Cognitive_Canine

Yeah I know. He talks about this one aborigine experiment. There were these 10 aborigines who had recently changed to a more westernized lifestyle (including diet, technology, and jobs). All of them had high blood pressure, diabetes 2, and obesity even though they were on normal western diets. They were asked to return to their aborigine lifestyles for a 7 week trial. They all returned to their previous huts and went back to their previous hunting and gathering. Within those 7 weeks, all of them had lost an average of 17 pounds, most of them were now completely healthy (including no diabetes no heart problems), and all of them had amazing health changes. 7 weeks. That is so crazy.

Yeah, that is sort of the same thing. The meat company practically sued the US government back in the 50's when the government tried to say that too much meat and dairy wasn't good. That's why we say "fat" or "cholesterol" is bad for you. So that blame isn't put on a product but on invisible, little demons like fat. People are rarely ever told "not" to eat a certain food but told to eat more of another kind.There are no lobbyists protecting vitamins, minerals, carbs, or proteins...

He also wrote "the omnivore's dilemma". I am starting that one once I finish up this book. That book is more about the evolution of our eating traditions; Explaining why we have traditionally 4 meals, why we ate what we ate, and such.

There is a movie? Is it a documentary? I'll have to look into this.

"In defense of food" Wow, this book really opened up my eyes. It came at a great time too since I've started really thinking about healthy and exercise. Made me realize how little real food I actually eat! It always really made me doubt a lot of the food science that we have out and about. Gah, I can't wait until I can afford to buy groceries on my own so that I can prepare my own food.

"Eats, shoots and leaves" It's a book about the proper use of punctuation. The author is quite witty but it's pretty hard to follow what she is trying to say sometimes. She name drops like crazy. I don't know who half of these people are. Also, she's british and british and american punctuation rules differ quite a bit.

I'm reading "Slaughterhouse 5"

Dan Brown is great but he really write the same novel every time. I think angels and demons was a great piece by itself but I didn't really care for the rest of his books. And, as I said before, Things Fall Apart was probably a great book but writing the paper I had to write on it and the fact that it was a mandatory read automatically leaves me jaded.

Now, THAT'S a good book. Truth be told, I've never really liked a book that I was assigned to read. In Things Fall Apart, the natives were basically portrayed as savages, the christians as cowardly and closeminded. The only character I actually liked was the 2nd wife when she chased after the priestess in the darkness to find her daughter. The part where the main character (Don't ask me to spell his name) shows up with a machetee (don't ask me to correctly spell this either) to help her was really touching. However, the whole backstory of them "falling in love' without having talked to each other. And her just showing up at his house and they just have sex. What the heck?! And, after the little scene with the priestess, the 2nd wife isn't really talked about again....

I read "Things fall apart"....hated it. It was supposed to be so good too. On to reading the rest of my textbooks for the semester. I really love my history book. My genetics book is such a thick read. Every 3 sentences has a new concept about. Finished the sections of my biology book. Pretty basic stuff. Just a lot of it.

Friend trying to get me into dune series. We're having a book exchange and he is getting Catch-22. However, I do need to read a clockwork orange before school gets out.

I think it explains divorce very well. She is seen as the bad guy but you feel for her and understand why she got divorced.

Did you like Catcher in the Rye? Same author. Franny and Zooey is much better in my opinion though. The characters are more dimensional because they actually have a deep history that explains their way of thinking. It's my favourite book.

-The historian (an actual good book about vampires. It's actually scary and informative about eastern european history) -Eat, Pray, Love (story of a divorced woman's journey to discover who she really is) -Franny and Zooey (book about a girl going through a mental breakdown due to college and the relationship between her, her brother, and the ghosts of her dead sibling that seems to haunt their family)

Fahrenheit 451. Started last night and about 2/3rds the way through.

I would scratch the last line and put "It's everything about you". It's lovely.

Looking is harmless to a point.

metaphors for grass -emerald blanket -soft, green blades can't think of good metaphors for some reason.....

This is my opinion. Very lovely poem.

awww, you actually posted it in the poetry section. It's beautiful, dags.

Also, talk forever about this girl that you actually love but never dated in your childhood, then never have her be in a single scene in the entire story.

The only way to make it more salinger is to have at least one of the characters smoking, saying "that kills me!" and talking about how fake all the people better off than him are and how he really feels for the worser off, even though they aren't necessarily nice.

I love Catcher in the Rye. Don't worry, you aren't nearly as cynical or judgmental as Holden. And remember, even a kid that messed up ended up okay.

I've seen that before. Possibly my favourite poem!