best diet for heart recovery

4.12: co.health/ask.lef.org/best diet for heart health:
What is the best diet for a 
recovering heart attack patient?
(legume, paleo, zone, heart,)
Transpower (3/5/2012)/Try the Paleolithic Diet:

lean meat (skinless turkey and chicken, low-fat beef),
fish, vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
High protein, low carb, low fat.[/quote]

me:
. concerning the Paleo diet,
beware lumping together legumes with grains;
Paleo experts love to point out how toxic soy is,
but black turtle beans are not nearly as toxic,
and they have equally high quality protein .
. beans are a great way to control the rate of
both glucose and protein;
and, according to Dr.Darmadi-Blackberry,
(Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2004;13(2):217-20)
Legumes are the most important dietary predictor
of survival in older people of various ethnicities.
. I get half my protein from red or black beans,
and half from LE whey and few eggs;
mixed with olive oil, and rosemary .
. along with plenty of greens, cruciferous veg,
tomato sauce, boiled yam,
selenium, magnesium, seaweed, and LE fish oil,
I consider that diet consistent with a Zone diet
-- a less-toxic version of the Soy Zone .
. listen to paleo's discuss beans:
. here's the science of bean prep:
. I'm not too fussy about bean prep myself;
I bring the beans to a boil, and then let sit overnight;
toss the water and vitamix-puree
with oil and rosemary herb;
pressure cook for 30min at 210F
(see my cooking gear).
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"Futuro Pressure Cooker"   "Auto Sensor Induction Cooktop"

convert recumbent trike to electric

4.16: gear/trike`helmet/
head-mounted electric traffic signaling:
. having a light mounted on top of
recumbent triker's helmet
can offer the same lights a motorcycle has;
it plugs into a socket on the body
that lets you give signals by button,
without needing a hole in body of velomobile
for arm to give signals .

4.21: news.gear/trike/MagicPie Kit:
Easily Convert Trike into Electric:

builtin-shoes as toe-clips

4.16: gear/trike/builtin-shoes as toe-clips:
. Idea: combine powergrips with a heel cup
that has most of the outer half removed;they fit together
... but moot if building a shell for the trike
that is complete with a floor?
still, even if saved from catastrophe of
slipping out of pedals and breaking a leg
as your foot is dragged under the trike,
slipping onto a shell's floor
is still an annoying interruption of pedaling;
and, the new idea would mean

sealed bearings not easy to remove

4.1: news.gear/trike/sealed bearings not easy to remove:

. bearings actually quite easy to install if you do it yourself.
Just make sure you use a socket that just fits inside the hub
to seat the new bearing.
Pushing on any part of the bearing but the outside race
will distort the bearing and cause it to have
a very short lifespan.
Look carefully for the bearing # on the race.
Likely it is a 6001RS 12x28x8. 10 about $15.
Email ICE and they'll send you a video
on how to replace them.
I used the old bearings once removed
and the axle bolts to
force the new bearings to seat in the hubs.
Alternatively is to have them changed at a dealer.
I chose to change the 4 bearings for the front wheels
with ceramic hybrid bearings
of the 6001 series. [$35, $15 /each]
ICE ceramic bearings cost about $15 each.
...
Driving the old bearings out is pretty simple
from the "outside" of the hub.

...
. used the Ice method for driving out the old bearings;

After half an hour of trying and making no progress
I took the wheel to my LBS;
They said how hard it was get the bearings out
- they had to make a tool specially to get behind the casing.

learning to tighten spokes on cheap wheels

4.13: proj.gear/bike#walmart/tighten spokes on both wheels:
. I have a great new Park Tool SW-42 Four Sided-Spoke
Wrench for Nipples of 1.36 Inch/ $8.40
. the front was easy, give each a 1/4 turn
and things were still ok;
but the rear had some seemingly loose ones,
and when trying to bring those to
the same tension as the others,
I got the rim so twisted it wouldn't turn!
so I had to completely loosen all of them and start over .

birthers replaced by fullblooders #obama

4.22: news.pol/obama/birthers replaced by fullblooders
summary:
. a New Jersey court case tried to have
Obama removed from the ballot
based on testimony that his posted birth certificate was altered;
but the judge simply ignored the testimony,
agreeing not to admit the birth certificate as evidence
and then assuming Obama was born in Hawaii anyway .

. snopes is a site that specializes in verifying rumours;
and, along with showing his long-form certificate,
and some official hawaii.gov confirmation,
they also dispute the evidence given by
those who dispute of the certificate's authenticity .

. but, the certificate's authenticity is moot;
because, the litigant's main argument was that
irregardless of being born in the united states,
there exists a constitutional amendment
that narrowly defines "(natural born citizen),
and requires the president to have both parents be citizens;
whereas, Obama's father was a national African .
. the judge simply scoffed at such interpretations,
and the litigant's only legal recourse is to appeal .

. some anti-Obama sites pointed out that
Obama's own lawyers agreed there was no evidence
that obama was born in this country;
in fact, what they agreed to was only that
there was absolutely no evidence
before the court
as to who Obama is or where he was born ...
because they absolutely were not compelled to
provide the court with any such evidence .

desert diabetics at risk of fungal infection #HFCS #hormonics

4.2: web.health/diabetics at risk
of deadly, desert fungal infection:
summary:
. the Mayo clinic (in az's Phoenix suburbs)
has released a report of an invasive fungus,
Basidiobolus ranarum,
that is partial to deserts (Arizona and Saudi Arabia);
and, it grows tumor-like masses around the intestines;
but it's very rare, because it prefers diabetics,
other metabolic disorders, or the immune compromised .
. a systemic fungal infection that is partial to deserts?
that reminds of valley fever .
. I got very sore knees from valley fever in Tucson
after tilling the ground during the fungal infection's
favorite growth period: after a long-needed rain .
. Basidiobolus ranarum starts from ingesting the feces
of some animal whose intenstines usually contain it .
. the CDC had no clues as to how the very few victims
could have possibly ingested feces,
but they may not be aware of the desert's
ferocious dust storms:
they can dig deep for fresh feces,
and fling it into a breathing mouth or nose .

dreammachines

3.5: web.wealth/dreammachines:

cheapest dream machine is
$129.00 Sirius by Mindplace

When I was in college
in the late '80s
I built something called a Dreamachine
to help me relax in stressful times.
It was invented decades earlier by
Brion Gysin  and Ian Sommerville.

The Dreamachine is a somewhat
primitive antecedent
of the Sirius and other devices like it.
So I hunted around for a flicker rig
and found that the technology had
come a good way along in 20 years.
This is the sort of little machine
that you will have to try for yourself.
Some people find that the
flickering lights make them feel
uneasy or even nauseous,
and if you have any seizure disorder
then this type of thing should be avoided at all costs.
But with those caveats, if this thing does it for you,
you will never want to be without it.
The features are really good considering
that this is basically the lowest priced instrument
you will find of its kind.
What I really purchased this box for
was the ability it offers users to set our own frequencies.
I like to be able to find a frequency that feels good to me
and just leave it there for a while.
The lower frequency ranges actually settle my mind into
sleep-oriented brain wave patterns
and help empty my head of the sort of ruminative thoughts
that keep me from getting the sleep I need.

-- James J. Pyke "Pajkossy" 2009

3.31:
. I was first exposed to a dream machine by
psychologists who were testing me for epilepsy
(because I convulsed after passing out
during a medical procedure).
. the strobe light they used was very bright,
and they would adjust the strobe frequency
until it showed on my EEG
that I was getting alpha wave spikes .
. it caused me to see vivid dreams while awake!
I saw a neon-intense version of a flag
with green and red checkers,
and the letter K floating above it .
. I was so in love, and here it is,
but at $129, I'm worried about the durability .

