To enjoy being a plant-based athlete, develop your vegan cooking skills. When eating out, negotiate tactfully for vegan options. Eating Out: I'm enjoying learning to be a plant-based athlete, living on vegan cooking. It is helping me to save animals, one at a time, while enjoying my food enormously. Eating out with friends can be a challenge. I'm slowly learning to draw less and less unwanted ... Read more
"You are what you eat." Lindlahr, 1942 What’s To Eat? Now! There's a great question! There are many reasons that we eat what we do. The main one is habit or conditioning. Usually the food that our family provided, as we were growing up. As a researcher and triathlete, I think a lot about the energy component. Should I get my power from carbohydrates or fats? But there is much more to nutrition than ... Read more
"No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were: Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." John ... Read more
If you've ever had plantar fasciitis, you'll be aware that it can always come back if you are not careful. That said, you can make plantar fasciitis heel pain go away again, if you know how. My training plan for Ironman Western Australia (December 6th, 2015) includes a number of key races, as indictors of where I need to focus my attention. One such race was the 2015 OBX Half Ironman, last weekend. It was also ... Read more
"The benefits of the use of animals in medical research are obvious and quantifiable. From heart transplants, scans for improved prenatal diagnostic techniques, blood transfusions and anticoagulants to medication for high blood pressure, asthma and major depressive disease – most of us have benefited from the use of animals in some form." Dr Obaro Evuarherhe Human awareness evolves, one epiphany at a time, if ... Read more
I Never Thought I Would Get Old Enough To Have Prostate Problems Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Symptoms My prostate problems resulted in the desire to pee, all the time. Even when I didn't need to pee. With painfully slow urination! But I'm an Ironman-distance triathlete. This isn't supposed to happen! Then one friend had prostate cancer (treated successfully). Another had his prostate reamed with a ... Read more
Plant-based Ironman training is another FitOldDog experiment in life, and it is coming with some interesting surprises - embrace surprise for healthy aging. I'm not the first, but I am one of the older people to try it, I imagine. My run is coming back, after two years. Yes! Two years, but it was a smooth and steady run, of 7 x 400 repeats, at the track, with Julie, today. My pace was not horrible, finally! Now ... Read more
An message to all research biologists, "You Can Save The Animals." It just takes a little thought and caring. Even PETA has woken up to the idea of funding research on alternatives to animal testing. After demonizing us for years. We are just trying to understand and cure diseases, before they kill our families and friends. There are plenty of ways you can save the animals. That said, I do love a good book, ... Read more
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