#But the Calorie as a unit is both useful and meaningful in understanding the human metabolism

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BMI is bullshit, you will never catch me defending BMI or its proponents, but calories, and by extension, calorimeters are actually a pretty effective tool for understanding how much energy a human can derive from a piece of food, I know the dismissive tagline is "You'll notice your body is different from a tub of water placed above a burn chamber" but also, in many significant ways it is identical to a burn chamber and a tub of water, at least when it comes to specific processes. Like, I think the way we think about calories isn't great, there is an absolute over-focus on simply counting at the input level, but overcorrecting into 'the Calorie as a unit is entirely meaningless' isn't the way forward either, IMO. It seems like giving up on the idea that we can use things to learn about other things, when, in fact, comparisons to similar but easier to understand systems are how we've gone about understanding basically everything we currently understand about the universe, which is quite a lot.

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Infancy

THE PROCESS OF SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Changes in the nervous system are extremely rapid in the first 2 years. In most parts of the brain, development of dendrites and synapses reaches its first peak between 12 and 24 months, after which “pruning” of synapses occurs. Myelinization of nerve fibers also occurs rapidly in the first 2 years.

An infant will have reflexes such as adaptive reflexes (sucking), primitive reflexes (startle) and Babinski reflexes. Neonates move through a series of consciousness in a cycle that last about 2 hours.

During infancy the neonates became stronger, they develop stronger bones, muscles, stamina larger lungs, heart. Their motor skills also improve rapidly in the first 2 years.

Experts suggest that breastfeeding is always the best choice to have a healthier baby. Macronutrient malnutrition may occur if the babies diet only has very few calories, while micronutrient malnutrition happens when an infant has enough calories but lacks nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Babies also needs regular checkups and immunization to avoid respiratory infections and other diseases. Sudden infant death syndrome is one of the most common cause of death between 1 month and 1 year of age in the united states.

Color vision is already present at birth but visual acuity and visual tracking skills are relatively poor at birth and then develop rapidly at the first few months. New born can actually identify where does a sound came from, they can hear human voice. Smelling tasting and the sense of touch motion are so well developed at birth.

 LEARNING AND COGNITIVE CHANGES

Piaget stated that a sensorimotor infant has a small range of basic schemes, from which she moves toward symbolic representation. There are primary, secondary, and tertiary circular reactions in this milestones of this stage as well as object permanence, means–end behavior, and deferred imitation. Developmentalists such as Spelke and Baillargeon have studied object permanence within the context of infants’ global understanding of objects. They said that Piaget underestimated how much younger infants know about objects and their movements.

Babies are able to learn through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observation of models within the first few weeks of life. By 14 months, they learn successful and unsuccessful modeled behaviors and the would follow the things that they think are right.  From an early age, infants use categories to organize information. The understanding of how they relate to each other, increases over the first 2 years of life. 3 and 4-month-old infants show signs of remembering specific experiences over periods of as long as a few days or a week, a sign that they must have some form of internal representation well before Piaget supposed they do.

According to behaviorist theories of language development claim that infants learn language through parental reinforcement of word like sounds and correct grammar. Nativists say that an innate language processor helps them learn language rules. Interactionists say that language development is a subprocess of cognitive development.

High-pitched infant-directed speech (IDS) helps infants learn language by attracting their attention to the simple, repetitive, and expanded expressions that adults use. The amount of verbal interaction that takes place between infants and mature speakers is another influence. Poverty is associated with language development as well.

Babies’ earliest sounds are cries, followed at about 2 months by cooing, then at about 6 months by babbling. At 9 months, babies typically use meaningful gestures and can understand a small vocabulary of spoken words. The first spoken words, usually names for objects or people, typically occur at about 1 year, after which toddlers add words slowly for a few months and then rapidly. The rate of language development varies from one child to another. Children who are late talkers typically catch up with their peers by the time they enter school. Early word learning seems to follow similar patterns in all cultures. However, the word order of a child’s telegraphic speech depends on which language he is learning.

 SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

 There are temperament dimensions that temperament theorists generally agree such as basic activity level, approach/positive emotionality, inhibition, negative emotionality, and effortful control/ task persistence There is strong evidence that temperamental differences have a genetic component and that they are at least somewhat stable throughout infancy and childhood. However, temperament is not totally determined by heredity or neurological processes. The “fit” between children’s temperaments and their environments may be more important than temperament itself.

The infant begins to develop a sense of self, including the awareness of a separate self and the understanding of self-permanence (which may be collectively called the subjective self) and awareness of herself as an object in the world (the objective self) during the middle of the second year. An emotional self develops in the first year. The range of emotions infants experience as well as their ability to make use of information about emotions, such as facial expressions increases dramatically over the first year.

Infants in nonparental care are more likely to be overweight than those who are cared for exclusively by parents. Research on the effects of nonparental care on cognitive developmental variables such as intelligence test scores and academic achievement have produced inconsistent results. Some studies show positive effects, but others do not. When a child receives more intellectual stimulation in nonparental care than he would at home, there are likely to be positive effects on cognitive development. But when the reverse is true, nonparental care may have neutral or negative effects on cognitive development. The impact of day care on children’s social development is unclear. Some studies show a small difference in security of attachment between children in day care and those reared at home; others suggest that home-care and day-care children do not differ with respect to attachment.

