Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
The original poster wrote: At Christmas, women apologized to their husbands for the mistakes committed during the year. Let’s not let this good custom get lost.
(Tom: I think a reciprocal arrangement would do a lot to restore harmony in the home. And to the female commenter who said if men had to do it the practice would take until Easter, you especially need to do this! đ
Thinking more on it, you could do worse than make this a Friday night ritual. Why wait till Christmas to come clean!)
It has long been suspected by many nutrition professionals (myself included) that all fructose is not created equal, and studies are starting to illustrate the different impacts on your health from natural fructose versus HFCS.
Research performed in November 2018 by the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada showed that natural fructose in the form of fresh fruit and fruit juice, when consumed in reasonable amounts and not to excess, did not have a harmful effect on blood sugar and insulin levels.
Plus the fruitâs fiber and nutrients were added healthy bonuses.
On the other hand, foods and drinks sweetened with HFCS had a definite harmful metabolic effect and raised the risk of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes considerably.
And as if thatâs not enough, HFCS is typically made with GE corn to boot, so youâre taking in cancer-causing glyphosate with every sip or bite.
https://www.holisticblends.com/blogs/holistic-blends-blog/avoiding-this-sugar-could-save-your-life
My opinion is that is insanity to have nuclear weapons or nuclear power when we as a species have not been shown to be trustworthy enough to protect all life fropm potential destruction with its use. Here is some evidence that confirms my point of view.
âThirty-three years ago to the day, the United States narrowly missed a nuclear holocaust on its soil. The so-called âDamascus Accidentâ involved a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile mishap at a launch complex outside Damascus, Arkansas. During a routine maintenance procedure, a young worker accidentally dropped a nine-pound tool in the silo, piercing the missileâs skin and causing a major leak of flammable rocket fuel. Sitting on top of that Titan 2 was the most powerful thermonuclear warhead ever deployed on an American missile. The weapon was about 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. For the next nine hours, a group of airmen put themselves at grave risk to save the missile and prevent a massive explosion that wouldâve caused incalculable damage.
âThe story is detailed in Eric Schlosserâs new book, âCommand and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety,â which explores how often the United States has come within a hairâs breadth of a domestic nuclear detonation or an accidental war. Drawing on thousands of pages of recently declassified government documents and interviews with scores of military personnel and nuclear scientists, Schlosser shows that Americaâs nuclear weapons pose a grave risk to humankind.â
How the U.S. Narrowly Avoided a Nuclear Holocaust 33 Years Ago, and Still Risks Catastrophe Today
As I was walking along this morning I got to thinking about how to improve various conditions in life. The thought occured to me that one of the most valuable and powerful four word questions in the English language is, “What would it take?”
For several reasons. First, it focuses on the product, what it is you want to accomplish. Second, it demands that one focus not on any old thing you can do, but rather what doingnesses and sub-products will actually bring about the desired result.
So if you are up for some improvement in your life, this week make a list of non-optimum conditions in your job, family, marriage, health, friendships, social groups or society at large that you would like to improve or improvements you would like to see come to pass.
Then ask, “What would it take?” to fix the non-optimum condition or see the improvement occur. May be that will bring to light one or more solutions. Maybe not.
If not, the undercut might be, “What action can I undertake that will start to improve the condition?”
And then slot that action into your schedule for the coming week.
Rarely do major changes happen instantly. Most people are put off when they confront the effort required to accomplish a large goal. And that part of the mind that is set up to trip you up will almost certainly be ready to offer up any number of reasons why you cannot accomplish your goal. So don’t be deterred by the magnitude of the effort involved and all the reasons that will come to you about why you cannot do it. Just keep putting it there that you will accomplish your target.
I read that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become world class at most things. Sports, playing a musical instrument, painting etc. Sounds like a lot when you say it like that. But many people spend two hours a night chilling out. Probably not most of the people I know, but many do.
Put that two hours a night into a project of your passion and that’s 730 hours a year. 15 years of spare time and you could be world class at a skill of your passion.
Probably most people cannot confront a 15 year plan. But you could confront two hours tomorrow night. And with that success under the belt you could probably confront doing the same the next night. And most things you want to improve won’t take 10,000 hours!
I am told if you do something for 30 days you’ve established a habit that is harder to break than keep.
So this is my “end of year” motivational talk to you to decide how you are going to improve some aspect of your life and not be deterred from implementing those actions that will lead to your success.
So this is a toast from me to you, “To your unbridled success!”
While this good attempt is very much appreciated, it does not lay the subject or the debate to rest. I’m afraid the set appears to be seriously incomplete and there is a lack of consensus on it as presented. It is missing a splash, a trifle, a tinge and a dollop, a wee bit and a slurp and one commenter thought a tad was less than not greater than a dash. If you have a definitive reference it would resolve some confusions…
And if you don’t know, there are over 1,000 different types of gluten in various grains, 40 of which are more toxic than the Gliadin in wheat which is the only one tested for gluten intolerance. For instance corn has one rated at 59 where the gliadin in wheat is rated at a concentration level of 62!
When vaccine dangers hit main stream news you know the truth is winning big time!
https://vaxxter.com/fox-news-memphis-admits-flu-shot-causes-injuries
J Blakemore, the guy who posted this on Billy’s birthday wrote: Hands down one of the nicest celebrities I have ever met in my life. I was a background actor for five years and encountered hundreds of actors from A to Z list, but when I was working “House” Billy Connolly came to our craft services table (not his own trailer), hung out with us between takes, traded jokes, was genuinely thrilled and surprised to know that one of my favorite movies is “Water” and posed for pics with me and a Kiwi buddy as they both sported their tribal tats… …when you meet someone that cool you damned well need to let them know they are special. And Billy IS special as hell.
Iceland has gained the admiration of populists in recent years by doing that which no other nation in the world seems to be willing or capable of doing: prosecuting criminal bankers for engineering financial collapse for profit.
