If eating trash makes us sick, why do we keep eating it?

'scratches head' are we talking about deficits or chakras?

Sounds like what it must be like for people who get hangovers. They know they will feel like crap the next day but they still drink. I am very lucky and I don't get hangovers. I also don't get sick from eating crap, which isn't so lucky.

LeenaGee wrote: »

Deirdre, we don't have tornadoes here. It must be quite scary at times. Where do you go if a tornado hits?

Charlotte, I gave up defending my fellow Australians years ago. You just have to go to Bali and you will see some dreadful behaviour at times and their eating habits and idols seem to revolve around alcohol. Fun loving and gorgeous people but at times not too bright.

Actually, I really don't mind Pete. I think if he can get people discussion nutrition then it is a good thing.

I've been to Bali many times LeenaGee. It's not just the Aussies of course, but there are certainly more of them because of our proximity. Drinking and partying and playing up is what young people tend to do, Aussie, Kiwi, Brit etc...

I don't believe that you were painting a very balanced picture of what was going on in our country nutrition-wise. Change for the better evidenced by Paleo cafes and silly Pete is embarrassing. Most of us are a lot more discerning.

I think Pete's a good chef, but a poor advocate for healthy eating because he's caught up in the paleo cult and he simply doesn't have the knowledge to see that healthy eating doesn't need to involve cutting out food groups and defending it as the only way.

A funny thing, they briefly advertised bulletproof coffee in the little coffee shop near the health institute at the university where I work. Their custom plummeted and it was very quickly removed from the menu.

dbmata wrote: »

You really just asked that? >_<

Are you talking to me?
If so, it was a rhetorical question.

LeenaGee wrote: »

Where do you go if a tornado hits?

When I was a kid we lived for a while in Oklahoma and didn't have a basement, so we always went over to my next-door neighbors to go in their basement. You are supposed to do that, if possible (the basement, not bug your neighbors).

Later we lived for a while in Alaska, which has earthquakes rather than tornados, and the first time one came my mother freaked out and had us all go into the basement that we now had (which is of course not what you are to do).

Kalikel wrote: »

Earthquakes scare the bejeezus out of me. Could not live in California.

I think you just get used to whatever you live with. earthquakes don't worry me, but I would be frightened of a tornado or hurricane.

DeirdreWoodwardSanders wrote: »

ForecasterJason wrote: »

All one simply needs to do if a tornado watch is issued is have a way to be notified in case a tornado warning is issued. If a tornado warning is issued, then one should be in a closed structure away from windows, preferably on the lowest level of a building if possible.
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I'm honestly not sure how to be notified -- I have an app on my phone but it goes off all night long for flood warnings, and I'm not in a flood zone. I check the computer every 15 minutes but I'd really like to get some sleep! Is there any device or app I should use that will let me select just tornado warnings?

That is a great question. Do the alerts on your phone cover only your county or other areas? The NWS offers a free mobile app that can be used to receive various types of alerts http://inws.wrh.noaa.gov/. They do allow you to select different categories of alerts, but I'm not sure if flood advisories would be in the category with other severe weather. Another option would be a NOAA weather radio; you would want one with S.A.M.E technology, which allows you to select specific alerts for a specific county.

I moved to CA nine years ago and hardly blink any more at earthquakes. I remember we had a couple in a row at night a few years ago and for the first one of those I asked my husband, "was that an earthquake?" and he said "Yes" and we both rolled over and went back to sleep. The other one everybody was buzzing about but I slept through it.

If nothing is crashing in on my head or bursting into flames, I figure I'm good.

How about this...

The earth opens up and swallows people while they're just lying in bed. About a year ago (maybe two), some guy not that far from here was just lying in bed and the earth swallowed him up. It's scary chit.

Mother Nature is not always a nice woman.

I rely on Troy Bridges for my notifications. Troy is the best. He gives us a Haircast every day, with a little Hairometer, green, yellow and red. Green is a good hair day, red is bad, there's a little lever that tells you what kind of day it'll be. That's weather we can use. I LOVE TROY.

Whoa. This thread took a turn for the better. Didn't think I'd find out so much about tornadoes. Much better than eating trash... Wait. Have we determined what trash is?

dbmata wrote: »

Kalikel wrote: »

How about this...

The earth opens up and swallows people while they're just lying in bed. About a year ago (maybe two), some guy not that far from here was just lying in bed and the earth swallowed him up. It's scary chit.

Mother Nature is not always a nice woman.

I enjoy alpine climbing, although to this point I kinda suck at it.

I have seen many ways first hand how nature has no issues with eating us, for good.

Are you serious? Sound cold. I do not understand mountain climbing. They always use a rope, suspended from above. How does the rope get up there? If they go up there to nail it into the rock, how come they go back down?

I know it has to make sense. I just cannot make sense out of it.

Mother Nature is a fickle beeyatch.

dbmata, what! Australians behaving badly in Bail is the most screwed up statement in this forum?? Gosh there is even a TV show about it at the moment called "What Really Happens In Bali" so it hardly a radical, new or untrue statement. Actually, not very exciting at all, just a passing comment to Charlotte.

Now you are simply being ridiculous!! Of course it is not representative of all Australians and I would never imply that. Australians, are in general, amazing people but every country has its idiots. Get over it and move onto something a bit more interesting as I am not at all interested in continuing this stupid conversation.

"food" companies (I use quotes because if it needs to be manufactured, is it really food?) hire chemists whose sole purpose is to figure out how to make foods more addictive. They then hire lobbyists to get ingredients cleared by the FDA.

I try not to eat anything that doesnt come out of the ground or that once walked upon it, in its most natural state. That generally means avoiding anything processed, canned, in boxes...eg: the entire center section of a grocery store.