I say that...

It is better to Be Loving...
then seeking to be loved.

Focus

Wisdom first comes from A thirst...that never quite feels quenched...
Somewhat of a search...
For?
Survivors? Prisoners? Souvenirs? Directions? A recipe?
If I find it first, I will let you know.
If you find it first, it would be nice of you to share.

Dance to my Beat...and I will play the Drums

I try to see, inspite of the darkness around...
I try to listen within a muted world
I reach to grab...but only find air
Life has a scent...so I sniff...what is this stench?
One thing is for certain...the undeniable taste life brings us all...

So, pull a chair...and take a seat
Class is in session...the Professor is in the room
No doom
No gloom

Just desire
To see, hear, touch, smell and taste
Knowledge

Hungry?
Yet, never satisfied!

Who am I?

The simple answer is Konstantine.
Just another face on the subway.
Some guy on the check out line in the grocery store.
I like watching sports, without revolving my entire itinerary around their scheduling.
I drink red wine...not only because I love the taste, but because I love the atmosphere of companionship it can harbor.
I drive fast, real fast...can't help it, my brain works at a rate that seems comparatively accelerated to the world around me.  My friends joke that I live in 'The Matrix'...if you ever see my reflexes, you just may believe them.
I make friends real easily.  Anywhere I go.  No matter what it is that I am doing...people want me to be their friend...and I am completely cool with that!
I always get looks and comments
"I know you" or "I have seen you before"
Maybe they are right...and I just forgot.
Maybe they thought I was someone that they once met...
Either way, hello!
I am so Introverted, that I get marginally upset when I hear my cell jingle.  But, the funny thing is...they are a few rare people that I want to hear from constantly, no matter what I am doing.
I feel strong when I lift heavy things...I feel weak with how fragile I can feel by when someone acts inappropriate to me.
I wish that common sense was the norm.  With decency being its backbone.
I wish that people are respectful of one another.  Common courtesy.
I wish that the community understands what a symbiotic human relationship is.
I wish we treat each other to the best of our abilities...all the time.
I wish that Kathryn wouldn't hate me...I wish that Kathryn knew how to love herself.
I understand how we are all born, in the Here and Now,
With opportunities to grow and express ourselves...
Yet, I observe too many people Stuck In THEIR Box...
Do they know, that the Box only exists by design of their own creation?
and they get upset when I refuse to limit my thinking inside that square...or rectangle...or what ever shape it is that they see...
Religion is good...spirituality is better...
But neither matter, if we don't treat each other better.

An Article on Metabolism

Welcome to Ask Healthy Living -- our new column in which you submit 
your most burning health questions and we do our best to ask the 
experts and get back to you. Have a question? Get in touch here and you 
could appear on Healthy Living!

"Ask Healthy Living" is for informational purposes only and is not a 
substitute for medical advice. Please consult a qualified health care 
professional for personalized medical advice.

"How long does it take for the food I ate to add weight to my body?" -- 
Bunter122

Today's question comes from a reader who would prefer to stay 
anonymous, but it is certainly a thought that many people have had. 
Given that we all have different metabolic speeds, what is the average 
amount of time it takes food to be digested and then shunted off to its 
various purposes?

"We have a pretty good indication about the timeline from the sequence 
of ingestion, digestion, and egestion. The whole thing plays out over a 
span of roughly 12 hours on average," says Dr. David Katz, a HuffPost 
Healthy Living contributor and director of the Yale University 
Prevention Research Center. "By the time the residual waste of food is 
passing out of us, the useable parts have all been put to use -- for 
energy expenditure, as heat generation, or placed into storage, as 
either glycogen [from carbohydrate], or fat."

After you eat, the food passes through your stomach and small intestine 
in about six to eight hours, according to the Mayo Clinic. Then, it 
enters the large intestine where it is further digested. Putting it as 
delicately as possible, Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist Dr. Michael F. 
Picco writes: "Elimination of undigested food residue through the large 
intestine usually begins after a total of 24 hours. Complete 
elimination from the body may take several days."

For a complete understanding of what the body does to digest food, the 
National Institutes of Health has a great explainer. For our purposes, 
it is essential to understand that as food is digested, enzymes and 
hormones are secreted by the stomach and small intestines (as well as 
fat cells) and work to break down the carbohydrates, protein and fat 
we've eaten into usable material for our cells.


A growing number of endocrinologists -- those who study our hormone 
system -- are beginning to see the hormone response as far more 
complicated than previously thought, as well as far more 
individualized: there is a wider variance in how people respond to 
food, they suspect.

"While the question posed seems extraordinarily simple, I don't think 
that there can be a simple answer to it," says Dr. Kaveh Ashrafi, an 
associate professor of physiology at the University of California, San 
Francisco School of Medicine who studies fat metabolism. "The 
prevailing view essentially considers feeding behavior/exercise as the 
sole determinants of body weight. For this to be true, one has to 
assume that the body itself is simply an inert vessel; if you put more 
food in it, it must get fat, if you move it, it must lose weight."

Ashrafi offers this analogy in communication with HuffPost Healthy 
Living:

If one lives in a shack with broken windows, no insulation, and a 
caved-in roof, changes in the temperature outside correlate fairly well 
with changes in the temperature inside of the shack. However, if one 
lives in a modern home, with wonderful walls, windows, roof, and a 
sophisticated heating/cooling system, the relationship between the 
outside and inside temperate becomes much more difficult to guess 
easily. If the thermostat is set at 70°C, it can be -20 or +120 outside 
yet inside will be around 70. Bodyweight regulation is much more like 
the temperature regulation of the modern house than that of the shack 
-- the prevailing view, in my opinion, treats it as if it were a shack.
So while it is easy to say how long it takes for your body to digest 
food, it is very difficult to answer the question, how quickly does it 
add weight to my body? That's a very individual phenomenon, based not 
only on the make-up of someone's diet, but on their unique hormonal and 
physiologic response.

What Men and Women Say?

Men

"Why buy the Cow when you can get the Milk for free?"

Currently, 80% of Single women are against marriage.
Why?
"Its not worth buying an entire Pig, just to get a little sausage!

Needs

Friends are the fountain that we drink from...that help us refresh and refocus.
Friends are the bank that we withdraw love from...love that grows with interest
Friends are art...immeasurable and immaculate
Friends come loyal...they always find us when we are at our lowest
True Friends are far and few between

We could ALL use friends!