Riding IS Really Good for Me! :)
07-27-11, 07:25 PM
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Perhaps they'll modify the "old" bikes to make them "safer" (nice and heavy!..keep them slow!)..outlaw the copyright infringement of making any other bikes, put the innovators in jail! Monsanto did that already with our food supply, wha?!!
07-28-11, 05:05 AM
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07-28-11, 05:14 AM
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Naw, they wouldn't do that, they would buy up the bicycle manufacturers, make it a restricted item that requires a prescription, then add a 5,000% markup. I find it interesting, that you can get a pill in the United States that costs $7.50 a pill, yet in Canada it costs 75¢, for exactly the same pill, made in the same factory, same lot number, put in the same bottle, yet it costs 1/10th the price. I wonder if the fact that insurers in this country, refuse to pay more then the provincial drug benefit plan rates, has anything to do with it
07-28-11, 06:23 AM
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I find it interesting, that you can get a pill in the United States that costs $7.50 a pill, yet in Canada it costs 75¢, for exactly the same pill, made in the same factory, same lot number, put in the same bottle, yet it costs 1/10th the price. I wonder if the fact that insurers in this country, refuse to pay more then the provincial drug benefit plan rates, has anything to do with it
Do you remember the Aesop's Fable "The Goose that Laid The Golden Eggs"? We all could from time to time benefit from rereading it and considering its truthful message.
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
An Aesop Fable
goose that laid the golden egg
A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich.
"Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster."
"You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day."
So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.
An Aesop Fable
goose that laid the golden egg
A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich.
"Just think," said the man's wife, "If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster."
"You're right," said her husband, "We wouldn't have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day."
So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.
07-28-11, 06:28 AM
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Pharm companies and other companies buy up patents all the time that and shelve those producets that would compete with and interfere with their achieving profits on their current developed products.
07-28-11, 06:29 AM
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Congratulations Don
I hope you continue to see more improvements.
I hope you continue to see more improvements.
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07-28-11, 09:23 AM
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Since I retired 3 years ago, generally I ride about 30 miles every other day. I have lost 25 pounds. And the best thing is in the summer time I can back off one of my super expensive type II diabetes pills. I have a moderate case that is controlled by pills alone. In the winter when I cant ride my A1c goes up to about 6.8 but in the summer time it goes down to aroung 6.1. My doctor is amazed.
07-28-11, 02:33 PM
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Without a profit motive pharmaceutical companies would not have the motivation to spend millions of dollars researching and developing the drugs that many people benefit from. That is not idealistic, but it is true. Doubt it? Look where all the new pharmaceuticals are developed. Cuba? The old Soviet Union? Nope, not even Canada.
07-29-11, 09:37 AM
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There are many health benifits riding a bike. But, for me I ride for the pure enjoyment of riding.
For me there is no better high than riding fast in a pace line.
For me there is no better high than riding fast in a pace line.
07-29-11, 10:11 AM
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I only got back into bicycling about a month ago. Since then I have gone out every non-working morning for 45 minutes or an hour. The effect on my physical well being is nothing short of astounding.
Not surprisingly my legs and hips are firming up and both look and feel better for it. My back -- a constant problem for almost 20 years, and a worse one since an on-the-job accident last November -- is showing some improvement. But best of all is my blood pressure -- under treatment with two pills a day for over twenty years -- has dropped as much as twenty points, now reading from 89 over 61 shortly after a ride to 113 over 72 later in the day. On meds alone I'd typically see a reading of 124 over 84 (down from a stroke-ready 154 over 115 before I started treatment).
Lung capacity too has improved.
All pretty amazing following only a month a riding.
BTW, I'll turn 65 in late Autumn.
-don
Not surprisingly my legs and hips are firming up and both look and feel better for it. My back -- a constant problem for almost 20 years, and a worse one since an on-the-job accident last November -- is showing some improvement. But best of all is my blood pressure -- under treatment with two pills a day for over twenty years -- has dropped as much as twenty points, now reading from 89 over 61 shortly after a ride to 113 over 72 later in the day. On meds alone I'd typically see a reading of 124 over 84 (down from a stroke-ready 154 over 115 before I started treatment).
Lung capacity too has improved.
All pretty amazing following only a month a riding.
BTW, I'll turn 65 in late Autumn.
-don
Don in Austin
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