If there's anything you don't want to eat cooked Poly - it's fat. Cooked fat seems to be the worst for me over any other cooked food.

for me cooked carbs are definitely the worst.

I had three bananas the night before last (unusual for me to eat so many - usually only one at a time) and I had a terrible night and felt bad the next morning. I was thinking about the banana people and wondering how on earth they could eat 30 and live to tell the tale. Maybe it's because they eat them rotten?

I have the same experience with any high carb food. If i eat too much carbs short before going to bed i sleep very restless. I wake up all the time, have weird dreams and just feel nervous. I wake up feeling severely hung over. Took me a while to figure it out but there is no doubt the same every time.

Bizarre.

Why double post the same article?

Don't forget "wadging" as an option: chewing the juiciness out of a veggie and then spitting out the fibers. I prefer this method because I thinking that chewing and taste in the mouth are important parts of digestion.

Yeah im starting to do that to now. Just yesterday i made my first juice from homegrown produce. I dont what it is they sell as parsley, celery, cilantro, spinach in stores (even organic) but it just doesnt compare. I made a juice from homegrown parsley, celery, and spinach and a tiny piece of mint. This stuff is very potent. I drank a small glas and was wound up all night, very strong energy boost. I notice a little boost from storebought veggies but nothing like this. Must have somthing to do with all the minerals (especially magnesium) i added to the soil.

anyway i started "wadging" because my homegrown juices are so strong. this is a nice controlled way to get the goodies.

Come to think of it - not much was all that easy to come by in paleo times was it? lol 

lol. you're right. although it is terribly easy to "harvest" a whole bunch of insects very quick. That would be an easy meal, just not an appetizing one. oh wel who knows never tried raw spider snail worms etc. Come to think of it with my current earthworm population i dont have to startev anytime soon 

If you plan on keeping drinking kefir just get yourself some real grains. Trust me you will enjoy that kefir a lot more. The real kefir culture in the grains is so strong that scientist that deliberatly inoculated raw milk with E Coli., strep. c, and other bad bacteria found that makin kefir using grains and the contaminated milk was no problem. The kefir culture completely removed all bad bacteria, they could not be traced back after 24hr fermentation.

Just using the sour milk as a starter is a very unstable proces. It is impossible to tell what bacterial culture might arise when working this way. Be safe get some grains.

The barbell was a huge leap forward from kettlebell training. it was quite literally a miracle tool and results becam possible that haddent been seen for a long time. This is because with a barbel the weight can be adjusted to fit the needs of a particular person/muscle. Kettlebels offer no such possibility, the weight being either to heavy or to low in 99% of the case. Even if the weight is perfect once after that one exercise (if done right) you will get stronger and the next workout the weight is to low etc.

Besides most barbel exercises are closer to being full range than kettlebells. The rise of the barbell made strenght training/bodybuilding possible on a serious level.

The next giant leap forward were exercise machines. A properly designed exercise machine ouperforms a barbel enormously. Sadly most exercise machines nowadays are designed to look good and be easy to operate thus destroying most benefits, in that case a barbel is much prefered.

A good exercise machines will offer full range of motion, variable resistance(to match strenght curve of muscle), direct resistance, streching and pre- stretching posibility(range of motion of the machine should be bigger than that of the trainee), small step weight increments and a heavier negative than positive load. A barbell offer none of these factors in most exercises and only 2 of these in a very few exercises.

Dorothy,
What are your goals? what equipment do you have available? what is your current level of fitness?
Do you have any problematic areas(weak joints, old injuries, back problems etc)?
These are all basic considerations before anyone can offer any sensible advice.
If those factors are not taking into serious consideration you will make little progress in the best case and injure yourself in the worsed case.

Freezer,
I agree with that observation. However i's like to add to that that there are very few sports were weight is as much an issue as is often believed. Genectic freaks being far stronger than most people even at much less mucle mass dominate all sports. Seeing those leightweight genetically superior people win gold medals motivates people to not use weight training. This however is a imo a big mistake because the genetically gifted have even more to gain than the avarage joe. Imagine those already superior atletes taking there sport to a whole new level by means of proper exercise. I dont think we have seen the true limits of human ability in any sport and i think that all current doped records can be broken by genetically gifted, superior athletes using weight training properly without any chemicall aids.

The question is why so many people want to be muscular?
Look at shaolin monks they are not very muscular but they have more strength than any bodybuilder. I mean that they can do much more useful thing with their body

Please define usefull.. I can do all the things I could before i build 25kg of muscle but i can also do a LOT more now.

Would you please give us examples of strength building exercises vs muscle building exercises --- or programs. Thanks.

They are the same of course.
Althought it is true that strenght increases come first and appear to be without size increases this is not the case. First strenght increases as a result of increases in neuromuscular efficiency. Your body is quite literally making new neurological pathways to be able to use a larger percentage of muscle fibers. When the limit of that progress is reached, and one continues to exercise, size increases come. The size of a muscle increases very suddenly. This is not a steady progress its a stair like curve. After a size increase(growth) the body needs to learn again how to use the new mass. Thus making new pathways etc. So first comes some strenght increase, than very suddenly a size increase. Than strenght again. etc etc. In order to stimulate the body to get stronger one must ask it to do something its is uncomfortable to do with the current level of ability. This mean working inside the strenghts reserves(part of stregnth that is not used in every day activity). The body doesnt like it when you use those reserves (thats why exercise is hard you need to overcome mental barriers in place to prevent overexertion) and as a results gets stronger so you can do that without using reserves. Off course thats whenyou start lifting heavier and us them again thus triggering another round of strenght increases.

Oh im nice to them. I'm the reason they started experimenting with raw. Last week their cat was dying and they saved it using raw meat and raw liver. Cat went from dying to fully healthy in a day. They've seen the power of raw food now.

recycling kefir grains is mighty easy. Once you get to many you just eat them. I sometimes add some to a milkshake.

Hard cheeses are pressed, than sealed using wax or nowadays plastic and left to age. Young cheese is very soft. As the cheese matures it gets harder/dryer. This is partly due to evaporation and partly due to ongoing fermentation.

My local farmer and cheese maker just started making cheeses for me. He used to only make salted cheese. So far he made me three unsalted cheeses that are now aging. First one its almost ready, can't wait!

I've seen lab tests confirm the 50+ claim. I'll see if I can find then again.

I meant adding honey just prior to consumption to make it sweet. Of course sourness depends on fermentation time.

So you eat a lot of raw cow butter?

How do you get yours?

Lots of butter, marrow and some suet.
I get my butter at an excellent organic farm. They make it themself in small batches. The cows are 100% pastured.