Hi from a new member

[k-lee]

Hello,
I've dabbled in raw foods for about 4 years, and I've been ~100% for almost one year now, but I just found this forum. This looks like the kind of forum I've been searching for. Hooray for supportive forums!

Any other Albuquerqueans and/or New Mexicans out there? Any other grad students? Mathematicians? Skateboarders? Doesn't matter, we can all be friends regardless, but common ground is usually the first thing to establish.

[Lay-Lay]

Howdy and welcome! It is a great forum here!

[Veganforlife]

Hey k-lee! Soooooooo? You are a skateboarding mathematician? Cool beans!
:rolleyes:
Welcome!
I have learned so much from this forum. The banana up top? Great search tool!

[Maria]

Hi k-lee, welcome to the forum! A great place to be and an excellent source for information!!

Maria

[spicyfull]

Welcome to our Wonderful Forum. You are doing such an Awsome Job. Here you willl find Great Family who will help in any way posssible to help you succeed.

Read any RAW Books lately? There are plenty on the Market. Have you read Alissa's, Living on Live Food?

I look forward to hearing more about your amazing Journey. I am sure you have more than you realize to share with us.

I wish you everything you need to Stay RAW......Welcome to MY World.....

[Kathy Fields]

Welcome to the forum. I just joined yesterday so I am new too. I think you will like it. Its a little addictive.

[cattail]

Welcome to the forum. I just joined yesterday so I am new too. I think you will like it. Its a little addictive.

A *little* addictive??? I keep coming back and reading more.

Welcome, k-lee! I dabble in math a little, too, and my dream is to try surfing when I get healthy enough. I'll likely have to pick up skateboarding to practice (no surf around here!) - any recommendations for starting?

- T

[Pierre]

I learned numerals before letters and figured out how to calculate logarithms by the age of 7. I can calculate exp(p) in the p-adic numbers (except when p=2, in which case it has to be exp(4)). Is that mathematician enough? ;)

[cattail]

I learned numerals before letters and figured out how to calculate logarithms by the age of 7. I can calculate exp(p) in the p-adic numbers (except when p=2, in which case it has to be exp(4)). Is that mathematician enough? ;)

Ok. That demands a response. I woke up dreaming math in COLOR:
http://www.cattail.nu/school_web/math107/math_artists.html

I also encourage you to see my Scary Halloween Math (though we're slightly past that holiday:
http://www.cattail.nu/school_web/math107/pumpkin/index.html

:) But yes, you're certainly mathematician enough!

- T

[k-lee]

Gosh, I'm an active member on nearly a dozen forums, and I never get responses like this on any of them. What a great bunch of folks I've found! :D

banana = search....okay, got it, thanks!

raw books? Right now I'm finishing up Dr. Cousens' first book, Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet. I've read lots of raw books(Sunfood Diet, Blatant Propoganda, Perfect Body, 12 Steps, etc....), but have even more on my wish list, including Alissa's.

exp(p)....yeah....I'm taking a class right now on P-adic Analysis. It's a bit over my head, being that I'm merely a first year grad student, but I understand it on a vague level and I am aware of the isses that arise with p=2, so I understand where you're coming from Pierre, but only just now at the age of 28. I'm no prodigy, pure math is more of a hobby/career. Although I do find algebraic topology to come quite naturally for some reason. Probably depends on the teacher and/or book. Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis is presenting more of a struggle, but I guess I'm the kind of mathematician that appreciates the struggle for what it is. I see myself as the ideal teacher, in the sense that I'm very much in touch with the struggling engineering student who doesn't get it at first glance. However I seem to be a very good book learner and rarely do lectures inspire me (depends on the prof). So what ends up happening is that I absorb books like a sponge (be it math or raw foods or spirituality or science or whatever) and am very able then to communicate to the lay person what the leaders in the field are trying to get at. I'm not the guy that gets his Ph.D. by the age of 15, I'll be lucky to have my M.S. by 35. But, math is the ultimate analogy for life. There really is no goal, it's the process that you have to learn to appreciate. At least that's the understanding that I've come to adopt to cope with grad school. I may be here for years, but I'm comfortable here, and each semester I learn more and more, so it's the process of learning itself that holds the rewards for me. Thus ends the long rant on how I feel about school and such......

