Caio: Duke did an independant study on low-carb diets
(with favorable conclusions) that you could look up.
Gina: Atkins was wrong about the metabolic advantage.
Head over to the newsgroup alt.support.diet.low-carb
and ask the weightlifting researchers there how it
works, or check out the terribly scientific book "The
Ketogenic Diet" by Lyle McDonald for more details.
Like glycerine and caffeine, it's one detail he got
wrong in the book.
Aside from clearing up misconceptions (like, it's
supposed to be a high-fiber diet, and there's not one
documented case of anyone's kidneys or liver being
harmed, etc.), we should steer this discussion back
into the realm of singing. I think it's better to
point each other to references and studies about the
different diet plans, rather than duke out all the
fine points on the singing list. If you want to have
it out over low-carb diets (like the rest of the
country), there's a lot of information/scientists/
studies/references available on the newsgroup I
pointed to above.
But relating singing to fitness is good, say, like:
1. How does carrying X or Y number of extra pounds
affect your singing? Do you find support easier or is
it harder to move around the stage? Where do you draw
the line -- Eaglen/Pavarotti are obviously negatively
affected onstage; is Voigt? is Bartoli? is Swenson? Is
it an extra 10, 30, 15, 45, or simply when you start
to feel clunky moving around and start to get costumed
without waistlines?
2. Directors are asking for much more active staging
now than they have in the past (shirtless baritones,
Gilda climbing up a ladder while trilling, singers
running all over the place, Brunnhilde jumping off
small rocks, MWidow's Hanna doing a can-can while
holding a high C -- no, I'm not kidding). How fit do
you have to be to give yourself an advantage?
3. Is ageism or weightism more widespread in casting
these days, do you think? Better to be young and fat,
or old and thin?
4. Is it true that too much weight training can tie up
your body in knots? Too many situps ruin your breath
support coordination? What are the disadvantages of
being too fit?
Isabelle B.
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San Francisco, CA
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