anything with magic faster than light travel energy weapons and scantily clad women I am IN
examples:
A magic user from the future who is a scantily clad woman recruits some space marines for a daring rescue.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Getbig II ** Posts: 366 I love myself a lot. View Profile Email Personal Message (Online) fact check: keynesian economics is debunked and cau
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fact check: keynesian economics is debunked and caused gr8 depression
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by encouraging government banking
it give politicians pesudoscience to say yes lets spend more than we have and steal
thats why priceton harvard phd econ al keynes but none stopped 2008 or 1920
remember fed 1913
took just 7 years to great depression when government started banking
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by encouraging government banking
it give politicians pesudoscience to say yes lets spend more than we have and steal
thats why priceton harvard phd econ al keynes but none stopped 2008 or 1920
remember fed 1913
took just 7 years to great depression when government started banking
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
windows 3.1 hardware requirements
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;79749
Windows 3.1 Runs in Standard and Enhanced Modes Only
View products that this article applies to.
This article was previously published under Q79749
Microsoft Windows version 3.1 does not run in real mode on any machine. Real mode has been removed from the Windows product for version 3.1. Windows 3.1 runs on an Intel 80286 or higher processor in standard or enhanced modes only.
System requirements for standard mode are:
* Intel 80286 (or higher) processor
* 1 MB or more of memory (640K conventional and 256K extended)
* 6.5 MB of free disk space (9 MB is recommended)
System requirements for enhanced mode are:
* Intel 80386 (or higher) processor
* 2 MB or more of memory (640K conventional and 1024K extended)
* 8 MB of of free disk space (10.5 MB is recommended)
Windows 3.1 Runs in Standard and Enhanced Modes Only
View products that this article applies to.
This article was previously published under Q79749
Microsoft Windows version 3.1 does not run in real mode on any machine. Real mode has been removed from the Windows product for version 3.1. Windows 3.1 runs on an Intel 80286 or higher processor in standard or enhanced modes only.
System requirements for standard mode are:
* Intel 80286 (or higher) processor
* 1 MB or more of memory (640K conventional and 256K extended)
* 6.5 MB of free disk space (9 MB is recommended)
System requirements for enhanced mode are:
* Intel 80386 (or higher) processor
* 2 MB or more of memory (640K conventional and 1024K extended)
* 8 MB of of free disk space (10.5 MB is recommended)
ram use 4M in 1996 now 4,000 m, 1,000x as fast?? NO
what the fuck?
maybe everyone should program in c
or forth
maybe everyone should program in c
or forth
EU tells britan you gota let people go on welfare WTF commnuism!
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=350011.0
EU warns Britain it can't stop thousands more migrants claiming welfare handouts
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EU warns Britain it can't stop thousands more migrants claiming welfare handouts
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 28, 2010
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Benefits tourists are set to get the green light to come to Britain and immediately claim handouts totalling £2.5billion a year. According to documents leaked to the Mail, ministers have been warned that restrictions on claims by immigrants are against the law and must be scrapped. The European Commission's ruling threatens to open the door to tens of thousands who are currently deterred from coming to Britain.
At the moment, a 'habitual residency test' is used to establish whether migrants from the EU are eligible for benefits. To qualify for jobseeker's allowance, employment support allowance, pension credit and income support, they must demonstrate that they either have worked or have a good opportunity to get a job.
But after receiving a complaint that the rules infringed the human rights of EU citizens, the Commission began to examine them. In a letter...it warns that the restrictions are 'not compatible' with EU law..Britain had toughened up its rules in 2004 when the EU was expanding its borders. The restrictions assess the eligibility of those from the EU and from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. But the Commission has begun legal proceedings against Britain to get restrictions on welfare claims by incomers scrapped.
If successful, the Government would be required to remove its deterrents to benefit tourism, including the right-to-reside test and an additional qualification for those claiming jobseeker’s allowance, that they must have worked for 12 months or more. Officials warn the bill could be between £1.3billion and £2.5billion a year – hampering plans to rein in welfare spending....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
________________________ ________________________ ___________
coming to the USA.
EU warns Britain it can't stop thousands more migrants claiming welfare handouts
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EU warns Britain it can't stop thousands more migrants claiming welfare handouts
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 28, 2010
________________________ ________________________ _________________
Benefits tourists are set to get the green light to come to Britain and immediately claim handouts totalling £2.5billion a year. According to documents leaked to the Mail, ministers have been warned that restrictions on claims by immigrants are against the law and must be scrapped. The European Commission's ruling threatens to open the door to tens of thousands who are currently deterred from coming to Britain.
At the moment, a 'habitual residency test' is used to establish whether migrants from the EU are eligible for benefits. To qualify for jobseeker's allowance, employment support allowance, pension credit and income support, they must demonstrate that they either have worked or have a good opportunity to get a job.
But after receiving a complaint that the rules infringed the human rights of EU citizens, the Commission began to examine them. In a letter...it warns that the restrictions are 'not compatible' with EU law..Britain had toughened up its rules in 2004 when the EU was expanding its borders. The restrictions assess the eligibility of those from the EU and from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. But the Commission has begun legal proceedings against Britain to get restrictions on welfare claims by incomers scrapped.
If successful, the Government would be required to remove its deterrents to benefit tourism, including the right-to-reside test and an additional qualification for those claiming jobseeker’s allowance, that they must have worked for 12 months or more. Officials warn the bill could be between £1.3billion and £2.5billion a year – hampering plans to rein in welfare spending....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
________________________ ________________________ ___________
coming to the USA.
going to batrs is risky, don't
There is 100% chance you spend money on nothing at bars
IF you bought the booz you would pay 5% of the money and no tip.
There is very high risk fo not getting any pussy around your dick.
So hire a ho
You pay money but 0 risk no pussy around your dick.
Which is all you want.
IF you bought the booz you would pay 5% of the money and no tip.
There is very high risk fo not getting any pussy around your dick.
So hire a ho
You pay money but 0 risk no pussy around your dick.
Which is all you want.
How to lose fat for Noobs
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Vienna, Austria
Stats: 5'10", 161 lbs
Posts: 9,054
BodyBlog Entries: 0
BodyPoints: 0
Rep Power: 11823
How to lose fat for Noobs
I originally posted this in the nutrition forum, but it probably belongs here. You only have to follow three simple rules:
- Workout 3 times a week with weights.
- Eat 1g protein / lb lean body mass.
- Reduce calories to lose 1-2 lbs / week.
Success is 100% guaranteed. There's really not much more to it.
A more elaborate guide is posted later in this thread:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...#post401681611
Always check if newer versions of the guide have already been posted after that.
Location: Vienna, Austria
Stats: 5'10", 161 lbs
Posts: 9,054
BodyBlog Entries: 0
BodyPoints: 0
Rep Power: 11823
How to lose fat for Noobs
I originally posted this in the nutrition forum, but it probably belongs here. You only have to follow three simple rules:
- Workout 3 times a week with weights.
- Eat 1g protein / lb lean body mass.
- Reduce calories to lose 1-2 lbs / week.
Success is 100% guaranteed. There's really not much more to it.
A more elaborate guide is posted later in this thread:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...#post401681611
Always check if newer versions of the guide have already been posted after that.
Monday, September 27, 2010
The psychology of learning
http://dept-info.labri.fr/~strandh/Essays/psychology.html
The psychology of learning
I have often observed that students are very inefficient in their work. They frequently use methods of working that are unproductive and slow. Some examples:
* Students do not know how to touch-type. Instead of taking the relatively limited time to learn to do it, they waste many hours per week on slow typing and typing errors.
* Students frequently do not know how to use advanced features in the text editor such as the interface to the version-control system, the interface to the Lisp system, etc. Again instead of taking a short time to learn, they waste much more time.
* Students do not know how to use a debugger. Instead, they waste time debugging programs with trace output.
* etc.
As it turns out, this practice is not restricted to students, but is also common in the software industry.
But why do people deliberately waste time when there are much more efficient ways of working? This is a very good question. In fact, it is such a good question that I decided to ask a good friend of mine, Lisa Feldman Barrett, who is professor of psychology at one of the top universities on the east coast of the USA. What she told me was no doubt a simplification so that a layman like myself could understand it. Despite such simplifications, her explanation both gave me a much better understanding of the phenomenon and some ideas about how compensate for it.
Apparently, this phenomenon was investigated by the well-known psychologist Carol Dweck (who used somewhat different terminology).
My friend told me that (with respect to this phenomenon) people can be roughly divided into two categories that she called perfection-oriented and performance-oriented.
The people in the category perfection-oriented have a natural intellectual curiosity. They are constantly searching for better ways of doing things, new methods, new tools. They search for perfection, but they take pleasure in the search itself, knowing perfectly well that perfection can not be accomplished. To the people in this category, failure is a normal part of the strive for perfection. In fact, failure gives a deeper understanding of why a particular path was unsuccessful, making it possible to avoid similar paths in the future.
The people in the category performance-oriented on the contrary, do not at all strive for perfection. Instead they have a need to achieve performance immediately. Such performance leaves no time for intellectual curiosity. Instead, techniques already known to them must be applied to solve problems. To these people, failure is a disaster whose sole feature is to harm instant performance. Similarly, learning represents the possibility of failure and must thus be avoided if possible. To the people in this category, knowledge in other people also represents a threat. As long as everybody around them use tools, techniques, and methods that they themselves know, they can count on outperforming these other people. But when the people around them start learning different, perhaps better, ways, they must defend themselves. Other people having other knowledge might require learning to keep up with performance, and learning, as we pointed out, increases the risk of failure. One possibility for these people is to discredit other people's knowledge. If done well, it would eliminate the need for the extra effort to learn, which would fit very well with their objectives.
This model of learning also explains other surprising behavior that I frequently observe. I have seen novices in software development with knowledge of a single programming language explain to experienced expert developers why their choice of programming language was a particularly bad one. In one case, I talked to a student of computer science who told me why a particular programming language was bad. In fact he told me it was so bad that he had moved to a different university in order to avoid courses that used that particular language. When asked, he admitted he had never written a single program in that language. He simply did not know what he was talking about. And he was willing to fight for it. With respect to programming languages, negative opinions about a language that a person does not know, are usually based on very superficial aspects of it. To people obsessed with performance lack of such in a programming language is a favorite reason to advocate its eradication (even though performance is not a quality of a language, but of a particular implementation).
As the reader has probably already guessed, my surprising observations concern mostly performance-oriented people. The above discussion is obviously a simplification. In particular, a person can be in one category with respect to a particular domain, and in the other with respect to another domain. Thus, I have seen professors in mathematics who were obviously perfection-oriented with respect to mathematics, be firmly in the performance-oriented category with respect to the efficient use of (say) word processors. It is almost a surrealistic experience to see a person in one situation full of intellectual curiosity and wanting to know everything about everything, and in another situation argue why you should not use a particular method that he himself does not know anything about, for reasons that are obviously totally artificial.
Thus, what I have observed is not only what one might expect, i.e., some reluctance to learning new tools and methods, but a kind of reaction orders of magnitude stronger than I had expected. I have observed that people ignorant in a particular domain, or not knowing a particular tool or technique, would go to great trouble to explain why knowing this domain, tool, or technique, would be a complete waste of time. Usually these explanations were based on erroneous ideas of what it represented. To make things worse, they were perfectly willing to present their erroneous arguments to the very experts in the field in question.
Similarly, I have heard people argue against a tool that they ignore based on the fact that it can do too much. Too much functionality in a tools is a problem only if unneeded or unwanted functionality somehow makes it harder to use the needed and wanted parts. I have heard people argue about the amount of memory a particular tool requires, whereas the additional memory required might represent a cost equivalent to a few hours of work at most. A favorite idea is to label a particular tool with a name suggesting what it ought to be doing, and then arguing that it is doing more than that. For instance, a text editor that is capable of automatic indentation would be accused of being a ``kitchen-sink'' tool because after all it does much more than allowing the user to just edit text.
Needless to say, these people make complete fools of themselves. But that does not seem to bother them in any way whatsoever.
It is hard to overestimate the strength of this phenomenon. I myself recently discovered a marvelous feature in a programming language that I had purposely avoided for the past 10 years, simply because 10 years ago, a colleague (who did not know the feature) explained to me that it was no good. We were both victims of our own minds. My colleague because he obviously needed to defend that he had made a different choice, and myself because I subconsciously found it very appealing to be able to brush off the feature as useless and thus not having to learn it. It is hard to overestimate the wasted time I have put in during the past 10 years due to considerably lower productivity than I could have had, had I realized at the time what I now know about human psychology.
It is my hope that this explanation of a common phenomenon makes it possible for students to reflect upon their own motivations, and that it ultimately makes all students perfection-oriented.
The psychology of learning
I have often observed that students are very inefficient in their work. They frequently use methods of working that are unproductive and slow. Some examples:
* Students do not know how to touch-type. Instead of taking the relatively limited time to learn to do it, they waste many hours per week on slow typing and typing errors.
* Students frequently do not know how to use advanced features in the text editor such as the interface to the version-control system, the interface to the Lisp system, etc. Again instead of taking a short time to learn, they waste much more time.
* Students do not know how to use a debugger. Instead, they waste time debugging programs with trace output.
* etc.
As it turns out, this practice is not restricted to students, but is also common in the software industry.
But why do people deliberately waste time when there are much more efficient ways of working? This is a very good question. In fact, it is such a good question that I decided to ask a good friend of mine, Lisa Feldman Barrett, who is professor of psychology at one of the top universities on the east coast of the USA. What she told me was no doubt a simplification so that a layman like myself could understand it. Despite such simplifications, her explanation both gave me a much better understanding of the phenomenon and some ideas about how compensate for it.
Apparently, this phenomenon was investigated by the well-known psychologist Carol Dweck (who used somewhat different terminology).
My friend told me that (with respect to this phenomenon) people can be roughly divided into two categories that she called perfection-oriented and performance-oriented.
The people in the category perfection-oriented have a natural intellectual curiosity. They are constantly searching for better ways of doing things, new methods, new tools. They search for perfection, but they take pleasure in the search itself, knowing perfectly well that perfection can not be accomplished. To the people in this category, failure is a normal part of the strive for perfection. In fact, failure gives a deeper understanding of why a particular path was unsuccessful, making it possible to avoid similar paths in the future.
The people in the category performance-oriented on the contrary, do not at all strive for perfection. Instead they have a need to achieve performance immediately. Such performance leaves no time for intellectual curiosity. Instead, techniques already known to them must be applied to solve problems. To these people, failure is a disaster whose sole feature is to harm instant performance. Similarly, learning represents the possibility of failure and must thus be avoided if possible. To the people in this category, knowledge in other people also represents a threat. As long as everybody around them use tools, techniques, and methods that they themselves know, they can count on outperforming these other people. But when the people around them start learning different, perhaps better, ways, they must defend themselves. Other people having other knowledge might require learning to keep up with performance, and learning, as we pointed out, increases the risk of failure. One possibility for these people is to discredit other people's knowledge. If done well, it would eliminate the need for the extra effort to learn, which would fit very well with their objectives.
This model of learning also explains other surprising behavior that I frequently observe. I have seen novices in software development with knowledge of a single programming language explain to experienced expert developers why their choice of programming language was a particularly bad one. In one case, I talked to a student of computer science who told me why a particular programming language was bad. In fact he told me it was so bad that he had moved to a different university in order to avoid courses that used that particular language. When asked, he admitted he had never written a single program in that language. He simply did not know what he was talking about. And he was willing to fight for it. With respect to programming languages, negative opinions about a language that a person does not know, are usually based on very superficial aspects of it. To people obsessed with performance lack of such in a programming language is a favorite reason to advocate its eradication (even though performance is not a quality of a language, but of a particular implementation).
As the reader has probably already guessed, my surprising observations concern mostly performance-oriented people. The above discussion is obviously a simplification. In particular, a person can be in one category with respect to a particular domain, and in the other with respect to another domain. Thus, I have seen professors in mathematics who were obviously perfection-oriented with respect to mathematics, be firmly in the performance-oriented category with respect to the efficient use of (say) word processors. It is almost a surrealistic experience to see a person in one situation full of intellectual curiosity and wanting to know everything about everything, and in another situation argue why you should not use a particular method that he himself does not know anything about, for reasons that are obviously totally artificial.
Thus, what I have observed is not only what one might expect, i.e., some reluctance to learning new tools and methods, but a kind of reaction orders of magnitude stronger than I had expected. I have observed that people ignorant in a particular domain, or not knowing a particular tool or technique, would go to great trouble to explain why knowing this domain, tool, or technique, would be a complete waste of time. Usually these explanations were based on erroneous ideas of what it represented. To make things worse, they were perfectly willing to present their erroneous arguments to the very experts in the field in question.
Similarly, I have heard people argue against a tool that they ignore based on the fact that it can do too much. Too much functionality in a tools is a problem only if unneeded or unwanted functionality somehow makes it harder to use the needed and wanted parts. I have heard people argue about the amount of memory a particular tool requires, whereas the additional memory required might represent a cost equivalent to a few hours of work at most. A favorite idea is to label a particular tool with a name suggesting what it ought to be doing, and then arguing that it is doing more than that. For instance, a text editor that is capable of automatic indentation would be accused of being a ``kitchen-sink'' tool because after all it does much more than allowing the user to just edit text.
Needless to say, these people make complete fools of themselves. But that does not seem to bother them in any way whatsoever.
It is hard to overestimate the strength of this phenomenon. I myself recently discovered a marvelous feature in a programming language that I had purposely avoided for the past 10 years, simply because 10 years ago, a colleague (who did not know the feature) explained to me that it was no good. We were both victims of our own minds. My colleague because he obviously needed to defend that he had made a different choice, and myself because I subconsciously found it very appealing to be able to brush off the feature as useless and thus not having to learn it. It is hard to overestimate the wasted time I have put in during the past 10 years due to considerably lower productivity than I could have had, had I realized at the time what I now know about human psychology.
It is my hope that this explanation of a common phenomenon makes it possible for students to reflect upon their own motivations, and that it ultimately makes all students perfection-oriented.
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k)
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/
risk
[01:03] count_evil: Instead of the focus being on your gain, you focus on the disaster case scenario and when the impact of the highly improbable strikes you can keep trading.
