watching the grass grow
Starting a low-carb diet is easy. You simply announce, “I’m cutting way back on carbs,” and immediately feel healthier because you have successfully completed the first five minutes. The real challenge comes when the bread, potatoes, pasta, cookies and other members of the Carb Family start whispering your name from the kitchen. For the first
Courtney and Gail, friends from Canada, were visiting recently. The holidays are coming so while they were here she sliced and dried a few oranges in our dehydrator. I believe she was interested in their decorative uses – holiday decor, gift tags, potpourri. Although I can appreciate their aesthetics value, my interest in them is purely
My dermatologist tells me carbohydrates and sugar are at the root of all my problems, healthwise or otherwise, and if I were to cut them out of my diet for thirty days I would feel better, all of my aches and pains would disappear, and my bone-on-bone arthritis would go away. It has been decades
Dinner tonght. When I look at a plate of chicken tikka masala and green beans, I like to think I am making a reasonably intelligent contribution to my own nutritional well-being, although I have never actually consulted anyone qualified to make that determination. The chicken gives me protein, the green beans provide vegetables and fiber,