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It's mostly crap FAST food with FAT, salt and sugar. Sixty years ago hardly anyone was fat. Look at old photos. WE are the same but Our lifestyle isn't. Cut out Highly Processed foods and sugary drinks Avoid High GI foods Eat whole fruits, not Juices. Cut out snacking, Cakes and cream and Icing sugar. Sugar is rocket fuel, Fried Chips soaked in Overheated FAT. The safe level of transfat intake is ZERO, Nev

Physios have their Place. Chiropractors are More Likely to cause injury, Backs Need Movement, I had 3 desiccated discs in the Lower back and now they are all moving with No Operations on my back Needed. . That's done entirely with appropriate exercises. Twisting with No Weight on the spine. Nev

Boiled crawdads . Nev

I heard on the radio a couple of days ago the median house rent in Brisbane is $780 p/w and $650 for units. It makes you wonder about the top end content in those median prices and how many affordable places are still out there. It would be interesting to see numbers of houses in various price ranges that result in those averages.

A lot of physiotherapists live in a dream world. Standing on two feet with your eyes closed is a pretty good effort for anyone in their eighties, one foot is unneccessary risk taking in my opinion. Most people aim to do it on one foot with eyes open.The only physio I've ever been to that knew what she was doing was a young lady who migrated here from Mumbai. All her assessments and advice were practical, common sense and effective. And it was all verbal with some written take home instructions, very old school. Most of them these days are all about box ticking. They take your money and send you home with an exercise programme where you have to log in every day to their site and tick boxes saying you've done the exercises. Not worth two bob. There's heaps of physio mobs jumping on the bandwagon to hoover up medicare dollars via care plans using BS like that. It's a license to print money.

It's fairly basic. onetrack, you're lucky enough to have a fast, fat burning metabolism like my dad had. You couldn't fatten him. A lot of people aren't as lucky and have slow metabolisms and a tendency to accumulate fat around the midrif. There are people who are vegetarians, don't drink or eat any fattening food and do heaps of exercise and can't shake the belly roll. And to diet it away doesnt work either as it's the last to go; the rest of the body will wither right away before the belly does.

SNOPES is a fact checker. Nev

There were no obese people in Changi. Losing weight too fast will reduce Muscle Mass. The "Pinch test" tells where FAT is. Doesn't work with the Head though. Nev

You can easily look up who tells the whoppers IF you are fair dinkum about it. Nev

Renewables and batteries drive down fossil fuel use despite record electricity demand Here is a short summary of this article. Australia’s latest electricity data shows that renewables and batteries are increasingly meeting demand and displacing fossil fuels, even during periods of extreme heat and record usage. Rooftop solar, wind and large-scale solar all contributed strongly, while batteries helped shift cheap daytime energy into evening peaks—cutting gas use to around 25-year lows. This shift has contributed to lower wholesale electricity prices compared to a year ago. While retail prices don’t fall immediately—because they include network costs, retailer margins and are often locked in through contracts—the trend suggests that continued growth in renewables and storage should put downward pressure on retail electricity prices over time. Now I am expecting someone to say "oh it is the bias ABC" I think it is fair to look at the source of any story. In this case it is the AEMO "Quarterly Energy Dynamics Report Q4 2025" Quarterly Energy Dynamics Q4 2025

I've never seen anyone lose traction, chuck a burnout or do a wheelie in an EV, so I'm at a loss to explain how the higher powered EV's are dangerous. I have seen a Tesla zip away from the lights very rapidly, though - much faster than even I could keep up in a 2.5L Camry Atara, which has reasonably fast acceleration when you floor it. The Camry weighs 1465kgs and has 135Kw of power (180HP in the old money), so it's not underpowered. But that Tesla went like a cut cat let out of a bag. And my bottom line is - I went from Perth to Albany and back (over 800kms total) in early March, and got 6.1 litres/100km with two people and their luggage aboard, averaging around 105kmh, so it could be quite a while before I can warrant lashing out on an EV.

