Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
The Accident It is 2017, and I had a bad accident, so I’m in hospital for 4 weeks, followed by 3 weeks in inpatient rehab. At least I don’t have to shave, but I need help with everything, and I do mean everything. I was very lucky to only break...
My beautiful niece Hannah died at age 17 after prolonged suffering because of a reaction to a commonly prescribed drug that she took as directed. She became one of the iatrogenic deaths that are the third leading cause of all deaths in the United states. To be clear, this is...
What is the question? There are more than one, including: Why do people keep smoking when they know it is killing them? Why do people seek out excuses to cheat on their diets? Why do people gamble with money they can’t afford to lose? Why is porn damaging so many...
It is summer of 2022. I just wrote a post about Keeping Kosher, which translates somewhat literally as “eating clean.” Lately, I have been hearing the phrase, “eating clean,” in the miasma. Friends are doing it, or trying it. Someone actually claimed that I claimed to do it. I don’t...
I grew up in a Reform Jewish family. We didn’t eat pork, but we did eat pepperoni pizza, so we clearly were not strictly Kosher. I only learned much later in life that pepperoni is a sausage made from pigs. I did learn the most important rules, however. Only later...
There’s a new player in the cholesterol game, called Apolipoprotein-B. Of course, you will not hear the story in this way from your doctor. Around the time that I was bornScientists began to warnOf a molecule calledCholesterol The body makes it in the liverSo that organ can deliverAll that’s necessaryFor...
Tofu Scramble and Hash Browns Tofu Scramble adapted from “Mexican Scramble” in Everyday Happy Herbivore by Lindsay S. Nixon. Hash Browns Biscuits and Gravy Biscuits adapted from “whole-wheat drop biscuits” in Happy Herbivore Light & Lean by Lindsay S. Nixon Gravy adapted from “Golden gravy” in The Real Food Daily...
Eat with tofu-based, ranch-style dip and barbecue sauce.
Hypothetically, if you saw a headline reading Bowlers need to stop exaggerating the health benefits of their sport, would your reaction be: to wonder which benefits bowlers exaggerate, and eagerly read the article for details to skip the article, but mentally note that bowlers make false health claims to skim...
