The food stays hot for longer in the pot and can be placed in the fridge, microwave, dishwasher. I think it cooks better due to infrared rays apparently, and there's no risk of metal contamination: that's my concern from hot acidic foods like tomato sauce, especially when kept for days in fridge, or scratched out with metal spoon. I think it tastes better and cooks better - the overall experience feels awesome. 3 brands I've come across are Neoflam (Korea), Piral (Italy) and Xtrema (USA.) Xtrema best but most expensive but all v good. Sudden heat changes and dropping are the enemy.
Excellent, I'm always looking out for new techniques & tools. I've always wondered if cooking in non-conductive would make a difference, your response validates. Thanks adrian
Sprinting gives a rush of endorphins and hgh. Sprinting is anaerobic exercise for the heart, and jogging is more aerobic. However, both are important. Sprinting not only involves power, but technique and arms, it yields a different physique by using faster twitch muscles and requires flexibility. Jogging is more harmful to the body when one gets addicted to constantly pushing and playing with the pain threshold, or ignoring it, which happens when schedules and distances are embraced by ego.
I am inclined to think we're built to go for a walk to a hunting ground, sprint and throw an arrow, and walk home with a carcass on our backs, sleep while the women cooks and disects its organs, then eat it. Jogging serves no purpose other than to save time. If we're jogging a lot, we haven't positioned our tribe properly. What animal would you pursue jogging? Would you take your army out jogging? Would you rather jog or ride a horse into war?
Nearly all animals built for sprinting don't have the endurance for sustained evasion. If you've ever chased wildlife, you'll notice they quickly zip away, but stop some couple hundred meters away to turn around and look back at you. This is really to recharge their batteries and keep an eye on the threat (you).
I mentioned it in another comment, but persistence hunting was a well-known tactic across the world. It's particular effective on flat desolate land, but was also practiced in hilly woodlands, in combination with tracking skills.
Eventually the animal would keel over from exhaustion.
Don't fall too easily into this Paleo trend and the hunches people posit as "the way things were". They often have a narrow view of how things were.
Remember to keep your skepticism healthy. When someone tells you to use a standing desk, because cavemen used standing desks, remain skeptical. When someone says you should just do short sprints, because that's what cavemen did, be skeptical. I'm not saying standing desks and sprinting are bad, I do both, but question & verify what you're told, especially before spreading that (mis?)information.
Long distance running has it's place in human history. Check out "persistence hunting". The Tarahumara tribe, which is now pretty well-known among laymen, were practitioners of this. Their story has been covered in quite a few books, Born To Run being the most popular.
> I am inclined to think we're built to go for a walk to a hunting ground, sprint and throw an arrow.
The adaption to bipedalism actually reduced our sprinting capabilities and increased our endurance. It's likely that we used our superior endurance to chase down our prey over long distances far before we had arrows.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
If it were me, I would've told my buddies to start building a fence for next time while I was out hunting it down. Also dogs and horses could have helped with the hunt. How is he meant to carry the carcass back? Does he light a fire to signal to the others to help him? What happens if tigers smell the blood or no one reaches him in time, or a pack of hyenas are following the hunter? Most of the time, a lot of the hunt was reconnaissance (endurance yes, jogging no.) Large groups of people jogging frequently for long groups of time doesn't seem right, perhaps in parts of Africa (eg Kenya) jogging has become part of society and remains fun. Bipedalism has other benefits besides endurance: vision, climbing, reach, sitting, freeing up hands, inducing fear. People going on a 10km run every weekend, on concrete, in a polluted city, with a hunched back is just wrong. Just because you can jog, doesn't mean you must.
scrambled eggs --> poached eggs --> raw eggs
jogging --> sprinting
sun cream --> no cream
metal pots --> ceramic pots
pasteurized dairy --> raw dairy
Australia --> Israel