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you? Are you The Man?
Are you willing to fly with a card carrying NRA life member with a CC permit who may be armed at any given time? :-) I"m a lifetime member of the NRA myself. Bring the guns with you. I'll carry my hogleg too. Only kidding. I think you are serious and you should examine this firewall forward. I'll tell you one thing however, don't change any of it. Build it just like Jess and Tom and Bill tell you to build it. If you are a tinker-er and you want to screw with things, this is not it. IF you build it as they tell you to build it, most likely it will work fine. Don't modify anything. Go by the plans. They've spent years perfecting all this stuff. Don't put your opinion into the loop. Likewise. I am serious, but as I mentioned earlier, I won't be starting for a few more years. I built a fairly expensive house four years ago right before my company tanked (I work for a telecomm company) and my stock went from $120/share to $1.60, and I now have a large mortgage to pay off and looming college bills. Matt ****, Sorry to hear that. When you want a ride, just come over anyway. I think Jess may just put me back on the insurance so I can demo the thing. Come on over anytime once that happens. BWB |
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Matt Whiting wrote:
So you are saying that our genetics have changed dramatically in the last 40 years? I don't buy it. Our rate of obesity has increased dramatically in the lat 40 years, but I don't think we've mutated all that much genetically. Then again, I'm not a geneticist... :-) Matt That's not quite correct - at least according to my doctor. They call it Factor-X diabetes. I have hardly any genetic risk for diabetes, but have developed Type-1 anyway. The cause is generally explained as the massive amount of sugar and alcohol that have been introduced into our diets since about 1940 or so. The doctor prescribed an oral med (Metformin HCL, in my case) and over the first year I shed 50 pounds with very little change in diet or activity. I'm now 196 pounds, which is not too bad at 6'3. If you are overweight (and by media reports, most of us are seriously so), might be wise to get screened for Diabetes. Especially if your diet has included a lot of soda or alcohol... Richard |
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On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:18:27 -0500, "Matthew P. Cummings"
wrote: Watch the people around you the next time you eat out. I'll bet you see them overeat by a HUGE amount. Go to KFC, Hardee's, McDonals, etc. and watch. You'll see the majority of people consume over 1000 calories at one sitting, imagine them doing the same for 2 more meals. Now you'll see why eating is why we're overweight as a nation. In the film "Supersize me", director Morgan Spurlock spends just one month eating at McDonalds *ONLY*, to see what would happen. He got this bright idea after listening to McDonalds tout their food as being healthy. Doctors he consulted thought that he could not damage himself in only 30 days, they were nearly mistaken. The stipulations were that he would have to accept the suggestion to "supersize" the meal or portion of the meal if suggested by the counter attendant, and try every single item on the menu at some point. Here's a blurb from a review: "Spurlock starts out the picture of health, a strapping 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds. Three doctors and a nutritionist, who reappear throughout, examine him and attest to his well being. But within a few days he's vomiting out of the window of his car. And it's downhill from there. Spurlock's body goes through a general deterioration that surprises even his doctors in its rapidity. (His girlfriend, a vegan chef, is beside herself.) Gaining weight is just the outward sign: His liver becomes toxic, his cholesterol skyrockets, his libido sags, he gets headaches and becomes depressed." After 30 days, he had gained 25 lbs and was suffering from abnormal liver functions. He had to detox on a strict Vegan diet to loose the weight and regain normal liver functions. While he was eating at McDonalds only, he was consuming 5,000 calories a day, or more. By the end of the month, he'd consumed as many calories as most nutritionists recommend people eat in 8 years. McDonalds of course, was unhappy with the film. Corky Scott |
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That's a great idea Matt! I have a mountain bike and a bike trail
that runs right by my back yard. I just haven't taken advantage of those two facts. My brother bought the bike for me, and so far I've only ridden it to the pool with my two girls, which is only about half a mile. My girls would swim and I would just take a nap on the pool lounger. How patheic. I used to ride, senior year high school about twenty years ago, from Herndon, VA to DC, lock up the bike, have lunch somewhere or see the museums and ride back. about fifty miles round trip. I sure miss those days. The weather is nice right now. I outta here, gonna ride down the trail a little. Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone Matt Whiting wrote in message Well, Bryan, might want to try the bike approach again. I just bought two new bikes for me and my wife ... and I can now afford GOOD bikes, which I couldn't when I was young just as you couldn't. I bought two top of the line Fuji comfort bikes. Riding is actually just as much fun now as it was then. I get saddle sore much faster, but I rode a 30 mile ride last Saturday in the hills of northern PA and it didn't kill me. Although, I thought a couple of times that my heart was going to pop out of my chest and run away... :-) Matt |
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Both my mom and dad are diabetics. My grandfather lived to be 104 by
the way and smoked the whole time since he was fourteen. I am hoping that this thing skipps a generation or two. Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone Stealth Pilot wrote in message there is an interesting research paper regarding diabetics. it points out that losing weight and increasing in weight both statistically shortened life in the sample, but wanting to lose weight without losing weight is associated with increases in longevity. had me intrigued for ages until the penny dropped. healthy living has immediate benefits while weight changes take much longer. jogging is not as good as walking as a form of exercise. one of our local hospitals regularly fills a ward with joggers needing knee replacements. getting the weight off in the long term is important for pilots though. adipose tissue is an endocrine gland. having massive over secretion of the hormones from fatty tissue seems to be a precursor to type two diabetes. the consequences of diabetes apart from pilot medical problems are that you suffer impaired peripheral circulation. you dont want to go down that path ever unless you have a fascination for amputations. longevity? I think I'll be happy to make my last flights at 103 and then pack it in. :-) Stealth Pilot |
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How many overweight people do you see in the Sudan?
Only fat ass General Isaih Paul standing on the ramp in Juba telling me that I had to bring back $300 worth of booze from the duty free store in Nairobi, or I might have "problems" on the next trip with paperwork. Walt |
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