Infants’ physiological responses to the stresses associated with nonparental care may underlie its association with developmental outcomes. The quality of nonparental care a child receives may be as important as the quantity of nonparental care. Individual differences and gender may interact with the quality of a care arrangement, the quantity of outside-the-home care a child receives, or both. Average differences between children who receive nonparental care and those who are cared for entirely in their own home are small.

REFLECTION:

 Taking care of an infant is not that easy, it’s not just about happiness they can give but they are also a responsibility for a family or both parents. It’s very important that before bearing a child both parents are already capable of adding new life to the family. Infants are learning rapidly with what they see or hear, they must be given enough attention or guidance for them to grow well. It’s the right of a child to have adequate food, home and love for them to live. In this stage is the critical stage of their life, they are making their first in life as they develop physically, emotionally and mentally. During infancy, a child’s learning is growing very well that they will acquire those things they think are right by following the older one. As an adult or care taker of a child it is important that we are observant enough with our actions. They are learning day by day so we must be careful of the things that we are teaching them as well as they emotions that we are giving to a child. Any tiny details that would be acquired by a child will be part of his/her development. During this stage the infants are the social butterflies, they give us happiness while giving them new learnings. They must feel that they are being cared and they have people where they can feel safety and belongingness. In this phase of their life they are forming relationships with other people. Guidance provides children with appropriate and positive models pf behavior and helps them to develop respect, self- regulation, self- confidence and sensitivity as they learn and grow. Guidance is needed if a parent wants a child to have appropriate behavior before a child display inappropriate attitude because of lack of guidance.

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Cosmos Q&A: Taking the exercise path

Researchers this week released what they say this is the first study to demonstrate that the intensity of physical activity is important over and above the total volume of activity in lowering the risk of an early death. The findings show, for example, that adding two minutes of brisk walking to a 35-minute daily stroll could cut that risk by 21%.

Cosmos spoke to the Australia-based member of the team, Dr Paddy Dempsey from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge (UK), the Leicester Diabetes Centre (UK), and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.

You collected data from 100,000 people. What story did this tell?

The role of intensity over and above activity volume was ambiguous previously, but the size of this study and the availability of a week’s objectively measured physical activity data for each participant allowed us for the first time to address this question in an integrated way. The key finding from this study was that doing more physical activity of any intensity is beneficial, but that expending those calories in more intense activity is better still.

Moreover, the results also showed that activity volumes accumulated almost exclusively through light-intensity activity could still halve the mortality risk. The key take-home message therefore is that there are several different pathways or options to maintaining good health (e.g. through progressively increasing activity volume or intensity, but ideally a combination of both) and people can choose the path that works best for them.

Were there any surprises in the findings?

For physical activity researchers at least, the key findings of this study will not be all that surprising. There is a wealth of epidemiological evidence showing that higher levels of physical activity are associated with a lower risk of mortality and other adverse health outcomes.

However, this previous evidence, and current physical activity guidelines, are based largely on epidemiological studies in which physical activity was assessed by self-report questionnaires. Self-report measures of physical activity, while still important, are prone to reporting bias and measurement error, and are unable to robustly quantify light-intensity activities of daily living (a key contributor to total activity volume).

What will perhaps be more surprising for many is that the benefits of physical activity shown in this study using wearable devices may be greater than previously considered, and that the levels of activity at which they occur may be lower. This could have important implications for public-health guidelines in the future.

At first read, the studies suggest you actually don’t have to do a lot to achieve significant gains. Is that a correct reading?

Yes, to a degree. The caveat is that our inactive reference group are not completely bed-rested – they do 1-2 hours of light activity and 5-10 minutes of moderate activity each day, which is still not a lot because we count every five seconds that register into these categories.

Expending more energy at any physical activity intensity was strongly associated with a lower risk of death over the following three years. For example, participants who accumulated 20 kJ/kg/day through physical activity were a third less likely to die compared to those who accumulated 15 kJ/kg/day, when the proportion from at least moderate intensity activity was 10% in both cases.

The additional activity is the equivalent to a 35-minute stroll, with an extra two minutes at a brisker pace. When considering the simpler associations of physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) – that is, adjusting for confounders but not activity intensity – undertaking just an additional 5 kJ/kg/day (relative to a low baseline of 15 kJ/kg/day) was associated with a 37% lower risk of all-cause mortality.

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The results from this study also suggest that the greatest potential for a reduction in mortality risk was for those with the lowest levels of PAEE (i.e. the most inactive), whereas those who were already achieving higher levels of PAEE (i.e. greater than the median amount in the population) may achieve less additional gains from doing more. This is in line with the classic curvilinear dose-response curve we often see for the association between physical activity and health – where you get the “most bang for your public health buck” so to speak when you shift more inactive people to becoming more active.

These findings support the general public-health message that “any activity is better than none, and more is better still”, and benefits are still achieved at levels below the guideline target.

Is exercising to be healthy the same as exercising to be fit?

I think to best answer this requires a good understanding of the key concepts around fitness and activity. Both “physical activity” (any general bodily movement that results in energy expenditure) and “exercise” (a behavioural subset of physical activity that is more planned, structured or and repetitive) are behaviours that help improve and maintain various components of “physical fitness” (a set of attributes that people have or achieve) – which can be more ‘health-related’ or ‘performance-related’.

