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guardian.co.uk ^ | Maeve Kennedy

[Age of Reason]

I know I'm on to something.

People will pay big bucks for the chance to go on vacation fishing or hunting or hiking up a mountain or through the woods.

But how often do people pay for a vacation of walking behind a plough?

[LibKill]

But how often do people pay for a vacation of walking behind a plough?

HeHmm!

The last time I read an issue of Smithsonian they were advertising vacations in Montana, digging up dinosaurs!

FReegards.

BTW. If you can come up with a healthy diet for a single man who has no cooking skills but does have a toaster oven and a microwave, I'd love to hear about it.

I'm damned to cullinary and dentist hell, aren't I?

[Age of Reason]

And driving scares the heck out of me.

Bruce Williams (a radio financial advisor, I guess you'd call him) years ago told his listeners that he would never get behind the wheel of a car without a million-dollars of liability insurance.

What might one need today, a billion?

I don't know how many times I nearly ran someone down because some idiot pedestrian did something stupid, like darting out from between parked cars.

However careful a driver you are, accidents will happen.

Pray chance does not make a serious accident your fault--it can happen to the best of drivers.

How times have changed: Henry Ford, out for a spin in one of his first automobiles, which he tinkered together in his garage, ran some fellow over. Several bystanders and Ford had to pick the horseless carriage off the victim, who ended up under the vehicle. The guy dusted himself off and with an exchange of courtesies, went on his way. Today--could you imagine the lawsuit?

[Age of Reason]

I'm in the same boat.

You can certainly improve things a lot by avoiding sugar as much as possible in all its forms.

(Should I find sugar listed among the ingredient in canned peas, I pour off the liquid in the can, pour clean water in, and then pour out the clean water. And you know what? Taste better without the sugar once you get used to it. I also eat salad without dressing--sliced tomatos are all the dressing I need.)

There's a lot of other things, too.

I don't know why, but since I cut-out a lot of things I used to stuff myself with, my digestion NEVER gives me trouble (well, maybe once in the past three-years); I never suddenly find an overwhelming need to find a toilet bowl to sit on, if you know what I mean.

I also drink plenty of water. Most especially when I exercise.

And instead of soda, I drink plain seltzer water.

A lot of this takes some getting used to, needless to say.

Unfortunately, most people would find a healthy diet too much of a sacrifice to follow.

Because many people turn to food out of boredom and for recreation.

If you only eat when you are TRULY hungry, simple heatlhy food will taste GREAT.

But most people eat for fun, not from hungar.

[DefCon]

"...Maybe evolution is still ongoing..."
- - -
Oh, there is no "maybe" about it.
Evolution continues, most assuredly, it does.
I have spent many years reading, researching, pondering, and hypothesizing about this; and my conclusions are not encouraging.
What human characteristics currently favor the production of the most offspring?

[Age of Reason]

Sounds like the paleontologist's version of how Tom Sawyer whitewashed fence.

For those unfamiliar: http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_tom.html

[WackyKat]

What human characteristics currently favor the production of the most offspring?

An IQ in the dull normal range, wearing lots of gold chains, and hating white people.

[LibKill]

What human characteristics currently favor the production of the most offspring?

If you will listen to a non-expert opinion,

1. A willingness to breed, or at least a willinginess to have sex with someone of the opposite sex, damn the consequences full speed ahead.

2. After breeding, it depends on the 'climate'.

In LA you had better be able to drive like a maniac in a freeway full of maniacs or you won't reproduce very often.

In Africa you had better not be promiscuous (come to think of that it also applies in other places) and you must also avoid all those tribal wars.

There are so many different qualifications.

Also, remember what the Chinese Emporer said when his minister of state started to introduce him to his newest General.

The minister of state was going on and on and on about the General's qualifications.

The Emporer cut this short and asked one question.

"Is he lucky?"

[Chuckster]

You eat canned peas? My God, just the thought of it makes me nauseous!

As a boy,(ca 1950) all we ever had was canned vegetables - never fresh. To this day the only thing I can stand to eat out of a can is corn, but the peas, good lord!

Series-ly, I'm with you on the rest of it. I was beginning to have trouble with digestion when I was about forty. My doctor did some tests, had me do a food diary for two weeks and told me I should become a vegetarian. While I haven't gone that far, I have cut down the flesh-foods to two or three small servings a week. Beef and pork are pretty much off the menu except for maybe a once a year bite or two of barbecue and an In-N-Out Double Double with grilled onions when I am in California once every year or two(Gives me mean heartburn and gas every time but, hey, a guys gotta have a burger once in a while).

Lots of fresh fruits and veggies, raw or steamed, and whole grains like oatmeal and brown rice, no butter, no mayo, no cream sauces and at least three liters of water a day is the way to go. Add a little fish (I like salmon, yellowfin or orange roughie or trout if I catch it myself) or fowl (Have you seen how they process chicken?!!). More and more my meals are becoming primarily vegetarian and it seems to be working pretty well. It can be difficult though to wean yourself off meat and gravy.

If you just can't give up meat

[Redcoat LI]

Thanks for the info.Fascinating stuff.

[Age of Reason]

With me, the funny thing is that I haven't eaten meat in several months--I didn't intend to become a vegetarian.

It just happened that I've started to eat like one.

[Age of Reason]

You should rinse the sugar out of that canned corn, too.

[Mike Darancette]

RDOS - The good old days. Gates became a billionaire ripping it off.

[blam]

LOL, I was looking for a comment on The Neanderthal Theory.

[GatekeeperBookman]

I am always very disturbed to see the British maps-they are beyond unclear-they are messy, cluttered, blurred, confused, & they only convey the picture of a an over-crowded & cluttered landscape. They are very bad maps, indeed.

How do they find their way home after an adult beverage??

[GatekeeperBookman]

"Racial aspect (controversial, don't read if you get offended by races)"

From the Neanderthal Theory

I am offended by all races-cars, horses, Olympiads, &etc. guess i can't look.

[GatekeeperBookman]

A. Hitler was a Vegie man.

[wardaddy]

were tormented with bad teeth, rheumatic pains and osteoarthritis

damn....some things never change.

[Fester Chugabrew]

"Peter Marshall of English Heritage's scientific dating service . . ."

Umm, she's got to have more than bones before I'm going there.

[wardaddy]

I think that is a myth is it not.