It's All About the Food
My last post ended with these words. “Don’t be like Karen. Act like you have the virus and don’t want to give it away. Let’s just look at this realistically. I think I said that once before. This is a very contagious virus, much more …
As many of my readers know, I am in rural Arkansas. My last coronavirous post about worrying was written with my Arkansas followers in mind. I explained what a virus is and how it works, the difference between the flu and COVID19, etc. At …
I have never found worrying to be helpful. But a little foresight and action often is helpful. The Covid19 form of the coronavirus is in the process of taking down many parts of the world including Italy and Germany. It has achieved crisis proportions in …
Statistics show that about 85% of diabetics are overweight or obese. But that leaves 15% who are not. Why would that be and what should they do? Everyone’s situation is a little different. Maybe you could use some help identifying your personal differences and how …
Question “My friend next door has lost a lot of weight pretty fast. I asked her what diet she was on and she said she wasn’t. And she hasn’t been taking one of those drugs. But she does like how she looks in her clothes. …
How are your bones? Maybe your doctor says you have osteoporosis or osteopenia. Osteopenia is when your bones are weaker than normal but not so far gone that they break easily, the mark of osteoporosis. Sometimes you get diagnosed by a bone density test ordered …
Question “I read in your book about cholesterol and I think I understood it. Now my doctor says my cholesterol is too high. Am I supposed to be worried about that?” Answer The cholesterol information in my book is accurate but a bit incomplete in …
Some of us remember when ATMs were a new idea. I am personally not a pioneer, figuring you can always tell the pioneers by the arrows in their butts. So I was entertained by the ultimate ATM issues that were not initially anticipated. But I …
The paperback version of my book, It’s All About the Food, was published in November, 2015. It was republished on Kindle in 2017. Between 2015 and now scientific research has continued unabated with me doing my best to keep up. The book is purposely simple, …
Type 2 diabetes is officially diagnosed when fasting blood sugar (after not eating all night) hits 126 and A1c (blood sugar stuck to red blood cells) measures at or above 6.5. This is not a condition achieved over night. Think about body temperature when sick. …
As I may have mentioned before, no flour and no sugar is perfect. The perfect beef comes from a cow fed solely on grass. The perfect vegetable is grown organically without any chemicals. Perfection is, well, ideal but rarely absolutely necessary or sometimes even possible. …
How Does This “Growing Fat” Thing Happen? We need body fat but, as as adult in 2022, we don’t necessarily need it to grow. The human body is purposely designed to gain fat to avoid starving. Those poor humans living in caves way back when …
Adult Body Fat Should Not Grow! The fat you carry around on your body has value. Skinny is not required and could actually be detrimental. We omnivores have the ability to use carbohydrates (sugar) and fat as alternating energy (fuel) sources as circumstances warrant. In …