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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Department of Corrections (DC) and the Attorney General’s Office have teamed up with the Florida Association of Crime Stoppers to implement a new and innovative way to crack Florida’s unsolved cold cases. Each card features a photograph and factual information about an unsolved homicide or missing person case.

In July 2007, approximately 100,000 decks of cold case playing cards were distributed to inmates in the state’s prisons. The two editions featured 104 unsolved cases from across Florida.

Two cases have been solved as a result: the murder of James Foote and the murder of Ingrid Lugo

In 2008, state partners once again teamed up to develop a third edition deck. This deck was distributed to 65,000 inmates in all 67 county jails and to 141,000 supervised offenders serving on state probation. The third edition features 52 new unsolved homicide and missing persons cases.

To view the playing cards, please click on one of the below decks:

Cold Case Playing Cards Edition 1

Cold Case Playing Cards Edition 2

Cold Case Playing Cards Edition 3

Members of the public can purchase first and second edition decks of cards through www.EffectivePlayingCards.com. Third edition decks may be purchased through PriorityPlayingCards.com. To learn more about Crime Stoppers, visit www.floridacrimestoppers.com.

This site contains links to third party Internet sites. The Department provides these links for informational purposes only. Each link is provided without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. 

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Fasting Update

I decided to fast four days a week and eat a ketogenic diet the other three.  My goal was six months of this.  Today is the end of the first month.  

Goodness, that knocked the stuffings out of me.  

I've been doing a water fast.  Now I'm considering a modified fasting diet.  OK, that isn't technically fasting, but I'm basing my efforts on a study of mice with diabetes that recovered by a fasting mimicking diet.  I would like to just water fast, and maybe I will, but things have just gotten worse so far as to how I've tolerated this four day a week water fast.  Either it's going to have to be less days a week or modified fasting.  

I've been thinking over the modified fasting and what a good plan would be.  

I finally tried shirataki noodles.  They have almost no carbs, no fat,  few calories.  I rinsed a package of them about five times and boiled them for a little while in salted water, then dry fried them, which is frying without oil.  Then I mixed them with ghee and salted them.  It was pretty good.  So maybe a meal of buttered shirataki noodles.  Maybe diet jello sometimes.  Diet root beer.  Coffee.  With cream?  Maybe.  That seems more likely to happen.  

The fasting efforts started back last November.  I have said that I haven't lost weight, but really, my weight is down about 23 lbs since November.  I guess it's been slow going.  That's only about 3 lbs a month. 

Was weight loss my motivation?  Not 100% because I supposed I wouldn't lose weight anyway.  Just improvement of health in general.  If mice can rejuvenate, I can rejuvenate.  

Fasting

Cass Elliot

https://vintagediets.com/2017/10/02/what-a-way-to-lose-110-lbs-by-mama-cass-elliot-1969/


Lately I've been fasting for different lengths of time.  I would say the latest efforts started last November.  I watched a video by Butter Bob Briggs which said that alternate day fasting for 21 days would improve insulin sensitivity by 58%.  I tried it.  I'm not sure about my insulin, but not much happened in blood glucose land.  Did I lose weight?  No.  I guess I should be happy that I didn't gain weight.  BTW I recently found out that alternate day fasting affects women differently than men.  I would say it doesn't work as well on women if I'm any example. 

Next I saw some Youtube videos about Valter Longo's work on mice mostly, but some human studies, testing the effects of a fasting mimicking diet.  This means  calorie restriction and low carbs and protein, but some fat, to mimic fasting results without the draconian level of a water fast.  The results were interesting.  The mice were given the fasting mimicking diet for five days twice a month, for life I think, starting in mouse middle age.  The mice had very encouraging health improvements, although I'm not sure about a direct correlation to humans because their response to certain diets are different than our.  An indication, you could say.  For one thing, they just looked a lot healthier, compared to their control friends.  They lived longer, and had fewer tumors.  Etc.  Human subjects went on five day fasting mimicking diets but not as often.  The results were promising.  

Promising enough that I attempted it myself.  Only I did it twice a month like the mouse study.  I didn't purchase the five day kit.  For one thing it sounded like it had a few foods I have problems with.  So I ate diet jello, drank diet cokes, and coffee with cream in the morning.  Did anything change?  Actually, at this point, after about two months, I think my blood pressure went down from maybe pre hypertensive to normal.  Nice.  Did I lose weight?  No.  Again, I didn't gain weight.  Yay I think.  I fizzled on this idea. 

Prolon. The fasting mimicking diet 5 day kit

And what is the latest rage right now?  Intermittent fasting.  Maybe one meal a day.  This truly didn't cause weight loss.  Up to this point the only thing that caused weight loss was alternate day fasting combined with one meal a day on eating days, which had to be breakfast.  Well, I think not.   

