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Category Archives: Health issues

Dieticians give their blessing to vegans

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A vegan summer supper here in the sticks. The tofu, walnuts, and sesame dipping sauce mix amino acids from legumes, seeds, and nuts to boost the quality of the protein. I’m not a strict vegan, but I eat lots of vegan meals. Tofu is mighty tasty if you dip it in the right stuff. The […]

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From Time magazine:

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Time magazine has a lame piece today on why there is more obesity in the South than in the rest of the country. They’re right about some things, for example the correlation of health and weight to income. But they trot out all the old stereotypes about biscuits, fried chicken, and pie. Southerners have always […]

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How to live to be a hundred

Monday, April 27, 2009

Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini [Times of London] Everyone should read this remarkable interview with Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, who is now 100 years old, and who won a Nobel Prize in 1986 for her research on the brain. “The secret of life is to keep thinking. And to stop thinking about ourselves. That’s the only message I […]

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Irish bread

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

All winter I’ve continued my experiments with bread pones. Though the method I use is like making biscuits, still I think the bread is more like Irish bread than anything else. Irish bread is a quick bread. It’s always brown (at least, all the Irish bread I’ve ever seen is brown). Irish bread can be […]

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The risks of eating meat

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Whether meat is good for you has been debated for decades. Now we have a new study, a huge study which included 500,000 adults, and the verdict is clear: Meat is very bad for you if you eat it every day. Eating meat every day increases the chance of early death (from heart disease or […]

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Garlic as a vegetable, and as medicine

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Garlic and broccoflower pasta. They probably smelled it all the way to Danbury. Last night I went to bed at 10 and fell asleep immediately. I woke up and looked at the clock. It said 6:10 a.m. I thought the clock was wrong, because I thought I had just gone to bed. Deep sleep like […]

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The night sky revisited

Friday, July 25, 2008

Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute There’s a nice column in the Wall Street Journal today about light pollution and the night sky. Light pollution isn’t just a cause for anti-suburban types like me. Light pollution actually may impair the body’s production of melatonin, raising our risks of getting cancer. Also, light pollution really screws […]

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Uh-oh. New warnings on cell phone radiation…

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Wikipedia We know that the recent rumors about popping corn with cell phones were a hoax. But today there are fresh stories in the media about health risks from cell phone radiation (1, 2). It would be useless for me to rant about how most people talk too much on their cell phones. But as […]

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More on flaxseed pones…

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

I’ve made a lot of flaxseed pones in the last couple of weeks, and I’ve learned from my mistakes. Most important: Don’t put too much liquid into the batter. If the batter is too wet and runny, the pone will never finish baking, and the texture will be gooey and disgusting. Keep the batter thick, […]

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Flaxseed: A healthy, low-carb quick bread

Saturday, February 23, 2008

This morning’s flaxseed pone. I frequently say that, after a certain age, we all should eat like diabetics even if we’re not. Bread is the hardest thing to cut down on. On the glycemic index, whole grain bread is no better than white bread. Cornbread also is no better than white bread. But hot bread […]

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