Fitness at 75

I came across this article on Gary Player, a professional golf player. He is now 75. His fitness and diet regimen is impressive, to say the least. 1000 sit-ups and push-ups every morning, 30-40 minutes meditation, weight training and mostly vegetarian diet of fruits and vegetables. Amazing.
"He estimates a total investment of $10,000 in all of the gym equipment. '..I think it's sad people invest more in their car than in their bodies' he says."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576482082753114232.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_editorsPicks_2#articleTabs%3Darticle

Also, a good video on fitness: Interval training: run hard, recover and repeat :
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576482082753114232.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_editorsPicks_2#articleTabs%3Dvideo

Narendra Modi picks up the gauntlet, yet again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzd3oG2gdh4&feature=youtu.be
Narendra Modi is the man. As I have pointed out before.

http://shyodha.blogspot.com/2010/11/remember-maut-ka-saudagar-sycophants.html

Baba Ramdev's peaceful strike attacked

Democracy under attack in India.

Baba Ramdev and his supporters doing hunger strike were attacked by police with tear gas. In New Delhi Ramlila grounds. Has India turned into a police state? Has Sonia Antonio Maino, an Italian born is bringing back emergency from the backdoor?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Police-descend-at-Ramlila-ground-Ramdev-to-be-taken-out-of-Delhi/articleshow/8730121.cms
"Although Delhi police said that Ramdev has not been arrested and has been taken to a safe place, reports said there was no official word on his whereabouts."

shyodhashyOdha

Congress has decided to root-out hunger in India by striking tear gas at hunger strikers #RamDev #Ramlila #JaiHo !

 

shyodhashyOdha

I get it. Sonia Antonio Maino has decided Indians cannot starve. Not even peacefully. #Ramlila #Ramdev

LDL lowering does not help to reduce heart attack

"LDL lowering does not help to reduce heart attack" should have been the tittle of the article below. May be they decided against it since such news might trigger heart attack in some!

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/27/news/la-heb-niacin-heart-20110527

"Overall, those in the niacin group did have increased HDL levels and lowered triglyceride levels after 32 months, the researchers found, but they were no less likely to suffer heart attacks, strokes or be hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome."

So, people with low LDL (courtecy statin drug), high HDL (courtecy Niacin, clearly prescription dose), lowered triglycerides still had same levels of heart attack as the rest.

Conclusion, anyone?
Repeat after me: "HDL/LDL numbers are not related to heart desease"!

Pakistani defense establishment under attack: P3C Orion aircraft destroyed

Week-end fun.
Pictures-video of the attack on Mehran air base attack:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110522/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan
Pakistanis are running around like headless chickens trying explain their incompetency.

I have always wondered. Without Pakistanis, how boring this world would be?
They know how to come up with new techniques to screw themselves!

Adm Javed Iqbal questions after Mehran base attack (May 23, 2011):

Breaking news! Shocking! Gates: Somebody in Pakistan knew about bin Laden

Breaking news! Shocking! NOT!!!!
Gates: Somebody in Pakistan knew about bin Laden
Quote of the week: "My supposition is, somebody knew."

Should I laugh, cry or do a 'Eureka!' dance?

Thanks, Mr. Gates, this is such an eye opener. May be you should have glanced at what Indians were saying for last, let us see, hmmmm.... TWENTY YEARS!

Here is a reproduced article (by B Raman) from September 2003 which details the connection between Pakistan and OBL.

http://ramanstrategicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/05/isi-bin-laden-links-as-seen-by-dia.html

Please read it, Mr. Gates.

".6.The analysis carries the most damning account of Pakistan's role as the real host of bin Laden and his Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. It says: "Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network was able to expand under the safe santuary extended by Taliban following Pakistan directives. If there is any doubt on that issue, consider the location of bin Laden's camp targeted by US Cruise missiles, Zahawa. Positioned on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, it was built by Pakistani contractors, funded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate and protected under the patronage of a local and influential Jadran tribal leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani. However, the real host in that facility was the Pakistani ISI. If this was later to become bin Laden's base, then serious questions are raised by the early relationship between bin Laden and Pakistan's ISI."

Mainstream media waveringly admits: regular milk is good for you

It is irritating to see health related articles in major media sites always dilly dallying around important health subjects. Here is one which can not even come out and clearly say - "no need to drink low fat milk to keep a good health". There, was that so diffucult?

These guys who write these stuff do not say it. But skimmed milk is a SCAM.

Call it scammed milk. It may not be making you fat, but probably making you sick.
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/is-skim-milk-making-you-fat-2479492/

Frankly, below lines have enough reasons to stay away from low-fat milk:

"How would you feel if you opened a carton and poured a chalky, bluish-white liquid into your coffee? That's the color many nonfat milks are before powdered milk is added to whiten them—a process that brings its own problems. Any way you look at it, there's been a lot of whitewashing of skim milk's image."