Someone should tell the French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox

That's a "nice to have" balance if possible. But you will do great things if you eliminate refined carbs and oils and up the animal fat.

If saturated fat is so bad why does our own body choose to store energy that way?

Exactly. What do they feed cows to fatten them up for slaughter? Hint it's not fat.

I understand. I'm saying my total saturated fat has increased a bunch. Coconut oil is 90 saturated fat. Avacado and olive are 20 with most if the rest mono unsaturated.

Most "vegetable" oil in stored uses solvents to extract the oil from corn, soybeans, and rapeseed. These are high in polyunsaturated fats and are terrible for you.

I should have clarified. I try to only eats fats that are made through old processes. So meat, dairy, lard, fish and cold pressed plant vegetables like olive, nut, and Avacado oils. Most are high in saturated fat. But unsaturated fats are mostly the byproduct of industrial processes requied heat and solvents. No thanks.

I lost 40 pounds by drastically increasing my saturated fat intake while reducing my refined carb intake.

Doing something for someone else with no expectation of it being returned is altruism.

If you want to be honest about it you really don't need universities for STEM degrees either. Most of it was taught as a part of apprenticeship programs by companies in the old days. Some of the best engineers I knew as an intern were non degreed and learned in the job. The problem for many companies is when they get done teaching someone that person is pretty valuable and is likely to leave if given the chance.

Experiences vary I guess.

I wrote a contract for a piece of test equipment that needed to accelerate a 100 kg mass for a minimum of 4m and 30 m/s^2 (3 G's). It had to work in a horizontal and vertical up direction. During testing the contractor could do it horizontally but not vertically. They insisted they met the contract because there is already 9.8 m/s^2 acceleration in the vertical direction due to gravity. Our legal department agreed and paid them.

The tests at the big labs are actually pretty cheap. Look online for various testing companies. I was interested in a MNR Lipopanel that my doctor refused to write a script for. I course he had no problem writing a script for a lifetime of statins. I went online and paid someone $70 to write a script and pay Labcorp to run the test and email the results.

Is there any little HP that has the unit conversion ability of the 48? That is the reason I still use my 48 G. You can quickly add any type of mixed units and carry them through your calculations and convert them easily. I've never seen anything better to this day.

I have experience in both. In a private business contract both parties do their best to meet the terms of the contract. The reason is simple. It's expensive to go to court and bad for future business. I've written unclear requirements. When it was a private contract if they noticed it they would call for clarification and unless it was major there was no charge. A contractor that buckles and dimes you doesn't get a second chance to bid.
A Government contract is different. If there are two ways to interprete a requirement they will always pick the wrong way and do as much work as possible down the wrong path so they get a bigger change order when it's discovered. They never get punished because technically they are right. It just rarely happens in private business.

This made me a worse driver. They had the data plotted online for you to monitor.
So I thought it would be fun to use my car to make patterns. I would get on a stretch of highway and then lower and raise my speed in intervals with my cruise control to make sawtooth patterns. So ever 5 seconds I'd bump it up 1 mph. Then down.

When each new observation that baffles the experts is explained by another theory I pay attention.