Posted on 08/24/2019 6:04:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right
I’m doing more research on other delivery sites....like Walmart, Fred Meyer, etc. Trying to wean myself from Amazon. Amazon is just a big “marketplace” where sellers gather...and it’s kind of like a circus, too...barkers and all.
Keeps the profits up for food and drug companies.
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Your body can produce the energy from your fat stores, the brain runs better on ketones than glycogen.
If you do expend a lot of energy then yes, you do need more carbs, but older people don’t expend that much energy even if they are somewhat active.
Then your thread has been (Al) Gored.
The food and drug companies got nothing to worry about. Americans eat and pop pills. It’s what we’re good at.
Not true. I've been selling new and used books, cds, dvds, vhs on amazon for close to 20 years. In the beginning, all third-party sellers shipped items directly to buyers (know as fulfillment by me - FBM). About 12-15 years ago, amazon started offering third-party sellers fulfillment by amazon - FBA.
Amazon has never inspected items for quality/genuineness. They only respond to complaints. Savvy third-party sellers who use Amazon to fulfill orders request that returns be sent back to the seller and not put back into inventory. This is because customers sometimes return damaged merchandise or different merchandise and since amazon doesn't inspect returns, the damaged products end up getting sent back out (I've been on the receiving end of a couple of those). If amazon inspected products, they recently wouldn't have received $300,000 of returns from one buyer who had filled the packages with dirt.
US sellers have been complaining about Chinese products and practices to Amazon for years, but amazon makes a lot of money off of China. US sellers complain to amazon about Chinese companies selling counterfeits of their products. If the seller can get amazon to take the counterfeit down (by making a test buy and going through a process with amazon foreign CSRs who rarely understand what's going on), within days another Chinese seller will be selling the counterfeit product. It's a never-ending whack-a-mole game.
Yes, but that is part of the problem. The simple reality is that the human body has yet to evolve to plenty. It’s used to feast and famine. So it wants you to EAT and EAT and EAT. Especially fats and carbs, because they build fat. Which your body thinks it’s gonna need. So it releases endorphins when you eat them, rewards the brain, and makes you want more. We’re all drug addicts in the end. But you can still tell your body what fer. Enjoy the high and DON’T eat more. Keep your intake and output in balance, even as you get older. I’m actually about 20 pounds down from 5 years ago, adjusted to my new metabolism. Use the brain, don’t blame carbs or the government.
I am with BobL on this subject.
Stop for a minute and think back to hunter/gatherer times, and seasonality of eating patterns, different climates, different food sources. These people didn’t have cauliflower or brussels sprouts year-round, or fruits and grains.
They did eat “nose to tail”, and managed to get most nutrients from the animals they hunted. So much of what we have been taught is theory and marketing, unsupported by clinical evidence
“I am more concerned with them having banned books, systematic viewpoint discrimination.”
Oh, I know that. Amazon isn’t our friend, although I do buy stuff thru Amazon. I’ve also been burned on Amazon when purchasing items that were definitely counterfeits. I think that’s one reason for their very good “returns” program. They know there’s crap/illegal stuff for sale at Amazon, so they want to “fix” your customer experience as quickly as possible.
“I suspect a lot of ratings on Amazon are utterly bogus, particularly with Chinese products. I’d much rather trust the government (which I don’t) than amazon’s ratings of Chinese goods. I’ve also noticed in searching for a product, Amazon seems to drive me to see ONLY cheap Chinese goods. I strongly suspect Amazon has been hacked by the Chinese government. Certainly manipulated.”
Perhaps it depends on what we’re buying. I’ve been happy overall, and very often the ratings will give away a serious flaw in a product. I remember once looking for Stabilizing Binoculars and one of the companies making them, I think a German optics company with a household name, had absolutely terrible customer service* - so stuff like that is really useful to know before spending a boatload of cash.
*The biggest complaint people were having was that the binocs would use AA batteries, and, sure enough, they’d spill out. So people wanted to know if anything could be done, and they couldn’t even talk to a human about it. And, by the way, on that - use Energizer Lithium AAs, they simply do not spill, nor do they lose charge in storage. Below is the Amazon link, but Sams can usually beat their prices. For the sizes they sell, AA, AAA, and 9V, it is now the ONLY battery I use. I’m done with Alkalines.
https://www.amazon.com/Energizer-Lithium-Batteries-Ultimate-Battery/dp/B01C4PP8FK/
When I eat high fat, I am not hungry two hours later, like I am when I eat carbs.
That’s why I can do One Meal a Day with no problems on the Keto diet. It works better than any other diet I’ve tried, and I’ve tried them all.
Not true. I’ve been selling new and used books, cds, dvds, vhs on amazon for close to 20 years. In the beginning, all third-party sellers shipped items directly to buyers (know as fulfillment by me - FBM). About 12-15 years ago, amazon started offering third-party sellers fulfillment by amazon - FBA.
Actually, it is true. In their early days Amazon bought used books off other websites like Abebooks.com for Amazon buyers. I personally dealt with Amazon clerks and mailed boxes of books off to Seattle after Amazon sent me a check snail mail. It was basically old school pre internet “book search service” bookselling.
Actually the lack is what really dictated the hunter gather’s life. And is dictating ours. They would go days, even weeks, without “proper” meals. So their bodies needed to build fat, to get through. So their bodies developed a fondness for food that built fat: carbs and fat. That’s why we still consider those to be primary sources of flavor in food, because our body WANTS them, so it makes them taste “good”, and rewards us with happy hormones when we eat them. Because our body isn’t currently wired up for being able to eat until stuffed multiple times a day. It doesn’t get it. It sees a big meal and thinks “oh it’s gonna be weeks until we’ve got this much food available again, CONSUME, add 30 pounds of fat to get us through”. We just need to get on top of the cycle.
I blame HIGH carbs, not carbs.
You just don’t need that many.
It’s the rice problem. The old joke about Chinese food leaving hungry two hours later is because rice digests very quickly. All carbs do. They break down fast. That’s part of why they’re an energy food. Digest fast, add energy to the system fast, give you energy to finish your hike.
One of the biggest problems with so many products sold on Amazon are the out of date package inserts on electrical and mechanical products that can be dangerous.
We just had a new deck put on, and the contractor recommended blowing off the leaves and other organic stuff at least once a day. I have no rotator cuff on my right shoulder and our leaf blower with a cord was heavy and tiring to use.
The contractor and his workers use the premium battery charged leaf blower. It is very light,very powerful and does a great job.
So I ordered one. When I tried to charge the battery as per the package insert the battery didn’t charge and the charger and battery got hot.
I told the contractor, and he brought over a new package insert which said to run the battery down before re charging it for a few times.
I did that and and then it started working properly. Later I went to uTube and found that new instruction on uTube.
Well it doesn’t take a lot of carbs to fuel playing a video game or watching TV.
I blame people. Including myself having been pretty darn fat before. There’s plenty of info out there. All people really need to do is understand their body (there are the different types that have different metabolic rates), and their life style, and eat accordingly.
“Special interests have nothing to do with any of this, you’re just blaming the government for your bad habits.”
I guess I can link you to a thread I posted this week where a LEADING NUTRITIONIST is demanding that all people stop eating meat due to Global Warming.
Didn’t we all think that Nutritionists only cared about the health of people? And I have difficulty seeing how people would be healthier if nutrition decisions are made for people based on ‘climate change’ or, for that matter, whether abortion stays legal.
So I’d suggest that you not be so quick to discount the role of politics and self-serving agendas in this.
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