Living with MCL

I came across The Soy Controversy by Vreni Gurd which sheds some disturbing news on the consumption of soy and soy products

It looks like soy might be causing more harm than good.

There were a couple of things that were of particular note.

One was how many things come from soy where there is no indication that to be the case. The following are at least a partial list of some items

-Textured vegetable protein (TVP)
-Textured plant protein
-Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)
-Vegetable protein concentrate
-Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
-Lecithin (usually from soy)
-Vegetable oil (usually from soy)
-Vegetable broth (usually from soy)
-Bouillon (usually from soy)
-Natural flavour (usually from soy)
-Mono-diglyceride(usually from soy)

and another was that Asians don’t eat as much soy as we (at least me) have been led to believe.  This from Myths & Truths About Soy by the Weston A Price Foundation

Average consumption of soy foods in Japan and China is 10 grams (about 2 teaspoons) per day. Asians consume soy foods in small amounts as a condiment, and not as a replacement for animal foods.

You really need to read both posts, The Soy Controversy, and Myths & Truths About Soy in their entirety.

I know I said I swore off political blogs, but with all the hubbub over John Edwards decision to continue his campaign for the presidency of the US, despite his wife’s cancer relapse, I couldn’t resist checking a few of my favorite political blogs, to see what their take would be on that decision. Besides I thought it relevant to my blog.

Not surprisingly, there were no surprises.

The so called “compassionate conservatives” were all expressing their distaste with John Edwards decision to continue his campaign, calling him uncaring, pathetic etc.

Just who are all those people presuming to know what they would do in the same situation, and then passing judgement on their decision?

They have no idea what it is like to be in John and Elizabeth Edwards shoes. Nobody can possibly know what they will do in that same situation, until they are in those same shoes.

And you can’t put yourself in those shoes. You have to be put there.

Life doesn’t stop just because you receive a diagnosis of cancer, even for a second time. Life still goes on! He knows it, and his wife knows it also.

Like John Edwards said, they could go cower in a corner, but would that be living? Not in my book.

And did anyone ever think how that would make Elizabeth feel, if she was the cause of John giving up on his dream?

Right now, she is still in good health, and the cancer is treatable. She could live a very long and vibrant life.

It really is no one else’s business, especially when it is being used as political fodder in many cases.

And take that from someone who does know.

My new bike was not ready today, as I planned. Major BUMMER!

It seems there was some confusion as to how much of the bike I was to assemble.

There was a time, when this wouldn’t have presented much of a problem, but things have changed quite a bit, since I owned a bike shop, and I just didn’t want to deal with the assembly.

Besides, between trying to ride, golfing, going to wine dinners, and of course napping in between those things, it might have taken me a month before I found time to put it together.

So we fitted the bike, making sure the seat height and handle bar position were correct, and I left the bike for Steve to finish putting together.

Now, I’ll just have to ride that old bike of mine until next week, when I pick up the new one.

The power supplies arrived on schedule this morning, and were installed in the server. Unfortunately though, that didn’t solve the problem right away. The system still would not turn on.

The systems guy was in a quandary, thinking maybe the mother board was fried also, but he continued tinkering around for another hour or so, and finally got it to work. And as it turns out, the power supplies may not have been ruined afterall, although he didn’t want to shut down the server to check that out. [I didn't blame him. I wouldn't have either.]

Oh well, not a big deal. The motherboard wasn’t fired, and everything is back to normal. The worst case scenario being, we now have a back up power supply.

But I still went home early today anywaze.