Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

silvercar

Take James as an example, he has to eat a huge amount each day for his weight not to drop even when energy expended is low, increase the energy expended and the calories needed becomes astronomic (more than the other 3 of us put together plus more). He hasn't quite worked out the calories/energy formula to actually put weight on enough to move out of the underweight catagory yet.

Was talking to someone who shoveled down gallons of weight gain stuff in an attempt to gain weight, then moved to a combination of 2 months of high protein shakes followed by a month of high energy stuff and managed to gain a stone a year over 3 years. Something to do with encouraging the body to produce its own ketones??? Anyway, it worked for him.

PasturesNew

I just know that the average individual pie is about 500 calories before I check the label .... and more than one pie/month could become a habit, so it's best to only have 3-4 a year

michaels

There was a trailer this morning for horizon this week which looks at both the health and environmental impacts of eating meat. Conclusions seemed to be that any meat is OK as long as not processed but beef especially is a green house / sustainability problem.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

There was a trailer this morning for horizon this week which looks at both the health and environmental impacts of eating meat. Conclusions seemed to be that any meat is OK as long as not processed but beef especially is a green house / sustainability problem.

I think the main problem with sustainability is our disproportion on the planet. There would be less of an issue with us living on beef if we were in the correct proportion for animals at the top of food chains.

I find it a truly depressing issue that we will not face this as a global issue, or a country by country one even.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

There was a trailer this morning for horizon this week which looks at both the health and environmental impacts of eating meat. Conclusions seemed to be that any meat is OK as long as not processed but beef especially is a green house / sustainability problem.

I was annoyed at the bit where they claimed a bacon sandwich takes an hour off your life, just like smoking four cigarettes.:eek:

PasturesNew

I don't eat much red meat.... probably 2-3 packs of sausages/year. I used to eat mince, so maybe in the future I'll be eating 3-4 packs of mince/year too.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

I think the main problem with sustainability is our disproportion on the planet. There would be less of an issue with us living on beef if we were in the correct proportion for animals at the top of food chains.

I find it a truly depressing issue that we will not face this as a global issue, or a country by country one even.

I think we're meant to be about a thousand times over our species carrying capacity thanks to our friends the farmers.

Unfortunately we've now got half the biosphere supporting and feeding us, so not much more capacity to expand.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

There was a trailer this morning for horizon this week which looks at both the health and environmental impacts of eating meat. Conclusions seemed to be that any meat is OK as long as not processed but beef especially is a green house / sustainability problem.

According to our Infrastructure investment guru, a Big Mac takes over 1,000 of water to produce.

I've got nice sustainable pork sausages (made from the meat that wouldn't get used otherwise) roasted with onions peppers and balsamic vinegar with some saute spuds on the side. Nom!

PasturesNew

I'm taking a quick look at curtains available ... and I really wish they'd explain what they're selling.

These look "passable/OK". http://www.therange.co.uk/tonal-lined-eyelet-curtains-in-teal-with-matching-accessories//the-range/fcp-product/54527

But .... does that mean the pack contains two curtains, each 229cm wide? Or is it one pair that, in total, cover 229cm wide? Current donated curtains, that almost meet in the middle (using a peg at the top to make them meet) are 195cm each, so nearly 400cm total spread.

The page contains wording saying "1x Pair 90x90 Curtains" ... but that's not 100% clear to me as the more I think about it, the more I doubt what I am seeing/reading/interpreting.

I'm still choking on the price, but my windows are large, so it seems unavoidable

And these ... http://www.therange.co.uk/st-ives-eyelet-curtains-duck-egg-with-matching-accessories//the-range/fcp-product/65902 seem " little bit nicer", but now I don't know which I'd prefer..... but I think on this one there are no curtains, they're just selling the cushions.

Or there's the "a bit busy" http://www.therange.co.uk/swansea-lined-stripe-eyelet-curtains-duck-egg//the-range/fcp-product/76580 ones.... at £35 a bit more palatable

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm taking a quick look at curtains available ... and I really wish they'd explain what they're selling.

These look "passable/OK". http://www.therange.co.uk/tonal-lined-eyelet-curtains-in-teal-with-matching-accessories//the-range/fcp-product/54527

But .... does that mean the pack contains two curtains, each 229cm wide? Or is it one pair that, in total, cover 229cm wide? Current donated curtains, that almost meet in the middle (using a peg at the top to make them meet) are 195cm each, so nearly 400cm total spread.

The page contains wording saying "1x Pair 90x90 Curtains" ... but that's not 100% clear to me as the more I think about it, the more I doubt what I am seeing/reading/interpreting.

I'm still choking on the price, but my windows are large, so it seems unavoidable

And these ... http://www.therange.co.uk/st-ives-eyelet-curtains-duck-egg-with-matching-accessories//the-range/fcp-product/65902 seem " little bit nicer", but now I don't know which I'd prefer..... but I think on this one there are no curtains, they're just selling the cushions.

Or there's the "a bit busy" http://www.therange.co.uk/swansea-lined-stripe-eyelet-curtains-duck-egg//the-range/fcp-product/76580 ones.... at £35 a bit more palatable

First lot is shown as 168x229, so each curtain is 168cm wide and 229cm long.
The 229x229 means that each curtain will be 229cm wide, total width of the pair 458cm.