In Praise of the Archangel breakfastmaker and for everyone who enjoyed his superb English breakfast ! (grabbed from the telegraph)

Friday, 26 March 2010

Fried breakfast is healthiest start to day, say scientists

A breakfast of bacon, sausages, eggs, mushrooms, and beans could be the healthiest start to the day, according to new research.

Photo: PA

Scientists believe that 
breakfast programmes the metabolism for the rest of the day, and a fatty meal will help the body break down fat later on.

Carbohydrate rich foods in contrast appear mainly to prepare the body to break down only carbohydrates, the International Journal of Obesity reports.

Dr Martin Young, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said: 
“The first meal you have appears to programme your metabolism for the rest of the day.

“This study suggests that if you ate a carbohydrate-rich breakfast it would promote carbohydrate utilisation throughout the rest of the day, 
whereas if you have a fat-rich breakfast, you (can) transfer your energy utilisation between carbohydrate and fat.”

The team of researchers found there may be some truth in the old saying 
“'eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper' 
– it may be the key to a healthy body and mind.”

Their study looked at the effects of eating different types of food – and of eating them at different times in the day, according to the Daily Mail.

Mice fed a high fat meal after waking remained healthy
, but those given a carb-rich breakfast, followed by a fatty dinner, did not fare as well.

Co-researcher Professor Molly Bray added: 
“Our study seems to show that if you really want to be able to efficiently respond to mixed meals across a day, a meal in higher fat content in the morning is a good thing.”

A high-fat breakfast of bacon and eggs may be the healthiest start to the day, report shows

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Published: 7:55PM BST 31 Mar 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkvideo/7545038/The-full-English-breakfast-by-Canteen-owner-Cass-Titcombe.html

For the first meal eaten after a night's sleep appears to programme the metabolism for the rest of the day, the researchers found.

And the age-old maxim
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" 
may in fact be the best advice to follow to prevent metabolic syndrome, according to a new University of Alabama at Birmingham study.

Metabolic syndrome 
is characterized by abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease-risk factors.

The study, published online March 30 in the International Journal of Obesity, examined the influence exerted by the type of foods and specific timing of intake on the development of metabolic syndrome characteristics in mice. 

The UAB research revealed that mice fed a meal higher in fat after waking had normal metabolic profiles. 

In contrast, mice that ate a more carbohydrate-rich diet in the morning and consumed a high-fat meal at the end of the day saw increased weight gain, adiposity, glucose intolerance and other markers of the metabolic syndrome.

"Studies have looked at the type and quantity of food intake, but nobody has undertaken the question of whether the timing of what you eat and when you eat it influences body weight, even though we know sleep and altered circadian rhythms influence body weight," 
said the study's lead author Molly Bray, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health.

Bray said the research team found that fat intake at the time of waking seems to turn on fat metabolism very efficiently and also turns on the animal's ability to respond to different types of food later in the day.

When the animals were fed carbohydrates upon waking, carbohydrate metabolism was turned on and seemed to stay on even when the animal was eating different kinds of food later in the day.

"The first meal you have appears to program your metabolism for the rest of the day," 
said study senior author Martin Young, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the UAB Division of Cardiovascular Disease. 
"This study suggests that if you ate a carbohydrate-rich breakfast it would promote carbohydrate utilization throughout the rest of the day, 
whereas, if you have a fat-rich breakfast, you have metabolic plasticity to transfer your energy utilization between carbohydrate and fat."

Bray and Young said the implications of this research are important for human dietary recommendations. Humans rarely eat a uniform diet throughout the day and need the ability to respond to alterations in diet quality. Adjusting dietary composition of a given meal is an important component in energy balance, and they said their findings suggest that recommendations for weight reduction and/or maintenance should include information about the timing of dietary intake plus the quality and quantity of intake.

"Humans eat a mixed diet, and our study, which we have repeated four times in animals, seems to show that if you really want to be able to efficiently respond to mixed meals across a day 
then a meal in higher fat content in the morning is a good thing," Bray said. 

"Another important component of our study is that, at the end of the day, the mice ate a low-caloric density meal, and we think that combination is key to the health benefits we've seen."

Bray and Young said further research needs to test whether similar observations are made with different types of dietary fats and carbohydrates, and it needs to be tested in humans to see if the findings are similar between rodents and humans.