#antipsychotics are a total outrage

3.15: news.med/apm/antipsychotics are a total outrage:

Sandra G. Boodman washingtonpost.com 03-14-12:

Adriane Fugh-Berman, a physician, and associate professor
of pharmacology at Georgetown University,
was stunned by the question:
Two graduate students who had
no symptoms of mental illness
wondered if she thought they should take
a powerful schizophrenia drug
each had been prescribed to treat insomnia.
"It's a total outrage," said Fugh-Berman,
"These kids needed some basic sleep [advice],
like reducing their intake of caffeine and alcohol,
not a highly sedating drug."

. some of the public may not be aware
that physicians are not only outraged by
inappropriate use of psychiatric drugs,
but often also feel that the entire field of psychiatry
is "a total outrage" because they profess the very notion
that psychosis is a neurotransmitter imbalance
in need of a rebalancing medication .

. honest scientists will tell you something else:
emotions and chronic stress cause these imbalances;
and, the only reason for medications
is if your state doesn't have the money
to provide a secure environment for the mentally ill:
one that calms emotions, and reduces stress .

. remember that even when hallucinations exist,
they are no worse than reality;
both can be called the subject's environment,
and what makes mental illness dangerous
is not the hallucination,
but the policy of taking the law into one's own hands .
. what people are really afraid of from the mentally ill,
is the likelihood of responding to stress in an illegal way
because the mentally ill often believe in
pervasive conspiracies that would cause one to
lose faith in our legal system .

. the other problem that medications try to solve
is emotional contagion:
when people can't hold their emotions,
then those emotions get transmitted to others .

. finally there is the non-obvious problem:
what the psychiatrists are calling hallucinations
are really artifacts of supernatural disorders,
where people are exchanging thoughts silently
via devil-synchronized daydreams .
. this can cause great emotional distess,
as people have no way of controlling
what they {think, said} to others .
. these shared thoughts can be
esp'ly damaging in the workplace;
because, we have to be there -- and stay there --
for what seems like forever .
. if something evil is rubbing off on you,
it's got a lot of time to do that rubbing .
. if many are feeling you rub them the wrong way,
that's not a halucination,
and you may not even be mentally ill,
yet we should consider you to be socially challenged,
and there should be special programs for you,
that find an employment setting where you can fit in .

. if on the other hand, we chose to give you meds,
then you get diabetes, and raise our medicaid bills .
. capitalism can be efficient;
and christianity can be merciful;
but, when you try to mix them,
please don't think you get merciful efficiency .

. that would be a delusion,
unless it was religiously recognized ...
-- that gem can be found in the psychiatrist's dsm IV
(diagnostic and statistical manual).
. do you see what psychiatry is doing?
it's an army of politicians not scientists .
3.31:
. it doesn't matter that the "superstitious" might have
more insight or more proof
than conventional religious theories;
what matters is,
who is funding psychiatrists ? .
. psychiatrists had to stop calling
homosexuality a disorder,
and, in time, they will also have to stop calling
parapsychology a delusion .
. a belief in parapsychology is a key part
of the current schizophrenia diagnosis;
that's why they are called psychotic,
because they believe in what is
perfectly possible according to parapsychology .

#alzheimer's cured by anti-cancer drugs #health

3.21: news.health/alz/cured by anti-cancer drugs:

. epothilone D (EpoD) works like paclitaxel,
but it also crosses the blood-brain barrier,
bexarotene is another anti-cancer agent that
cures alzheimers in mice bred to develope alzheimers
or alz'-like symptoms .

. are these anti-cancer drugs working by controlling
sugar's ability to cross-link proteins?

Epothilones are Novel Anti-Tubulin Cytotoxic Agents .
Epothilones act via microtubule stabilization:
. after stabilization of microtubules,
the formation of the mitototic spindle is inhibited,
and the cell undergoes apoptosis.

uphs.upenn.edu's summary:
EpoD prevents cancer cell proliferation by
over-stabilizing specialized microtubules involved in the
separation of chromosomes during the process of cell division.
. in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD),
epothilone D (EpoD) is effective in
preventing further neurological damage
and improving cognitive performance:
. aged mice had memory deficits and a condition that resembles
the tangles formed by misfolded tau protein .
In nerve cells, tau normally stabilizes structures called microtubules,
the molecular railroad tracks upon which cellular cargo is transported.
Tangles may compromise microtubule stability
with resulting damage to nerve cells.

jneurosci.org's summary:
Neurodegenerative tau.opathies, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD),
are characterized by insoluble deposits of
hyper.phosphorylated tau protein within brain neurons.
Increased phosphorylation and decreased solubility
may diminish normal tau stabilization of microtubules (MTs).
EpoD treatment reduced axonal dystrophy
and increased axonal MT density
which led to improved cognitive performance.
Moreover, the EpoD-treated PS19 mice had
less forebrain tau pathology
and increased hippocampal neuronal integrity .

. another {anti-cancer, anti-alzheimer} coincidence
is that Bexarotene also cures both;
but appears to be doing so by a different route .
. while it controls cutaneous T-cell lymphoma by
activation of retinoid X receptors (RXRs);
it may be controlling alzheimer's amyloid plaque by
stimulating the expression of apolipoprotein E (ApoE)
which leads to intracellular clearance of β-Amyloid .

Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) :
. ApoE transports lipoproteins, fat-soluble vitamins, and cholesterol
into the lymph system and then into the blood.
It is essential for the normal catabolism of
triglyceride-rich lipoprotein constituents.
. found in the chylomicron and Intermediate-density lipoprotein
that binds to a specific receptor on liver cells and peripheral cells.
. it is suppressing T cell proliferation,
macrophage functioning regulation,
lipid antigen presentation facilitation (by CD1) to natural killer T cell
as well as modulation of inflammation and oxidation.
. ApoE also enhances proteolytic break-down of beta-amyloid,
both within and between cells;
but the E4 variant (isoform ApoE-ε4) is not very effective at this .
. carriers of 2 E4 alleles have 10 ... 30 times the risk of
developing AD by 75 years of age,
as compared to those not carrying any E4 alleles.

ApoE deficiency causes depleted myelin cholesterol;
statin therapy may result in Cholesterol Depletion;
both statins and ApoE deficiency can result in neuron failure
as can Alzheimer's disease .
The inhibition of liver-produced cholesterol is associated with
failure of cholesterol-rich lipid transport mechanisms
used by processes such as cell imports (endocytosis)
and cell exports (exocytosis).
. most substances important to cells are
large polar molecules that cannot pass through the
hydrophobic plasma or cell membrane;
therefore they rely on vesicles attaching to the membrane
to either import or export the reluctant molecules .
. cholesterol lowering drug can harm insulin function by
making pancreatic beta cells unable to export their insulin .
A retrospective analysis of a five year trial showed a
30% increase in the incidence of Diabetes
associated with a cholesterol reduction therapy .

olive oils with acidity or peroxide max's

3.25: web.cook/oo/olive oils with acidity or peroxide max's:

usa has True Extra Virgin Olive Oil:
 .5% free oleic acid
California Olive Oil Council is the only North American
certified quality control program
that exceeds strict International standards for
True Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
eg,
Bari Gourmet Robust  (4 Gallons) $152.00
Bari Traditional Gallon Tin (6 Gallons) $210.00

definition of True Extra Virgin Olive Oil:
. In order to classify as extra virgin,
the oil's acidity must be below 0.8%,
(a maximum peroxide level of 16 meq O2/kg)
The best-quality extra virgin olive oils
have an acidity level ranging from 0.1 % to 0.3 % .

definition of (non-extra) Virgin olive oil:
This oil is produced the same as extra olive oil.
It differs only in acidity level.  It cannot exceed 2% acidity
. another definition differs:
. maximum acidity level of 1.5° degrees,
and peroxide 20 meq O2/kg max .

sleeping pills risk cancer

3.1: news.health/sleeping pills/
increased risk of death and cancer: 

The higher the dose, the greater the risk of dying,
while people on higher doses also had
higher risks of cancer .
. any drug for sleep -- benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepines,
barbiturates and sedative antihistamines --
increased the risk of dying;

[but death from cancer was not specified .]

