Tired of disinformation? The vision is to alter the direction of this blog and present some clear hints, tips and suggestions for training (and life). It will be achieved by way of snapshot glimpses of the inner workings of DC’s mind and the goal will be to present short articles.
“The revolution will not be televised.” Gil Scott Heron
gym; had trouble doing 1 arm pull up, this is despite feeling good. maybe i wasn’t 100%. maybe muscle and deep tissue still fatigued from recent workouts. did some footwork drils and am happy not to take this stuff so seriously.
gym instructor encouraged me to take up track work as he said my sprints are getting faster and faster. perhaps its my ego that is making me write this here because such nonsense is just day to day trivia that does not make me a better fighter.
this is actually how i train;
Grappling on monday was good. mostly clinch based work. also covered advanced mount and takedown from rear body lock.
yesterday; punch drills
today; punch drills and luk sao
also did Tai Chi in the park today. have been thinking more about Tai Chi throughout the day.
today’s training; 2 hours in the morning, two hours in the evening.
today; luk sau, straights, big punch, drop step and close.
today i stressed the importance of language. language can be manipulated to change the way we perceive reality. if i say “I feel pain”; we empower the sensation that we commonly associate with ‘pain’ and make it particular to ourselves. if however i say “there is pain”, i am disassociating it from my notion of ‘self’. I then become an objective observer to the pain, rather than its complacent sufferer.
For more; see any of the language books written by Stephen Pinker.
today; sprints, skipping, windscreen wipers, 1 arm pull-ups
yesterday; straights, big punch, in-outs, backfist, flash pad drill, hook kicks
Just back from training at Jesse’s. Right hand is swollen from punching.
Turmeric Extract Suppresses Fat Tissue Growth In Rodent Models
ScienceDaily (May 18, 2009) — Curcumin, the major polyphenol found in turmeric, appears to reduce weight gain in mice and suppress the growth of fat tissue in mice and cell models. Researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA) studied mice fed high fat diets supplemented with curcumin and cell cultures incubated with curcumin.
“Weight gain is the result of the growth and expansion of fat tissue, which cannot happen unless new blood vessels form, a process known as angiogenesis.” said senior author Mohsen Meydani, DVM, PhD, director of the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA. “Based on our data, curcumin appears to suppress angiogenic activity in the fat tissue of mice fed high fat diets.”
Meydani continued, “It is important to note, we don’t know whether these results can be replicated in humans because, to our knowledge, no studies have been done.”
Turmeric is known for providing flavor to curry. One of its components is curcumin, a type of phytochemical known as a polyphenol. Research findings suggest that phytochemicals, which are the chemicals found in plants, appear to help prevent disease. As the bioactive component of turmeric, curcumin is readily absorbed for use by the body.
Meydani and colleagues studied mice fed high fat diets for 12 weeks. The high fat diet of one group was supplemented with 500 mg of curcumin/ kg diet; the other group consumed no curcumin. Both groups ate the same amount of food, indicating curcumin did not affect appetite, but mice fed the curcumin supplemented diet did not gain as much weight as mice that were not fed curcumin.
“Curcumin appeared to be responsible for total lower body fat in the group that received supplementation,” said Meydani, who is also a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts. “In those mice, we observed a suppression of microvessel density in fat tissue, a sign of less blood vessel growth and thus less expansion of fat. We also found lower blood cholesterol levels and fat in the liver of those mice. In general, angiogenesis and an accumulation of lipids in fat cells contribute to fat tissue growth.”
Writing in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition, the authors note similar results in cell cultures. Additionally, curcumin appeared to interfere with expression of two genes, which contributed to angiogenesis progression in both cell and rodent models.
“Again, based on this data, we have no way of telling whether curcumin could prevent fat tissue growth in humans.” Meydani said. “The mechanism or mechanisms by which curcumin appears to affect fat tissue must be investigated in a randomized, clinical trial involving humans.”
This study was funded by a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. Asma Ejaz, a graduate student who worked on this project received a scholarship grant from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
Journal reference:
1. Ejaz et al. Curcumin Inhibits Adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and Angiogenesis and Obesity in C57/BL Mice. Journal of Nutrition, 2009; 139 (5): 919 DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.100966
MLA
Tufts University, Health Sciences (2009, May 18). Turmeric Extract Suppresses Fat Tissue Growth In Rodent Models. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 19, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2009/05/090518111710.htm
yesterday am; conditioning drills, shadow boxing, luk sau – chi sao pm; private grappling session with grappling coach.
did 1 arm pull up (twice).
today: PM – luk sau/rotations, transitions and basic attacks
Today; DC Protocol for fighting. Friday; luk sau and conditioning
effective nutrition begins with one formula;
high carbohydrate diet = insulin resistance
once you understand what this means, you have a blueprint for healthy eating.
DC
Here is some footage of the late Sonny Umpad. I am left breathless by his graceful movement;
“Forget the form as a starting point, but rather seek to extract from fighting those skill patterns that keep appearing again and again. These can serve as your reference point, rather than the templates handed down by the tradition. All martial arts traditions would have obviously started as ‘backyard’ or family systems, but once they’d begun to be widely propagated, nearly all of them have been standardized.” Steve Morris
Does DNA have Telepathic Properties? Article here:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/does-dna-have-t.html
today; DC Protocol for fighting
Here is Wand training;
