This post was from six months ago but somehow was never published:
I just wrote a post about luck and preparation. I had to leave the room and when I came back, I noticed that one of our cats had thrown up. Since I did not see the event I assume that it was one of [...]
A man in the thirteenth century talks to three masons working on a building site. He asked each one what he was doing. The first man replied, “I am cutting stones to make a living for so my wife and children can have a roof over our heads, clothes to keep us warm and food [...]
I don’t know what happened but the original writing in this post got lost. It is somewhere on my hard driver so when I find it, I’ll post it.
However, something happened just now that I like to write about.
I just got a phone call from an Indian call center about a free seminar a make [...]
I was listening to a tape by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. on Worry. It is a very good tape. In it Dr. Hallowel mentioned that basically our brains are designed over millennia of evolution to be on guard for danger (saber tooth tigers and woolly mammoths and other wonderful creatures). Basically, being worried and negative [...]
Bacon, butter, cream…
Hmm. Yum, yum, yum.
There are great evolutionary reasons why fat is so tasty. Think of that wonderful blood vessel clogging desert full of cream and sugar. Yum,yum, yum! It tastes great since for all but the last ten thousand years (after the agrarian revolution) of the two million or so that our branch [...]
In order not to be tempted by the restaurant foods don’t look at the menu
When you go to the restaurant the pretty pictures on the menu are designed to tempt you. The chances are that when you go to the restaurant you are hungry which is the worst time to select your food.
So decide a [...]
Men who ate broccoli or cauliflower more than once a week appear to have the chance of having advanced prostate cancer (stage II or IV) than those who ate the vegetables less than once a month. Cabbages (alone, coleslaw, or sauerkraut) may have similar effects but this is not yet proven.
I happen to eat more [...]
We all have demon foods which tempt us that once we start eating we cannot stop. A great strategy is to stop buying those foods which you cannot stop eating. For me chocolate is one of those demon foods. It is interesting. I eat semi-sweet dark chocolate as an antioxidant supplement. So when I eat [...]