Math for artists? WOW!!! That is exactly the kind of stuff that I've been looking for! Thanks so much for that link cattail, I can use that. I needed an article for a meeting I'm having tomorrow (I'm the leader of a team of math tutors at the university), and that will be a good supplement to the ones I've already printed out. I'll make a few color copies and pass them around at the meeting for them to look at. I love that kind of stuff. I'm always trying to explain that math isn't really about numbers. I mean there is number theory, sure, and numbers are good for measurements and calculations and applications, etc. But at it's core, pure math and algebra and geometry et al. are really about relations and patterns of thoughts, like the linguistics of rational thought. And that color stuff is a perfect example. I would love to add to that page, you could do logarithm rules and linear algebra and calculus like that. I'm always using things like stars and smiley faces for my objects and operators. One of my best profs uses a heart symbol sometimes, along with the entire upper and lowercase verisons of the greek alphabet, adorned with hats and bars and stars and tildes on and on and on. Can you tell I really get a kick out of pure math? On the other side of that coin, thanks for the pumpkin link too. That's a great example of an answer to the question "When will I use this in the real world?" As a pure mathematician, I love math for math's sake, and I tend to find applied math unnecessarily cumbersome and time consuming. But, as a potential teacher, I need to build a portfolio of good examples like the pumpkin problem that I can use as teaching tools. The tides are changing, and the old formal ways (however much I have appreciated them) of teaching math are not working on the generations of tomorrow. The kids coming up today need hands on projects that involve lots of critical thinking and produce results that they can show off and use. I love spending all afternoon with a pencil, some paper, and a good textbook. But the majority of the populace needs to be able to see and touch and feel and taste and smell the learning experience, and the more interactive and applicable you can make it, the better. So, I will also use the pumpkin problem in the future. Who knew I would get good math links from this forum?

Oh, and by the way, cattail, you were asking about a good way to get into skateboarding as a way to practice surfing. Take this with a grain of salt, since I've never surfed, but as an obsessed skateboarder I can tell you what you want to shoot for. First of all, stay away from mainstream trick-oriented street boards. You know, the kids that dress like rock stars that jump up and slide down handrails, that's more trouble than it's worth. I practice all forms of skateboarding, including racing of several types, and I can tell you that the surfiest forms of skateboarding is longboarding and/or slalom racing. The objective there is to have nice comfortable boards with big soft wheels that roll and grip nicely. The result is bigger and/or oddly shaped boards that don't lend themselves as nicely to stuntwork, but instead provide a "magic carpet" like glide. Set your trucks really loose and find a nice hill (or even better a nice long ditch) and you're surfing the pavement! For further advice, I direct you to another forum, an equal of this one in the skateboarding realm, called Silverfish Longboarding (http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/). As a matter of fact, when I found this site I proclaimed "This is the Silverfish of the raw food world!" There you will find equally friendly and helpful longboarding freaks that will guide you down a smooth path, if you choose to take it. Any hills near where you live?

Thanks everybody, you've made me feel quite welcome. Expect me to become somewhat of a regular around here, when I'm not under a pile of homework that is!