So physical activity and fitness are separate concepts that are both important for overall health but are distinct in how they are measured. Different types of activity promote different types of physiological changes and different health outcomes, therefore our conceptual “starting point” for baseline activity or fitness, and ultimate goals, likely also matter. From a public health perspective, it is likely more important to understand the relationships among type, volume and intensity for sedentary, light-intensity, and moderate-intensity activities, whereas understanding more vigorous intensity activities might be more relevant to athletes focused on performance-related goals.

Is being sedentary the same as not being active?

Sedentary behaviour is defined as any waking behaviour characterised by an energy expenditure ≤1.5 metabolic equivalents (METs), while in a sitting, reclining, or lying posture. It is considered conceptually distinct from physical inactivity, and it is certainly possible to meet or exceed the public health guidelines for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (e.g. 150 min/week), and yet also spend most waking hours in sedentary behaviours (picture your typical desk based worker who walks or cycles into work).

This is a different question to what was addressed directly in our study, but relevant for public health, since behaviourally when we look to replace our typically high volumes of sedentary time throughout the day, it is most likely to be with light-intensity activities of daily living, and that would drive overall activity volume up, everything else being equal.

There are a lot of myths around exercise. Does research need to take account of that?

That’s a pretty open question, but I think a key myth relevant to the general context of this study is that you must hurt and sweat to gain any “real” or “meaningful” health benefits (i.e. the “no pain no gain” mantra). But evidence increasingly shows that even light-intensity activity appears to provide benefits and is likely preferable to sitting still for large portions of the day.

When increasing physical activity toward a desired level, small and well-spaced increments will reduce the incidence of adverse health events and likely improve adherence. These key concepts are relatively unambiguous and detailed in current guidelines (though sometimes misunderstood). Nevertheless, we still have a lot more to understand about the optimal “balance” of behaviours to maximise risk reduction.

Exercise science is an increasingly sophisticated and multi-disciplinary field. What have been the major advances?

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A key factor in advancing the field of physical activity and exercise science has been the advances in tools for measuring activities of all intensities, and even differentiating between some types of activity (e.g. cycling, walking). This study used wearable devices, backed up by a series of validation studies, to estimate physical activity energy expenditure more robustly and on a larger scale than ever before, providing a proof-of-concept for wearable device use at scale in the population and new insights into the dose-response relationships of physical activity volume and intensity with mortality risk.

The use of wearable devices that monitor physical activity is projected to increase dramatically in the future, which could help provide people with more personalised information and feedback to improve their health. However, there is a lot more research to be done in this space on multiple fronts. For example, how can and might different people use wearable devices in everyday living, what are the specific health benefits for different amounts and types of activities, and how might the data gathered compare to what is typically obtained in research studies (be that device-based or through self-report)?

Do we understand how genes and other biological factors influence physical activity and sedentary behaviour?

All human behavioural traits are usually determined by both environmental/social and biological factors, and there is growing evidence in both humans and animals which suggests that intrinsic biological factors may also play an important role in the regulation of daily physical activity. These may include complex influences on brain circuitry related to personality, affect regulation, relative reinforcing, and reward processing, or via influencing cardiorespiratory and muscle capacity/function to regularly engage in physical activity.

These elements are likely to also interact with self-efficacy and other core components of social–behavioural models for both physical activity and sedentary behaviours. Since successful efforts to improve levels of physical activity in the population are likely contingent upon an accurate understanding of both biological and societal determinants of habitual activity, it will be important to better integrate such evidence into our understanding of the overall scientific picture.

Seems to me what we ultimately will do with specific biological or genetic information is debatable, as regardless of their relative importance, we all need to engage in physical activity to maintain our health. It could perhaps help with more precise and effective targeting of physical activity interventions to those who may benefit from it most, but it is equally possible that we will get more “bang for our buck” by improving societal and environmental infrastructure to support active living for everyone.

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To more accurately present the memories in words, I edit these messages from time to time myself. I do my best to have several copies of the latest edition while keeping a copy of each prev days' editions. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 14:14 8/10/2018 GMT +8

Poetic: In the end? Sigh, will wish I have anonymity, means to me that the thoughts in my head no longer leak against my free will, then I go to sleep, when I get up I'll just run around near the ocean till I want to sleep, doesn't matter if I wake up again anymore... -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 9:57 8/14/2018

No, Ma Yun. I don't want to know why I have no money, I just want to know why I have no anonymity. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 20:54 8/13/2018

Concerning memories in my brain, rot, corruption, dishonesty: War becomes inevitable for me when certain concerns rises, choose better hopefully. As I tread my life while trying not to rot or corrupt, what happened to me these few days(mainly since the end of July 2018 till 8/6/2018) combining with past experiences and knowledge revealed the truth of a lot more as well as bigger pictures. I probably forgot it sometime before and some will exploit me to win more ends that is dishonest, rotten or corrupt for themselves at my sufferance. Such deeds belong to that "Rot and corruption" sort of thing I talked about and faced often. Written to myself for thoughts, try not to have it forgotten. My increasing knowledge and real life experiences has made these lines more and more accurate and now its precision is almost 100% I bet! Few jokes deriving from these prev lines I'd appreciate. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 20:52 8/13/2018

Poetic: Truly, if every bit of me is on the menu for food, metaphorically speaking. Is there much I can do to change myself and be free at last? Is this my fate... -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 22:07 8/9/2018

