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    Primal / Paleo Diet

    Actually, trips to the grocery store are pretty quick. Aside from spices and maybe some bottled water, everything you need is on the periphery of the store. The middle aisles are pretty much a processed food wasteland.
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    Primal / Paleo Diet

    Calories ingested is one factor in weight loss. Going on a severely calorie restricted diet will result in weight loss, but not likely in optimal health and maybe not even significant fat loss. If your body thinks it's starving, it will adjust metabolism to protect itself. It might start...
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    Primal / Paleo Diet

    Completely untrue. The research supports the opposite conclusion.
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    Primal / Paleo Diet

    I've been eating mostly paleo since last fall. Prior to that, I ate pretty much anything I wanted, never paid much attention to diet, but ate relatively well, not much processed foods. My background is endurance sports, and I'd always eaten a high carb diet. I never gained weight, but also...
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    eggs

    Same crap, different pile. Non-controlled study using questionnaires. You can find all kinds of correlations in poorly conducted studies, but it has nothing to do with causation. Here's one for you- Did you know that heart disease has increased right along with use of toilet paper and...
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    eggs

    First of all, this study was conducted by having participants fill out questionnaires. These 'Food Frequency Questionnaires" are often used in long term studies and have long been called into question for the accuracy of the data collected. In this particular study, the questionnaires were...
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    eggs

    I'm the exception because I don't eat a crap diet. I'm also the exception because I've read up on nutrition with an open mind and done research to find what really is the best way to eat. What I've learned is that the low fat, whole grains, avoid meat and cholesterol mantra is total bs...
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    eggs

    Total Cholesterol- 3.69 mmol/L TriG .51 LDL 1.95 HDL 1.51 The US usually uses mg/dl, so converted those values are: Total 143 LDL 75 HDL 58 TriG 45 A1C is 5.4%. I'm 41 years old.
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    eggs

    It's well documented in current medical research that there is virtually no link between dietary cholesterol and blood serum cholesterol. I personally eat an average of 3-5 eggs a day and 5 lbs of red meat a week and my recent blood work showed my 'good' cholesterol was at the top of the...
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Yeah, both of those things. And some more volume would be nice too.
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Nope. Not unless it was a good market environment with lots of volatility.
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Zero
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    I have a retirement savings account set up. I will trade in it now and then, and try to hold some long term investments in it, but it's hard to escape the trader's mindset and hold stuff for a long time. Profits from how I trade could definitely evaporate completely. But there is always...
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    Grinding it out, day after day

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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Echo doesn't take a cut of your profits. Regarding your tax question, I would speak to a competent accountant who knows your situation. Trading for a living isn't a common occupation so there might be a few angles the typical accountant isn't familiar with. That's why I went to one of the...
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Really? Sorry to disappoint. The picture cut it off, but it's a 3 car garage on the left. Containing a 2009 Mercedes ML 350, a 2009 Toyota Tundra and a Bobcat skid-steer. The single garage on the right is my man garage. It has a 2009 Honda CRF 450 motocross bike and a couple pedal bikes (a...
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    15 Scariest Food Additives

    If you can't pick it or kill it and eat it in it's natural state, don't put it in your mouth. If it comes in a can or a box, leave it alone. Would get rid of most diabetes and heart disease in short order.
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3421404>
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    We've been in the new house for almost a year now. It turned out pretty much just as we wanted. Here's a couple pics from a local home magazine that featured it. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3421401>
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Opening orders grossed $61k on 5.3 million shares and lost money the last four months of the year.
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