Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Speedlinking 11/7/06

Morning image is Touch of Autumn, Secret Path:


BODY
~ The HFT Handbook: How to Use High Frequency Training to Build the Physique You Desire by Chad Waterbury. This guy knows his stuff. I have had better success with his programs than any others -- and I've tried a lot -- but they are not for beginners.
~ Belly Fat Of US Children Grew By Over 65% Since 1999. Yep, see it every time I go into a grocery store.
~ It's Almost Holiday Season So, Walk More. Good advice.
~ Why Women Need Muscles. So that their skeletons don't crumple to floor in a big sack of skin?
~ Nutritionist Offers Tips To Make It Through The New Year Without Putting On Pounds.
~ Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Are The Benefits Just A Fish Tale? Ignore this -- the preponderance of evidence says omega-3 fats have a huge assortment of health benefits.


PSYCHE
~ Dieters skip doctors, turn to ‘magical thinking’. Survey finds 1 in 3 Americans who try to lose weight take unproven pills. This is misleading in that some supplements that work are considered "unproven." For more than twenty years, doctors thought that steroids didn't have any physiological effects. Oops.
~ New System Helps Counselors Gauge Mental Health In Minutes. A group of university psychologists and technology experts has created a new Web-based personal computer/PDA system that measures the essential components of mental health: well-being; psychological symptoms; and specific areas of life functioning.
~ Psychiatrist Offers Advice For Reducing Holiday Stress. Seems like some good advice here.
~ From Ryan at Anxious Living, Replacing Defense Mechanisms (and Other Anxiety Quirks).
~ I don't like Buddhist psychiatrist Dr. Mark Epstein -- he has often advocated going directly for no-self with clients who lack a stable self to begin with, which is a recipe for disaster. Yet, people read his books, and Tricycle has a Q&A with him.
~ ebuddha is questioning the 3-2-1 Big Mind process in Big Mind, 3-2-1: Shifting Perspectives, Hard Character Lines. I would suggest, as a beginning point, ditching Big Mind and getting back to the voice dialogue technique that it's based on. We need to work with those subs so that they get defused and quit having the power to take over our lives.
~ Stuart Davis is still possessed by crows. Been there, done that, saved my life.


CULTURE
~ Most Americans Favor Comprehensive Sex Education. More than 80 percent of Americans favor a balanced approach to sex education in schools, including teaching children about both abstinence and other ways of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
~ Learning to Live Like Jesus. A Review of Dallas Willard's Classic Book on Spiritual Discipline.
~ Will Buckingham at thinkBuddha.org posts on the ancient skeptics and A Grammar of Hypothesis.
~ From P2P Foundation: How peer to peer media are undermining spiritual authoritarianism.
~ Mike at Unknowing Mind takes a look at What is Truly Skillful Teaching?


HABITAT
~ Is The World Ready For A 'Green Revolution' In Africa? "Unlike the original green revolution, which emphasized improved crop germplasm in an environment with good soils and much irrigation, the African green revolution is envisioned to have five main components: agriculture, nutrition, markets, environment, and policies."
~ Earth’s Origin’s a Gas. "By mimicking in a lab the gases that could have been present on early Earth, researchers have concluded that a layer of haze blanketing our planet produced organic material that helped living organisms develop."
~ 3D maps let travellers take virtual city tours. The latest online mapping tool lets users take a virtual wander through cities.
~ Scientists Melt Diamond. I just think this is cool, not that it's major news.
~ From P2P Foundation: Book of the Week: Kevin Carson on the Mutualist Economy.


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