The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XX

[Disgustipated]

Insomnia is a real phenomena. Have you never laid down and been unable to fall asleep?

Everyone has that every once is a while. It's only insomnia if it's on a nightly basis. But as I said above computer addiction and/or caffeine doesn't count as true insomnia.

 

[Borachio]

Do not drink any caffeine whatsover. Just because the rest of America is doing it, doesn't mean it's a good idea. I see every body chugging energy drinks and 5 hour energy, do not do that! I know it may seem hard at first, but it can be done. I work graveyard, and I do not drink any caffeine aside from 1 green tea a day for health reasons, not for the caffeine. It can be done if you have a set routine, and get at least 7 hours of sleep. If I can work graveyard with no caffeine, that proves that humans do not need caffeine to survive. Think about thousands of years ago, humans didn't have caffeine, yet they still got up in the morning to farm or to hunt. They didn't roll over and hit the snooze button. Caffeine is not necessary.

Lay off all this starbucks crap everybody else is drinking. No soda, no tea (aside from green tea if you are into that), and no coffee. Avoid other things that may have caffeine in them like too much chocolate.

Wow! Someone with some sense posts here?

It does take a bit of an effort to drag yourself away from caffeine, though not as much as smoking. But after a month without it, I didn't notice anymore. I just drink tapwater, and if I'm thirsty I really like it.

I think the benefits of green tea are over-hyped. Fresh fruit and green vegetables are, I believe, even better antioxidants. If there are such things.

 

[Quackers]

Does anybody else look at a lot of public health "knowledge" and think: WTH?!
For instance - the fact you should drink something like 8 - 10 glasses of water a day. I mean, when I first heard that as a young Quackers I knew instantly what a load of nonsense it was (my BS-metre is highly attuned). I think that so-called piece of "advice" has been recalled now, but i wonder what detrimental effects these false announcements have had. Does anybody else have any other examples of so-called experts making these claims, which have fooled the public and then made to be false?

 

[Borachio]

Examples abound, I guess.

I remember them saying you should go to work on an egg, i.e. eat an egg for breakfast, presumably every day.

Then they said eating more than three eggs a week was implicated in coronary heart disease.

Then they said eating eggs gave you salmonella, so the egg industry collapsed.

Next they said to eat as many eggs as you want.

And I think nowadays too many eggs are off the menu once again.

(I never was all that fond of eggs anyway. I have remained faithful to this preference throughout. Though I quite like the occasional omelette.)

 

[Quackers]

Examples abound, I guess.

I remember them saying you should go to work on an egg, i.e. eat an egg for breakfast, presumably every day.

Then they said eating more than three eggs a week was implicated in coronary heart disease.

Then they said eating eggs gave you salmonella, so the egg industry collapsed.

Next they said to eat as many eggs as you want.

And I think nowadays too many eggs are off the menu once again.

(I never was all that fond of eggs anyway. I have remained faithful to this preference throughout. Though I quite like the occasional omelette.)

Christ! Over how long did that go on for?

 

[Borachio]

Mid '60's to the present.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

And now, having running out of differing theories on eggs as a whole, the debate has moved to yolk vs white.

I'm ova it

 

[Quackers]

It's just more evidence which makes me distrust so called "experts" in these fields.
In the UK the government advice is to eat 5 fruit and veg portions a day - if you go around around the world it varies around 5 but their is a lot of variation. Do they know what they're talking about?

 

[Borachio]

I don't know. But after I've eaten 5 bananas, 5 grapefruit, 5 oranges, 5 cabbages, 5 turnips and the recommended 3 portions of whole grain foods, I'm pretty full.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I was under the assumption he was working at a resteraunt, which can be plenty physically demanding.

Yes, but I'm still a relatively new hire, I'm still only doing dishes and putting burgers in the broiler, which is right next to the sinks, obviously. Not a whole lot of exercise material there.

Plus I hate exercise, I like being fat.

Demanding yes, but consistent, unbroken walking/running/cycling/swimming etc provides a degree of aerobic activity that really isn't replicated while working. In addition, the current habit of sitting around till 3.00am (and I'm gonna take a guess, eating crap) needs to change, regardless of how strenuous 9 to 5 may be.