On a trip to Sydney and back, my ICE uses more fuel coming home because I have to climb from near sea level in Sydney to about 3,500 ft at the top of the Blue Mountains. The gradient of tht climb is steeper than the climb coming from the other side on the way to Sydney. Also I don't have to "drive" the car from the top to the bottom when I an on my way to Sydney. The need for more fuel to go up a steep hill is commonsense. The same commonsense that applies to an EV, hybrid, plug in or diesel.

I have never ever developed a "big spare tyre" around my gut, and I really don't understand how people can let it happen, and do little about it. If I gain even a couple of kgs during a period of slacking, I feel a lot more restricted in my physical movements, so I make sure I lose it, with some energy expending work.

Muscles disappear. If you diet, fat around the shoulders disappears. But that big spare tyre around the gut is immovable.

Nearest towns are 20 minutes either way. When I go downhill to town my Prado gets about 7 l/100 km. When I go the other way, uphill to the other town, I get about 11 l/100km. Of course.

And surely downhill on the way back

At no stage do you go Downhill in the 80 Kms ? Nev

My place is a certain height above sea level. The town I go to is even higher above sea level. That's what I mean by "uphill all the way".

I have seen my SOC go up on a long downhill run from Dorrigo to Bellingen on the Waterfall way. It added about 50km to the range at the bottom. Going up used a lot more though than I recovered which is expected. When going downhill for a long stretch it is a good idea to use the highest regeneration setting. One Pedal driving is the highest in my car as it will bring the car to a standstill without using the brakes. I use OPD usually in towns as there is so much stop start driving. EVs are very economical in city driving partly due to the stop/start & Regen but also due to when stopped no energy is being used at all except for the 12 volt electrical system that runs everything except the cars traction system.

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I'm afraid I'm very behind the times with prices these days, I must get out more often. I had a session at physiotherapist falls and balance clinic this morning. One hour session $185. I don't know how much I will get back from Medicare. Have to do exercises so I can stand on one foot with my eyes closed. Try this if you are my age, early 80's. Stand upright with your feet together and eyes closed. Hold that for 30 seconds. Not easy. have something close to you that you can grab onto for support. Also, there's a 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car space home across the road from me up for rent - $690.00 per week with $3000 bond. That's more than the single pension, although a single pensioner wouldn't need a 4 bedroom home.

No one is trying to convince you to get an EV. Uphill does, of course, use more energy; not only does going downhill on the return not use energy, it actually gains energy through regenerative braking (whilst saving brake pad wear). My son has to drive up and down a long, steep hill (NZ). Going downhill, you will end up with a higher state of charge than you started with. Of course on the return journey, you still have to get back up the hill (not 100% effective). I can't think of any EVs that would not comfortably do that trip. You can then plug in at home, and if you have solar, it is virtually free.

I'm pretty certain some ICE cars are called high Performance also and have restrictions on who can drive them. You don't see electric cars doing silly things on the roads as it reduces your range. (Well, I've NEVER seen one so far). They don't make any Broom Broom noises to show off. either. Where's this hill that 80 Kms and uphill ALL the way?? Every time you back off the battery gets some charge. EV's don't wear Brake Pads very Much. Nev

Then don't get an electric car if it doesn't suit you. If town is only 80km away why would you have to charge there? Even if it being all uphill used twice as much charge as usual, that's only 160km and obviously you'd use half as much charge going downhill, so another 40km makes 200 for your round trip. Most EVs have a range of 450 or more so just charge at home.

Better stick to petrol cars I think. No power to weight ratio restrictions. No charging batteries for 1/2 an hour if a charging station can be found, and hoping no one else is using it. How quickly do the batteries discharge if the trip to town is uphill nearly all the way? That's my predicament, uphill for 80ks, downhill coming home. Checking my petrol mileage via my liters per 100ks gauge, much more petrol is used going to town than coming home. If I had an electric car, I probably would have to charge the battery in town so I could get back home. But what if there were motorists lined up to use the charging station? How long does it take for each car to be charged? I might be there all night waiting.