How One Should Eat

A fascinating article by Health MSN about how and what humans should be eating..

What is the best diet for human beings?

Vegetarian? Vegan? High-protein? Low-fat? Dairy-Free?

Hold on to your shopping carts: There is no perfect diet for human beings. At least not one that’s based on how much protein, fat or carbohydrates you eat.

People have lived and thrived on high-protein, high-fat diets (the Inuit of Greenland); on low-protein, high-carb diets (the indigenous peoples of southern Africa); on diets high in raw milk and cream (the people of the Loetschental Valley in Switzerland); diets high in saturated fat (the Trobriand Islanders) and even on diets in which animal blood is considered a staple (the Massai of Kenya and Tanzania). And folks have thrived on these diets without the ravages of degenerative diseases that are so epidemic in modern American life—heart disease, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, osteoporosis and cancer.

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Commentary: April 15 is patriots’ day – CNN.com

I don’t often follow the headlines on my Google Reader, but I followed this one and am glad I did. The amount of money taken out of my check every week is ludicrous, but I’d be a lot less upset about it if taxation was equal across the board and if more of my tax money was actually going to good causes like those discussed below rather than bailing out the likes of GM or buying new toilet seats for the White House.

Give me a break. Instead of tossing tea bags for the cameras, the Fox phonies ought to go to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. There they would find better, braver men who have truly sacrificed for their country. They deserve nothing but the best — not the shameful and shoddy conditions they endured during the Bush administration.

You want something to protest? How ’bout protesting how little we give back to our veterans? Or how ’bout protesting that the entire budget of the National Cancer Institute (where government researchers battle a disease that will strike half of all men and a third of all women) is 0.03 percent of what we gave the bandits at American International Group alone? Oh, but veterans benefits and cancer research might cost money. It might require — dare I say it? — paying taxes.

If the whiners at Fox News want to advertise their selfishness, they are free to do so. But please don’t dress it up as patriotism. Patriotism is putting your country ahead of yourself — which is the precise opposite of what the tea party plutocrats are doing./a>.

 

Map of potholes in Greater Boston – Boston.com

Winter in New England generates serious potholes, including one monster in Jamaica Plain that recently ravaged nine cars in rapid succession. Do you have a similar pothole on your route that consistently rattles your axle, or keeps you swerving? If so, mark it here, and we’ll chart the potholes around the region. You can report a pothole found in the city of Boston by calling the mayor’s 24-hour hot line at (617) 635-4500.

Map of potholes in Greater Boston – Boston.com

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Stuff I Like

We can all see my Blogroll–Stuff White People Like, Stuff Gods Hates, etc. Well, thanks to D, I have found the BEST “Stuff” blog in the entire world: Stuff Lesbians Like. From their headline,

Being a lesbian isn’t about mullets, wearing flannel, clunky shoes, going to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (people still do that?!), or quoting Ani DiFranco (barf). Those stereotypes are passe. It’s 2008. Time for a current list of Stuff Lesbians Like.

I’ve only read the titles of a few posts, but this is easily going to become of of my favorite blogs. I’m a particular fan of Part 71: “It’s Complicated”, although I am looking forward to reading Part 70: Fleece, Part 62: Girls with Guitars and Part 57: “Wanting Famous Women To Be Lesbians Even Though We Have No Chance With Them“

 

Stuff To Do

So I’ve been playing with my calendar a lot lately–now that I’m a Girl Scout Troop leader and am also a co-adviser for the AB Yearbook, my schedule is going to explode, so I even got myself a paper organizer to use in addition to my Google Calendar. My next phone just might be a Palm..

But that’s not REALLY what this entry is about. I wanted to let me faithful readers know that I have two calendars that are totally public and I would love if the locals joined them. One is devoted to local Renaissance Faires (I’m not going to all of them everyday, but I want to be able to keep track of them), and the other is just labeled Fun and Frolic–things like fairs, outings, etc. If you want to be able to add stuff to that one, just let me know!