Instant Noodles: Natural Disasters: Help End Hunger from Poverty

Mixing flour and water and salt makes dough for noodles. Then can be air dried or heat dried or deep fried or boiled in hot butter or other oils, air fried, baked, but most people put them in veggie broth, chick broth, beef broth, seafood broth, soups and stews to add noodle nutrition.

The noodle dough can be made with almond flour and eggs for example to avoid the fabled naughty gluten, for everyone else high gluten flour and water and salt are the basic ingredients of most instant noodles. You can try other flour free alternatives and there are many recipes if your vegan or have special diet requirements. No one size fits all solution for everyone, and you can doctor the noodles up with a soft-boiled egg, fresh diced carrot pieces, green onions, freshly diced garlic cloves, onions chopped up, celery, peas, or whatever floats your boat. 

Add spices like black pepper and a little lime or lemon juice to cut through the oils and add some citrus pop flavor deliciousness. Add enough salt to taste that its savory without being too salty. Most people will boil or add hot water to their instant noodles, but I suggest a squeeze of MCT oil when your done mixing the flavor packet, it adds a nice healthy oil and smoother mouth feel without being greasy. I also like cooking the noodles in hot salted water, draining the water off, then adding hot warm butter, garlic, salt and pepper, a dash of real fermented soy sauce from Japan, a little bit of hot pepper paste or flakes to add some heat, and yummy! 

Ever wonder how instant noodles are made, this somewhat cheesy sub-10 minute youtube (<-click link) video can teach you how instant noodles are made, and even mentions how instant noodles can provide food nutrition relief during disaster relief programs after some chaotic natural hazard like a tornado or bad earthquake, forest fire or flooding. 

Instant noodles can be provided for poverty relief to poor countries to give nutrition, with fortified noodles providing more essential vitamins and minerals that are typically missing in the poor areas diet, specifically tuned by studying the area intended for the free noodles fortified to meet better nutritional standards to make up for what the people are not getting from the typical daily foods or malnutrition. 

Or this 12 min video on YouTube <- click here 

Why Buy a Car With 600 HP if You Drive it Slowly

"Chart shows average per-passenger fuel economy of various modes of travel. All forms of rail achieve relatively high values because of high ridership, proportionally low drag, and high electrification rates (electricity is inherently more efficient than combustion-engine propulsion). Airlines are an increasingly efficient form of transport as more passengers are fit onto planes and ticketing software fills most planes to capacity. Motorcycles achieve a high number of passenger miles per gallon, owing to their light weight and very high fuel efficiency. Transit buses are not efficient with lower ridership rates."

42 liters, 1900 liters, 2 stroke marine turbo diesel burning heavy bunker oil to move tens of thousands of containers across the world's oceans facilitating global trade with economies of scale. Engines that make tens of thousands of horsepower idling at 80 rpm, very slow spinning high torque high power large ship engines. By passenger light duty vehicle standards, large commercial and industrial ship engines are enormous, bigger than your house and cost tens of millions. Jet engines on passenger aircraft are also super expensive fuel gobblers with incredible power output. There is a shift towards using ammonia as fuel in large ship engines. 

You can't actually drive it on public roads that fast, legally. I am thinking of the BMW N47 V12 engine in overpowered automobiles that get low fuel economy, not that people with enough money to buy that kind of vehicle actually care about fuel economy or fueling costs, but low fuel economy also reduces range per, or wastes time.  Have you ever heard the expression it is more fun to ride a slow motorcycle faster than it is to ride a very fast motorcycle slower. 

Then you pay a penalty by having to buy premium gasoline more often since the overpowered performance sports car gets terrible low fuel economy. If you push the pedal all the way down in a high horsepower car, the fuel economy drops to the single digit range, like the School Bus I drive professionally that gets 5.6 MPG average on a very hilly route. 

BMW E30 M3 1987-1991 Analog Superlative & Correspondingly Collectable & Expensive to Buy Now If You Can Find One!

A high-revving S14 engine 2.0 L in circuit, and 
world Touring Car Championships versions 
that won races around the world! Street road
versions 2.3 L then 2.5 L displacement! 

Pure Homologation M3 based on E30 3-Series
Cloth, analog gauges, stick shift w/ clutch pedal
2.3 L then 2.5 L rev happy 4 banger sings music

Neoclassical DTM Motorsports Oozing w/ Style

A special homologation car sold to satisfy group A Touring rule regulation required 5000 models to be sold to the general public or made available for purchase by random people. Launched at the 1985 Motor Show in Frankfurt Germany, first generation M3 sold from model years 1986 though 1991. I believe that automotive quality peaked in the 1990's because the vehicles had a tasteful amount of plastic and electronics while being mostly metal, steel and aluminum respectively. 

My late friend Matt Mayo purchased as used first gen. M3 at an automotive auction for $12,000 very beat up but still working and took me for a ride on the edge of my seat pushing it to its limits, the most intense vehicle experience at this point in 2002. The same year I went with another friend down to SIR or Pacific Raceways on a random Tuesday in the early morning. Upon arriving we noticed the racing team, and they were excited to have visitors to their practice session of the CAN-AM series and gave us each a thrilling ride in these tuned V8 sedans with big sticky racing tires with amazing grip. The race car drivers were physically fit and the forces inside the car pushed to its edge were astonishing. A road car like that would drift out of control after the all-season tires lost traction with much less spirited driving. On the other hand, racing tires wear out in less than 1000 miles while typical passenger car tires last 30,000, 60,000, or 90,000 miles by comparison. 

Harvesting Sunlight or Wind + Energy Storage at the GW Scale for 24/7 Output

Renewables are clean, sustainable, and renewable or virtually endless or cheap in terms of comparison to finite fossil fuels but suffer from intermittent supply chain issues or pore grid following, such that baseload suppliers of electricity from conventional nuclear fission power plants, hydro power pumped storage and similar, offer the most commercially feasible, profitable, reasonable paths forward to renewable or nearly endless clean electricity.

Making solar PV panels, or wind turbines, and their long term EOL or end-of-life recycling are neither eco-friendly or low toxicity, but still radically less polluting overall than the same amount of power produced by coal power plants burning coal making toxic air pollution the entire time + blowing up or cutting down mountains to harvest the coal. The only carbon energy source that is quasi renewable is trees and wood or biomass and waste gas recovery from compost and trash dumps. There are 3 trillion + trees on Earth and they grow back when replanted as Warehouser has proven for many decades of such activity. 

Energy conservation if widely practiced by most people worldwide can reduce emissions by 50% vs current levels, even while raising billions of people out of poverty giving them wells, solar PV to pump the wells, electricity for cellular towers and to power their laptops connected to the internet, basic electric stoves at home to reduce daily combustion of wood or coal in very rural areas and similar. 

Loving Yourself as God Commands

It is ok if you make mistakes, fall short of the glory of God. No one is perfect but becoming Godly means calling yourself into the obedience of Christ Jesus, giving God Holt Praise, recognizing that you are imperfect, flawed, and hypocritical, but able and willing to be kind and polite, treating all other people with dignity and respect. 

I love on Vladimir Putin by praying for him, that God will intervene to help stop the hardship and chaos that the Russian military creating for the Ukrainian people. We need to stop hurting one another, showing loving kindness, dignity and respect for other people, for the world is not about us but about all people, animals and nature, that we are called to be honorable, respectful, forgiving, fair, reasonable, kind, respectful and decent, honorable to our duty to other people, God, and nature, to do our best to do our durt, to be mentally strong, morally strong, and physically strong to do our best to do our duty to God and our country to help other people at all time, making the best of our time alive helping other people to make the world a better place than when we entered it. 

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Kudos to Mr. Beast the YouTuber and his Beast Philanthropy Program of James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, better known by his online alias MrBeast,

You might see a theme of me encouraging you to make the world a better place for everyone's benefit 

To love yourself and other people the way that God instruct in the Holy Bible, yielding with humility and loving kindness, helping other people at all times, doing your best to speak blessings and kind words such that other people enjoy when they hear you speak or read what you write.

People live without water or electricity, in slave mines to obtain cobalt, as refugees who fled warn destroyed areas. 

It makes me distrust governments even more, who wage wars with expensive weapons as an example of hurting other people, people using money and technology to kill other people senselessly! 

War is satanic and evil and sick and immoral and unethical and wasteful and expensive and costly!

Say no to Satan by saying "NO MORE WAR" 

To raise real people out of poverty we need to use the money waste on wars to install water wells and solar power to help people in the poorest parts of the world to have basic sanitation and clean cooking options on electric stoves. 

Solar PV + Starlink means internet in rural areas, even in America there are millions of people without insulin access or internet access. 

Life is not fair for people. The world is a deeply unfair place because bad actors in government use money they steal from economic activities created by intelligent people using resources with knowledge to make and sell profitable products and services. 

Governments consist of the worst kind of people, who waste other people's hard-earned money on stupid things like nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons program of the USA cost $9 trillion dollars. 

