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Category Archives: Health
Hard Habit to Break
It’s a good thing that I am not on a diet, that I am not counting calories, that I don’t have to start my sugar-free day-counting over if I eat sugar. Since I am not counting days or ‘quitting’ anything, … Continue reading
Eat Your Meat, Since You Can’t Eat Grass
Animals that eat things that we cannot should be in our diets. We cannot eat soil, so plants that can get nutrients from the soil and convert them to a form that we can digest are also in our diets. … Continue reading
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Tagged beef, grass fed beef, mushrooms, omega 3, omega 6, pork, sausages
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Fertilizer Kills Lakes and Rivers
Lake Erie is enjoying a terrific growing season …for algae. Toledo, Ohio had to stop making drinking water recently, because of the ‘bloom’ of a form of algae that gives off a toxic waste product, which can’t easily be gotten … Continue reading
Sounds Like a Plan
Today in my town there are farmers who have gotten up extra early, packed the products of their fields into their trucks and drove to town. They set up tables at the farmer's market, and wait for me to arrive. … Continue reading
“Meets All FDA Requirements”
“Meets all FDA requirements” is probably one of the most meaningless statements that you can read, when it comes to food ingredients. Here is a quote from yesterday’s news: Although the Great Value ice cream doesn’t quite melt, the ingredients … Continue reading
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Tagged FDA approved, food additives, Food Safety, food science, great value, ice cream, ice cream sandwich, Indestructible
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Data Points
If you go to this website, http://beefretail.org/wholesalepriceupdate.aspx, you can see that one year ago beef was about 30 percent cheaper than it is this week. About a 25 to 30 percent increase in every cut of beef in one year. We … Continue reading
Don’t Toucha De Mango!
Or, do toucha-de-mango. I am a recent convert to mango-eater. We went to Hawaii and got a papaya and mangoes to bring to the room. Mangoes were much easier to eat without a full kitchen to prepare them in, if … Continue reading
A Quiz!
A quiz for frequent readers of this blog. What is this? A. An ad for a health food that has miraculous properties B. An excerpt from an article in theonion.com magazine C. A debunked health claim that one company agreed … Continue reading
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Tagged class action lawsuit, coconut water, health claims, health food, new york times, quiz
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Still Here? Consider This.
If you are still a reader of these pages, then you are likely a person who is trying to change, for the better. If you are looking for ways to eat healthier then you want useful information about doing so. … Continue reading
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It’s Really Just That Easy
When I started looking around for how to make all of my foods myself, one of the earliest finds was mayonnaise. Mayonnaise looks like a really special kind of sauce. A little sour, completely opaque, I could not imagine the … Continue reading
One Small Change at a Time 