It's All About the Food
I know two women who weigh about 400 pounds. One is healthy as a horse, climbs stairs with no difficulty, feels and looks fine, no symptoms and no medications. The other is a diabetic with heart trouble, rides in a cart at the grocery store, …
This morning I watched a youtube presentation from the latest low-carb summit (Low Carb Breck 2018) by Dr. Eric Kossoff, specialist in epileptic children and ketogenic diets. It brought back a memory. Two years ago I wandered the aisles in the health food store in …
In a recent post, Every Bite You Eat Is Either Fighting Disease or Feeding It, I said that “hundred or so years ago most of the chronic diseases so common today were rare or had never been heard of. There is a message here. These …
With a friend at a local eatery for breakfast the other morning I observed a grandma and grandpa seated with their son and a grandson who was about three years old. I should point out here that both grandma and grandpa were definitively obese, filling …
A hundred or so years ago people ate whole food from their garden or farm and pasture raised or wild caught meat and fish. All the nutrients our bodies needed to fight infections and bugs were in the food. All the nutrients needed to create …
The answer depends on why you are fretting. If you don’t like the way you look in your clothes, that’s one thing. If you suspect that the fat is detrimental to your health that is another. Extra body fat isn’t necessarily harmful. Those 600 lb …
If you are as old as I am, you may remember the “incredible, Edible Egg” ads created by the American Egg Board in 1975. While one can’t necessarily believe anything in a marketing campaign, in this case, they were so right. Eggs are incredible but …
My personal experience doesn’t support that that eating healthy has to be expensive. And given that I wrote It’s All About the Food, I suspect you know that I eat healthily. Surprisingly, I find that I spend less on food now than ever in my …
Has anyone in your family had cancer, heart disease, or diabetes? Does that means you are destined to have these or any other conditions? Your thought, “It’s just in my genes?” Or are you of the notion that this is just bad luck and your …
Do you actually enjoy a crisis? Half of my automobile trunk is taken up with an actual spare tire on an actual wheel rim. Why? Because the idea of being out in the middle of nowhere with a no spare (or even a donut tire) …