It's All About the Food
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 …
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 satisfied, …
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 …
Seeds – Plants in Waiting So here is what we know. Plants are designed to protect themselves so they can reproduce. Animals are designed to protect themselves so they can reproduce. Reproducing requires being alive, the minimum requirement. Both plants and animals need nutrition to …
Plants Protect Themselves Why not flour? That was the question posed last week. Why does grain, most often ground into flour, frequently produce mineral deficiency in human consumers like you and me? It’s that plant protection thing that is at issue with flour. Unfortunately technology …
Why Flour? I have said it so many times in my articles and discussions. “Just cut out flour and sugar and a miracle might happen!” And I hear back from people reporting just that miracle for themselves. Sugar is, or should be, a no-brainer. So …