3.10: news.health/vit'e
protects against sleep-loss nerve damage:
The neuroprotective effect of vitamin E on
chronic sleep deprivation-induced memory impairment:
the role of oxidative stress.Behavioural Brain Research, 2012;226(1):205-10

"Sleep deprivation induces memory impairment,
and treatment with 100mg/kg vitamin E orally
prevented this impairment probably through
its antioxidant action in the hippocampus.
. chronic sleep deprivation induces a reduction in
hippocampus antioxidant markers including
glutathione (GSH), oxidized glutathione (GSSG)
and GSH/GSSG, glutathione peroxidase (GPx),
catalase, and superoxide dismutase (SOD)
. vitamin E normalized the GSH/GSSG ratio,
and the activity of catalase, SOD, and GPx .

lean programming applied to business

2011.9.24: news.adds/the lean startup:
tech nation radio with Eric Ries,
Author of Start-Up Smarts:
The Thinking Entrepreneur's Guide to
Starting and Growing Your Business
. science based entrepreneurship,
defined as finding the tools
for most efficiently managing risk .
. instead of asking:
how can I produce the spec
 with a cheaper impl'?
 the lean startup asks:
. how can I learn the same thing,
from a cheaper experiment?
eg, how can you prove people will think
your product adds value?
. the pivot is the plan you go to
when you decide your current one
has produced a lesson instead of a product .
. mgt is human engineering
2012.2.26:
. engineering is the science of
optimizing utilization of a resource .
. engineering is often neatly about
working with standardized parts,
but also about wrapper strategies
for dealing with the unstandardizable
aspects of humans .

modulation of hormones with food and herbs #cancer #hormonics #BHRT

2.25: web.health/hormonics/anti-cancer
modulation of hormones with food and herbs:
[!] adapted from: 11.9.23:
news.health/hormonics/meridianvalleylab.com
intro:
. this explains how hormones of both men and women
can be affected by dietary changes .
. both men and women are often over-producing their
estrogen, cortisol, insulin,
and are thereby mismanaging their
progesterone, DHEA, and testosterone .
. this advice is mainly a paraphrasing of the
naturopathic doctor, Dr. Barry Wheeler,
who uses bio-identical hormone replacement therapy
while testing for current hormone levels
(see resources at bottom).

cancer prevention: estrogen quotient(EQ)

 EQ(should be > 1 ) =
            E3[estriol]
-----------------------------------------
(E1[estrone] + E2[estradiol])

. an iodine + iodide mix can induce a healthy EQ
by converting E1 to E3,
(16-alpha-hydroxy-estrone is a middle step)
. use 3...4 doses of {Iodoral, i-Throid}
or 6...8 drops of Lugol’s iodine (Rx).
[. an iodine-rich diet is yet another reason why
the Japanese are protected from breast cancer .]

DHEA is anti-cancer but beware oral use:
. low DHEA can increase the risk of cancer;
but oral DHEA is a common cause of high estrone (E1);
use it only transdermally [cream, inhaled] .

methyl-donors are anti-cancer agents:
. E1 and and esp'ly 4-hydroxy-E1
increase cancer risk.
. a diet that raises 2-methoxy-E2
can usually lower 4-hydroxy-E1 levels .
. this is done with methyl-donors:
# the methylcobalamin form of vitamin B12,
# the methylfolate form of folate/folic acid,
# S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe),
# betaine, and glutathione.

The 2/16 ratio:

. conversion of E1 to the good E3
is done by first producing the pro-cancer
16-alpha-hydroxy-estrone;
and then converting that to anti-cancer E3 .
. things that reduce 16-alpha-hydroxy-estrone
will tend to raise 2-hydroxy-estrone .

. the Brassica family can shift 2/16 ratio:
(Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts,
bok choy, mustard greens, and kale)
. the active ingredient is indole-3-carbinol (I3C)
and di-indolylmethane (DIM);
but, if using a veg'concentrate, beware overdose:
they can stop E1 from being converted to the E3
that is needed to maintain a healthy EQ
and avoid osteoporosis .
. men who eat Brassica vegetables four times a week
have 40 % less risk of prostate cancer .

Other supplements for 2/16 ratio:
magnesium (300 milligrams daily),
vitamin B6 (50 milligrams a day)[beware nerve damage]
vitamin E (600 IU at bedtime)[beware flu eroding heart]

paths for making testosterone:

. not only is testosterone decreasing in elder men,
but estrogens may increase by up to 40% .
. aromatase converts T to estradiol,
while 5AR (5-alpha-reductase) converts T to
DHT (5α-dihydro-testosterone).

. the 5AR is also doing other conversions as well:
# Androstenedione -> andosterone
# Cortisol -> allo-tetrahydro-cortisol .
. DHEA up-regulates 5AR activity
[ ... perhaps this how it balances cortisol,
by reducing it to allo-tetrahydro-cortisol ?]

Progesterone inhibits 5AR .
[. often thought of as a woman's hormone,
progesterone is the man's primary device for
preserving testosterone! ]

convert DHT to anti-cancer hormones:

. it's a myth that DHT needs to be suppressed;
while an over-abundance of DHT can be a sign of
estrogen's dominance over progesterone,
the other key to avoiding prostate cancer may be found in
converting any DHT to the anti-cancer androgens:

# androstanediol, [(5α-androstane-3α,17β-diol)
-- also known as 3α-diol (3α-Androstanediol)  --
is catalyzed by the enzyme 3-α-HSD .]
[. 3α-diol can be potent:
it can provide a key signal for progression of
androgen-independent prostate cancer .

# 3β-Adiol  (5-alpha-androstane-3-beta-17-beta-diol).
[3β-Androstanediol catalyzed by the enzyme 3-β-HSD .]
. 3β-adiol is inhibited by some Heavy metals,
such as cadmium and arsenic (prostate cancer risks).
. 3β-Adiol stimulates only estrogen receptor beta,
and has anti-proliferative and re-differentiation activities;
it also modulates the brain's stress response .

 . beware powerful anti-DHT prescriptions
-- the 5-alpha reductase inhibitors --
because they are also lowering androsterone[s] .
. Saw palmetto can lower 3β-Adiol too much .

. the best way to control DHT production
is by maintaining progesterone function
(don't have too much estrogen).
. some food ingredients are 5-alpha reductase inhibitors:
    GLA (grass fed animals)
    EPA fish oils,
    Vitamin D3
    Zinc -- B6 can potentiate this .

testosterone's aromatization to estrogen:

. ways men make estrogen:
# androstenedione -> testosterone -> estradiol
# androstenedione -> estrone .
. chronic high insulin is the main cause of
men's testosterone being aromatized into estrogens;
however, a low-insulin diet is not a quick fix:
it could take 2 years to normalize aromatization .

. herbal ways to reduce aromatization include
Myomin (a combination of Chinese botanicals)
and chrysin liposomal spray ).
[. I could not find any liposomal versions of chrysin ...]

