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We are still a republic. We have choices. I will not be an advocate of government controlling our food. Choice is fundamental to the American spirit.

Yet, it is our responsibility to educate and inform so that choices can be intelligently made.

I think we are at a crossroads where people have been taught to depend on and trust government to solve problems, and have subsequently forfeited doing their own research and even thinking.

I hear people say things like: “I’ve been eating this for years, and I’m still alive.” But they’re discounting that they get colds several times a year, they lack energy, they feel depressed, tired, moody, etc. it doesn’t seem to occur to them that though this has become a norm, it isn’t normal. They could feel and live a lot better.

How long shall we depend on government, yes, even MAHA, to change things?

I believe we can change things dramatically by just refusing to buy and consume things that we know are damaging our health.

I hear people saying RFK is going so slowly in making changes.

Let me propose that he is up against trillions of dollars of profit being made from selling the food-like products we are buying, as though we have no choice. These are our dollars, are they not? So if those of us who care stop spending our dollars on what we’re hoping government will control, wouldn’t that be the way to speed things up?

Do you believe what you buy can make the MAHA difference?

We are still a republic. We have choices. I will not be an advocate of government controlling our food. Choice is fundamental to the American spirit.

Yet, it is our responsibility to educate and inform so that choices can be intelligently made.

I think we are at a crossroads where people have been taught to depend on and trust government to solve problems, and have subsequently forfeited doing their own research and even thinking.

I hear people say things like: “I’ve been eating this for years, and I’m still alive.” But they’re discounting that they get colds several times a year, they lack energy, they feel depressed, tired, moody, etc. it doesn’t seem to occur to them that though this has become a norm, it isn’t normal. They could feel and live a lot better.

How long shall we depend on government, yes, even MAHA, to change things?

I believe we can change things dramatically by just refusing to buy and consume things that we know are damaging our health.

I hear people saying RFK is going so slowly in making changes.

Let me propose that he is up against trillions of dollars of profit being made from selling the food-like products we are buying, as though we have no choice. These are our dollars, are they not? So if those of us who care stop spending our dollars on what we’re hoping government will control, wouldn’t that be the way to speed things up?

Do you believe what you buy can make the MAHA difference?

We are still a republic. We have choices. I will not be an advocate of government controlling our food. Choice is fundamental to the American spirit.

Yet, it is our responsibility to educate and inform so that choices can be intelligently made.

I think we are at a crossroads where people have been taught to depend on and trust government to solve problems, and have subsequently forfeited doing their own research and even thinking.

I hear people say things like: “I’ve been eating this for years, and I’m still alive.” But they’re discounting that they get colds several times a year, they lack energy, they feel depressed, tired, moody, etc. it doesn’t seem to occur to them that though this has become a norm, it isn’t normal. They could feel and live a lot better.

How long shall we depend on government, yes, even MAHA, to change things?

I believe we can change things dramatically by just refusing to buy and consume things that we know are damaging our health.

I hear people saying RFK is going so slowly in making changes.

Let me propose that he is up against trillions of dollars of profit being made from selling the food-like products we are buying, as though we have no choice. These are our dollars, are they not? So if those of us who care stop spending our dollars on what we’re hoping government will control, wouldn’t that be the way to speed things up?

Do you believe what you buy can make the MAHA difference?

Research, research, research

We have been told for more than 100 years that saturated fat is bad and man-made fat is good. Whether you believe in God or not, I am here to tell you God did not make bad fat.

In the story of the prodigal son, celebration included killing the fatted calf. Sorry to all you vegetarians, vegans and anti-veal folks, but God, evidently is not advising no fat, and definitely not no animal fat.

For millennia people ate tallow, lard, butter, ghee, olive oil, and coconut oil with no extreme rise in heart attacks or other cardio-vascular disease. Tgey died of disease, weather, lack of sanitation and the like. They did not die from eating animal fat.

Then, in 1911, Proctor & Gamble was making soap with cotton seed oil and realized how much it looked like lard. They developed it for Crisco, and went further to convince the American Heart Association to tell Americans animal fat is bad and they should switch to the heart-healthy—oops, I mean profit-healthy Crisco, margarine, and other highly processed and cell damaging fats.

According to Dr. Catherine Shanahan (Deep Nutrition) and thanks to her deep commitment to actual science and not marketing, the research P&G and others did was dishonest and used animal fat, not the cotton seed oil, to promote health, so it was not the inflammatory oil at all in the research..

I am wondering why we ever bought into such ridiculous nonsense that was based on zero evidence, even when we saw heart disease rise steadily after we stopped eating animal fat.

When I see commercials warning people about butter, recommending low-fat everything (usually adding sugar), I wan5 to scream NO!!!! We need fat, our brains need fat. And, by tge way, no vegetables have fat. That too is a marketing term.

Of course, everything in moderation. I’m not suggesting a high fat diet. I’m saying millennia of eating isn’t wrong and our trying to improve on the actual food created for us to thrive is good.

Let me know your thoughts.

This storage hack I learned from Rachael Ray has kept my fresh veggies fresh for many days longer than what I used to do, which ended up throwing out a lot of organic greens and veggies.

As soon as you get home with fresh produce, immediately remove all plastic wrappings, which holds in moisture. Then wrap them up in paper towels, which will keep them dry. Simple and economical. Most of my produce lasts a week or more, instead of a few days.

You’re welcome!

I have generally favored buying fresh produce, but lately, I’ve switched partly to frozen fruits and vegetables. Why? I started reading about how long fresh produce sits in warehouses before arriving at my supermarket, and how my market sprays it with stuff I don’t want to make it appear fresher.

Hmm. So it’s not actually that fresh.

