健康によくない
Today, some guy at work accused me of being healthy. For some reason, that's akin to being called "non-threatening" by a girl .. it's a compliment, but at the same time it seems like an affront to your own badass-ness. I snapped at the guy.
He says something like, "but you don't even drink, and you're into exercising, right?"
My response is, "Yeah, but I also sleep about 4 hours a night and eat nothing but tuna and protein bars 5 days a week!" So there!
Later at the grocery store, as I loaded up a basket with a week's supply of tuna and protein bars, I wondered why the hell I'm not dead, or at least malnourished to the point of severe illness. I've narrowed it down to two possibilities: 1) God wants me to be healthy so I have no tangible excuse for hating life, or 2) Clif brand Protein bars contain everything a human needs to live. Which one sounds less ridiculous?
Another possibility which just popped (but not locked) into my mind is that you don't actually have to do much to stay healthy, but most other people are just reaaallly unhealthy. That sounds more like it!
Or you know what? Maybe it's the Fiji water, which has become my own personal booze, for which my thirst can never be fully satiated. Oh, how I love the Fiji water!
posted by bastardface at 1:47:00 PM
9 Comments:
The fact is, that *is* healthy compared to most americans. The fact that you don't sit at home drinking beer, eating cheetos, and watching TV makes you instantly orders of magnitude healthier than many people. Sad as that is..
In a related note, I think it's weird when someone calls me small like it's a bad thing. Because all guys should be huge or something? After all, you're not a real man unless your over 6 feet tall and weight > 200 lbs.
2:44 PM
You should be careful with eating all that tuna. Eating fish contaminated with mercury, a poison that interferes with the brain and nervous system, can cause serious health problems. Here there is a link to a mercury calculator that determines if you intake too much mercury.
Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, last time it was the sleep debt problem.
Oh yeah, how do you get the japanese/chinese characters posted?
- JY
2:46 PM
That calculator says I have about 3 times too much mercury in my blood.
Thanks, Jeff, for encouraging me to cut back on 1 of the 2 things I eat.
Next you'll tell me running is bad for your knees, and lifting weights causes the deadly disorder Musclitis.
To type Japanese characters, I select "Japanese" on the language bar, このままで。
2:58 PM
Actually, as long as you've never had any knee problems before, you're okay. Running can be hard on someones knees if you already have bad knees, your overweight, or had some sort of injury. Also, the stronger the muscles around your knees are the less likely you'll hurt your knees. This is what most doctors say, and people that actually blow out there knees from running either a) had a previous injury or b) run in the wrong type of shoes. Good running shoes are key.
Keep on trucking, Dan!
Damn , no language bar for me.
3:45 PM
hey, when the hell did you become a doctor/nutritionist/econo-political analyst, anyway? Though I guess you do even more self-education via the internet every day than I do ...
3:54 PM
yeah, the first half of my day at school/work is straight internet. i love the internet (kinda sad) but i feel so much more enlightened. i am almost at the end... i can see it.
4:13 PM
On second thought, that mercury calculator is full of crap. I only entered that I eat about 3-4 cans of tuna a week, and it told me my mercury level was 3 times what it should be. That means it's only healthy to eat like 1 small can of tuna a week. I call bullshit!
3:31 PM
If you weight 180 lbs, you can consume up to 5.8 µg/L of mercury to be safe.
Tuna, canned
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chunk light 1 can 0.54 µg/L white albacore 1 can 1.41 µg/L
So in a month, you can comsume 4 cans of white albacore or 10 cans chunk light. I would avoid white albacore because of the higher mercury levels. I eat 1-2 cans of chunk light a week, so I am tuna happy and mercury safe.
10:21 AM
Chunk Light? You mean that pink cat-food crap?? No gracias, I'll take the mercury-laden Solid White any day. At least I'll die eating good tuna!!
10:30 AM
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