[Dr Chi's Myomin:
Myomin contains Aralia, and Cyperus rotundus;
both reduce estradiol [volume and function]:
by inhibiting the aromatase enzyme,
and preventing estradiol from binding to receptors.
. Myomin also contains Smilax glabra, [anti-diabetic]
and Curcurma zedoria .
. Myomin may raise levels of interferon (IFN)
to stimulate natural killer cells,
and raise interleukin-2 (IL-2)
to induce the proliferation of immune cells .]
[ Curcurma zedoria(White Turmeric):
Chang Minyi` AntiCancer Medical Herbs
(Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, 1992):
Curcuma zedoaria ... breaks ribosoma formation in cancer cells, ... .
.... possibly related to
RIP (Ribosome inactivating protein) function .]

resources:

# Dr. Barry Wheeler's hormone balancing articles .
# Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement (BRHT):
risks you should know and how to reduce them
# BHRT is not easy after HRT proven wrong
# other Nutrition & Healing articles
# Bioidentical hormone Physician referrals:
American College for the Advancement in Medicine
or the American Academy of Environmental Medicine .
# Wright`Taking The Fear Out of
Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
- One Urine Test at a Time
# more about chinese herbs .

best sources of chloride #hypertension

12.1.17: web.health/hypertension/best sources of chloride:

summary:
. trying to find a source of chloride
I couldn't find one specifically vegetarian
(and thereby avoiding sodium chloride)
but the best source of chloride or other buffers
(for the preferred alkaline diet)
will coincide with sources of potassium;
so, what were the best sources of
high potassium and low sodium ?
. all fruits & veg' are low in sodium
except seaweed, but some high-sodium seaweeds
are still low in sodium chloride,
(this should concern you only if your
grossly high-carb diet is messing up your kidneys ).
. the highest sources of potassium, by far,
are the beans, -- go legumes! --
followed by nuts, yam, avocado, mushrooms
(500 ... 1000 mg per 100 g of food)
. high-carb sources of buffer include
oats, quinoa, buckwheat, wild rice .
. surprisingly,
while green density is a sign of magnesium,
greens aren't always the best sources of potassium
(Spinach has 558mg but collards an kale much less so)
. the same with many great sources of
anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatories
(often just 100 ... 200 mg of buffer per 100 g food ).

#diet DASH (dietary approaches to stopping #hypertension)

2011.11.10 ... 2012.2.19:
bk.health/diet#DASH(dietary approaches to stopping hypertension):

• summary of the diet:
  • # DASH is high in:
    • best potassium sources:
    • magnesium is very important to hypertension:
  • # DASH is low in:
  • # DASH is too low in beans:
  • # DASH is too high in popular pitfalls:
  • replace the DASH`[fats & oils].menu
  • replace the DASH`sweets menu
  • replace DASH`[lean meats & fatty fish].menu
• notes
  • the DASH macronutrient rules:
  • DASH`minerals:
  • co.apt: critique:
    • very cautious about legumes:
    • todo: compared to zone diet
    • one size fits all:
  • TLC:

Reinagel`food Inflammation index

2011.11.25:  news.health/
diet#Inflammation index (Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N):
Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N Inflammation Free Diet Plan:

. author of the The Inflammation Free Diet Plan;
see her food inflammation index ratings
at NutritionData.self.com .
. she developed the IF Rating system in 2005,
as a way to estimate the anti/inflammatory potential
of foods and combinations of foods.
. her 2006 book, The Inflammation Free Diet Plan,
detailed how the IF Rating system is calculated,
and how to  use it.
After the book and the IF Ratings were published,
NutritionData.com added the IF Ratings to the site
as part of its food and recipe analysis.
and added her as a nutrition advisor for ND.
. walnuts,
have a reputation for being anti-inflammatory
because they are a good source of omega-3 fatty acids.
While this is true, what people often overlook is that
walnuts are even higher in omega-6 fatty acids.
a high ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fats
promotes inflammation.
While eating walnuts increases your intake of omega-3 fats,
it increases your intake of omega-6 fats even faster.
Although walnuts can be a great part of a
healthy, anti-inflammatory diet,
eating walnuts alone will not improve the
omega-6/omega-3 ratio of your diet.
. whole grains,
do contain some anti-inflammatory nutrients,
in particular zinc and folate.
But they also contain a lot of carbohydrates,
which tend to increase blood sugar,
which tends to exacerbate inflammation.

#hypertension is from #sugar not #salt #health

2011.{11..12}.1: health/hypertension
2012: summary:
. hypertension is not caused by excessive salt;
but rather by a high-glycemic diet
that provokes too much insulin
which is then disabling the kidneys
by preventing them from removing salt .
. another factor is arterial tension
that is controlled by magnesium .
. here again, insulin abuse is the culprit,
causing magnesium resistance,
requiring higher doses to the same job .
. high amounts of dietary fructose
can be another source of high blood pressure .
. some salty seaweed seems to have
little effect on pressure;
that's because the pressure problem comes only from
the kidney's inability to clear sodium chloride;
whereas some seaweed has no chloride:
its sodium comes in the form bound to proteins .
. Wrack seaweed is a great source of minerals
and is safe for those with high blood pressure .
. conversely,
higher levels of dietary fructose from added sugars
are responsible for not only high blood pressure,
but an epidemic of kidney disease .

Dr.Phinney's Atkins++ (advances_in_ketogenic_diet)

2011.12.8: news.co.med#Dr.Phinney/atkins++:
Steve Phinney, MD` New Atkins for a New You:

. the amount of science expertise that you
and Dr's Westman, Volek, and Phinney have
is actually deeper than Dr. Atkins?
That’s correct.  Science.  Modern science.
And we think we’ve brought current medical science.
But what Dr. Atkins brought to the diet was, in a way,
similar to what a Lakota or Kiowa grandmother
brought to this.
Dr. Atkins treated thousands of patients on this diet.
And he had an excellent empiric body of observation;
he basically evolved a diet that worked well
for the purposes of his time,
to help people easily and healthfully lose weight.

[12.8: how Dr.Atkins is like a traditional grandmother?:
. at first I thought he meant to belittle atkins
in order to rationalize his new book:
Steve Phinney, MD`New Atkins for a New You.
but then noticed the idea was fitting in 2 ways:
# one link in a chain:
. Atkins had been just one of many jumpstarts
for the low-carb high-fat dieting style;
like the proverbial grandmother,
he was just passing on a tradition,
not creating one .
# grandma spoils the child:
. Atkins was going a little bit overboard on
letting the kids have their fun:
granted, he was publishing real science on dieting,
and proving how deluded we've been about carb's;
he also sold his diet as minimally invasive
even when that implied getting too much protein,
and getting unhealthy fats (ones that came from
corn-fed animals, not the Inuit fare). ]

What we’ve done with The New Atkins for the New You
is move beyond there.
I’ve brought some key learning from indigenous diets.
And the use and selection of fats.
Drs. Volek and Westman have added their
clinical and research expertise,
particularly concerning metabolic syndrome,
type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure.
[. like the Zone diet, it's a life style not a weight loss phase ]
to allow people to remain healthy and functional .

[12.9:
. he implies that atkins' wasn't sustainable;
he's referring to the unsustainable induction phase
of Atkins' quite sustainable entire program .]

Pemmican and High fat diets:

The Atkins diet has been the bulls-eye for
critics of low-carb, high-fat diets,
saying it’s unbalanced, so it must be dangerous.
. what's really interesting is, looking at human history,
our ancestors before the advent of agriculture
had a low carb diet.
. there are a lot of assumptions that
hunter-gatherers ate a lot of fruit and vegetables,
and that’s how they balanced their diet.
But it appears in many places
(for example here where the buffalo roamed)
that those cultures evolved around
highly successful hunting skills,
with a minimization of gathering
(and in some cases a complete avoidance of ).
The Great Plains natives ate mostly buffalo
and in many cases nothing but the buffalo
( 20% to 25% of energy from protein
and 75% to 80% as fat ).
. however many ate berries too;
it was kept in a separate bag .