Oh, and by the way, as far as the whole raw food diet thing goes, I'm to the point where it's not about IF I'm 100% or not, but how to dial in my 100% diet to optimize the whole deal. Right now I'm into the following three things very heavily:

1) Green Juice: 2 apples or 2 oranges (whatever was cheaper), one cucumber, a bit of ginger and/or turmeric root (wanna try burdock next), a bunch of greens (again, whatever is cheap, parsley or kale usually), any leftover kale or spinach stems from last night's salad, sometimes a yam if I'm feeling like I need a heavy juice, and a whole stalk (a bunch of ribs) of celery. I run all that through a Green Power juicer, pour it into 3 1-litre polycarbonate bottles (used to do glass until I fell skating with them in my backpack once, glad I didn't sever my spine), then add about 1/4 teaspoon of MSM and Camu Camu powder to each, 1/2 teaspoon of red maca root powder to each, 1 heaping teaspoon of your favorite green powder to each (my fave is Vitamineral Green, but I rotate it with Pure Synergy or E3Live frozen algae to keep things interesting), and shake it all up. At this point, each litre botle is about half full. Top them all off with distilled and/or RO water and off to class you go! That right there will get me through the day. If I'm feeling low or have a craving, I usually just go to the local Co-Op and get some figs or something to snack on. Every once in a while they'll have a good raw item in the deli, but usually they serve pseudo-raw items that have ingredients like not-truly-raw cashews, not-truly-raw carob powder, "raw" almond butter from a jar, rolled oats, etc. That stuff is all good for transitioning, but I'm way past that and usually just only get the raspberry-walnut-date balls if they have them.

2) Coco/Cacao smoothies: 1 young thai coconut (water and flesh. I wish I could find these organic :( ), however many cacao nibs your heart desires (usually about a cup and a half), maybe goji berries if I have them, sometimes a pear and/or an apple (thickens it, acts like the yam in the juice above), sometimes hemp and/or pumpkin seeds (REALLY thickens it, usually too much, need to go easy on the nuts if at all), 1 tablespoon mesquite powder, 2 tablespoons truly-raw carob powder, 1/2 tablespoon red maca powder, 1/2 teaspoon himilayan salt, sometimes cayenne, sometimes cinammon, 1 tablespoon of your favorite green powder (see above), a dash of bee pollen. Put that all in a blender with enough water to fill and blend on the highest setting until smooth. Drink slowly, and experience a love note from God.

3) Salad: I eat big salads. I'm trying to move to smaller and smaller salads. I used to be a double cheeseburger and large fries and milkshake kind of guy, so the big salads really satisfy sometimes. I get a large glass mixing bowl and fill it 3/4 of the way with cleaned pieces of Romaine, Kale (Lacinato/Dino is best, but I dabble in all Kale varieties), Spinach if it looks good, sometimes Collards, just whatever is cheap and fresh at the store really. I'm torn on the sprout issue. I like to use sunflower sprouts from the store, but I wonder about fungus issues. They seem fresh, and they taste great. I sprout them at home sometimes, but they don't turn out as well since I'm at school most of the day and can't really attend to them like I should. Anyway, if I'm feeling spunky, I'll get some sunflower sprouts and throw those on there. Cut up one extremely ripe Pear and throw that on there. Do the same with half of a Zucchini. Then tear up a whole handful of Dulse and put that on there. Then add a dash of bee pollen, and if you want it to be a heavy salad add some hemp seed and/or pumpkin seeds. Goji berries are nice sometimes. I used to do an avocado, but that has seemed to excessive lately. Now I just throw a few black olives on there, if anything. Does anyone know the status of the olives at the olive bar at Whole Foods? Murphy's Law would indicate that they're cooked somewhere along the line, but I haven't dared look into that one yet. For dressing I just shake up some good high-lingan flax oil in the brown glass bottle and lightly drizzle just a bit on top. If you need more than that, squeeze half a lemon or orange over the salad. Chew slowly, this one takes time.