2 [01:03] count_evil: kill that AND
3 [01:03] count_evil: make a new sentance
4 [01:04] count_evil: x is y
5 [01:04] count_evil: then next one can same something else
6 [01:04] henchman: ok ok i did
7 [01:05] henchman: i did
8 [01:05] henchman: look now
9 [01:05] count_evil: I like sex. I like big blondes. I go to the bar to find blondes. I get nothing. To manage my rish I get blonde kelly.
10 [01:05] count_evil: worst case is go bar spend and then ge tnothing
11 [01:05] count_evil: by focus on that
12 [01:05] count_evil: i see that by being cheap and not get kelly I am taking huge risj for proable no gain at bar
13 [01:05] count_evil: and the kelly is sure thing
14 [01:05] count_evil: so much less risk
15 [01:05] henchman: lol
16 [01:05] count_evil: man
17 [01:05] henchman: man you are funny
18 [01:06] count_evil: I should write thsis tuff down on my blog
19 [01:06] henchman: you are great
20 [01:06] henchman: lol
2 [01:03] count_evil: kill that AND
3 [01:03] count_evil: make a new sentance
4 [01:04] count_evil: x is y
5 [01:04] count_evil: then next one can same something else
6 [01:04] henchman: ok ok i did
7 [01:05] henchman: i did
8 [01:05] henchman: look now
9 [01:05] count_evil: I like sex. I like big blondes. I go to the bar to find blondes. I get nothing. To manage my rish I get blonde kelly.
10 [01:05] count_evil: worst case is go bar spend and then ge tnothing
11 [01:05] count_evil: by focus on that
12 [01:05] count_evil: i see that by being cheap and not get kelly I am taking huge risj for proable no gain at bar
13 [01:05] count_evil: and the kelly is sure thing
14 [01:05] count_evil: so much less risk
15 [01:05] henchman: lol
16 [01:05] count_evil: man
17 [01:05] henchman: man you are funny
18 [01:06] count_evil: I should write thsis tuff down on my blog
19 [01:06] henchman: you are great
20 [01:06] henchman: lol
Saturday, September 25, 2010
detained by feds
http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-answering.html
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Federal oversight is remarkably incompetent.
http://biggovernment.com/tslagle/2010/09/20/totalitarian-recall/#more-169617
Totalitarian Recall
by Tim Slagle
The bigger the corporation the easier it is to hide in a cubicle doing absolutely nothing. There are working people, whose entire job requires little more than taking a slip of paper out of one slot and sticking it into the next. That’s why short quick recessions are good for the economy; when profit margins get narrower than a liberals mind, companies start looking for useless jobs to cut. Several rounds of lay-offs later, the two slots are merged, and the sheet of paper goes directly from one slot into the next. The most successful companies today have eliminated unnecessary corporate luxuries like the slot guy.
This never happens in the Federal Government, because recessions never mean cutbacks in Federal Land. Since the Government trend is constantly on the growth side, people have been shuffling papers through the slots for years. In fact long chains of cubicles have grown all over Washington DC where dozens of people pass a single sheet of paper from cubicle to cubicle, before it moves into the next office where it goes through another cluster of cubicles.
The best example of this government inefficiency was discovered after the recent egg recall. A salmonella outbreak caused at least 1500 Americans to become sick before half a billion eggs were removed from store shelves. Americans screamed for more Federal oversight of the food industry.
In a surprising September 10th Wall Stret journal article, we learned there was already plenty Federal oversight; it’s just that Federal oversight is remarkably incompetent. There were USDA workers watching the egg plant seven days a week.
The USDA employees were probably too busy looking at filth on the internet, to notice the dirt around the egg plant. They didn’t do anything, because it wasn’t in their job description, their job was to measure the eggs and make sure they’re white. What most people don’t understand is that “USDA Grade A” has nothing to do with the fitness of the egg for human consumption. It just mean the shell is unstained, and the egg white is firm.
Why do we even measure eggs? Isn’t a salmonella infection a little more of a concern for the average consumer, than the threat of paying for a dozen Jumbo eggs, and only getting Extra Large? Who doesn’t open every single carton of eggs and inspect them before they put them in the grocery cart anyway? And if you opened that box of Jumbos and saw they were only Extra Large, you could refuse to buy them.
Of course, in the eyes of Federal Bureaucrats, average Americans don’t have the college degree and the training that these USDA inspectors have, as a requirement of their employment. Most civilians are unqualified to distinguish between an Extra Large egg, and a Jumbo. (There is no sneaking of Extra Large tainted eggs into the tainted Jumbo cartons when the USADA men are on the job.)
Those investigators knew about the conditions at the egg plant and even filed the appropriate paperwork recording the conditions. But since the egg company pays for them to be there, they didn’t want to upset the bacon cart. Paying for USDA inspectors gives the manufacturer the right to bear the USDA badge on their packaging, which most consumers confuse with an insurance of quality.
By contrast, The Underwriters Laboratory is a private company whose entire reputation rests on the UL seal meaning safety. Savvy shoppers of electrical equipment know to look for the UL seal as a promise that the appliance won’t burst into flames when they’re out at the bar. Since the reputation of the lab is at stake, you can be assured that every appliance is tested like the scientists jobs are on the line– because they are. And it works. I don’t remember a UL tested appliance ever injuring 1500 people, or facing a half a billion unit recall.
If they worked for Underwriters Labs, those USDA inspectors would probably be fired. But instead, they’re still at work today, measuring eggs and earning close to 100K a year. And like most government employees will probably retire at 55.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act,a just stalled in the Senate because of budget constraints, and won’t be reopened until after the election Lets hope the winds of November are finally blowing the recession into Washington DC, along with the most overdue downsizing in History.
Totalitarian Recall
by Tim Slagle
The bigger the corporation the easier it is to hide in a cubicle doing absolutely nothing. There are working people, whose entire job requires little more than taking a slip of paper out of one slot and sticking it into the next. That’s why short quick recessions are good for the economy; when profit margins get narrower than a liberals mind, companies start looking for useless jobs to cut. Several rounds of lay-offs later, the two slots are merged, and the sheet of paper goes directly from one slot into the next. The most successful companies today have eliminated unnecessary corporate luxuries like the slot guy.
This never happens in the Federal Government, because recessions never mean cutbacks in Federal Land. Since the Government trend is constantly on the growth side, people have been shuffling papers through the slots for years. In fact long chains of cubicles have grown all over Washington DC where dozens of people pass a single sheet of paper from cubicle to cubicle, before it moves into the next office where it goes through another cluster of cubicles.
The best example of this government inefficiency was discovered after the recent egg recall. A salmonella outbreak caused at least 1500 Americans to become sick before half a billion eggs were removed from store shelves. Americans screamed for more Federal oversight of the food industry.
In a surprising September 10th Wall Stret journal article, we learned there was already plenty Federal oversight; it’s just that Federal oversight is remarkably incompetent. There were USDA workers watching the egg plant seven days a week.
The USDA employees were probably too busy looking at filth on the internet, to notice the dirt around the egg plant. They didn’t do anything, because it wasn’t in their job description, their job was to measure the eggs and make sure they’re white. What most people don’t understand is that “USDA Grade A” has nothing to do with the fitness of the egg for human consumption. It just mean the shell is unstained, and the egg white is firm.
Why do we even measure eggs? Isn’t a salmonella infection a little more of a concern for the average consumer, than the threat of paying for a dozen Jumbo eggs, and only getting Extra Large? Who doesn’t open every single carton of eggs and inspect them before they put them in the grocery cart anyway? And if you opened that box of Jumbos and saw they were only Extra Large, you could refuse to buy them.
Of course, in the eyes of Federal Bureaucrats, average Americans don’t have the college degree and the training that these USDA inspectors have, as a requirement of their employment. Most civilians are unqualified to distinguish between an Extra Large egg, and a Jumbo. (There is no sneaking of Extra Large tainted eggs into the tainted Jumbo cartons when the USADA men are on the job.)
Those investigators knew about the conditions at the egg plant and even filed the appropriate paperwork recording the conditions. But since the egg company pays for them to be there, they didn’t want to upset the bacon cart. Paying for USDA inspectors gives the manufacturer the right to bear the USDA badge on their packaging, which most consumers confuse with an insurance of quality.
By contrast, The Underwriters Laboratory is a private company whose entire reputation rests on the UL seal meaning safety. Savvy shoppers of electrical equipment know to look for the UL seal as a promise that the appliance won’t burst into flames when they’re out at the bar. Since the reputation of the lab is at stake, you can be assured that every appliance is tested like the scientists jobs are on the line– because they are. And it works. I don’t remember a UL tested appliance ever injuring 1500 people, or facing a half a billion unit recall.
If they worked for Underwriters Labs, those USDA inspectors would probably be fired. But instead, they’re still at work today, measuring eggs and earning close to 100K a year. And like most government employees will probably retire at 55.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act,a just stalled in the Senate because of budget constraints, and won’t be reopened until after the election Lets hope the winds of November are finally blowing the recession into Washington DC, along with the most overdue downsizing in History.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Obama has "Gone off the deep end and showing signs of mental illness."
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=327202.0
April 10, 2010
Obama going off the deep end
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
Commentary
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A recent analysis by Roger Simon of PJTV Media maintains that Obama is showing signs of mental illness. A wide variety of commentators have observed that Obama displays severe narcissism. Obama is conceited, and he is demonstrating a serious disassociation from reality.
A recent case in point was Obama's bizarre and meandering 17-minute, 2,500-word answer to the simple question about how he could justify raising taxes for ObamaCare during a recession when citizens are already overtaxed. Obama's wildly inappropriate answer left the audience stunned and led commentator Charles Krauthammer to mockingly say, "I don't know why you are so surprised. It’s only nine times the length of the Gettysburg address, and after all Lincoln was answering an easier question, the higher purpose of the union and the soldiers who fell in battle."
This lapse of delusion occurred in front of a friendly audience. Overall, Barack Obama seems to be slipping into a slightly more delusional state these days.
On Monday, following his embarrassing answer on Saturday, Obama stopped by the Washington Nationals home opener to loft an effeminate toss toward home plate constituting the ceremonial first pitch. After this display, Obama was mucking it up in the press booth talking about his love of the Chicago White Sox. The announcers asked Obama which players he supported growing up a White Sox fan. After hemming and hawing for about 30 seconds, Obama responded that he grew up in Hawaii and was actually an A's fan. Again, he avoided mentioning any players by name. Obama seems to believe that he can say whatever he wants, and not reap the consequences or be forced to defend his empty assertions. Obama behaves in a manner so disconnected from reality that he is shocked when someone has the audacity to question him. Obama acts like his word is infallible.
In March of last year Obama was on “60 Minutes” with Steve Kroft. Throughout the interview as Kroft questioned about the economic downturn and people losing their life savings, Obama just kept laughing. A one point CBS’s Kroft stopped him and asked, “Are you punch drunk?" How will the American people react to seeing their president laugh off their predicament? Obama’s inappropriate laughter clearly demonstrated he has lost touch with the pain that people are feeling.
Obama portrays himself as the larger-than-life figure towering above the political fray. At the summit when Obama was pushing his health care package through Congress, he attempted to act as if he were the chief arbiter of truth. With petty insults, he slapped down what the Republicans proposed and audaciously claimed his was a “bipartisan bill.” Obama distorts the truth with such frequency that one must start to question if Obama even realizes he is lying or is so disassociated from the truth that he believes what he says.
A further example of Obama’s delusions of grandeur occurred when he gave himself a “good solid B plus.” Believing that his presidency was an above average success when America is hurting is absurd. Obama went so far as to claim that he would give himself an “A” once health care was passed. Obama is not living in the same reality as the rest of us.
As Charles Krauthammer wrote, “Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see."
Obama sees himself as the greatest man to be president in all time. He truly believes it when he said "we are the ones we have been waiting for," and "this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal." He believes that he can do anything he pleases and the people will love him for it. Obama plans to radically transform this country and go down in history as, in his mind, the greatest ever. Obama is clearly disconnected from reality.
Obama is, according to Newt Gingrich, “potentially the most dangerous (president), because he so completely misunderstands reality.” Gingrich was referring to Obama’s inept and weak stance on missile defense amongst other things. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Obama is an amateur; so much for wowing the world. Obama lives in an alternate universe where he treats our friends poorly and expects our enemies to change and become our friends. Here’s hoping that the voters help to connect this president back to reality in November.
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The Browns are bestselling authors and speakers. Together they write a national weekly column distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. Floyd is also president of the Western Center for Journalism. They can be reached at browns@caglecartoons.com.
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Sad but true
April 10, 2010
Obama going off the deep end
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
Commentary
________________________ _____________
A recent analysis by Roger Simon of PJTV Media maintains that Obama is showing signs of mental illness. A wide variety of commentators have observed that Obama displays severe narcissism. Obama is conceited, and he is demonstrating a serious disassociation from reality.
A recent case in point was Obama's bizarre and meandering 17-minute, 2,500-word answer to the simple question about how he could justify raising taxes for ObamaCare during a recession when citizens are already overtaxed. Obama's wildly inappropriate answer left the audience stunned and led commentator Charles Krauthammer to mockingly say, "I don't know why you are so surprised. It’s only nine times the length of the Gettysburg address, and after all Lincoln was answering an easier question, the higher purpose of the union and the soldiers who fell in battle."
This lapse of delusion occurred in front of a friendly audience. Overall, Barack Obama seems to be slipping into a slightly more delusional state these days.
On Monday, following his embarrassing answer on Saturday, Obama stopped by the Washington Nationals home opener to loft an effeminate toss toward home plate constituting the ceremonial first pitch. After this display, Obama was mucking it up in the press booth talking about his love of the Chicago White Sox. The announcers asked Obama which players he supported growing up a White Sox fan. After hemming and hawing for about 30 seconds, Obama responded that he grew up in Hawaii and was actually an A's fan. Again, he avoided mentioning any players by name. Obama seems to believe that he can say whatever he wants, and not reap the consequences or be forced to defend his empty assertions. Obama behaves in a manner so disconnected from reality that he is shocked when someone has the audacity to question him. Obama acts like his word is infallible.
In March of last year Obama was on “60 Minutes” with Steve Kroft. Throughout the interview as Kroft questioned about the economic downturn and people losing their life savings, Obama just kept laughing. A one point CBS’s Kroft stopped him and asked, “Are you punch drunk?" How will the American people react to seeing their president laugh off their predicament? Obama’s inappropriate laughter clearly demonstrated he has lost touch with the pain that people are feeling.
Obama portrays himself as the larger-than-life figure towering above the political fray. At the summit when Obama was pushing his health care package through Congress, he attempted to act as if he were the chief arbiter of truth. With petty insults, he slapped down what the Republicans proposed and audaciously claimed his was a “bipartisan bill.” Obama distorts the truth with such frequency that one must start to question if Obama even realizes he is lying or is so disassociated from the truth that he believes what he says.
A further example of Obama’s delusions of grandeur occurred when he gave himself a “good solid B plus.” Believing that his presidency was an above average success when America is hurting is absurd. Obama went so far as to claim that he would give himself an “A” once health care was passed. Obama is not living in the same reality as the rest of us.
As Charles Krauthammer wrote, “Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see."
Obama sees himself as the greatest man to be president in all time. He truly believes it when he said "we are the ones we have been waiting for," and "this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal." He believes that he can do anything he pleases and the people will love him for it. Obama plans to radically transform this country and go down in history as, in his mind, the greatest ever. Obama is clearly disconnected from reality.
Obama is, according to Newt Gingrich, “potentially the most dangerous (president), because he so completely misunderstands reality.” Gingrich was referring to Obama’s inept and weak stance on missile defense amongst other things. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Obama is an amateur; so much for wowing the world. Obama lives in an alternate universe where he treats our friends poorly and expects our enemies to change and become our friends. Here’s hoping that the voters help to connect this president back to reality in November.
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The Browns are bestselling authors and speakers. Together they write a national weekly column distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. Floyd is also president of the Western Center for Journalism. They can be reached at browns@caglecartoons.com.
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Sad but true
Billionaire College Dropouts
http://www.twincommas.com/billionaire-college-dropouts
You will recognize the men below as some of the richest in the world. But did you also know that none of them completed college? Some of them didn’t even graduate from high school, yet they went on to amass enormous fortunes and create humanity-changing companies. So what does this say about the of utility college education? Perhaps nothing – college is a reasonable way for most people to launch their careers. On the other hand, these examples prove that for the truly intelligent, motivated, and brave, there may be better ways to spend several youthful years than sitting in a classroom.
* Billionaire Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson
Estimated net worth: 8.6 billion USD
Sir Branson left school when he was only 16. Ironically, his first successful business was publishing a magazine called Student. Today, Branson is known for his brand Virgin, which includes Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and over 300 other companies. Also adding to his grandeur, Sir Branson bought his own 79-acre Caribbean island when he was just 24 and he was knighted in 1999.
* Billionaire Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen
Estimated net worth: Unclear, but thought to be in the billions USD
Dean Kamen, a prolific and ingenious inventor, dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute before graduating. Although best known for the Segway PT, Kamen holds more than 80 US patents and has created many products such as the AutoSyringe and iBOT robotic wheelchair. When Kamen travels to work, he has to decide which of his two helicopters to take. For longer trips, he pilots his own private jet. He also owns a small island near Connecticut that generates its own electricity from wind.
* Billionaire Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Estimated net worth: 58 billion USD
Bill Gates has topped the Forbes list of “The World’s Richest People” continually since 1995. Gates took an interest in programming while attending preparatory school in Seattle. To earn time on early shared computers, Gates and his classmates offered to debug corporate software. When he was 14, Gates earned $20,000 from his first programming venture. After scoring a near-perfect 1590 on his SATs, Gates enrolled at Harvard but left, without a degree, to co-found “Micro-Soft”. Today, one of Gates’ homes in Washington has an annual property tax of about $1 million. In 2006, Gates claimed that he wished he wasn’t the world’s richest man, because he disliked the attention it brought.
* Billionaire Paul Allen
Paul Allen
Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD
Paul Allen befriended Bill Gates while they were both attending a private school in Seattle. Allen went on to attend Washington State University, but dropped out after two years. He was also the one who convinced Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard in order to start Microsoft. The two co-founded the company in 1975, but Allen has distanced himself from the company since then. In addition to more than 100 million shares of Microsoft, Allen owns 12 professional sports teams, plenty of real estate, and has stakes in dozens of technology and media companies such as Dreamworks Studios.
