Reached the white-haired stage in life.
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.
Edible
Do you know your edible wild plants?
Deficiencies
80% of the people are deficient in magnesium; 90% in vitamin D. How’s your GABA?
Sulforaphane
Sulforaphane. Pharmaceutical companies have studied it for years because of its very positive effects on cancer. You get it when you chew raw broccoli because then two compounds in the broccoli come together and create this new compound. Even better if you chew the raw broccoli with mustard. Broccoli sprouts have 10x the amount of sulforaphane as the mature plant. Grind up a small amount of the sprouts as the first ingredient in your smoothie, but not too much because the taste is terrible.
Cinnamon Sweet Potato Recipe
I take Tahini and vegetable broth and blend in a blender. Then put the solution in a large bowl with a little nutmeg and allspice, cut up the sweet potato into bite-sized pieces with the skin left on (the skin has a lot of the potato’s nutrition), and tumble all the sweet potato pieces so that they are coated with the solution. Then I put in a large amount of cinnamon so that the sweet potato pieces are heavily coated with the cinnamon.
Roast for 40 minutes at 400 degrees.
The best sweet potato for doing cinnamon sweet potato is the purple sweet potato. I swear it is like eating cake, not potato. Only issue is that this is SO delicious you can’t stop eating the cinnamon sweet potato — the dopamine rush is so intense.
Tiny
The earth’s size relative to the size of the universe is not even equivalent to a single grain of sand compared to the size of the earth. We are not even a single grain of sand.
HIIT
Get a burn going.
HIIT
Feel your glycogen stores unravel.
Small Changes Make a Millionaire
Make a small change for better health outcomes in your diet each day. Can be even a very tiny change, but is nevertheless a clear improvement health-wise. But do it every single day without fail. Use some kind of reminder in the morning in order to decide from the get-go what the small change will be for that day. If you miss a day, make 2 small changes the next day to catch up.
In 12 months, your overall diet will be transformed almost completely for vastly better health.
Like the age-old saying goes, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. So it is with diet, also.
Nuts
I’ve recently changed my strategy with nuts. All the health studies show that eating nuts with prudent quantity is very good for your health and may in fact stabilize your weight. Nuts are high in protein, good fats, and many minerals.
My take on nuts has been I wanted to eat a small quantify of walnuts each day, as walnuts are the one nut high with omega 3 fat, and indeed walnuts are a good choice if you eat but one type of nut.
But then I looked at the nutritional profile of walnuts compared to almonds, pecans, and Brazil nuts. What I discovered was that these other nuts can be very high in nutrients that are not so deep with walnuts. For instance, when compared to walnuts, almonds are exceedingly high in B2, B3, Vitamin E (exceptional), phosphorous, fiber, and comparatively low in fat. Pecans are high in B1, manganese (exceptional), and zinc (exceptional). And Brazil nuts are all-stars when it comes to selenium — a single Brazil nut gives you all the daily selenium you need.
So I decided to divide my daily nut quotient among not 1 nut, but these 4 nuts in order to have a more well-rounded nut nutrient profile than I had with the single walnut.
So now my daily quotient of nuts includes: 6 almonds, 5 walnut halves, 3 pecans halves, and 1 Brazil nut. That comes to 171 calories — same as before with only walnuts — but this diversification has much broader and therefore better nutrition.
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