I bet it's a broken pixel on a CMOS/CCD sensor or a reflective (like aluminum) roof of a building.
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Masterbation. Fun but pretty useless.
It's so frustrating to see something like this:
Total Carbohydrates: 75g
Dietary fibre: 2g
Sugar: 23g
That's totally incorrect.
Alcohol INCREASES levels of norepinephrine, the neurotransmitter responsible for arousal. Elevated norepinephrine also increase impulsivity.
Alcohol REDUCES activity in the prefrontal cortex and temporal cortex. This is where decision making, rational thought, memory formation, and aggression suppression is managed.
In large amounts it's much harder on your liver than your brain, but in moderation it's fine.
Of course no one knows the future (maybe lifetime union jobs will be back in 30 years?) but I just feel this is the way the wind is blowing. But then again maybe it's just where I'm standing.
The problem I see is that all the other top marathon runners around me are taking nootropics (adderal etc) to stay in the lead.
Not everyone is born Kenyan. :P
The average North American is significantly wealthier today than they were in 1970. Compare an average car from 1970 and an average car today. Today's econo-boxes are Space Shuttles compared the caveman-cars of 1970 (Ford Pinto?). Both cost approx the same in inflation-adjusted work-hours.
Think about the TV that your average family was watching in 1970, and the average TV today. 60" 3D flat panel TVs for <$1000 in 2013 compared to ~$2200 (inflation adjusted) in 1970 for a 16" Motorola color TV.
Gorilla glass is not as hard, but is much stronger.
Don't think diamonds are worthless? Try selling one.
"Carbohydrates are rarely converted to fat (a process called de novo lipogenesis) under normal dietary conditions. There are exceptions when this occurs. One is with massive chronic overfeeding of carbs. I’m talking 700-900 grams of carbs per day for multiple days. Under those conditions, carbs max out glycogen stores, are in excess of total daily energy requirements and you see the conversion of carbohydrate to fat for storage. But this is not a normal dietary situation for most people."
A spoonful of sugar contains 100% nutrients.
That link is total nonsense. For example it claims pizza is empty calories, but bread, cheese, tomatoes, meat & veggies are not? It's ridiculous.
"...in the vast quantities we eat them today." THIS is what matters.
Net calories are king, regardless of diet macro composition.
While the TEF of protein does reduce it's net caloric contribution by about 25%, that doesn't matter if you eat in excess of TDEE, which will result in weight gain regardless of the kind of foods eaten. Upping protein to reduce hunger works really well, but there are better foods than almonds to do this (cottage cheese, meat, fish, whey protein, etc).
In the end ALL diets work, but the best diet is the one you can stick with.
I've done the paleo/lowcarb fad diets too. They just trick you into eating fewer calories by forbidding most of the food you ate before the diet. Not to mention some versions of these diets are based on incorrect understanding of human physiology. For example, despite what the paleotards will tell you, carbs are very rarely converted into body fat. But when you eat any food in excess of TDEE, the dietary fat you eat is stored instead of used as fuel. Even if you eat zero carbs, if you eat more than your TDEE, you will gain fat.
Medicine.
Almost every kid eats many magnatudes more mercury in their food than thy get in all the vaccines they get in their entire life. And this food-sourced mercury compounds are usually MUCH more toxic versions than the kind in vaccines.
But then again when someone says "Speaking for myself, I would never knowingly give a child of mine a vaccine containing mercury, even if there were no links to autism" then it's clear they're an idiot to begin with.
If the sphere was the size of Earth, Earth would be smaller than the 'The World' artificial archipelago in Dubai.
"It shows that my BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is around 1900. That means I need to consume around 1900 to stay where I am today." - No this is wrong. You need to add your activity multiplier to get your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE), which is probably (assuming sedentary) ~2050Kcal/day @1900BMR.
"It also helps to note that P90X burns on an average of 700 calories per day" - This is not even TWO Starbucks cookies. What a total waste of time, it's WAY easier just to eat 700kcal less a day. Even then I would bet $1000 that a p90x workouts is not burning anywhere near 700kcal a day.
Also you added "(that means I can eat up to 2290 if I exercise)" which means that the p90x is even more useless, it's going to be your excuse to eat more, and it WILL make you really really hungry.
The good news is if you eat 1600Kcal/day you'll lose about 30 pounds (~15 pounds of fat and the ~15 pounds of water bound to those stored lipids) by the end of May, and that's with ZERO exercise. I'd drop the p90x completely. It's only going to make you really hungry and threaten the most importnat part (by FAR) of losing weight - net calories consumed.
I LOVE pullups/chin ups. Kudos for sticking with that, they're super hard at first. I'd try negatives to get you going though. That's were you get to the top of the pullup with assistance (chair, elastic band, etc), and then lower yourself on your own as slowly as you can. This will get you to full range of motion pullups/chins really fast. Once you can do 10-12 on your own, put on a dip belt and hang free weights between your legs.
If you want to get seriously ripped YOU MUST do full ass-to-grass squats and dead-lifts with the heaviest weights you can handle, and keep pushing that weight up every workout. In fact all you really need to get big is the squat, deadlift, bechpress, and chinup and eat/rest correctly. Basically buy Starting Strength book and do the program. It's incredible how well it works. I took my squat from 85 pounds to 190 in 6 weeks.
Oh, couple more things: Firstly if you're looking for something to boost your weight loss, I bet you'd see rapid results in dramatically reducing your carb intake for a few weeks. This will empty out stored glycogen in your cells, and with it LOADS of water-weight (every gram of glycogen is stored with ~3-4g of H2O). Secondly, hunger is the enemy of a diet, and protein is the ultimate weapon. Nothing blunts hunger as well as protein. If you're hungry, eat more cottage cheese, whey protein, lean-meats, etc.
Corporate taxes are lower in Canada, but there are other mandatory payroll costs like CPP (9.9% of the first eligible $50k earned split 50/50 between employer/employee) and EI (employer pays 1.4x whatever the employee pays at 1.88% of the first eligible $50K earned).