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About dcarmack

I am an instrument technician at the electric utility servicing the Kansas City Missouri metropolitan area. I am in the IBEW, Local 412. I was trained to be a nuclear power plant operator in the USN and served on submarines. I am a Democrat, even more so than those serving in Congress or the White House.

Roulade is What’s For Dinner

Posted on May 8, 2015 by dcarmack

Meals that consist of raw materials that are at hand can be so good! Roulade from skirt or flank steaks were that for me yesterday. Continue reading →

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Stop Diabesity In Its Tracks!

Posted on May 6, 2015 by dcarmack

Today’s post is going to be a re-blog of a valuable blog if you are concerned about the correlation of diet and health. It turns out that a person can get type two diabetes even if they are not overweight. … Continue reading →

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Antibiotics and Panera Purity

Posted on May 5, 2015 by dcarmack

Antibiotics are not in the news this morning. The news is that twenty million birds living in the dystopian hellish confinement of the US Food System have died recently, succumbing to the latest variety of avian flu, H5N2. Food Scientists … Continue reading →

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Gluten Free Dogma, And Others

Posted on May 4, 2015 by dcarmack

In his new book, Dr Levinovitz brings philosophy to analyze the pseudoscience of fad diets. Here is my review of the book “The Gluten Lie” Continue reading →

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Finally, a weekend

Posted on May 3, 2015 by dcarmack

I made it through to the other side. Not too much worse for the wear. The long hours at work are over. Working every day of the week for weeks at a time are in the rear view mirror. There … Continue reading →

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It’s 4AM, even honeybees are sleeping

Posted on May 2, 2015 by dcarmack

Honeybees colonies are collapsing and a reason may have been discovered. Continue reading →

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Blogger Reported Missing, Antibiotic Free Chicken Found

Posted on April 30, 2015 by dcarmack

Tyson Chicken quits feeding antibiotics. Continue reading →

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How Can Busy People Grow Crops?

Posted on April 27, 2015 by dcarmack

Originally posted on The Forget-me-Not Cultivation Blog:
Good morning to you 🙂 Today’s post discusses organic food. What is it, and why it’s organic.  More especially with our lives getting increasingly busier could we grow organic crops ourselves? A friend…

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Sugar Found to be Health Food, Studies Show!

Posted on April 27, 2015 by dcarmack

Today I dredged up some four-year-old crap that CNN put out. Back in 2010 they reported that a “Nutrition Professor” from Kansas had eaten a reduced-calorie diet that was mostly snack and junk foods. According to him his blood chemistry … Continue reading →

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So Little Time

Posted on April 25, 2015 by dcarmack

So many stories, so little time to discuss every issue that they raise. First issue is MY relationship and THE relationship between alcohol and sugar. The first time I read the Atkin’s diet book, back around 2003, I noticed that while … Continue reading →

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