Current government in Washington is an embarrassment, particularly in regard to inept foreign policy. Whatever they do is based on ideology, not reason. It is often counterproductive, producing the opposite of what was intended. Witness their war on fossil fuels because of their climate-change ideology. It’s making fossil fuels more valuable as in pricier, not less.
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Little-Known Fact
Interesting and little-known fact about our federal government is that, until the income tax was introduced, the government paid for itself by imposing tariffs on foreign goods.
Free Trade Isn’t Free
Democrats think free trade — where the US doesn’t use tariffs to protect domestic industries, as Trump did with steel and aluminum — is good for the country, but they don’t get that it produces unemployment in those areas affected by cheap foreign imports, and what you end up with is a huge rust belt of poverty and hopelessness. Free trade isn’t free.
Diverse Meals That Look Alike
Every meal I make looks identical. On top is a thick layer of leaf greens diced finely and sprinkled with real lemon juice. So what you see is this mound of green. Every dish the same. Because, from a nutritional point of view, those leafy greens are the all stars. They are in a different league than anything else. You do yourself a disservice not to include them in every meal…and in some quantity.
Liquid Meals
Most people are more accustomed to chewing their food than having liquid meals, yet when the food is pulverized in a smoothie, it may be that digestion improves, as the food has already been broken down to a large extent and is therefore more accessible in terms of its nutrition.
Which Camp?
Which camp are you in? I’m firmly in Beyond.
How To Eat
Like your life depended on it — because it does.
My Brown, Not Green, Smoothie
I consider the smoothie I make in a large Vita-Mix that lasts up to 3 days one of my most nutritious meals. That smoothie and a huge salad that also lasts days are the basic infrastructure of my overall diet, as they are both done virtually every week.
The ingredients that go into this smoothie have been added incrementally over the years so that now making one is quite a complex operation where I have to keep many things in store and ready to add. The same is true of the salad, but with the salad there is much more variability, as I like to eat at least a slightly different version each time. Here using different dressings helps that variability.
I think most people should do the same, that is, develop a complex and super nutritious smoothie as well as a complex and super nutritious salad, and make these two staples the mainstay of your diet.
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