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Tough Row To Hoe
These next two weeks are probably the toughest two weeks of the year to not eat any sugar or processed foods. If you are just starting your sugar detox then I feel your pain. If you are like me and … Continue reading
Modern Day Slavery
If you want to make a one hundred percent sure-fire contribution to a better world, buy local. I constantly sing the praises of local food suppliers and I have listed the good, compelling reasons to get to know your local … Continue reading
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Tagged BUY LOCAL, farmer's market, HUMAN RIGHTS, local food, SLAVE CONDITIONS, SLAVE WAGES
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Add It All Up
In a world where value is only calculated in dollars, let’s do some calculating. I purchased a hog grown locally, by a farmer that I know and trust. I paid the farmer five dollars per pound for one hundred forty … Continue reading
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Omega-6 and Heart Disease
Originally posted on Oil-Change Diet:
The correlation between omega-6 and heart disease is very obvious when you look at the Dr Lands graph of the relationship between heart disease rates in various countries vs the percent omega-6 in the tissues…
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“Caveat Emptor!”–Buyer Beware
Industrially produced sounds clean. In many people it evokes an image of sparkling, sanitized efficiency. Food producers, fearing extinction by litigation are going to every possible expense to deliver to the world the safe, healthy products that we demand, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Safety, industrial meat production, meat inspections, natural, tainted meats, USDA
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Sewing Up Flavor
The picture above is for pulling lardoons through cuts of meat that have very little fat of their own… The flavor of lean and dry meat is much improved by larding; tenderloin of beef (filet), grouse, partridge, pigeon, and liver … Continue reading
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Fat of the Land
In 1910 you couldn’t find any home in the USA that didn’t cook with animal fats. Suet, Lard, Tallow were found in every region and were universally loved and trusted. Heart disease was not yet even on the radar of … Continue reading
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Tagged butter, lard, margarine, polyunsaturated fats, rendering lard, saturated fats, storing lard, unsaturated fats
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The High Priest of Nutritionism
This is how science, in it’s purest and most effective form works. A researcher comes up with an idea of what might be causing a problem. For instance, let us say that the scientist thinks that saturated fats in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancel Keys, dietary fats, heart disease, heart disease causes, losing weight, nutritionism
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It’s Always Been Like This
At about five years old we start to remember things on a pretty regular basis, and that is the dawn of the world for us, as adults. It is so easy to look around you and search your memory and … Continue reading
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Tagged beer belly, high cholesterol, losing weight, low fat diet, polio vaccine, salk vaccine
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Big Fat Surprise
I just ordered a new book from Amazon for my Kindle Reader, “The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet“. It is written by investigative reporter, Nina Teicholz and I understand from reading a … Continue reading
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Tagged bad science, money, profit motive, pseudo-science, pseudoscience, saturated fats, trans fats, transfats
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One Small Change at a Time 