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by summerwave
Sat 24 Apr 2010 22:49
Forum: Animal Food
Topic: Dried meat / fish? Dehydrator?
Replies: 49
Views: 98641

dehydrating seafood

Has anyone dehydrated * shrimp/prawns? or * squid (cleaned, scored and cut into squares, as one might prepared it for blanching in cooked recipes)? Chicken and beef are wonderful dehydrated; they seem fresh and unspoiled, just slightly dried; but when I have seen people eat dried cuttlefish, undoubt...
by summerwave
Thu 15 Apr 2010 02:47
Forum: General health issues
Topic: Gerson Therapy to treat cancer; Wai diet response
Replies: 23
Views: 15448

strict diet; health

I like to read these exchanges so much (still enjoying the one on longevity and other organisms that are 'negligibly senescent', too). Sometimes, Oscar, I think you are more hardcore than RRM! :) One imagines you are always extremely healthy, and that the diet really works for you absolutely well. I...
by summerwave
Wed 07 Apr 2010 01:52
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

fun

Well, I dearly love to be made fun of, so that is a two-way street of happiness my friend


:D
by summerwave
Tue 06 Apr 2010 20:25
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

statistic

Ah; well, it is something I heard about 15 years ago, before fertility treatments seemed to become the norm.... At the time I had noted that many women in my family had conceived and given birth naturally age 40-45-- it was at a time when there was near-hysteria about "biological clocks ticking" as ...
by summerwave
Mon 05 Apr 2010 01:12
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

aging

I have read somewhere (I cannot find it) that the top variable correlated to female lifespan is the act of conceiving and giving birth naturally at age 45 or later. No other variable is correlated with reaching age 90, for women, like this one is. Of course it is a causality riddle: does the birth i...
by summerwave
Mon 05 Apr 2010 01:07
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

great topic

I wonder about these related topics all the time.... What an excellent conversation. (What double luck to have both of you weigh in)! I myself have nothing to add; I'll just listen. I wondered too about the lifespan figures... of course their lives aren't infinite. It is rather like the scientists c...
by summerwave
Thu 01 Apr 2010 17:53
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

Protein and size; protein and longevity

I was recently reading another post on here by RRM about size (body morphology/height of hominids and other organisms) and protein. I am wondering what the studies overall show about protein and longevity. Some animals are now the focus of "negligible senescence" studies. They live to 200 years or m...
by summerwave
Sat 27 Feb 2010 23:06
Forum: Animal Food
Topic: How much animal protein is too much?
Replies: 29
Views: 23412

protein and fat

I was looking at: http://www.13.waisays.com/protein.htm and simultaneously trying to find the postings on here about eating fat and protein in concert. (Isn't there discussion about how this is either a) optimal; or b) necessary for protein metabolism?) I can't remember... Some of the more casual po...
by summerwave
Wed 24 Feb 2010 00:52
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

energy needs

Whatever they do is quite amazing, as they do not have gills: They are diving anaerobically (in apnea)-- that is, breathing at surface between immersions. This takes tremendous energy; one's energy needs are relatively larger in this state. This is why, too, they remain "halfway" resting (1/2 of the...
by summerwave
Tue 23 Feb 2010 00:41
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bk on cooked food
Replies: 15
Views: 11020

yes

Read Rene Guenon on that (French intellectual who became a Sufi...)--

An excellent critique of Western culture.
by summerwave
Mon 22 Feb 2010 22:19
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

diabetes

And I'm skeptical that it can really shed that much light on diabetes in humans.... They seem similar in some ways (the striking resemblance to being large-brained mammals with a glucose-based brain) but I am not sure, reading this research, how their adaptations could help human diabetics. Again-- ...
by summerwave
Mon 22 Feb 2010 22:16
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: About protein and Neanderthals...
Replies: 44
Views: 24627

dolphin rest

They are always in motion, but the hemispheres of their brain are radically different from ours: One half can sleep while the other is awake. It still seems impossible to support an enormous brain on only protein and fat while in constant motion. They must eat a very lot indeed, and be constantly at...
by summerwave
Mon 22 Feb 2010 22:11
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bk on cooked food
Replies: 15
Views: 11020

erratum

I should say "Muslim" with regard to the Taliban-- that is pure error.

The polygamy argument he advances holds true in Arab nations, as well-- he talks about both in terms of their similarity with regard to polygamy.
by summerwave
Mon 22 Feb 2010 22:10
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bk on cooked food
Replies: 15
Views: 11020

male and female

Surely you could find a lot to like in his theories about the Taliban.. (that polygamy disenfranchises the poorest//least powerful men in a culture, denying them the chance to marry/have children without forcibly subjugating and terrorizing women). He says to defeat Arab terrorism, the West should w...
by summerwave
Mon 22 Feb 2010 22:06
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bk on cooked food
Replies: 15
Views: 11020

Book

I liked the part about the Taliban!