Aargh, my phone is ****. Sometimes the buttons either don't work or register twice, and occasionally it refuses to send texts... Can't afford a new one or ask parents for one for christmas/birthday since they got me a bike at the beginning of term though, grr.
The phone I'm using at the moment is an old Alcatel thing which I bought for £10 at the start of this term from the Orange Store on Petty Cury.
Does your diet change massively during term time compared to when you're at home? Do you find yourself eating more or less healthily?
I can't tell. For some reason though, I've developed a like for yoghurts since I started here, which I've never really been a big fan of before.
My diet changes from pizza and potato* in the holidays to pizza and chocolate during term (don't kill me Craghyrax -- I never claimed to eat healthily); potatoes are too time consuming to cook and working makes me eat chocolate.
Originally Posted by Craghyrax
All I really wanted to establish was that animal products (and so high saturated fat) had been a large part of our evolutionary history and of healthy hunter-gatherers (50% calories for Tokelauns, 33% for Masai). The articles you cite don't challenge that, just that some healthy societies eat large amount of carbohydrate and that HG's ate less meat than Cordain says. (It's also worth noting that whereas all animal products-ignoring milk- are all protein and fat, plant products are not all carb- even a 100% spinach diet would be 30% protein and 14% fat).
Cordain et al: “Whenever and wherever it was ecologically possible, hunter-gatherers consumed high amounts (45–65% of energy) of animal food... Most (73%) derived >50% (56–65% of energy) from animal foods... 14% derived >50% (56–65% of energy) from gathered plant foods...High reliance on animal-based foods coupled with the relatively low carbohydrate content of wild plant foods produces universally characteristic macronutrient consumption ratios in which protein is elevated (19–35% of energy) at the expense of carbohydrates (22–40% of energy)”
I agree that saturated fat has been a large part of the diet of some peoples (the Inuit are the most extreme example I can think of). This means that humans have evolved to cope with it (though pandas have been living off bamboo for ages and barely manage to extract enough energy to cross the road to get to the next bit of bamboo) and that it's not going to kill you young. It doesn't mean that it's good for you though. I don't know enough about it to come to a conclusion (and I've heard that the Inuit and Maasai tend to have pretty healthy hearts, even if not from sources that I particularly trust), but I don't think that the fact that hunter-gatherers favour the most energy dense food available can tell us much.
*I don't know the name for what it actually is: you get a baking potato, bake it, split it in half and take out the flesh, mash the flesh with cubes of mature (or extra mature) cheddar, put it back in to the halves and bake until the surface is brown.
I should really eat new potatoes too to be patriotic, but I don't like them.
My diet changes from pizza and potato* in the holidays to pizza and chocolate during term (don't kill me Craghyrax -- I never claimed to eat healthily); potatoes are too time consuming to cook and working makes me eat chocolate...
Lol have you not seen my pitiful H&R thread where I asked people for advice on how to deal with my insane chocolate addiction?
Originally Posted by harr
*I don't know the name for what it actually is: you get a baking potato, bake it, split it in half and take out the flesh, mash the flesh with cubes of mature (or extra mature) cheddar, put it back in to the halves and bake until the surface is brown.
Potato Boats according to my childhood cookery book
Tomorrow I am having a lie-in. Yay for waking up at a time when "6" is not the first digit in the time.
Also, if I came into posession of a bag of ice, how long could I keep it as ice without a freezer? I'm guessing it's going to be of the order of hours, even with attempting to be clever by doing stuff like wrapping it in tin foil.
Just got home from a stint in the library, and TSR is empty!!!
Read a retarded book on modernism, and filled out my application form. Just the research proposal to add and three passport photos and I can send it in.
I'm also looking into a lie-in, although I rarely wake up before nine or ten
I've got an essay crisis. 8 books to read and an essay to write by Monday. But I can't really muster up much stress about it because after that I have an entire week to do a really easy essay and then that's it
I'm also looking into a lie-in, although I rarely wake up before nine or ten
I've been generally getting up earlier this term than last year (mainly because I've decided to make an effort to get to more lectures), and I think it's definitely making me more productive and less tired in general.
Tomorrow I am having a lie-in. Yay for waking up at a time when "6" is not the first digit in the time.
Also, if I came into posession of a bag of ice, how long could I keep it as ice without a freezer? I'm guessing it's going to be of the order of hours, even with attempting to be clever by doing stuff like wrapping it in tin foil.
The ice should last a day or two. Just make sure it's double bagged with shopping bags to prevent the inevitable leakage.
I've been generally getting up earlier this term than last year (mainly because I've decided to make an effort to get to more lectures), and I think it's definitely making me more productive and less tired in general.
Yes it should I think. I think making sure that waking hours overlap as closely as possible with daylight optimises energy and productivity because our circadian rythms/melatonin release and stuff happens as its meant to.
I've been trying to do the same, so this past week I was getting to bed before midnight and waking up at 7 or 8 which is practically unheard of for me. I'll get off TSR in ten mins. Need to juice as much out of tomorrow as possible.
2.5 essays written in two days is now my official record. It's time to stop, however, so that I can complete this final one for tomorrow afternoon. And then, one essay left until term ends. This is where I should probably voice some concern about my destroyed sleeping pattern ...
Yeah, we have 4. I thought most colleges had more than just 1, mainly to allow as many students to go to it as possible. There are 200 tickets for each formal at Trinity, which wouldn't even cover all the fresher undergraduates, neither mind the whole of Trinity.
That makes more sense - we have one so at most a quarter of the college can get tickets. I tried at 12pm today but they were all sold out already.
Ah well, I'll do our own more substantial pre-drinks for the Christmas Bop.
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Can't afford a new one or ask parents for one for christmas/birthday since they got me a bike at the beginning of term though, grr.
For some reason though, I've developed a like for yoghurts since I started here, which I've never really been a big fan of before.
