My Review of Therm-a-Rest Z-Lite - Regular

Originally submitted at REI

For sleep-anywhere comfort, Z Lite is the lightest, most compact, full-length closed-cell foam pad Therm-a-Rest® makes.

Therm-a-Rest Z-Lite - Regular

Side sleepers, keep looking

By Marvin B from Horseshoe Bend, ID on 7/10/2011

 

4out of 5

Pros: Packs Easily, Lightweight, Non Slip, Warm, Durable

Cons: Uncomfortable

Best Uses: 3 Season Camping, Backpacking

Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer

What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven

Was this a gift?: No

This pad basically delivered what it promised to. However, in my inexperience in sleeping on the ground (I have explored plenty but backpacked very little) I was unsure of my own needs.
While I was at no point cold on this pad on a 30 degree night in my Radiant Down +20, I was not really ever comfortable. I am a thin 130 and 5'11". I am so thin that the pack hip belt was pinching the skin on top of my hips. (Yes, I disappear when I turn sideways.) I have never had any weight on me to know the difference but I suspect people with more padding can fare better with this "pad". I would really call it a mat.
I am a side sleeper, as is my wife. We both got this pad for a 2 night trip in the Sawtooth Wilderness. It was great for changing clothes, for taking a nap on TOP of the bag and hiding small stones or lumps.
But at 2, 3, 4, 5, dawn, etc having to turn continually to keep from breaking at the hips and shoulders makes for a groggy camper come breakfast.

To sum it up. If you are thin and can afford to spend more money, it will be worth it. As another reviewer said, 'for the cost of one night at Marriott' you can get a much more comfortable pad.

I will be returning mine asap for my trip to the Weminuche Wilderness next week.

I would only recommend this to minimalists or 'padded' persons.

(legalese)

Vegan Recipe Websites

Hi everyone!

I just finished reading "Healing Cancer from Inside Out" by Mike Anderson. What a great read!

This was some of the most eye-opening information I have ever encountered, on any subject. We have been so fooled!

Well, that said I'm here to share some recipe websites listed in the book. And here they are:

FatFree.com

AsiaRecipe.com

RecipeSource.com

VeganChef.com

VegParadise.com

VegWeb.com

Enjoy! And read the book. It's worth your time.

Alternative Cancer Treatment

I'm going to share some things with you all about cancer and it's treatments. It will be links to other websites, YouTube, etc.

Please, if you know someone suffering with cancer or some other 'incurable' disease, pay attention to this material.

http://www.anoasisofhealing.com/

Look at the whole website but in particular go to Resources>videos

http://www.ravediet.com/

Again, the whole website is good but under Resources > Cancer Resources you will find books, DVD's, websites, treatment centers, etc. I have the book and DVD set called "Healing Cancer from Inside Out". I recommend this read to anyone and everyone, not just those dealing with cancer.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5528328984547372206#

This is a video of Harry Hoxsey, a man kicked out of medicine for healing cancer naturally. He went to Mexico to continue. I just minutes ago learned that, in my own family, four people were healed of disease, three of cancer. In the 1950's.

http://www.gerson.org/

This person had a similar experience to Harry Hoxsey. The treatment is different yet similar if compared against conventional methods.

http://www.nwjcal.com/index.htm

This is the best juicer I've ever seen. I have compared it to the Champion and GreenStar juicers and they just can't compete.

http://www.amazon.com/China-Study-Comprehensive-Nutrition-Implications/dp/1932100660/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296097978&sr=8-1

An amazing 25-year study of diet and cancer. You've got to read this.

http://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1296097978&sr=8-2

Not about cancer. It's about heart disease but it is relevant to the discussion.

As I learn more I will post more. Some quotes to finish on:

"Dr. Campbell [China Study] did his studies using dairy protein (casein), but he also investigated whether nutrients other than dairy protein might promote or reverse cancers. With stunning consistency, nutrients from all animal foods grew tumors, while nutrients from all plant foods shrank tumors." - Healing Cancer from Inside Out, Anderson pp. 88

"From your heart's perspective, the difference between "light" meats and red meat is insignificant and much like the difference between regular cigarettes and "light" cigarettes. All meats - from red meat to chicken to turkey to fish to liquid meat (dairy products) - cause degenerative diseases because they all contain high levels of cholesterol, saturated fat and animal protein." - Healing Cancer from Inside Out, Anderson pp. 93

False haiku

A few small raindrops

Tickling my chilly lobes

Remind me of you

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Tabasco on eggs

Easily makes breakfast time

Better than coffee

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Emotionless air

Breaks through your silencing stare

At last I can breathe

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Garfield has stripes

And plain Odie says 'YIPE'

When kicked to orbit

Decompression

It's Sabbath. Worries and woes can mostly be forgotten. Some now more remembered.

Work is ended for at least 24 hours. All the stress that comes with it is out of my mind and I'm so happy about that! Preparations for travel in a week are on pause. Bills, accounts, cancellations...whatev'. I ignore you all.

Now I remember my family. My mother struggling with the torture of cancer. Pain, sleepless nights never ending, boredom and watching life long skills and talents drip away like springtime icicles. The sadness is too much to consider. This life is known more for how it ends that how it is experienced. People take ill and die and we just sigh "that's life". But really, it isn't. That's death. Death. Life, absent.

Life that flows no longer in our veins, sinews, bones or brains. Life that was, and is, and will be. Life shared forever and ever to be shared. A current which, given liberty, sustains all in perpetuity.

Oh to free Life from the shackles of that Death which has stolen from us all our freedom to be. To not be is to be, no more. Anti-existence is that great gift of death which is no gift at all. It is not something that is given. To gift nothing is to not.

To gift life, this is the only gift, the greatest giving that is or was or could ever be.

I was reminded of a quote from The Kite Runner which seems to summarize this very well: "The only sin is to steal." This is the gift of death, to steal life. To lie.

Oh death, where is your sting...pitiful death. You can take nothing from none. Powerless, whimpering and wretched - you are the antithesis giving and taking alike.

Liar and thief, this is to strong. Simply liar. That which death dispenses is more empty than the vast vacuum of space. Therein lies no substance.

All that is, is filled by Life. When the world began, Life began it. Deception destroyed it. Death, working it's worst could only but reveal Life all the more. Death is deceit. Life is Truth.

The Truth shall set you free. 'And if the truth sets you free, you will be free indeed'.

When Life will come, Keys in hand, these shackles of deadly deceit will at last be shed and ne'er more will it ensnare the living in Life.

Ask for it and you'll have it. Seek it and you will find it. Knock and the door of Life will open.

You are invited in.

Come experience Life, in the present.

John 8:44; John 1:1; John 8:36; Matthew 7:7