I saw a Japanese guy sitting/standing beside me @ the showers in the bath @ the gym. Nothing unusual with that except that his upper body was longer than his treetrunk legs. And he was an ordinary guy. Reminds me of Darwin.

Half of Americans facing diabetes by 2020: report (Reuters)

Pretty scary title, eh?

Wake Up! Hello?!?! Is anybody home?!?!?!?
If we don't do something about this yesterday we are in HUGE trouble!
Only 10 years to go if this prediction is true.
And it likely IS true the way the trend is going.

"Half of Americans facing diabetes by 2020: report"
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AM0NH20101123?rpc=21

NEW YORK (Reuters) Nov 23 - More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be
prediabetic by 2020 at a cost to the U.S. health care system of $3.35 trillion if current
trends go on unabated, according to analysis of a new report released on Tuesday by health
insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Cam's Comment: Following the "advice" of government, nutritionists, and doctors got us
into this mess. What society has been told to be "good for us" has produced the opposite
results! How long are we going to keep believing?!? Get educated and take your health into
your own hands. It's the only way.

"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did
not also limit his stupidity."
- Konrad Adenauer, first Chancellor of Federal Republic of West Germany

I love you!
Cam

Lipids & Proteins & ... &... Oh Hell!

Canadian docs misclassifying two-thirds of patients at high risk for cardiovascular events
http://www.theheart.org/article/1155979.do
Nov 23, 2010 11:45 EST

"Canadian primary-care physicians are not accurately assessing cardiovascular risk in
middle-aged adults, a particular concern for high-risk patients classified as low risk.
The implications of the study are that a sizable proportion of these patients might not be
prescribed lipid-lowering therapy, say researchers."

Here is the Medscape link (login required):
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/733136?sssdmh=dm1.651082&src=nldne&uac=143390MN

Cam's Comment: THANK GOD FOR CANADA! The doctors are NOT misclassifying! They are
correctly saying that people do NOT need "lipid-lowering therapy" (i.e. cholesterol
lowering drugs). I hope that this stupid stupid news article gets either buried, or the
Canadian doctors get praised for not succumbing to Big Pharma and researchers who are
getting paid through the nose to promote the Pharma agendas. The author, Michael O'Riordan
is a complete FOOL. For starters, the JUPITER study he uses for reference basically proves
the absolute FAILURE of cholesterol-lowering drugs, not their "success" as everyone is
parrotting (thanks to Big Pharma twisting the statistics to meet their needs). Wake up
people! Cholesterol drugs will KILL YOU! If you want to read about this, find it on Brian
Peskin's website where he shows beyond the shadow of a doubt how JUPITER FAILED.


***************

Higher-Protein/Low-GI Diet Best for Maintaining Weight Loss Heartwire (login required)
http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/t/eDAzW0XLW6e0F6A0uVf0GF&uac=143390MN

"November 26, 2010 (Copenhagen, Denmark) - A new study looking at ways of maintaining
weight loss in subjects who've successfully shed pounds through a restricted-calorie diet
has found that a higher-protein, lower glycemic index (GI) diet was significantly better
than other diets either lower in protein, or with a higher glycemic index, or both."

I post a link to the original Journal of New England Medicine for easier access:

Diets with High or Low Protein Content and Glycemic Index for Weight-Loss Maintenance
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137

"Studies of weight-control diets that are high in protein or low in glycemic index have
reached varied conclusions, probably owing to the fact that the studies had insufficient
power. In this large European study, a modest increase in protein content and a modest
reduction in the glycemic index led to an improvement in study completion and maintenance
of weight loss."

Cam's Comment: This is good to see, however the study is too short. It covers only six
months. Many studies have found that after one year, most of those who lost or maintained
lower weights on higher protein/lower carb diets returned to their original weights after
a year.

Does that sound like I am contradicting my own evangelism? Well, actually, I've known this
for some time, and thanks to Brian Peskin have been able to predict it for some time now.
This happened to a good portion of the "Atkins Diet" people, and it led to some
discreditation of that "high protein" diet, and was fodder for all of the Weight Watchers
people and "calorie restrictors". The problem with the above study is that the proteins
and foods we get now are DEFICIENT in the PARENT ESSENTIAL OILS (ALA, and LA, or Parent
Omega 3 and Parent Omega 6). DHA and EPA are present in fish, and they are "omega 3" but
they are DERIVATIVES. Our bodies do not need the derivatives, because we can make our own
derivatives from the parents. What we need are the parent essential omega-6 and the parent
omega-3s (LA, and ALA respectively) and we need them in the proper combination and ratio.

What does this mean in layman terms? It means that this study will also get defeated by
another study that goes longer and shows that the people who maintained for six months,
regained or mostly regained in about a year, thus once again, damaging the reality that
lower carbohydrates and higher amounts of proteins are what our bodies really require.

In the end, this debate will never clarify, and will continue to be murky, like "colloidal
minerals" (which are another farce re. mineral supplementation). Both sides will continue
to "post", and "counterpost" ad infinitum. Why? Because they are ALL missing the crucial
key point: we NEED the right amount of PARENT ESSENTIAL OILS and that is extremely
difficult to do with food.

Have a great day.
I love you!
Cam

I just called the post office for an update on the postal restrictions: over 1lb to USA is still banned (unless you pay through the nose with a courier), but anything to Canada is "business as usual". However, I'm going to wait a bit until North America calms down just a tad before sending my presents to the family.

Spent a good couple of hours with Matt in Shinjuku today doing a bit of this, and a bit of that. Thanks, Matt. Catch you next time.

New Video: "Ootnaboot in Akita Prefecture, Tamagawa Onsen Gambanyoku" http://youtu.be/Px_cpjEH74U Enjoy! I love you!!

A Virtual Jailbreak - Almost!

My thoughts of jailbreaking my kindle were almost moot in point tonight. Let me tell you why.

On the train home from Kobuchizawa tonight I ate my dinner and finished reading a free novel that I had downloaded to my kindle. When the train arrived at Shinjuku, I packed up, and left. I walked up the stairs, and over to my train line which is deep down under ground. The train was delayed as there had been some trouble further down the line in the opposite direction. I decided that I would pull out my kindle and read it on the way home as I had a 40 minute ride back.

But it wasn't in my bag!
I had left my black kindle on the black train seat!!!

I dashed all the way back to the other train platform  which is hard to do in Shinjuku station due to the sheer volume of people passing through (one million per day) as anyone who has ever been here will understand, went to the lost and found and found my kindle! The stationmasters were just entering it into the computer.

I filled out a form, kissed my kindle hello, and walked back to my station, relieved not to have lost my kindle. The funny thing is that I wasn't thinking terrible panicky thoughts; I was thinking, "what a great opportunity to buy a different device!" But I did worry about the possibility of people buying books as it is linked to my credit card. That thought did cross my mind briefly, but it wasn't a big worry. I also realized that I am not really "attached" to the thing as the potential loss didn't make me break out into a panic sweat at all, and I was quite lucid and calm in my mind as I dashed back.

I made it home on the extremely packed train, feeling sorry for all the shorter women who were getting their faces mashed into the backs, arms and chests of sweaty, stinky businessmen while I had the entire upper section of the compartment free for my own use. I held my kindle against the ceiling of the train and read it all the way home ("Einstein's Theory of Relativity" <-- which made me fall asleep on the other train while sitting down and reading).

I haven't been in a train that jam packed since our last major typhoon that shut down some connecting lines and filled up my line with commuters this past winter.

Kindle almost broke free!

Have a great weekend.

I love you!
Cam