In other happy news, I no longer had Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. My ALT liver enzyme, which has been elevated since at least 2001, is now dead center in the normal range.

That is all :)

I was fooling around with photo booth a bit today and realized I had an old photo I'd taken... thought you guys might like to see some of before and after photos from the raw foods diet stuff (before on the left, after on the right):


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I am making a sprouted buckwheat/sunflower seed/pumpkin seed/chia seed/sesame seed/pecan granola (with some raw coconut oil and raw agave nectar):


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It turns out, that cantaloupe is even yummier if you squeeze a little fresh lime juice over it ;)

I seem to be going through about 2-3 cantaloupes a day (which is not a worry calorically, a medium cantaloupe has about the same number of calories as a 12 oz can of Coke).

There was an interesting piece today in the Wall Street Journal about states and tax competition entitled Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich: American's know how to use moving vans to escape high taxesIt got me thinking... the restrictions on the mobility of successful businesses and individuals are rapidly evaporating. As those restrictions go away, I ( Read more... )

OK. So I do have an ankle. But *something* is really hurting my right foot (still unidentified) and precluding the 7-10 hours of yoga, 3 hours of kettlebells, 0-6 hours of dancing, and other misc activities I do in a normal week ( Read more... )

Give me a thousand orphans, a hedge maze, and enough cheese....

So... I've been experimenting with the Salsa recipe from my previous taco salad post... and the result last night was *so* good I ended up eating about a pint and a half of it with a spoon (in spite of it being fairly hot for my tastes):

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So today I succeeded in making a raw taco salad:


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