"We're also working on a study right now to determine if these feeding regimens adversely affect heart function," Young said

today's" men and women": matters arising

click :You might like to go here  to www. natopictalk.blogspot.com to see more material for this topic

Points arising 
It's easy for Spaniards to get confused using "go".
The brain ( most of us have a brain) regularizes and associates too much.
go goes going went  gone is often followed by TO
SO ...go to..., goes to....., went to......., etc
LOOK right and SOUND right to the brain 
AT A REFLEX LEVEL.
Because
There is prepositional TO for PLACES:
We went to church. He's gone to the dentist's, etc
AND   TO belonging to the infinitive , with the continuous:
I'm going to learn English
So
There is more than one meaning involved, and our brains note this too!

But
often is not ALWAYS ! More than one meaning is not ALL MEANINGS !
What gave you trouble in this exercise:
Kevin goes bowling.

This structure is SUBJECTIVE
It Depends ON MEANING


GO in ANY TENSE OR FORM + Verb- ing 
is for verbs  which are SUBJECTIVELY juerga, ocio, o relax
Lots of verbs are seldom used for anything else.
But consider "dive"

If you are a professional diver You do NOT talk about
" going diving"
The police frogmen dived deep to find the dead body.
Compare
We went diving round the coral reefs near Cancun.You don't have to, but it's typical to call the sport scuba-diving or skindiving.

The brain prefers not to think and to use external features.......

You have an extra problem with bowling as a loan word in Spanish
The PLACE " a bowling ALLEY has lost the second word in in Spanish!
But your mistake: He goes to a bowling
sounds as confusing to English-users
as the loan-word to vamoose (=vamosear) can sound for you!
The kids vamoosed after breaking the window  
¡¡¡Ellos vamosearon!!!! 

Don't go skiing without being insured !












Going courting from 7 brides for seven brothers with Italian subtitles


You may have gone......xing  (not go+computer programming)during the summer, and the result is:

myspace layout

By the way 
Why don't owls go courting in the rain?
Too wet to woo.

I'm tired: 
You can look up ways of illustrating  some of these on internet yourselves 
For example:
The results of going drinking.
What has happened to men who have gone jogging in NY winters.

Politically Incorrect: today is ST.PATRICK'S 17th March

Click for ( very unsatisfactory) catholic encyclopedia link   :St Patrick was evangelizer of Ireland, so he is Ireland's Patron Saint
Click here for Irish jokes
Most of what you see on modern films is untrue.

Nor can you rely on most encyclopedias.
 
St Parick was a Romanized Celt, a Briton
He was born abt ad 390.
This was  near the end of  Roman rule in Britannia, the Roman province which covered the modern countries of England and Wales, or about 50%  of the area of the islands.
Some sources give his birth in what nowadays is Scotland, others in what  today is Wales.(Logical, because Wales and the Welsh   are the survivng Romanized Celtic Britons, 1600 years later.)
In his own lifetime, the germanic tribes of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, began their genoicide and occupation of what is now England .

Although the last Roman soldiers had not left (they left when he was in his teens). the province had already been ravaged by invaders, pirates  from ireland, picts from modern scotland , and saxon pirates. Roman urban life had been smashed. Christianity was now permitted and increasing, after Constantine in 315.A.D. At the same time, there was a great pagan revival, of both Roman and Celtic religion. However, Ireland still had Druids.
Britannia did not.
 His very name, Patricius, indicates that his parents belonged to the Ambrosian  way of thinking,  , those who wished to retain as much Roman culture as possible.(A little later, "king" Arthur was an Ambrosian)
Christians- still a minority - belonged to the Ambrosian  tendency.By default.
But the Ambrosians  did not consist only of Christains.
The Ambrosians accepted the return to Celtic tribal social structure and methods of production. Their opponents wanted to go further.
They wanted to return to before Roman times in every way and be like their  never-Roman Celtic cousins in Ireland, etc.They rejected Latin and  all classical learning and Roman religion.( The indications are that Latin never replaced Celtic as a common language, unlike most of the Roman Empire.)
Naturally, although it was only newly permitted, . this rejection included Christianity. Illegal and persucuted, it had still arrived via Rome.