How many people could be radically helped with $9 trillion dollars? Thats exactly why I hate governments, those sleazy jerks in power waste money they legally take from the people, while cheating the people by serving other greedy jerks that own and control the economy in what is known as Crony Capitalism. This means that America or the USA has devolved into a Plutocracy where mega monopolies like Amazon.com have way more political representation with more than 1000 lobbyists, such that the American general public has virtually no representation in government. It is forecast that the Social Security Administration will be bankrupt or out of money by 2037. This is because other parts of the federal government take from the social security fun to pay for the expensive machines of war. 

The cheapest aircraft, the A10 Warthog, built in the 1970's, costs more than $5 thousand per hour to operate. Can you afford to operate an aircraft, spending thousands of dollars per hour, probably not unless your a billionaire, in which case your probably not reading my blog postings, but if any billionaires are reading these posts, please let me know with a comment to this effect.

The F35 Lighting Joint Strike Fighter Jet cost $35 thousands per hour to operate. Thats outside the affordable budget of a billionaire. This is what I mean when I say that government waste tax money on the machines of warfare to harm and hurt and kill other people in what is completely satanic and evil ways like Vladimir Putin is using the Russian Military Industrial Complex to wage expensive war in the Ukraine as a ongoing contemporary example! 

Thinking About How Mindset Affects Your Health

Not discounting the negative health impacts of microplastics and other pollutant exposure, but the mind body relationship from medicine and physiology means that what you think affects your physical health! The Holy Word in the Christian Bible actually say the same thing in many different ways about "Taking all your thoughts captive as to the obedience of Christ Jesus" for you have "Not been given a spirit of fear, but a special of love and well balance self-controlled and self-disciplined mind". 

Your brain is the master biochemical, hormone, cell biochemical cytokine, sleep, organ, breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, muscle, balance, and coordination master controller, but also the vision and smell input processor able to dream, predict, anticipate, and cycle your focus. 

Your brain is where your agency and free will or executive mental functions are happening to control your body, speech, conduct and behavior. This means you have the ability to decern right from wrong or good from bad and can make deliberate choices to be a better person with healthier happier thinking by focusing on things you are appreciative of and thankful for or things in life you have to look forward to enjoying in the future, or something to live for and add meaning and purpose to your life. 

Your thoughts influence the chemical signaling from your brain to your body. If you have enjoyable or happy thoughts, your brain creates and releases fun drugs for itself and sends out healing restorative sleep chemicals that cause peace, relaxation, rest, calm, and lower your heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, all while maintaining good blood oxygen saturation and good blood glucose control, all of these benefits just by deliberating choosing to have more happy, healthy, loving, appreciation and thankfulness focused thoughts. 

If you are irritated, angry, bitter and annoyed all the time, your brain gets stuck in a "fight or flight" state of stress and stresses out your body, causing gastric issues that people call butterflies in their stomachs before giving a public speech to a large audience.

This speech fear from being afraid of being judged or not taken seriously or afraid of misspeaking or making a mistake in the delivery, much like former President Bush did regularly; for whom many books of so called Bushisms published highlighting his strange way of saying things. He was also regularly confused about why people were upset at the way he misspoke or failed to deliver the speech that his staff writer put a lot of effort creating so that he would sound intelligent or articulate. That rarely worked because very much unliked his father, Junior Bush would speak unscripted off the cuff using his own words directly, which often made me laugh since I thought it was funny that America would elect an inarticulate person like that to the office of President of the United State. 

Toxic negative bitterness, anger, resentment, discontent, complaining, and negativity thoughts, feeling and words become chronic elevated blood cortisol stress hormone levels that translate into storing more visceral white fat around the organs, while also causing elevated insulin levels to shove sugars as glycogen into the liver to the point of causing non-alcoholic fatty liver disorder, while also causing out of control high blood sugars from insulin resistance, sometimes also night sweats, mental fog, joint pain, cancers, heart disease, high blood pressure, aneurisms, stokes, embolisms, edema, sleep disturbances or trouble staying asleep, difficulty recalling memory or making new memories stored long term, poor working memory, and other aspects of dementia, small stroke, neuropathy, loss of feeling in the hands and feet and much worse like anxiety and depression that robs people of joy and happiness and increases the risks of suicide and other mental illness problems. 

Many people turn to alcohol, cannabis, opioids, cocaine, LSD, magic mushrooms, khat, kratom, bath salts, psychedelic drugs, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, quaaludes, stimulants, depressants, ketamine, smack, dope, weed, pot, drinks, spirits, beer, wine, mixed drinks, sugary foods, or foods in the fridge eating emotionally to cope with or to combat stress or similar. 

"I just need something to get me through this " probably a common thought among people who abuse substances or food to cope with life's stresses, and these same kinds of thoughts occur in people who speak all worlds languages. 

You probably have "I am hungry" or "What is for dinner" or "I have to pee" or "when should I go" or "when do I need to leave" and similar thoughts. These same kinds of thoughts occur in the minds of people all around the world, and in this way, you have a lot in common with other people. 

The world has more problems today than it did historically, in large part because of the radically increased scale or size of human activity worldwide to support nearly 8 billion people alive at the same time, mostly energized by burning carbon or hydrocarbons as wood, biomass, natural gas, propane, butane, gasoline, diesel and jet fuels, but also super cheap and very dirty burn coal. 

Coal power pollution contains toxic heavy metal and radioactive metals that are naturally occurring like mercury or Hg, or Lead Pb, or Arsenic As, or Uranium U, or Thorium Th, and lots of particles call PM or super fine soot, smoke, fumes, oxides of nitrogen, oxides of sulfur both of which form acid rain when the NOX and SOX fumes mix with rainwater or water in the clouds. 

Acid rain is toxic to fish and marine wildlife, harming lakes, rivers streams and the oceans, while also causing metal corrosion in all the ferrous metals in infrastructure as rebar inside concrete or rusting of automotive body shell spaceframes that rust out more easily faster because of acid rain and salt applied as a deicer during winter. Salt allows water and oxygen in the air to rust or corrode iron or steel faster by moving electrons that liberate iron ions from the surface and react ion with oxygen to form oxides of iron that are reddish brown or black in color. 

The toxic components of tailpipe and powerplant emissions are bad for public health, bad for the environment and could largely be avoided with the use of radically more fission reactors and commercial fusion power reactors. We can empower civilization with upgraded N+1 grid power systems featuring GW class energy storage as capacitors, batteries, mass moving storage, water pumped storage, thermal sand battery storage or similar that captures GW level intermittent electricity produce inconsistently by popular renewables such as solar and wind power, mostly so these clean energy sources can output power 24/7. Energy storage on the other hand makes renewables just as or slightly more expensive than conventional fission reactors on the LCOE or levelized cost of installed capacity level. 

We already have the technologies to solve all the world's problems, cure all diseases, end pollution, control Earth's climate and weather, make more healthy soil for agriculture, cleaner air and cleaner water for chip making and for public use and drip irrigation that uses 90% less water than spraying above ground where most of the water lost to wind swept sun heating evaporation where the plants can't make use of the evaporation lost water.

You know in your heart that this is true, that innovation and technology can easily create practical cost-effective solutions to almost all of the world's problems, but that corruption and bribery and radical extreme selfishness keeps income inequality increasing even though the people doing it know that it's wrong in their hearts. 

I used to wonder where the bad actors came from, but now know that unloving families and fatherless families and abusive families are the sources of bad people. No laws can make parents love their children or make children love their parents. 

It's a spectrum out there with people, and I for one choose to serve the Lord my God, my country and other people, with dignity and honor, doing my best to stay mentally, morally and physically strong, doing my duty and obligation to do random acts of kindness, to stop and help people in need, to be a better person and speak blessings or kind words to other people who find what I speak pleasing to hear. 

I treat other people with dignity and respect by being polite and friendly at all times, especially focusing more on being the best possible person to other people when I don't feel like it. It's easy to be polite and friendly when you feel great, the challenge to do it at all times regardless of your feelings. 

Life is not all about feelings since those are constantly changing. You operate with values, ethics, morality and personal integrity, leading others by showing them the best ways as a natural leader. 

I will never give up fighting for good, to protect life on Earth, to love myself and others as God instructs and I suggest you consider doing the same or at least "Thinking About It" 

Tips to Safely Riding a Motorcycle on Public Roads

1. Wear protective gear, gloves, leather jacket, leather pants or armored pants or chaps over your pants, boots that protect your ankle, a full-face helmet and put ear plugs in your ears before putting your helmet on and make sure to secure the chin strap. Hi-vis or bright colors are a great idea to be more easily seen. 

2. Check tire pressure, your engine oil, chain tension, and inspect your rear brake light, head light, turn signals front and rear, during a pre-ride check, make sure everything is working. Test your front and rear brakes, make sure the side mirrors are secure, and make sure you are awake and sharp as a tack mentally.

3. Focus on having fun as safely as possible while riding with the thoughts "They are aiming for me and I am invisible and other motorists are unwittingly trying to crash into me" or similar being on-point, very aware of what is happening around your motorcycling, vigilant and vivid and very bright with excellent attention to situational awareness in traffic in terms of what other nearby motorists are doing, like their vehicular control body language or how their vehicle is moving in the lane of travel, are they driving sane or crazy, what about the drivers posture, are they cramped up on the steering wheel looking nervous or cool calm and collected?

