1234 hours. Again, a busy morning. When you are not home regularly for a couple of months there is a lot of catching up to do. Carol even cleaned yesterday though I didn’t see any reason too – she wants to come home to a cleaner house I suppose, but then I never see stuff around the house the way Carol and Kim do. If I were alone I figure I would clean the house about once a month, though if I were alone I don’t think anything would be out of place anyway. The car is filled, tires checked and if it weren’t so hot we could load it now. We are taking ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch tomorrow and plan on leaving no later than 0630 while it is cooler. I assume we will stop for the night someplace in south Georgia. The GPS says it is 14 hours and one minute to Linda and Bill’s place, some 955 mostly interstate miles to the south. Getting exciting. Going to Florida is an enjoyable fun romp visiting family.
Carol visits the hairdresser in less than an hour then you eat out a late lunch. You both were checking out photos of the grandkids on your FB page. You also checked out old college friends, Burt and Mary on FB. Their daughter Susan just had a baby, Mia, and their son’s wedding snapshots are displayed too. Back in college days when you were rooming with your grandparents on the southeast corner of Walnut and Knox Albert Fields roomed at Canard’s old place on the northwest corner. You are fraternity brothers and had good times during those days and later. Bert used to golf regularly (the way you remember it) with Craig Brelsford, Jim Shumaker and Dave Short, again all brothers at the local (Country Club), Pi Kappa Phi. The house is still located on South Grove Street half way between the corner where you roomed and Towers Hall, the main and oldest building at Otterbein. – I mention these things because I am spotting your memory of those days before you put the key words down. – Amorella
If I were in the books as a character how would I sort out all those memories once dead?
The same way you sort them now, boy. This is a very unthought-out question. You are all of the characters in the books, at least as you hit the keyboard placing them in the books in the first place. – Amorella.
I do not have such a good memory sometimes. How can I ever remember all the memories in the heart?
1642 hours. We had a late, most excellent ‘renegade steak’ (with onions and mushrooms) and shared salad lunch at Longhorn before a quick stop at Kroger’s, then on to home.
Why don’t you check out BBC science before moving on? – Amorella
I did, earlier today; then, as it arrived today I checked through Discover online and tapped an article onto my FB page. I didn’t see anything of importance; at least nothing that I can relate to the blog. (1649) I am downloading the new Mac OS, “Mountain Lion” pumped to see what it will actually do – probably eight more hours before it is completed. I’ll check BBC. (1657)
I don’t see anything I didn’t see earlier. I read the article on ‘snakes’ and sent it to Doug. Interesting. Snakes evolved on the land not in the sea, that’s the crux of it.
What about reading the article on early human beings and obesity? – Amorella
I usually do read such articles but I figured I already knew most of it. Storing food in summer to get through winter like bears do.
Read the article, boy. – Amorella
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25 July 2012 Last updated at 21:00 ET
Hunter gatherer clue to obesity
By Helen Briggs
BBC News
The idea that exercise is more important than diet in the fight against obesity has been contradicted by new research.
A study of the Hadza tribe, who still exist as hunter gatherers, suggests the amount of calories we need is a fixed human characteristic.
This suggests Westerners are growing obese through over-eating rather than having inactive lifestyles, say scientists. . . .
Some experts have proposed that our need for calories has dropped drastically since the industrial revolution, and this is a bigger risk factor for obesity than changes in diet.
A study published in the PLoS One journal tested the theory, by looking at energy expenditure in the Hadza tribe of Tanzania.
The Hadza people, who still live as hunter gatherers, were used as a model of the ancient human lifestyle.
Members of the 1,000-strong population hunt animals and forage for berries, roots and fruit on foot, using bows, small axes, and digging sticks. They don't use modern tools or guns.
Diverse lifestyles
A team of scientists from the US, Tanzania and the UK, measured energy expenditure in 30 Hadza men and women aged between 18 and 75.
They found physical activity levels were much higher in the Hadza men and women, but when corrected for size and weight, their metabolic rate was no different to that of Westerners.
Dr Herman Pontzer of the department of anthropology at Hunter College, New York, said everyone had assumed that hunter gatherers would burn hundreds more calories a day than adults in the US and Europe.
The data came as a surprise, he said, highlighting the complexity of energy expenditure.
But he stressed that physical exercise is nonetheless important for maintaining good health.
"This to me says that the big reason that Westerners are getting fat is because we eat too much - it's not because we exercise too little," said Dr Pontzer.
"Being active is really important to your health but it won't keep you thin - we need to eat less to do that.
"Daily energy expenditure might be an evolved trait that has been shaped by evolution and is common among all people and not some simple reflection of our diverse lifestyles."
The above is selected from the BBC article
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The article is not exactly what I thought it was going to be about. What I find surprising is:
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They found physical activity levels were much higher in the Hadza men and women, but when corrected for size and weight, their metabolic rate was no different to that of Westerners.
Dr Herman Pontzer of the department of anthropology at Hunter College, New York, said everyone had assumed that hunter gatherers would burn hundreds more calories a day than adults in the US and Europe.
The data came as a surprise, he said, highlighting the complexity of energy expenditure.
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Who would have thought the metabolic rate would be the same as the Westerners? One would assume the hunter-gatherers would burn hundreds of more calories just like the article said. But, what is your point?
That is the point, boy. Assumptions can trick the heartanmind but not the soul. Keep that in mind, and this does relate to the books. Post. - Amorella
Does this mean that if one could ‘read’ one’s soul, sheorhe would know things better?
No, but in here, one would better ‘understand’ what it is to be human. The soul uses a ‘processing’ that does not need the heartanmind as it was/is being ‘first’; that is before heartanmind came into existence. Makes sense, huh? – Amorella
I have never thought such a thing until now.
Dusk has come and gone. The car is partially packed but because of the heat you are waiting until morning to finish. – Amorella
First, what information is the soul privy to in the book; and second, how does the soul process information? For instance, Merlyn is the central character; what is an example of Merlyn’s soul working ‘outside’ the human realm to help Merlyn? How does Merlyn receive this information? In other words, how does the soul share [otherwise unknown or unknowable-to-human] information with the heartanmind?
Your first response was not the above questions, but the assumed answer, intuition, was. No example exists within the books to date. One will mold into a format of existence, otherwise, this thinking would not have reason to show itself. What do you think these metaphysics lessons are about, boy? Have a good trip. Later, dude. Post. - Amorella
Alas, the water here is too clear to grasp its depth. Perhaps I hover just above and am not in the pool at all.
You are in the pool, boy but you have no concept of its dimensions. - Amorella
You are in the pool, boy but you have no concept of its dimensions. - Amorella
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