Someone asked on a wing chun video I uploaded to youtube why there are no kicks, I told him there are no kicks because they're not at the ideal range (they're doing chi sao.) I meant there are no kicks in this particular video.
Two helpful people replied, one actually explaining that wing chun works at different ranges and what's going on the video that I uploaded, which has chi sao in the title (dur), and another guy telling me if I don't do wing chun I won't understand what chi sao is.
I just watched a Panorama on the virtues of calorie restriction and fasting. Apparently there's growing evidence these things are good for you. Shockingly we need 21st century science to tell us nutrients are more beneficial than calories. Shouldn't that part be obvious?
Cold Sirloin Tip Steak for lunch makes me happy. I just grab it in my grubby little mits and rip pieces off with my teeth. These are the special moments that make life worth living...
Yup, I studied and tested it in academics. We've have some great research on the subject for 10 years now or so. If you can find it, there is this educational documentary with mice tested on both caloric restrictive diets and the phytoalexin (plant antibiotic) resveratrol, that's pretty informative. But I strongly doubt you'll find it on the Interwebs for free unless someone added it when I wasn't looking. Basically, fasting promotes production of some chemical compounds that appear to make metabolic processes more efficient and promote a promising extreme extension of life in all organisms studied. It "seems" like it might work in humans too, but because of the complexities and ethics concerns governing it, it hasn't been satisfactorily studied (and I doubt it ever will) in humans.
Damn, that was too many multisyllabic words. It was like homework to type. I wanna stick to poop jokes. I may have even misspelled some infernal Latin in there, but I refuse to verify it after arguing with Chrome so much already.
The way it was explained in Panorama calorie restriction or fasting causes the body to switch down a gear where it focuses more on cell and DNA repair rather than new cell production. Which is what a high calorie, high protein diet apparently promotes.
We could probably do a whole thread on this stuff.