4. Maintain your bike with regular oil changes, coolant changes, brake fluid changes, inspection of the brake pads, rotors, lights, indicators, dash, shifters, levers, running gear, make sure everything securely attached and in good working order before you ride with a pre-ride safety inspection. If you don't know how, or lack the tools, have a professional motorcycle mechanic inspect and maintain your motorcycle to keep it in great working order so that an equipment failure less likely to keep you safer, so that you have agency over your safety as a rider knowing your machine in great working order. 

5. In slow stop and go or slow moving traffic, stay to the left or right of your lane so you have an escape route to lane split suddenly to the shoulder or between the other lanes, in case the driver behind you fails to stop as being rearended can be a fatal accident if the car behind you slams into your rear wheel shoving you and your bike into the vehicle ahead of you, crushing you or sending you skyward. 

6. Ride within your skill level. A larger heavy powerful motorcycle can be very hard to control for a new rider. A smaller bike with smaller engine and more nimble and lighter weight will be much easier to control, to lane split suddenly to avoid being hit from behind by an inattentive motorist following you or similar. Enter corners at speeds that you are comfortable with, as going too fast can cause you to wobble and lose control, low side or high side, which can be fatal or cause lifelong disability level injuries like being paralyzed. 

7. Safety focused defensive riding being vividly aware of situational awareness of what is happening around you in traffic, your surroundings. Never follow too closely to the vehicle traveling ahead and keep a safe following distance. Be prepared to suddenly change lanes if another motorist fails to see you and enters your lane of travel such that they vehicle will hit your front or rear wheel, which can easily cause a fatal accident for the motorcycle rider, while only causing a fender dent or paint scratch on the automobile offender who ran into your bike because they failed to look hard enough to see you. Constantly scan your two side mirrors, never riding in another motorists' blind spots, you should be passing or falling back, never loitering in a vehicle's blind sports. This is all about anticipating and lightly predicting what's about to happen ready in an instant mentally one step ahead able to effectively evade or prevent potential accident scenarios that unfold in seconds in real world riding in traffic conditions. 

8. Fair weather provides better traction for the summer tires on most motorcycles. That includes dry days in the autumn, winter and spring and summer clear weather warm riding conditions. Wear enough gear to stay warm, cold hand have a harder time working the clutch and front brake leaver, and cold feet make left foot shifting harder, and shivering can cause you to lose control. In hot summer weather wear vented clothes or a cooling vest or similar to avoid heat stroke. Wear safety gear that matches the weather and riding conditions. This includes checking the weather on your phone or computer or TV before going for a ride, so you know what kind of gear to wear. 

9. Never consume alcohol or cannabis or other intoxicants before riding. Always ride sober, sharp and mentally vivid with excellence situational awareness and anticipatory predictive riding defensive style that helps you prevent or avoid potential accidents by dodging them quickly in seconds that can make life of death difference.

10. Beep your horn to let other motorists who failed to notice you of your presence but try not to startle anyone as that can cause an accident by scaring low skilled motorists who are new drivers with very little real world driving experience. 

11. Engage in mental visualization exercises about how to evade common accidents. When safe in very low traffic conditions, practice safety evasion moves, like swerving to avoid hitting a sewer lid or pothole when there are no other vehicles nearby. If you are considering riding motorcycles in traffic, sign up for and take the MSF or motorcycle safety foundation course in your area. Those classes book up early, so plan ahead. 

12. Watch out for sandy or rocky areas in roadways and intersection where other motorists' wheels and tires rarely travel. They look like triangles of debris in parts of the intersection where no official lanes travel, and they are as slippery as ice. Wet metal grates over roadways, on bridges, even metal sewer lids or metal plates covering construction holes, even with a tiny old film from vehicle that leak, especially the first day it rains after it's been dry sunny weather, a very slipper emulsion of rain and motor vehicle fluids forms on metal surface that make them more slippery than ice. 

I am an Expert Rider 

I have been riding sport bikes or street bikes in real world traffic on public roads since 2001, so I have over 23 years of riding street bikes near Seattle, Washington State, USA. We have a lot of dangerous low skill and new drivers locally who do not look for motorcycles. This means they will at some point pull out in front of you while riding, forcing you to fully grab the front brake leaver, which causes your body to slide forward, testicles into the gas tank, which can be very painful or cause you to do an endo or front wheely, which can cause an accident easily if you have never practiced endos. 

I pretend that I am invisible and that other motorists are unwittingly trying to run into my motorcycle with their automobiles, cars, trucks or SUV or suddenly about to merge into my lane of travel and knock me off or clip the front or rear wheel and cause a potentially deadly accident. 

Nearly all of this riding experience in King County, Washington State, USA where there is an abundance of low skill drivers, smartphone distracted drivers, drunk drivers, drivers high from using marijuana, drivers with almost no experience who recently moved to America from a country with virtually no history of automobile use or private automobile ownership, who did not grow up around cars, whose parents never drove or owned or operated an motor car on roads, who grew up riding bicycles to get around, then a non-emission controlled scooter or motorcycle or similar. As a result, such motorists appear like they do not see motorcycle riders, turn out into traffic in front of oncoming traffic without even looking both ways, forcing the oncoming motorists with the right of way to slam on their vehicle. 

Be polite and understand that they low skill motorists are not trying to cause accidents, hurt you or harm you, they are just new drivers and bad at driving from a lack of experience. Be gracious and pay attention so you can avoid being in accidents. 

Manual Shifting Requires More Focus

Most motorcycles require manual shifting because they are not equipped with automatic transmissions. This means you need to pay attention to the engine RPM and what gear your bike is in for the speed of travel, so you don't lock up the rear wheel with a shift miss match. Some fancy motorcycles are equipped with a slipper clutch and rev-matching to mostly reduce this kind of rider error potential. 

Warm Regards

Have fun and stay safe out there riding and enjoying your motorcycle. Keep both wheels upright and don't hit anything other than air. Check your bike over, check yourself over and keep a vigilant attention to what is happening around you and your motorcycle when riding, that way you can enjoy decades of safe fun riding like me :) Godspeed and blessings! 

Undo Depression & Feel Happier and Peaceful

Understanding Self-sabotage & how you can Love life more, showing loving kindness to others, but also being loving inwardly in your mind to yourself, freely and quickly forgiving yourself when you mess up or make a mistake. 

No one is perfect, so its ok if you are not living up to your very high inner standards. Life is a daily practice, and you can continue to improve daily every day for the rest of your life. 

If you want to become stronger, weight training, or gain more endurance, regular evening walks after dinner progressing to harder activities as your fitness level increases. If you want to be loving and polite you have to deliberately choose to be loving and polite, treating yourself, other people, animals and nature with dignity and respect. 

Look for joy in strange places and get enough healthy sleep and eat healthy clean foods in moderation since you know that overeating the wrong things making people fatter and sicker with preventable diseases that prescription drugs never cure. 

Unforgiving or holding a grudge, inwardly towards yourself for a mistake, error, sin, or failure, but also holding on to a wrong that someone else did to you in the past. Forgiveness the key to freeing yourself of toxic negativity and will make you feel better. 

It's not justifying the wrongs done against you, it's just accepting that the past is in the past and it feels better to let past events go and move on, improving with what you have learned since then, knowing that everyone changes throughout life. If you wronged someone else, contact them and apologize with genuine sincerity and speak from your heart when apologizing. 

Saying bad things about yourself or claiming negative things about yourself can become disease and medical disorders via the mind body relationship, or chronic stress created by saying negative unhealthy things about yourself. 

You are becoming what you say about yourself. This self-talk or inner monolog, thinking, inner voice, you have control over it. If it says something you do not agree with, say in a soft voice out loud that's not something I am becoming, and I do not agree with that idea. 

If you hear a voice in your head telling you to harm yourself or someone else, that is not you, reject such insane thoughts, your beautifully and wonderfully made with an amazingly complicated body and mind that self-heals when sleeping and able to do amazing things to make the world, your life or other people's lives better in meaningful ways.

Spending money foolishly might give you an instant gratification, but after you sober up and the honeymoon phase with your expensive new toys subsides, you don't want to be left with a boat or airplane that you never use. This can be true of buying a new smartphone when your old smartphone works just fine or only needs a battery replacement that is 20X less expensive than the new phone. 

Being frugal, smart with money, saving, investing, planning ahead, being balanced and fair with your budget and learning to dislike or hate overpaying for something, these are wise ideas for financial planning and having personal accountability that improves or maintain your credit score, making it cheaper to take out home loans or auto loans with preferred lower interest rates only available to well qualified buyers with credit scores over 700 or 750. 

Caring about things you have no control over a great way to torment yourself and steal any possible joy away from your day while also upsetting other people that you communicate these ideas with. Share edifying, uplifting, encouraging, motivational, positive, healthy ideas that are a blessing to others who hear you speak. 

Focus on doing what you can to make intelligent healthy choices that improve your life and make life better for other people, even if that just means being deliberately polite, kind and respectful to other people.

