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Sometimes going back takes you forward
Originally posted on Breaking The Yo-Yo:
So the projected start of the eat good meat and dairy and barely any carbs plan has had a delay. Firstly because the organic meat delivery was not placed on time and wasn’t received…
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Carbon Footprints
Not True! Today in the online magazine Slate I read this: “Current evidence shows that the average U.S. diet has a larger environmental impact in terms of increased [greenhouse gas] emissions, land use, water use, and energy use,” reads the … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, beef, being change, breaking habits, carbohydrates, Change for the Better, Eat like your grandparents did, real food
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If It’s Easy, You’re Probably Doing It Right
Life is perpetuated by the energy of the sun. Every living thing, even creatures that dwell in deep caves in the bowels of the Earth rely on something coming into that cave from the outside, thus bringing the energy to … Continue reading
I Was So Misled
For most of my life, right up until I started reading “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes, I believed like most people that a person had to eat fruit and vegetables in order to stay healthy. Now that I … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, carbohydrate, eating healthy, gary taubes, how to lose weight, processed food, real food
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Cooking Vacation
It never occurred to me that I could take a vacation and learn how to cook something. This morning in the Washington Post I read about a day camp for smokers–beef and pork smokers. Smoking meats was the second thing … Continue reading
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Tagged Brisket Camp, learning to cook, real foods, real meat recipes, smoking beef, smoking pork
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How It All Began
I love to cook. I love to cook things that lots of people don’t even realize that you can cook for yourself. I make my own salad dressings, like ranch and Russian. I make my own mayonnaise, yogurt, bacon, corned … Continue reading
Enough, With the Doom and Gloom
And now, for a little light reading… The past few days have been very heavy information days. With the new government dietary advice coming out, and that advice not being one hundred percent in agreement with the advice that I … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, brining pork, curing pork, heritage pork bacon, prague cure 1, real food, real meat recipes, smoking pork, sodium nitrite cure
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It Is A Matter Of Life And Death
It really is a matter of life and death, I am not being too shrill. I am reading Gary Taubes’ book “Good Calories, Bad Calories” and the current chapter is discussing the likelihood that diabetes and metabolic syndrome are precursors … Continue reading
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Tagged carbohydrates, diabetes, eating healthy, fat, fructose, fruit juice, healthy eating, sugar, triglyceride, type 2 diabetes
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Nina Weighs In
One of my favorite champions of natural fats in our diet, Nina Teicholz, author of one of my favorite books “The Big Fat Surprise,” has offered us her opinion of the new dietary guidelines from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Fat Surprise, carbohydrates, losing weight, Nina Teicholz, real food, sugar, USDA
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One Small Change at a Time 