. in order to use a large buffalo kill,
they would produce pemmican:
. dry most of meat, 
sew sacks out of the hide
(rawhide skin on the inside),
stuff pounded dried meat into the sacks,
take hot buffalo fat and pour it in
to fill in all the air spaces around the meat.
. after sewing the sack closed,
the squeezed out all air to kill any bacteria
with the heat of the melted fat .
transported and stored anywhere from six months to five years
. killed in the fall or early winter,
an animal provided a lot of fat.

. Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
lived among the Inuit, and then in 1928
he was monitored while on an Inuit diet,
to show that some meat diets
(his was 15% protein and 85% fat)
had enough Vitamin C to prevent scurvy .
. meat certainly doesn't provide 50mg per day
but maybe your needs are reduced on low carb .
.  Jeff Volek at the University of Connecticut,
demonstrated that when people on a mixed diet
are switched to a low carbohydrate diet,
their level of inflammation goes down
(as does oxidative stress, and presumably
the need for vitamin C).

Why do we need fiber?
People think fiber is needed for the bulk
that will speed transition time;
in fact, we need fiber only if our diet is
not ketogenic (producing short-chain fats).
. bacteria in fecal matter break down fiber
and produce very short chain sat'fats,
-- three and four carbons long --
and this feeds the cells lining the colon.
. when you’re on a 20-gram-carb diet,
you start producing short-chains yourself,
and, unlike glucose and triglycerides
these ketones pass easily to the colon
via a membrane's active transport .

. there are reports that the Inuit had a higher
incidence of stroke?
We didn’t do modern epidemiological studies
until about 50 years ago. But it would appear,
when medical missionaries went among the Inuit,
living on their indigenous diet,
they rarely reported cases of cancer,
even though people lived into their sixth or seventh decade.
Well documented.   Heart disease, heart attack,
was rare or unknown.
And we know that the omega-3 fats
that the peoples got from cold water ocean fish,
protect and reduce the risk of heart attack.
[but fishoils do increase the risk of fatal stroke .]

. Volek has done studies with non-indigenous foods,
that is our current market foods
and putting people on low-carbohydrate foods,
in his case, the Atkins diet,
and demonstrates that
when you take people off of carbohydrates
and put them on a properly balanced,
that is moderate protein, relatively high fat diet.
then inflammation biomarkers go down markedly .
-- reducing risk of heart attack .
and the definitive Jupiter study,
clearly demonstrates that when you reduce
not cholesterol  but inflammation,
then this directly and rapidly results in
a reduction of heart attack risk.
. that’s C-Reactive Protein, among other things.
C-Reactive protein, Interleukin 6.  V-Cam I Cam.
So yes, there may be some side effects of the low carb diet
in terms of vascular health of the brain.

Loren Cordain comments:

CSU scientist and author of The Paleo Diet,
Loren Cordain responds to U-C Davis Scientist
and co-author of the New Atkins,
Steve Phinney’s discussion on Pemmican.

This interview includes Loren’s opinion that saturated fats
DO increase plaque in the arteries.
However, Loren says, this only becomes very hazardous
when saturated fats are eaten in combination with
grains, beans, dairy, high-sugar foods or other foods
that tend to increase inflammation.
Cordain says the combination of saturated fats
and inflammatory foods such as grains
is a deadly formula for a heart attack.

ref#1: Artery Plaque in Pre-Westernized Inuit:
The paleopathology of the cardiovascular system.

. Paleopathology, the study of disease in ancient remains,
adds the dimension of time to our study of health and disease.
The oldest preserved heart is from a mummified rabbit
of the Pleistocene epoch, over 20, 000 years old.
Cardiovascular disease has been identified in
human mummies from Alaska and Egypt,
covering a time span ranging from
approximately 3,000 to 300 years ago.
An experimental study suggests that the potential exists for
identifying in mummified remains a wide range of
cardiovascular pathologic conditions .
The antiquity and ubiquity of arteriosclerotic heart disease
is considered in terms of pathogenesis.

ref#2: saturated fat is atherogenic:
Myocardial infarction in a large colony of nonhuman primates with coronary artery atherosclerosis.

. while butter was atherogenic;
[plaque forming -> myocardial infarction]
what kills you is the rupture of the plaque.
. lard had the same effect as butter when mixed with
carb's (40%calories are fat);
peanut oil (omega-6+?) was thrombogenic . [clot forming]

I’m on record stating that saturated fats are
not uni-dimensionally responsible for cardiovascular disease.
They represent a risk factor.
And the risk factor of saturated fats can be small.
I don’t believe stearic acid (18-O) is atherogenic
in the context of a Paleolithic diet;
nor is high 12-O or 14-O atherogenic;
because, they occur in such small concentrations.
Palmitic acid is atherogenic.
And there’s not an experiment in humans or animals or tissue
to show that it doesn’t down regulate the LDL receptor.
This is a point that is never addressed in Gary Taubes’s book
or Eric Westman’s articles, or Ron Krauss.
You need to address the down regulation of the LDL receptor.

We awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine to Brown and Goldstein
for saying that Palmitic acid down regulates the LDL receptor.
That controls the flux of oxidized LDL in and out of the intima.
. in contrast to the Inuit, we have a pro-inflammatory diet.
If you took these 1600 year old Inuit women
and fed them bread along with their high fat diet,
I would be almost certain that you would see myocardial infarctions.

We believe that wheat upregulates metalloproteinases.
It upregulates metalloproteinase 2 and metalloproteinase 9.
If you look at the final dissolution of that fibrous plaque,
what causes that fibrous plaque to rupture
– it’s made out of collagen and smooth muscle and cholesterol.
What causes it to rupture is metalloproteinases.
They up-regulate and degrade the collagen,
and when the fibrous cap breaks,
that is the event that kills you.

We believe elements in the Western diet,
including Wheat and corn and grain and legumes*
and high glycemic load carbohydrates,
these upregulate the enzymes that
directly cause the rupture of the fibrous cap.
*: [being in the paleo camp,
he's not giving beans a fair study ? ...]

Loren Cordain Replies to Steve Phinney:

Steve’s comments and follow-up are logical
and I have read that paper by Jeff Volek.
So, I guess we are in agreement that 16:0 [Palmitic sat'fat]
downregulates the LDL receptor
and that low carbohydrate diets reduce circulating 16:0,
which in turn would reduce the risk for CHD.
However, the paleo pathology paper by Zimmerman
clearly shows atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries
of adult Inuit eating their tradition diet,
centuries prior to westernization.
My point was that these Inuit likely
never suffered fatal myocardial infarcts,
as the fibrous cap covering the atherosclerotic lesion
likely would have never ruptured via the
necessary upregulation of MMPs (metalloproteinases)
from chronic low level inflammation.
High 16:0 intake combined with the typical western diet
(refined CHO, wheat, vegetable oils, dairy, saponins, etc)
elicits chronic low level inflammation
via a number of mechanisms including
increased intestinal permeability which leads to endotoxemia
(leakage of lipopolysachharide (LPS) from
resident gram negative gut bacteria into circulation).
LPS binds toll like receptor 4 on leukocytes
and antigen presenting cells to upregulate
numerous inflammatory cytokines.
Loren Cordain, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Health and Exercise Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Tel: (970) 491-7436
Fax: (970) 491-0445
mailto:lcordain@cahs.colostate.edu
http://www.thepaleodiet.com

Phinney replies to Loren Cordain:

On the topic of saturated fat,
I might respond to Professor Cordain’s concerns
by pointing out that
keto-adapted individuals fed a high fat diet
actually experience a reduction in the proportion of
palmitate (16:0) in their serum triglycerides.
Jeff Volek has done two human studies
(one published, one submitted)
that demonstrate this,
and Craig Warden (PhD, UC Davis) has done
two mouse studies that confirm this observation
in tissue triglycerides as well.
These studies indicate that the body’s adaptation
to a low carb diet
(let’s say less than 10% of energy)
includes a shift in metabolism
that  preferentially oxidizes 16:0.
So then the question is,
if it’s been made into CO2 and water,
how can it harm you?
And as for pemmican, my point* is that
it was a reserve food,
and only used in intervals when
fresh meat was unavailable.
*(see Steve Phinney’s discussion of Pemmican)
But the fact that it could sustain people
for months at a time
is often ignored or denigrated.
Clearly the many hunting cultures of North America
had complex and varying dietary practices,
involving which parts of which animals
were consumed, and by whom.
Among the hunters of caribou, moose, elk and bison,
it was common to break open the long bones
to eat the marrow – a source of minerals
from the trabecular bone as well as fat.
And the Inuit were reported by Stefansson
to enjoy gnawing seal ribs
back from their cartilagenous insertion at the sternum
towards the dorsal end where they were heavily calcified
-again a source of marrow fat and bone mineral.
And finally, I think the topic of low carb diets and vitamin C
is pretty much academic – literally.
In ‘The New Atkins’,
we advise people to eat 3-5 servings of vegetables
and/or berry fruit daily, and for the sake of “insurance’,
a daily multivitamin as well.
The academic question is,
before they had year-round access to fruits and vegetables,
how could hunting cultures maintain health and function?
And this is where our emerging understanding
of the role of oxidative stress and inflammation
stemming from dietary carbohydrate intake
offers a fascinating hypothesis, if not valuable insight.

2011.12.9: web
more comments to the pemmican post:
homemade pemmican turns out to be missing vit'C:

The Zero Carb people at Zeroinginonhealth (ZIOH)
have always praised pemmican as the “perfect” food.
Pemmican is made from dried, raw meat
that is ground up and then mixed with fat.
They also believe that you can live on it “indefinitely”
as some explorer (Stefansson) claimed so in a book,
making this statement despite there being no evidence
that anybody has survived on pemmican-only
for any extended period of time .

[reference to http://pemmi-pucks-inc.squarespace.com/
how-i-make-my-pemmi-pucks/:
. he uses bison, but it might not be as healthy
as what natives accessed,
plus he slow-cooked and then double cooked the fat,
which may have destroyed too much c .]

On the western/northern prairies
where the Lakota etc made Pemmican
there are a huge amount of berries available in the fall.
In bushier areas are late raspberries, closer to the mountains
and on burned out areas there are blueberries
and all across the prairies in bison territory
there are Pemmican berries. AKA saskatoon berries.
. the reason they were called pemmican berries
is that was what the whitemen saw the natives
putting into pemmican.
These are available in late fall,
and often throughout the winter
– they stay on the trees and get a little dry but are edible.
Rosehips are also widely available
and excellent sources of Vit C.
I don’t believe raspberry/strawberry
or other wetter berries were used
but I am pretty sure Pemmican berries,
blue berries and rosehips were used .

Garold Spire Jr M.D. February 6, 2011

Allow me to add that
the choke cherries are first pounded seed and all,
apparently to obtain the nutrition in the almond like pit,
then pressed into cakes and dried.
There is virtually no moisture in them.
Berry picking is done by the women.
Please refer to Lewis and Clarke’s journal
to see the reference to
Native Americans eating the dried berry cakes.
It is a long tradition here on the
Northern Cheyenne Reservation.
I’m certain it resolves several metabolic issues
with pemmican only diets.
January 21, 2011 at 8:03 am:
The use of dried berries with pemmican
but not necessarily in pemmican,
I believe is essential since the
citric acid cycle intermediates of malic acid and citrate
that are present in the berries
allow metabolism of fat avoiding ketosis.
Here on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation
dried cakes of choke cherries are used
since June Berries are no longer found.
They are not mixed with pemmican.
Hawthorn, buffalo berries and wild plums are common here
and may have been used as well.
Dr. Spire

Dr.Phinney June 26, 2011 at 10:45 am

High protein diets were known to induce
illness, including nausea, fatigue, and diarrhea.
When the Karluk survivors awaited rescue
on Wrangel Island in 1913,
the Europeans in the party contended with each other
over the lean meat provided by their Inuit hunter.
Many of them suffered from swelling and joint pain,
and two died.
In contrast, the Inuit family of three in the party
remained healthy eating the fats that the others spurned.
With a kind nod to Dr. Spire,
not all states of ketosis are bad,
but neither are all forms of ketosis good.
A well-formulated ketogenic diet
results in blood ketone levels in the 1-5 millimolar range,
at which levels ketones provide a sustained
and effective fuel supply
to multiple organs including the brain.
Humans adapted to a well-formulated ketogenic diet
also experience a marked reduction in
inflammation biomarkers
(and presumably reduced oxidative stress as well).
Oxidative stress is important in the context of scurvy,
as the presumed metabolic role of ascorbate
is to regenerate reduced glutathione
to protect against free-radical damage.
Thus the reduced inflammation and oxidative stress
associated with a well-formulated ketogenic diet
could significantly reduce the metabolic need for ascorbate.

We do know that Stefansson lived for a year
on a ketogenic diet;
Drs. McClellan, DuBois, Rupp, and Toscani
expressed surprise and grudging admiration
that he (and his fellow explorer-subject Andersen)
survived without any signs of scurvy or kidney problems
(3 papers: e.g., McClellan et al, JCI, 87:651-8, 1930).

Stefansson also published a paper in JAMA in 1917
describing his experience in the Arctic
in which some of his party spent the winter eating
carbohydrate-rich foods rather than hunting,
thus developing scurvy,
which was promptly cured by feeding them
fresh meat and fat without carbs (be it sugar, flour, or berries).
Quite likely it was this publication that prompted
much of the vilification of Stefansson .
This is obviously not a simple subject,
as there are lots of variables at play here.
Clearly a well-formulated ketogenic diet
can contain lots of vegetables
and even some berry fruit,
but there is also solid evidence
that a ketogenic diet  that does
not contain fruit or vegetables

need not cause scurvy.
Equally evident is that
a badly formulated diet,
particularly one high in protein
and low in fat,
can cause malaise,
gastro-intestinal upset,
and perhaps overt disease as well.
It was to deal with these issues
that Dr. Volek and I wrote
“The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living”
to address some of the misunderstandings
and to better define a well-formulated
low carbohydrate diet.

neo-paleolithic #diet #paleo #hormonics

2011.12.11:  web.health/hormonics/neo-paleolithic diet:
[2012.2.6: intro
. I bumped into the term Neo Paleolithic Diet
I got excited about improvements on the Zone;
but in fact, proponents of the Neo-Paleo
seem to have forgotten some valid Zone lessons .]

my amazon astore 2012.02

. this is the current state of my amazon astore,
featuring gear and cookables I appreciate .
it's a mess because I had to strip out the
3-column tables for this blog's format;
but it document's my work on
astore.amazon.com/americiu-20

iraq war ending, a real war is just beginning #ows #relig #pol #parenting

12.15: news.pol/purges/
iraq war is ending, and a real war is just beginning:

. NPR was asking the public how they felt
about the usa officially pulling out of iraq today .
. a marine who was one of the first to be
stationed at iraq's sea port, said,
"( what struck me about my job, is that
I had to replace some iraqi guy
who really did want to work
-- who wanted to care for his family ).

. no doubt that iraqi guy was already doing
a perfectly good job at defending that port!
(but the way the marine said it, at first made you assume
that usa hadn't had to take the port;
they just had to keep it secure,
and they could have just managed over the current crew,
but they didn't know how to trust them
(how do you care for your family, really,
when terrorists know you help the other side?))

