Category Archives: Health

Omega-6 Makes You Fat!

Originally posted on Oil-Change Diet:
When I started following The Oil-Change Diet, I did it for health reasons, not really expecting it to help me lose weight. I was definitely pleased when I lost 15 pounds in the first 3…

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American Food is Dead

French people love their cheese. They leave it out of the refrigerator, because the cheese is alive. Things growing on their cheeses don’t turn them off, they cut that bit away when they are going to be eating it. Here … Continue reading

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Change Advocate

This weekend I had a chance to visit with several women that I haven’t seen in about a year, and during the course of the day diet came up. I don’t remember how it came up, but I felt that, … Continue reading

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I Don’t Know What’s In That

A thirty two ounce Pepsi has around four hundred calories of pure sugar energy in it. That comes from the 112 grams of sugar in each one. At four teaspoons per gram, that would be twenty eight teaspoons of sugar. … Continue reading

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Now Is The Time

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere like I do, now is the time to be thinking about buying fresh foods from your local farmer’s market. Right now most of the produce that is locally grown is at it’s prime, … Continue reading

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Why Do YOU Eat That Way?

Let’s say you are about twenty five percent overweight. You are a woman that should weigh one hundred pounds but you weigh one twenty five. You are a man that should weigh one hundred eighty pounds, but you weigh two … Continue reading

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Try to Be a Locavore

    There is a relatively new restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri called The Mixing Bowl Noshery. It is on Southwest Boulevard, not too far from Manny’s. They serve nothing but fresh local foods. The photo above is their pork … Continue reading

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Sorry About That

If you check my blog every day you probably noticed that there was no post yesterday. I plead LAZY, because I didn’t feel like writing in the morning, then when I checked in the afternoon I also didn’t feel like … Continue reading

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It Was Pretty Easy

I took two fresh Boston Butt pork roasts from Paradise Meat Locker and cut the meat into about inch and a half cubes. We spiced the meat with the recipe that I posted yesterday for bratwurst. We ran that through … Continue reading

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Who Knows?

Seventy percent of US residents are overweight. Way back in 2008 it was estimated that obesity costed our health care system 150 billion dollars. Health care hasn’t gotten cheaper in the last six years, nor have less people become obese … Continue reading

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