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30磅的weight lift, 80下

昨天在网上看到锻炼身体必备的一样东西叫 Heart Rate Monitor用来监测运动过程中心跳的变化，这样可以防止运动量过大或者过小。避免运动损伤。
今天去North Gate的G.I Jones看了看，稍微象样一点的也要100美金，犹豫了半天最后还是没有买。我打算定个目标，比如说当我能游2个mile的时候，就奖励自己一下去买一个。

You are what you eat. Eating well is important for health, mood, and hence better work. It will take some efforts for us to eat well in US.

Last time, I talked about where to purchase food, here I  am going to talk about what food I do not eat in America.

The first kind of food I do not eat are those cheap meat. American meat industry can produce large amount of meat using hormone and addictives. These meat are bad not only because of the high ratio of fat, but also the hormones are not easily degradatable. These hormone could cause obesity,  increase the risk of heart diease, diabetes. So, unless I have no other choices, I usually avoid meat without a organic tag on it.

The second kind of food I avoid in US market are those food with large amount of additives. For example, if you buy a bottle of juice in China, open it and put it on the table, 2 days later, it will be rotten. If you do the same thing in American, the juice will be intact. The same phenomena you can observe for yogurt. Many chemicals are put in the food to prevent bacterias. The long term consequence of these chemicals are not studied enough to reveal all the potential toxic possibilities. You are not going to die tomorrow because eating a yogurt, but it may kill you 10 neurons for mathematics. 

These two categories of food will eliminate 70% goods on the supermarket shelfs. The food I usually buy including:
1. orange
2. apple
3. organic fat free milk
4. organic chicken
5. pork rib
6. live fish

Although most of the decent restaurants in Seattle are prohibitive expensive for graduate students, the happy hour in the bar is a good deal for us. For example, a appetitizer usually cost around 8-10 dollars, during happy hour, it is may be just 4$. For example 3$ chicken quesadila of Jilian, 4$ steak pizza in Axis, 4$ cheese burger with fries in Mccommick and Schimiz. Cooking by yourself may be more expensive.

Both team are the top 1 of their national league. But both team give out the other team a black dragon goal. So, everybody makes mistakes, work hard but don’t worry…

Today, I watched a soccer game between Read Madrid and Arsenal(actually only half of it), I think it is one the game of the Champions League 2006. I feel very impressed by the all star team recruited by Real Madrid. Just to name a few on the front line, Ronaldo, Zedane, Roberto Carlos, Laurl, David Beckham. It is hard to believe such a team could lose any game, although eventually Arsenal did win this one. Henry of Arsenal broke the defense line of Real Madrid using his speed a couple of times, one of them leads to a goal. Ronaldo looks tired and much slower than he used to be, just like Roberto Baggio 10 years ago, it is time for him to think about a transistion.

I am planning to climb some big mountains during the summer, so starting right now, I need to exercise 10-30 minutes minimal everyday to keep the metabolism ability. Today I biked north from home for about half an hour. I started from home along the Burke-Gilman trail towards north. Shortly after setting out, I found it is actually pretty cold outside. It is not a good day for biking, very few people there. I fetch my ski glove and hat from home to continue the adventure. The weather is fine, no sunshine, but it is clear enough to see Kirkland across the Lake Washington from the trail. Passing the Mattew Beach, at the 97th Street, I made a left hand turn according the King County Biking map, after that, I made a right hand turn and continue north. At 103 th St, I find I already spend 15 minutes there, so I turned back to Burke-Gilman Trail and come back home.