. those guys wanted to work,
he poetically repeated in several places .
. wow, wasn't that the proverbial
"(your economy is just perfect now;
how do you feel? )!
--
. this call had at least 2 interesting surprises:
first I was reminded of #OccuppyWallStreet
who were said to be expecting a "(handout) for college;
because, here was a caller representing troops coming home;
and, you know, today's troops are often tomorrow's police
-- the same police having to face #ows protesters .
. then I was reminded that many marines
will be in similar job-hunting curcumstances
-- really wanting some sort of work
after they finish our war tour .
[. and not happy with just a handout .]

. well, trustables who want to work;
so, where will those jobs be?
. being trustworthy only works when you are
willing to pay people for what that trust is worth;
so, the jobs are going to people who
don't need to be trusted!
-- they're overseas, living in caves,
and can't possibly #OccupyWallStreet .

. the last idea from this call
came from the Carter admin':
at that time the military was angry with democrats
for telling the military to take a pay cut
(forgo inflation compensation)
yet the dem's still had plenty of fed money for what?
rolling out to welfare
-- for guys who didn't want to work,
and weren't conscerned about caring for their family .
[ie, the men were shadows to single welfare mom's .]

prophets (messengers of god) as sons of god

1.10: adds/relig/
prophets (messengers of god) as sons of god:

. the son of a man has traditionally implied
one who carries on the ambitions of the father;
therefore, I think it would be helpful
to define "(son of god)
as one who was given a god-inspired message;
especially a message that is
not currently popular or obvious .
. why would a god have many sons?
god as the eternal (infinitely living) father
would appear to be programming our software
in the same way god has appeared to be
programming our hardware:
with a spark of genetic genius,
followed by a jungle of evolutionary testing .
. hence sons are expected to be finite,
good for just one phase of the evolution
-- an evolution that might go on indefinitely,
or as long as man's thoughts have some inputs into
the robotic (intelligent, demon-free) law enforcement .

. here is a summry of prior religions,
presenting their founders as sons of god:

. when son#judaism was given the rule to stay clean,
they impl'd it by separating self from unclean members,
applying it not just to communicable diseases,
but also to communicable psychological tendencies .

. so then son#jesus was given the rule:
get real! there are no dirty family members!!
treat all family as self .
. when jc couldn't reach his family,
he suggested the path to justice is
making the whole world your family:
if your kingdom is your heart,
your family members are those who
believe in your kingdom .

. son#catholic was given the rule that
the path to making the whole world your family:
is building a worldwider political hierarchy
that would force everyone under one holy flag;
but, to impl' this rule they had to
transform the christian message
into something like the pagan religions
that christianity needed to replace:
. you will follow jesus because the magic
shows he was the god:
jc's law was god's law .
. jc was just like you hindu's
coming back from the dead as a higher form,
a form that lives in the love of god .

. son#islam was given the rule that
son#judaism's law about not worshipping images
was not mere trivia:
it was a foundational commandment;
so, son#jesus's image as being a magic healer
is not what makes him worthy of respect:
what does make him worthy
is being given god-inspired rules,
ones that further the survival of eternal civilization .
. son#islam was also given a great rule about capitalism
that could have prevented all our economic depressions:
never allow loans for profit,
anybody who wants to invest should buy stock in a project .

. son#mormon was given the rule that a living god
should be represented by a living bible, one that grows .

. son#buddha was given the rules for
casting out demons!

. he lamented as the son of a king
in line for the throne,
that people were so persistently, inevitably
underserved by any king ruling over them,
so instead of pretending to be helpful as a king,
he gave his time to developing rules for
how we could all find the peace we want .

. most of the time people feel they
have to punish others because
they wouldn't have felt insulted
if only others had just been more polite;
so,
law#1: expect life to be emotional pain;
physical pain is almost never originating
from others: it's starting as emotional pain
injected from within by the devil,
who is the lord over technological evolution
who wants you to start some real pain
to evolve weapons and other technologies .
. if instead we would all not be the first one
to make a judgement against another,
that would solve a lot of violence .

. the other main problem was leadership:
people were always trusting
religions and governments
without understanding what they were doing;
and, this was another source of conflict .
. his idea for a world religion that we
could all believe in as one world
-- just like the catholics were hoping for
but without the violence of hierarchical leadership --
was to use a combination of
both your own common sense
and finding agreement by your community of elders .
. this would help everyone both own the religion
and remain future-aware, guided by experience .

. this would be yet another modification
of a son#judaism rule:
the rule affected this time
was to follow one's elders without question:
"( this is what your god wants;
your parents will make sure you know this;
make sure you honor your parents ).
. some of the things "(god) wanted
were pretty surprising;
not the stuff of common sense at all .

. one problem with son#buddha's rule
is that he was never discouraged by
a view of god as being a devil .
. what if people were inately
suicidal, not just ignorant,
bent on fueling the tech evolution
by starting yet another war
-- just for the "(fun) of it ?
. the pinacle of tech is almost here
(within the next 500 years)
just 2500 years after the buddha's ministry .

#health help with elderly #edema

1.29: web.health/help with elderly edema:
re co.trice/health/help with edema:
one reason for such edema is congestive heart failure;
and,
coenzyme Q10 therapy may be good for that;
another thing that helps edema
(and also high blood pressure)
is the use of a low-glycemic diet with no sugar;
eg, with most carb's coming from greens & beans;
also, a good magnesium supplement,
one that doesn't cause a laxative effect
will be help relax heart and arteries .
. even a strong beat won't pump blood
unless it can relax between beats .

for getting the right magnesium:
Mildred S. Seelig`The Magnesium Factor
Carolyn Dean`The Magnesium Miracle

for proof low-carb helps edema:
Gary Taubes`Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

for proof coenzyme Q10 helps with edema:
Clin Investig. 1993;71(8 Suppl):S134-6.
Effect of coenzyme Q10 therapy in patients
with congestive heart failure:
a long-term multicenter randomized study.

. the main clinical problems in patients
with congestive heart failure
are the frequent need of hospitalization
and the high incidence of
life-threatening arrhythmias,
* pulmonary edema, *
and other serious complications.
coenzyme Q10 (n = 319,
mean age 67 years, range 26-89 years)
at the dosage of 2 mg/kg per day .
The number of patients who required
hospitalization for worsening heart failure
was smaller in the coenzyme Q10 treated group
(n = 73)
than in the control group (n = 118, P < 0.001).
Similarly,
the episodes of pulmonary edema or cardiac asthma
were reduced in the control group
(20 versus 51 and
97 versus 198, respectively; both P < 0.001)
The improved cardiac function in patients with
congestive heart failure
treated with coenzyme Q10
supports the hypothesis that
this condition is characterized by
mitochondrial dysfunction and energy starvation .

