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axel_knutt wrote: ↑16 Apr 2024, 12:50pm
I didn't find any mention of it measuring metabolic rate.

Isn’t Metabolism, as far as us cyclists are interested in it, about converting food to energy? Unless I’ve misunderstood, the ZOE app is all about measuring how that happens, on an individual basis, meal by meal. I’m not sure exactly what units it uses, but what with it having a good look at your blood (and optionally, your poo…) I’m sure it can draw some useful conclusions.

axel_knutt wrote: ↑16 Apr 2024, 11:20am

simonineaston wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 6:39pmThose really interested in their metabolism could do a lot worse than consider the Zoe app (the company's website here).

What data does it provide?

See their FAQs page here.

nirakaro wrote: ↑19 Jun 2014, 1:53pm A question for any nutritionists out there:
Sometimes I look up at a hill and think, I’m not going to get up that without refuelling. Stop and gobble a quick Snickers bar, and up I go.
Can my body really do its Snickers-bar>blood-sugar-level>adenosine-triphosphate-in-the-muscles magic trick that fast, or is it just a bit of wishful thinking, placebo effect, and a minute’s rest?

I think the important thing to realise is that everyone is different. The rate at which we process foods differs wildly, depending on a lot of factors. We’re just starting to understand the importance of our gut biome and how that effects all sorts of mechanisms. This article in Men’s Health magazine is worth a gander. It will be equally interesting to women, too…

Another possibility to get more torque is to add a ‘leccy conversion. Much dearer than a 38t chain ring, obs. but very effective nevertheless. I chose a nano conversion and now rarely change out of top gear, here in hillyish Bristol. Swytch cheaper than nano, I think

Exactly!
My point was to underscore the mess we’re in here in Britain. While it is true that our manufacturing is doing well. its also true that the bulk of our trade, both domestic and abroad, is bound tightly to the vehicle sector, which currently is in the middle of a battle with regard to the move away from ice to battery power. My suspicion is that the move from ice as part of the move to net zero, will be fraught with difficulties., if not impossible.
This is quite apart from two other factors that raise significant friction points, First there is simply a limit to the number of vehicles you can pour into a fixed road estate. We see signs that we’re near that limit, for example the friction that results from pavement parking and close passes, perceived light sentences handed down to dangerous drivers etc etc.
Second, the continuing expansion of domestic credit that’s used to finance the vehicle sector. Mr Micawber would not be impressed by today's car buying arrangements... It can't last. It's a castle built on sand. Even Volvo is Chinese owned.

Those really interested in their metabolism could do a lot worse than consider the Zoe app (the company's website here).

If I was going to enclose anything, it would be a good quality well oiled chain. Less bother, last for aaaaaages… Job done.

Politeness prevents me from completing the humorous query, to wit:- did you hear about the constipated mathematician…?

I think that's right - we need to regain a sense of identity and common purpose that has somehow got lost in an ugly splurge of deregulation and free market opportunitism. That concept is hugely abstract and I don’t know how you conjure it up. I recall something along those lines, back during the 2012 Olympics but it slipped away like sand through our fingers…

I’m currently plodding my way gloomily through Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters (Perspectives) by Gill Kernick, a journalist who used to live in the tower, in which we learn that under the current arrangements at least, this sort of ghastly mess and the awful treatment of ordinary people in pursuit of maximum profit, will continue unabated…

…see the pop up vid. bottom R. - Im quite happy with my nano, thanks

There’s a ton of other articles that describe China’s ‘near monopoly’ - whatever that is… in rare earth elements and how it might become critical in the development of all sorts of important technologies. See below for duckduckgo search, filtered for UK / last 30 days.

According to a study from the prestigious Brooking’s Institution, China presently produces some 60% of the world’s rare earth elements and processes 85% of them.

Quote from article in Forbes - see here and another article here…

Lettuce Liz hoisted by the petard she so adored.. That is a super irony, isn’t it?!
But as I’ve pointed out previously, we’re entering a wholey new and different era, where circumstances that are completely beyond our control have become the most significant factors in shaping our economy, both UK and abroad… and most are direct or indirect consequences of climate change.
Examples are: the escalating cost of insurance claims (and therefore premiums) affecting all sorts of essential infrastructure like the cost of food, building projects and travel arrangements. It wont be long till ordinary people won't be able to afford insurance. This has already begun!
The escalating and increasingly unpredictable cost of food due to crop failure. The UK’s farmers and food production are heading for an unprecedented crisis. This has already begun!
The awkward fact that China has a near monopoly of the elements essential for electric car production. We recall that the UK’s busy - some say thriving! manufacturing sector is closely linked to conventional ice vehicle production and the nearer to a deadline for Bev-only, the worse it will be for us… this has already begun…
And that's just for starters. Turn This Ship Around… don't make me laugh!!