Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
I own lots of books by Raymond Smullyan. Two of them have titles that refer to both themselves and each other. Books titles and article headlines are often chosen not by the author of the book or article, but by an editor or publisher. I mention this also in Headlines...
I enjoy watching shows about wilderness survival, like Naked and Afraid, even though I consider the people who voluntarily put themselves in those positions to be crazy. I could never do that. I can’t even walk barefoot on the beach. In the show, the survivalists have to build shelter, make...
I think I strained my left elbow pulling myself back onto the boat after swimming around it. We were on a sunset cruise in Quepos, Costa Rica, in February 2023. About a month later, I started to feel neck and shoulder pain on the right side. If I bend my...
When one is an employee in a typical hierarchical organization, the concept of “managing up” helps increase one’s value and align one’s priorities with those of the team. Rather than just doing one’s job description and taking orders, pay attention to what your boss should be doing. Boss may need...
Life Line Screening is a mobile heath screening service. They set up at various locations, often churches and hotels. I got the “Stroke & Cardiovascular Risk Screening,” and they offer many other tests, including some that require fasting and drawing of blood. It’s an easy way to get information that...
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...
Before I started eating whole food, plant-based at the end of 2009, I remember getting some kind of cold or bronchitis pretty much every year. I would feel miserable, with coughs, nasal congestion, runny nose, lethargy, and general aches and pains. I would miss a day or two of work....
Within the small whole food, plant-based community, fractured as it is, it is often observed that it is hard to make a profit selling the “secret” to healing many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. As “plant-based” takes a small but growing share of the marketplace...
Uncle Al, may he rest in peace, was the oldest brother. Uncle Les, may he rest in peace, was the middle brother. My father, Richard, may he rest in peace, was the youngest. I vividly remember Uncle Al explaining to my teenage self that he considered allowing hunger to persist...
