Two objectives for this day. Come in at 1900 calories instead of the usual 2150. Walk 175 minutes.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Inner Demon
How to turn off the inner critic?
Never Forget
Never forget that all modern “medicine” — pills — are to some degree toxins, foreign to the body, with the potential for a litany of unhealthy outcomes.
Always ask yourself whether this miracle pill is actually a modern version of medieval medicine where they bled people with leeches as the principal “cure”. Yeah, right.
The main cause for all disease — including heart disease and cancer and all the modern autoimmune diseases — is a poor diet; and the only real cure for disease is a healthy, nutritious diet. Food causes the problem but can also fix it.
When you turn to medicine as the cure, you are turning toward voodoo. For instance, look at what they are now saying about the consequences of taking statin drugs or the use of stents in blocked arteries. Both are now thought to be equivalent to the medieval bleed with leeches — AGAIN!
Don’t trust “miracle” medicine; trust healthy whole food. Hippocrates understood this 2400 years ago.
Favorite Stew Flavoring
Garlic/curry powder/fennel seeds/mint/basil/Italian herb mix/onion powder and sweet onion/tomato paste and sun-dried tomato/apple cider vinegar/fenugreek seeds.
Heavy on the garlic but light on the curry. Garlic the predominant taste, but enhanced by everything else.
Weight Loss Tricks
Having a very low-fat diet helps because it generally translates into a lower-calorie diet.
Bumping up the amount of protein in your diet helps because the body burns much more calories in digesting protein than it does digesting carbohydrates or fats.
Eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet helps because the body requires a certain level of nutrition, and so if your diet is highly nutritious, the body will be satisfied with fewer calories.
All these are subtle strategies to facilitate losing weight.
Diet in Old Age
Avoid processed foods entirely. 65% in carbohydrates with high fiber and whole foods. Choose your fat in your low-fat diet carefully with high amounts of monounsaturated and Omega 3 fats, particularly EPD and DHA. Boost your protein to 20% minimum, as protein digestion is not as good in old age, and there is significant muscle loss.
Totalitarians
The woke crowd are would-be totalitarians. They demand that you think and act in a precise way — of course, THEIR way.
We see this happening all around us in the US with the suppression of freedom of speech and the control imposed by the woke media.
Back to the future, back to 1984.
Woke
Wake to woke. Please.
Civil War Again
The US is in a not so dormant civil war where the woke types are ardently against conservatives, who are equally dogmatic. There is no reconciliation between their discordant views.
US Destroys You
US foreign policy has destroyed yet another country: Ukraine.
We were the good guys in WW2, but ever since the villains.
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