Except for receiving some sort of classical education and being ( he says  nominally?) Christian , we cannot know what adult part  St Patrick would have played in Britannia.

At 16  Irish Pirates captured him, and took him to Ireland

He was sold as a slave.

He was a slave in Ireland for six years.

Slaves usually suffer terrible treatment.

In his confessio(click)  he says he looked after his master's animals , which gave him the opportunity to pray.

That doesn't sound too bad.

He doesn't mention much  abusive treatment.

But we can suppose that as aslave, he got it.

After six years slavery he escaped.

He returned Good for the Evil done to him.

He became a priest,spent time with St Germanus in France ( an important figure who is vilified in modern Hollywood)

Recieved Rome's Ok to evangelize Ireland  and ordained a bishop.(replacing Palladius, who had had comparitively little sucess)

He was immensly sucessful.

Not without problems ... captured and put in chains a dozen times.

If you want to believe the modern myth that the church in the Roman Empire was imposed by that same empire, I can't stop you.
It Isn''t true of Britannia.
It is least true in the never Roman areas of Ireland and what is now Scotland.
to be continued

From Monday 15th.Why object of desire left bargain-hunters flattened at the home of the Ikea flatpack

 A version of this story was once considered for an exam. The phlegmatic British?
Click here for BBC video
Click below to see original story in the Times
From The Times
February 11, 2005
Why object of desire left bargain hunters flattened at the home of the Ikea flatpack
By David Rose and Sam Coates

The vocabulary in blue italics below gave you trouble or is noteworthy.

THE opening of England’s largest Ikea descended into a riot which left six people in hospital and thousands more disappointed yesterday after managers underestimated the British obsession with a bargain.

The 28,500sq m store in Edmonton, North London, had to close just 30 minutes after its midnight opening because 6,000 customers — three times the number expected — turned up, attracted by £30 bed-frames and £45 sofas.

In the moments after the doors opened, the store’s 50 security guards found themselves overwhelmed by the eager crowds, who pushed and elbowed their way into the showroom.

As they squeezed through the entrance, scores of shoppers were thrown to the ground and pinned against the wall by the throng, causing tempers to  be lost.

Once inside, the behaviour worsened. Video showed shoppers fighting about furniture and one man pinned against a wall by a well-built customer as they argued about  a sofa. A woman was left with blood pouring from her nose after she was pushed against a wall. Another was heard screaming in pain as she tried to escape the crush.

Police already on the scene called for back-up, so nine ambulances, six fire engines, one medical rapid-response car, and an emergency-control vehicle were all sent to the store.

But the emergency services were delayed because dozens of customers had left their cars along the North Circular Road (A406) and continued to the store  on foot. A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said: “Many people abandoned their vehicles in the middle of the A406,and this has caused severe traffic difficulties.”

More than 20 people suffered heat exhaustion, many of them as they fought their way up the escalators, in the 30 minutes before managers decided to shut the store.

Some customers had to be taken out on stretchers, while others were given first aid by staff.  Six people had to stay in hospital overnight.

Almost all the 500 three-seater, £45 special-offer, leather sofas, reduced from £325, were sold in the 30 minutes after the store opened.

Karyn Christian, 38, started queueing at midday on Wednesday to get one of the sofas. She said that it was chaos when the store opened. “When they opened the doors I was pushed  and sprained my ankle. My cousin was pushed over. When we got inside, I saw people pulling at different ends of a sofa, shouting, ‘Mine! Mine!’ and others lying on the sofas trying to stop other customers carrying them away. It was like nothing I have ever seen before.” She said that another customer had threatened her with a wood mallet.

John Olie, Ikea UK’s deputy manager, said the company was “totally shocked and overwhelmed” by what had happened, and blamed queue-jumpers for inflaming tempers. “We didn’t predict this at all. We’ve opened 12 stores in the UK and we have had opening offers before.”

