In article , Mike Coslo
writes:
N2EY wrote:
In article ,
(Jason Hsu) writes:
snippage
We won't give licenses away -
hams will need to cut the fast food, junk food, and tobacco out of
their lives. This will be quite a challenge given how sacred the
Kentucky Fried Chicken, soda pop, and donuts are.
I dunno if you're serious, trolling, or satirical, but it's funny any of
those
ways!
Yeah, here we go Jim:
Entry level license is the Smart!tician. Test requirements are eating
no less than 3 meals of meat per week.
I think you mean "no more than..."
The successful applicant must
also demonstrate the ability to cooko pasta in at least 30 unappetizing
ways. Extra credit for recipes including Tofu.
Toe food?
Priveliges for the Smart!tician will be the same as the technician plus
is today.
Next up the ladder is the Generallyhealthy! class. Test requiremts are
to show the ability to fast for a minimum of 3 days, followed by a
cleansing diet of only fruit juices, in addition to the Smart!tician
tests. This is as high in the service as meat eaters can go * the lone
exception is noted below
Priveliges for the Generallyhealthy! are the same as the Smart!tician,
plus HF access in SSB only.
At the top of the sprout heap is the ExtraDelicious! license. This is
the epitome of both hamdom and the oh so healthy lifestyle. The
ExtraDelicious! *must* be a vegatarian, specificly a vegan.
At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law: Hitler was a vegetarian. I am not making
this up.
*The only
exception to this is that medical waivers can be granted for
lacto-ovarians, and in certain rare instances, for macrobiotics. These
must be signed by a physician.
The successful applicant for ExtraDelicious! must display the ability
to be condescending onto others, to announce their vegan status to every
person they meet within 45 seconds, and to be a general nuisance at
restaraunts, being required to ask the waitress of the possibilty of
animal products in everything in the facility, including the salt and
pepper shakers.
You ever hear of Edgar Friendly?
The ExtraDelicious! has all priveliges, as befits the obvious
superiority of this type of person.
Seriously, though, it's not just a ham radio problem - it's an American
problem. Just look around you. Combine an aging population, cheap
sugary/fatty
foods, sedentary but high-stress living, and a drop in other vices like
smoking, and you have a recipe (pun intended) for folks getting heavier.
I'm 6' 3" and my target weight is 180. I'll let ya know when I get there.
You have to be kidding, Jim!
No, I'm serious.
Unless you have an incredibly small bone
structure, that will be hard to attain.
Back when I was running marathons, I was 178.
I'm not too wild about the way
"they" figure the body weight thing out either. It really has to be done
more on a fat percentage thing rather than some stupid one size fits all
approach. By the tables, I am considered grossly obese, and yet by the
fat percentage, not. Put me in the pool, and I sink like a stone. Fat
being neutral density as compared to water, allows the person to float
easily, and weigh relatively less in water than a person of high
muscle/fat ratio of equal weight.
BMI is a better indicator, but your point is well made.
Perhaps the best indicators are things like total cholesterol, LDL, HDL,
resting heart rate, blood pressure, 12 minute test (how far can you
walk/jog/run in 12 minutes?) rather than weight.
Go figure!
73 de Jim, N2EY