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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.

There Is Just No Way of Knowing Why, Right?

According to the New York Times this morning: Colon Cancer Rates Rising in Young Adults According to the actual abstract of the Journal of the American Medical Association study: Based on current trends, in 2030, the incidence rates for colon … Continue reading

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You Gotta Have Fuel

If a person where to take all of the cautionary advice on the internet to heart he or she would not eat fats, carbohydrates or meats. In other words, starve–to death. A person absolutely must find sources of dietary energy … Continue reading

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Modern Day Cassandras

If you are like me, amazed that it was so easy to change your health, your weight, your lifestyle, you probably are just as amazed at how hard it is to spread the good news. Today I want to write about spreading … Continue reading

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Weird Foods

Cooking is an acquired talent. Planning to cook is something that you have time for but think that you don’t. Eating real food is an essential part of staying healthy and kicking the added sugar addiction that we all have. … Continue reading

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Type III Diabetes Is Preventable

You have heard me say in these pages before that Alzheimer’s disease, that ultimately fatal debilitation of the brain, is referred to commonly by physicians as type three diabetes. This relationship between insulin resistance and AD has been confirmed by … Continue reading

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Bottles of Milk

It comes in a bottle. If it did not, you would never drink it–milk. I, for one, have always thought that human beings drinking the product of another species mammary glands as a beverage was an unnatural act. This act … Continue reading

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Relapse, Again

Some things never get old, like getting off of sugar and simple starch. I am gonna quit eating sugar every day, starting today. I know this sounds a lot like what I said I was planning to do just last … Continue reading

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Money, A Poor Measure of Value

I have said before that what something costs is rarely a good indication of what it is worth to the world. The ‘free’ market is a place where you can sell something like oil, that when used is forever lost, … Continue reading

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The Science is Still Out!

When writing about scientific progress, one of history’s greatest physicists, Max Planck wrote in 1950, “An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, … Continue reading

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Modern Day Alchemy

It is possible to turn trash into treasure. Consider the case of Coca Cola’s Vitamin Waters. According vitaminwater’s website, the Power -C flavor of vitaminwater delivers “zinc and vitamin C to power your immune system”; while the XXX offers “antioxidant vitamins to help fight free … Continue reading

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