Also, he won't be working in the kitchen seven days a week forever. I'm suggesting getting into the habit of at least some form of mild exercise daily and making this a life long thing. Nothing drastic, just a different, easy to maintain new routine that will work wonders compared to the current MO.

Ummm, my hours are not that demanding yet. It's only about 15 hours a week tbh.

Also, I can't consume crap after 9 pm anyway cuz it is a guaranteed severe heartburn event the very next day, no matter what time I go to bed.

Although, one idea that popped into my head today was perhaps cutting down my internet data cap, from 4 gb down to 2 or 3 gb. Might that help?

 

[madviking]

why is everyone leaving?

 

[civver_764]

cuz it's 2012 man.

 

[sophie]

why is everyone leaving?

Who else left?

 

[madviking]

Who else left?

dt, hobbs

 

[Quackers]

I've added a cheat day to my new exercise and diet routine. It's one day a week and it usually involves consuming large amounts of alcohol or eating a takeaway. Is this ok? I know it's detrimental to my diet in the long run because i've taken on board quite a lot of calories - then again, i feel a bit happier and saner to know that their is a day where i don't have to worry about health stuff and i can eat to my satiation, if you've ever felt hungry for extended peroids before you know it puts you in a bad mood. I'm currently aiming for 1500-1800/day on a normal day(which i'm doing) and on my cheat day my maximium ceiling is about 3500 but i haven't been near that figure yet. Thoughts Farm Boy?

dt, hobbs

 

[salty mud]

Don't most diets allow you to have a day off anyway? As long ad you don't go *too* crazy, and exercise hard to burn off the excess, I see no problem.

 

[Agent327]

The only 'diet' that works is eating less. If you eat less 6 days a week and more 1 day a week you need to add the total up and divide by 7 to see if you're actually eating less or just being delusional. (Oh and fat isn't 'removed' by exercise; you just add muscle volume so the total weigth of your body might still be up rather than down.)

 

[Disgustipated]

Does anybody else look at a lot of public health "knowledge" and think: WTH?!
For instance - the fact you should drink something like 8 - 10 glasses of water a day. I mean, when I first heard that as a young Quackers I knew instantly what a load of nonsense it was (my BS-metre is highly attuned). I think that so-called piece of "advice" has been recalled now, but i wonder what detrimental effects these false announcements have had. Does anybody else have any other examples of so-called experts making these claims, which have fooled the public and then made to be false?

Oh I agree the 8 glasses is BS. It doesn't account for water content of foods you eat (fruits and vegetables have quite a lot). But I don't think there would be detrimental effects. There are no detrimental effects of drinking water. Aside from financial if you buy that expensive bottled water. Which makes me think the bottled water industry is pushing these recommendations. But I have to pay for water where I live, the tap water is disgusting. But I don't buy bottled water, it's wasteful (plastic use), and fill up jugs with the water machine which filters the water.

Another of these recommendations I don't like is the 5 to 6 small meals a day thing. Who has time to be constantly eating like that. I only eat 2 meals a day when I'm working, and I do okay. How can I eat small meals when I'm working? I can't eat when I'm working. And I doubt people in the old days ate 5 to 6 meals a day, and they stayed plenty thin. Back in the day when men worked on farms and such, they ate 3 square meals a day. They were too busy working to be lazing around snacking all day. And those guys stayed thin. What I'm saying is you don't need to eat 5 to 6 small meals a day to stay thin. You can just work on a farm. I'm kidding, but you see my point.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Although, one idea that popped into my head today was perhaps cutting down my internet data cap, from 4 gb down to 2 or 3 gb. Might that help?

No. You'll never truly get off that computer and instead out and about or fast asleep while you continue to look at it as exercise in will power and that you are giving something up. You're not giving anything up, you're in fact adding a bunch of new strings to your bow. Get your head around that and you could have unlimited free internet access and still get a good nights sleep and some excercise.

 

[Borachio]

This is a radical perspective.