* Billionaire Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren
Estimated net worth: 3.6 billion USD
In high school, Ralph Lauren was known to sell neckties to his fellow students. In his yearbook, he stated that he wanted to be a millionaire. He studied business for two years at Baruch College but never graduated. Nonetheless, he has far surpassed his goal of becoming a millionaire. In 2006, Polo Ralph Lauren had a net income of $300 million.
* Billionaire Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Estimated net worth: 5.7 billion USD
In addition to being the CEO of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs became the largest individual shareholder of the Walt Disney Company after selling Pixar Animation Studios in 2006. In 2007, he was chosen as Fortune Magazine’s most powerful businessman. That’s quite an honor for someone who dropped out of college after just one semester. Although his yearly salary is officially just $1, Jobs has received “executive gifts” including a $46 million jet and nearly 30 million shares of restricted stock. Because capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than salary income, this is also a tax minimization strategy.
* Billionaire Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
Estimated net worth: 18.4 billion USD
In 1977, Larry Ellison put up $2,000 to start what would become Oracle Corporation, the world’s second-largest software company. Ellison briefly attended the University of Illinois as well as the University of Chicago, but received a degree from neither. Today he is known for his extravagant lifestyle. He owns a 450 ft, $200 million yacht, exotic cars including a McLaren F1, over a dozen multi-million dollar estates in California, and several jets, which he is licensed to pilot himself.
* Billionaire Michael Dell
Michael Dell
Estimated net worth: 17.2 billion USD
Michael Dell started a computer company called PCs Limited while attending the University of Texas at Austin. It became successful enough that Dell dropped out of school to operate it, and the company eventually became Dell, Inc, with revenues of $57.4 billion in 2007. In 2006, Dell and his wife gave a $50 million grant to the University which he attended but never graduated from.
* Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian
Kirk Kerkorian
Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD
Kirk Kerkorian dropped out of school in the 8th grade. His first venture was an airline that flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. In 1962, he bought 80 acres of land along the Las Vegas strip for just under $1 million, and he continued making his fortune from buying and developing properties in Las Vegas. Currently, Kerkorian has a large stake in all of the following hotels: Bellagio, Excaliber, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Circus Circus, The Mirage, and more.
You will recognize the men below as some of the richest in the world. But did you also know that none of them completed college? Some of them didn’t even graduate from high school, yet they went on to amass enormous fortunes and create humanity-changing companies. So what does this say about the of utility college education? Perhaps nothing – college is a reasonable way for most people to launch their careers. On the other hand, these examples prove that for the truly intelligent, motivated, and brave, there may be better ways to spend several youthful years than sitting in a classroom.
* Billionaire Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson
Estimated net worth: 8.6 billion USD
Sir Branson left school when he was only 16. Ironically, his first successful business was publishing a magazine called Student. Today, Branson is known for his brand Virgin, which includes Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and over 300 other companies. Also adding to his grandeur, Sir Branson bought his own 79-acre Caribbean island when he was just 24 and he was knighted in 1999.
* Billionaire Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen
Estimated net worth: Unclear, but thought to be in the billions USD
Dean Kamen, a prolific and ingenious inventor, dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute before graduating. Although best known for the Segway PT, Kamen holds more than 80 US patents and has created many products such as the AutoSyringe and iBOT robotic wheelchair. When Kamen travels to work, he has to decide which of his two helicopters to take. For longer trips, he pilots his own private jet. He also owns a small island near Connecticut that generates its own electricity from wind.
* Billionaire Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Estimated net worth: 58 billion USD
Bill Gates has topped the Forbes list of “The World’s Richest People” continually since 1995. Gates took an interest in programming while attending preparatory school in Seattle. To earn time on early shared computers, Gates and his classmates offered to debug corporate software. When he was 14, Gates earned $20,000 from his first programming venture. After scoring a near-perfect 1590 on his SATs, Gates enrolled at Harvard but left, without a degree, to co-found “Micro-Soft”. Today, one of Gates’ homes in Washington has an annual property tax of about $1 million. In 2006, Gates claimed that he wished he wasn’t the world’s richest man, because he disliked the attention it brought.
* Billionaire Paul Allen
Paul Allen
Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD
Paul Allen befriended Bill Gates while they were both attending a private school in Seattle. Allen went on to attend Washington State University, but dropped out after two years. He was also the one who convinced Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard in order to start Microsoft. The two co-founded the company in 1975, but Allen has distanced himself from the company since then. In addition to more than 100 million shares of Microsoft, Allen owns 12 professional sports teams, plenty of real estate, and has stakes in dozens of technology and media companies such as Dreamworks Studios.
* Billionaire Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren
Estimated net worth: 3.6 billion USD
In high school, Ralph Lauren was known to sell neckties to his fellow students. In his yearbook, he stated that he wanted to be a millionaire. He studied business for two years at Baruch College but never graduated. Nonetheless, he has far surpassed his goal of becoming a millionaire. In 2006, Polo Ralph Lauren had a net income of $300 million.
* Billionaire Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Estimated net worth: 5.7 billion USD
In addition to being the CEO of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs became the largest individual shareholder of the Walt Disney Company after selling Pixar Animation Studios in 2006. In 2007, he was chosen as Fortune Magazine’s most powerful businessman. That’s quite an honor for someone who dropped out of college after just one semester. Although his yearly salary is officially just $1, Jobs has received “executive gifts” including a $46 million jet and nearly 30 million shares of restricted stock. Because capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than salary income, this is also a tax minimization strategy.
* Billionaire Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
Estimated net worth: 18.4 billion USD
In 1977, Larry Ellison put up $2,000 to start what would become Oracle Corporation, the world’s second-largest software company. Ellison briefly attended the University of Illinois as well as the University of Chicago, but received a degree from neither. Today he is known for his extravagant lifestyle. He owns a 450 ft, $200 million yacht, exotic cars including a McLaren F1, over a dozen multi-million dollar estates in California, and several jets, which he is licensed to pilot himself.
* Billionaire Michael Dell
Michael Dell
Estimated net worth: 17.2 billion USD
Michael Dell started a computer company called PCs Limited while attending the University of Texas at Austin. It became successful enough that Dell dropped out of school to operate it, and the company eventually became Dell, Inc, with revenues of $57.4 billion in 2007. In 2006, Dell and his wife gave a $50 million grant to the University which he attended but never graduated from.
* Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian
Kirk Kerkorian
Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD
Kirk Kerkorian dropped out of school in the 8th grade. His first venture was an airline that flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. In 1962, he bought 80 acres of land along the Las Vegas strip for just under $1 million, and he continued making his fortune from buying and developing properties in Las Vegas. Currently, Kerkorian has a large stake in all of the following hotels: Bellagio, Excaliber, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Circus Circus, The Mirage, and more.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
google schmidt are idiots who want taxpayer money
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=159433219&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=Business&rpc=23&videoChannel=5&sp=true
white house czar
http://www.breitbart.tv/white-house-science-czar-says-hed-use-free-market-to-de-develop-the-united-states/
Monday, September 13, 2010
sick transformations -60lbs ripped
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/adrien-sanchez-shed-60lbs-body-fat-compete-french-bodybuilding.htm
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/male-transformation-andras-szeri.htm
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/09muscletech_50000_contest_results.htm
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/male-transformation-andras-szeri.htm
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/09muscletech_50000_contest_results.htm
comedy america Fuck yeah!
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=348005.0
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=347961.0
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=325397.0
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=347961.0
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=325397.0
Friday, September 10, 2010
Wavelength Guide to Cutting v2.0 fat loss ripped abs fitness
Wavelength Guide to Cutting v2.0
The goal of a cutting diet is to improve body composition by losing fat while preserving as much muscle as possible.
Essential Rules
- Workout with weights 3 times a week.
- Drink about a gallon of water each day.
- Eat at least 1g protein / lb of lean body mass a day.
- Eat some fruit, veggies/salad, and some essential fatty acids (EFAs) every day.
- Above that eat whatever you want, preferably a wide variety of foods.
- Adjust your food intake so that the desired rate of weight change is maintained.
- The rate of weight change should not be above 3lbs/week, 1-2lbs/week is recommended.
IMO, any diet (resp. cutting method) that follows the above rules is optimal for cutting, any further details will not have significant effect on body composition. If you already have a meal plan, just check if these rules are followed and adjust if not.
Measuring Progress and Adjusting Food Intake
- Weigh yourself once a week, always at the same time (e.g. right after waking up).
- Don't panic if your weight stays the same or even goes up for one or two weeks.
- If your weight does not go down for more than three weeks, slightly reduce calories.
- If your rate of weight loss is above the recommended value, slightly increase calories.
- The change in daily calories from those adjustments should not exceed 500 cals.
- After adjustment, stay on the new value for at least three weeks before adjusting again.
If you have never done a cutting diet, it's always better to start with more calories and reduce slowly until the desired rate of weight change is maintained. If you stay patient, you will not have to adjust very often. With more experience, you will not have to count calories anymore, but as a beginner it is probably a good idea.
Unessential Factors
Since many questions revolve around further details of cutting diets, here is a list of factors that I believe to be of insignificant effect for body composition:
- Cardio and fat burners,
- Meal timing and meal frequency,
- Protein / Carb / Fat distribution throughout the day,
- carb / fat ratio,
- Sodium intake,
- Moderate alcohol intake,
- Use of supplements resp. meal replacements,
- "Clean" food vs. Junk food (sugar and saturated fat).
All these factors should be used as tools to make the diet as convenient as possible. Many people e.g. have an easier time dieting with eating more calories and doing cardio or taking fat burners. Some people like myself have an easier time without cardio and fat burners. In my experience, the end result (body composition improvement) is not significantly influenced. Another example is protein supplements. I e.g. use whey powder to meet my daily protein intake out of convenience. I could just as well get all my protein from other sources. A third example is meal frequency and timing. This tool should be used to reduce hunger as much as possible throughout the day. For some people that means eating 6 times a day, for others it means eating only once or twice a day.
Psychological Tips and Tricks
- It is possible that you will not "see" changes in the mirror until your bodyfat gets rather low. Don't panic, as long as the rules are followed, everything is right on track.
- If at all, only assess your physique right after a workout. At other times it's too dependent on water retention, and the mind will play tricks on you (telling you your progress sucks, etc.).
- Have a cheat day (pig-out day) once in a while, where you eat what you want. I had one every week on my last diet. Don't feel guilty about it, as long as the rules are still followed, everything is allright.
- Don't take the whole thing too serious. It's better to not care about it so much. See it more as being the coach of another person, rather than yourself.
Bulking
The goal of a bulking diet is to improve body composition by gaining muscle while keeping fat gains as small as possible. Although this is a cutting guide, for bulking, the only thing that changes is that the rate of weight change X is positive (body weight increases).
The critical factor is the value of X. Everyone has a different ability to gain weight with a certain ratio of muscle vs. fat gain. This ability is dependent on factors like genetics, age, training experience, etc. The ratio will decrease the higher X is, but not in a linear way. The trick is to find the optimal value for X, where the ratio is still close to optimum. Unfortunally, this is solely a matter of experience. My advise would be to increase calories by 500 over maintenance and check if weight goes up while fat gains are still tolerable. If no weight is gained, increase calories again. If fat gains are too high, decrease calories.
Frequently Asked Questions
This section tries to answer the most frequently asked questions of the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread (see link section) on the bodybuilding.com "Losing Fat" forum as well as questions I recieved via PM or on other threads.
Q: How do I determine how much calories I should consume?
A: You can just go by what you currently eat and reduce from there as described in the guide. Alternativiely, use a calorie calculator like the Total Metabolism Forecaster, see link section.
Q: Is it important to get the same amount of calories resp. macros every day?
A: No, it's OK to eat a little less one day and more the next.
Q: I lose more than 3lbs a week, is that OK?
A: Some people get away with losing more, especially when at high bodyfat. As long as strength is OK and all other essential rules are followed, no problem.
Q: How do I determine my lean body mass for calculating my protein intake?
A: You have to take your total body weight and subtract your fat weight. If you e.g. weigh 200lbs and your bodyfat is 20% (=40lbs), your lean body mass is 200lbs - 40lbs = 160lbs. If you don't know your bodyfat, just take a guess. When in doubt, just eat a little more. However, if for some reason, you can't eat as much protein, just eat a little less, most people will still do fine.
Q: Does it matter where I get my protein from and what are good protein sources?
A: Generally, it does not matter. You can get your protein from meat, fish, eggs, cheese, protein powder, etc. Although there are differences in quality (regarding muscle sparing effect), they can easily be made up for with just a little more quantity.
Q: I work out less/more than 3 times a week, is that OK?
A: Yes, as long as all other essential rules are followed. Some people get away with less, some do better on more.
Q: I lost a lot of weight in the first few weeks but weight loss has slowed down, why?
A: The initial weight loss was probably mostly water loss. Stay at the current intake for at least another 3 weeks. If weight loss stalls, slightly reduce calories as described in the guide.
Q: Can I increase muscle mass while losing fat?
A: Yes, depending on your genetics, training experience, and age, it is possible. The only essential rule that changes in this case is total caloric intake resp. rate of weight loss. You will have to find the sweet spot where you still gain strength in the gym while leaning out. In this case, you can measure progress not by rate of weight loss but e.g. by measuring waist size. Or you can just try to maintain a smaller rate of weight loss and still go by weighing. Depending on what is more important to you at the time, you can adjust calories to lean more towards fat loss or muscle gaining. However, it's a lot easier to concentrate on either muscle gain (bulking) or fat loss (cutting).
Q: What about keto diets?
A: Principally, keto diets (very low carb diets), as long as they follow all rules, would be fine. IMO, some people have a problem preserving muscle mass on a keto diet. For other people it works great. I don't think keto diets provide a significant advantage other than maybe being more convenient for some people.
Q: What about post workout nutrition?
A: I would not intentionally starve myself of protein after a workout. A meal containing some protein or a shake is perfectly fine.
Q: Apart from body composition, what about health?
A: First of all, it is important to distinguish between the goal of optimal body composition and the goal of optimal health. For the former, the guide provides all essential rules. For the latter, opinions vary a lot between experts and over time (see e.g. saturated fat, GI, food processing, cholesterol, etc.). Therefore, IMO the best way to go is to eat a wide variety of foods.
Q: How can I lose fat in certain areas of my body?
A: Although there are theories that spot reduction is possible to a certain degree, generally IMO it's not feasible. You can only reduce overall bodyfat and wait for the problem areas to come in.
Q: What are the rules for weight training on a cut?
A: None other than on a bulk. For an easy workout routine, check link section.
Q: What exactly is your cutting diet?
A: My cutting diet is somewhat extreme since I only eat one big meal a day plus a 100g whey protein shake (see link section). That's just the most convenient way for me. However, every other diet that follows the essential rules is also perfectly OK.
Q: Should I eat differently on workout days than on off days?
A: That's not necessary, I would only eat a little more on workout days if you are very hungry (out of convenience).
Q: Does this guide also work for girls?
A: Of course!
Links
How to lose fat for Noobs: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113693871
Simple Workout Routine: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...&postcount=285
Wavelength Cutting Diet: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...1&postcount=33
Total Metabolism Forecaster: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=114980801
Minimum Nutritional Requirements: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113310851
Acknowledgements
Thanks to everyone helping out in the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread, especially:
Djin, Robby99999, iDrive, th3pwn3r, HerveDuchemin, AntoineDufour, toiletmoose, b_white, mafiosoromano, ZidaneValor, Silleli, reaperchild, Vietgoboi, IzzyT, Marine man, FloridaGator, lmzerger, S1FU, chickeneater.
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PLEASE DON'T REP ME, REP THE GUYS IN THE FAT LOSS THREAD INSTEAD
Fat Loss Thread: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=113693871
Bodybuilding Guide: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=401681611#post401681611
The goal of a cutting diet is to improve body composition by losing fat while preserving as much muscle as possible.
Essential Rules
- Workout with weights 3 times a week.
- Drink about a gallon of water each day.
- Eat at least 1g protein / lb of lean body mass a day.
- Eat some fruit, veggies/salad, and some essential fatty acids (EFAs) every day.
- Above that eat whatever you want, preferably a wide variety of foods.
- Adjust your food intake so that the desired rate of weight change is maintained.
- The rate of weight change should not be above 3lbs/week, 1-2lbs/week is recommended.
IMO, any diet (resp. cutting method) that follows the above rules is optimal for cutting, any further details will not have significant effect on body composition. If you already have a meal plan, just check if these rules are followed and adjust if not.
Measuring Progress and Adjusting Food Intake
- Weigh yourself once a week, always at the same time (e.g. right after waking up).
- Don't panic if your weight stays the same or even goes up for one or two weeks.
- If your weight does not go down for more than three weeks, slightly reduce calories.
- If your rate of weight loss is above the recommended value, slightly increase calories.
- The change in daily calories from those adjustments should not exceed 500 cals.
- After adjustment, stay on the new value for at least three weeks before adjusting again.
If you have never done a cutting diet, it's always better to start with more calories and reduce slowly until the desired rate of weight change is maintained. If you stay patient, you will not have to adjust very often. With more experience, you will not have to count calories anymore, but as a beginner it is probably a good idea.
Unessential Factors
Since many questions revolve around further details of cutting diets, here is a list of factors that I believe to be of insignificant effect for body composition:
- Cardio and fat burners,
- Meal timing and meal frequency,
- Protein / Carb / Fat distribution throughout the day,
- carb / fat ratio,
- Sodium intake,
- Moderate alcohol intake,
- Use of supplements resp. meal replacements,
- "Clean" food vs. Junk food (sugar and saturated fat).
All these factors should be used as tools to make the diet as convenient as possible. Many people e.g. have an easier time dieting with eating more calories and doing cardio or taking fat burners. Some people like myself have an easier time without cardio and fat burners. In my experience, the end result (body composition improvement) is not significantly influenced. Another example is protein supplements. I e.g. use whey powder to meet my daily protein intake out of convenience. I could just as well get all my protein from other sources. A third example is meal frequency and timing. This tool should be used to reduce hunger as much as possible throughout the day. For some people that means eating 6 times a day, for others it means eating only once or twice a day.
Psychological Tips and Tricks
- It is possible that you will not "see" changes in the mirror until your bodyfat gets rather low. Don't panic, as long as the rules are followed, everything is right on track.