Important note about "puppeteer": The staged matters happened to and around me early Aug in the year 2018 tell that whether the "Puppeteer" mental control(s) me or not, the "puppeteer" exploit(s) me to benifit the dishonest lots. Also I suspect that the "puppeteer" compete(s) with me at controlling my mind to achieve previously mentioned ends, gain(s) when my mind gets weaker, I think. -prev lines of messages were last edited at 9:40 8/12/2018

To think of what I am good at and indulge in. Philosophy, high calorie labor, singing. All are still carrying through. Sigh, tiredness in my heart never changed though. And happiness is gone due to no-anonymity if my life doesn't change! Latest idea for my own good I figured through the largest amount of my intel may lie in the word "migrate". -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 14:32 8/22/2018

Early in Aug 2018, I mopped the head of my already-dry prick with a piece of tissue then rubbed the same tissue into a ball-shape in even less than a few minutes with my supposedly clean hands and ate the same tissue after a few minutes. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 9:16 8/12/2018

1 Think if I followed the lead of that 上海灘大小姐 early this year, what would become of me eventually... ​ -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

1 Well her father sends you to work, you do it at daytime like. At other time frames you are her male prostitute. "一定要堅持喲 早晚早晚每天每天" -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 About meaningful? -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Thoughts as well as memories(Thoughts stored away) and knowlege(Know-how amongst the memories) are just chemicals and electrical currents. So to know if the thoughts has any meaning, one has to be and capable of complete thinking, thus has to be alive. -Prev line of message was last edited at 22:45 8/25/2018

2 Can a dead guy think? -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Who knows, let the dead guy tell, as if he could. Thus a guy won't be able to spread the thoughts from his memories(more and more he gets as he lives on) if dead, even though both dead and alive have complex chemicals and can have electrical currents running through their thought-producing-units. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 22:16 8/9/2018

2 Then who's more meaningful and considered better at the same time? Dead guys or alive ones? -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 22:16 8/9/2018

2 In truth who knows anyway, could it be equal amount of or not. Even though those who are alive seems always to be more meaningful than those dead. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Why "Even though" and "seems" in prev sentence? -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Dead guys couldn't tell anything, so to kill alive guys or decapitate their thoughts-spreading-capabilities can make it so permanentely. Then whatever statements alive guys claim over dead guys, the latter does not alter them. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 22:18 8/9/2018

2 Does this justify killings and decapitating-thoughts-spreading-capabilities? -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 One may never know. I think not. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 22:19 8/9/2018

2 So who's dishonest after all? Possibly amongst those who had deeds of dishonesty but didn't get caught? -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 12:37 8/7/2018

2 Never know. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Lots of thoughts chattered about. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Yes. Boring. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Would you still bear and bare with me till truth is realized? -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 You asked me a lot, don't you. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Check about some meanings of the word blackmail. Might reveal to your thoughts some things you look for, maybe truth even. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 I think we both know I do not have anonymity, at the same time I think all other humans have. Through my own endeavors I came to realize. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 19:41 8/7/2018

2 You may or may not missed my point in this conversation. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

2 Regardless. I believe the entire conversation is done by my own thoughts-producing-units. Meaningful as it aids me to think and to figure things. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

3 On questions: You think the speed of one's output on various things show a lot of this guy. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

3 This "speed" you talked about that you presumed I am to bear or/and bare with you or to bare and/or bear with you or to bear and/or bare with you or to bare or/and bear with you. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

4 On questions: Is this truth seeking guy honest-lazy type or honest-hard-working or dishonest-lazy or dishonest-hard-working? -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 19:43 8/7/2018

4 And to think this truth-seeking you just talked about suspiciously serves those 4 guessings. -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

To understand thoughts in some way. Thoughts are formulas of combinations of electrical currents and chemicals. Written for myself to figure things with. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 19:48 8/7/2018

Feel free to use any experience I had in my life in any way you use on video games. I offer the said ideas for free for making video games.​​​ -Prev lines of messages were last edited around 12:00 to 13:00 8/6/2018

Realizing the truth and nature of anything and one may feel such things become more and more boring... -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 18:52 8/11/2018

My thoughts on those verbal audios of those Dutch vids I viewed at night 7/31/2018... Futuristic? -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 12:41 8/18/2018

Genes can be changed by doing the deeds of what one wants them to change into, over generations, for better or worse. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 11:33 8/11/2018

Want to know how DXM&DPH&blood pressure drugs overdose can **** me up? I believe many if not all have got the idea already. Written for thoughts in future. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 10:05 8/14/2018

The Incompetent usually try to compensate their incompetence at their underlings' sufferance or/and expenses. Also, dishonesty is to cover one's incompetence at some aspect of self as well as a sign of incompetence, I think. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 0:35 8/10/2018

Lodging fee: Usually I prefer hotel to hospital for the nights when I'm OK. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 18:52 8/11/2018

Hope my acceleration is adequate. I want to catch up with what I suppose to be, the one who wasn't much lied and swayed towards since his youth... -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 14:36 8/22/2018

About government: I think perfect government building should be transparent as could be. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 17:54 8/12/2018

Some others are getting the full pictures from me while I am having only a portion of theirs. It tends to get exploited and manipulated. Written down for thoughts. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 23:52 8/16/2018

You know, reflections on things at June 20th 2018 made me realize now: Have my hand in Girlgirl's hand, not the other way around. :) -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 9:43 8/19/2018

Stimulated&stressed overtly, depressurize or suicide I shall learn to. My nervous system is too strong for me to conveniently overcome. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 3:27 8/22/2018

