Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health, interesting facts, vegetarian diet on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On October 12 I stopped eating all refined sugar and flour. I went cold turkey, which for me is usually pretty easy. I just set my mind and say ‘from this day forward’… and then I do it. But I was not prepared for how difficult this would be.
What precipitated my decision was the evening [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health, news on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I discovered Roger Ebert’s blog. I think most people know who he is, but in case you don’t, he used to have a TV show where he and his partner Siskel rated movies. Roger Ebert got cancer and got to where he couldn’t talk. Now he types. His blog is really good.
On August 20 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environment, food, health, interesting facts, movies, news, vegetarian diet on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite TV shows when I was little was Flipper. It was about a wild dolphin who befriended this family and did amazing dolphin stunts for them while enforcing the law, rescuing people at sea and taking care of Sandy and Bud, the two main characters in the show.
Here’s Flipper, actually Flipper was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environment, food, health, interesting facts, movies, news, vegetarian diet on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we went to see the movie Food, Inc. It’s not exactly a fun light-hearted movie, but on the other hand, if you eat food and live in America you should try to see this movie as soon as possible.
The movie exposes the industrialized food system in America and the effect it has on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health, interesting facts on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting (and short) quiz you can take to find out how efficient your body is. The quiz assumes you consume 1 gallon of liquid food mixed with water and then it tells you approximately how far you could walk before you run out of gas; or how many miles per gallon your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, health, humor, vegetarian diet on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a cute cartoon from Calvin and Hobbes about how (some, most?) kids really feel about food:
Calvin and Hobbes, 6-21-08.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health, interesting facts, news, videos on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The jury is still out on whether cell phones are a potential cause for brain tumors.
I think the scientists are pretty much of the mind set that further study is warranted but there may be some definite cause for concern. In some ways we are in the same position we were 40 or 50 years [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health, yoga on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over the past few weeks I have been going to a physical therapist to get some myofascial release treatments. I had been getting some headaches and for a long time had a problem with one of my shoulders turning in more than it should.
In case you don’t know what fascia is, it is located between [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, health, recipes, vegetarian diet on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a great recipe even non-vegetarians like. I make it in a crock pot letting it cook for about 8 hours. It’s also a very forgiving recipe, meaning you can make changes to the amounts of the spices and add other vegetables if you want to.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups kidney beans, dried (or 2 cans)
28 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, health, vegetarian diet, yoga on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone is hearing these days about the salmonella scare on the tomatoes, the problem with the spinach last year, etc. It seems more and more we are having problems with contaminants getting into our food supply and sickening lots of people.
It seems logical that food grown in huge quantities in one location and shipped all [...]
