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Looking at my phone now, I'd say the text size is about two-thirds of what you have posted. I speed read too. The quantity of text on a single page seems to suit me.

In terms of carb load, there is zero difference between the two.

1/ Don't get married, or have a relationship longer than one year in any Western country. 2/ Don't get anyone pregnant. 3/ Buy as much property as you can, and sit on it. Preferably property that generates an income while it appreciates in value. They don't make any more of it. 4/ Don't smoke, don't give into peer pressure. 5/ Save money. Leave the shiny new toys to the poseurs. The only people you need to impress are the ones who determine your salary. 6/ As soon as you have enough dosh to retire on for the rest of your life, come to Thailand. 7/ Don't get married here either.

It would not be the first time a conspiracy theorist has taken sound science and twisted it for their own purposes, thanks for the explanation.

If you like SF, I suggest Eric Flint's 1632 ( alternative history ) and Empire ( alien conquest ) series.

Actually, the one about gay frogs is close to true. Humans have been using phenol ethoxylates since their invention in 1940, mostly as liquid laundry and dishwashing detergents. They do not break down in effluent treatment systems. The only way to remove them is with activated carbon, which is very expensive. Most third world countries would not bother. In the environment, they act as endocrine disruptors, and mimic oestrogen. Probably feminization is a more accurate description than gay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonylphenol#Environmental_hazards

I do the same, plenty of shirts and trousers my size in the secondhand stores, most have been bought new by fashion plates who have only worn them a few times. My GF loves hunting them out for me. I could go to a tailor here, and shell out 1500 baht for a pair of trousers. When they only cost 100 baht secondhand, it's no contest. Not sure about the OP, maybe he needs to lose some weight first.

I've only just started trying the edible stuff, in small doses, once a week. I find it relaxes me completely, and alleviates osteoarthritis for up to 24 hours. Not interested in smoking it, gave up tobacco in 1983. It's apparently recommended by doctors for terminal cancer patients.

Many people have sugar in their coffee, to offset the bitterness. There is a doctor on YouTube claiming two coffees a day is beneficial for heart health.

Not really, they separated in their early seventies. Having said that, I am not discounting your hypothesis for some couples. The surviving partner seems to lose the will to live.

$45 million in punitive damages says it all. Great to see someone who has made a career out of lying for profit get his. I do have to wonder where the human race is headed, when mouth-breathers not only believed him, but also sent him money. Seems to me I saw another example of that fairly recently.

Given these misgivings w.r.to plants and animals, what do you eat?

Good luck with your TIPS.

Doing what you like sometimes comes with a hefty bill, that only gets presented later in life. Smokers die an agonizing death from lung cancer or emphysema, alcoholics end up defecating blood as the liver breaks down, obese people graduate to Type 2 diabetes, heart attacks and strokes. I prefer quality of life, but as the girls say, up to you.

It's working for me at age 79, goodbye.

One of my rules with vegetables is if it grows below ground, it's bad for me. if it's above ground, it's good for me, with the exception of grains and corn.

I never said I don't eat meat. I do, as much as I want. Low carb diets are about getting rid of excess sugar in one's body, and teaching the body to metabolize fat instead as the source of energy. It should be blindingly obvious if one's body is not metabolizing fat, it has to go somewhere. It does, straight onto the bathroom scales. The only form of sugar mankind had for millennia was in fruit ( fructose ), and honey. Lactose in dairy. Now, sucrose is in damn near everything that comes in a package.

In other words, it is very likely you will live as long as your parents, unless you get hit by a bus. You probably won in the genetic lottery. Six years ago, my total daily kidney load from medications was 675 mg. Now it is 3 mg. As 53% of the elderly die of acute kidney failure, it's like tossing a coin. Both my parents died at age 83, after a lifetime of cigarettes and alcohol.

We still have bodies from the Paleolithic Age, when we were hunter-gatherers. It's only when mankind settled down to harvesting crops such as grains that we went onto a high-carb diet. If anything, a high carb diet is less natural.

Noted you have not answered my question re BMI. Your reticence says it all. If you are one of those individuals that can get away with no diet and exercise, that's the genetic luck of the draw. However, you may be paying a price later on. I wouldn't say I am extreme in my diet. I still have my toast and Vegemite in the morning, and the occasional treat of ice-cream and cake. I also enjoy being creative, making tasty dishes out of low carb ingredients. Olives, pesto, chili and various cheeses or yoghurt are my friends in the kitchen. Macadamias and Brazil nuts, it's a matter of making good choices in every food group. I certainly don't starve. Assuming you are not 79 yet, it would be interesting to see how you scrub up if you do get there.

If you want to reduce the carb load, ditch the beer and drink spirits instead. Zero carbs, beer is loaded with them. That's why the Germans call it liquid bread.

I suggest you focus on statistical averages and not outliers. All the data says people who are vegetarian, or exercise regularly, live longer. Whether they are sportsmen, or not. George Best was an elite athlete, I don't think anyone would say he had a healthy lifestyle.

What is your body mass index? Sugar is not good in any circumstances. Ingesting sugar after exercise is undoing the good work done previously. Fruits are not great for the liver. They contain fructose, which is not metabolized by insulin, and contributes to fatty liver disease. Fruits such as guava, apples and berries are OK, mango, pineapple, bananas and grapes are not. I have been exercising for several years. I only got my blood sugar under control when I went on a low-carb diet, exercise alone did nothing.

Thank you for explaining the bleeding obvious to a poster I put on ignore. Everyone claiming cooked meat is no problem makes the assumption said meat is cooked and stored properly. In third world countries with a slip-shod attitude to food hygiene, there are plenty of gastro cases that say otherwise.

Low-carb diet, exercise. Mental as well as physical. Reducing dependence on medications to what is absolutely necessary. If I don't measure it, I can't control it. Bathroom scales for body mass, blood pressure monitor for systole/diastole and resting pulse rate. Regular blood tests for other indicators, such as blood sugar and kidney function. At age 79, I think I am in much better shape than many people younger than me. I have no idea when I will die. Having said that, my quality of life while I am getting there is important to me.