I will spare the reader what I had for breakfast back in the 60s (naw, I think I will: sugary cereal with sugar added by the spoonful - if there wasn’t undissolved sugar in the bottom of the bowl in the milk…); 40 years later "sugary" cereals were a treat for my son, like dessert, not a staple - blessedly son developed a passion for Q oa…
I will spare the reader what I had for breakfast back in the 60s (naw, I think I will: sugary cereal with sugar added by the spoonful - if there wasn’t undissolved sugar in the bottom of the bowl in the milk…); 40 years later "sugary" cereals were a treat for my son, like dessert, not a staple - blessedly son developed a passion for Q oat squares (maybe not as good as the best but far and away better than the worse). Anyway, here it is after 2pm, AM chores are done, still sipping on my daily liter of tea, downed another liter of protein/fruit/supplement smoothie and I just had a hard cooked egg (steamed) as I prepped my weekly oats/dried fruit/soy milk b’fast - 4 portions. Had bacon and eggs on homemade sourdough for b’fast last night at 9pm; and I could go on…
My thought is that a diet of "low fat," ultra processed convenience food has created our epidemic of unhealthy people in America. But it’s not just here: if you look at data from around the world, we may be bad, possibly in the running for worst, but we are far from alone. AND it’s becoming a social norm in America: just look at tv commercials the past few years and in addition to those obviously overweight the morbidly obese are included. These are not just ads for the latest GLP-1 drug of the day.
A couple decades ago I tried non-fat yogurt (Activia) because it was "healthy" and to please son’s mom - compared to whole milk yogurt it was thin, lifeless and unsatisfying. Oh, and at times filled with sugar, or sugar substitute.
Fat is necessary for bodily processes, it’s filling, it’s satisfying - I add a spoonful of peanut butter to my oats (Adam’s) to compliment the benefits of my 4x/wk oats.
Wanna know what’s unhealthy⁉️, a stressful marriage! 3 decades and 3 strokes will put you in the ground just as surely as a coronary. At the same time, sometimes no matter how healthy you are when your number’s called, you’re gonna check out: 2 months of tests last year, 8 years post marriage, and the docs still can’t tell me what caused stroke number 4 🤣 — but boy-o-boy, docs were sure eager to put me on all sorts of meds - precautionary, ya’know.
And I’ll finish with this about when it’s time to check out: an "idol" of mine back in the day, before destroyed knees ended my joy of distance running, was Jim Fixx (Joy of Running) who died of a massive coronary at 52 - probably due to hereditary factors and a previous unhealthy and stressful life. It’s funny, I was 52 when I had my first 3 strokes - but unlike my "idol," I’m still here aggravating the world.
I will spare the reader what I had for breakfast back in the 60s (naw, I think I will: sugary cereal with sugar added by the spoonful - if there wasn’t undissolved sugar in the bottom of the bowl in the milk…); 40 years later "sugary" cereals were a treat for my son, like dessert, not a staple - blessedly son developed a passion for Q oat squares (maybe not as good as the best but far and away better than the worse). Anyway, here it is after 2pm, AM chores are done, still sipping on my daily liter of tea, downed another liter of protein/fruit/supplement smoothie and I just had a hard cooked egg (steamed) as I prepped my weekly oats/dried fruit/soy milk b’fast - 4 portions. Had bacon and eggs on homemade sourdough for b’fast last night at 9pm; and I could go on…
My thought is that a diet of "low fat," ultra processed convenience food has created our epidemic of unhealthy people in America. But it’s not just here: if you look at data from around the world, we may be bad, possibly in the running for worst, but we are far from alone. AND it’s becoming a social norm in America: just look at tv commercials the past few years and in addition to those obviously overweight the morbidly obese are included. These are not just ads for the latest GLP-1 drug of the day.
A couple decades ago I tried non-fat yogurt (Activia) because it was "healthy" and to please son’s mom - compared to whole milk yogurt it was thin, lifeless and unsatisfying. Oh, and at times filled with sugar, or sugar substitute.
Fat is necessary for bodily processes, it’s filling, it’s satisfying - I add a spoonful of peanut butter to my oats (Adam’s) to compliment the benefits of my 4x/wk oats.
Wanna know what’s unhealthy⁉️, a stressful marriage! 3 decades and 3 strokes will put you in the ground just as surely as a coronary. At the same time, sometimes no matter how healthy you are when your number’s called, you’re gonna check out: 2 months of tests last year, 8 years post marriage, and the docs still can’t tell me what caused stroke number 4 🤣 — but boy-o-boy, docs were sure eager to put me on all sorts of meds - precautionary, ya’know.
And I’ll finish with this about when it’s time to check out: an "idol" of mine back in the day, before destroyed knees ended my joy of distance running, was Jim Fixx (Joy of Running) who died of a massive coronary at 52 - probably due to hereditary factors and a previous unhealthy and stressful life. It’s funny, I was 52 when I had my first 3 strokes - but unlike my "idol," I’m still here aggravating the world.
Unicorn’ish?
🤔 me thinks I rambled 🤣