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Monthly Archives: December 2014
It Might Be Simple, But It’s Sure Not Easy
Losing weight is not hard to do–on paper. All you have to do is eat less calories than you burn. Eating fewer calories is easy, all you have to do is stop eating sugar, but you have to eat something. … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking addictions, breaking habits, carbohydrates, carbs, diet, losing weight, sugar detox, sugar-free, truth in labeling
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Heartbreaking
I am a middle aged man, and I work in a shop of intelligent middle aged men. None of us are really that close to retirement age, the average age in the shop is probably fifty five. Nobody in the … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, butter, carbohydrates, carbs, lard, processed foods, saturated fats, serum cholesterol, statin drugs, sugar, unsaturated fats
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Fat and Fat Are Two Different Things
Fat is not the same as fat. By that I mean that dietary fat, which is one third of the kinds of energy-giving, life-supporting elements of the foods that you eat is not the same as the kind beneath your skin, the … Continue reading
I Pick You Up, I Crack You Open
I pick you up and give a look I’m guessing what I’ll find I crack you open and so begins The filling of my mind You’re beautiful, you’re long You bring to me you’re thoughts And though you’re not expensive … Continue reading
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Tagged Food books, Nutrition advice, Omnivore's Dilemma, Pandora's Lunchbox, Poem, The Big Fat Surprise, The Nourished Kitchen
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Tough Row To Hoe
These next two weeks are probably the toughest two weeks of the year to not eat any sugar or processed foods. If you are just starting your sugar detox then I feel your pain. If you are like me and … Continue reading
Modern Day Slavery
If you want to make a one hundred percent sure-fire contribution to a better world, buy local. I constantly sing the praises of local food suppliers and I have listed the good, compelling reasons to get to know your local … Continue reading
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Tagged BUY LOCAL, farmer's market, HUMAN RIGHTS, local food, SLAVE CONDITIONS, SLAVE WAGES
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Add It All Up
In a world where value is only calculated in dollars, let’s do some calculating. I purchased a hog grown locally, by a farmer that I know and trust. I paid the farmer five dollars per pound for one hundred forty … Continue reading
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Omega-6 and Heart Disease
Originally posted on Oil-Change Diet:
The correlation between omega-6 and heart disease is very obvious when you look at the Dr Lands graph of the relationship between heart disease rates in various countries vs the percent omega-6 in the tissues…
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“Caveat Emptor!”–Buyer Beware
Industrially produced sounds clean. In many people it evokes an image of sparkling, sanitized efficiency. Food producers, fearing extinction by litigation are going to every possible expense to deliver to the world the safe, healthy products that we demand, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Safety, industrial meat production, meat inspections, natural, tainted meats, USDA
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Sewing Up Flavor
The picture above is for pulling lardoons through cuts of meat that have very little fat of their own… The flavor of lean and dry meat is much improved by larding; tenderloin of beef (filet), grouse, partridge, pigeon, and liver … Continue reading
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One Small Change at a Time 