Category Archives: Health

Feeling For The Amish

Posted on December 29, 2014 by dcarmack

Now I know what it is like to try and live differently than the society I live in. Now that my family is eating real fats, not excessive sugar or carbs, and no processed foods we know what it is … Continue reading →

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An Ounce Of Prevention is Worth A Pound of Cure

Posted on December 27, 2014 by dcarmack

It is said that and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This is especially true if there is no cure. In the case of type two diabetes, commonly known as adult onset diabetes, prevention and cure are … Continue reading →

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Diehards

Posted on December 26, 2014 by dcarmack

No Christmas post yesterday, so gonna make up for it by not missing a day for the rest of the week. I hope you had a great holiday, with family if you wanted, or by yourself, if that’s the kind … Continue reading →

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Parsing Bad Advice

Posted on December 24, 2014 by dcarmack

I read food and nutrition news with a very critical ear for bad advice. Usually that bad advice is based on the bad old nutritional science of the past. The advice to limit saturated fats is still everywhere, even though … Continue reading →

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Back in the News

Posted on December 23, 2014 by dcarmack

Sugar addiction gets another shoutout in this morning’s New York Times. Substance use disorders, defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, exist when at least two to three symptoms from a list of 11 are present. In … Continue reading →

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Good For English, Bad For Truth

Posted on December 22, 2014 by dcarmack

English has won by not losing. Do you recall the Unilever lawsuit against Hampton Creek that was for producing a product that looks like mayonnaise, but is not mayonnaise, while calling it “mayo”. Unilever dropped that lawsuit. The truth has … Continue reading →

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It Might Be Simple, But It’s Sure Not Easy

Posted on December 20, 2014 by dcarmack

Losing weight is not hard to do–on paper. All you have to do is eat less calories than you burn. Eating fewer calories is easy, all you have to do is stop eating sugar, but you have to eat something. … Continue reading →

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Heartbreaking

Posted on December 19, 2014 by dcarmack

I am a middle aged man, and I work in a shop of intelligent middle aged men. None of us are really that close to retirement age, the average age in the shop is probably fifty five. Nobody in the … Continue reading →

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Fat and Fat Are Two Different Things

Posted on December 18, 2014 by dcarmack

Fat is not the same as fat. By that I mean that dietary fat, which is one third of the kinds of energy-giving, life-supporting elements of the foods that you eat is not the same as the kind beneath your skin, the … Continue reading →

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I Pick You Up, I Crack You Open

Posted on December 17, 2014 by dcarmack

I pick you up and give a look I’m guessing what I’ll find I crack you open and so begins The filling of my mind You’re beautiful, you’re long You bring to me you’re thoughts And though you’re not expensive … Continue reading →

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