Monthly Archives: April 2006

Terveys: Bike day #1

Posted on Tue, 25 April 2006 by Mel Green

Finally got my butt off the bus & onto the bike. Read more about it at Terveys.

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Bike day #1

Posted on Tue, 25 April 2006 by Mel Green

I finally did it. Sometime last fall, we started driving the car less often, & began taking the bus to/from work & other destinations more often. For me, that’s usually meant taking the bus sometimes as many as three or … Continue reading →

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Enough with the rut

Posted on Fri, 21 April 2006 by Mel Green

Discussion on one of the lists I’m on has returned to an old issue, to the effect of: I was losing weight, but now I’m at a plateau — how do I get out of the rut? Lots of the … Continue reading →

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Berry inaccurate

Posted on Thu, 20 April 2006 by Mel Green

Much though I appreciate the Glycemic Index Newsletter, & all the GI people behind it, I wish they would be a little less lax about their inaccuracy about how many species of berry are native to the North American continent, … Continue reading →

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GI Group rebuts the slam

Posted on Thu, 20 April 2006 by Mel Green

Back in mid-March, I wrote about a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition that slammed the glycemic index. Now the good folks at the Glycemic Index Newsletter have themselves responded to the study (see last item) with a … Continue reading →

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Hair, not the musical

Posted on Sun, 16 April 2006 by Mel Green

Time for a haircut again. A buzz cut, actually — which somehow turned into my preferred hairstyle last year when I did it just to get at the damn folliculitis that was for some reason attacking my hair follicles. Now … Continue reading →

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Sphagnum moss & sundew plants

Posted on Fri, 14 April 2006 by Mel Green

Ft. Richardson Military Reservation, Anchorage, Alaska. 5 Jul 2003. This is one of my favorite “early” digitial photos, when I was first really getting a grasp on the power of the macro functions of my camera. I started taking a … Continue reading →

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Evidence of a visit

Posted on Tue, 11 April 2006 by Mel Green

But I’m not sure when this visit occurred. We get a lot of moose in the wintertime — they especially like to chomp on the crab apple trees that hang over the fence from our neighbor’s yard. Moose nuggets are … Continue reading →

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Say what….?

Posted on Mon, 10 April 2006 by Mel Green

The GI Newsletter thinks there are only three berry species indigenous to North America. Oh please… there are many more.

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School vending machines

Posted on Fri, 7 April 2006 by Mel Green

My letter to Sen. Lisa Murkowski thanking her for her cosponsorship of the Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act, which would create nutritional standards for foo sold through schools including vending machines. Meanwhile, Anchorage School District is gonig to begin phasing out sale of junk food & vending machines ASD schools.

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