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.

Sugar and Salt

I’ve been reading John McDougall’s book The Starch Solution. He’s definitely in the low-fat camp of vegans, and does point out that starchy vegetables, by and large, are very low in fat, which is one reason one can eat a lot of such foods because they tend to be low in calories with such low-fat content.

He surprised me with his comments about sugar and salt. Most of these nutrition gurus condemn both. Sugar because of the empty calories and salt because of its impact on blood pressure — not McDougall. He says go ahead and add a little sugar or salt to the starchy foods if that makes them more palatable for you. He doesn’t see the harm in doing that at all.

Beneficial Algae

Sweet Potato Salad

Attempting to make a salad where the main ingredient is roasted cinnamon-coated purple sweet potatoes, but with a sweet, not a vinegary, dressing.

Discovered this dressing from Birch Benders called Keto Syrup that uses Monk Fruit sugar and attempts to imitate maple syrup but with no sugar at all.

Will probably add some apple sauce and raisins — despite the sugar.

I’m all about reducing sugar as much as one can. Sugar is poison and a cancer-promoter. Cancer cells love sugar.

Salad has a wide variety of vegetables and leafy greens for the nutrition.

Lifelong Health

Fascinating Series on Netflx

“Life on Our Planet.”

Fact: 99% of all the species that have existed no long do. There have been four mass extinctions where a majority of the existing species go extinct, and there have been many more minor ones.

For a dominant species to go extinct, that would be necessitated by the earth changing its condition in some way that cuts off something vital to the survival of that species. For humans, that would be our oxygen supply.

That there has been four mass extinctions tells me there will be a fifth. That would be ours.

Roman Triumphs