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Question & Thought for 21 September 2016!

Question & Thought for 21 September 2016!
Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – Where’s the most fat stored?
2. Thought – At rest, and with light exercise, you burn 95% fat and 5% glucose. Most fat isn’t stored in your muscles; it’s stored around your belly and hips and in a few other prime locations. Your body has to bring it to your muscles through circulation. That’s harder than it seems, because your blood is largely water and fat doesn’t dissolve in water. Fat has to be carried in special molecules called triglycerides, which your doctor probable mentioned during your last checkup. The trouble with this, from your muscles’ perspective, is that your capillaries can handle only a few triglyceride molecules at a time. So each capillary can deliver only a trickle of fat to your mitochondria. With consistent aerobic training, your body builds fast new networks of capillaries to bring more fat to your muscles. Eventually, however, [Is this complicated for you as it is for me?] you are delivering as much fat as you possibly can, and if you want to go faster, or harder, you need to start bringing glucose to the mitochondria to use as a second fuel.
Try this: Let’s talk about getting in shape. Aerobic fitness is all about making more energy in the muscles. That means building more mitochondria and bringing them more fuel and oxygen. Mitochondria can burn either fat or glucose. It’s like having a car that can run on either diesel (fat) or gasoline (glucose), depending on your needs: diesel for long-haul road trips, high-octane gasoline for speed and acceleration. Your muscles prefer to burn fat most of the time, because it’s more efficient fuel, but for hard exercise – for speed and power – you burn glucose.
With harder exercise you keep burning fat in the background, but all the extra energy comes from burning glucose. (Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge, M.D.)
“God takes great delight in you.”
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question – Thought & ANDs for 25 July 2016!

Question – Thought & ANDs for 25 July 2016!

Good Monday Morning!

  1. Question – Which foods should I try to avoid because they have the most calories?
  2. Thought – A gram of each contains a different number of calories:
  • 1 gram of carbohydrate equals 4 calories.
  • 1 gram of protein equals 4 calories.
  • 1 gram of fat equals 9 calories.

“If I can’t fit in at least 10 minutes of exercise a day, I don’t feel centered.” (The Engine #2 Diet by Rip Esselstyn)

AND: Mark

You need to go to see the Hillary movie. A great history lesson.

AND: In regards to religion, God doesn’t need us to please Him.  I see earth as a testing ground of faith.  God watches for the faithful.  It may take a lifetime for a person to finally commit in faith to God.  But He is willing to give that lifetime so that one soul will.  For the souls He already knows will not commit, He lets nature takes its course.  Yes, every day is numbered just like the hair on our heads.  God already knows.  It is the individual soul that needs the time to grow and know.

AND: It has been said that a Faith is not a Religion until it is immersed and accepted as a culture.  This is why Christianity is not a religion; it is a following.  We have dozens of manners in which we practice Christianity.  That can’t be said of Islam, Hindu, Buddhist, Tao, maybe even Judaism.  You have to think about that for a moment and when you do, you see or can understand how all of these Religions are in conflict with Freedom.  In short, God-given Freedom can not exist under the light of these Religions.  A following can co-exist with Freedom.

 

Perhaps too simplistic of a perspective, but I think early on in any discussion of the world’s faiths and religions, you have to decide if that faith can tolerate Freedom or if it is in conflict with Freedom.

 

Second thought for you brain:

 

I’ve always associated the concept of ‘borderless’ nations to have originated in Europe…and that it was a socialism-type agenda item to achieve with the world.  What happens if the ME went borderless?  Chaos? Yes, most likely…but what does it look like after the chaos subsides?  If the ME went borderless, IMO it would return to tribal rules and ruling.  War factions would be tribal in nature.  Islam would further divide, fight, then consolidate once again.  The Kurds would cease to exist.  The Israelis might disappear first…completely.  New geographical boundaries would more than likely emerge.  Turkey…?…who knows.  Saudi…?…who knows.  Could the ME truly desire to return to tribal organizations?

 

Weird thought, I know.  But I’m not certain we’ll see the huge Sunni v Shia muslim battle….then again, maybe it will be sooner vs later.

AND:  “By craving to be more, man becomes less; and by aspiring to be self-sufficing, he fell away from Him who truly suffices him.”
Hmmmm. Very interesting. Love it

AND: What does the Bible say about humans’ divine potential?

Several biblical passages intimate that humans can become like God. The likeness of humans to God is emphasized in the first chapter of Genesis: “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”3 After Adam and Eve partook of the fruit of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” God said they had “become as one of us,”4 suggesting that a process of approaching godliness was already underway. Later in the Old Testament, a passage in the book of Psalms declares, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”5

AND: Interesting question…

Taking Job as an example, it would appear he only needs to build an argument before the Judge.  And no matter how hard he were to work – he could only accomplish what he was allowed.

 

 

rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.

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Question & Thought for May 25th, 2016!

Question & Thought for May 25th, 2016!
Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – Which sweetener are you addicted to?
2. Thought – The pink Sweet’ N Low packet is saccharin (banned in Canada since 1977), the blue Equal is aspartame, and the yellow Splenda is sucralose.
The products are not equally sweet. Saccharin is 300 times sweeter than sugar, and aspartame/Equal is 160 to 200 times sweeter and lacks a bitter aftertaste. Sucralose/Splenda is 600 times sweeter than sugar, so it is mixed with fiber to give it some volume.
And Cyclamate? It’s only 30 to 40 times sweeter than sugar. Cyclamate, one of the ingredients in Sweet’ N Low, was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after controversial tests linked the substance to cancer in lab rats. It is marketed in other countries as Sugar Twin. (In the United States, Sugar Twin is saccharin.)
Although tests on those pitiful lab rats frequently raise cancer scares, sugar-free products are big business. Nearly 200,000,000 Americans eat or drink sugar-free foods. Diet soda, for example, accounted for nearly 30% of all soft drink sales in 2007 – and Americans spent about $70,000,000,000.00 (70 billion) on soft drinks. Soda companies obviously don’t need sugar in order for their sales to be sweet. (Who What Where When by Publications International)
“American military men and civilians in Vietnam are baffled by their orders from Washington.” (Senator Symington)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for April 19th, 2016!

Question & Thought for April 19th, 2016!
Good Tuesday Morning!
1. Question – What’s the best book ever written between diet and cancer?
2. Thought – Read the best book ever written on the link between diet and cancer (and all diseases) by T. Colin Campbell, The China Study, and you will know why. Dairy products take a long time to digest and are very acid forming (remember you need to be alkaline). Get your calcium from fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, not dairy. (Killing Cancer Not People by Robert G. Wright)
“Let thy food be thy medicine.” (Hippocrates)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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