If you lose weight wonât you, assuming you remain healthy, automatically have a slower metabolism?
I agree on the whole foods though. Whatever about losing pounds on the scales, it will make you feel a lot better. But Iâve the dietary discipline of a fella whoâs emerging from a famine
Lads who cycle back and forth between obesity and overweight arguing that their weight loss strategy works. Sitting on (or behind) the couch to slow your metabolism is the secret, you see.
What about hiding behind the printer?
Wouldnât you love some additional clarity in your life?
Whatâs the obsession with seed oils is this the latest headbanger thing?
Only headbangers would consume seed oils
Inform yourself about Hexane, itâs source and itâs use in seed oil production
Thatâs a hormone fân with you - Ghrelin
Read up on ghrelin and with a better understanding itâs easier to be the master
Guys say women are hormonal but most big boys have hormonal issues too
I must be made of ghrelin cos I could eat 3 dinners a day comfortably
None of our ancestors were such good hunters that they ate 3 dinners a day
You might read up on Leptin too
I donât have the necessary mentaller logic to give advice on medical issues as Iâm not qualified to do so. If I had I can imagine myself telling people to take horse dewormer as a treatment for a killer virus.
Good one
The Collison brothers from tipp that founded Stripe appear to have drank the coolaid abroad in amerikay. One an Israel supporter and the other has an article in the Irish times this week that reads like a US republican party manifesto.
I could see it rattling the lifers in the Civil Service alright.
Billionaire tech founder John Collisonâs comments on Irelandâs lethargic development of housing and infrastructure are âfood for thoughtâ for the Department of the Taoiseach.
Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers has said Government infrastructure reforms will focus on âmuchâ of the issues raised by Mr Collison, while a spokesman for MicheĂĄl Martin agreed with the Stripe founder on his comments about the slow pace of big projects.
In an essay Mr Collison wrote for The Irish Times, the 35-year-old Limerick native argued that too many regulators, government departments, public agencies and non-governmental organisations had placed too many constraints on large-scale infrastructure projects.
A spokesman for the Taoiseach said that âJohn Collisonâs comments certainly are food for thought.â
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âHe is quite right in identifying the exponential growth of the Irish population as a key factor on the demand on infrastructure. It does take too long for infrastructure projects to get completed,â the spokesman said, adding that âa significant issue has been the heavy legal framework that has built up over the decades, both EU directives and national laws. We need to simplify thatâ.
âIn the 1970s there were less hurdles to getting things done quickly, but we now have higher standards of housing. Beyond all that, we see too many projects end up in the courts and in judicial reviews, rather than being dealt with through the planning system.â The spokesman said that reforms of the Planning Act being enacted now âshould make a differenceâ.
Mr Chambers told The Irish Times that âinfrastructure taskforce reforms will incorporate a lot of change and is focused on responding to much of what he has highlightedâ.
Mr Collison, who set up the payment technology firm with his brother Patrick in 2010, was praised by TĂĄnaiste Simon Harris for his âthought-provokingâ intervention on Irelandâs failings on housing and infrastructure.
âToo many layers, too many structures, processes that take too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back. This will be a big part of my work and focus with colleagues in the months ahead,â Mr Harris said on X on Sunday.
âStreamlining processes, cutting through red tape and speeding up delivery must be at the core of all we do.â
It is understood the Stripe co-founderâs intervention, in which he also argued politicians have ceded too much power to unelected officials, has become a major subject of discussion on both the Fianna FĂĄil and Fine Gael backbenches.
Fianna FĂĄil TD Malcolm Byrne said he was now looking to ask Mr Collison to address his parliamentary party.
Noting that the number of civil servants has increased by nearly 50 per cent in the past decade, Mr Byrne told The Irish Times there should be weekly meetings where officials are forced to account for the pace of housing and infrastructure projects.
âThe biggest frustration I have in politics is how long it takes for decisions to be made and for people wanting to lead. The public good requires us to treat delivering housing and infrastructure as urgent,â he said, adding: âI donât get that sense of urgency.â
He said elected representatives âhave ceded too much power to State agencies and unelected individuals who donât share the urgency of tackling major challenges, particularly housing.â
Fine Gael TD Colm Burke said Ministers are âfrustrated within departments where people are saying you canât do this or you canât do thatâ.
âWeâve got to get our act together,â he said, describing Mr Collisonâs argument concerning over-regulation and ceded power as âdead rightâ.
He pointed to an example in his own constituency of Cork North Central, where road infrastructure near the Apple European headquarters in Hollyhill has remained unchanged for decades, despite more than 6,000 people being employed at the site.
âWe are now talking about doing an urban distributor road there. Even if we agree on the route in the morning, it will still take us five years before any work will start,â he said.
Fine Gael TD James Geoghegan, who also agreed with Mr Collisonâs assessment, said while Ireland had âworld-class talentâ, it sometimes had âthird-world deliveryâ.
The partyâs spokesman on Dublin said for too long essential projects have been âtrapped in a web of bureaucracy and endless legal challengesâ.
He said new tools such as capping legal fees for judicial review cases âmust be used boldlyâ, adding that those who take such cases âshould have some skin in the gameâ.
Tech billionaire wants less regulation, forgive me if Iâm cynical. Cliff Taylorâs article of the same day that I posted on the other thread does a better job of identifying a problem and a solution.
Id disregard what any of the techbros have to say, theyâre becoming a big problem to be dealt with rather than listened to
The aliens are coming to sort the Tech Bros first and then the Israelis.
has Collison spent a little too long in Silicon Valley drinking the Kool-Aid? Does he now want to import some of the less attractive elements of its creed into Ireland?
cc @balbec
@Tim_Riggins will be on to defend him soon.