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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.

Birthday Celebration

Posted on April 29, 2014 by dcarmack

Eating healthy (my definition of healthy) is really easy to do, no matter what kind of special day it might be.  The wife celebrated a birthday with me last night after work and the special event was dinner, prepared at … Continue reading →

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Ahhh, The Weekend

Posted on April 28, 2014 by dcarmack

This was the first weekend this month that we were not on dietary restrictions. The sugar detox is in the rear-view mirror and with the speed limit signs covered how did we do? On Sunday afternoon we got some potato … Continue reading →

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Evangelism’s Upside

Posted on April 25, 2014 by dcarmack

Writing, casting your thoughts to the universe, thinking out loud with no obvious audience is a lonely endeavor. The rewards are generally unknown to the author, the work is obvious to him. The effort must be consciously made or it … Continue reading →

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Less Teaching, More Testifying

Posted on April 24, 2014 by dcarmack

My significant other tells me that she prefers posts that say how it is, how I feel, more than the posts which are designed to share things I have learned, things I have found online. Hmmm. Well, as I read … Continue reading →

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Consciousness & Your Gut by Jeff Masters | Sedona Yoga Festival

Posted on April 24, 2014 by dcarmack

Consciousness & Your Gut by Jeff Masters | Sedona Yoga Festival. And yet another article about your ‘lower brain’. Seems these things always come in batches. Someday maybe we will go to Sedona, there seems to be some kind of … Continue reading →

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Fanny Farmer Dietary advice from 1896

Posted on April 23, 2014 by dcarmack

Some ideas that were taught in cooking colleges over 100 years ago are coming back into fashion in the 21st century…I love the way that they say you can start feeding your baby meat in the third or fourth YEAR. … Continue reading →

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Back to Normal

Posted on April 23, 2014 by dcarmack

We are into the new normal at our house. New hot teas and tea blends that taste sweet from the spices that are in them, without actually having any sugar added or incorporated. Coffee black, no sugar is a new … Continue reading →

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So Maybe You CAN Think With Your Gut

Posted on April 22, 2014 by dcarmack

According to this Scientific American article, there is a nervous control center similar to the brain located in the abdomen.  So when Stephen Colbert talks jokingly about Truthiness and Thinking With His Gut, he was more right than wrong.

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Food, Inc. Movie Trailer

Posted on April 22, 2014 by dcarmack

Food, Inc. Movie Trailer I watched this movie after reading Michael Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma“.  This movie shows a couple of great things about the US food manufacturing system, where money is far more important than the health effects … Continue reading →

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Forks Over Knives Movie

Posted on April 22, 2014 by dcarmack

Forks Over Knives Movie This movie, while it seems at times to be pitching a diet, is really instead pitching a lifestyle change.  These days it seems that what is going on the body is probably a change in gut … Continue reading →

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