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operatic: thanks to personhead lpetrazickis I have got Opera to look better. It wasn't just a matter of "how pretty will this be?" but "can I stand to read my webmail?" It doesn't seem to do Popcap, but maybe that's just as well. Fortunately, the widgets (esp. games) that clever people have made for Opera are only mildly amusing, not addictive.
no munchy: so much for phase two: I am apparently of the self-will level of a chicken. A tiny serving of potatoes at dinner last night and then I watched myself eat a bowl of peanuts and two pieces of buttered bread before I went to bed. And today I've bounced up five pounds and I hate food (no, really, I've been stalking around the kitchen, aware that I ought to eat breakfast, yelling at the food because it's all annoying and some of it is repellent) So much for introducing potatoes to my diet.
I think I'm sticking to phase one for a while longer, even though I was supposed to drop it a week ago and start doing small amounts of fruit and grain. I don't think potatoes were in the phase two thing, anyway. I think it was all brown rice and whole wheat and not much of that. Which we don't have in the house at the moment. Anyway, I think I'm sticking to greenery for a while. I've been doing okay with it until today.
It's not that I crave anything sweet or starchy. It's that I feel hostile towards food. I'm not especially hungry but I ate some leftover meat and mushrooms because I wanted not to become hungry at work. They're doing an impromptu potluck and I saw that everybody else had signed up for chips, desserts, sodas, and one person is bringing chicken enchiladas (last time her enchiladas were more like flautas) and potatoes. So I'm bringing a green salad and sticking to it. I may not go in the break room. I don't want to have that starchy eating switch flipped. It's really unpleasant.
I would question whether I'm actually diabetic, because the A1C number on my test was 6.1 and the diabetes journal in the waiting room said 7, but I have all the other signs of the sometimes-controversial metabolic syndrome so what's the point? Also, the regime has been working (losing weight, regularizing sleep patterns, gaining energy).
Science News reports that osteocalcin, a much-studied but little-understood protein produced by the bone-building osteoblast cells, appears to correlate strongly with type 2 diabetes. As in, mice engineered to have extra osteocalcin avoid obesity and insulin problems even when they're fed too much, and mice engineered to lack osteocalcin became obese, had less insulin in their blood, and their cells were resistant to insulin. Mice with more osteocalcin have more, and more productive, insulin-producing cells. They're proposing that feeding people osteocalcin might help the metabolic syndrome.
Meanwhile, polycarbonate plastics -- Nalgene, anyone? -- leach a substance known as bisphenolA(BPA) into the food and water contained in them, and this stuff reprograms the genes of infant mice. This time they didn't expose the mice to many times more than people are expected to get. Instead, the exposure was brief and the level of BPA in the mice's organs was lower than the levels measured in adults right now. This is after soft plastics have already been found to leach nastiness into food, especially when heated in the microwave. Heat your food on ceramic plates, covered with ceramic or glass bowls, okay?
So, my suggestion: whatever the day care people say, send your children's food in steel and glass. (hmm. I'm thinking about how to replace all that plastic)
Oh, and you know teflon? I've never trusted it, ever, because when you look at old teflon pans there's always scratches and holes in the surface, and where did that teflon go? Into your food. So, here it is: the teflon is, in fact, breaking down in your body into things that will cause problems.
no munchy: so much for phase two: I am apparently of the self-will level of a chicken. A tiny serving of potatoes at dinner last night and then I watched myself eat a bowl of peanuts and two pieces of buttered bread before I went to bed. And today I've bounced up five pounds and I hate food (no, really, I've been stalking around the kitchen, aware that I ought to eat breakfast, yelling at the food because it's all annoying and some of it is repellent) So much for introducing potatoes to my diet.
I think I'm sticking to phase one for a while longer, even though I was supposed to drop it a week ago and start doing small amounts of fruit and grain. I don't think potatoes were in the phase two thing, anyway. I think it was all brown rice and whole wheat and not much of that. Which we don't have in the house at the moment. Anyway, I think I'm sticking to greenery for a while. I've been doing okay with it until today.
It's not that I crave anything sweet or starchy. It's that I feel hostile towards food. I'm not especially hungry but I ate some leftover meat and mushrooms because I wanted not to become hungry at work. They're doing an impromptu potluck and I saw that everybody else had signed up for chips, desserts, sodas, and one person is bringing chicken enchiladas (last time her enchiladas were more like flautas) and potatoes. So I'm bringing a green salad and sticking to it. I may not go in the break room. I don't want to have that starchy eating switch flipped. It's really unpleasant.
I would question whether I'm actually diabetic, because the A1C number on my test was 6.1 and the diabetes journal in the waiting room said 7, but I have all the other signs of the sometimes-controversial metabolic syndrome so what's the point? Also, the regime has been working (losing weight, regularizing sleep patterns, gaining energy).
Science News reports that osteocalcin, a much-studied but little-understood protein produced by the bone-building osteoblast cells, appears to correlate strongly with type 2 diabetes. As in, mice engineered to have extra osteocalcin avoid obesity and insulin problems even when they're fed too much, and mice engineered to lack osteocalcin became obese, had less insulin in their blood, and their cells were resistant to insulin. Mice with more osteocalcin have more, and more productive, insulin-producing cells. They're proposing that feeding people osteocalcin might help the metabolic syndrome.
Meanwhile, polycarbonate plastics -- Nalgene, anyone? -- leach a substance known as bisphenolA(BPA) into the food and water contained in them, and this stuff reprograms the genes of infant mice. This time they didn't expose the mice to many times more than people are expected to get. Instead, the exposure was brief and the level of BPA in the mice's organs was lower than the levels measured in adults right now. This is after soft plastics have already been found to leach nastiness into food, especially when heated in the microwave. Heat your food on ceramic plates, covered with ceramic or glass bowls, okay?
So, my suggestion: whatever the day care people say, send your children's food in steel and glass. (hmm. I'm thinking about how to replace all that plastic)
Oh, and you know teflon? I've never trusted it, ever, because when you look at old teflon pans there's always scratches and holes in the surface, and where did that teflon go? Into your food. So, here it is: the teflon is, in fact, breaking down in your body into things that will cause problems.
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