This means making conscious focused willful choices to not be rude, to not curse, to not use foul language, to not be a bad actor, or to be the best version of yourself with a balanced self-controlled and well-disciplined mind. 

Reject any thoughts that do not align with your life goals, virtues or attributes, values, ethics, morality, or aspirations or dreams, or that which makes sense in your heart about the difference between good and bad. 

Take inventory of your thoughts and compare them with your goals in life, if they are not helping you to achieve those goals, reject inhibitory negative toxic thoughts, and say "that's not me or who I am becoming" when one of those nasty thoughts creeps up to accuse you or make fun of you or to ask you to do something you know is wrong. 

Smoking, drinking too much, not sleeping, eating unhealthy junk foods and heavily processed foods, you already know the unhealthy lifestyle choices that people use to cope with stress. Much of that stress is mental that the people are doing to themselves inside their mind. Lighten up, have a sensor of humor and look for things that are funny or beautiful in life. 

Don't be extreme or outrageous or unreasonable and use a reasonable voice volume and listen more and speak less. Pay attention to others, your not the only one, treat other people as better than yourself. Be humble like a well-beloved child, willing to learn, willing to say sorry, willing to yield or slow down or be in the back of the line and let other people go before you. 

Become wise and Godly in conduct, action, behavior and verbal conduct. Never let anything foul or profane exit your mouth. Speak in an intelligent wise way as a leader of others, saying things that make other people who hear you speak feel better about their life or encouraged to make healthy changes. 

Walk, not Jog or Run to Stay Fit or Achieve Weight Loss Goals in 1 Year

I am talking mostly to people who want to lose weight right now, who have been physically inactive for many years, who are overweight with knee or ankle issues or pain. Running, jogging, jumping, those are much harder on the knees, hips, ankles and feet.

5-minute low speed walks after dinner a great place to start. If or when that is easy, increase to 10 or 15 minutes, then 20 to 30 minutes, then 45 minutes, then an hour. Slowly ramp up the duration of your evening walks as your fitness increases. Try that local hill or mountain on Saturday when you become more advanced and go hiking in the hills or mountains for a over and hour or a couple of hours with a friend or family member. 

Diet & Exercise are the two main ideas. You need to reduce calories in, not specific foods, just eat less overall to lose weight. You have to go for walks regularly rain or shine to burn body fat. Remove added sugars like soda or fruit juice or candy or ice cream, baked goods, junks foods, and less snacking and never eating anything within 3 hours of bedtime. 

If you want to super charge weight loss, skip breakfast and dinner, and just eat a delicious nutrient packed lunch and almost as much as you want or can since that will be your only meal of the day. 

Think about getting more fiber by eating more leafy greens, more nuts and seeds as snacks, more veggies, not starchy veggies. Understand that carbs and sugar are fast fuel to energize athletic exercise or hard manual labor. 

When people who are inactive eat too many carbs, the resulting higher blood sugars are converted to stored body fat. It sugars that are making people fat, people who do not move enough to burn the sugars in their muscles!  

That is why so many Americans are gaining weight, becoming fatter and sicker every year, but it does not have to be like this, and you are free and now enabled by reading this to make healthy lifestyle changes to your diet and exercise. Skip an a meal like breakfast, drink more water, and go for regular walks after dinner, it's that easy. 

Meg & I just went on a moderately intense hill climb walk for about 1.5 hours, but stopped twice to talk with Tracy and Sean, two different neighbors we are friendly with nearby. So more like 45 min of actual movement and about 2.8 miles on very steep hills, such that we were both covered with sweat to the point of needing a shower upon returning home. Clothes we were wearing are soaked in perspiration and we both drank about a quart of water each when we got home. 

Meg & I go hiking on Saturdays and sometimes on Sunday, for 4+ hours, and our Apple watch colorful movement, standing and exercise rings spin more than completely. We cover 6,8,10,12 miles with 20-60 flights of stairs, and the Apple watches tell us outload our mile rates, usually 12-18 minutes per mile split pace, or 22-35 if we are going for a slower stroll and stopping to talk with other people more.

I would normally be asleep right now at 10 pm but had fallen asleep on the couch at about 6pm after dinner at 5pm, and slept until 7:50pm, then asked Meg to go for a walk with me. We returned home in short order because the shoes I was wearing were literally coming apart being more than 20 years old, so I threw the wreckage away and dawned some newer athletic shoes from Marshals in Roseberg Oregon that were only $32 for the pair, and Meg wore her New Balance walking shoes that she upgraded the laces to very colorful flower graphics laces this last Wednesday when we went Skydiving twice together in Snohomish at Harvey Airfield "SKY SNO" or Skydive Snohomish, the 9th best place to skydive in the world! 

Staying physically fit a very important thing in our home. We have only a kitty and no children. 

Yesterday afternoon Meg and I did a floor exercise routine similar to PT activities that I learned about recovering from an injury via L&I covered physical therapy visits where the very intelligent physical therapist taught me all sorts of body gravity exercises that are fast and easy to do anywhere, even in a chair, free, by just doing it, like Nike's slogan "Just Do It" suggests! 

Belly fat or visceral fat can be the hardest to lose, but if you are faithful to walk 3-5x per week, with rest and recover days which are important too. When you're exercising your muscles are getting worked over and have to be rebuilt with sleep and recovery time. 

Also, you need to cut back on carbs, sugars, added sugars, junk foods, snacking and other sources of excess food calories that can easily put extra pounds on and make someone who eats like a typical American, overweight, obese, morbidly obese, but I know people who started going for regular walks and cut back on food who lost more than 100 lbs., and removing sugary soda and fruit juice was the key to removing most of the added sugars from their diet. Regular evening walking was the key to improving their exercise levels. 

Diet means less calories, less sugar, less simple carbs, more fiber, more healthy fats, and high quality proteins. It means drinking more water, less wine, less beer, less spirits or alochol. It means drinking black coffee or tea with nothing added, or just cut back on sweeteners added. If you want less bitter coffee, add a little coconut milk or almond milk or soy milk. You can use a tiny amount of a plant extract called Stevia to add a bit of sweetness to your tea or coffee. 

Absolultly do not eat anything when you wake up, only drink water or coffee or tea. When you wake up your body will naturally take glyogen from your liver and muscles to raise your blood sugar. If you eat anything with carbs or sugar at breakfast time, that will double load your body with high glucose levels and can produce type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance if you also eat a big lunch and big dinner. Remember 3 meals per day ok for children, teenagers and people who very physically active. Its ok on special occasions to have a desert, candy, cake, pie, icecream. 

I am not saying you should avoid anything on special occasions, its the rest of the year, daily, that you have to make healthier foods choices. Its not as much about what you eat, but the amount. Think of food as dose of medicine, let thy food be thy medicine. Sugar is the worst because easting sugar raises blood sugar levels. Look, I am not even saying no sugar, just less. You can still have wine or beer, just less and less often. Focus on drinking enough water to stay hydrated all the time! Many people eating the western diet are not only fat and sick from doing that, they are also killing their kidneys and have kidney failure. This is why drinking more water so important. 

2020 MTO3 Slip-On Exhaust $147 used from Ebay, also (blacked out Akropovic) unit 1.9 kg lighter & 5.3 db. louder than OEM slip-on

YouTube video covering this upgrade life now https://youtu.be/_3u-hgu-u00?si=C8PqbSaZLY-bHYon

Latest update: got a Used 2020 Yamaha MT03 slip-on exhaust on Ebay that also works on the YZF R3 and R25, and it cost me $147 all said shipped with tax. 

It's 4.2 lb. or 1.9 kg lower weight than OEM unit and 5.3 db. louder according to manufacturer testing table date in the listed table after the image of the blacked out Akrapovič I purchased used on Ebay! 

Order date:Jul 25, 2024 Order Total:US $146.75
Fri, Jul 26, 8:59pm DHL Tracking Number Provided
Sun, Jul 28, 8:16am Departed from DHL HONG KONG-HKG
Mon, Jul 29, 2:14am Departed from DHL CINCINNATI HUB,OH-USA
Mon, Jul 29 4:22am Arrived DHL Sort Facility SEATTLE,WA-USA SEATTLE,WA
Estimated Time of Arrival July 30, 2024 - By End of Day

Monday, July 29, 2024 at 10:19 AM Local time, SEATTLE - Washington - USA

Official slip-on exhaust units for the 20202 MT03 units were $249 to $900, so I did an aggressive price point search for a much lower cost solution, similar to what I did to remedy the catalytic convert thefts from our 2010 Prius III and previous 2005 Prius II. Namely hours of searching Google, Ebay & Amazon.

The OEM exhaust cannister weighs over 5lbs or 2.2kg and will be replaced with the aftermarket akropovic I purchased used on Ebay. 

I was not sure if the aftermarket Chinese parts from Amazon would fit, and after waiting for them to arrive, and removing the stock slip on, I found that the adapter was not right and the fitment would not work correctly even with the included bracket. 

I promptly went on Amazon and returned both parts, drove them in the box they shipped in with QR codes from Amazon for the return to the local UPS shop where they bagged the adapter with a label, then put the pipe in the box and put an label on it, after scanning both QR codes that I had printed out on our antique Brother 2040 B&W laser printer since I don't like fiddling with my phone for such purposed. 