The Shangri-La #Diet debate replays #Atkins

2011.11.9: web.health/diet/shangrila diet:
[2012.1.17: summary of news:
.  psychologist professor Seth Roberts
had written The Shangri-La Diet:
The No Hunger Eat Anything
Weight Loss Plan (2006)
. the point of the title is that
the book was not so much about dieting
as it was about retaining your dieting results
by the use of associative learning theory
for lowering your Body-Fat Set Point .
. having some personal anecdotal evidence,
he wrote the book to ask the public
if they would like to join an online experiment
(Shangri-La Diet forums at sethroberts.net).
. Dr.Ford accused him of abusing his professional title:

"( Dr. Roberts has not been shy or circumspect about
touting his credentials as an
associate professor at University of California, Berkeley.
However, despite his status as an academic,
he has opted to bypass his own colleagues
and the checks and balances of his own profession.
Rather he chose to go straight to the lay press.
Obviously by mentioning his university affiliation,
he intended to give the added weight to his conclusions
that such a position would appear to justify.
Why wouldn't he have studied his diet
the way researchers normally do
when they want to establish the validity of a hypothesis
(and I don't mean with a sample size of one)
before publishing widely? .)]

my reaction to Dr.Ford:
. what is the point of science?
pretty spendy isn't it?
you hear about $millions involved .
. and of course, "(the quacks always say that!)
-- and also predictably,
the quacks point out that if you follow the money
there is a conspiracy between FDA, BigPharma,
and Medical professionals (Doctors, Consultants, ...) .
. it might even seem true when you find out
BigPharma essentially funds the FDA
-- essentially funding your own watchdog?!
. and Doctors don't look too saintly either
with their medical cartel artificially creating
a shortage of doctors to keep their wages high .
. yet quacks make outlandish claims,
and there is a good reason for quackwatch;

but then I watched them take down Dr.Atkins,
despite his referencing good science
-- science that did apply to his program .
( well, I didn't read Atkins' first book ...
let's assume he was always well-referenced: )

many belated additions to photo gallery

1.14:
. due to a variety of filing errors causing misplaced photos,
and not knowing how to use picasa photo uploader,
I found years of additional files to upload .
https://picasaweb.google.com/dr.addn?feat=email

1.9: mis.cyb/mac.picasa/overlooked targets:
. when it seems to open directories for you,
it's only opening a certain levels ?
or maybe it doesn't open any,
it was me that opened some but not all;
there are many places where the
subfoldering is deeper than usual (era/year/month - subj/)
so I was missing many subtopics
whenever a [month - subj] was holding folders instead of targets .

hp-15c - my 1980's college math conqueror

2011.4.18: web.cyb/hp-15c:

[20.12.1.1:
. hp-15c was my calculator while
getting a BA degree in Math,
it was programmable,
with a solver for calculus,
and had matrices for  linear algebra .]

hp15c on ebay? yes
-- expensively sold as vintage rare,
one though is $62
-- cheaper than new for used ok .

open source hp15c simulator
HP-15C (UNIX/Linux Windows NT4/2000/XP) (new)
. Torsten Manz' Tcl/Tk simulator .
It should run on all operating systems
supported by Tcl/Tk.
It has been tested on
several UNIX/Linux flavours
as well as Windows NT4/2000/XP.
It has not been tested on
Windows 95/ 98/ME or Mac OS.
This distribution contains
both the executables
for the Windows and Linux platform,
as well as the Tcl/Tk source file.

Nonpareil simulates HP's calc's(1972 ... 1982).
-- the 15c is from 1984 .
Tom Fors`iPhone port of Nonpareil
supporting the Voyager calculators
(11C, 12C, 15C, 16C).

Calculator Emulator for the iPhone
* 09-Mar-2008
- Calculators are now built using the SDK
and running in the simulator...
"( Still waiting for Apple to approve my registration
so I can test on a real phone and distribute them in June. )
. you can download [crude copy of] manual here :
http://hp15c.org/hp15c.pdf
http://hp15c.org/hp15cAdvanced.pdf
--
[. I have the manuals!
(I can use my paper ones for whatever the copies left out
they are black&whites of the colored paper manual)]

The 10C series:
Compact yet Sophisticated Calculators (1981)
    * HP-10C Basic Scientific Programmable Calculator
    * HP-11C More Advanced Scientific Programmable
    * $135 HP-12C Top Selling Business Calculator 1982-1989
    * HP-15C Scientific with Matrix & Complex Math
    * HP-16C The Computer Scientist Calculator
   
The RPL Family (1986)
    * RPL A Platform for Powerful Calculators
    * HP-18C Business Model with Solver
    * HP-28C/S Scientifics with Symbolic Math and Solver
    * HP-48S/SX Large Screen Scientifics with Symbolic Math

Some Interesting Later Models (1986)
    * HP-27S Algebraic Do Everything Calculator
    * HP-17B Algebraic Business Model
    * HP-22S Algebraic Scientific Calculator
    * HP-32S RPN Scientific with Complex Math
      (Including Anniversary Edition.)
    * HP-42S RPN Scientific (HP-41C compatible)
    * HP-14B (50th Anniversary Edition)
    * HP-67CX Unreleased RPN / HPL / Linux Scientific
   

solar storm not in 2012 #cyber #backup #ups

2011.4.16: cyb/backup/solar storm

Do solar storms create hard drive data loss?
I read we are expecting increased solar storm activity for 2012.
I would like to prepare. What would be the best way to
protect sensitive data on hard drives
(backups and internal).
Would it be preferable to back up things on DVDs?
The 1989 storm managed to damage the computers
of the Toronto Stock Market.
reply:
 2012  will actually be a damn boring year.

a solar physicist: Do not worry about solar storms.
. solar and geomagnetic activity pose essentially
no risk to your data.
The biggest possible risk would be power outage,
so you could buy yourself a UPS if you are really worried,
but even then, the risk is really minimal,
since these events are predictable and power companies are
proactive about mitigating their effects on infrastructure.

If your backups are not connected to the power grid
you don't have to worry about solar storms,
because solar storms cause problems by induction.
Large loops of cable such as power grids might be affected,
but not small external hard drives.
Good back ups are not connected to the computer
they are supposed to back up 24/7.
Online backups that are located far away from your local backups
will probably not be affected by the same solar storm.

magnetic storm of September 10, 2005 over Quebec:
August 1989, another solar storm affected microchips
and caused a halt of all trading on Toronto’s stock market.
Since then, power companies worldwide have
started evaluating the risks of
geomagnetically induced currents
so that contingency plans can be put in place
to deal with any power outages.

 Officials watched in disbelief as three disc drives
 
 failed in succession on what is supposed to be
 a 'fault-tolerant' computer system.

 . most of Quebec sits on a large rock shield
that prevented current flowing through the earth,
for finding a less resistant path along the 735 kV power lines.
. Other utilities in North America, and elsewhere
implemented programs to reduce the risks associated with
geomagnetically induced currents.

links:
# geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) @solarstorms.org
# laser light and magnetic storm both em wave?

2012.1.1:
On-Line UPS Systems
eg, $273 IS250HG Isolation Transformer
-- Isolator Series UL60601-1 Listed Medical Grade Isolation Transformers
$178.99 at newegg.com
This is the highest level of battery backup protection available.
Power is first broken down and then
perfectly reconstructed by the inverter,
which is "on-line" 100% of the time.
There is absolutely no transfer switching time.
This process completely eliminates
incoming surge and line noise,
adjusts high or low voltages,
and produces perfect sine wave power.

IS250HG Medical Grade Isolation Transformer
Key Features
. offers line isolation, continuous noise filtering
and enhanced common mode surge suppression.
Internal low-impedance isolation transformer
with Faraday shield offers 100% isolation from the input AC line
Full UL60601-1 medical-grade listing with hospital-grade plug
and outlet receptacles;
Reduces the cumulative leakage current
of the Isolator and connected equipment
to levels less than 100 microamps
Secondary neutral-to-ground bonding
eliminates common mode noise,
providing an isolated ground reference
for sensitive equipment
Serves as an inexpensive alternative to dedicated circuits
and site electrical upgrades
Removes EMI/RFI noise, utility switching transients,
load-generated harmonics and ground loops
Additional surge suppression components
placed at the line input and output
combined with full line isolation
provide continuous filtering of a full range of
power line noise in all modes
Active transformer filtering offers
continuous common-mode noise rejection
with no wearable parts; unique ability to reduce surges
in the worst of power environments to harmless levels
Reduces 6000V IEEE587 Cat A&B ring wave
and combination wave test surges to only 0.5V common mode
Includes 2 widely spaced NEMA 5-15R
hospital-grade output receptacles,
a 6-ft. power cord, hospital-grade input plug,
circuit breaker overload protection and lighted power switch.