Fun-Filled Friday: Smackdown, Keys vs. LaLanne, Exercise, Beauty, Great Sex For You, Twouble With Twitter, Gillespie
Posted May 06 2009 2:58pm
Hey guys and welcome again to “Fun-Filled Friday” here at the “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog. It’s been a busy week with the blogiversary contest ending and all that goes on with this little empire I’ve put together around the subject of low-carb living. And that reader survey I conducted showed me that a surprising number of you are fans of this here weekly post feature, so I’m happy to be sharing the neat and exciting dibble dabble of stuff for you today.
Although Christina Newman (aka “fastinggurl31″) is a raw foods and vegan advocate, I liked this video she did about a year and a half ago as a “smackdown” for people who keep dieting, losing, stop dieting, gaining over and over again. Her “you’ve got a problem” message is all about personal responsibility and I’ve blogged about this many times previously. Some say this kind of message is too harsh while others argue it’s exactly what is needed. What do YOU think?
So many readers send me stuff all the time to look at and sometimes comment on. What’s really funny is when they e-mail me a study they’ve seen reported on in the media asking me to blog about it and I already had days or weeks prior. READ MY BLOG and you’ll see if I’ve hit on what you’re sending to me. I appreciate you sharing, though.
One reader pointed me to this November 2007 blog post by the great Dr. Mike Eades from Protein Power (who along with his wife Dr. Mary Dan Eades will be joining us on the 3rd Annual Low-Carb Cruise to the Bahamas in March 2010 ) comparing two men instrumental in shaping health in America over the past 100 years–Ancel Keys and Jack LaLanne. Keys was the guy who basically vilified dietary fat and got public policy changed to reflect that (read Gary Taubes’ book Good Calories, Bad Calories or watch Tom Naughton’s FAT HEAD documentary for all the details). And Jack LaLanne has been an advocate of healthy NATURAL living–and that ain’t low-fat! Check out the difference between these two men and decide how YOU want to look as you strive to live to be 100 years old.
ANCEL KEYS at 100
JACK LALANNE at 93
Pretty stunning to say the least! Kudos to Methuselah from the “Pay Now Live Later” blog who is back yet again with another cute YouTube video outlining what exercise was like for the Paleolithic man and how those same principles still apply in 2009. You’ll recall the Paleo Diet In A Nutshell (Part 1) I shared previously that detailed the dietary end of things for people eating this hunter-gatherer-styled nutritional plan. Now check out the new video focused on exercise and it’s not what you think:
Have you ever seen one of those big billboards with a made-up model and wonder how exactly those people looked before all the makeup and photoshopping of their image was done? This is one of the most stunning video transformations you’ll ever see and proof positive that the “image” of beauty around the world today is skewed worse than we even realize. THANK YOU to the Dove Self-Esteem Fund for bringing out the truth about this issue so little girls don’t have to grow up thinking they have to live up to some impossible expectation for being beautiful:
Here’s Pastor Cadle preaching his message with feet coming out from under sheets:
There is outrage from the school district leaders and they’re threatening to kick the church out of the school, but Cadle says sex is something that God wants married couples to embrace as the beautiful thing that He created it to be–so it shouldn’t be taboo to talk about it in church. What do you say about it? Does Pastor Cadle have every right to preach on this subject or is it off limits because the church meets in a public school building?
All the world seems to be on Twitter now. I resisted the urge for a very long time to join this popular social-networking site, but I’m on there now with regular “tweets” throughout the day updating information about who I’m interviewing, what I’m blogging about, and interesting things that I feel like sharing. Heck, even Dr. Eades became an official Twitterer this week (and the man is like a machine pumping out at least 15-20 “tweets” a day! Subscribe to his Twitter account and you’ll see). I found this hilarious video on YouTube the other day called “Twouble With Twitter” and it made me spew all over my computer screen it was so funny. This is what happens when you take your Twittering to the extreme:
And finally I have a brand new video from my sugar-shunning friend from the land down under David Gillespie that outlines some truly frightening statistics about the state of health in the United States now compared to not that long ago. Pay close attention and you may need to watch it several times to get it all in. Sobering, sad, but oh-so-motivating to keep on livin’ la vida low-carb:
That’s all for this edition of “Fun-Filled Friday.” Feel free to comment on any or all of these topics today and there were quite a few good ones. Send me your FFF materials and you might just see it show up right here on a future Friday–e-mail ‘em to me anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. Have an AWESOME weekend everybody and THANK YOU for making this blog a regular part of your life. It means more to me than you’ll ever know. SEE YA!
