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June 19th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

Diet Profiles with MyFitnessPal

As I go through the book of medicine, I've been thinking more and more about my health. I am not terribly unhealthy nor am I very overweight, however my diet is definitely not terrific. I thought I would get some sort of baseline assessment of what my dietary goals should be as it relates to my weight. I weigh about 173 pounds and I'm 6 foot one. I've recently put on about 10 pounds and I'd like to get down to an ideal weight of about 160, a very tone 160. I'm not trying to be a bodybuilder, but I don't desire any excess fat either. I do work in front of a computer for many hours at a time and that lends itself to putting on a little weight around my belly. I do go jogging about four times a week for a couple miles. I went over to MyFitnessPal.com so I could establish a dietary profile. It only took about 60 seconds to complete this profile and get a very baseline assessment of what I might need to do. dietary profile I wouldn't have to make too many adjustments, but I would need to decrease my calories just a bit. This site all so offers a calorie counter, which I would need as I'm not very good at documenting these types of things on paper nor even understanding what it is I'm documenting. My wife is a lifetime member of Weight Watchers, but that just doesn't work for me. The next step of courses to keep a diet journal or a food diary depending on how you want to look at it. That would definitely not be a problem for me as I journal just about everything that I do. I haven't been terribly concerned about calories since I was in the military. Back then we had to worry about ensuring that we consume enough calories each day when we were in the field.That was about consuming lots of calories as opposed to today where I'm looking to consume the right amount of calories for a more sedentary lifestyle, and if I can eat healthier along the way, then even better.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

  • Lice

    Lice.—The body louse has been found to be a carrier of typhus fever. It carries the germ in its body after biting a sufferer from the disease and by biting a person can inject the germ into his blood. Lice belong to the insect family. The species which infest human beings are about 1-10 of an inch in length and are found on the covered regions of the body and clothing.

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    A difficult and stigmatized task, removing head lice is a honerous task, about as difficult as upgrading a video card on a laptop.

    Lice always grow from the eggs laid by an adult louse and never originate from filth or other matter. They hatch out within a week and the young are capable of reproduction in less than two weeks. A single adult female will produce 5,000 lice within eight weeks.

    The annoyance of these pests biting a human being will cause, if sufficiently prolonged, a nervous irritation, and a condition of ill health follows. There are three types of lice which infest man. The Head Lice (Pediculus Capitis), the Body Lice (Pediculus Vestimentorum) and Crab Lice (Pediculus Inguinalis).

  • Grace and Ease in Walking

    Grace and Ease in Walking.- in the several beautiful and anatomical charts illustrating the bony, muscular and an internal mechanism of the human frame we have been consciously awakened to its complexity we been forcibly impressed as the amazing skill in wisdom displayed in his marvelous arrangement, and at the general order, system, harmony and perfection which everywhere prevails throughout the diversified contrivance of the body.  But its wonders do not stop there.  The graceful motion, ease with which we won, lead, etc., demonstrating with/entity difference Russell’s concern to those movements contract and obey the impulse of the will.

    This is the last section of entries from Book 1 of the Book of Medicine and soon I will be toasting the completion of the transcription of the first 70 pages of the book toasting myself with a nice red wine in a new set of Riedel wine glasses.  I am going to be temporarily skipping Book 2 on anatomy and focus next on Book 3 ‘Preventative Medicine’ which includes such interesting sections as ‘How to Get Rid of Flies’ and killing cockroaches, sexual diseases and sexual education for children. I’ve got a feeling this next section will be much more interesting.

    Here’s the last few sections all together to complete Book 1.

    The Voice.- the voice may utter 1500 letters in a minute, yet the articulation of each of those sounds requires a different and distinct position of the vocal organs, the muscles of which move a surprising celerity and swiftness.

    Deafness of the Fingers.- in music we train the muscles of the fingers until the glide over the keyboard of the piano with dexterity and precision, and perform the most simple and delightfully exquisite music and onto the grand, difficult and complex passage of a private harmony.  The mind of the skillful and professional violinist is upon the music which his right hand is executing by the very movements of the bow, yet the muscles of his left hand and fingers are deathly engaged in determining the length of the space of the strings, the character and duration of each note; and so rapidly, carefully, aye, even unconsciously are these complex movements made, but not a false note is heard, though the variation of a singles hair’s breadth would cause a discord, and is spoil the pleasing effect of the music, and destroy the attractiveness of its harmony.

    Muscle Development.- the bicep muscle in the arm of the blacksmith may grow strong, Howard, firm, and a solid almost as a club; the legs of the pedestrian may become large and well developed; the hand of a prizefighter trains over the force of a sledgehammer; while the end and terms, engraver trees line so delicate line as the invisible to the naked eye, and the fingers of the blind acquirer delicacy of touch that almost compensates for the missing sense.  Thus there are few conceptions of the designing mine which the muscular system of man cannot be made to execute and perform.

  • Fever Germs in Ice

    Fever Germs in Ice.  — in Connecticut, the Board of Health informs us that, in several instances, attention has been drawn to sewage contaminated ponds with ice houses upon their borders, and that several isolated cases of typhoid fever, and one death, from the free use of the ice blue by sewage, have been recorded in that state.  The curious natural experiment of the United States steamship limit, elsewhere detailed, shows conclusively that fever germs are not infallibly destroyed by a freezing, probably not by a zero temperature, and contributes its share of proof that impure eyes, especially when gathered from ponds polluted by sewage, they constitute a prolific cause of disease.

 

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