Did I forget anything? I'm sure I did. But I just want to give you a general idea as to where I'm at with the whole raw thing. I'm just now trying to figure out when the best time to eat is and when not to eat, when just to meditate or do yoga or go for a walk. I'm trying to realize that I don't need to eat at a certain time every day. Just eat when I'm hungry, you know? And depending on the time of day or how hungry I am or what I need to do over the next few hours (sleep, skate, study, etc.), I can adjust what I eat and how much I eat to maximize my energy at all times. This seems to be the real trick for me. Not that it's hard, just that there's a lot of variables and combinations to try, and I'm sure that what's right today won't be exactly what's right tomorrow. That and I need to meditate and/or do yoga more. Breathing exercises. More walks in nature. Camping, gardening, dancing, laughing, etc. These are the areas of my life that I really need to focus on right now. I've almost got the whole diet thing down to a science, keeping in mind that true health is a process and a way of life not a goal or destination. My diet will never be 100% perfect, what does that even mean anyway? The best thing is that my ~100% raw organic low-glycemic high-mineralized vegan diet allows me to do all that other stuff to my fullest extent.


Gosh, I'd beter stop here so that I have stuff to say on the other threads....:o

Thanks everybody, I needed this. A raw fooder can go quite crazy surrounded by SAD'ers.

[Pierre]

.ua.ui do djuno le du'u lo fatysaclu namcu cu mokau :) What are the algebraic extensions of p-adic number fields? I've tried to get my head around that concept and couldn't figure it out. What about algebraic extensions of finite fields?

Any idea how many milligrams of vitamin C are in a gram of camu-camu powder? I throw a gram or two into some of my smoothies.

[k-lee]

Pierre,
Wow, that was my first introducton to Lojban, but after a bit of research I find it quite interesting. I'll have to look into that more, thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Algebraic extensions of p-adic number fields? Of finite fields? Ugh, that's more Algebra and Galois theory than I've been exposed to yet. Go easy on this first year grad student, Obi-Wan! All I know (if I even know it) is that algebraic extensions of number fields are the sets of all the roots of all the nonzero polynomials with coefficients in that number field. So, it would have something to do with algebraic closure, no? Like how the complex field is the algebraic closure of the real numbers, perhaps? I'm still wet behind the ears with all this stuff, forgive my naivitee.

Are you familiar with the role that the p-adics play in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem? I've been attending a seminar on this stuff, and all I know for sure is that it involves the Bernoulli numbers, Mazur measure, Tate rings, Iwasawa rings, and a bunch of other things that I'm still trying to grasp. I guess my professor Buium is an active contributor to the field (e-mail him if you feel up to it, I'm sure he could answer your question in one paragraph and is always happy to talk about the p-adics, buium@math.unm.edu, just tell him you're friends with a student of his). I take seminars from him because even though I feel completely stupid during them, I also get a strong sense of inspiration from them. They say it's like going to the opera, you may not understand a single word, but you get the general feeling of the story. This is where I am at in my mathematical progression. I can tutor/teach anything on the undergraduate level, but show me anything on the graduate level and I'm still a sponge soaking up information and unable to regurgitate it quite yet. Thanks for keeping me on my toes though!

How many milligrams of vit C are in a gram of camu-camu powder? Now there's a question I can get a handle on! I've read that fresh camu-camu berries are about 4% vit C by weight (as compared with 0.5% vit C in a lemon), so estimate that up to half is lost, and you still have over 20mg of vit C in a gram of camu-camu powder. I use it in just about everything because it works synergestically with the MSM and I have joint issues that I'm working through.

Got anything up your sleeve regarding the Fibbonacci sequence? That's a pet favorite of mine, however tangible and un-abstract it may be.

[Pierre]

That's 4% of the weight including water, right? So how much of the fruit is water?

10/89=0.11235..., and similarly in base 8 for 8/55.
1/1+1/2+2/4+3/8+5/16+8/32+13/64...=4.

[k-lee]

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ... Eureka! I love it! At first glance, 10/89 seems to deviate, but then I realized the "ones" digits from one term were being added to the "tens" from the next term, so instead of the 8 I was expecting I got a 9, since the 1 from the 13 got added to the 8.....just like you would expect in a base 10 decimal expansion. Sweet! I'll have to put that one in my back pocket, thanks Pierre!

