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.

Intermittent Fasting

I’ve been doing 19:5 for a very long time. Eat just one large meal around noon and stop eating around 4 pm. Snack in those last 4 hours. Lately have been doing something like 21:3 3 times a week because I can swim on those days in an indoor pool and so it is easier to push back the big meal from 11 am. to 1 pm.

Goal is to increase the time I’m in ketosis in order to burn more body fat. I’ve gotten pretty close to my ideal weight, but am still interested in reducing body fat as much as possible. I think that when one plateaus and isn’t losing any weight, one can still be reducing body fat.

I call myself an “almost vegan,” as I follow Joel Fuhrman’s GBOMBS diet but eat a small amount of turkey every day, but no dairy. Very focused on both ketosis and autophagy. For autophagy, I’m trying to do one 48-hour fast each month — the first Monday of each month. I find that if I can be very busy with things during that Monday, it is easier to go without food that whole day. But if I’m idle, then it is a problem.

With IF, I’ve dropped from 195 to 146 — I’m 5’7″. I think my ideal weight is 140. But a very lean 140. I think the 3 days doing 21:3 will get me there.

Odyssey

Roubles, Not Dollars

Since Russia demanded to be paid in roubles for their natural gas and oil, the rouble has rebounded from its US-sanctions low and gotten all the way back to even. So one might say that the sanctions have proven to be a failure. And perhaps, worse than a failure, in that they have caused huge inflation in the West — because of the absence of Russian commodties — and even called into question the continued support for the petrodollar regime of the last 50 years.

The Russian also pegged their rouble to gold. So are we seeing the re-emergence of a gold standard and the demise of the all-powerful dollar?

More Ukrainian Lies/Propaganda

Sugar

Sugar addiction is very common now, as the food industry when they took out fat and labelled everything “low fat” to get customers compensated by adding sugar to everything, which of course is a health disaster for the American public.

I always check the ingredient list of everything I buy and specifically the little subsection where they indicated whether there is “added sugar”. I want to see a zero there and even the claim on the package “No Added Sugar”. Some food companies are getting the message that added sugar isn’t healthy and are moving in that direction now.

Nutrition, A Soft Science

Neocons in Foreign Policy and Nuclear War

The neocons in foreign policy in the State Department won’t stop their endorsement of the unlimited expansion of NATO until we have a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Their obvious objective — a holdover from the Cold War — is to destroy Russia and break it up into small parts. But the ultimate result will instead be nuclear war.

What we really need in the US is a type of diplomacy that can see both points of view in any dispute, and that can see the greater gains to be had in peace and prosperity in the spirit of seeking compromise with our supposed adversaries. That sort of diplomacy has been sadly missing now for decades. It is seen as weakness, even though it should be seen as strength.

American Hatred of Russia

Misinformation

There’s a lot of misinformation in the West to the effect that the Russians are losing in Ukraine, when the reality is that they have encircled the Ukrainian army in the east, and it is just a matter of time when this Ukrainian army is either destroyed or capitulates — and when that happens, it’s over.

So why all this intentional misinformation? To make credible the false flag that the desperate Russians are resorting to biological weapons. This would bring in the West into the war.

Nuclear Confrontation

False Flag