- If at all, only assess your physique right after a workout. At other times it's too dependent on water retention, and the mind will play tricks on you (telling you your progress sucks, etc.).
- Have a cheat day (pig-out day) once in a while, where you eat what you want. I had one every week on my last diet. Don't feel guilty about it, as long as the rules are still followed, everything is allright.
- Don't take the whole thing too serious. It's better to not care about it so much. See it more as being the coach of another person, rather than yourself.
Bulking
The goal of a bulking diet is to improve body composition by gaining muscle while keeping fat gains as small as possible. Although this is a cutting guide, for bulking, the only thing that changes is that the rate of weight change X is positive (body weight increases).
The critical factor is the value of X. Everyone has a different ability to gain weight with a certain ratio of muscle vs. fat gain. This ability is dependent on factors like genetics, age, training experience, etc. The ratio will decrease the higher X is, but not in a linear way. The trick is to find the optimal value for X, where the ratio is still close to optimum. Unfortunally, this is solely a matter of experience. My advise would be to increase calories by 500 over maintenance and check if weight goes up while fat gains are still tolerable. If no weight is gained, increase calories again. If fat gains are too high, decrease calories.
Frequently Asked Questions
This section tries to answer the most frequently asked questions of the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread (see link section) on the bodybuilding.com "Losing Fat" forum as well as questions I recieved via PM or on other threads.
Q: How do I determine how much calories I should consume?
A: You can just go by what you currently eat and reduce from there as described in the guide. Alternativiely, use a calorie calculator like the Total Metabolism Forecaster, see link section.
Q: Is it important to get the same amount of calories resp. macros every day?
A: No, it's OK to eat a little less one day and more the next.
Q: I lose more than 3lbs a week, is that OK?
A: Some people get away with losing more, especially when at high bodyfat. As long as strength is OK and all other essential rules are followed, no problem.
Q: How do I determine my lean body mass for calculating my protein intake?
A: You have to take your total body weight and subtract your fat weight. If you e.g. weigh 200lbs and your bodyfat is 20% (=40lbs), your lean body mass is 200lbs - 40lbs = 160lbs. If you don't know your bodyfat, just take a guess. When in doubt, just eat a little more. However, if for some reason, you can't eat as much protein, just eat a little less, most people will still do fine.
Q: Does it matter where I get my protein from and what are good protein sources?
A: Generally, it does not matter. You can get your protein from meat, fish, eggs, cheese, protein powder, etc. Although there are differences in quality (regarding muscle sparing effect), they can easily be made up for with just a little more quantity.
Q: I work out less/more than 3 times a week, is that OK?
A: Yes, as long as all other essential rules are followed. Some people get away with less, some do better on more.
Q: I lost a lot of weight in the first few weeks but weight loss has slowed down, why?
A: The initial weight loss was probably mostly water loss. Stay at the current intake for at least another 3 weeks. If weight loss stalls, slightly reduce calories as described in the guide.
Q: Can I increase muscle mass while losing fat?
A: Yes, depending on your genetics, training experience, and age, it is possible. The only essential rule that changes in this case is total caloric intake resp. rate of weight loss. You will have to find the sweet spot where you still gain strength in the gym while leaning out. In this case, you can measure progress not by rate of weight loss but e.g. by measuring waist size. Or you can just try to maintain a smaller rate of weight loss and still go by weighing. Depending on what is more important to you at the time, you can adjust calories to lean more towards fat loss or muscle gaining. However, it's a lot easier to concentrate on either muscle gain (bulking) or fat loss (cutting).
Q: What about keto diets?
A: Principally, keto diets (very low carb diets), as long as they follow all rules, would be fine. IMO, some people have a problem preserving muscle mass on a keto diet. For other people it works great. I don't think keto diets provide a significant advantage other than maybe being more convenient for some people.
Q: What about post workout nutrition?
A: I would not intentionally starve myself of protein after a workout. A meal containing some protein or a shake is perfectly fine.
Q: Apart from body composition, what about health?
A: First of all, it is important to distinguish between the goal of optimal body composition and the goal of optimal health. For the former, the guide provides all essential rules. For the latter, opinions vary a lot between experts and over time (see e.g. saturated fat, GI, food processing, cholesterol, etc.). Therefore, IMO the best way to go is to eat a wide variety of foods.
Q: How can I lose fat in certain areas of my body?
A: Although there are theories that spot reduction is possible to a certain degree, generally IMO it's not feasible. You can only reduce overall bodyfat and wait for the problem areas to come in.
Q: What are the rules for weight training on a cut?
A: None other than on a bulk. For an easy workout routine, check link section.
Q: What exactly is your cutting diet?
A: My cutting diet is somewhat extreme since I only eat one big meal a day plus a 100g whey protein shake (see link section). That's just the most convenient way for me. However, every other diet that follows the essential rules is also perfectly OK.
Q: Should I eat differently on workout days than on off days?
A: That's not necessary, I would only eat a little more on workout days if you are very hungry (out of convenience).
Q: Does this guide also work for girls?
A: Of course!
Links
How to lose fat for Noobs: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113693871
Simple Workout Routine: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...&postcount=285
Wavelength Cutting Diet: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...1&postcount=33
Total Metabolism Forecaster: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=114980801
Minimum Nutritional Requirements: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113310851
Acknowledgements
Thanks to everyone helping out in the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread, especially:
Djin, Robby99999, iDrive, th3pwn3r, HerveDuchemin, AntoineDufour, toiletmoose, b_white, mafiosoromano, ZidaneValor, Silleli, reaperchild, Vietgoboi, IzzyT, Marine man, FloridaGator, lmzerger, S1FU, chickeneater.
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PLEASE DON'T REP ME, REP THE GUYS IN THE FAT LOSS THREAD INSTEAD
Fat Loss Thread: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=113693871
Bodybuilding Guide: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=401681611#post401681611
Thursday, September 9, 2010
I find dems have religious beliefs about economics
Like talking to some religious nut to talk economics to a democrat.
Keynes was disproven long ago by Reagan, Milton Friedman, Von Mises, Hayek and any Austrain Schooler.
They really believe that if you have government counterfeit money it never earned, it will
1 spend it wisely
2 not loot it
3 not continue
4 not punish those who saved
5 not steal ownership by giving money to friends
6 no cause inflation
7 not cause other to want to imitate with their own schemes
They have this high school mentality that they can like Anubis or Zeus look down on an economy and control it.
You can't there is too much complexity.
If you print money you are stealing. You are saying you have monopoly money that is real that you simply printed, and can now buy my house or product or land.
Crazy.
The reason why technology and mass production don't lead to wealth for all is that when the government does this it takes value from such production and squanders it on idiocy. the idiocy love it and fail, since they could never produce to begin with, and demmand more, so they can 'help the poor' or whatever other bullshit lie.
The poor are helped by more nice housing food and medicine being produced and commodified so they are dirt cheap.
Med prices high? train 20million more doctors!
The price system automatically fixes all shortages are direct production to where prices are high and thus profit.
Insurance and banking are creatures of government that have legal twists to be soemhow private but are in essence government parasites since they can't exist on thier own with competition. They need barrier to entry created by government regulations, again with the lipservice to 'protecting the poor'.
Democrats have insane arguments for all of this. Purely insane. The tv shows they watch liek jon stewart are aweful and are simply insult distraibes. They keep dems thinking at 4th grade insult punkish level.
Its amazing.
They scream racism or the rich or whatever boogeyman. Meanwhile the government is making parasites rich by giving them fat contracts overprice with loads of taxpayer gold.
Govenment sell debt in tons of forms.
Debt is bad.
End the fed.
The fed in 1913 created biggest government print money steal value yet, and is unconsitutional. Since 1913 fed caused 2 great depressions 2008 and 1920 and will cause more. It has also stopped prices fallign with technological and market advances and has instead substituted the creeping endless inflation caused by printing money withotu producing anythign to back it aka counterfeiting.
Imagine if you photocopied 1million dollar bills. SAME
Trade not war is needed. Trade. Managment and training of the uneducated and poor.
End public school, and put video of experts on net.
School is massively overpriced and unionized to hell, and produces very little value.
Modern training methods could easily surpass it if the tax paid monopoly was broken.
End fannie and freddy. If no one can affoard houses then prices will fall, since housing corps go outa business.
The market solution is always simplest.
Keynes was disproven long ago by Reagan, Milton Friedman, Von Mises, Hayek and any Austrain Schooler.
They really believe that if you have government counterfeit money it never earned, it will
1 spend it wisely
2 not loot it
3 not continue
4 not punish those who saved
5 not steal ownership by giving money to friends
6 no cause inflation
7 not cause other to want to imitate with their own schemes
They have this high school mentality that they can like Anubis or Zeus look down on an economy and control it.
You can't there is too much complexity.
If you print money you are stealing. You are saying you have monopoly money that is real that you simply printed, and can now buy my house or product or land.
Crazy.
The reason why technology and mass production don't lead to wealth for all is that when the government does this it takes value from such production and squanders it on idiocy. the idiocy love it and fail, since they could never produce to begin with, and demmand more, so they can 'help the poor' or whatever other bullshit lie.
The poor are helped by more nice housing food and medicine being produced and commodified so they are dirt cheap.
Med prices high? train 20million more doctors!
The price system automatically fixes all shortages are direct production to where prices are high and thus profit.
Insurance and banking are creatures of government that have legal twists to be soemhow private but are in essence government parasites since they can't exist on thier own with competition. They need barrier to entry created by government regulations, again with the lipservice to 'protecting the poor'.
Democrats have insane arguments for all of this. Purely insane. The tv shows they watch liek jon stewart are aweful and are simply insult distraibes. They keep dems thinking at 4th grade insult punkish level.
Its amazing.
They scream racism or the rich or whatever boogeyman. Meanwhile the government is making parasites rich by giving them fat contracts overprice with loads of taxpayer gold.
Govenment sell debt in tons of forms.
Debt is bad.
End the fed.
The fed in 1913 created biggest government print money steal value yet, and is unconsitutional. Since 1913 fed caused 2 great depressions 2008 and 1920 and will cause more. It has also stopped prices fallign with technological and market advances and has instead substituted the creeping endless inflation caused by printing money withotu producing anythign to back it aka counterfeiting.
Imagine if you photocopied 1million dollar bills. SAME
Trade not war is needed. Trade. Managment and training of the uneducated and poor.
End public school, and put video of experts on net.
School is massively overpriced and unionized to hell, and produces very little value.
Modern training methods could easily surpass it if the tax paid monopoly was broken.
End fannie and freddy. If no one can affoard houses then prices will fall, since housing corps go outa business.
The market solution is always simplest.
The report by federal number-crunchers casts fresh doubt on Democrats' argument that the health-care law would curb the sharp increase in costs over t
HEALTH INDUSTRY
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010.
Health Outlays Still Seen Rising
www.wsj.com
By JANET ADAMY
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ___
The health-care overhaul enacted last spring won't significantly change national health spending over the next decade compared with projections before the law was passed, according to government figures set to be released Thursday.
The report by federal number-crunchers casts fresh doubt on Democrats' argument that the health-care law would curb the sharp increase in costs over the long term, the second setback this week for one of the party's biggest legislative achievements.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that insurance companies have proposed rate increases ranging from 1% to 9% nationwide that they attribute specifically to new health-law coverage mandates.
Democrats signaled they would ratchet up pressure on the companies. "Insurers are using the consumer protections in health reform as a cover for their own greed," said Rep. Pete Stark (D., Calif.), chairman of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee.
Michigan Rep. Dave Camp, the top Republican on that committee, said the rate increases underscore why lawmakers should repeal the legislation and replace it with changes that make care more affordable.
Regardless of the health law, national health spending has been rising in recent years and economists expect that to continue. In February, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services projected that overall national health spending would increase an average of 6.1% a year over the next decade.
.The center's economists recalculated the numbers in light of the health bill and now project that the increase will average 6.3% a year, according to a report in the journal Health Affairs. Total U.S. health spending will reach $4.6 trillion by 2019, accounting for nearly one of every five U.S. dollars spent, the report says.
"The overall net impact is moderate," said lead author Andrea Sisko, an economist at the Medicare agency. "The underlying impacts on coverage and financing are more pronounced."
The White House said the law will lower costs for insured consumers by removing the hidden price they pay to subsidize the uninsured.
In the next year, spending from private health insurance is expected to grow while out-of-pocket medical costs decline because more people will stay on Cobra insurance coverage for the unemployed, the report said.
The law's early provisions will increase overall health-care spending, the report says, while adding to benefits for consumers. The creation of new high-risk insurance pools, a requirement that children can stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26 and other early provisions will increase U.S. health expenditures by $10.2 billion through 2013, the report says.
The new projections take into account other factors, including a delay in payment cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
U.S. health spending is projected to rise 9.2% in 2014, up from the 6.6% projected before the law took effect.
New mechanisms kick in that year to expand insurance coverage. The report estimates 92.7% of U.S. residents will have health insurance by 2019, up from 84% this year.
Once the insurance expansion begins, U.S. health spending is expected to grow slightly more slowly. Between 2015 and 2019, the report predicts, it will increase 6.7% a year on average, down from the 6.8% projected before the overhaul passed.
Out-of-pocket spending is expected to fall sharply starting in 2014 when more people gain insurance coverage through new tax credits and an expanded Medicaid federal-state insurance program. But an excise tax on high-cost plans that takes effect in 2018 will increase out-of-pocket spending as insurance providers reduce their plan benefits to stay below the tax threshold. The law is expected to slow growth in Medicare spending by 1.4 percentage points because it contains lower payments to health-care providers.
Write to Janet Adamy at janet.adamy@wsj.com
________________________ ____________________
Meanwhile, everyones' rates are skyrocketing across the board because of this pofs law.
But let's bash Boehner - yeah that's real mature.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010.
Health Outlays Still Seen Rising
www.wsj.com
By JANET ADAMY
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ___
The health-care overhaul enacted last spring won't significantly change national health spending over the next decade compared with projections before the law was passed, according to government figures set to be released Thursday.
The report by federal number-crunchers casts fresh doubt on Democrats' argument that the health-care law would curb the sharp increase in costs over the long term, the second setback this week for one of the party's biggest legislative achievements.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that insurance companies have proposed rate increases ranging from 1% to 9% nationwide that they attribute specifically to new health-law coverage mandates.
Democrats signaled they would ratchet up pressure on the companies. "Insurers are using the consumer protections in health reform as a cover for their own greed," said Rep. Pete Stark (D., Calif.), chairman of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee.
Michigan Rep. Dave Camp, the top Republican on that committee, said the rate increases underscore why lawmakers should repeal the legislation and replace it with changes that make care more affordable.
Regardless of the health law, national health spending has been rising in recent years and economists expect that to continue. In February, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services projected that overall national health spending would increase an average of 6.1% a year over the next decade.
.The center's economists recalculated the numbers in light of the health bill and now project that the increase will average 6.3% a year, according to a report in the journal Health Affairs. Total U.S. health spending will reach $4.6 trillion by 2019, accounting for nearly one of every five U.S. dollars spent, the report says.
"The overall net impact is moderate," said lead author Andrea Sisko, an economist at the Medicare agency. "The underlying impacts on coverage and financing are more pronounced."
The White House said the law will lower costs for insured consumers by removing the hidden price they pay to subsidize the uninsured.
In the next year, spending from private health insurance is expected to grow while out-of-pocket medical costs decline because more people will stay on Cobra insurance coverage for the unemployed, the report said.
The law's early provisions will increase overall health-care spending, the report says, while adding to benefits for consumers. The creation of new high-risk insurance pools, a requirement that children can stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26 and other early provisions will increase U.S. health expenditures by $10.2 billion through 2013, the report says.
The new projections take into account other factors, including a delay in payment cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
U.S. health spending is projected to rise 9.2% in 2014, up from the 6.6% projected before the law took effect.
New mechanisms kick in that year to expand insurance coverage. The report estimates 92.7% of U.S. residents will have health insurance by 2019, up from 84% this year.
Once the insurance expansion begins, U.S. health spending is expected to grow slightly more slowly. Between 2015 and 2019, the report predicts, it will increase 6.7% a year on average, down from the 6.8% projected before the overhaul passed.
Out-of-pocket spending is expected to fall sharply starting in 2014 when more people gain insurance coverage through new tax credits and an expanded Medicaid federal-state insurance program. But an excise tax on high-cost plans that takes effect in 2018 will increase out-of-pocket spending as insurance providers reduce their plan benefits to stay below the tax threshold. The law is expected to slow growth in Medicare spending by 1.4 percentage points because it contains lower payments to health-care providers.
Write to Janet Adamy at janet.adamy@wsj.com
________________________ ____________________
Meanwhile, everyones' rates are skyrocketing across the board because of this pofs law.
But let's bash Boehner - yeah that's real mature.
democrats are the enemy
bullshit incentives and money flowing to those who are irresponsible and unproductive
taking from productive and responsible
fucking bullshit
vote these shitheads outa office
ask "where has X worked? show me!" of any BS they spew!
taking from productive and responsible
fucking bullshit
vote these shitheads outa office
ask "where has X worked? show me!" of any BS they spew!
lwegal system insanely corrput
repalce most lawyer with computers
insane corruption and theft of money
money moving not earned
no production to represent it
insane corruption and theft of money
money moving not earned
no production to represent it
rewarding irresponsability insane incentives
in marraige apparently one can run up 1 million debt without haveing spouse named on the account and then divorce and 500k is liable to spouse
reward irresponsability
insane incentive
reward irresponsability
insane incentive
Wavelength Guide to Cutting v2.0
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpost.php?p=312607141&postcount=1305
Wavelength Guide to Cutting v2.0
The goal of a cutting diet is to improve body composition by losing fat while preserving as much muscle as possible.
Essential Rules
- Workout with weights 3 times a week.
- Drink about a gallon of water each day.
- Eat at least 1g protein / lb of lean body mass a day.
- Eat some fruit, veggies/salad, and some essential fatty acids (EFAs) every day.
- Above that eat whatever you want, preferably a wide variety of foods.
- Adjust your food intake so that the desired rate of weight change is maintained.
- The rate of weight change should not be above 3lbs/week, 1-2lbs/week is recommended.
