most women at weddings/parties are looking for miximum cleavage effect.
which has nothing to do with potassium.
Some people juggle geese!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - Sep 17, 2005 10:02:24 pm PDT #3662 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
WindSparrow - Sep 17, 2005 10:14:12 pm PDT #3663 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Is 10,000mg overkill?Not if it's 110 degrees outside when you start your 5 mile bike ride to work. The human body doesn't really start shutting down until it is about 107. If one is properly hydrated and full of the right balance of electrolytes, it is quite possible to ignore the whole shivering, goose-bump-getting thing. Without ending up at the ER.
Before I was diagnosed with the potassium deficiency, I had an unexplainable muscle cramp in one leg. A day and a half after I started chowing down on the KCl, it disappeared. On hot, active days the cramp came back. Bit of reading showed that muscle and joint aches are some of the symptoms of potassium deficiency. For the purposes of measurement, the first month or so, I tracked, by writing down everything I ate and how much of the No-Salt I used in order to keep the cramp at bay. A hot day that I had to ride the bike to work and back required around 10,000mg. A day spent at home, not poking my nose outside the cooled air, took 6,000 to 8,000mg. The figure of 5,000-7,000mg for my current needs is more of an estimate, really.
True, for most people these amounts would cause an overdose, and too much potassium is dangerous to both the neurological and circulatory systems. But with that handy-dandy cramp of mine, I can self-regulate my dosage without lab work.
beth b - Sep 17, 2005 10:18:10 pm PDT #3664 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
humph. husband is sleeping in a hotel room in LA. It is rude of me to wish that he would wake up - see the messages on his phone and call me. But he should do so anyway.
WindSparrow - Sep 17, 2005 10:20:22 pm PDT #3665 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
husband is sleeping in a hotel room in LA. It is rude of me to wish that he would wake up - see the messages on his phone and call me.
Just how loudly are you wishing?
Beverly - Sep 17, 2005 10:45:57 pm PDT #3666 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Belated Happy Birthdays to Perkins, and to B.org!
Ish, Deena. Sympathies to you. BTDT.
beth! Good to see you. I don't often get the chance to post with you.
And now, let's see if I can get to sleep if I go back to bed.
Volans - Sep 17, 2005 10:49:20 pm PDT #3667 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Pot is such a parent-type thing. So very old skool and shit. This says more about my parents than it does me.
This is so totally my take on it. My parents were big ol' pot-heads, so from when I was very little it was something parents did, not kids. When my friends smoke pot (not that I know anybody who does), it's always a slight shock, and I expect them to shampoo with beer and talk seriously about pyramid power while macrame-ing potslings.
meara, don't feel bad - a friend of mine's wife works at NIMH and never put it together that her workplace and "The Secret of NIMH" were the same.
I thought they changed Frisby to Brisby so as to avoid confusion with the Wham-O Flying Disk.
Mice don't actually bug me, other than the time I was kneeling on the floor and the cat chased one under my crotch. DEAD mice bug me, but that never stopped my sister from making me deal with the mousetraps in her freaking house when I was little.
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Happy Birthday, erika!
sj - Sep 18, 2005 3:46:57 am PDT #3668 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Go, vw on the lab report!
Happy Belated Birthday, Perkins!!!
{{{Deena}}} Thwap Nick for me.
{{{Cass}}} Sorry about your sister.
Happy Birthday, Erika!
Topic!Cindy - Sep 18, 2005 4:00:00 am PDT #3669 of 10001
What is even happening?
Happy Birthday, erika!!!
WindSparrow - Sep 18, 2005 4:14:23 am PDT #3670 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Happy Birthday, erika!
WindSparrow - Sep 18, 2005 4:48:26 am PDT #3671 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
BTW, dw, thanks for those links.
I'm thinking the portion sizes for some of those items are in "who the heck actually eats that much at one time" range. If the "black treacle" mentioned is the same thing as blackstrap molasses, I don't want to think about how much I'd have to eat at once to get the 1500ish mg. Blackstrap molasses comes in at 600-some-odd for 1-2tbs. I think. I left my jar of it in Arizona, and haven't bought more yet.
And just in case anyone was wondering, homemade hot cocoa sweetened with blackstrap molasses? Tastes worse than just putting in 1/4tsp of No-Salt.