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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.

17 posts by the OP, 3 by other posters. That's some kind of record for TV/ASEAN. No, I was not inspired by second-rate American authors, with turgid prose. I was inspired by working in SE Asia, and the knowledge if I stayed in Australia, the boredom would become unendurable. For me, the apotheosis of American literature is Steinbeck's "East of Eden."

In a previous post you said, and I quote: "That is why such "medication" is banned on flights!" Short-term memory loss?

Aren't you over-reacting somewhat? IME, when I am roused early from a sleep medication, it's business as usual. Possibly reactions are slower. Check any passenger list, you will find elderly people who have slow reactions anyway. On long haul flights, the cabin crew want you to sleep. I would like you to post a link from any airline that prohibits taking sleeping or any other medication on an aircraft. Because when I look on the internet, there are various recommendations against taking some types of sleeping pills, depending on the length of flight. i can't find anything that states there is a legally-enforceable ban, as you are claiming.

I am known as Khun Ta by my GF's grand-daughter, and Santa Claus by the caddies at my local golf club.

False equivalence, a bed is not a meat patty. Which, BTW, is beef, not pork in the McMuffins I used to eat. How do you know those patties are not a threat to the Australian livestock industry? Post your degrees in animal epidemiology, please. You gave an official some attitude, and did not bring out the paperwork which would have supported your case. Then you're surprised you presumably got red-flagged on future trips. I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you are going for a visa extension at Immigration.

At the risk of going off topic, I'll try to explain the principle of deterrence. It's nothing to do with "The punishment should fit the crime". About three months ago, I was fined 500 baht for speeding. A slap on the wrist. The same offense in Australia would have cost me 14,000 baht, plus demerit points. The road death toll in Australia averages about 1150 per year. In Thailand, it is more than 20,000. See where I am going with this? Hopefully, the moron who brought in the McMuffins will now serve as a warning to other morons. Now please explain to me why entire industries should be placed at risk to placate your dubious philosophy. Even Thailand bans the import of meat and meat-based products in passenger luggage. As I remarked to another poster, if you don't like Australian quarantine laws, don't go there. It's not as if morons do not get fair warning.

Confiscation of goods, and a $25 fine. You really think that kind of slap on the wrist is going to have any deterrence? No doubt your "INSANE" interpretation arose from being a scofflaw, then having to pay for it.

The rules are there for good reason. If you don't like those rules, or the penalties for breaching them, don't go to Australia. Incoming passengers get fair warning. You think people with the attention span of a goldfish should get a free pass? My guess would be importing vermin nowadays would not just be a fine, it would be jail.

Can't help you with the Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can go on the Amazon website and download every and any book you have purchased to the phone, and read them there. My Kindle gets very little use nowadays, the smartphone is less bulky and the text is just as legible.

Can't help you there, I've only been to Pattaya once, and I was not shopping for power plugs.

Some of the posters on Quora have a genuine talent for asking questions with blindingly obvious answers.

They are there to assist the organizers of trivia competitions.

I'm on that forum, although it is somewhat moribund. I am not banned, the statement "everyone is banned" is ridiculous. I'd suggest libeling anyone on scant evidence is not a good idea, even if it is supposedly a private message. If the OP really wanted to make their communication private, they should have exchanged email addresses.

It's not when one considers the cost to whole industries that can be instigated by one moronic traveler. IIRC, it was the British who introduced rabbits and foxes to Australia, to satisfy their need for upper class pastimes such as hunting. The damage that has been done by those vermin to pastoral land and native species is beyond calculation. I think it was Oscar Wilde who said fox hunting was the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.

Certainly can, if the meat is not cooked fully. However, that's not the point. The quarantine laws are spelled out quite clearly multiple times for incoming passengers.