I have modified the exhaust system of almost all the motor vehicles I have ever owned. We deliberately leave the Audi, Prius III, Corolla Hybrid and PCX150 exhaust systems OEM because we like lower sound pressure levels from those engines and exhaust systems. The MTO3 more of a fun commuter and a slightly louder exhaust is something only I will really enjoy and might in some instances improve safety by helping another motorist to detect my bike and I riding nearby. 

The following parts were returned to Amazon, after filling out the item return forms for each online, then bringing printed QR codes for each, with the original shipping packaging and box, to the local UPS shop that bagged, taped, boxed and labeled the items for free, helping to make a painless return. It would have been nice to be able to use these cheaper parts, $60 all said for both with tax and shipping, but Ebay had a great deal on a used version of the expensive one I wanted anyway! 

Heran119 Motorcycle Short Exhaust Muffler 
51mm input (adapter to enable connection to 38mm)
Length 260mm (10.23") 110mm max diameter (4.33")
Stainless Steel 1.17kg (2.58 lbs.) 

Stainless steel middle connecting pipe sleeve adapter connector 

For a related upcoming YouTube video I already recorded the stock exhaust from cold start to full warm, then two full throttle revs with the clutch pulled in neutral to document the sound before the update. 

I will also record the same run from cold to warm with two full throttle twist bursts to redline without the factory or OEM slip-in or straight out of the cat, which should be about 120 db., while the factory system peaks at 88 db., the akropovic unit used from Ebay claimed to be 5.3 db. louder and more throaty or deeper sounding than the somewhat nasal sounding factory exhaust according to comments on the listing of the new akropovic units selling for $348 on sale, so $382 with tax and shipping, so I saved over $236 buying it used vs new, and the blacked out color matched the midnight black color scheme of our 2020 MTO3 anyway :) 

Reflecting on Engine Exhaust Sounds

Noise or sound pressure or harmonics or acoustics, be that from brown noise that people use to help them sleep, or white or pink or red noise for the same purpose, sound pressure consists of air molecules vibrating together transmitting waves of energy like generated on the surface of water if your throw and skip a flat rock across the surface of the water and see and or hear the impacts producing circular radiating ripples that move away from the point of impact.

Engines produces very loud exhaust if you hear a strait pipe racing vehicle or small aircraft with piston engines where small, short metal pipes dump the exhaust without a catalytic converter or muffler or any sort of sound suppression or noise reduction.  

In higher performance motorcycles, sports cars, supercars, the makers or manufacturers pay extra attention to tuning the sound of the exhaust system. The use words like "fun, engaging, exotic" to describe tastefully tuned louder exhaust systems. The engines intake system can also be tuned to improve the sounds the rider or driver hears. I am thinking of the Lexus LFA or BMW M cars or Chevy Corvette or Dodge Viper or Moto GP race tuned sports motorcycles with 1000 cc or 1 liter engines that make 180, 200, 220 or 240 hp and rev to 18,000 rpm like and F1 cars engine. 

No replacement for displacement was a term describing large V8 engines naturally aspirated that idle at lower RPM levels with a low pitch deep rumble that many motor vehicle enthusiasts find pleasing to listen to or hear. These V8 exhausts sound amazing from idle to redline and everywhere in between, but they also tend to be over 600 lbs. or very heavy as engines and result in very low fuel economy and higher maintenance costs, and worse emissions, though in something as smooth and refined as the 1UZ engine of the Lexus LS400 with its 4 liter V8 engine sports closed loop 3 way catalytic converters and four O2 sensors feeding the ECU voltage signals as a way of measuring exhaust gas temperature electronically. 

Even our 2020 Yamaha MT03 water/glycol cooled, electronic fuel injected, with O2 sensor catalytic converter exhaust system featuring air induction to burn any unburn HC or hydrocarbon by allowing air into the cat to enable it to burn hotter and more efficiently convert poisonous exhaust gas NOX, HC, SOX, PM and similar to be converted into safe carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen gas, water vapor or 95% cleaner exhaust in terms of the reduction in smog forming components. The 320.3 cc offset twin's crank case vapor is filtered in an activated carbon cartridge connected to the engines air intake so that oily fumes of lighter molecules exiting the crank case are burned as fuel in the engine, further reducing emissions. 

Cat back exhaust system like the one in this post, mean the aftermarket pipe attached downstream of the catalytic converter and do not alter the emissions controls. They primarily increase exhaust sound pressure levels and change the tone of the exhaust. 

In this specific case the MTO3 OEM slip on sounds nasal higher pitch or airy with a peak 88 db. sound pressure level at 12,500 RPM, while the aftermarket slip-on makes the exhaust sound deeper with lower pitch tone and about 7 db. louder. Removing the slip on entirely and straight piping off the catalytic converter sounds much louder and harsh with around 110 db. at idle and 120 db. near redline according to others who have tested and posted online articles about it. 

I am effectively adding $50 of stainless steel to gently increase the exhaust sounds without going to the extreme of a a full race exhaust like I did on our previous 2019 Honda Grom SF to eek as much power out of its little 125 cc engine as possible to up the highway speed in 4th gear, but even going from 9 hp to 12.5hp did not result in good highway performance. 

The Grom's shorter wheelbase and lack of 5th or 6th gear meant it was super fun and nimble around town in city use cases, but very lackluster above 50 MPH and I live in America where everything connected by 60 MPH freeways and highways as the only practical way to get around. Even on 35 MPH local neighborhood or street level 25 MPH roads, the hills are so steep that the Grom barely had enough power to work well. 

I spent a lot of time in 2nd and 3rd gear in the Grom and traded it in for the MT03 since the MTO3 produces ~40 hp and has a top speed of 112 MPH, while it can cruise in 6th gear at 65 to 85 MPH all day, which I recently did a lot of on a longer 800+ mile road trip. Honda revised the Honda Grom in 2022 and added a 5th gear and increased the size of the fuel tank from 1.1 to 2.1 gallons. They did the same thing with revision of the Honda PCX-150, increasing the engines displacement from 153 cc to 156 cc, and increasing the fuel tank size from 1.1 to 2.1 gallons. 

Noise Pollution

Motorsports can be very loud, and virtually everyone understands this. When the catalytic converter was stollen off of Meg's 2010 Prius III, she went out to leave for work, then came back inside and said "Aaron, something is terribly wrong with the car, it is making a horrendous loud harsh noise. I went outside and looked under the car to see the header pipe dangling with no cat or O2 sensor downstream, so I said "Meg, that is what your car's engine exhaust sounds like without an exhaust emissions control and muffler noise reduction system, or what we call "Straight pipes" in motorsports lingo. The same thing happened when someone stole the cat off the 2005 Prius II that now belongs to Allan. I drove it around loud without the cat for over a week to and from work without bother from anyone, while waiting for the replacement parts I ordered online to fix the problem DIY on her car and mine. 

I spent less than $500 all said fixing both cars, but both have to have the MIL lamp reset using an OBDIII tool plugged into the related port under the steering wheel since the thermal performance of the aftermarket cats and cheap O2 sensors produce the out of parameter voltage so the ECU logs and emissions problem causing the master warning light on the dash to glow orange with its problem symbol. 4 button presses of the tools OK button resets the emissions codes P0000 and P0420 respectively, and we have to do that every time we drive Meg's car now. 

Where You Live 

I live just south of interstate 90 in Issaquah about 700ft elevation, and every night I hear different high performance loud motorcycles and cars going well over 100 MPH at high loud RPM engines speeds ripping down I90 eastbound and wonder what the Washington State Patrol are doing at 3am, since I never hear these speeders or street racers being pulled over?

Through streets often have more road noise, so sound sensitive people often buy housing or rent homes in dead ends without through traffic or not near noisy transportation systems. Sound pollution means sounds you cannot control, like air pollution from the airport and very high levels of sound pollution from commercial airports. 

Public Transportation

I post, read online, watch videos about, and have a mild obsession with vehicles of all kinds. I love motors and engines and the sound of engines and smell of gasoline and diesel and associate all of those with progress, innovation and applied technology, but also the freedom to go places or easily quickly get to and from places commuting or while running errands driving on public roads in a car that you own since local bus system vastly slower and very inconvenient, rarely on time, requiring standing around a lot and making it take 4X longer to go somewhere and it's not free either. Almost the opposite of the rail in New York City or London England or Tokyo Japan, where its cheaper, faster and easier to use public transportation as busses, trams, light rail, or railroad passenger transportation. 