Then I read a study, again that involved researcher Valter Longo, about mice that were given medically induced diabetes. At ten weeks they developed the disease, and usually four months later they died.  They were put on a four day a week fasting mimicking diet for six months, three days a week eating, four days a week fasting.  These mice first lost about a third of their pancreas cells, and then regrew them with new cells from stem cells. The stem cells were stimulated in the bone marrow as a consequence of the fasting periods of autophagy, but only did their great work during the refeeding periods.  At the end of six months they had regrown normal pancreases and had normal blood glucose levels.  Oh, that was interesting.  Organ regeneration from stem cells.  

It's not that I think I need new organs in particular.  Just in general. Before reading this study, I had heard a little about fasting stimulating the creation of a lot of new stem cells, and I had asked all the fasting savants on Youtube about how much fasting was needed to regenerate organs and tissues by stem cells, posting my questions in Youtube videos they made, some of them live.  My understanding is that during a fast one goes into autophagy, meaning the cells cannibalize senescent, worn out cell parts, and also a variety of body debris.  The organs shrink during this process, but during refeeding grow back with brand new, healthy cells produced by the body's flush of new stem cells.  Well, how long until one enters autophagy?  How long is it necessary to fast to generate new stem cells?  Inquiring minds want to know.   I received no response from anyone.  Well, some of them wrote books about it, so I purchased a long, involved book.  The book was just plain disappointing, plus, like almost everything in medical land, directed primarily at men.  I doubt if the writer noticed he did that.  

So I concluded that none of the great minds actually knew that much about this.  I think that could be extended to medicine in general.  They really don't know.  

Another question I never get an answer to is whether one can build muscle during fasting.  If you google this question it gets rearranged into a totally different question with an irrelevant answer.  There is usually a discussion about the fact that during a long fast one's body switches from running on glucose to running on ketones and therefore the body has enough energy to fuel itself. But does it have enough protein to increase muscles from exercise? A few people have made what I thought was an interesting statement that one need not eat meat at all because you don't need the protein.  All the protein you need comes from autophagy of senescent cells and recycling the protein you already have.  Really?  I guess it's conceivable, but I have some reservations about that.  So does this mean that you have enough recycled protein going on to continue high intensity interval training during a prolonged water fast?  It sounds like that's what they said.  But as one diet doctor said, "I've answered this question a thousand times.  No you do NOT lose muscle mass during fasting." Really?  That wasn't the question.  It was can you gain muscle mass during fasting.  Does anyone know?  They aren't saying.  But I will say that I've tried it.  It hasn't gone well.  I wear a oximeter when I do HIIT, and during this past month I've had some usual numbers.  I have two monitors to double check and they both said that my pulse, instead of increasing, dropped to 50, and my oxygen to 89.  This has happened regularly since the four day a week fast began.  Fifty would be an OK resting pulse, but after maximum exertion to drop from 130 to 50 is just wrong.  So I just don't think HIIT is in the cards right now.  

Be that as it may, I put two and two together that at least for mice the magic happened by fasting for four days a week, then "mouse chow" for the other three days.  BTW, the mice doing this didn't lose weight either.  How long was this study? Six months.  Could I do that?  I decided to find out.  

A long time ago I read a biographical article on Cass Elliot on Wikipedia.  It said that back in the late 1960s she weighed 300 lbs and went on a diet of fasting four days a week for a year.  She was able to lose 100 lbs.  

Well, so they said.  She actually wrote an article about it herself saying that she fasted first for five months four days a week, and lost 70 lbs and then again for six weeks, and lost another 40 lbs.  So she actually lost 110 lbs.  However, she added that on the three days of eating she didn't eat much either, one meal a day of steak and salad.  And she said that her starting weight was 285 and she ended up at 175.  This was interesting to me, but still four days of fasting seemed bad enough, without restricting the feeding days.  One point to consider about Cass Elliot, she died about four years after this, in 1972, of heart failure at age 32.  Hmmm.... 

Well, it worked for mice.  And not having much to go on as far as information from anyone else who had done this, I charted my own territory.  I've been doing this for a month now.  There have been some ups and downs.  Last week, during the three eating days, I suddenly began running a fever of 103º F, and had a high fever for two days.  Then poof.  Back to normal.  ??  What was that?  This week during the three eating days I ate some canned lima beans.  My blood glucose soared to 164.  It had never done that before. I had a flare up of severe arthritis pain with it.  This was discouraging.  Besides that, on fasting days I started waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep.  I may try cutting the fasting days back.  I may just quit.  

I should mention benefits.  I have had a chronically injured shoulder that I think has improved in range of motion, and less pain.  Two warts disappeared.  My blood pressure is lower.  Sometimes my fasting blood glucose is under 100.  Oh, my rating in chess has magically improved.  

And have I lost weight?  Yes, three or four pounds.