I'm confused about the remarks on WeChat's page that says "download from the Google Play store" because it is illegal to access any Google site from China.

Ditto for the statement "follow us on our Facebook page".

Seems WeChat is inciting an insurrection.

lioralourie wrote:

If one has any doubts about wheat, carbs, overabundance of grains being destructive to health, they are simply still ignorant - are simply not educated in the matter, period.

I highly recommend reading two books: Good Calories, Bad Calories by science writer Gary Taubes and Grain Brain by Perlmutter, MD (and the sequel called Brain Maker, too! )

All three are available on Torrent download "somewhere" - even the audiobook versions! I heard that torrentproject.se is the best place to search.

The old food pyramid with "Grains" as the base is simply heinous. Grains are turned directly into sugar in the body. They are responsible for "greedy fat cells", metabolic syndrome, fatty liver, obesity, causing insulin resistance and type two diabetes, and more.

We have limited the grains seriously in our diet (2-3x a week rice, small amount of oatmeal, very occasional millet, quinoa, sorghum or barley) and our kids are doing better and better and hubby and I are slimmer for it as well.

We have always eaten a vast variety of vegetables, but instead of grains (rice etc) being the basis for most meals, we have upped the protein and especially the FAT in our diet. We eat only very occasional wheat, close to none (Okay, I do admit to a desperation school lunch a handful of times over the years of a frozen roll defrosted with cream cheese or nut butter or cheese!) .

We use vast quantities of coconut oil and homemade ghee. We eat

Veggies galore -roasted with ghee and seasonings, various vegetarian soups and cream soups, roasted cauliflower and broccoli, brussel sprouts, big salads, all of which the kids like and eat well, cherry tomatoes

Eggs galore -scrambled, over easy, soft boiled, hard boiled, egg salad, thai style with sauce, frittatas, custards, swedish pancakes and paleo pancakes (eggs, coconut milk, coconut flour, non aluminum baking powder, salt, vanilla extract)

Nuts -pecans, macadamia nuts, brazil nuts, walnuts, cashews, some peanuts

Dairy: cheese, goat milk, yogurt, homemade kefir

Fish: 1-2-3 x a week. Baked salmon, battered and fried haddock or red snapper (with paleo recipe for batter: egg, salt and spices, coconut flour, potato starch or cassava flour), some tuna, one of us like sardines too.

Beans (kidney bean salad, cold and warm mexican concoctions with kidney beans, lentil salad, lentil soup, split pea soup, brazilian black bean soup (from the Moosewood cookbook, yum), roasted garbanzo beans, hummus

and some meat (1-2x a month). We eat 99% of our meals at home, the meat meals are always out.

We use coconut flour & almond flour off of Iherb.com and cassava starch http://en.tootoo.cn/product-s1-1051466-en.html, not wheat flour.

One simple example of a small shift that has made a difference. The only day we eat a cold breakfast is on Saturday morning. We used to have CEREAL with yogurt with a bit of banana on top. We shifted it to

big bowl of BANANA swimming in LOADS of yogurt (as much as they want, organic, sugar free, grass fed GREEN YARD brand) and just a splash of granola or Amaranth or Spelt flakes etc. on top for interest/texture. Where we used to finish up a box/bag in a day, now it lasts many weeks. Small changes like this can add up to the overall grain intake picture.

I also recommend this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZnlW_w1HF8 (a great 20 something minute highlights from the documentary FATHEAD) though they don't specify that all animal products are not created equal: you want grass fed, pastured animals, hormone free, if at all possible.

Best of health, Liora

Grains are for cattle, horses, and other grazers.

Check out the book "Wheat Belly" for more information.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

"I" is also for "incensed." As in, I am incensed that the 40cm-long live fish I pick from the tank is only 20 cm after the restaurant cooks and serves it.

I is also for "intoxicated." After all no lunch is truly lunch without 2-3 little double-shot bottles of baijiu.

'I' is also for 'Is anyone gonna' do anything about the uncivilized scooter riders in Beijing that constantly put innocent pedestrians lives at risk??

I - 'Is'.

Everybody needs a few good moving breaks every once in a while.

So cold this evening here in GuagZhou I wore my donkey skin cap!

You spelled 'bored' wrong, FYI.

After the last killer coronavirus `pandemic' Sars 20002/03 researchers worked for 12 years to create a vaccine that was effective against the class of viruses called collectively `coronaviruses' .

They were unsuccsessful .

Yet we are expected to believe that in less than a year, an effective, safe vaccine has been developed for coronaviruses?

In the west all the vaccine developers have demanded (and received) carte blanche immunity from any legal action arising from any harmful effects of their vaccines.

Data hasn't even been fully collected from vaccine trials, never mind analysed and peer reviewed. Preliminary animal testing, if it has been done at all has been done concurrently with initial human trials, and again, no hard data available, just glorified press releases from the vaccine maufactures with numbers, that when they are analysed carefully mean something quite different than what a naive reading will leave one believing.

The intent of the vaccines is not to decrease transmission of the virus, rather to lesson the symptoms should one in fact become infected. And as most people have no or mild symptoms, what is the point. 99% percent of the people that are infected (as determined by a PCR test, which is seriously flawed and which was never intended to be used as a diagnostic) recover regardless. The vast majority of those that die are already at , or beyond their expected lifespan, and the vast majority also have co-morbidities.

The standard time period for new vaccine development is 7-10 years to fully analyse and review data.

Possible harmful side effects oftentimes only show up after a period of several years.

Perhaps to Nicaragua or Madagascar or Belarus or somewhere that has at least not gone focking psychotic.

I'd immediatly sue for refugee status. Refugee from an insane world.

I told my employer that if in order to keep my employment I was required to be vaccinated, then I would quit, and leave China.

But where to go? Not back to Canada, that's for sure.... eveyone there has gone completely batshit crazy.

What the hell is this really all about?

But unfortunately valid for Chinese only...If you work in F&B as a foreigner, you will get nothing, even if isocially insured and paying taxes.

Maybe they consider that the foreigners are not the evil virus carriers anymore? Just kidding...

Anyway this is still great news for the industry and hopefully the safety of the employees and maybe patrons, provided there is much less transmission risk after vaccination

KingCrimson wrote:

Giovanni Martini wrote:

"pick it up as a way to pass the time. Instead of going out and torturing yourself in a hell that has indeed frozen over, or potentially exposing yourself to COVID," (unquote)

You have time to pass? Richest man on the planet.

Potentially expose oneself to COVID? C'mon, do you REALLY worry about rhis? As Sikaote often reminds us, careless drivers are a rather greater problem. Over a thousand folks die in traffic yearly hereabouts. That means you have a bigger chance getting run down by a kuai di driver than you do the Corona you're running from ever catching you. Face it Zeus: you're surrounded.

I am sorry to hear that you and Sikaote have to play video games in the middle of a street while risking yourselves to be ran over by hardworking kuai di drivers. I hope at least they and their packages are intact

I hope one of those uncivilized scooter riders clips you good.