IMO, any diet (resp. cutting method) that follows the above rules is optimal for cutting, any further details will not have significant effect on body composition. If you already have a meal plan, just check if these rules are followed and adjust if not.
Measuring Progress and Adjusting Food Intake
- Weigh yourself once a week, always at the same time (e.g. right after waking up).
- Don't panic if your weight stays the same or even goes up for one or two weeks.
- If your weight does not go down for more than three weeks, slightly reduce calories.
- If your rate of weight loss is above the recommended value, slightly increase calories.
- The change in daily calories from those adjustments should not exceed 500 cals.
- After adjustment, stay on the new value for at least three weeks before adjusting again.
If you have never done a cutting diet, it's always better to start with more calories and reduce slowly until the desired rate of weight change is maintained. If you stay patient, you will not have to adjust very often. With more experience, you will not have to count calories anymore, but as a beginner it is probably a good idea.
Unessential Factors
Since many questions revolve around further details of cutting diets, here is a list of factors that I believe to be of insignificant effect for body composition:
- Cardio and fat burners,
- Meal timing and meal frequency,
- Protein / Carb / Fat distribution throughout the day,
- carb / fat ratio,
- Sodium intake,
- Moderate alcohol intake,
- Use of supplements resp. meal replacements,
- "Clean" food vs. Junk food (sugar and saturated fat).
All these factors should be used as tools to make the diet as convenient as possible. Many people e.g. have an easier time dieting with eating more calories and doing cardio or taking fat burners. Some people like myself have an easier time without cardio and fat burners. In my experience, the end result (body composition improvement) is not significantly influenced. Another example is protein supplements. I e.g. use whey powder to meet my daily protein intake out of convenience. I could just as well get all my protein from other sources. A third example is meal frequency and timing. This tool should be used to reduce hunger as much as possible throughout the day. For some people that means eating 6 times a day, for others it means eating only once or twice a day.
Psychological Tips and Tricks
- It is possible that you will not "see" changes in the mirror until your bodyfat gets rather low. Don't panic, as long as the rules are followed, everything is right on track.
- If at all, only assess your physique right after a workout. At other times it's too dependent on water retention, and the mind will play tricks on you (telling you your progress sucks, etc.).
- Have a cheat day (pig-out day) once in a while, where you eat what you want. I had one every week on my last diet. Don't feel guilty about it, as long as the rules are still followed, everything is allright.
- Don't take the whole thing too serious. It's better to not care about it so much. See it more as being the coach of another person, rather than yourself.
Bulking
The goal of a bulking diet is to improve body composition by gaining muscle while keeping fat gains as small as possible. Although this is a cutting guide, for bulking, the only thing that changes is that the rate of weight change X is positive (body weight increases).
The critical factor is the value of X. Everyone has a different ability to gain weight with a certain ratio of muscle vs. fat gain. This ability is dependent on factors like genetics, age, training experience, etc. The ratio will decrease the higher X is, but not in a linear way. The trick is to find the optimal value for X, where the ratio is still close to optimum. Unfortunally, this is solely a matter of experience. My advise would be to increase calories by 500 over maintenance and check if weight goes up while fat gains are still tolerable. If no weight is gained, increase calories again. If fat gains are too high, decrease calories.
Frequently Asked Questions
This section tries to answer the most frequently asked questions of the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread (see link section) on the bodybuilding.com "Losing Fat" forum as well as questions I recieved via PM or on other threads.
Q: How do I determine how much calories I should consume?
A: You can just go by what you currently eat and reduce from there as described in the guide. Alternativiely, use a calorie calculator like the Total Metabolism Forecaster, see link section.
Q: Is it important to get the same amount of calories resp. macros every day?
A: No, it's OK to eat a little less one day and more the next.
Q: I lose more than 3lbs a week, is that OK?
A: Some people get away with losing more, especially when at high bodyfat. As long as strength is OK and all other essential rules are followed, no problem.
Q: How do I determine my lean body mass for calculating my protein intake?
A: You have to take your total body weight and subtract your fat weight. If you e.g. weigh 200lbs and your bodyfat is 20% (=40lbs), your lean body mass is 200lbs - 40lbs = 160lbs. If you don't know your bodyfat, just take a guess. When in doubt, just eat a little more. However, if for some reason, you can't eat as much protein, just eat a little less, most people will still do fine.
Q: Does it matter where I get my protein from and what are good protein sources?
A: Generally, it does not matter. You can get your protein from meat, fish, eggs, cheese, protein powder, etc. Although there are differences in quality (regarding muscle sparing effect), they can easily be made up for with just a little more quantity.
Q: I work out less/more than 3 times a week, is that OK?
A: Yes, as long as all other essential rules are followed. Some people get away with less, some do better on more.
Q: I lost a lot of weight in the first few weeks but weight loss has slowed down, why?
A: The initial weight loss was probably mostly water loss. Stay at the current intake for at least another 3 weeks. If weight loss stalls, slightly reduce calories as described in the guide.
Q: Can I increase muscle mass while losing fat?
A: Yes, depending on your genetics, training experience, and age, it is possible. The only essential rule that changes in this case is total caloric intake resp. rate of weight loss. You will have to find the sweet spot where you still gain strength in the gym while leaning out. In this case, you can measure progress not by rate of weight loss but e.g. by measuring waist size. Or you can just try to maintain a smaller rate of weight loss and still go by weighing. Depending on what is more important to you at the time, you can adjust calories to lean more towards fat loss or muscle gaining. However, it's a lot easier to concentrate on either muscle gain (bulking) or fat loss (cutting).
Q: What about keto diets?
A: Principally, keto diets (very low carb diets), as long as they follow all rules, would be fine. IMO, some people have a problem preserving muscle mass on a keto diet. For other people it works great. I don't think keto diets provide a significant advantage other than maybe being more convenient for some people.
Q: What about post workout nutrition?
A: I would not intentionally starve myself of protein after a workout. A meal containing some protein or a shake is perfectly fine.
Q: Apart from body composition, what about health?
A: First of all, it is important to distinguish between the goal of optimal body composition and the goal of optimal health. For the former, the guide provides all essential rules. For the latter, opinions vary a lot between experts and over time (see e.g. saturated fat, GI, food processing, cholesterol, etc.). Therefore, IMO the best way to go is to eat a wide variety of foods.
Q: How can I lose fat in certain areas of my body?
A: Although there are theories that spot reduction is possible to a certain degree, generally IMO it's not feasible. You can only reduce overall bodyfat and wait for the problem areas to come in.
Q: What are the rules for weight training on a cut?
A: None other than on a bulk. For an easy workout routine, check link section.
Q: What exactly is your cutting diet?
A: My cutting diet is somewhat extreme since I only eat one big meal a day plus a 100g whey protein shake (see link section). That's just the most convenient way for me. However, every other diet that follows the essential rules is also perfectly OK.
Q: Should I eat differently on workout days than on off days?
A: That's not necessary, I would only eat a little more on workout days if you are very hungry (out of convenience).
Q: Does this guide also work for girls?
A: Of course!
Links
How to lose fat for Noobs: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113693871
Simple Workout Routine: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...&postcount=285
Wavelength Cutting Diet: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...1&postcount=33
Total Metabolism Forecaster: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=114980801
Minimum Nutritional Requirements: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113310851
Acknowledgements
Thanks to everyone helping out in the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread, especially:
Djin, Robby99999, iDrive, th3pwn3r, HerveDuchemin, AntoineDufour, toiletmoose, b_white, mafiosoromano, ZidaneValor, Silleli, reaperchild, Vietgoboi, IzzyT, Marine man, FloridaGator, lmzerger, S1FU, chickeneater.
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Fat Loss Thread: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=113693871
Bodybuilding Guide: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=401681611#post401681611
Wavelength Guide to Cutting v2.0
The goal of a cutting diet is to improve body composition by losing fat while preserving as much muscle as possible.
Essential Rules
- Workout with weights 3 times a week.
- Drink about a gallon of water each day.
- Eat at least 1g protein / lb of lean body mass a day.
- Eat some fruit, veggies/salad, and some essential fatty acids (EFAs) every day.
- Above that eat whatever you want, preferably a wide variety of foods.
- Adjust your food intake so that the desired rate of weight change is maintained.
- The rate of weight change should not be above 3lbs/week, 1-2lbs/week is recommended.
IMO, any diet (resp. cutting method) that follows the above rules is optimal for cutting, any further details will not have significant effect on body composition. If you already have a meal plan, just check if these rules are followed and adjust if not.
Measuring Progress and Adjusting Food Intake
- Weigh yourself once a week, always at the same time (e.g. right after waking up).
- Don't panic if your weight stays the same or even goes up for one or two weeks.
- If your weight does not go down for more than three weeks, slightly reduce calories.
- If your rate of weight loss is above the recommended value, slightly increase calories.
- The change in daily calories from those adjustments should not exceed 500 cals.
- After adjustment, stay on the new value for at least three weeks before adjusting again.
If you have never done a cutting diet, it's always better to start with more calories and reduce slowly until the desired rate of weight change is maintained. If you stay patient, you will not have to adjust very often. With more experience, you will not have to count calories anymore, but as a beginner it is probably a good idea.
Unessential Factors
Since many questions revolve around further details of cutting diets, here is a list of factors that I believe to be of insignificant effect for body composition:
- Cardio and fat burners,
- Meal timing and meal frequency,
- Protein / Carb / Fat distribution throughout the day,
- carb / fat ratio,
- Sodium intake,
- Moderate alcohol intake,
- Use of supplements resp. meal replacements,
- "Clean" food vs. Junk food (sugar and saturated fat).
All these factors should be used as tools to make the diet as convenient as possible. Many people e.g. have an easier time dieting with eating more calories and doing cardio or taking fat burners. Some people like myself have an easier time without cardio and fat burners. In my experience, the end result (body composition improvement) is not significantly influenced. Another example is protein supplements. I e.g. use whey powder to meet my daily protein intake out of convenience. I could just as well get all my protein from other sources. A third example is meal frequency and timing. This tool should be used to reduce hunger as much as possible throughout the day. For some people that means eating 6 times a day, for others it means eating only once or twice a day.
Psychological Tips and Tricks
- It is possible that you will not "see" changes in the mirror until your bodyfat gets rather low. Don't panic, as long as the rules are followed, everything is right on track.
- If at all, only assess your physique right after a workout. At other times it's too dependent on water retention, and the mind will play tricks on you (telling you your progress sucks, etc.).
- Have a cheat day (pig-out day) once in a while, where you eat what you want. I had one every week on my last diet. Don't feel guilty about it, as long as the rules are still followed, everything is allright.
- Don't take the whole thing too serious. It's better to not care about it so much. See it more as being the coach of another person, rather than yourself.
Bulking
The goal of a bulking diet is to improve body composition by gaining muscle while keeping fat gains as small as possible. Although this is a cutting guide, for bulking, the only thing that changes is that the rate of weight change X is positive (body weight increases).
The critical factor is the value of X. Everyone has a different ability to gain weight with a certain ratio of muscle vs. fat gain. This ability is dependent on factors like genetics, age, training experience, etc. The ratio will decrease the higher X is, but not in a linear way. The trick is to find the optimal value for X, where the ratio is still close to optimum. Unfortunally, this is solely a matter of experience. My advise would be to increase calories by 500 over maintenance and check if weight goes up while fat gains are still tolerable. If no weight is gained, increase calories again. If fat gains are too high, decrease calories.
Frequently Asked Questions
This section tries to answer the most frequently asked questions of the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread (see link section) on the bodybuilding.com "Losing Fat" forum as well as questions I recieved via PM or on other threads.
Q: How do I determine how much calories I should consume?
A: You can just go by what you currently eat and reduce from there as described in the guide. Alternativiely, use a calorie calculator like the Total Metabolism Forecaster, see link section.
Q: Is it important to get the same amount of calories resp. macros every day?
A: No, it's OK to eat a little less one day and more the next.
Q: I lose more than 3lbs a week, is that OK?
A: Some people get away with losing more, especially when at high bodyfat. As long as strength is OK and all other essential rules are followed, no problem.
Q: How do I determine my lean body mass for calculating my protein intake?
A: You have to take your total body weight and subtract your fat weight. If you e.g. weigh 200lbs and your bodyfat is 20% (=40lbs), your lean body mass is 200lbs - 40lbs = 160lbs. If you don't know your bodyfat, just take a guess. When in doubt, just eat a little more. However, if for some reason, you can't eat as much protein, just eat a little less, most people will still do fine.
Q: Does it matter where I get my protein from and what are good protein sources?
A: Generally, it does not matter. You can get your protein from meat, fish, eggs, cheese, protein powder, etc. Although there are differences in quality (regarding muscle sparing effect), they can easily be made up for with just a little more quantity.
Q: I work out less/more than 3 times a week, is that OK?
A: Yes, as long as all other essential rules are followed. Some people get away with less, some do better on more.
Q: I lost a lot of weight in the first few weeks but weight loss has slowed down, why?
A: The initial weight loss was probably mostly water loss. Stay at the current intake for at least another 3 weeks. If weight loss stalls, slightly reduce calories as described in the guide.
Q: Can I increase muscle mass while losing fat?
A: Yes, depending on your genetics, training experience, and age, it is possible. The only essential rule that changes in this case is total caloric intake resp. rate of weight loss. You will have to find the sweet spot where you still gain strength in the gym while leaning out. In this case, you can measure progress not by rate of weight loss but e.g. by measuring waist size. Or you can just try to maintain a smaller rate of weight loss and still go by weighing. Depending on what is more important to you at the time, you can adjust calories to lean more towards fat loss or muscle gaining. However, it's a lot easier to concentrate on either muscle gain (bulking) or fat loss (cutting).
Q: What about keto diets?
A: Principally, keto diets (very low carb diets), as long as they follow all rules, would be fine. IMO, some people have a problem preserving muscle mass on a keto diet. For other people it works great. I don't think keto diets provide a significant advantage other than maybe being more convenient for some people.
Q: What about post workout nutrition?
A: I would not intentionally starve myself of protein after a workout. A meal containing some protein or a shake is perfectly fine.
Q: Apart from body composition, what about health?
A: First of all, it is important to distinguish between the goal of optimal body composition and the goal of optimal health. For the former, the guide provides all essential rules. For the latter, opinions vary a lot between experts and over time (see e.g. saturated fat, GI, food processing, cholesterol, etc.). Therefore, IMO the best way to go is to eat a wide variety of foods.
Q: How can I lose fat in certain areas of my body?
A: Although there are theories that spot reduction is possible to a certain degree, generally IMO it's not feasible. You can only reduce overall bodyfat and wait for the problem areas to come in.
Q: What are the rules for weight training on a cut?
A: None other than on a bulk. For an easy workout routine, check link section.
Q: What exactly is your cutting diet?
A: My cutting diet is somewhat extreme since I only eat one big meal a day plus a 100g whey protein shake (see link section). That's just the most convenient way for me. However, every other diet that follows the essential rules is also perfectly OK.
Q: Should I eat differently on workout days than on off days?
A: That's not necessary, I would only eat a little more on workout days if you are very hungry (out of convenience).
Q: Does this guide also work for girls?
A: Of course!
Links
How to lose fat for Noobs: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113693871
Simple Workout Routine: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...&postcount=285
Wavelength Cutting Diet: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpo...1&postcount=33
Total Metabolism Forecaster: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=114980801
Minimum Nutritional Requirements: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=113310851
Acknowledgements
Thanks to everyone helping out in the "How to lose fat for Noobs" thread, especially:
Djin, Robby99999, iDrive, th3pwn3r, HerveDuchemin, AntoineDufour, toiletmoose, b_white, mafiosoromano, ZidaneValor, Silleli, reaperchild, Vietgoboi, IzzyT, Marine man, FloridaGator, lmzerger, S1FU, chickeneater.
__________________
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Fat Loss Thread: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=113693871
Bodybuilding Guide: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=401681611#post401681611
freebsd 8.1 wireless wpa supplicant with my usb nic
rc.conf
moused_enable="NO"
sshd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="1"
wlans_rum0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa2 in our router
network={
ssid="mywireless"
psk="mypass"
priority=5
}
service netif start
/etc/rc.d/netif start
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
moused_enable="NO"
sshd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="1"
wlans_rum0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa2 in our router
network={
ssid="mywireless"
psk="mypass"
priority=5
}
service netif start
/etc/rc.d/netif start
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
getting cut wavelength guide losing weight
Quote from: wave_length
You only have to follow three simple rules:
- Workout 3 times a week with weights.
- Eat 1g protein / lb lean body mass.
- Reduce calories to lose 1-2 lbs / week.
Success is 100% guaranteed. There's really not much more to it. Smiley
A more elaborate guide is posted later in this thread:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpost.php?p=312607141&postcount=1305
You only have to follow three simple rules:
- Workout 3 times a week with weights.
- Eat 1g protein / lb lean body mass.
- Reduce calories to lose 1-2 lbs / week.
Success is 100% guaranteed. There's really not much more to it. Smiley
A more elaborate guide is posted later in this thread:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpost.php?p=312607141&postcount=1305
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
aclu is the enemy
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/08/virginias-crackdown-drivers-licenses-illegal-immigrants-trigger-federal-lawsuit/
JOHN STOSSEL: Entrepreneurs Under Attack
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/09/08/john-stossel-entrepreneur-government-protectionism-libertarian-new-york/
governmetn banking causing education to be overpriced
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_michael_barone/the_higher_education_bubble_ready_to_burst
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Latinos Own Almost Half Of Foreclosures In California, Says Report
Latinos Own Almost Half Of Foreclosures In California, Says Report
Posted on August 20th 2010 One Comment
A ‘first of its kind’ report was recently released by the Center for Responsible Lending, a non-profit research and public policy group. The report, entitled “Dreams Deferred: Impact and Characteristics of the California Foreclosure Crisis”, looked into the racial makeup of California home foreclosures.
Analyzing more than half a million foreclosures, the report revealed that Latinos experience higher foreclosure rates vis-Ã -vis non-Hispanic home owners. Of the statewide foreclosures, 48% were owned by Latinos. Other figures in the report are: Whites 35%, African Americans 8% and Asians 6%.
The Center for Responsible Lending also looked at the types of homes that were foreclosed. Contrary to popular belief, the homes that went on the market were not the “McMansions” type built in lavish subdivisions. In fact, 75% of those foreclosed properties can be described as ‘modest’.
