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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Fat of the Land
In 1910 you couldn’t find any home in the USA that didn’t cook with animal fats. Suet, Lard, Tallow were found in every region and were universally loved and trusted. Heart disease was not yet even on the radar of … Continue reading
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Tagged butter, lard, margarine, polyunsaturated fats, rendering lard, saturated fats, storing lard, unsaturated fats
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The High Priest of Nutritionism
This is how science, in it’s purest and most effective form works. A researcher comes up with an idea of what might be causing a problem. For instance, let us say that the scientist thinks that saturated fats in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancel Keys, dietary fats, heart disease, heart disease causes, losing weight, nutritionism
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It’s Always Been Like This
At about five years old we start to remember things on a pretty regular basis, and that is the dawn of the world for us, as adults. It is so easy to look around you and search your memory and … Continue reading
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Tagged beer belly, high cholesterol, losing weight, low fat diet, polio vaccine, salk vaccine
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Big Fat Surprise
I just ordered a new book from Amazon for my Kindle Reader, “The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet“. It is written by investigative reporter, Nina Teicholz and I understand from reading a … Continue reading
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Tagged bad science, money, profit motive, pseudo-science, pseudoscience, saturated fats, trans fats, transfats
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Rare Sunday
It’s the rare Sunday that I get to post. This Sunday I am not working, and this morning I am having the pleasure of converting videos from last night’s big Holiday Open House that we hosted. We had music, and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Living, Poetry
Tagged celtic music, gig magic, holiday, irish music, music
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Shop ‘Til You Drop (Don’t)
If you are like me, there is hardly a day all year that you would go shopping all day long. Every year, though, there is usually one day, during the Jesus’ Birthday Season that I will spend a day trying … Continue reading
Waste Away
The number one food that we throw out is citrus. We have been storing it wrong. We put lemons and limes in the crisper drawer in the refrigerator, where they turn brown and leathery in very short order. According to … Continue reading
What Price Decency?
Today’s post is inspired by the movie embedded above. Five minutes spent on a tour with a Perdue Factory Farmer is all it takes to strengthen my resolve to not eat factory meats. This week I purchased a naturally raised … Continue reading
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Tagged antibiotics, beef, chicken, factory farming, great value, Perdue Farms, pork, sustainable farming
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Throw It Out World
Did you ever wonder how much food got thrown away back in the day when you had to grow it yourself? If you had to toil away in your summer garden to make sure that you had enough food to … Continue reading
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Tagged Change for the Better, changing habits, Do it yourself, food additives, healthy eating, USDA, waist reduction, Waste reduction
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Preaching To The Converted
One of the hardest things to do, as a dad, mom, grandpa, or grandma, is to silently watch as your kids and grandkids make mistakes. Making mistakes and learning the hard way is sometimes the only way that lessons can … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking habits, Change for the Better, changing habits, diet, healthy eating, living healthy, real food
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One Small Change at a Time 