
Gronbaek and his team surveyed 12,000 people over a 20-year period. They found that exercise and drinking alcohol each had an independent beneficial effect on the heart and a compounded effect when practiced together. The investigators got even greater insight when they separated the study participants into four categories.
People who don't drink at all and don't exercise had the highest risk of heart disease. People who drink moderately and exercise had a 50% lower risk. Teetotaling exercisers had a 30% decreased risk, as did moderately drinking couch potatoes. "There's an additional protective effect to doing both," says Gronbaek. "That's the new finding."
This study is part of a growing body of work that makes a medical virtue out of what was once seen as a vice. There is evidence that alcohol in combination with caffeine can limit the damage to your brain after a stroke, even though it may not lower your risk of having a stroke in the first place. Other possible benefits include lowering your risk of diabetes, improving insulin sensitivity in postmenopausal women and decreasing dementia rates in older adults who had been consuming one to six drinks per week.
Before you rush off to hit the bar after your workout, keep in mind that your age matters. Alcohol may do you no coronary good until you reach the age at which heart disease becomes an appreciable risk. "You wouldn't advise everyone to drink," says Gronbaek. "You shouldn't even think about doing it until age 45 or 50. There's absolutely no proof of a preventative and protective effect before age 45." Also, younger women who have a higher risk of breast cancer and anyone who has a family history of alcoholism should pass on the pint and order a soda. {sethbag: say what? how about just water? or tea? }
And remember, moderation is everything. Gronbaek's study, like most, stuck to the one-drink-a-day standard for women and up to two a day for men. It did not distinguish between type (wine vs. beer) or size (pint vs. shot). But here common sense must rule. A 10-oz. martini is a lot more than a 6-oz. serving of wine, even if they each fit in one glass. And it goes without saying that you should never drink your weekly allotment all at once.
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Respect, protect, and honor your body, mind, and spirit. Bring into your body, mind, and spirit that which nourishes and heals. Refrain from bringing into your body, mind, and spirit that which harms and destroys. Create balance and peace, release stress and toxins, move your body as you are able, and live in harmony with nature.
I think there would be some mention that caramels and Grape Nut cereal are harmful to the fillings of your teeth. Coffee and tea would probably be in, but fatty red meats would be out. Street drugs would be banned. There might be a plug for Nu-Skin and Amway products. I think Joseph would have gone in for Earth Shoes.
