Well it’s Tuesday–what ya gonna do about it….don’t forget to subscribe to this blog to be sure you don’t miss any of my UK adventure….you think I’m weird now wait to you get me away from hearth and home.
To the good stuff we believe in
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A variety recap:
‘Outlander’ Stars Talk Season 2 Premiere Revelations, New Enemies in France
and a pre-season interview: http://www.indiewire.com/article/outlander-caitriona-balfe-sam-heughan-tobias-menzies-season-2-emmy-video-20160403
don’t forget Sam at Tartan Day Parade on 4/9…
Before we land up loose and sad and free
TODAY we continue on looking at things that we think we know–the truths that we have been given, that just might be what they appear to be and probably never would. There use to be a saying…buying the whole bill of goods: which means some one has deceived you on some subject or other. Let’s look at some goodies today.
Before we find that it’s gone
LET’S LOOK AT CARBS–THE CURRENT VILLIAN IN OUR EFFORT TO EXCUSE OUR OWN BAD BEHAVIOR
Carbs are the second biggest villain (the first being Gluten, which affects such a small part of the population you wonder how it earned its legend) in our diet marathon these days—It’s the fault of all our health and weight problems…it couldn’t possibly be because we veg in front of the TV and/or computer–our biggest effort is to heave a spoonful of something over and over into our mouths and to use fads instead of common sense—which I’m afraid is rapidly dying out—to regulate our eating and living habits.
“Carbs aren’t the enemy,” says Julie Jones, a professor emeritus of food and nutrition at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn. who is also a scientific advisor for the Grain Foods Foundation, a baking and milling industry funded group which promotes grain-based food as part of a healthy diet. “Overconsumption, of anything, is the enemy.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-it-really-worth-not-eating-bread-pasta-and-other-carbs/2015/02/06/cd6d1c38-89e2-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that carbohydrates make up 45 to 65 percent of your total daily calories. So, if you get 2,000 calories a day, between 900 and 1,300 calories should be from carbohydrates. That translates to between 225 and 325 grams of carbohydrates a day. http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/carbohydrates/art-20045705?pg=2
And what happens when we don’t get our proper intake of carbs? Just like the body, the brain also relies on carbs, broken down into glucose, for energy. And when the brain doesn’t get the glucose it needs, it might not work to the best of its ability. A small 2008 study found that women on a low-carb diet scored worse on a series of memory tests than women on a low-calorie but nutrient-balanced diet. When the low-carb women started eating carbs again? Their brains quickly bounced back to normal. And that’s just one of the side effects–check out the web site for much more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/eat-more-carbs_n_5324442.html
We could pull it back together, truth and honesty
Yes–me at Stonehenge—and yes you can still get into the stones—you just to go to their web site and look into it—we were there at 5 am because we wanted to see the sunrise–or Google tours that have access.
ODD BITS
NAPOLEAN WAS SHORT:
At his death in 1821, the nail in the coffin came with his physician’s report that his body was five feet two inches ‘from the top of the head to the heels’. The subsequent note that this was ‘equal to five feet six’ by the slightly different English measurement system was conveniently forgotten. Emily Brand. History Revealed! Available in print and for digital devices. So you’re saying well that’s still short…..but remember that 5’7″ was normal height, even a little taller than so in some circles–so that bit of history that I have had in my head forever is not actually true…I wonder what else I’ve learned wrong?
DID THE APPLE GET A BAD RAP
According to the King James Bible Genesis 3:6
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” I’ve checked and no where in the Bible, no matter what the translation–does it say Apple—somehow that fruit got a bad rap. Original to the Hebrew people: “Our sages write that the Torah obscures the identity of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden out of concern that people will constantly point and say, “That is the species of fruit that brought death unto the world.” http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1982723/jewish/Was-the-Forbidden-Fruit-Really-an-Apple.htm
But on looking further I found this distinction is In Western Europe, the fruit was often depicted as an apple, possibly because of a misunderstanding of, or a pun on mălum, a native Latin noun which means evil (from the adjective malus), and mālum, another Latin noun, borrowed from Greek μῆλον, which means apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_fruit My favorite though is that it wasn’t a fruit at all—at least not what you’re thinking about but rather fruit of the womb and the whole thing was a sex issue. It always raises it’s nasty head doesn’t it!
Open up your hands, show me your heart
WAS IT OR WASN’T IT–DID THEY OR DIDN’T THEY?
My favorite example of the truth you know may not be the truth of what is: THE TITANTIC—“The shipbuilders Harland and Wolff insist that the Titanic was never advertised as an unsinkable ship. They claim that the ‘unsinkable’ myth was the result of people’s interpretations of articles in the Irish News and the Shipbuilder magazine.” Things haven’t changed much–just blame the press for it. http://www.historyonthenet.com/titanic/unsinkable.htm
But according to the Titantic for Dummies (p 291) A Brochure from the White Star line state: “…these two wonderful vessels (her sister ship The Olympia) are designed to be unsinkable” and goes on to say that though this statement does not exactly say or mean they were unsinkable that the public came to believe this. But not everyone even agrees that this was a common belief– so our belief that the majority of her passenger and crew believed she was unsinkable may well just be another one of those truths that we thought we knew but are really fostered by popular propaganda in the form of novels and films that give us less than the truth in their recitals.
What we do know is that she was not prepared for sinking–that she had too few life boat and so many other issue that it would take a blog much bigger than this one to deal with.
If you’re really interested you can read this on line
these two books are in full:
Titanic Compelte
and Titantic for Dummies
Then maybe we all could shine, yeah
Oh, truth and honesty that is what we need to hold on
To the good stuff we believe in
Before we land up loose, sad and free
Before we find out all that is gone
We could pull it back together with truth and honesty, oh
Open up your hands, show me your heart
PICTURES RANGE TODAY FROM
Mt. Dora in the main, to assorted other locals including other Florida, Chicago, Stonehenge, and ending with several from Ireland…I have been a few places and taken more than a few pictures.
