On average, Hispanic cellphone customers spend
975 minutes a month talking on their phones,
more than 50 percent longer than white
customers, according to Telephia, a market
research firm. Blacks use 1,210 minutes a month,
but the Hispanic population is growing faster
and, according to Mr. Rainie, is more likely to
use phones to take pictures, send text messages
and surf the Internet.

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On average, Hispanic cellphone customers spend
975 minutes a month talking on their phones,
more than 50 percent longer than white
customers, according to Telephia, a market
research firm. Blacks use 1,210 minutes a month,
but the Hispanic population is growing faster
and, according to Mr. Rainie, is more likely to
use phones to take pictures, send text messages
and surf the Internet.

Open up to me

love and only love.

--
Y no olviden que la tierra goza al sentir el
contacto de sus pies desnudos y que los vientos
anhelan jugar con sus cabellos.
- K. Gibrán

We tell ourselves stories in order to live
- J. Didion

Low fat life

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/health/08fat.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds
By GINA KOLATA
A large study has found that a low-fat diet has no effect in reducing the risk of getting cancer or heart disease.

Careful my people be careful, this 450 million dollar study makes some valid points but mainly one needs to be careful in analysing the results. While I agree that low-fat in of itself is not sufficient to reduce risks for disease what many of these studies leave out is the QUALITY of food being ingested. Technically if one eats a turkey sandwich on white bread with a diet cola, instead of a hamburger and coke, it appears as if one is eating healthier (much like the subway sandwich madness). But while one may reduce calories and theoretically be able to reduce weight, its possible that one increases their risks for cancer and other diseases. Similarly people who opt to drink skim milk, and low -fat goods many times ignore the fact that whole foods in their whole form do less to throw our body out of equilibrium, a theory poineered by Dr. Weston price (www.westonaprice.org).

Ofcourse the study points out that lifestyle, exercise and all are factors, as well as the type of fats ingested. But what about climate? Air pollution? New York city has one of the highest rates of heart disease in the nation though statiscally its problems with obesity are much less. A boggling statistic for many public health officials. The NIH is in the process of doing a study that takes into account air pollution and stress. What all of these studies leave out is the type of food being eaten, natural, processed, organic, artificial.

What to make of these studies? They usually end up influencing the paradigm of thinking, so it seems important to analyze or debunk. Let me know what you think.

Peace and love

Gabo

I just read an article in the times about health
savings accounts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/business/27health.html?th&emc=th

"These supercharged checking accounts, which
must be linked to a high-deductible health
insurance plan, allow consumers to invest their
own money for current and future medical
expenses and have it grow tax-free"

Since when are we suppose to be financially
planning for our future illnesses?

What happens slowly is people forget what their
rights are and end up following the herd for
survival. Similarly with University Education,
retirement, a very hearty argument can be made
that we are paying for what is our rights as US
citizens. Such things in europe or canada even
are absurd. But thats one part of the argument.

The other part which troubles is the expectation
of being sick. Its astounding how being sick
now or in the future is taken as inevitable.
Look around you, ask friends and family and its
astonishing the amount of drugs, problems and
sicknesses that arise, more alarmingly so in
young people.

For me, above all political campaigns, health
needs to be an issue on everyones agenda as it
effects all of us. Unfortunately health is seen
merely as a bad luck affliction and very rarely
does one view through the lense of injustice and
discrimination.

What boggles me even further is that the elite,
the very people who are suppose to be enjoying
life at the expense of others, get sucked in
themselves in the infinite warp of drugs and
surgeries which leave many of them debilitated
and dead. Perhaps they support modern medicine
because their sons are in medical school?

Oh how I long for old money great gatspy style
to take over....

Medellin, Colombia

Hola mi gente. I want to make this site bi-lingual, i want to write more, i want to offcially launch this baby. I just read a fantastic blogg by indian hottie in bogota and was like whoa, this is powerful, i can't ignore this, this is too cool. So i am going to write more. I had an idea to always write a book based on emails. I'd like to share some of those letters, personal letters. Much of this i'd like to focus on colombia, my time here, my connection with this great place. I'd like to thank Naazi for the inspiration to go forward with this. It felt really good reading her blog, check it out at

http://naaz.nomadlife.org/

peace

Gabo

Proud to be an American

I passed by a car with a sticker on its gas tank that says: proud to be American. I couldn’t make this up if I was trying. This country is almost purposefully trying really hard to destroy itself. I’d be into oppression and imperialism if we got anything out of the deal. War just makes us all poorer and stupider.

Are you ready for the laughing gas?

I once typed “help me” into Google. Google was god’s interface to speak to us. Or so I thought, what came back was spam. Help in growing my penis larger, what is a sad man to do with a big penis?