So unless it comes from my farmer’s market, I’m thinking frozen produce may be fresher, frozen at just the right ripeness, close to being harvested. Also, I buy a 3lb. bag of wild blueberries, claiming twice the anti-oxidants of fresh regular blueberries. I can thaw, as needed, and at about $17, save more than $10 over the 6 containers of fresh blueberries I would normally have been buying, while keeping even the last thawed portion as fresh as the first one.

If any of you have more information on this, please share it.

Now that we buy our meat and poultry online from small ranchers who guarantee pasture-raised, and our dairy from local A/2 milk producers so we can make SIBO yogurt , and mill our own flour to insure no synthetic vitamin B and to have the complete highly-nutritious, live grains, meaning NO store-bought breads, pastries, snacks made with flour, there is very little left in the regular grocery store that we are willing to buy or eat.

The result: we feel well, sleep well, and we see a lot of former problems clearing up.

It sounds like work, but in reality, it’s just adjusting to new priorities, and it’s not hard. Once my first batch of yogurt is made, for instance, it’s about a 10-minute process to make it again. Pour, stir, turn on the Instant pot.

Isn’t health worth a 10-minute a week routine?

I can be more specific if you’re interested.

Now that we buy our meat and poultry online from small ranchers who guarantee pasture-raised, and our dairy from local A/2 milk producers so we can make SIBO yogurt , and mill our own flour to insure no synthetic vitamin B and to have the complete highly-nutritious, live grains, meaning NO store-bought breads, pastries, snacks made with flour, there is very little left in the regular grocery store that we are willing to buy or eat.

The result: we feel well, sleep well, and we see a lot of former problems clearing up.

It sounds like work, but in reality, it’s just adjusting to new priorities, and it’s not hard. Once my first batch of yogurt is made, for instance, it’s about a 10-minute process to make it again. Pour, stir, turn on the Instant pot.

Isn’t health worth a 10-minute a week routine?

I can be more specific if you’re interested.

Here’s a question or three: Do you make your food and lifestyle choices based on your health goals or preferences?
If you really enjoy something, Do you weigh its value for your overall health and benefit?
How often do you re-evaluate your diet and lifestyle choices?

Let’s chat about this.

We are still a republic. We have choices. I will not be an advocate of government controlling our food. Choice is fundamental to the American spirit.

Yet, it is our responsibility to educate and inform so that choices can be intelligently made.

I think we are at a crossroads where people have been taught to depend on and trust government to solve problems, and have subsequently forfeited doing their own research and even thinking.

I hear people say things like: “I’ve been eating this for years, and I’m still alive.” But they’re discounting that they get colds several times a year, they lack energy, they feel depressed, tired, moody, etc. it doesn’t seem to occur to them that though this has become a norm, it isn’t normal. They could feel and live a lot better.

How long shall we depend on government, yes, even MAHA, to change things?

I believe we can change things dramatically by just refusing to buy and consume things that we know are damaging our health.

I hear people saying RFK is going so slowly in making changes.

Let me propose that he is up against trillions of dollars of profit being made from selling the food-like products we are buying, as though we have no choice. These are our dollars, are they not? So if those of us who care stop spending our dollars on what we’re hoping government will control, wouldn’t that be the way to speed things up?

Do you believe what you buy can make the MAHA difference?

It used to be a treat to go out to eat, but with growing knowledge of inflammatory and health-compromising ingredients, it has become a chore. By the time I screen the menu, ask the poor server to go to the kitchen, ask the chef, take pictures of the gallons of fat and other additive sources, it’s really just easier and safer to stay home and cook, using the carefully curated ingredients in my own kitchen. Once I asked for butter, but asked to check the container. It was margarine. Evidently people think they’re the same. Horrifying.

And, nowadays, when I talk to my friends, several have said, “I need you to come and cook for me.” It may be my new calling.

My main reason to continue the restaurant scene is doing my Google, Yelp and Trip Advisor reviews where I may make a difference. I have 9.5 million reads on Google, and about 350,000 new ones a month, so it may matter. I have actually influenced more than 5 restaurants to stop using “vegetable “ oils, so I consider that a mission.

Hopefully, RFK will get seed and “vegetable “ oils banned, or at least get people educated enough about their extremely damaging health risks to stop buying them. Like Costco calling Canola a “signature” oil makes me feel ill. No vendor should want their signature on Round Up and hexane laden rapeseed oil that, from autopsies (re: Shanahan, Deep Nutrition) makes human arteries look like the skin of fried chicken, not to mention blocking anti-oxidants to the brain and other organs.

Shanahan’s Hateful 8 oils—Canola, corn Cottonseed (Crisco), soy, safflower, sunflower, rice bran and grape seed — are oxidized, so highly inflammatory, and therefore further oxidized when used for frying and cooking, So they’re not just bad for you, they’re killing you slowly. And, when you consider some like Round Up residue in Canola, corn, and soy consumed by an 160 lb adult and then think about that same dose of poison in a 30 lb toddler scarfing down French fries, it’s a chilling thought.

We have to stop buying these, and we need to request olive oil or butter or tallow at restaurants so they get the hint from us end-users.

Not all tallow is equal. We are gravitating to restaurants who use tallow as their frying oil, but alarmed that Renaissance tallow brand contains BHT. This is not a healthful choice. I guess the next round of deception requires digging deeper to see labels. We’re avoiding seed oils. But we’re not trading them for bad tallow. Here’s the info on BHT:

Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) is a synthetic antioxidant and preservative derived from phenol and petroleum, used to prevent oxidation in foods, cosmetics, fuels, and plastics. Deemed "generally safe" (GRAS) by the FDA in small amounts, studies suggest high-dose exposure may cause potential health effects like liver damage, thyroid changes, or cancer. 

You decide. I don’t even want low dose carcinogens in my grandchildren.