Just follow fear and then words, illusions and noises can go on forever. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 13:29 8/20/2018

You know, at my age like 28, the age range of girls in selection is nearly the best. Does this mean I'm gonna have my first do do in the near future, or is it just the illusions presented by those cocktails I drunk? -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 2:57 8/22/2018

Think outside the box. A few truth flushed out early Aug 2018. I should try not to forget its merits in big and small pictures alike. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 8:41 8/22/2018

Food safety: Suspicions and facts early Aug 2018 convinced me positively of food source concerns. H.Pylori re-infection for one example. Nothing against food industry. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 3:55 8/22/2018

Yet what ideas&principles one collection of people upholds make them think outside the box comparing to those who don't? -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 8:42 8/22/2018

5 If everything I've been through is a simulation. Questions concerning my anonymity are easily explainable then: Program. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 9:24 8/25/2018

5 Unresolved ideas come up again: Like, who/what coded it all? What's the programing language(s) used and who/what made that? -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 11:57 8/24/2018

Sore warriors. Joke and not. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 12:43 8/24/2018

Hmm. Cannot yet win if I compete for some lot of girls against, say, some lot of guys with certain assets... Written for thoughts in future. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 12:01 8/25/2018

Functions; Pulling leg or lead?; "Grateful" serves what? Written for ideas. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 5:04 9/4/2018

Radio Frequency. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 13:31 9/5/2018

Sadly it's unlikely to have more than half of its supposedly uses for myself. A hacker may figure how other hackers hacked, and much of my knowledge served me no better than that. Talking about anonymity. -Prev lines of messages were last edited at 4:52 9/8/2018

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The Holy Grail to Faster Weight Loss: Metabolism Trackers

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The Holy Grail to Faster Weight Loss: Metabolism Trackers

For centuries we have been searching for the Holy Grail to weight-loss We have tried thousands of diets

We have seen the mainstream: South Beach diet, Atkins diet, the blood type diet We have seen the dangerously insane: the tapeworm diet, the cotton-ball diet and the constant changes and exercise trends are similarly confusing But, what is missing in all of these different approaches to diet and exercise? How do you even know which approach is right for you? How do you even know which one is even working for you? Well, the missing piece of information is understanding your personalized metabolic information That's right your metabolism It's the key to understanding exactly how much weight you need to gain lose or maintain to achieve your weight management goals

Now there are these really amazingly cool almost magical devices called metabolic trackers and with just your simple breath they help determine exactly what your personalized metabolic information is Recently, there is a whole new wave of metabolic trackers that have come to the market As your personal healthy Matchmaker my goal in today's video is to highlight three metabolic trackers to help determine which might be the right match for you Let's start with the basic question, what is metabolism? Metabolism is the process by which your body turns the food you eat into energy to be used immediately or stored for later The food we eat is fuel for our bodies and metabolism is the process of how we burn that fuel for energy everyone's rate of metabolism or metabolic rate is different and it is based on many factors such as age, genetics, weight, gender, hormones, sleep and more

There are two products currently available for tracking metabolic information and a third that is in limited release The first is called Breezing Breezing measures your breath by using something called indirect calorimetry to track your resting metabolic rate The second device is called LEVL LEVL takes a completely different approach

This device still uses your breath but it calculates your level of ketosis Ketosis refers to how your body metabolizes fat The third device is called Lumen Lumen is currently in beta testing and not yet broadly available Keep listening to learn more about each of these options to figure out which is the best option for you

First up is Breezing This device uses your breath to calculate your resting metabolic rate This means that it is measuring the rate or speed at which you burn energy when you are laying down and just performing basic human functions such as breathing circulation and digestion It calculates how many calories you need to just function at rest A higher number means you have a fast metabolism and burn more calories each day while a lower number means your metabolism is slower and thus you are burning fewer calories per day

Here is an example of a snapshot from Breezing Not only will it allow you to track your metabolism over time but it will also measure whether you are burning carbs fat or a mix of both It does this through a process called indirect calorimetry In its simplest form calorimetry measures the ratio of oxygen ingested to the carbon dioxide you are releasing This is an indirect way of assessing the rate at which energy is used

Breezing allows you to track your diet and activity over time and makes adjustments as needed to achieve your weight management goals The next tracker is called LEVL Although this device captures your breath what sets this device apart is its ability to measure the level of ketones This will indicate the amount of fat you have burned Fats along with carbohydrates are the primary sources of energy for our bodies

When your body is burning fat for energy it is in the state ketosis during ketosis the body generates molecules called ketones One of these ketones is called acetone due to its small size as a tone appears in our excelled breath and is an indicator of fat burn LEVL has a sensor to detect and measure acetone in your breath Since body weight is a combination of several factors such as water muscle and fat it can be difficult to use a weigh scale and pinpoint if what you're actually losing is water muscle or fat But with LEVL, you can quickly learn if what you're doing for your diet and exercise is helping to burn fat

One device is for at-home use and another called LEVL Pro is for wellness professionals LEVL may be a good option for you if you are interested in a ketogenic diet Each of these devices offers you more insight about your weight management plan by giving you meaningful data about what is or is not working to ensure you can make adjustments to your diet and exercise routine without having to wait weeks before you see results Lumen is another tracker that is available The company is accepting beta users in select cities in the United States

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Why We Push Ourselves Too Hard and How to Work Less

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” ~Unknown

I was sitting on the beach with my wonderful girlfriend, trying to relax on our vacation in Florida, yet I was racked with anxiety.