Why were more Latino homes closed then? The report also delved into this.
Higher cost sub-prime mortgages were most likely to be granted to Latinos and African-Americans. Both also enjoy loan terms that increase risk of default. White borrowers, on the other hand, only safer loans are granted them.
A Wall Street Journal in-depth report in 2009 looked at Latino home ownership and revealed another reason as to why they have the highest cases of foreclosures. According to numbers from US Census Bureau, Hispanic home ownership grew to 47% in the years 2000 to 2007 even though national numbers were only up by 8% in the same period. In 2005 alone, says the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, mortgages given to Hispanics increased by 29% and the expensive non-prime mortgages soared at 169%.
Low-income housing groups and Hispanic lawmakers all pushed for higher home-ownership among Latinos. And this may well be the reason behind the booming mortgages granted the Hispanics. Recent events show that this enthusiasm over the American dream seems to be failing.
In its report, the Center for Responsible Lending also offered solutions to the problem at hand. Bankruptcy judges should no longer be banned from modifying principal residential mortgages. Funding for agencies that offer legal help to borrowers and housing counseling should also be increased.
Posted on August 20th 2010 One Comment
A ‘first of its kind’ report was recently released by the Center for Responsible Lending, a non-profit research and public policy group. The report, entitled “Dreams Deferred: Impact and Characteristics of the California Foreclosure Crisis”, looked into the racial makeup of California home foreclosures.
Analyzing more than half a million foreclosures, the report revealed that Latinos experience higher foreclosure rates vis-Ã -vis non-Hispanic home owners. Of the statewide foreclosures, 48% were owned by Latinos. Other figures in the report are: Whites 35%, African Americans 8% and Asians 6%.
The Center for Responsible Lending also looked at the types of homes that were foreclosed. Contrary to popular belief, the homes that went on the market were not the “McMansions” type built in lavish subdivisions. In fact, 75% of those foreclosed properties can be described as ‘modest’.
Why were more Latino homes closed then? The report also delved into this.
Higher cost sub-prime mortgages were most likely to be granted to Latinos and African-Americans. Both also enjoy loan terms that increase risk of default. White borrowers, on the other hand, only safer loans are granted them.
A Wall Street Journal in-depth report in 2009 looked at Latino home ownership and revealed another reason as to why they have the highest cases of foreclosures. According to numbers from US Census Bureau, Hispanic home ownership grew to 47% in the years 2000 to 2007 even though national numbers were only up by 8% in the same period. In 2005 alone, says the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, mortgages given to Hispanics increased by 29% and the expensive non-prime mortgages soared at 169%.
Low-income housing groups and Hispanic lawmakers all pushed for higher home-ownership among Latinos. And this may well be the reason behind the booming mortgages granted the Hispanics. Recent events show that this enthusiasm over the American dream seems to be failing.
In its report, the Center for Responsible Lending also offered solutions to the problem at hand. Bankruptcy judges should no longer be banned from modifying principal residential mortgages. Funding for agencies that offer legal help to borrowers and housing counseling should also be increased.
Let us say that you have to hit on 20 chicks to get one into bed. The cost of this in time and resources = a lot.
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September 7, 2010
Remembering The Guru:
Vince Gironda The Greatest Trainer That Ever Lived
By Ron Kosloff N/C of NSP Research Nutrition
Vince Gironda Part 1:
Vince Gironda Close family members apart, when was the last time you witnessed grown men weeping at the loss of a comrade? Sure it happens, of course, but when the late great Vince Gironda died, the outpouring of emotion was felt from coast to coast and beyond.
I'll never forget the day of October 20th, 1997. I was at my desk when Ray Raridon, owner of NSP West in Los Angeles called me at three p.m. and asked if I was sitting down. After I said yes, he conveyed to me the sad news that Vince Gironda had passed away. We spoke for a short time, both extremely very sad and extremely stunned. After I hung up the phone I was in sort of a mental daze as my 25-year association with Vince literally flashed before my eyes. I remembered all the good times and the bad times. As I sat there for about a half-hour I began crying profusely. I'm a grown man, but this news did affect me very, very much. I called my friend Chris Aragona. Chris is a personal trainer and former owner of a health-food store in the Long Island section of New York. We've been friends and business associates for about 20 years.
Chris teaches Vince's method's as I do. We talked at length about Vince, and he too reminisced. I mentioned that I had seen Vince about a month before he closed his gym, and to my way of thinking - just a personal opinion - Vince Gironda probably died of a broken heart simply because his gym was his whole life. To my knowledge, he never did anything else. From the time he was a young man until he really got into the gym business - I think it was 1946 - he had worked or been in the fitness business most of his life. So you can see what a dramatic effect the gym closing must have had on him. Bodybuilding meant more to him than anything. When he would train someone who became successful, this was his personal reward. Chris agreed with me that there was a lot of heart and honesty in Vince. As long as I can remember, Chris has advocated Vince's methods. He is a personal trainer. I believe he has done that exclusively since he got out of the health-food business. On many occasions Chris and I have shared stories about our personal training experiences and one point we always agree on is that anyone who follows Vince's methods is sure to have great results. I personally have never failed if my student follows Vince's principles. (Vince actually wrote a book on his training principles. It is titled, "The Wild Physique.") After Chris and I spoke, I put the office recorder on and reminisced for about two hours.
I recalled our first meeting.
I had a consultation with Vince, and while we were talking, he excused himself, got up, took some money out of the register, gave it to a member, and promptly threw him out of the gym for doing situps and leg raises. I was shocked, of course, but when I found out Vince's reasoning I understood. Situps and leg raises don't reduce the size of your stomach, as Vince discovered about 40 years ago, so the student was just wasting his time. He really wasn't listening. Vince had previously told the student not to do them because he was personally training the guy. Along with everything Vince taught me, I realized then that he was probably far ahead of his time. In retrospect, I believe most people didn't even know what he was talking about. I learned that 95 percent of what Vince told me simply worked. Chris made the same discovery. When I train people, they quickly realize just how great his simple, intelligent methods are.
Dr. Clifford Ameduri called Vince a gifted person and a genius. When I spoke with the doctor years ago, we both marveled at the fact that Vince was the only man we had ever seen who could point to every muscle in the human body, name it, plus tell you how it functions. Now that's brilliant! We were also awed by Vince's knowledge of nutrition. After 25 years, people are discovering the truth about this "complex carbohydrate b.s" as I call it. Vince would yell in the gym, "But they're inferior proteins, just lots of sugar, you jerks!" He was always outspoken and controversial, the type of man who built this country. True individuals like him are now a dying breed.
As a kid I would go to all the contests. Vince would turn out champions the way a baker turns out cookies. The MC would always say, "representing Vince's Gym, from North Hollywood, California"… introducing Larry Scott, Don Howorth, Bill McArdle and a host of others. I seriously doubt that Larry would have been a success if Vince hadn't taken him under his wing, since Larry wasn't that genetically blessed. To me a truly beautiful physique combines shape, symmetry and cuts. I knew Gironda was onto something because he assessed his type of physique. I also knew that eventually I would go to him. But first I ordered all his courses. When I read them, I said, "This man is brilliant!"
The first time he trained me, he told me I was the only guy who ever did the precise movements the correct way. That acknowledgement really, really felt good. When Vince trained me, I stayed in California for six weeks, renting a motel room just down the block from the gym. I trained very hard and made more progress in that six weeks than I had in an entire two-year training period prior to that time. When I came back from California to the YMCA gym where I regularly worked out, people were in disbelief at how good I looked after such a short time. I was stunned myself that I was looking 90 percent better doing 90 percent less. But I trained with great intensity! Vince first applied that word in bodybuilding, not Mike Mentzer as many believe.
I continued the rest of the evening thinking back fondly on the times that I was fortunate enough to have spent with Vince. I finally realized all the lessons I had learned from him, how he had a tremendous effect in turning my life around and pointing me in the right direction. I am now a nutritional consultant. Because of him I got my degree. I work at the Grosse Pointe Alternative Health Care Clinic outside of Detroit. I also own NSP East and Research Nutrition. I'm on staff and I do all their diet consultations.
I use the principles Vince taught me...
regarding liver tablets, glandulars and amino acids to keep your endocrine system strong and your immune level high. He told me to eat a high-protein meal after training as the muscles need the amino acids to grow and, most important, to recuperate. I see that some college just proved him right again. As soon as you're done with strenuous, physical exercise, eat a good protein meal because the branched-chain amino acids will quickly repair, nourish and return the muscle cell to its former strength and more, and it will get bigger. They just proved that. Just goes to show you how brilliant the guy was.
He taught me about hydrochloric acid and that the amount of food you digest is the critical factor, not how much you eat. He would always stress these concepts to me. Now I'm helping other people and I realize it was Vince who taught me all this. Take liver tablets for example. Right now in bodybuilding, they're out of style because bodybulding is like America, a fad country where things are in style, out of style, in style, out of style. Whether we like to admit it or not, we are all controlled by Madison Avenue and big advertising from what we eat to what we drink and what we smoke. The whey-protein powders and MET-Rx are in fashion today. Amino acids, glandulars, hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes are out.
I am a severe hypoglycemic, and Vince taught me that I had to control my hypoglycemia. Every three hours I eat, and I keep my diet low in carbohydrates. I use liver tablets because there is no finer blood builder than liver. Its B12 and amino-acid content nourish the liver. It contains a substance called P450, which he taught me detoxifies the liver of all poisons, toxins, drugs and alcohol. Every time I have a physical, my doctor marvels at the function of my liver. So, of course, every three hours I take my liver tablets.
Vince Gironda Vince taught me the importance of chromium picolinate and minerals to regulate my pancreatic functions and insulin secretions. I guess what I'm doing here is paying homage to him. Maybe I never realized before what a controlling factor this man was in my life. He taught me the importance of eggs, and what a powerful, powerful substance eggs are. He showed me how important eggs are to bodybuilding and the very best hormone precursors.
My routine for the last 25 years has not varied. When I get up, my high fat jump-starter is four or five eggs, depending on how hungry I am. Eggs don't cause heart attacks. Some people take the yolk from the egg and eat just the egg white, but that's wrong. Eggs are whole food, the greatest food you can eat. It closely matches the human anatomy. Eggs are the finest protein, along with liver and raw milk. That's been proven over and over. They have the highest PER (protein efficiency ratio) rating.
Sugars and starches cause heart attacks. The average American diet includes pancakes, ice cream, cookies, pies, cakes, candies, pretzels, doughnuts, pizzas, slurpies, Pop Tarts, Sugar Frosted Flakes, bologna sandwiches, bagels and pastas. White-flour bagels and pastas are garbage! Then you have all the useless fast foods! But the egg is a perfect food. You see, God is the greatest chemist in the world. He created the egg. A drug company created the medical doctor, and all medical doctors do is write prescriptions. Nothing more, nothing less. They tell you what is wrong with you and then write a prescription for a dangerous synthetic drug!
If you separate the white and yolk of the egg, you get an isolated protein. Any time you separate the white and the yolk of an egg, you get an isolated protein. Any time you separate protein from fat you're left with an incomplete food. The manufacturers of protein powders tell you to mix them with juice or water. Well, let me tell you, folks - you can't digest protein without fat. Vince taught me that and he was right. When you swallow an egg white, it goes into your stomach and your stomach says, "Hey, where's the fat?" The white, which is protein, has no vehicle for conversion, so it's converted to sugar.
The same thing happens when you use protein powder. They say to mix with juice or water because they're made of ionized whey protein, which is the skim of cottage cheese. It's not biologically superior to eggs, liver and milk. These powders make you feel good because they're carbohydrated sugar. Sure you're going to put on weight, but it's not going to be muscle weight.
You cannot digest protein without fat...
and it must be digested to be converted to amino acids. Once it's digested it goes through the liver and is converted to amino acids. If it's not digested the liver can't do its job. If eggs or fat cause heart attacks, I want someone to tell me how my grandmother and grandfather, who were both muscular people with beautiful skin, lived on a farm, consumed raw milk, natural eggs pork sausage and butter (my grandfather died two months shy of his 98th birthday, and my grandmother died when she was 101.
An Indian who worked for my grandfather for food and shelter would eat only meat. We kids on the farm used to give pears, peaches and apples, and he'd say, "Oh, you kids crazy!" He wanted meat. Grandma and Grandma would butcher a hog or a steer and put it in the cellar (the cellar was like a fridge back then), and he would go down into the cellar and eat meat. Meat was all he would eat, and I mean the whole animal. So how did this man live to be 113 on a high-fat, high-protein diet? I'd like a medical doctor or so-called dietician to explain that. Vince was right again!
I am now realizing how I carried these ideas of Vince's through my life and taught them to other people. They have been a blessing for me. When I do consultations I put people on glandulars. I know some say glandulars and liver are not good food, but I tell you folks, that's where the energy is. The first thing a carnivore eats when it kills another animal is its glands and intestines.
I remember one time while I was working at General Motors, they took a blood test and the color of my blood was far superior to their color chart. The nurse asked me, "How do you do that?" and I said, "I take a lot of liver tablets." Being a medical nurse, she said, "Sure, sure, sure," and looked at me as if I was crazy. Unfortunately we are putting our lives in the hands of these people I recommend two good books about the medical profession: Silent Violence-Silent Death and The Drug Lords. They'll scare the hell out of you!
Vince taught me about nutrition, hydrochloric acid and eggs, and folks, they just plain work. The man was so far ahead of his time it was almost a joke. Speaking of jokes, he was a real comedian and his jokes in the gym kept everyone loose.
Bob Kennedy of Muscle Mag International was a good friend of Vince, and Vince used to write a regular column for his magazine. After Vince died, I called Bob and said, Bob, I've known Vince for 25 years, and I'd like to continue his column because I know his methods backward and frontward." Bob replied, "Ron I would love to have you continue his column, but you know what?" I was getting complaints that Vince was too old. People complained, "Who wants to listen to what he has to say?" Well, that struck a nerve, and I would like to address those folks who felt that way.
In America, today, we have one horrible agenda that we practice. Madison Avenue has created the youth culture. It wants to sell things to young people with money. It wants to ignore older people, and of course, this is our culture… money. If you're over 50, even sometimes over 40, no one wants to listen to you any more. It's really a crime. Look at how the American Plains Indians treated their elders. They treated them with dignity and respect. Nobody wanted to listen to Vince because he was old, but nobody stopped to think that what Vince had was wisdom, knowledge and experience. If you go to any other country in the world and you are over 50, by God, you're put up on a pedestal. People come to you for advice and knowledge, and you're revered. But not in America. Vince was a tragic example of this shameful phenomenon. He went out of style.
Whenever an older, wise, intelligent person offers advice, you should listen to his wisdom.
He's only trying to save you a lot of heartache and grief. Certainly Vince Gironda did this for me. Take Heed. What happened to Vince should not have happened to him. He was a victim pure and simple of our culture. I was disappointed, Chris Aragona was disappointed, but that's the way it is. For years, I've been saying that in the future, Vincent Van Gogh will have nothing on Vince Gironda because one day Vince Gironda will be the Vincent Van Gogh of bodybuilding.
In another 15 years, you'll be reading what Vince had to say. Everything he said 50 years ago is now coming true. Don't overtrain. Work out like a sprinter, not a long distance runner. Bodybuilding is 85 percent nutrition. Always use muscle confusion. Don't do situps and leg raises because they make your stomach bigger, not smaller, and they curtail lean muscle gains because your hormone level drops. He said all this years ago after going through trial and error. He discovered it was true. Slowly, but surely his methods have been proven, and they have stood the test of time. Unfortunately some authority has begun to take credit, and you see a lot of copycats who are stealing from Vince, and that's a fact. You know who you are and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Two or three years ago some idiot wrote to a magazine and asked, 'If Vince Gironda was so great, how come he never won a major contest?" Well the simple fact is that back in his day there was a different style to bodybuilding. Either you looked like John Grimek - bulky and smooth - or you weren't a bodybuilder. Now, the authorities might not want to recognize this fact, but Vince Gironda is the father of modern bodybuilding. He created definition. Hell, in the 40's he was ripped to shreds. He never placed higher than second or third in a contest. They looked at him and said: "What is this? Who is this? What kind of physique is this?" Some winced at his incredible muscularity.
Nowadays, if you're not defined and shapely, you might as well just go on home. Again we should all pay homage to Vince. He invented definition. He invented the beautiful physique, the shapely physique. DO you see what I'm saying? The guy who asked that stupid question really doesn't know much about history. He's probably a drug user anyway.
Of course, most of the physiques now are drug physiques...
and they don't have any real relation to natural bodybuilding. Vince used to call bodybuilding contests "pharmaceutical conventions" whenever someone would ask why he didn't attend them any more. He was right. You could never create that kind of physique naturally. Some of these guys I see onstage look to me like Gorgo. Vince used to call a lot of Mr. Olympia competitors Gorgos and freaks, and that's what they are. They are sacrificing their health. Vince was the first one to state that some bodybuilder was going to die on stage, and it's happened more than once.
Vince created the anti-drug movement in bodybuilding. He hated drugs with a passion. Drugs came into the picture in 1963, and they completely defeated natural bodybuilding. All you had to do was pump some Deca-Durabolin in and you got a physique. I've seen guys at the local hard-core gym use drugs and in 30 days, my God, you couldn't believe what they turned into, gaining 10 to 15 pounds overnight.
For ten years, I owned the Powerhouse Gym in Center Line, Michigan with my partner Paul Dudgeon. We had a member who was a top area bodybuilder and a drug user and he used to belittle Vince's methods. He said that on Vince's system you didn't do enough and you didn't do weightlifting exercises. I told him one time that if they ever took his steroids away from him, he would just be an ordinary Joe, and his so-called wonder method that he got out of the magazines wouldn't work any more.
As events came to pass, being on drugs for so long began to affect his marriage. His wife said, "Look, it's the drugs or me." He quit the steroids because he didn't want to lose his family. Everyone around the gym started to notice he was shrinking like a prune. One day to my surprise he came to me and said, "I use to think you were a real screwball and your methods were really goofy, but now I realize what you said was true. My methods don't work anymore. I was overtraining just like you said." This guy today is a natural bodybuilder, he's still married, and he's got a heck of a physique. When I see him at the gym we talk a lot. I still do my training at Powerhouse in Center Line, so if you want to get a hold of me, you can call there. The number is 810-755-5330. Later, I'll give you my office number.
