Why So Many Diets Do Not Work. | The Writers' Cafe

Why So Many Diets Do Not Work. The Writers' Cafe: "Why do so many diets fail?
Getting the human body to use fat as its fuel is apparently going against the general method for which the human body is designed, regarding using energy stored as fat.

The body must go into an emergency mode which is the mode it goes into during fasting, and later starvation. Yes the body can consume fat as its preferred source of energy, however the carbohydrate intake must be extremely restricted to very low levels. Also you can not go on a diet like this for a day, go off the next day and then go back on (and expect it to work) because the body first uses up the energy stored in the liver (as glycogen) and also to some extent and will actually break down muscle during its first 24 hours of extreme carbohydrate deprivation."

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9/11/2001- The Writers' Cafe: "Political theorists would have us believe that the economy of our country has taken a major downturn simply because perhaps a handful of the wealthiest have lost a few poorly placed bets on the great economic roulette wheel of “high tech stocks”.

Our nation’s leader would now have you believe the same “voodoo economy” nonsense that his party predecessors have promoted. Many armchair critics have already sited the president’s agenda as nothing short of class war"

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Philosophy- The Spiral Staircase. | The Writers' Cafe

Philosophy- The Spiral Staircase. The Writers' Cafe: "Life as we experience it is rarely just one straight and direct line from point A to point B. Perhaps if life was like that then perhaps life itself would not be so very interesting. I imagine one of my readers dropping his head into his hands at this point and saying to himself “interesting, that’s what you call my endless tsuris, struggles and aggravation, interesting!” yes exactly!
If you think deeply about it (as us philosophers often do) just about any single happy memory you may have, most likely has some aspect of sadness or melancholy contained within it. Or, if you prefer, perhaps some of our sadest moments may hold some aspect of joy (even if it is of a bittersweet nature) within it."

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"In order to eat chocolate ice cream, you will need some ice cream, and a spoon would be nice.

In order to blog, you will need a computer, some way to connect to the Internet, some sort of text editor (wysiwyg: what you see is what you get, works well), some sort of host (be it Google or Word Press) an Internet browser (that’s the icon you click on that takes you away into the Internet world) and a keyboard would be nice!

editors note: Blogging is better than eating chocolate ice cream not necessarily simpler.

If you eat chocolate ice cream too fast, you might get an ice headache.

If you blog too fast you might make a few typos, a much different sort of headache.

While your eating chocolate ice cream, you might be tempted to do something else. If you do something else while eating chocolate ice cream, you might spill your ice cream, and make a mess."

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Oy Vey! They Became Religious! | Cross-Currents

Oy Vey! They Became Religious! | Cross-Currents: "And while R’ Eliezrie may be right that it is an act of insecurity for a baal teshuvah to try to limit interaction with non-frum relatives, isn’t such insecurity understandable?

Not having had the benefit of being raised in a frum environment, he/she is constantly learning on the job. It would be unreasonable to expect a baal teshuvah to have the same confidence in himself as an FFB.

That said, I also agree with those who commented that a baal teshuvah can’t just ignore his non-frum relatives. First and foremost is the halachic imperative.

Becoming a baal teshuvah is much more than a lifestyle change; it’s a commitment to observe the mitzvos, all of them. [The Gerer Rebbe, the 'Beis Yisrael', often expressed his dissapointment that only the non-frum become baalei teshuvah, but FFBs don't...."

Comment #31 (from the same source as below)-
Comment by Chaim Wolfson — August 23, 2007 @ 7:03 pm

Original Article link below
Oy Vey! They Became Religious! By Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, August 12, 2007


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Oy Vey! They Became Religious! | Cross-Currents

Oy Vey! They Became Religious! | Cross-Currents

"...Are we so afraid of what we teach our kids that they can’t know that their grandparents are not Frum. In my mind it is an act of insecurity that some try to limit the relationships between family members, except in a case that there is intent for malicious harm. Is our Yiddiskiet so weak that we need fear interaction with families members will harm our children’s Yiddiskiet.

I have much personal experience with this. My in-laws where the classically traditional Jews. Growing up in the thirties and forties they had parents that where Shomer Shabbos, but they received no Yeshiva education. They ate kosher in and Chinese out..."

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In The Beginning: "may have only been a small minority at first that complained regarding lack of meat and were dissatisfied with manna, that they managed exert a negative influence on the rest of the people. R. Shimon sites leadership who were held accountable for not seeking to soothe the complainers an encouraging them to be faithful. The complaining had effected Moshe so negatively that he in turn complained to Hashem that he could not carry the entire nation alone, Hashem then instructed Moshe"

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