Water, weight, density.....yes, you make a good point there. This page here:

http://www.uncleharrys.com/infobase/product/camucamu.php

reports that their dried Camu Camu powder has between 180 and 220 mgs of ascorbic acid, about 10 times my estimate. I forgot to account for the fact that things get concentrated when you take the h2o out.

[Pierre]

That's per teaspoon; how much per gram? I have two scales; I measure the camu-camu by weighing the bag before and after. (The tare of the Vita-Mix container is 820 grams, which would overload the decigram scale.)

[cattail]

Math for artists? WOW!!! That is exactly the kind of stuff that I've been looking for!


Excellent! I'm glad you liked that and the pumpkin math! The plan was to eventually do higher and lower math that way, but I got sidetracked with lots of other projects.



But at it's core, pure math and algebra and geometry et al. are really about relations and patterns of thoughts, like the linguistics of rational thought. And that color stuff is a perfect example. I would love to add to that page, you could do logarithm rules and linear algebra and calculus like that.

I'm always using things like stars and smiley faces for my objects and operators. One of my best profs uses a heart symbol sometimes, along with the entire upper and lowercase verisons of the greek alphabet, adorned with hats and bars and stars and tildes on and on and on. Can you tell I really get a kick out of pure math?

Very cool! I always had issues with using the greek symbols, because they don't lend themselves to an immediate nomenclature unless you know all the symbols.



Oh, and by the way, cattail, you were asking about a good way to get into skateboarding as a way to practice surfing.


Ah! Your list of advice is just what I need! I'm seriously working toward redefining myself and what I can do. This raw diet seems to give lots of extra energy, you know! I've bookmarked the Silverfish Longboarding page. I have hills over at Dad's house. Wait 'til he sees me with a skateboard - he had serious misgivings when I got my Balance Board, with lots of comments about broken bones. Thanks!



Thanks everybody, I needed this. A raw fooder can go quite crazy surrounded by SAD'ers.

Crazy, yes, and nearly impossible sometimes! This forum is wonderful! Your smoothies are a lot more complicated than mine (oranges + greens + agave). I'm having salad dressing issues at the moment. My desire wants blue cheese or italian, and mind keeps muttering, Raw... Raw...

Glad to have you on the forum! I'll see you in other threads. :)

- T

[k-lee]

Good point, I missed the "teaspoon" part. OK, here's another one then: This site

http://wondrousherbs.com/CamuCamuFacts.html

states "Wondrous Herbs Camu camu is a food-- dehydrated pulp from the Camu-Camu fruit that has a guaranteed minimum of 8500mg of Vitamin C per 100 grams."

So divide by 100 and you have about 85mg/gram of powder.

Third try's a charm?

[k-lee]

Blue cheese or italian dressing? Ever try a tahini-based dressing? They turn out pretty creamy and you can add all sorts of flavors (brewers yeast might make it cheezy, but more like parmesean than blue though, hmmmm.....) You can also do like a cashew or macadamia-based dressing, even hemp-seeds, any high-fat nut will work for a creamy dressing, then just add the same "flavors" that are in the Italian dressing, and you're set!

[cattail]

I went through a run where I couldn't get enough sesame seeds, now I'm decidely anti-sesame. I do have a lot of cashews on-hand - I'll try that. Thanks!

- T

[k-lee]

I went through a run where I couldn't get enough sesame seeds, now I'm decidely anti-sesame. I do have a lot of cashews on-hand - I'll try that. Thanks!

- T
Yeah, I OD'd on Avocados and Bananas the same way. Now I'm on the verge of doing the same thing with pumpkin seeds. The body needs to take a rest from certain foods, I suppose.....

[rawpriestess]

Welcome To The Boards

[k-lee]

Thanks for the official welcome, I'm about to branch out to the rest of the forum and check out some of the other threads (as a way of procrastinating while I avoid some homework, he he).