Engines & Vehicles Have Improved Greatly

Consider the earliest Benz Patent Motorwagen made by Karl Benz, with its externally lubricated 954 cc single engine making barely 1 hp, later versions with improved lubrication and less maintenance made 2 hp. Engines of the same displacement today, 1 L singles, make over 40 HP or are twenty times more powerful, smaller, lighter weight, can rev higher, make more torque over a broad range of RPMs, get better fuel economy, and are cleaner burning with 95% reduction in toxic smog forming tailpipe emissions vs earlier carburetor fueled engines, using a combination of fuel injection, better gasoline, better engines, exhaust catalytic converter and O2 EGT voltage sensors feeding the ECU data to tune the spark timing, variable valve, variable fuel injection timing and duration, using MAF air flow hot wire sensor voltage signals, and signals from the engines knock sensor and crank position sensor. Modern ECU have 3D maps for fueling and ignition timing and take in data from many engine sensors to tune on demand based on user throttle requests, the vehicle speed, engine operating temperature, the air temperature, slope of the roadway, transmission gear selection and many other channels of data. Automobiles sold in in America after 2014 have an electronic black box data recording system in the OBDII as embedded passively cooled computer modules and have a persistent mobile data connection with ECU OBD wireless 4G-LTE mobile broadband that is always on if the vehicles 12vdc battery charged, even when you turn the vehicle off, the computer stays on to listen for the smart-key. 

Dead Vehicle Batteries

Even battery electric vehicles with large lithium-ion traction batteries like a Nissan Leaf or Tesla Model 3 or Model Y, still have a mission critical 12-volt battery that runs all the vehicle systems that were designed and long used with alternators and SLI batteries in gas powered vehicles before electric vehicles became widely available. 

This means your BEV can have a dead 12v battery that makes it impossible to drive until you recharge the 12v battery or jump it with a jump pack or jumper cables hooked up to other vehicles 12v battery and ground to a chassis bolt nut on the strut tower for example or the engine grounding cable connection, where you can attach the negative black cables. 

Almost all modern vehicles have a negative "black" ground attached to the metal body of the vehicle. In the early days of cars, the did "red" positive connections to the chassis, but because electrons in reality flow out of the positive, that causes increased corrosion or rusting. 

From chemistry, OIL RIG oxidation is lost electrons, reduction is gained electrons, so corrosion from salt water and oxygen facilitated more effectively with a positive vehicle ground. Thats why negative ground systems are used on almost all vehicles today, doing so is safer and reduces corrosion. 

If you park a newer than 2017 vehicle for more than 10 days all the always on computers can drain your vehicle battery flat or deplete its charge completely so you come to dead vehicle, and have to use a mechanical key to open the driver's door to pull the hood latch and then use another vehicle with jumper cables to boost the battery or hook up a battery charger and wait 20 hours for the charge to complete.

You can buy and keep a portable lithium-ion battery jumper or jump pack with your car, in the truck tray area where the spare tire or tire repair kit located. These portable battery jumpers are compact, and also typically have LED flashlights and screens displaying relevant information like the state of charge of the jump pack, or voltage of the vehicle battery when you connect the jump pack to your vehicle's battery. 

Always connect the red positive cable first as that usually prevents a high amperage current pulse from damaging your vehicles electronics, fuse box, relays or wiring harnesses that can be easily damaged if your hook up the negative first and then put the positive connection on, when using jumper cables always connect the positives or red cable first! 

A small number of deliveries may arrive a day later than anticipated due to a third-party technology outage.

 Amazon sometimes has problems too! 

Practical Tips to Burn Fat & Lose Weight

Get up at the same time every day and go to bed when you are tired. It can take months to change your wake-up routine, but once you get used to it, you will wake up without an alarm clock easily. 

Alcohol Abuse Degrades Sleep

Avoid alcohol near bedtime as the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages may cause users to pass out, but then choppy sleep of poor sleep quality results because alcohol metabolized into an irritating substance that causes a reducing in REM and Deep sleep stages, and much more light choppy sleep, which makes a handover much worse. 

Earlier Caffeine Containing Beverages

If you drink coffee, tea, energy drinks, or anything containing caffeine, do it before 3pm or during the first half of your day. Drink water when you wake up. 

Drink More Water 

Staying well hydrated actually helps with weight loss. Drinking enough water also protects your kidneys from kidney stones, add a little lemon juice to boost these effects, but in general protect the kidneys because dehydration a proven way to cause kidney failure or kidney stones which are painful to pass or annoying at the least and sometimes require surgery. 

Water Great for Health

Staying well hydrated also protect your brain by helping the brain flush out metabolites that form from thinking or thought generating metabolic processes that make electric and chemical energy for your brain to work. Brain metabolite accumulation made worse by dehydration and a possible causal basis for brain fog, dementia and Alzheimer's. 

Children who are dehydrated have more behavioral problems and learning issues from worse memory performance and challenges with maintaining their attention span or ability to focus for longer intervals required for learning more complicated subjects in middle school and high school and college. It takes the brain 25-27 years to finish developing, so even young adults are still children by this definition. 

Eat a Healthier Lunch

If your very active eat a healthy breakfast, and healthy dinner too. But if you sit around a lot, or don't exercise intensely with any regularity, you can get away with one meal per day advanced interval fasting and keep a thin trim body or enable actual weight loss if your obese or overweight. 

Eating Proteins Make Amino Acids

Eating proteins with healthy fats and some complex carbs and fiber helps to stabilize blood glucose levels to prevent spikes of high blood sugar levels after eating a meal, and to prevent low blood sugars and keep you feeling full and satisfied longer after eating. Eat slow enough that your brain registers when you are full, with the leptin full feeling hormone signaling. 

Chew Your Food More

Make sure to chew up your food more than normal since that helps to break it down for better digestion. Many people have gastric and digestive problems because they are so hungry by the time they eat, they fail to chew enough and virtually inhale the food, often in excess doses that make people fat and sick with diseases from dietary excess. 

Dietary Fiber Important 

People are not eating enough fiber for health digestion, and health fiber consumption helps to stabilize blood sugar levels by slowing down the rate at which foods turn into body sugars. The fiber almost counteracts carbs in terms of their glycemic index, though not fully. Americans typically only get about half the required amount of fiber needed for a health gut biome or better digestion and better blood glucose control. 

Wear a Smartwatch that Tacks Step Count and Movement, Standing and Activities

Not just the Apple Watch, there are cheaper options that work fine with iOS or Android. Samsung Gear watches are similar to Apple Watch for android users but do not work well with iPhones. Many aftermarket pedometers like Fitbits work great for movement tracking. Even smart rings without a display like the Oura 3 or Ringconn pair with your smartphone and related app that works in iOS and android to help you track your sleep, sleep stages, movement, activities, naps, walking, SPO2, breathing rate, heart rate and much more! Meg has a Series 9 Apple Watch used for this and many other purposes and I have both a Series 8 Apple Watch and Ringconn smart ring for these purposes. 

Feeling Cold, Exercise Increases Thermogenesis or Fat Burning that Warms the Body

Going for brisk walk or jog, hiking a steep trail or swimming, start with what you can do, and resist overdoing activities at first if you have been inactive for a long time, because injuries can happen more easily when you are first becoming active as part of making healthy lifestyle changes to go for a walk after lunch, breakfast or dinner. Go for random 30 min walks whenever you can. 

You Can Exercise Anytime, Free, Easily

The act of getting up and moving helps to warm your body, increases your metabolic rate and can help you to have better sleep, better sex, better emotions, better endurance, clearer thinking, better memory, improve healing, better blood flow or circulation, reduced high blood pressure and improved breathing and heart health, fitness also good for brain and muscles and bones and joints. If you experience joint pain at first, that's a normal part of starting to work out after being sedentary for many years. During the first 4 to 8 weeks of starting new activities your body will reduce inflammation and your joint pain will reduce. 

Think Healthy Lifestyle Choices 

Make sure to avoid eating seed oils, anything high in Omega 6, don't eat anything from China, and try to eat more fiber, drink more water, eat healthy monounsaturated fats, avoid trans fats, more leafy greens, nuts and seeds, high quality proteins, and get enough healthy sleep. Never snack at night, if you wake up in the middle of the night, drink a glass of water instead. Only consume food if you're compensating for a low blood sugar event, and a tiny amount of honey or juice enough to get you back to a normal fasting blood glucose level for sleeping again. 

Interval or Water Fasting for Ketosis and Autophagy

If you are a sedentary inactive adult and not get hot and sweaty working out, you should either skip breakfast or dinner or both if you want to speed up weight loss. 

The idea to leave your body with more time to break down foods you ate at lunch, so your done digesting by the time you go to bed at night. When you wake up you were fasting while sleeping, so by no eating breakfast your extending your fasting interval, which activates ketogenic autophagy cell cleanup and repair processes after 5 hours without food, and accelerates if you can make it 10 hours without food, and gets better towards the 15th hours and will switch to burning body fat for energy after your glycogen gone at about 24 hours if your water fasting for multiple days, and ketone bodies will start to fuel your cells, made from body fat for up to 72 hours without many complications, but you have to be careful after day 5.

Water Fasting even with Diabetes Type 1 Carefully w/ CGM & Lowering Insulin Doses by Half 

When we go 24+ hours without eating, our body wants fuel from somewhere and breaks down stored body fat and eats cancer cells and tumors to make energy. Autophagy means cell clean up or repair and the body goes into this state in the absence of digesting food after 24+ hours without eating. That includes not drinking fluids with sugars or added sugars, unless you're having a low blood sugar and must consume something to prevent a dangerous low or coma. 