I'm training a young fellow at the gym who's been working out for a couple of years now. He wasn't getting anywhere because he was overtraining and he didn't have any knowledge of nutrition. He was eating a high carbohydrate diet, which is ridiculous because carbohydrates are just sugar. I tell people not to believe all this crap about carbohydrates building muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is not made of sugar. It's made of protein. I told the lad I would improve his physique in about three months 15 to 20 percent.
I stress very clearly that Vince was a bodybuilder and a bodybuilding trainer, not a weightlifter or weightlifting trainer. He taught isolation exercises for the muscles, not group exercises for the muscles. For example, you do a strict bicep curl, no cheating, with a 25-pound dumbbell and isolate the muscle, so that only the bicep does the work. Don't use 60 pounds and jerk, tug, pull and swing the weight. You ultimately must decide if you want to be a bodybuilder or a weightlifter.
vince grionda I love to intimidate big cheaters by asking them if they can do 8 sets of 8 reps with a 25-pound dumbbell for the biceps Vince's way. First they laugh at me. Then they proceed to make big fools of themselves when they can't even do 2 sets and I yell at them, "You've got 6 more sets to go!" There is a winner of many titles at Powerhouse Gym who calls Vince's methods too hard. I want somebody to hand me a violin so that I can play him a tune. He would be 10 to 15 percent smaller using Vince's methods, but you have to sacrifice something to get something. Ultimately, he will look a thousand times better in shape, definition and symmetry, and that's what we really want, isn't it?
Look at the way Frank Zane looked - and he wasn't a big man. He just happened to have a beautiful, beautiful physique. When it comes to strength there are two types; group strength and individual muscle strength. A bodybuilder cannot work out like a weightlifter and a weightlifter cannot work out like a bodybuilder. Vince would stress that to people. While training in Vince's Gym over the years, I saw him make fools of many people because they couldn't work out the way a bodybuilder should. They couldn't do it. Ultimately that failure was a blow to their egos. People are always asking me and my students, "How much can you lift?" We glare at them and shoot back, as Vince did: "We are not weightlifters. We are bodybuilders."
My young friend started on Vince's routine and a superb nutrition program that I laid out for him. Three months later he is happy as a lark. His buddies all tell him how good he looks. He's done learning now. I've taught him everything that Vince taught me. He's on his own and he's only going to get better. He came to me in the first place because someone told him I trained Ron Love for the 1988 Junior America. He was trying to get cut and I put him on Vince's meat an egg diet with cream and protein and, or course, all the supplements. Ron won hands down. Bodybuilders all over America were calling to ask how he did it. Ron said he would like to give me a kiss, but he couldn't because I was a guy!
So this young man came to me for help. He had weak upper biceps, and he asked me how to develop them - not the middle biceps, but the upper biceps, by the deltoid. I've asked probably 50 people, including Mr. America's, Mr. Universes, and many other supposedly knowledgeable people, but they couldn't help. I always tell people that the worst person to ask for advice is the biggest guy in the gym with the best physique.
All he can tell you is how to overtrain, and he won't tell you he is taking steroids.
To help the young man increase his upper biceps I showed him Vince's drag curl, and in about six weeks he was showing fullness in his upper biceps. Most of your Mr. America's and Mr. Olympia's don't have the slightest clue how to bring that muscle out. When I ask them about it, they only give me stupid answers. Vince was the only guy that knew how to isolate and work that muscle.
When I told this young guy about liver tablets and fats and proteins, he said, "My doctor told me I should eat carbohydrates and remove fats from my diet." I asked him, "Young man, do you know what substance manufactures every hormone in the human body? It's called cholesterol, and if you have a low natural fat intake you'll have low cholesterol - that's HDL - and you won't be able to gain size. That's why I'm going to get you on glandulars and liver tablets, amino acids, and mil-and-egg protein." The guy has since done fabulously. Medical doctors don't know anything about nutrition. As I told you, they're prescription-writers.
Let's look at the book, Protein Power. The guy who wrote that book copied from Vince. They all do. In his book he lists five tribes that exist on a high-fat, high-protein diet. These people are perfectly healthy. If they don't starve, they lead long lives. Number one is the Eskimo. He eats fat, blubber, protein, fish, heart, liver, kidney and spleen. Eskimos never eat any vegetables, and lo and behold, they are slim people. Number two are the Rocky Mountain men. They ate what they killed - there are no fruits and vegetables in the Rocky Mountains. Third is the Plains Indian. His whole life was the buffalo. It was his food, his weapon, his clothing, his shelter. That's why the white man killed the buffalo - to starve the Indian. Indians didn't eat corn until we put them on reservations. Indians were very muscular warriors. The Union shoulders called them the finest light cavalry in the world. Then consider the Bolare of South America and the Masai of Africa. For the Masai, cattle were a prized possession. They were basically meat eaters and protein eaters. The people of all these tribes were highly sexed because they had high natural hormone levels. Moreover, they all had cholesterol levels of three to five hundred with no arterial sclerosis or heart attacks whatsoever.
The medical profession tells you what it wants to tell you. It creates a drug after your bad diet has caused a problem. All you have to do is go to the library and get a medical dictionary - Tabor's 16th edition, page 1909. I'll tell you in essence what it says. When you ingest an excess amount of carbohydrates (sugar), it is converted by the liver to triglycerides and diglycerides, which are a sticky form of fat that the liver pushes into the bloodstream. Your LDL level goes up. Your VDL level goes up. Your triglyceride and diglyceride levels go up. You have a heart attack. What you want to do is keep your HDL level very high, and you do that by eating fats and proteins like the American Plains Indian. So you see, medical doctors are wrong again. They usually are. They don't know how to prevent diseases. They just write prescriptions for the ones you have.
If you want to read a good book, get Not By Bread Alone. It's out of print, so you'll have to look in the public library. It was one of Vince's bibles. The author was a man named Stephenson, who in the middle to late 1800's lived with the Eskimos for 20 years and ate exactly what the Eskimos ate. When he returned to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, they couldn't find anything wrong with him. He was normal and he was healthy. See what I'm saying? The real culprit in disease is processed and refined foods.
The reason Americans are getting so sick is that they're eating so many carbohydrates.
In your body, carbohydrates create a condition called alkalosis. All protein foods are digested in an acid base, all non protein foods are digested in an alkaline based. The balance of the human body should be an acid base, so if you create an alkaline state, you cannot digest your food. If you stuck your finger down your throat into your stomach you should burn the end of it because the stomach should be full of hydrochloric acid. Once you eat a high-carbohydrate diet, your body says, "Hey, why should I bother to manufacture hydrochloric acid?" The word protein means "most important." Hippoctates named it 2,500 years ago. So how to you create an acid state? As you get older you're going to have to use a little apple cider vinegar, lemon juice or hydrochloric acid tablets. When you're younger, just eat good protein food, take a B-Complex vitamin and zinc because they work with your stomach and create hydrochloric acid. You always want to keep those levels high.
Vince taught me the importance of hydrochloric acid because it digests protein. Regardless of how much food you eat, the important factor is what you digest, assimilate and absorb. That's the key. Vince said that 85 percent of bodybuilding is nutrition.
Hippocrates laid down ten rules 2,500 years ago that the medical profession has ignored because what he said doesn't make money and, as we know, the medical profession is all about making money and lots of it. In the USA, 1.4 trillion dollars a year is spent on health care. Health care, folks, is taking care of sick people, and as I said, there is no such thing as diseases. Nutritional deficiencies cause most medical problems. Americans are very sick people - the sickest in the world - and 45 percent of our people are obese, all from eating refined carbohydrates!
Here are the ten rules of Hippocrates:
1. The natural way is the only way
2. Treat the cause of an illness, not the symptoms
3. Throw away your drugs and heal the people with food
4. Look to the spine for illnesses (Hippocrates was a chiropractor, by the way)
5. Natural food can prevent diseases
6. Do no harm to your patients
7. The word protein means most important
8. Do not perform unnecessary surgery for money
9. A healthy colon is essential
10. Do not administer dangerous and harmful drugs
These rules are very, very important. Most doctors take the Hippocratic Oath. That's where it came from.
Vince taught me all these truths. Now I'm teaching people, and they're getting results, just as I did.
When I started to train the young man, he asked me who Vince Gironda had trained. I told him, "Only practically every top bodybuilder in the world." They would come to him, but unfortunately none of them ever gave him any credit. Most people don't know that Frank Zane was a key-club member at Vince's Gym. He had a key to the gym and would go in at night anytime to train. Arnold Schwarzennegger was sent to Vince Gironda for two years.
Here's an interesting story you might get a chuckle out of concerning Arnold.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Everybody assumes that when he came to America he trained under the trainer of champions, Joe Weider. Nothing could be further from the truth. Weider just promoted Arnold and made a lot of money. Actually they both promoted each other and made a lot of money. Arnold's German industrial sponsor sent him to Vince. Of course, Arnold had a pretty big ego, although he was not that good when he started, being rather on the fat, fleshy side. He walked into Vince's Gym (John Balik, the editor of IRONMAN can substantiate this story as he was standing right there) and said, "I'm Arnold Schwarzennegger from Austria and I'm Mr. So and So." Vince looked up at him through his granny glasses and responded, "You're nothing but a fat you-know-what." For two years, Arnold spent time at Vince's Gym Then, after Joe Weider signed him, he went on to become a movie star and multi-millionaire. Years later, Arnold told Balik that was the best thing that ever happened to him because he thought he was king of the world and Vince brought him right down, shattered his ego. That about sums up Vince and says a lot for Arnold.
In part two, I'll tell you more tales of the man who was perhaps the most knowledgeable and colorful of the muscle gurus. Stay tuned.
Note: Vince passed away in 1997. If you want to learn more about Vince and his unique training methods, I recommend all of his training courses and his full-length book, "Unleashing the Wild Physique." You can purchase these hard-to-find collector's items at very reasonable prices from Ron Kosloff, a long time friend and student of Vince's. Ron has the exclusive rights to Vince's courses and you can reach him in Michigan at (313) 372-1807
Vince Gironda - Part II
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A must read for bodybuilders of all generations. The "Iron Guru" was perhaps at his pinnacle of fame during the "Golden Era" of bodybuilding, the 60's. His methods, techniques, training, and dietary principles are still employed today. Vince's programs were known for producing the fastest muscle building results in the shortest period of time. Contains inside personal details of a relationship one bodybuilder had with Vince, some his best known training programs, his little known training programs, some of his forgotten methods are presented. What Vince had to say about steroid use, training, nutrition, and supplements, provide the reader with remarkable insight and knowledge of Vince Gironda.
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Remembering The Guru:
Vince Gironda The Greatest Trainer That Ever Lived
By Ron Kosloff N/C of NSP Research Nutrition
Vince Gironda Part 1:
Vince Gironda Close family members apart, when was the last time you witnessed grown men weeping at the loss of a comrade? Sure it happens, of course, but when the late great Vince Gironda died, the outpouring of emotion was felt from coast to coast and beyond.
I'll never forget the day of October 20th, 1997. I was at my desk when Ray Raridon, owner of NSP West in Los Angeles called me at three p.m. and asked if I was sitting down. After I said yes, he conveyed to me the sad news that Vince Gironda had passed away. We spoke for a short time, both extremely very sad and extremely stunned. After I hung up the phone I was in sort of a mental daze as my 25-year association with Vince literally flashed before my eyes. I remembered all the good times and the bad times. As I sat there for about a half-hour I began crying profusely. I'm a grown man, but this news did affect me very, very much. I called my friend Chris Aragona. Chris is a personal trainer and former owner of a health-food store in the Long Island section of New York. We've been friends and business associates for about 20 years.
Chris teaches Vince's method's as I do. We talked at length about Vince, and he too reminisced. I mentioned that I had seen Vince about a month before he closed his gym, and to my way of thinking - just a personal opinion - Vince Gironda probably died of a broken heart simply because his gym was his whole life. To my knowledge, he never did anything else. From the time he was a young man until he really got into the gym business - I think it was 1946 - he had worked or been in the fitness business most of his life. So you can see what a dramatic effect the gym closing must have had on him. Bodybuilding meant more to him than anything. When he would train someone who became successful, this was his personal reward. Chris agreed with me that there was a lot of heart and honesty in Vince. As long as I can remember, Chris has advocated Vince's methods. He is a personal trainer. I believe he has done that exclusively since he got out of the health-food business. On many occasions Chris and I have shared stories about our personal training experiences and one point we always agree on is that anyone who follows Vince's methods is sure to have great results. I personally have never failed if my student follows Vince's principles. (Vince actually wrote a book on his training principles. It is titled, "The Wild Physique.") After Chris and I spoke, I put the office recorder on and reminisced for about two hours.
I recalled our first meeting.
I had a consultation with Vince, and while we were talking, he excused himself, got up, took some money out of the register, gave it to a member, and promptly threw him out of the gym for doing situps and leg raises. I was shocked, of course, but when I found out Vince's reasoning I understood. Situps and leg raises don't reduce the size of your stomach, as Vince discovered about 40 years ago, so the student was just wasting his time. He really wasn't listening. Vince had previously told the student not to do them because he was personally training the guy. Along with everything Vince taught me, I realized then that he was probably far ahead of his time. In retrospect, I believe most people didn't even know what he was talking about. I learned that 95 percent of what Vince told me simply worked. Chris made the same discovery. When I train people, they quickly realize just how great his simple, intelligent methods are.
Dr. Clifford Ameduri called Vince a gifted person and a genius. When I spoke with the doctor years ago, we both marveled at the fact that Vince was the only man we had ever seen who could point to every muscle in the human body, name it, plus tell you how it functions. Now that's brilliant! We were also awed by Vince's knowledge of nutrition. After 25 years, people are discovering the truth about this "complex carbohydrate b.s" as I call it. Vince would yell in the gym, "But they're inferior proteins, just lots of sugar, you jerks!" He was always outspoken and controversial, the type of man who built this country. True individuals like him are now a dying breed.
As a kid I would go to all the contests. Vince would turn out champions the way a baker turns out cookies. The MC would always say, "representing Vince's Gym, from North Hollywood, California"… introducing Larry Scott, Don Howorth, Bill McArdle and a host of others. I seriously doubt that Larry would have been a success if Vince hadn't taken him under his wing, since Larry wasn't that genetically blessed. To me a truly beautiful physique combines shape, symmetry and cuts. I knew Gironda was onto something because he assessed his type of physique. I also knew that eventually I would go to him. But first I ordered all his courses. When I read them, I said, "This man is brilliant!"
The first time he trained me, he told me I was the only guy who ever did the precise movements the correct way. That acknowledgement really, really felt good. When Vince trained me, I stayed in California for six weeks, renting a motel room just down the block from the gym. I trained very hard and made more progress in that six weeks than I had in an entire two-year training period prior to that time. When I came back from California to the YMCA gym where I regularly worked out, people were in disbelief at how good I looked after such a short time. I was stunned myself that I was looking 90 percent better doing 90 percent less. But I trained with great intensity! Vince first applied that word in bodybuilding, not Mike Mentzer as many believe.
I continued the rest of the evening thinking back fondly on the times that I was fortunate enough to have spent with Vince. I finally realized all the lessons I had learned from him, how he had a tremendous effect in turning my life around and pointing me in the right direction. I am now a nutritional consultant. Because of him I got my degree. I work at the Grosse Pointe Alternative Health Care Clinic outside of Detroit. I also own NSP East and Research Nutrition. I'm on staff and I do all their diet consultations.
I use the principles Vince taught me...
regarding liver tablets, glandulars and amino acids to keep your endocrine system strong and your immune level high. He told me to eat a high-protein meal after training as the muscles need the amino acids to grow and, most important, to recuperate. I see that some college just proved him right again. As soon as you're done with strenuous, physical exercise, eat a good protein meal because the branched-chain amino acids will quickly repair, nourish and return the muscle cell to its former strength and more, and it will get bigger. They just proved that. Just goes to show you how brilliant the guy was.
He taught me about hydrochloric acid and that the amount of food you digest is the critical factor, not how much you eat. He would always stress these concepts to me. Now I'm helping other people and I realize it was Vince who taught me all this. Take liver tablets for example. Right now in bodybuilding, they're out of style because bodybulding is like America, a fad country where things are in style, out of style, in style, out of style. Whether we like to admit it or not, we are all controlled by Madison Avenue and big advertising from what we eat to what we drink and what we smoke. The whey-protein powders and MET-Rx are in fashion today. Amino acids, glandulars, hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes are out.
I am a severe hypoglycemic, and Vince taught me that I had to control my hypoglycemia. Every three hours I eat, and I keep my diet low in carbohydrates. I use liver tablets because there is no finer blood builder than liver. Its B12 and amino-acid content nourish the liver. It contains a substance called P450, which he taught me detoxifies the liver of all poisons, toxins, drugs and alcohol. Every time I have a physical, my doctor marvels at the function of my liver. So, of course, every three hours I take my liver tablets.
Vince Gironda Vince taught me the importance of chromium picolinate and minerals to regulate my pancreatic functions and insulin secretions. I guess what I'm doing here is paying homage to him. Maybe I never realized before what a controlling factor this man was in my life. He taught me the importance of eggs, and what a powerful, powerful substance eggs are. He showed me how important eggs are to bodybuilding and the very best hormone precursors.
My routine for the last 25 years has not varied. When I get up, my high fat jump-starter is four or five eggs, depending on how hungry I am. Eggs don't cause heart attacks. Some people take the yolk from the egg and eat just the egg white, but that's wrong. Eggs are whole food, the greatest food you can eat. It closely matches the human anatomy. Eggs are the finest protein, along with liver and raw milk. That's been proven over and over. They have the highest PER (protein efficiency ratio) rating.
Sugars and starches cause heart attacks. The average American diet includes pancakes, ice cream, cookies, pies, cakes, candies, pretzels, doughnuts, pizzas, slurpies, Pop Tarts, Sugar Frosted Flakes, bologna sandwiches, bagels and pastas. White-flour bagels and pastas are garbage! Then you have all the useless fast foods! But the egg is a perfect food. You see, God is the greatest chemist in the world. He created the egg. A drug company created the medical doctor, and all medical doctors do is write prescriptions. Nothing more, nothing less. They tell you what is wrong with you and then write a prescription for a dangerous synthetic drug!
