MasssageGuy

Totally agree!

Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal” He wrote this when he was 81 years old. I'm not there yet. About 10 years away. It would be interesting to hear advice from others in this forum on how they approach "growing old". Actually, isn't it interesting in that we refer to it as GROWING old. It implies we are still growing in our interests and learning. "The best way to overcome it [the fear of death]—so at least it seems to me—is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done. " Full read is here. https://sites.google.com/site/gobenyan/essay

Thanks OldNBusted for recommending this book. I ordered both the paperback and audio book versions. This book exposes the truth and harmful effects of eating sugar. It also documents how the sugar industry fights to keep those facts hidden with similar tactics the tobacco industry did. I have removed all sugar from my diet. The benefits are amazing. I have lost weight simply by removing refined sugar and eating whole foods. Just look around and you can see the disastrous effects on people's health. Thanks again OldNBusted.

Asking prospective clients for a deposit is a definite turn off.

Jordan is great. https://www.masseurfinder.com/massage-therapists/32279/ Kai is also recommended. https://www.masseurfinder.com/massage-therapists/32279/

This was also my experience. My take is that he is being very cautious most likely because he ran into issues. Well worth the experience.

Having managed large IT systems, you cannot stay on outdated and thus unsupported versions of products. Operating systems, data base systems, hardware and software are all interdependent. You must constantly be upgrading and stay current or you run the risk of platform instability. At IBM it was called RAS. Reliability, Availability and Serviceability. Daddy is to be commended for his IT expertise.

Here is a documentary from Canada about the dangers of sugar. Worthy of watching.

I have my doubts that this site will reappear. In any case, I have enjoyed the digital discourse my friends. All my best to you all.

I'm not sure it is 100% our fault as the deck is stacked by food industry paying huge sums of money to lobby and influence lawmakers to weaken laws that protect our health. Corporations also fund "research" that favors outcomes that downplay health hazards in products they produce and sell. However, at the end of the day, we decide what we put in our mouth and what we choose to eat. Should we put sugary drinks in schools? Should we have Dominos Pizza provide school lunches? We all pay for the cost in lost productivity and skyrocketing health care costs from sugar laden processed food.

Sweet Revenge Turning the Tables on Processed Food (no vegetarian/vegan propaganda) For years we have been told that type 2 diabetes, liver and heart disease are caused by eating too much--it's all our fault. Dr. Robert H. Lustig explains that the problem is the quality and not the quantity of the food we eat. The real culprit is processed food, loaded with added sugar and stripped of its natural fiber and nutrients. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-_6JgMiwA

Great Job! There is so much added sugar in all the processed foods we consume. Amazing results from eating whole foods and reducing added sugar consumption. Thanks for feedback on your quest.

Michael Greger M.D. is an awesome dude. He is worth listening to and learning from.

I know, you are tired of hearing this... However, we are all connected and it is so important that we are aware of the impact something that is harmful to our health.

I wonder if kids fed sugary diets are meaner and more difficult to handle?

This is a very interesting article. Essentially, eating processed food is killing our ancestral microbiome. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-western-diet-has-derailed-our-evolution-1101393416 "When he fed mice a fiber-poor, sugary, Western-like diet, diversity plummeted. (Fiber-starved mice were also meaner and more difficult to handle.) But the losses weren’t permanent. Even after weeks on this junk food-like diet, an animal’s microbial diversity would mostly recover if it began consuming fiber again."

I disagree with your physician. All sugars are not to same. All the fiber in fruit is very beneficial and eating an apple will satiate you much more than a fizzy drink.

Interesting video on how it is manufactured. Yes, you need to wonder if supply is being kept low to drive prices up. There are only three manufactures from what I understand.

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Is the World Running Out of Insulin? Shortages Could Leave Millions of Diabetics Without Treatment Millions worldwide may be unable to access the drug by 2030, scientists predict https://www.newsweek.com/world-running-out-insulin-shortages-could-leave-millions-diabetics-without-1229125 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/20/insulin-shortage-could-affect-40-million-people-with-type-2-diabetes

I have a simple philosophy that helps me determine what food I eat. If I cannot pronounce the ingredient, i.e. aspartame, etc., I don't consume it or buy it. There is growing evidence that the artificial sweeteners are screwing up metabolism. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/11/200488420/do-diet-drinks-mess-up-metabolisms http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/4/688 Of course, the beverage industry will say no it does not. Just as tobacco industry did with their products. And so it goes.

Show me fact based research that claims we need additional oil in our diet other than what occurs naturally in plants. We simply don't need it. We keep eating refined products that have deleterious impacts on our health. https://ucdintegrativemedicine.com/2015/04/the-good-bad-and-ugly-about-oils/#gs.N4ckJWM The topic of the post is Sugar, BTW.

Actually this "Dude", is a distinguished PhD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Colin_Campbell He has published fact based scientific research on how important plant based diets are to our health. Humans are a unique species in that we can decide what we ingest or not. We also have a highly developed brain so we can learn and decide what we put into our bodies.

“Let food be thy medicine.” —Hippocrates

Actually, I have eliminated any added oils whatsoever. https://nutritionstudies.org/plant-oils-are-not-a-healthy-alternative-to-saturated-fat/