If you are taking anti diabetic oral medications, you have to stop while you are water fasting, or cut your dose in half or take 1/4 and keep a close eye on your blood glucose levels with more finger prick tests using the strips in a glucometer or with your Abbot Freestyle or Dexcom G6 or G7 or similar CGM or continuous glucose monitoring system or kit or device. 

Caution if you use Insulin

If you have Type 1 diabetes and take insulin for glucose control and want to water fast, you have to cut back your short acting and long acting insulin dose by half or take less than half as much as you normally would, and only do this, water fasting with Type 1 diabetes if you have and use a CGM to constantly monitor your blood glucose even while your sleeping with alerts because there is a hazard of going low from not eating for prolonged periods. 

My wife Meg takes insulin and wears a G7 CGM and has been able to water fast for up to 6 days but have to abort because of a low blood sugar event and ketoacidosis on day 7. It's probably wise if you have uncontrolled Type 1 diabetes to do water fasting under medical supervision. 

Practice Interval Fasting before Water Fasting Multiple Days

I suggest starting with interval or intermittent fasting until your very good at it and have downregulated or reduced the amount of insulin you take because of how interval or intermittent fasting reduces high blood sugars levels and improves insulin sensitivity. If you were able to water fast successfully with Type 1 diabetes, be exceedingly careful to slowly increase your insulin doses when eating, keeping a close eye on the CGM, as it is much better to take less and have to take 1 more corrective unit to prevent a dangerous high blood glucose.

Reduce Your Insulin Doses While Fasting

Meg says that while multiday water fasting, she reduces long-acting insulin doses by half on day 2, using the short acting insulin in concert with the real-time feedback of the Dexcom G7 on her iPhone 12mini to keep a close eye on her trending blood glucose levels in order to make precise low insulin dose short acting insulin corrective dose decisions to keep her blood glucose levels from going too high. 

Use a CGM System if you take Insulin while Fasting

Fasting with Type 1 diabetes a very delicate daunting process and requires the use of a CGM and the ability to make very precise accurate choices about how much short acting insulin to take when the CGM shows blood glucose levels climbing, but you also have to be willing to abandon ship and end the water fasting if your blood glucose level goes too low, since it's possible to have a fatal low blood sugar event from prolonged fasting. You have to be both competent and have confidence and good blood glucose control already with precises insulin dosing and practice and experience using the CGM to improve insulin dose accuracy and keep better control of your blood glucose levels. 

Micro Cars Can Revolutionize Transporation in America

Arbet" World's Smallest Hand-Built Micro Car
Length 88.75 in, Height 38.5 in, 40 in wide

Made over a period of 11 years of extensive hand fabrication, making thousands of parts bespoke, Arliss Sluder combined his name with his wife's name (Beth) to create "Arbet" the title or name for the vehicle, which was street legal as of 1956 when it was complete and in operation on public roads. 

Easier to park, easier to wash, easier to fit in small garages with motorcycles and bicycles or e-bikes parked alongside. A smaller car means less fuel, less space, less road wear, less materials, lower emissions and not a new idea. 

SUV's & Trucks are all the rage with new car buyers in 2024 America
How much vehicle do you need to move you to and from work and back?
America is car crazy because we have a vehicle culture 

Vehicle Needs vs Wants: Synthetic Desires

Can a small car like the Toyota IQ or a Smart Fortwo cover your daily commute?
If people can use an E-bike in fair weather to get to and from work, why do you need more?
You could be saving many thousands per year on gasoline

Fuel Efficient Motor Scooters

Our 2013 Honda PCX-150 can cruise at 50 MPH with Meg and I riding together, has a large under seat trunk storage area, comfortable seating, and gets 83 to 105 miles per gallon on 87 regular gasoline so about 100-mile range given the 1.1-gallon tank, so less than $5 to fill up at the gas station. Liquid cooled, fuel injected, with catalytic converter cleaner exhaust, the 153cc single makes about 13 hp and 11 lb. ft. of torque, transmitted to the rear wheel for acceleration via the belt CVT and rear axle hub gearing. Top speed best cast downhill, ducking, with a tailwind, 70 MPH, given the aftermarket variator I got from Taiwan, in the CVT gearbox housing. This scooter actually a Kimco Elite in Taiwan, with a Honda designed motor and branding, sold elsewhere in the world as a 125cc model, they bored and stroked it for America where highway performance almost needed to make it sell well. 

E-Bikes for Commuting 

Our 2023 Lectric XP3.0 e-bike can easily cruise at 25 MPH for up to 50 miles on a charge with pedal assist and makes climbing steep hills at least two times easier than on a human powered bicycle standing on the pedal cranking full out Lance Armstrong Tour De France style that only really physically fit people can actually do for a daily commute on steep mountain hills. 

Smaller Cars

The idea of a microcar goes way back and echos of Kei cars of Japan. Smaller, lighter, motorcycle engines, with less metal, smaller wheels and tires, and a much lower environmental footprint, or lower lifecycle impacts, with a smaller material footprint and less energy required to make it and operate it or maintain it. 

Less oil during oil changes, less fuel when filling up the gas tank, possibly very low emissions on modern versions equipped with 3 way catalytic converts and O2 sensor exhaust gas temperature feeding voltage data to the engine control computer modulating the spark timing and fuel injection timing and duration to vary the fuel air mix with other data from the MAF or mass air flow sensor, crank angle sensor, knock sensor and other sensors. 

Automotive Safety Improved with Time 

A larger heavier vehicle with better passenger protection makes sense, but if you consider the 1940 and 1950s, there were no airbags, no seat belts, and carbureted engines with a dash choke required to start. Further back it was hand crank to start cars. These earlier vehicles had low powered engines. The post "Arbet" micro car had an air-cooled Onan engines of 13 hp mated to a 3-speed transmission with centrifugal clutch like a chainsaw or gas-powered weed whacker. 

Toxic Tailpipe Emissions Reduced by 95% 

Most of a gasoline fueled vehicles exhaust made of water vapor and carbon dioxide, nontoxic and already parts of earth's atmosphere and what people breathe out when we exhale a mixture of water vapor and carbon dioxide emitted from lung gas exchange membranes generated by cellular respiration or human metabolism processes that make body energy from foods we eat and beverages we drink into cell fuel using oxygen we breathe in from the air to enable oxidative phosphorylation as part of the cellular energy citric acid or TCA cycle making ATP from ADP in the cell mitochondria organelle #biology #medicine #science. Engines are air breathers just like people, using the oxygen in air entering the engine to oxidize the vehicles food, fuel namely gasoline and diesel, or propane or CNG in special vehicles. 

Fuel injection, catalytic converters, exhaust air injection, the automobile not only became larger and more powerful and faster, but also safer, cleaner and better in a lot of ways right until the 1990s when automobile quality peaked. 

Quality Reduced with Plastic Engine Parts

By the early 2000's automobile manufactures started making drivetrain parts that were always made of metal before, out of plastics, and everyone knows that plastics dry out and crack and break apart when heated hot and cold over and over or sitting in the sunlight and weathering outside for many years. A vehicles engine bay can vary in temperature from below freezing cold when such are parked at a ski resort all day in sub-freezing weather. When driven in hot deserts in hot summer weather, the engine bay can get to over 200 degrees. 

This hot and cold cycling more extreme in aircraft, but this means that plastic water pumps, plastic intake manifolds, plastic oil pans, and plastic oil pumps wear out a lot faster, belt wear out faster, hoses wear out faster, and those are softer reinforced vulcanized rubber parts, but the hard plastics used in engines extensively after 2003 are at least %500 less durable than the aluminum or steel parts they replaced, or 20X less long lasting if the vehicle stored in a museum in similar carefully controlled indoor climate storage. 

Not that polymers or glass fiber reinforced plastic are all bad. The intake manifold of the 2ZR-FXE in our 2022 Corolla Hybrid made of such polymers to improve thermal efficiency of the engine vs the aluminum intake manifold in the 2010 Prius III that has the same 2ZR-FXE engine. Prius III gets about 48 MPG average fuel economy while the Corolla Hybrid gets 55+ MPG. 

Toyota claims the polymer intake improves engine thermal efficiency by 0.5% vs aluminum, because the plastic insulates and does not take heat away from the head or block where the aluminum acts like a large heat sink with high thermal conductivity that passively sucks heat out of the head and block. So in some engine parts like the intake, a strong fiber reinforced polymer of high temperature resistant polymer can actually be superior to a cast aluminum part. 

Reversing T2D or Type 2 Diabetes

Have you developed diabetes as an adult? 
Are you taking Metformin or Ozempic to lower your A1c?
(Adults only, makes sure children and teens get enough to eat as they have fast metabolisms)

Easily reverse Type 2 Diabetes by skipping breakfast or dinner

Many sure to eat a nutritious healthy lunch, drinking more water to stay hydrated. Look for fiber in leafy greens, and healthy fats from nuts and seeds, olive oil, coconut oil or Omega 3 anti-inflammatory fats.  

Stay away from soda or fruit juice but enjoy a small amount of fresh fruit and or berries. Consider eating non-starchy vegetables, lean meats, oily smaller younger wild caught fish, and avoid trans fats, canola or Wesson or other industrial seed oils as they are high in Omega 6 inflammatory fats. 