We were lying under a large umbrella, taking in the beautiful waves and swaying palm trees, attempting to recover from the past months (and years) of overwork and overstress. But all I could think about was a marketing initiative I was working on for a client.

The more I tried to chill, the more nervous I became. My girlfriend lay peacefully, dozing off occasionally, while I was busy fending off a full-blown panic attack.

Did I hurry back from our beach session to get back to work? That would be crazy, right? Well, it was worse. I pulled out my laptop and went to work right there on the beach.

I was so addicted to my computer and so stretched thin with commitments that I couldn’t even enjoy this highly anticipated vacation with the love of my life. In fact, the only thing I can remember when I look back on this trip is my stress. I don’t remember enjoying the beach or ever feeling present.

When, I got back from Florida, I didn’t feel refreshed at all. I more desperately need a vacation after it than I did before it. Not only had my over-commitment to work prevented me from enjoying my vacation, it led me to operating at below my best for many months following.

Why did I do this to myself? It was a combination of things. I was insecure and using money to mask it. I was correlating my self-worth with the amount of money I had in the bank. I worked more to distract myself from my own anxieties. But most of all, I was working myself to death because of how the human brain works.

The Psychology of Over-Working

The benefits of working less are counterintuitive, but well documented. There are the obvious benefits—such as having more time for hobbies, friends, family, health, or even working on bigger and better projects—and then there are the less obvious benefits, such as improving creativity and productivity.

Tim Ferriss’ proposition of a “four-hour work week” is attractive to our rational thinking brains, but in practice, it’s surprisingly difficult to work less.

The reason we work more than we need to—sometimes to the extent of actually hurting our productivity, health, or personal relationships—may lie in how humans have evolved.

In their book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire – Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do, Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa postulate that our brains are shaped by evolutionary pressures to survive and reproduce. We’ve adapted to recurring problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

“Our human nature is the cumulative product of the experience of our ancestors in the past, and it affects how we think, feel, and behave today,” Miller and Kanazawa write. People who showed no anxiety to threats would not have taken the appropriate steps to solve the problems and therefore may not have survived.

In his book Evolutionary Psychology: Neuroscience Perspectives Concerning Human Behavior and Experience, William J. Ray, describes how these evolutionary adaptations can actually hinder us from properly interpreting reality:

“Consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg; most of what goes on in your mind is hidden from you. As a result, your conscious experience can mislead you into thinking that our circuitry is simpler than it really is…our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind.”

In the context of work-life balance, our brains didn’t evolve to determine exactly how much we need to work. Our brains simply want us to survive and reproduce, and working more seems to contribute to those end goals. Our brain’s anxiety about survival and reproduction motivates us to work more, even though it’s not usually in our best interest over the long-term.

Similarly, our brains crave sugar because in the past, calories were scarce and we needed to eat as much as possible to account for extended periods without food.

Sugar has a high calorie density, so it was very economical for our ancestors. As a result, many people today have a tendency to overeat unhealthy foods, even though we don’t face a problem of the scarcity of food like we did before the agricultural revolution. Unfortunately, sugar contributes to a number of health problems over the long-term, but our brains don’t understand that.

Our brains think working excessively to gather resources contributes to survival and reproduction. But it doesn’t know how to moderate. More work doesn’t always lead to more money, let alone a more fulfilling life. At it’s worst, excessive work can lead to burnout, depression, panic attacks, and a lack of meaningful relationships.

Here are four signs you may be working to the point of your own demise:

Working far beyond what is needed despite the risk of negative consequences

After reaching a goal, you immediately set another more ambitious one

Refusing to delegate work, despite the opportunity cost of doing the work yourself

Creating more work that doesn’t add value in order to avoid feelings of guilt, anxiety, insecurity, or depression

To be clear, there are benefits to working hard. Working more can help you get more done, and, assuming you are doing the right work, that can help you make more money. And there are times when anxiety is rational and you legitimately need to work more in order to survive. But more often than not, working too much can do more harm than good.

The counterintuitive reality is that working more does not always mean working productively if it means you’re going to burn out.

Simple But Hard Choices

We have a choice about how to deal with working too much. Like so many other challenges, there is the simple but hard solution, and a complex but easy solution.

For your health, the simple but hard solution is to eat more healthy food and less unhealthy food. This solution requires discipline, but it doesn’t cost money, and it’s proven to work. The complex but easy solution is to pay for the latest diet products.

The simple but hard solution to workaholism is to work less. This means saying “no” to unnecessary projects and responsibilities. However, I call this the hard solution for a reason. First, it would be a bruise to your ego to admit you can’t handle something. Second, it requires introspection and change in order to address underlying anxieties or insecurities that may be the impetus for pathological working habits.

Fear or frustration with executing on the simple solution incentivizes us to change course. So we add complexity.

These complex but easy solutions include productivity apps, time management processes, or even prescription drugs. They can help us eek out a couple more units of productivity on a given day, but they often have negative side effects over the long term, and more notably, they enable us to avoid blaming ourselves or putting in the hard work of conquering our anxieties and insecurities.

These solutions are like playing whack-a-mole—they only solve the surface level symptoms. James Altucher provided an apt analogy in writing about the power of saying “no” to bad opportunities:

“When you have a tiny tiny piece of sh*t in the soup it doesn’t matter how much more water you pour in and how many more spices you put on top. There’s sh*t in the soup.”

