Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
As I explained in this post, after 13 years of eating exclusively whole food, plant-based, I have started to take a statin drug to lower my LDL cholesterol and thus my calculated risk of heart attack and stroke. I would have liked to have been right that eating WFPB would...
Theoretically, I should be able to look at my genetic analysis on ancestry.com and learn directly if I have the DNA for FH (familial hypercholesterolemia). Instead, I learn that due to careful inbreeding for hundreds of years, I belong to an ethnic group that has that problem. Ashkenazi Jews, including...
One of the reasons for renting the house in Quepos was proximity to Manuel Antonio National Park. I had been wanting to see it, and had missed it on our last stay. We took a short guided tour through this small, newer national park. The guide was very valuable, because...
Our second excursion from the rental house in Quepos was called “off the beaten path.” It started with a ride in a large Jeep-like vehicle through the back country. There was a stop at a small country store for an agua and baño break. It was unremarkable, except for the...
