USA Cycling has a great promotion to get you to apply for your racing license; insurance included. They are offering 1,000 hours in training videos for free. That’s half a year of full time viewing. Certainly if you are a series racer, such as in the WORS Series, that is a great deal.
Actually WORS participation numbers were down slightly last year. I suspect, since mountain biking trails are being used more than ever, that it is a sign of our tight economy. Racing takes just a bit more investment in time and equipment. Series racing takes a big commitment.
The single event races are a different animal. Less $$$ than trying to compete in a full series of races. Registration for The Trans Alp is open; twenty-four weeks away. If you’re not that brutal of a racer it is never too soon to register for the Ore to Shore. And if you are an outright nut case on a bike, I’m sorry, but the Trans Iowa has reached its limit. I recognized a few names on the list.
‘But Phillip’, you say, ‘You’re the only nut case we’re interested in.’ I understand, so here we go.
Yes, we bought the MCT Oil, which is a refined version of the coconut oil, for the Bulletproof Coffee, at least the simplistic version we consume. Misao still likes the coconut oil in her coffee, with the butter from grass fed cows. The MCT Oil is more conducive to using in tea; it has little to no flavor. The Bulletproof book recommends green tea and yerba matte. Teavana would not recommend a tea. Many still believe butter and fats in general are bad for you, not necessarily a good marketing strategy to promote butter in your tea, and besides, they sell teas. They don’t promote a particular concoction designed for a specific purpose. I can actually taste the black tea I currently have, through the butter and oil.
My wife considers quality teas a bargain, as you can use them several times over with great result. Fava Tea Company has two stores in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Of course you can always go Internet. There is the Mark T Wendell Tea Company, quality teas since 1902. Then there is the ESP Emporium, as well as many others I am sure. The Bulletproof Diet suggests that coffee provides great things for your body, that tea just can’t.
“No.” I told my wife, “That’s my favorite t-shirt.” as she suggested I throw it away; she likes to cut up old t-shirts and sheets for single use cleaning clothes. So I was grabbing up some towels the other day to scrub the floor and what did I find?
My favorite t-shirt. …The Horror! …My wife has me scrubbing floors.
Trying to convince my wife that coconut cream pie, cheese puffs and daily bowls of Shin Ramyun were not part of the Bulletproof Diet, we have been watching food documentaries. I watch many food documentaries, though mostly dealing with the growing and processing of food. We saw one that promoted juicing. Jack LaLanne had an incredible life transformation through juicing. I read one reviewer that didn’t rank his juicer in the top tier.
The Bulletproof Diet, which trends to Paleo but references biological science more and recommends supplements, lists many vegetables as being best for you only when cooked, such as spinach and most kales. This is something that is contradictory to the juicing culture. Both the Paleo and Bulletproof, backed by irrefutable science, declare the vegetarian diet, especially the vegan diet, in the long run, in the long run I say, as being extremely detrimental to your health.
Yes, we watched a documentary on the Paleo Diet, which follows a logic I have always believed in; eat like we’ve been eating the last two million years. Paleo promoters suggest that the Paleo diet, a high (mostly) protein and plant diet, drove evolution and that the modern diet, since the introduction of large quantities of grain (10,000 years of agriculture), is driving a de-evolution of man. Our brains are getting smaller. Paleo man (identical genetically to modern man) not only had a larger brain, and jaws big enough to fit all your teeth, but was also taller and stronger than modern man. Reminds me of the history of the German people, known for their great size and wild living, when they began encroaching on the Roman Empire.
I am looking into the Paleo diet because there seem to be a good collection of recipes. The Bulletproof diet has recipes but not nearly as many. The Paleo recipes fit with the bulletproof diet. My wife seems lost menu wise because she doesn’t know what meals to make for the diet we are trying. Or she just doesn’t want me to shrink out of the nice new clothes she just bought me for Christmas.
So, in both of the above mentioned diets baked goods are considered bad for you, even labeled a non-human food. Always? Is it always bad for you? It’s hard for me to believe that Paleo man didn’t bake Christmas cookies.
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