Often times, continuing to work excessively, even while using the latest and greatest productivity apps, only leads to burnout, which results in an extended period of low productivity, or, worse, an unfulfilling life, void of meaningful relationships or even physical and mental health problems.

How to Work Less, Survive, and Prosper

Your brain doesn’t know or care that working less won’t prevent you from surviving or reproducing in modern times.

It doesn’t know how much money you have in your bank account or how many hours you need to work in order to retire in thirty years.

It definitely doesn’t care about helping you achieve higher ambitions like finding love or having fun on weekends.

You feel anxious about working less because your brain only cares about surviving and reproducing.

But we’re not slaves to our lizard brains. The idea that working less can help you accomplish more requires some critical thinking. However, with awareness of how our brains work, we can make decisions that are healthier and more productive.

So, how you can you counteract your brain’s adaptive impulses? I’ll share two strategies that have worked for me.

First, know your priorities. Every time you say “yes” to more work you’re saying “no” to the other aspects of your life that you value. By taking inventory of your list of priorities, and where work lies on that list, you can make decisions that will help you live a more fulfilling life.

Second, address the underlying issues. Oftentimes we work to avoid thinking about our insecurities or shortcomings. Or, we think we need to have more money in order to be loved. I’ve been guilty of both of these.

Once I gained awareness of these issues, it was easier to make healthier decisions about my work. I worked to conquer my anxiety instead of making it worse by burying it in work, and I’ve dispelled the myth that I’m not worthy of love unless I have massive amounts of wealth.

Since doing this work, I’ve said no to many great opportunities in order to keep my life in balance. It’s difficult at the time, but I’m healthier and happier for it.

It may sound idealistic to work less, but if it can help your health, productivity, and life isn’t it worth a shot? If it doesn’t work for you, keep in mind that there will always be more work to do!

About Mike Fishbein

Mike Fishbein is a personal development writer living in New York City. His work has been published on Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Observer and The Next Web. You can read his best articles at mfishbein.com.

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National Nonprofit Keep America Beautiful Joins Corporate Partners to Boost Recycling in Flint, Michigan, Schools

The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé Waters North America, the PepsiCo Foundation and the Walmart Foundation today announced that they have partnered to fund an integrated recycling education and awareness initiative for the 10,000 school students affected by the Flint water crisis, led by national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful and its local Flint, Michigan, affiliate Keep Genesee County Beautiful (KGCB).

In January 2016, the four companies announced they would provide up to 6.5 million bottles of safe and clean drinking water to Flint school students. From the outset of the program, they have been providing for the storage and delivery of the bottled water, as well as the transporting of the empty water bottles for recycling.

The new initiative provides funding for a multi-tiered educational approach aimed at increasing the number of plastic bottles that are recycled within school grounds as well as create opportunities to provide students, teachers and staff with the knowledge and the passion to recycle at home, at school and on-the-go.

“Keep America Beautiful is thrilled to receive broad support from a host of partners in our efforts to educate, motivate and activate Flint’s students, teachers and the broader school community to properly recycle the tremendous amount of material that is being generated,” said Brenda Pulley, senior vice president, recycling, Keep America Beautiful. “This is a great opportunity for us to work closely with Keep Genesee County Beautiful to make a meaningful difference in improving recycling throughout Flint and to teach the next generation of environmental stewards the benefits of recycling and how to recycle right.”

The K-12 school-based program objectives are to:

Provide outreach, tools, resources and activities to educate, motivate and activate students, staff and teachers to recycle more and recycle right;

Organize, support and share resources with recycling champions at each school to support day-to-day recycling efforts;

Share best practices and support school personnel responsible for collecting and consolidating recycling at each school on proper recycling bin placement, signage and collection of the recyclables; and

Track and report the amount of recyclables being collected by the schools with the goal of achieving a 25 percent increase in recycling.

“Promoting recycling education and infrastructure to Flint schools in partnership with Keep America Beautiful is important and something we are actively engaged in,” said Aaron Stallings, Walmart Market Manager for the North Central Division. “We see this program contributing to a more resilient and sustainable Flint.”

“The Coca-Cola Company understands the importance of ongoing support for the residents of the City of Flint. Providing water for daily use was the first step and the promotion of recycling and recycling education round out this support,” said Bruce Karas, Vice President, Environment and Sustainability, The Coca-Cola Company North America. “We must all do our part to ensure that residents’ needs are met and the City of Flint returns to the viable and vibrant city we all know it can be.”   “Water is a human right and as soon as the PepsiCo team learned about Flint and their drinking water supply, we reached out to be part of creating sustainable, local solutions,” said Tim Carey, Senior Director Sustainability and Recycling, PepsiCo. “We all want to be part of communities with abundant natural resources so PepsiCo is pleased to support the City of Flint and other partners to give back to Genesee County. We’re striving to collect every bottle and every can as part of this powerful partnership.”   “Access to clean, safe drinking water is the right of every man, woman and child. That is why helping our neighbors in Flint is something we've been proud to do,” said Nelson Switzer, Chief Sustainability Officer for Nestlé Waters North America. "But our shared commitment doesn’t end there.  We now need to work together so the bottles the coalition used to deliver safe drinking water are recovered and recycled.  Together with our coalition partners and the families of Flint, we are very pleased to kick-start a massive recycling opportunity.”