If you separate the white and yolk of the egg, you get an isolated protein. Any time you separate the white and the yolk of an egg, you get an isolated protein. Any time you separate protein from fat you're left with an incomplete food. The manufacturers of protein powders tell you to mix them with juice or water. Well, let me tell you, folks - you can't digest protein without fat. Vince taught me that and he was right. When you swallow an egg white, it goes into your stomach and your stomach says, "Hey, where's the fat?" The white, which is protein, has no vehicle for conversion, so it's converted to sugar.
The same thing happens when you use protein powder. They say to mix with juice or water because they're made of ionized whey protein, which is the skim of cottage cheese. It's not biologically superior to eggs, liver and milk. These powders make you feel good because they're carbohydrated sugar. Sure you're going to put on weight, but it's not going to be muscle weight.
You cannot digest protein without fat...
and it must be digested to be converted to amino acids. Once it's digested it goes through the liver and is converted to amino acids. If it's not digested the liver can't do its job. If eggs or fat cause heart attacks, I want someone to tell me how my grandmother and grandfather, who were both muscular people with beautiful skin, lived on a farm, consumed raw milk, natural eggs pork sausage and butter (my grandfather died two months shy of his 98th birthday, and my grandmother died when she was 101.
An Indian who worked for my grandfather for food and shelter would eat only meat. We kids on the farm used to give pears, peaches and apples, and he'd say, "Oh, you kids crazy!" He wanted meat. Grandma and Grandma would butcher a hog or a steer and put it in the cellar (the cellar was like a fridge back then), and he would go down into the cellar and eat meat. Meat was all he would eat, and I mean the whole animal. So how did this man live to be 113 on a high-fat, high-protein diet? I'd like a medical doctor or so-called dietician to explain that. Vince was right again!
I am now realizing how I carried these ideas of Vince's through my life and taught them to other people. They have been a blessing for me. When I do consultations I put people on glandulars. I know some say glandulars and liver are not good food, but I tell you folks, that's where the energy is. The first thing a carnivore eats when it kills another animal is its glands and intestines.
I remember one time while I was working at General Motors, they took a blood test and the color of my blood was far superior to their color chart. The nurse asked me, "How do you do that?" and I said, "I take a lot of liver tablets." Being a medical nurse, she said, "Sure, sure, sure," and looked at me as if I was crazy. Unfortunately we are putting our lives in the hands of these people I recommend two good books about the medical profession: Silent Violence-Silent Death and The Drug Lords. They'll scare the hell out of you!
Vince taught me about nutrition, hydrochloric acid and eggs, and folks, they just plain work. The man was so far ahead of his time it was almost a joke. Speaking of jokes, he was a real comedian and his jokes in the gym kept everyone loose.
Bob Kennedy of Muscle Mag International was a good friend of Vince, and Vince used to write a regular column for his magazine. After Vince died, I called Bob and said, Bob, I've known Vince for 25 years, and I'd like to continue his column because I know his methods backward and frontward." Bob replied, "Ron I would love to have you continue his column, but you know what?" I was getting complaints that Vince was too old. People complained, "Who wants to listen to what he has to say?" Well, that struck a nerve, and I would like to address those folks who felt that way.
In America, today, we have one horrible agenda that we practice. Madison Avenue has created the youth culture. It wants to sell things to young people with money. It wants to ignore older people, and of course, this is our culture… money. If you're over 50, even sometimes over 40, no one wants to listen to you any more. It's really a crime. Look at how the American Plains Indians treated their elders. They treated them with dignity and respect. Nobody wanted to listen to Vince because he was old, but nobody stopped to think that what Vince had was wisdom, knowledge and experience. If you go to any other country in the world and you are over 50, by God, you're put up on a pedestal. People come to you for advice and knowledge, and you're revered. But not in America. Vince was a tragic example of this shameful phenomenon. He went out of style.
Whenever an older, wise, intelligent person offers advice, you should listen to his wisdom.
He's only trying to save you a lot of heartache and grief. Certainly Vince Gironda did this for me. Take Heed. What happened to Vince should not have happened to him. He was a victim pure and simple of our culture. I was disappointed, Chris Aragona was disappointed, but that's the way it is. For years, I've been saying that in the future, Vincent Van Gogh will have nothing on Vince Gironda because one day Vince Gironda will be the Vincent Van Gogh of bodybuilding.
In another 15 years, you'll be reading what Vince had to say. Everything he said 50 years ago is now coming true. Don't overtrain. Work out like a sprinter, not a long distance runner. Bodybuilding is 85 percent nutrition. Always use muscle confusion. Don't do situps and leg raises because they make your stomach bigger, not smaller, and they curtail lean muscle gains because your hormone level drops. He said all this years ago after going through trial and error. He discovered it was true. Slowly, but surely his methods have been proven, and they have stood the test of time. Unfortunately some authority has begun to take credit, and you see a lot of copycats who are stealing from Vince, and that's a fact. You know who you are and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Two or three years ago some idiot wrote to a magazine and asked, 'If Vince Gironda was so great, how come he never won a major contest?" Well the simple fact is that back in his day there was a different style to bodybuilding. Either you looked like John Grimek - bulky and smooth - or you weren't a bodybuilder. Now, the authorities might not want to recognize this fact, but Vince Gironda is the father of modern bodybuilding. He created definition. Hell, in the 40's he was ripped to shreds. He never placed higher than second or third in a contest. They looked at him and said: "What is this? Who is this? What kind of physique is this?" Some winced at his incredible muscularity.
Nowadays, if you're not defined and shapely, you might as well just go on home. Again we should all pay homage to Vince. He invented definition. He invented the beautiful physique, the shapely physique. DO you see what I'm saying? The guy who asked that stupid question really doesn't know much about history. He's probably a drug user anyway.
Of course, most of the physiques now are drug physiques...
and they don't have any real relation to natural bodybuilding. Vince used to call bodybuilding contests "pharmaceutical conventions" whenever someone would ask why he didn't attend them any more. He was right. You could never create that kind of physique naturally. Some of these guys I see onstage look to me like Gorgo. Vince used to call a lot of Mr. Olympia competitors Gorgos and freaks, and that's what they are. They are sacrificing their health. Vince was the first one to state that some bodybuilder was going to die on stage, and it's happened more than once.
Vince created the anti-drug movement in bodybuilding. He hated drugs with a passion. Drugs came into the picture in 1963, and they completely defeated natural bodybuilding. All you had to do was pump some Deca-Durabolin in and you got a physique. I've seen guys at the local hard-core gym use drugs and in 30 days, my God, you couldn't believe what they turned into, gaining 10 to 15 pounds overnight.
For ten years, I owned the Powerhouse Gym in Center Line, Michigan with my partner Paul Dudgeon. We had a member who was a top area bodybuilder and a drug user and he used to belittle Vince's methods. He said that on Vince's system you didn't do enough and you didn't do weightlifting exercises. I told him one time that if they ever took his steroids away from him, he would just be an ordinary Joe, and his so-called wonder method that he got out of the magazines wouldn't work any more.
As events came to pass, being on drugs for so long began to affect his marriage. His wife said, "Look, it's the drugs or me." He quit the steroids because he didn't want to lose his family. Everyone around the gym started to notice he was shrinking like a prune. One day to my surprise he came to me and said, "I use to think you were a real screwball and your methods were really goofy, but now I realize what you said was true. My methods don't work anymore. I was overtraining just like you said." This guy today is a natural bodybuilder, he's still married, and he's got a heck of a physique. When I see him at the gym we talk a lot. I still do my training at Powerhouse in Center Line, so if you want to get a hold of me, you can call there. The number is 810-755-5330. Later, I'll give you my office number.
I'm training a young fellow at the gym who's been working out for a couple of years now. He wasn't getting anywhere because he was overtraining and he didn't have any knowledge of nutrition. He was eating a high carbohydrate diet, which is ridiculous because carbohydrates are just sugar. I tell people not to believe all this crap about carbohydrates building muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is not made of sugar. It's made of protein. I told the lad I would improve his physique in about three months 15 to 20 percent.
I stress very clearly that Vince was a bodybuilder and a bodybuilding trainer, not a weightlifter or weightlifting trainer. He taught isolation exercises for the muscles, not group exercises for the muscles. For example, you do a strict bicep curl, no cheating, with a 25-pound dumbbell and isolate the muscle, so that only the bicep does the work. Don't use 60 pounds and jerk, tug, pull and swing the weight. You ultimately must decide if you want to be a bodybuilder or a weightlifter.
vince grionda I love to intimidate big cheaters by asking them if they can do 8 sets of 8 reps with a 25-pound dumbbell for the biceps Vince's way. First they laugh at me. Then they proceed to make big fools of themselves when they can't even do 2 sets and I yell at them, "You've got 6 more sets to go!" There is a winner of many titles at Powerhouse Gym who calls Vince's methods too hard. I want somebody to hand me a violin so that I can play him a tune. He would be 10 to 15 percent smaller using Vince's methods, but you have to sacrifice something to get something. Ultimately, he will look a thousand times better in shape, definition and symmetry, and that's what we really want, isn't it?
Look at the way Frank Zane looked - and he wasn't a big man. He just happened to have a beautiful, beautiful physique. When it comes to strength there are two types; group strength and individual muscle strength. A bodybuilder cannot work out like a weightlifter and a weightlifter cannot work out like a bodybuilder. Vince would stress that to people. While training in Vince's Gym over the years, I saw him make fools of many people because they couldn't work out the way a bodybuilder should. They couldn't do it. Ultimately that failure was a blow to their egos. People are always asking me and my students, "How much can you lift?" We glare at them and shoot back, as Vince did: "We are not weightlifters. We are bodybuilders."
My young friend started on Vince's routine and a superb nutrition program that I laid out for him. Three months later he is happy as a lark. His buddies all tell him how good he looks. He's done learning now. I've taught him everything that Vince taught me. He's on his own and he's only going to get better. He came to me in the first place because someone told him I trained Ron Love for the 1988 Junior America. He was trying to get cut and I put him on Vince's meat an egg diet with cream and protein and, or course, all the supplements. Ron won hands down. Bodybuilders all over America were calling to ask how he did it. Ron said he would like to give me a kiss, but he couldn't because I was a guy!
So this young man came to me for help. He had weak upper biceps, and he asked me how to develop them - not the middle biceps, but the upper biceps, by the deltoid. I've asked probably 50 people, including Mr. America's, Mr. Universes, and many other supposedly knowledgeable people, but they couldn't help. I always tell people that the worst person to ask for advice is the biggest guy in the gym with the best physique.
All he can tell you is how to overtrain, and he won't tell you he is taking steroids.
To help the young man increase his upper biceps I showed him Vince's drag curl, and in about six weeks he was showing fullness in his upper biceps. Most of your Mr. America's and Mr. Olympia's don't have the slightest clue how to bring that muscle out. When I ask them about it, they only give me stupid answers. Vince was the only guy that knew how to isolate and work that muscle.
When I told this young guy about liver tablets and fats and proteins, he said, "My doctor told me I should eat carbohydrates and remove fats from my diet." I asked him, "Young man, do you know what substance manufactures every hormone in the human body? It's called cholesterol, and if you have a low natural fat intake you'll have low cholesterol - that's HDL - and you won't be able to gain size. That's why I'm going to get you on glandulars and liver tablets, amino acids, and mil-and-egg protein." The guy has since done fabulously. Medical doctors don't know anything about nutrition. As I told you, they're prescription-writers.
Let's look at the book, Protein Power. The guy who wrote that book copied from Vince. They all do. In his book he lists five tribes that exist on a high-fat, high-protein diet. These people are perfectly healthy. If they don't starve, they lead long lives. Number one is the Eskimo. He eats fat, blubber, protein, fish, heart, liver, kidney and spleen. Eskimos never eat any vegetables, and lo and behold, they are slim people. Number two are the Rocky Mountain men. They ate what they killed - there are no fruits and vegetables in the Rocky Mountains. Third is the Plains Indian. His whole life was the buffalo. It was his food, his weapon, his clothing, his shelter. That's why the white man killed the buffalo - to starve the Indian. Indians didn't eat corn until we put them on reservations. Indians were very muscular warriors. The Union shoulders called them the finest light cavalry in the world. Then consider the Bolare of South America and the Masai of Africa. For the Masai, cattle were a prized possession. They were basically meat eaters and protein eaters. The people of all these tribes were highly sexed because they had high natural hormone levels. Moreover, they all had cholesterol levels of three to five hundred with no arterial sclerosis or heart attacks whatsoever.
The medical profession tells you what it wants to tell you. It creates a drug after your bad diet has caused a problem. All you have to do is go to the library and get a medical dictionary - Tabor's 16th edition, page 1909. I'll tell you in essence what it says. When you ingest an excess amount of carbohydrates (sugar), it is converted by the liver to triglycerides and diglycerides, which are a sticky form of fat that the liver pushes into the bloodstream. Your LDL level goes up. Your VDL level goes up. Your triglyceride and diglyceride levels go up. You have a heart attack. What you want to do is keep your HDL level very high, and you do that by eating fats and proteins like the American Plains Indian. So you see, medical doctors are wrong again. They usually are. They don't know how to prevent diseases. They just write prescriptions for the ones you have.
If you want to read a good book, get Not By Bread Alone. It's out of print, so you'll have to look in the public library. It was one of Vince's bibles. The author was a man named Stephenson, who in the middle to late 1800's lived with the Eskimos for 20 years and ate exactly what the Eskimos ate. When he returned to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, they couldn't find anything wrong with him. He was normal and he was healthy. See what I'm saying? The real culprit in disease is processed and refined foods.
The reason Americans are getting so sick is that they're eating so many carbohydrates.
In your body, carbohydrates create a condition called alkalosis. All protein foods are digested in an acid base, all non protein foods are digested in an alkaline based. The balance of the human body should be an acid base, so if you create an alkaline state, you cannot digest your food. If you stuck your finger down your throat into your stomach you should burn the end of it because the stomach should be full of hydrochloric acid. Once you eat a high-carbohydrate diet, your body says, "Hey, why should I bother to manufacture hydrochloric acid?" The word protein means "most important." Hippoctates named it 2,500 years ago. So how to you create an acid state? As you get older you're going to have to use a little apple cider vinegar, lemon juice or hydrochloric acid tablets. When you're younger, just eat good protein food, take a B-Complex vitamin and zinc because they work with your stomach and create hydrochloric acid. You always want to keep those levels high.
Vince taught me the importance of hydrochloric acid because it digests protein. Regardless of how much food you eat, the important factor is what you digest, assimilate and absorb. That's the key. Vince said that 85 percent of bodybuilding is nutrition.
Hippocrates laid down ten rules 2,500 years ago that the medical profession has ignored because what he said doesn't make money and, as we know, the medical profession is all about making money and lots of it. In the USA, 1.4 trillion dollars a year is spent on health care. Health care, folks, is taking care of sick people, and as I said, there is no such thing as diseases. Nutritional deficiencies cause most medical problems. Americans are very sick people - the sickest in the world - and 45 percent of our people are obese, all from eating refined carbohydrates!
Here are the ten rules of Hippocrates:
1. The natural way is the only way
2. Treat the cause of an illness, not the symptoms
3. Throw away your drugs and heal the people with food
4. Look to the spine for illnesses (Hippocrates was a chiropractor, by the way)
5. Natural food can prevent diseases
6. Do no harm to your patients
7. The word protein means most important
8. Do not perform unnecessary surgery for money
9. A healthy colon is essential
10. Do not administer dangerous and harmful drugs
These rules are very, very important. Most doctors take the Hippocratic Oath. That's where it came from.
Vince taught me all these truths. Now I'm teaching people, and they're getting results, just as I did.
When I started to train the young man, he asked me who Vince Gironda had trained. I told him, "Only practically every top bodybuilder in the world." They would come to him, but unfortunately none of them ever gave him any credit. Most people don't know that Frank Zane was a key-club member at Vince's Gym. He had a key to the gym and would go in at night anytime to train. Arnold Schwarzennegger was sent to Vince Gironda for two years.
Here's an interesting story you might get a chuckle out of concerning Arnold.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Everybody assumes that when he came to America he trained under the trainer of champions, Joe Weider. Nothing could be further from the truth. Weider just promoted Arnold and made a lot of money. Actually they both promoted each other and made a lot of money. Arnold's German industrial sponsor sent him to Vince. Of course, Arnold had a pretty big ego, although he was not that good when he started, being rather on the fat, fleshy side. He walked into Vince's Gym (John Balik, the editor of IRONMAN can substantiate this story as he was standing right there) and said, "I'm Arnold Schwarzennegger from Austria and I'm Mr. So and So." Vince looked up at him through his granny glasses and responded, "You're nothing but a fat you-know-what." For two years, Arnold spent time at Vince's Gym Then, after Joe Weider signed him, he went on to become a movie star and multi-millionaire. Years later, Arnold told Balik that was the best thing that ever happened to him because he thought he was king of the world and Vince brought him right down, shattered his ego. That about sums up Vince and says a lot for Arnold.
In part two, I'll tell you more tales of the man who was perhaps the most knowledgeable and colorful of the muscle gurus. Stay tuned.
Note: Vince passed away in 1997. If you want to learn more about Vince and his unique training methods, I recommend all of his training courses and his full-length book, "Unleashing the Wild Physique." You can purchase these hard-to-find collector's items at very reasonable prices from Ron Kosloff, a long time friend and student of Vince's. Ron has the exclusive rights to Vince's courses and you can reach him in Michigan at (313) 372-1807
Vince Gironda - Part II
Legend and Myth Vince GirondaTraining & Diet Secrets of Vince Gironda Legend and Myth
by Alan Palmieri
A must read for bodybuilders of all generations. The "Iron Guru" was perhaps at his pinnacle of fame during the "Golden Era" of bodybuilding, the 60's. His methods, techniques, training, and dietary principles are still employed today. Vince's programs were known for producing the fastest muscle building results in the shortest period of time. Contains inside personal details of a relationship one bodybuilder had with Vince, some his best known training programs, his little known training programs, some of his forgotten methods are presented. What Vince had to say about steroid use, training, nutrition, and supplements, provide the reader with remarkable insight and knowledge of Vince Gironda.
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