Avoid UPF or ultra processed snack foods, junk foods, candies, or other sources of added sugars.

Interval Fasting 

7pm no more eating until 11am, means no food or eating near bedtime or while sleep or even after you wake up at 5am for the next day. 

Wake up at the same time every day and go to bed at night when you are tired. Drink a glass of water when you wake up for the day. If you feel hungry in the morning, drink another glass of water. 

After being awake for an hour or so, have a black coffee or tea with nothing added

Make sure you stay awake for at least 4 hours before eating anything, try to go longer

Try to make it till noon before you eat, if you woke up at 5 am, or 2pm if you woke up at 7am

Water Fasting + Electrolyte Salt Pinches 

Water fasting means you only drink water or black coffee or tea with nothing added, and do not eat anything. If you get dizzy or a headache while water fasting, it can be helpful to take salt pinches. I recommend a taking some sugar free electrolyte salt with magnesium, potassium, calcium and sodium 

Watch "The Science of Fasting" Documentary Film Online

Learn the truth about nutritional excess and weight gain and why obesity rates are climbing worldwide

Weight Loss & Losing Fat - Where Does Fat Go

Buring body fat makes CO2 and H2O 

Body fat becomes carbon dioxide you breathe out from membranes in your longs as oxygen then taken in through the same membranes to be transported by hemoglobin like magnetic attraction on the surfaces of red blood cells where O2 transfers to your cells for oxidative phosphorylation to make ATP from ADP in cell mitochondria. Water forms when body fats are burned as fuels after being converted to free fatty acids and glycerol that the cells use for energy to enable movement and thinking.

Eating less Food to Lower Calorie Intake Crucial for Fat Burning 

In less than 1 minute you can eat enough food to power 5 hours of intense physical activity. Over-eating or dietary excess the reason people are obese and why more people are becoming obese. Serving sizes should be small enough to fit in your hands if you form both hands into a bowl shape.

If you are inactive or sit around in front of a computer all day or watch TV all day, then one meal per day can probably provide more than enough body fuel to maintain your body weight. 

If you are lightly active and slightly better than sedentary and actually go for regular walks, then you can eat one big meal at lunch and a light dinner snack a few hours later and maintain your body weight.

If you are a child, teenager, have a fast metabolism or are very active physically and regularly workout to modern or intense levels where your sweating profusely and its hard to talk without taking another breath for 10 or 20 minutes 3 or 4 times per weeks or do a heavy physical manual labor job 5 days per week, then you can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and probably keep a healthy body weight. 

Losing Weight Means a Calorie Deficit 

Movement is the key, fitness, activity, workout, sports, things that burn fat by engaging your muscles, or tearing your muscles with strength training so your build more muscles from foods you eat with proper nutrition and while you are sleeping and your body repairs muscles you worked while working out strength training.

I am talking about exercising your muscles hard enough to start breathing harder and getting body sweat. Sitting around too much, too often, not exercising, not walking, not hiking, not swimming, not doing at home chair exercises or something around the yard like yardwork that gets your blood flowing and causes your muscles powering the movement to burn body fat.

Highly Active People Need More Food 

Olympic athletes, fitness enthusiast, gym trainers, people that workout deliberately, industrial athletes that dig ditches manually with shovels or do hard manual labor or deliver heavy packages jumping in and out of a truck all day. These people need more food than an office worker or retired person or typical inactive American adult who is overweight taking multiple medications for diseases caused by eating too for their low activity levels. 

Staying Physically Active Means

Physical activities that raise your blood pressure, pulse rate, breathing and cause the fitness rings to spin on your Apple Watch. I am talking about standing and walking and moving around enough to stave off the damaging effects of being sedentary, known as "Sitting Diseases" in gerontology of the science of advanced aging. A lot of retired people for example end up dying within a few years of retirement if they sit around watching TV all day eating snacks from Costco out of bags. 

Key Pillars of Staying Thin, Fit, Stronger & Healthier

Get enough higher quality sleep by going to bed earlier, less caffeine and only early in the day, moderate alcohol consumption long before bed time if you're going to drink beverages containing alcohol so your body has a chance to metabolize the ethanol, since alcohol consumed near bed time may cause you to pass out at first, it actually disturbs sleep, and the reduces sleep quality of a very drunk person in part because ethanol's metabolite a stimulating irritate that wakes people up and causes light choppy sleeping making the hangover worse. 

Food and nutrition are complicated because people use all sorts of cues, their history, what they think the food looks like, things they learned from family, cultural trends, societal trends, stress eating, coping with food abuse and many other issues like the color, texture, smell or look of food, which varies widely around the world, just as people do. 

Skip a meal, drink a glass of water and go hungry. Skip dinner and go to bed earlier or do like me and skip breakfast and drink black coffee, water or tea with nothing added in the morning and don't eat anything until you have been away from 5 am until at least 11am or noon, then stop eating before 7 pm, unless you were really active and worked out. 

Think of an intense workout as a free pass for more food intake and keep an eye on your body weight by using a body scale at home a few times per month. Do not daily weight, especially if your strength training as that will add muscles that help you to burn body fat when you are doing cardio working out.

Use an Apple Watch or other fitness tracker and turn on the fitness features with coaching to encourage you to wake up at the same time every day, to do fitness activities for credit, and to keep yourself accountable to your health fitness and overall weight goal to lose body fat or lose weight. 

Get with a friend by texting or calling and asking them to go for a walk with you before or after work or on Saturday or Sunday. You could sign up and play a sport you used to play as a kid or during your childhood and a school student in PE or after school. Intermural sports are available to people of all ages and that can build team moral and get you connected to other people trying to lose weight. Check Facebook groups for weight loss in your area or ask your family and friends about anyone else looking to lose weight and become fitter, stronger, and happier. 

Engines are Air Breathing Piston Pumps where the Battery 12vdc SLI sends hundreds of amps to the electric starter motor to spin up the engine & energize the ECU and spark plugs to get the engine started, fuel pump moving gasoline and other electrical features online during cold start

Alternators make all vehicle engines power generators, the AC from the brushless alternator inductive motor generator rectified by an automatic voltage regulator that outputs many tens of amps of power at ~14.2 vdc to recharge the SLI 12vdc lead acid battery or AGM improved version of SLI, then the alternator provides direct current via the vehicles OBDII 12 vdc power buss, that can operate between 8 vdc and 16 vdc, but tends to operate between 10.5 vdc and 14.5 vdc in the real world.

12 vdc power system are common in boats, cars, trucks, SUV, ships, RV's and similar mobile power systems where 12 volts direct current the dominate electrical power solution even though a movement towards 48 vdc been long advocated to enable higher electrical power levels and smaller wires...

On-road Passenger Automobiles

A typical vehicle passenger vehicle requiring a driver's license to operate on public roadways, features an ICE or internal combustion engine, featuring 4, 6 or 8 pistons in cylinders, liquid cooled with water and glycol based coolant with corrosion inhibitors, electronic PWM fuel injected controlled by the vehicle ECU or engine control unit, which merges sensor data from many sensors like the MAF or Mass Air Flow sensor, crank angle sensor, knock sensor, O2 sensors, other thermistors and sensors that aid the ECU to match vehicle loads based on driver gas pedal power request, the slope of the hill the vehicle operates on, the air temperature, engine temperature, coolant and block and heat and exhaust temperature and the O2 exhaust temp before and O2 sensor exhaust temp after the catalytic converter. 

When the engine started by DC current surging from the battery into the started motor, a spring-loaded cog gear engages the engines flywheel so that the fast-spinning starter motor cranks the engine until it starts operating during cold start.

4 Strokes

Intake as the intake valves in the engine head typically driven by a gear via a chain or belt spin opening the valve in concert with crank rotation and stroke position of the engines pistons, so that the engine sucks in air as the fuel injector sprays in a pulse width modulated dose of gasoline, then the piston moves upward as the intake valve spring slams closed sealing the fuel air mix in as the piston moves upward compressing the fuel air mixture. 

Then after the piston reaches and slightly exceeds top dead center on its way back down the spark plug makes a hot arc from the computer controlled ignition HV system to ignite the fuel and air to generate heat and pressure to shove the piston down performing work to crank on the crank shaft like your legs cranking on bicycles pedals. This create rotational energy transmitted by the crank and transmission and driveshafts to the wheels and tires to move the vehicle.

The final stroke when the piston moves back up, the chain or belt driven exhaust cam lob engages the exhaust valve opening it to allow exhaust gas to exit in the exhaust header, then emissions controlled exhaust system, finally exiting the tailpipe after being cleaned up by the catalytic converter or air injection, into the atmosphere as mostly CO2 and water vapor with a trace amount of air pollutants like PM, HC or NOX.

Exhaust Note or Sounds

Most passenger cars or OEM motorcycles are very quiet, while race cars with straight pipes are very loud, but a balance can be achieved with an aftermarket exhaust system that increases exhaust noise a bit without being too loud, in what could be called an auditory tachometer so you can hear the engines RPM range by the sound of the exhaust note, even with ear plugs in your ears and wearing a full face helmet while riding your motorcycle.