Diet? NO!

recently I actually linked two different events that I wanted to blog about but until I talked with my wife I did not realize how linked they may actually be.

The reason I linked them was because I heard them both on the news and they both disturbed me. the first one was my alarm about a new dietary practice called carb rinsing.
As best as I can tell the idea is that you fake your body out by making it think you are eating/ drinking carbs but before you actually swallow the item/s you are "consuming" you spit it out. your body will respond by thinking that you ate them so it has to use the "energy" from those carb's therefore you burn the energy represented by those carbs without replacing them thereby burning fat.
The first problem I thought of was... " anytime you try to fool your body, you are heading down a dangerous road." think about it the reason why this would work is because your body "knows" how many carbs are in the item you are "eating". it had to learn this information somehow, most likely from experience. so now the experience it will have is the "carbs I used to get are not going as far... I'm going to have to change the way I burn/use them." that becomes defeating to the problem you are trying to address.
The other problem I saw thought of was, What about all the food you are wasting this way? I mean come on only people who have a total disdain for food (and big pockets) would think that it is OK to waste food by chewing on it and then spitting it out. Especially, and yes I know I sound like a parent here, when there are starving children and people all over the world.

How troublesome is that?

Maybe instead of worrying about the newest diet we ought to simply eat sensibly all the time and exercise regularly.

The other issue was when I heard a news blurb about how girls are hitting puberty at a younger age. the report stated that the age of puberty is down to 7 years old for some of these kids.

I was disturbed by this because I have three girls. but also immediately disturbed because the oldest is 6.

But, like I said, my wife thought of an aspect hat links these two issue even closer.
My wife is a proponent for breast feeding. And all our kids were raised that way. and the thing that bothers her is that too many mothers jump to formula too quickly.
Now don't get her wrong, she understnads the issues facing some mothers out there. she knows that breast feeding can be painful (she's done it she knows what it's like) and she knows that there are some out there who cannot do it for whatever reason.

But her point on this issue was that she believes that the prevalence of formula has led to this new issue of early puberty.

Her point... Women are using more formula, which means more children cannot handle the Milk based formulas (just by the law of averages) so more children are being raised on soy based formulas. as we have seen, soy increases estrogen or estrogen like properties in the body, estrogen is a major factor in women issues like puberty. so my wife believes that the probability is that these children are reaching puberty at such A young age because they are being fed soy based formula at a young age. and I think her reasoning is sound.

So we really ought to watch what we eat a little better and stop trying to make new ways to use food that fool the body... because as sneaky as people might be their bodies are not so easily fooled.

Thinking on the edges.

Well here is an interesting issue for me.

Last Saturday I was up late totally absorbed in a Terry Pratchet book. One of the things his main character in the book was dealing with was trying to think of something that was lurking on the edge of her thought.

It made me think of quite an interesting point, how many times have I also done the same thing? I have often had thoughts on the edge of my mind which I could not quite grasp.

I wonder if that happens to others... I think it does.

But then I wondered why people don't search for those thoughts. most of us, myself included, tend to just write off the issue and don't chase those thoughts down and I wonder why.

I think we all are trying to escape too much. If you think about it our society has been pushing for a long time to make us all easily distracted.

I am aware of my escapism tendencies, I have always looked to reading to escape. Sci Fi Fantasy, mystery... didn't really matter which, as long as I could use those books to get away from it all.

Today there are a lot of other choices to distract and escape. And at each stage it gets more invasive and total.
It started with Radio then it moved to movies, then T.V. then Video/s then DVD's now Blue-ray's. Then there are also the video games... it started with the Commodore's and now you have Xbox and Wii and PlayStation, the graphics are being touted as "awesome" or "lifelike". And they are but this isn't necessarily a good thing.

Maybe as a nation we need to grow up and learn how to face ourselves again.

What a week!

well this last week was quite the doozy. If you read my last post you know what was going on then, but after that post I got a call from the babysitter I had planned for. She said she wasn't going to be able to help out. So even though our 10th anniversary was last Wednesday, we are going to have to go out to dinner this next week instead.

Ah well

Also had some fun dealing with a little more illness as well.

But hey we are all still alive so...
I suppose we had a good weekend, I wish I had gotten something better for my wife but apparently that wasn't going to happen... something I ordered wasn't sent, but at least I wasn't charged for it either.
And a lot of the other things I looked at were expensive ad I wasn't sure if the wife would be o.k. if I bought them. I still suffer from the scars of a time when my dad, wanting to do something nice for my mom, got reamed by her for spending money on the piano he bought.

But all in all I am looking forward to the next week. I have a couple of plans lined up this time and about three babysitters to contact if the first bails... at least I hope I do, the best laid plans of mice and men and all that you know.

School starts soon for the girls and tomorrow we have to meet with a representative of Megan's preschool. that should be fun.

Hope all is well with you, until the next time...

what next?

Well now today isn't being very good to me.

This morning I had planed on several things that I needed to get done but unfortunately they are not working out too well.
At the top of my list I have a problem with a portable DVD player that I received this past father's day.
Barely two months old and it quits working.
It was supposed to be a replacement for the one I had bought before it. That one broke after only three months. they both came from the same seller and if I do not receive satisfaction on this issue I will probably post who they are here and in my other blogs and go on to form a group on Facebook since that seems the in thing right now. But until then...

Faith woke up sick this morning, that was troubling and when I looked into my Blogs here I discovered that the background I was using on one of them had been deleted and I had to restructure that blog. So I have been dealing with those issues all day, (Faith being Ill redoing my blog/s, etc...)