Hey guys and welcome again to “Fun-Filled Friday” here at the “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog. It’s been a busy week with the blogiversary contest ending and all that goes on with this little empire I’ve put together around the subject of low-carb living. And that reader survey I conducted showed me that a surprising number of you are fans of this here weekly post feature, so I’m happy to be sharing the neat and exciting dibble dabble of stuff for you today.
Although Christina Newman (aka “fastinggurl31″) is a raw foods and vegan advocate, I liked this video she did about a year and a half ago as a “smackdown” for people who keep dieting, losing, stop dieting, gaining over and over again. Her “you’ve got a problem” message is all about personal responsibility and I’ve blogged about this many times previously. Some say this kind of message is too harsh while others argue it’s exactly what is needed. What do YOU think?
So many readers send me stuff all the time to look at and sometimes comment on. What’s really funny is when they e-mail me a study they’ve seen reported on in the media asking me to blog about it and I already had days or weeks prior. READ MY BLOG and you’ll see if I’ve hit on what you’re sending to me. I appreciate you sharing, though.
One reader pointed me to this November 2007 blog post by the great Dr. Mike Eades from Protein Power (who along with his wife Dr. Mary Dan Eades will be joining us on the 3rd Annual Low-Carb Cruise to the Bahamas in March 2010 ) comparing two men instrumental in shaping health in America over the past 100 years–Ancel Keys and Jack LaLanne. Keys was the guy who basically vilified dietary fat and got public policy changed to reflect that (read Gary Taubes’ book Good Calories, Bad Calories or watch Tom Naughton’s FAT HEAD documentary for all the details). And Jack LaLanne has been an advocate of healthy NATURAL living–and that ain’t low-fat! Check out the difference between these two men and decide how YOU want to look as you strive to live to be 100 years old.
ANCEL KEYS at 100
JACK LALANNE at 93
Pretty stunning to say the least! Kudos to Methuselah from the “Pay Now Live Later” blog who is back yet again with another cute YouTube video outlining what exercise was like for the Paleolithic man and how those same principles still apply in 2009. You’ll recall the Paleo Diet In A Nutshell (Part 1) I shared previously that detailed the dietary end of things for people eating this hunter-gatherer-styled nutritional plan. Now check out the new video focused on exercise and it’s not what you think:
Have you ever seen one of those big billboards with a made-up model and wonder how exactly those people looked before all the makeup and photoshopping of their image was done? This is one of the most stunning video transformations you’ll ever see and proof positive that the “image” of beauty around the world today is skewed worse than we even realize. THANK YOU to the Dove Self-Esteem Fund for bringing out the truth about this issue so little girls don’t have to grow up thinking they have to live up to some impossible expectation for being beautiful:
Did you hear about the pastor of a Christian church who got into hot water this week because of a sermon series he is preaching on sex? Pastor Bruce Cadle from the Melbourne, FL-based New Hope Church which meets in a local elementary school had fliers sent out to 25,000 households that asked “Is Your Sex Life A Bore?” and invited them to come to the church services being held at the school to “learn how to have the Great Sex that God created you to enjoy!”
Here’s Pastor Cadle preaching his message with feet coming out from under sheets:
There is outrage from the school district leaders and they’re threatening to kick the church out of the school, but Cadle says sex is something that God wants married couples to embrace as the beautiful thing that He created it to be–so it shouldn’t be taboo to talk about it in church. What do you say about it? Does Pastor Cadle have every right to preach on this subject or is it off limits because the church meets in a public school building?
All the world seems to be on Twitter now. I resisted the urge for a very long time to join this popular social-networking site, but I’m on there now with regular “tweets” throughout the day updating information about who I’m interviewing, what I’m blogging about, and interesting things that I feel like sharing. Heck, even Dr. Eades became an official Twitterer this week (and the man is like a machine pumping out at least 15-20 “tweets” a day! Subscribe to his Twitter account and you’ll see). I found this hilarious video on YouTube the other day called “Twouble With Twitter” and it made me spew all over my computer screen it was so funny. This is what happens when you take your Twittering to the extreme:
And finally I have a brand new video from my sugar-shunning friend from the land down under David Gillespie that outlines some truly frightening statistics about the state of health in the United States now compared to not that long ago. Pay close attention and you may need to watch it several times to get it all in. Sobering, sad, but oh-so-motivating to keep on livin’ la vida low-carb:
That’s all for this edition of “Fun-Filled Friday.” Feel free to comment on any or all of these topics today and there were quite a few good ones. Send me your FFF materials and you might just see it show up right here on a future Friday–e-mail ‘em to me anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. Have an AWESOME weekend everybody and THANK YOU for making this blog a regular part of your life. It means more to me than you’ll ever know. SEE YA!