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gnome-terminal-pacman-Syu Last July 2018 gnucash updated from 3.2 -->> 3.3. Today Archlinux repos made available gnucash 3.4. Yay!

Eleven weeks into my plan to lose weight, I need to assess where I stand. Do I need to change some things? When you make plans, it bumps into reality. You look at your goals and improvise. You adapt. I haven't eaten rice since Week 1. Haven't changed that. I feel that is the most basic thing to do. It solves the problem of eating too much carbohydrates and helps in lowering my caloric intake. I sought to replace my starch-based breads with home-baked coconut flour made ones. Yes, I made it myself. I had to go back to a skill I haven't used since twenty years ago. Baking. I am trying to do a 16-hours continuous fast, then break the fast with a solid nutritious low carb high fat, moderate protein meal. Then reset the timer for another 16-hours fast. I watch my electrolytes, I drink water and black coffee. When your urine is growing darker from light yellow to darker, you need to increase water intake. How much protein to eat daily? The rule of thumb is 1 to 1.5 times per kilo...

I do it old school. When I blog, I go to my email application and open my editor. I have my email application open anyway because it's the second application I start when I open my desktop. The first application I open is my browser - mozilla firefox. For the rest of my desktop session, these two apps remain open with the browser taking most of the system resource. I don't use my smartphone for blogging. I avoid using my smartphone for blogging even if I can use the app in it. I really need the keyboard for typing and composing text. While it is very easy to take a picture and send it to my blog as a blog post, text is a different matter. My hands and fingers prefer the physical keyboard. My brain is also wired to work the traditional keyboard. The smartphone has made it convenient to snap a picture, modify the picture and upload the image to my blog as a stand alone post. If you're traveling and you have a travel blog, this is just perfect. I want to tell a story and I can...

A belly fat around your waist, overweight, elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels all indicate fatty liver and insulin resistance. Individuals could be walking around with fatty liver for a long period of time without any outside symptoms. Even the belly fat I could attribute to me reaching fifty and still eating as if I am twenty. My daily diet mostly consisted of 5-6 cups of rice, meat and poultry, fruit and 2 cups of coffee with cream and sugar. I need to lose weight and become healthy. Dr. Eric Berg 's mantra is "First become healthy and then you lose weight". Dr. Berg is talking about the problem of insulin resistance. Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas in response to food we eat. We must differentiate between the three food macro nutrients. The macros are carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Our insulin levels peak an hour or two after eating food. Most foods contain these macros in various ratios. But in a controlled tests, it has been shown that ...

My uric acid level is at greater than 400 ummol/L without medication. After starting with my medication, the levels went down. Uric acid levels are associated with increased risks of having diabetes and kidney disease. But you have to understand that as long as I am not experiencing symptoms of pain for arthritis who cares about uncontrolled uric acid levels? But it turns out they're a good indicator of developing diabetes and kidney disease. At my initial tests, my SGPT levels are still normal, so nothing to connect yet to my high uric acid results. But soon enough, around 4th quarter 2017, my liver enzymes are showing up in my blood. A liver in trouble won't show up in tests until it is damaged but a high uric acid might be telling me I have a fatty liver. The fatty liver produces a lot of uric acid from damaged cells. Uric acid is the waste product of cell metabolism. High uric acid also inhibits nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes the blood vessels. Lack of nitric oxide acti...

After Imee's leg amputation , I started to find some answers on how I could improve my health. So it is with a little bit of self-interest that I dove deep into diabetes and dieting. The Internet isn't just for porn or downloading music. I began with looking for what the terms mean - what is and what is that. I feel that things are somehow connected. That one thing happening again and again must be telling me something. The Internet is also full of trash and lies. So if I'm not making sense now, forgive me, but I want to tell my journey before I learn it all. I'm excited and maybe naive but I don't want to be dishonest. My weight is 200 lbs, that's 90.7 kilograms in metric. I'm 51 years old, male. The only physical exertion I do was my bike - when I ride it to buy stuff 500 meters away. I thought it safe to assume I do this everyday for our purpose here. The earliest symptoms that I am in trouble came in 2015. I experienced dizziness and increased palpitat...

The new Firefox offers tab management improvements and extension recommendations. I downloaded the new version, 64, today from the Archlinux repos.