And then I fell asleep which was nice, if short, when I woke up I realized I had not put away the leftovers from my lunch from last night. When I went to do that I found that one of the ice-packs in the lunch box had sprung a leak and was literally ALL over everything in my lunchbox.

As I was in the process of cleaning that up I went to hang my lunch box out to dry in the shower and discovered that my NEW bottle of body wash had taken a header from it's storage space and now all the "soap" is covering the shower floor.
I guess to sum it all up I would appreciate your prayers.

Of course, there is more!
What I find most interesting right at this moment is that I am fairly o.k. After looking at all those things that have gone wrong I can still think I am better off than I ought to be and better off than many others. So I guess that means there is a praise report in there too.

Well I better get a little more sleep so until I see you again...

Catch y ou on the flipside.

my new blog schedule

Hello all.
I am so sorry that I have not been following up on my blog/s. the good news is that I will be tring to do a better job of it. I think there will have to be a schedule though. For my general blog I will try to post three or four times a week. The politically incorrect and Christian blogs though will be a once a week option.

It seems that for me I get so caught up in things that I tend to forget these things. (or I get so tired of being online that I give up before I get to the blog/s. so I will try to change that up.
I also sometimes cannot think of anything g to post. So I will have to switch on my brain a little more often. But I do want to post regularly and in such a way that it is pertinent and of value to my readers.

Thank you for your patience as I get my self sorted out.

Your’s faithfully…


Colt!

Movie Ideas

So Lately I have been thinking about a lot of things.

And I have to ask, Why is it that Hollywood is incapable of anything original anymore? All the movies you see anymore are remakes sequels or prequels. But none of them are original.

I think that what needs to happen is that Hollywood needs to get rid of all the writers, actors and directors who have been there for so long. After all they have all had their chance to make it big, give someone else a chance. And that will also give a fresh perspective on how things could be done.

That’s what we need is for a new breed of entertainer.
Maybe we could also get cleaner movies. That would be a good thing! I am very disturbed about moves that are presented as being suitable for children! I mean Tim Burton, In my opinion, ought NOT to be making kid flicks and neither should Johnny Depp. These movies are to dark and disturbed for any children I know.

Same goes for Mike Myers… I mean I really feel the Cat in the Hat movie seemed to be a travesty of what Theodore Geisel wrote. And Shrek???? What The Heck???? Let’s teach the kids how to be totally gross and disgusting, like that isn’t already enough of a problem.

Oh back to the Tim Burton/ Johnny Depp combo… What was the point behind the Charlie and the Chocolate factory remake? I actually heard that they said it was closer to the book and Roald Dahl‘s writing.?! HUH?? How could it be closer to what Roald Dahl was intending when the original was supervised BY Roald Dahl himself? I mean I think if he was sitting on the set telling people how to do things then that is more likely to fit his idea then a movie made that has only an interpretation by someone else?

And what was that with Alice in wonderland?

Some people will say, “well kids today are more mature.” But I do not really think that is a good thing. We should let our kids BE kids. Let them have a childhood, let them enjoy the innocence that comes from such times. They will have to grow up soon enough.

You know I remember what it was like to be a kid and I know they will want to go see the “adult” movies (the 10 year old who wants to look all grown up so he wants to go to a P.G. 13 movie or such) But how about if we make the movies cleaner so a G rated movie is really good for kids (say 4 - 7 years old) then make movies like Shrek or the Alice in wonderland/ Wonka remakes into P.G. or even P.G. 13 movies then it might not be so bad when the 10 year old goes to see them.

a flash of common sense

lately I have been noticing a lack of common sense being displayed on our televisions.

I mean I have seen a worse then usual display of idiocy.

First I want to address the issue/s with Toyota. While I understand that there are problems with Toyota and some of the issues that have come out of that, I have to take a moment to pause and say "but I would rather own A Toyota than ..." you see I look at the Ford pinto or the Crown Victoria and here we have two cars that have shown a tendency to explode when rear ended, there are several GM cars that have also, apparently, displayed some homicidal tendencies.
the worst people can say about Toyota is the vehicle/s may accelerate on their own.

my view is, there is very little I can do about getting rear ended by an idiot. (maybe he is driving the toyota?)but if I am driving a toyota and it starts accelerating I can do something about it.

Once, when I was a school bus driver, I had the throttle on my bus stick open while on the highway. I had a load of students on my bus and teachers as I was driving for a field trip.

When this became an issue I was able to put the gear selector in neutral and pull to the side of the road and come to a complete and safe stop.

I then proceeded to fix the problem and finished taking the students to their destination.
The teacher's comments were that they didn't even realize there was anything going on until we stopped at the side of the road. And I started working on the problem.

ANY good driver who has common sense ought to be able to do this.

You can ALWAYS put the car in neutral, turn off the ignition etc... I have NEVER experienced loss of control for having my vehicle in neutral. So anyone who is "capable" of driving the car they ought to be able to take control if something goes wrong.

It is plain common sense.

The other point is a commercial I recently have seen for a new, hands free, soap pump from, I think, Lysol which states that "you" can avoid the horror of contamination by getting the new pump.
My very first thought was "wait a minute, that doesn't make sense."

If I am using soap then I am already washing my hands. I do not make a habit of touching a soap pump AFTER washing my hands so to have the pump be hands free is ridiculous.
Any germs I MIGHT pick up off the pump will wash down the drain along with the germs already on my hands that caused me to be washing in the first place.

So please people get some common sense. stop letting the advertising people out there take away your intelligence.