Notes :

•  bargain-hunter  we emphasize difficulty when you're seeking, searching, or looking for something by using "hunt" (=cazar) thus also flat-hunting, flathunter, etc house-hunting, etc.
• flatpack. see illustration. cf: a six-pack= 6 cans of beer,  a backpack= a rucksack, a bag on your back for hiking and travelling and pilgrimages, a lunch-pack, perhaps sandwiches and an apple in cling-film,   a brat pack = a group of spoiled youngsters, etc etc
• Not a flat, noun, where you live, but "flat" adjective --> the verb to flatten. ..only a few verbs are formed in this way, but they are frequently used , and there are others in this text: 
• threat-->to threaten s.o. with s.th (= a menace, to menace s.o. with s.th)
• worse--> to worsen = to get worse
• a riot, to riot, a rioter. Local history will exemplify: Demonstrations  a quarter century ago in Cartagena descended into a riot.The rioters set fire to the Local Assembly building. Riot Police were called in.  Riot Police often use water cannons, tear gas, and rubber bullets to stop rioters rioting. Sadly , this is common and necessary vocabulary.
• to estimate--->to overestimate &  to underestimate
• to overwhelm : to overcome or win by large numerical superiority: in other words, if there are TOO MANY for you, you are overwhelmed.
• eager = very exitedly ready for something you want, in a state of keen anticipication
• to + make/other verb  +one's + way + or - preposition  a bit tricksy for Spanish students, is expressed with very different structures in Spanish = abrirse paso/camino + - el modo de hacerlo +o- donde.   There are two here :
• Elbowed their way into. into--> entered, they made their way and entered. How ? using elbows ---> to elbow ( to hit with your fist is to punch, with your foot is to kick , but to head, as in football, to elbow, as here, to knee etc, don't have a special verb).  
• fought their way up. the up ---> subieron, how did they make their way? they fought. Subieron abriendose paso por medio de pelear is horrible Spanish, here  a Spaniard would probably say something more  like pelearon para subir...This is why if you translate too much you won't get used to using this set of expressions.
• squeeze = very close to to crush and  to to flatten.
• throng = crowd, to throng = to crowd
• to pin, the metaphor is with pinning a notice on a notice board with pins or drawing-pins, or a specimen ( butterflies etc) in a collection....
• wellbuilt- big and strong, often fat with it.
• Spokeswoman. The oldest form , spokesman, the person who offically speaks for a group, has given a family : spokeswoman, spokesperson , spokespeople, etc.
• chaos. Check the English pronunciation
• stretchers, see picture.
• first aid
• sprained my ankle
• Queue . to queue is to form an orderly queue. to queue-jump = to jump the queue, is to not respect the order of the queue, to push in front.  

Other matters: 
The mis-  of mistake, and with the idea of mistake, appears in

misunderstand, a misunderstanding ( not  a BadlyUnderstood )

mispronounce

mishear 

mislay and misplace, which are close synonyms , =put in the wrong place, , for traspapelar, extraviar,etc

April fool's day :pranks and media hoaxes

As a boy, my favourite way of making an "April fool "  of my father was to give him empty eggshells in eggcups as boiled eggs for breakfast. He usually hadn't noticed the date b4 breakfast.

Note : A prankster  plays pranks on people.He pranks them. If he hoaxes people, he gets them to believe somthing untrue.

Here is a selection from
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com

The Washing of the Lions (1698)

The April 2, 1698 edition of Dawks’s News-Letter reported that “Yesterday being the first of April, several persons were sent to the Tower Ditch to see the Lions washed.” This is the first recorded instance of a popular April Fool's Day prank that involved sending people to the Tower of London to see the "washing of the lions." The joke was that there was no lion-washing ceremony. It was a fool's errand. (For more info, see the Hoaxipedia article: Washing The Lions) 
NB: the tower of london for centuries housed many things: the mint, the Royal Menagerie (that is, zoo, and the only one in England until Victorian times) , with Lions.This gave rise rise to "seeing the lions "(relative sophistication: someone who had "seen the lions" had visited London and seen and done all that there was to do and see. )-> social "lionhunting" literary lions, etc.

One of the most famous : The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

01/04/1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Related:
• The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (The footage itself on YouTube)
• The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (full-length article)

01/04/1977: The British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement devoted to San Serriffe, a small republic said to consist of several semi-colon-shaped islands located in the Indian Ocean. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Only a few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. . Related:
• San Serriffe (full-length article)




 You tube has a big selection, most bad , or worse. here's one:







and another:




and BBC , night of 31/03/08 to 01/04/08

Don't do them!

Youtube site with hard spellings and lots more:http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=icnelly#p/u/87/NywHAIQevDw

Try here: