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Or a fucking Cuban jew. Did you ever figure out if you had changed the oil? I bought the manual, it's good. Well organized, super easy to search, and yes you can print sections. I much prefer to print things than to use a book. The book is harder to flip through, and you don't want to fuck it up with oil and shit. Printed paper can be laid out side by side to see a whole process, and you can fuck it up all you want. Also, I have a monster printer, so I can print them at nearly 3x the size of a book. That is incredibly useful for many things.

Or used OEMs on eBay.

Bingo, the evidence is becoming overwhelming that processed foods are the problem. We have never before had such a highly refined, incomplete diet available, and it's the only thing pushed in ads. You have ads for Twinkies and Coke because they make money for specific brands (and we subsidize them with tax dollars). There are no ads or subsidies for broccoli and melons. Where moderation and portions go full retard is telling people to eat less Twinkies and Coca-Cola. It's like telling someone to cut back on the heroine one day a week. No, just stop it. But facing somewhat of a backlash, the junk food conglomerates like Coke and Pepsi are now pushing the moderation of cocaine as the solution, and marginally cutting back the garbage. Like Pepsi saying that Taco Bell will reduce sodium 20% within two years. Cool, it's already at about triple the daily recommendation for one typical meal, 20% makes a huge difference. What?

At the recommendation of an acquaintance, I re-watched "The Magic Pill" (once it started, I recognized that I had seen it before) on Amazon. It recommends a high-fat, low-carb diet and shows examples of dramatic results in case studies using volunteers. I'm still unsold on the theory that one can eat "whatever I want" as long as it isn't carbs and sugars. One of the filmmaker's theories is that other carnivores in nature are able to self-regulate body weight while still feasting until satiation, yet he fails to consider that they also necessarily fast for extended periods and have irregular eating patterns due to the variable availability of prey and their physical ability to continue hunting beyond the point of satiation. And I imagine an obese predator in the wild either "self regulates" back to normal weight by being unable to successfully hunt, or becomes a feast itself for something else in the food chain. And those that can't maintain a healthy body weight on the other end of the spectrum are also cruelly absent from the sample pool. When allowed to work, natural selection is a motherfucker. Turns out that a critical review of the subjects in the video who experienced the diet had been on high-sugar, high-carb and low fat diets to begin with. And the research did not encompass longer term health effects of eating a high-fat diet involving things like lard-smeared broccoli, pancakes made with squash and ghee, or daily helpings of bacon and eggs. My takeaway, seemingly elusive to the filmmaker's eyes, is the elimination of added sugars, processed foods, and complex carbs is what resulted in weight loss, perceived health, and improved cognitive function - not the substitution of high-fat elements. Fat and protein are both critical to our bodies, but they don't need to come in daily overdose portions nor be the overwhelming basis of our diet.

This is what happens to me every time I travel, and am "forced" to eat the general Standard American Diet (SAD). Meat, dairy, and salt definitely correlate with joint pain and general weight gain, and then it's just gone when I get off it again. 100% repeatable.

The reduction of carbs and sugar has made a 63lb differance in me in 4 years. Diabetes forced the issue. I'm still fat though. Would like to lose 20 more. I wasn't even trying. No real exercise. I even posted about this rapid wieght loss awhile back. I swam a year ago and hope to return. Swimming made me feel the best.