Keep America Beautiful is working in tandem with KGCB to tailor the recycling educational lesson plans, tools and activities for Flint’s students, while ongoing recycling education and program implementation is being conducted by KGCB staff and volunteers. Resources include take-home materials in an effort to bring the school education and experience home, reaching families in their residences to also enhance curbside recycling participation.

“Since this crisis began, Keep Genesee County Beautiful has been the ‘go-to’ recycling resource for the Flint community. We help Flint residents cope with the water crisis by raising awareness and educating residents about the benefits of recycling, by signing up residents for curbside recycling and being a pickup point for recycling bins,” said Karen West, Program Director/Lead Consultant, KGCB. “We are incredibly grateful for this financial support and appreciate the opportunity to work with Keep America Beautiful and the students and staff of Flint schools to encourage, educate and engage the community in recycling."

Keep America Beautiful is providing materials from its Waste in Place curriculum; its “I Want To Be Recycled” public service advertising campaign; Recycle-Bowl, its national in-school K-12 recycling competition; America Recycles Day and other resources as part of the overall programming to improve the in-school recycling rate.

View the Flint school-based recycling education program press conference here.

About Walmart Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, nearly 260 million customers and members visit our 11,528 stores under 72 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With fiscal year 2016 revenue of $482.1 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting http://corporate.walmart.com on Facebook at http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/walmart.

About Philanthropy at Walmart By using our strengths to help others, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation create opportunities for people to live better every day. We have stores in 28 countries, employing more than 2.3 million associates and doing business with thousands of suppliers who, in turn, employ millions of people. We are helping people live better by accelerating upward job mobility and economic development for the retail workforce; addressing hunger and making healthier, more sustainably-grown food a reality; and building strong communities where we operate and inspiring our associates to give back. Whether it is helping to lead the fight against hunger in the United States with $2 billion in cash and in-kind donations or supporting Women’s Economic Empowerment through a series of grants totaling $10 million to the Women in Factories training program in Bangladesh, China, India and Central America, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation are not only working to tackle key social issues, we are also collaborating with others to inspire solutions for long-lasting systemic change. To learn more about Walmart’s giving, visit foundation.walmart.com.  

About PepsiCo Foundation Established in 1962, the PepsiCo Foundation works with non-profit partners to develop innovative, sustainable solutions that address challenges in underserved communities around the world.  The Foundation, along with PepsiCo and its employees, seeks to catalyze efforts that advance our Performance with Purpose 2025 goals related to increasing access to positive nutrition, providing access to safe water and enabling young women to progress through school and be successful in the workforce. For more information, please visit www.pepsico.com/Purpose/Global-Citizenship.

About Nestle Waters North America Nestlé Waters North America provides people with an unrivaled portfolio of bottled waters for healthy hydration. Brands such as Nestlé® Pure Life®, Ice Mountain®, Poland Spring®, Perrier® and S.Pellegrino® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with about 8,500 employees nationwide, Nestlé Waters is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across operations. As a natural resource company, Nestlé Waters sustainably manage about 40 spring sites, as well as nearly 14,000 acres of watershed as open space. The company is also committed to creating shared value and being a good neighbor in the 140 communities where it operates in the U.S.

About The Coca-Cola Company The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands and nearly 3,900 beverage choices. Led by Coca-Cola, one of the world's most valuable and recognizable brands, our company's portfolio features 21 billion-dollar brands, 19 of which are available in reduced-, low- or no-calorie options. These brands include Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Sprite, Dasani, vitaminwater, Powerade, Minute Maid, Simply, Del Valle, Georgia and Gold Peak. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, we are the No. 1 provider of both sparkling and still beverages. More than 1.9 billion servings of our beverages are enjoyed by consumers in more than 200 countries each day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our company is focused on initiatives that reduce our environmental footprint, create a safe, inclusive work environment for our associates, and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. Together with our bottling partners, we rank among the world's top 10 private employers with more than 700,000 system associates. For more information, visit Coca-Cola Journey at http://www.coca-colacompany.com/, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CocaColaCo, visit our blog, Coca-Cola Unbottled, at http://www.coca-colablog.com or find us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/the-coca-cola-company.

About Keep America Beautiful At Keep America Beautiful, we want to ensure that beauty is our lasting signature. A leading national nonprofit, Keep America Beautiful inspires and educates people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. We envision a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. Established in 1953, Keep America Beautiful provides the expertise, programs and resources to help people End Littering, Improve Recycling, and Beautify America’s Communities. The organization is driven by the work and passion of more than 600 community-based Keep America Beautiful affiliates, millions of volunteers, and the support of corporate partners, municipalities, elected officials, and individuals. To donate or take action, visit kab.org. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, like us on Facebook, or view us on YouTube.

About Keep Genesee County Beautiful Keep Genesee Beautiful encourages, educates and engages residents in creating beautiful, clean, sustainable neighborhoods, parks and open spaces throughout the City of Flint and Genesee County. Our goal is to improve communities, their environment and quality of life, by cultivating personal responsibility in our citizens, with recycling being an essential part of that goal. Keep Genesee County Beautiful became Michigan’s first affiliate of Keep America Beautiful in April 2004, has received the prestigious national President’s Circle Award for 12 consecutive years and is one of this year’s Keep America Beautiful National Innovation Award winners. In January 2016, KGCB became an official program of the Genesee County Parks.

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