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Category Archives: Health
Sharing a Lucky Streak
I watched a movie from the 80s in which a habitual gambler gets a sure-thing tip on a horse from a friend, he bets the horse and wins. Thing is he has a gambling problem and shouldn’t be betting but … Continue reading
Shame and Blame
I was reading the Times this morning and ran across this article, “The Problem With ‘Fat Talk’”. Is it really such a big deal if you tell everyone how fat you feel? After all, a simple “I’m so fat!” can … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Step program, advice, atkins diet, being change, blame, carbohydrates, gary taubes, shame, sugar, Why We Get Fat
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How To Read A Label
By far, the best way to look at a package of food in your local grocery is in another shopper’s cart. Going down every aisle is an exercise in futility. Trying to decide which highly-processed artificial food is healthier than … Continue reading
Local Beef Bottleneck
I love eating meat that lived well and died happy. In my opinion, the most critical thing in my diet is my quality supply of meat. If food animals live on the diet that they prefer, not the diet that … Continue reading
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Tagged bandwagon, industrial meats, local food, local meat, meat processing
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Case Closed on Gluten Sensitivity…perhaps…
Lets go straight to Mother Jones for one of my favorite topics, “gluten sensitivity”… I love picking on gluten sensitivity because despite all the hype and the loads of ‘gluten-free’ foods that have been recently dumped on the shelves everywhere … Continue reading
Gotta Eat It All
If you are contemplating eating only meat for a living, you have to come to terms with the fact that you will be eating from the entire animal, not just the pieces you are used to eating. Primary muscles may … Continue reading
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Tagged All meat diet, breaking habits, carbohydrates, dehydration, low carbohydrate diet, offal, protein, protien, real food, real meat recipes
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Ribs, Ribs, Ribs
Nothing is better than a daily diet that includes pork ribs. Kansas City has a couple of the best rib joints in the world. Conveniently for me the best rib joint in a thousand miles is close by, Jack Stack. Yesterday … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, breaking addictions, breaking habits, carbohydrates, carbs, Eating Right, pork ribs, real meat recipes, triggers
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Things Are Getting Better All The Time
Nestle and Hershey are going to quit using artificial ingredients in their chocolates. Read about that here. Processed food makers are reporting slowing or negative growth, perhaps because people are eating more and more real food. I hope it’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged all meat, atkins diet, diet, eating cheap, Eating Right, healthy eating, living healthy, low carbohydrate, vitamin deficiency
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Ketosis
Every night, if you eat dinner at around 6 and you sleep until about 6, your body utilizes all of the carbohydrates and glucose that are in your bloodstream and it begins to draw down the stored energy in your … Continue reading
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Tagged atkins diet, carbohydrates, high fat, ketone bodies, ketosis, low carbohydrate, meat eater, smoked oysters
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GRAS
Someone should be paying attention. You sort of just assume that someone is watching what goes into our foods. Artificial ingredients perform lots of different duties in your processed foods, they would be inedible without them, but are they safe? … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, FDA, Food Safety, GRAS, low carb, low carbohydrate diet, Melanie Warner, USDA
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One Small Change at a Time 