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From: Hugh Browton on 23 Aug 2006 14:15 On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:56:35 +0100, Peter Ceresole wrote (in article <1hkionw.ecq2ooiwiadqN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>): > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > >> I try to keep down the consumption of unnaturals. 'swhy I eat butter and >> not >> margerine, sugar not aspartame, steak not nut-loaf!, etc. > > Ah, right. > > Sugar, however- unless you are desperately short of energy, and/or have > the inability to metabolise ketones that I mentioned- is *much* worse > for you than aspartame. 'Natural' certainly doesn't equal 'good'. > I evolved (a little, a very little) from an omniverous biped that developed in an environment that contained sugars [1] not aspartame, animal fats, not hydrogenated oils, so I figure that I'd rather eat small amounts of the things I evolved with, rather than almost any amount of stuff I didn't. Just a personal thing! I drive a car tho' I came from the aforementioned biped! [1] not nearly as much as now - so I do try to limit how much sugar (esp. sucrose), and fat that I eat. Not entirely successfully! -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) You never can truly tell when you have run out of invisible ink.
From: Peter Ceresole on 23 Aug 2006 14:34 Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > I evolved (a little, a very little) from an omniverous biped that developed > in an environment that contained sugars [1] not aspartame, animal fats, not > hydrogenated oils, so I figure that I'd rather eat small amounts of the > things I evolved with Hmmm... But remember that evolution isn't positive or negative- it just selects a path of least resistance/energy in the circumstances of the time. Which probably involved not living much beyond thirty. Certainly not coping with enough (let alone too much) food, or any of the diseases of later age, which involve among others diabetes. I think it's pretty easy to improve on nature and evolution, in those terms. -- Peter
From: Jon B on 24 Aug 2006 09:40 Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:13:18 +0100, Roger Merriman wrote > (in article <1hkfg8c.18g6znb1rdwetcN%NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk>): > > > > > trouble is there isn't a lot of choice in pubs or at least local ones > > any way. i often drive and coke is well coke... > > > > No there isn't much choice in most places. Being a non-alchohol-drinker > (hmmm, must look up the etymology of "teetotaller") requires a tolerance to > sugar (I try not to drink aspartame either, and oxidane on its own I usually > find tasteless, so boring). Pub coke is just nasty, unless you find one of the rare places that serves the bottled stuff, or from a tin etc. I've been a long convert of the J2O, which is mainly fruit juice and water, and as Britvic are heavily pushing it now commonly available in just about all pubs. -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Hugh Browton on 24 Aug 2006 14:50 On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:40:54 +0100, Jon B wrote (in article <1hkkw7m.1hscm31fu859lN%black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com>): > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > >> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:13:18 +0100, Roger Merriman wrote >> (in article <1hkfg8c.18g6znb1rdwetcN%NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk>): >> >>> >>> trouble is there isn't a lot of choice in pubs or at least local ones >>> any way. i often drive and coke is well coke... >>> >> >> No there isn't much choice in most places. Being a non-alchohol-drinker >> (hmmm, must look up the etymology of "teetotaller") requires a tolerance to >> sugar (I try not to drink aspartame either, and oxidane on its own I usually >> find tasteless, so boring). > > Pub coke is just nasty, unless you find one of the rare places that > serves the bottled stuff, or from a tin etc. I've been a long convert of > the J2O, which is mainly fruit juice and water, and as Britvic are > heavily pushing it now commonly available in just about all pubs. > Yes, I have drunk several gallons of the stuff over the past few years. Good thing it comes in a number of flavours! -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) You never can truly tell when you have run out of invisible ink.
From: Roger Merriman on 25 Aug 2006 15:12
Andrew Stephenson <ames(a)deltrak.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In article <s7sje2pinc6roap5fnc9fepk0615h0dmd9(a)newsposting.sessile.org> > jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org "Jaimie Vandenbergh" writes: > > > We had a bloody good one around 4am today, there's not much that wakes > > me up around that time of day but lightning within a quarter second of > > the house apparently does! > > I had one of those last week, around 0610 of Thursday, the night > when half the UK was being blasted/drowned. A flash and almost > simultaneous *WHAM* from outside, plus a quiet little *scrunch* > from my bedside phone... Dead telephone line. > > Found later in the day that both of my phones had taken a hit. > The one furthest from the great outdoors but which was 18 years > old had Given Its All. The new one by the bed, on the primary > socket and bought less than two months ago, was Merely Confused: > it thought a 1571 message was waiting but otherwise seems okay. > > Says something, IMHO, for how much more rugged modern stuff is. we have found that BT (spit hiss) phones are bloody robust and will take surge after surge that will fry others. hence have cheap simple bt phone. as folks place gets phone line surges fairly often during the winter months due to its location. roger |