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Joe
Joe
8 years ago

Best of luck with the yak milk. If you can pull it off, I suspect it could be quite profitable if you find the right buyer. I have some friends that are cheese snobs (yes they exist) and once they shared with me some yaks milk cheese. To them it was a holy grail of cheese…to me it was quite good, very flavorful.

Samuel
Samuel
8 years ago

Sugar: The point which really drove the point about sugar home to me was just a simple exercise in arithmetic. On average we have about 5 liters of blood serum. A typical blood sugar concentration during some point in the day is 100 mg/dl. Take the product of the two values and cancel the units and you end up with 5g of glucose. If you don’t make a distinction between fructose and glucose, which of course is whole separate discussion, then you have 5g of table sugar, or a heaping teaspoon. So what happens when you eat 200, 300, 400g of carbohydrate per day? Initially your body can handle this, but over time I would not depend on your brain along with your hormones to be able to control this situation: to go from say, 1o0g of glucose to 5g in a short enough period of tine so that you don’t end up dead.

Basing the US food supply on a non-essential macro nutrient has been a disaster, and all it takes to see this is simple arithmetic.

Macwa
Macwa
8 years ago

Could Nick Post a link on the Plaxius (sp?) for young adults to learn differently?

TIA

I LOVE this podcast because I have allowed my kids to self educate themselves in high school using creativity to meet graduation requirements. One has decided to do a certification program in technology at the local college. Don’t fret, it works. She tested into all honors classes despite our approach. Kids learn if they are interested.

josh in GA
josh in GA
8 years ago

can honestly say I NEVER thought I’d come to TSP to get music suggestions. Never heard of John Prine? That link alone is worth my MSB ‘fee’. This guy is incredible. Never heard of him until now. Absolutely fantastic. His song “illegal smile” is hall of fame material.