...as opposed to candy, which provides flavor and calories without nourishment:

The study began in the spirit of laying lives out on a microscope slide. But it turned out that the lives were too big, too weird, too full of subtleties and contradictions to fit...

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I'm eating now. I've been eating all day. I think I've had about 700 or 800 calories total. I'm full. If I am to make my minimum requirement, I'm probably going to have to do it with wine or chocolate.

I considered going vegan for about two seconds (not out of concern for animals, but because I read The China Study) and decided that I just couldn ( Read more... )

"White" (as opposed to "Red") Fish Soup ( Read more... )

Once upon a time long, long ago (before the invention of the interwebs) I used to feel very superior for not having a television. Or ever watching television, except for a few special occasions (like the weekly gatherings in my local dyke cafe to watch Xena Warrior Princess). I believed this kept my mind clean of insidious media influences, and ( Read more... )

Because if you don't use them in time, they don't go bad (at least, not if they're in the fridge they don't), they just dry out. And dessicated mushrooms smell GOOD. REALLY REALLY GOOD. You can use them for making the most awesome mushroom soup ever ( Read more... )

I'm not afraid of spiders. I found one crawling on my shirt just now, and it didn't even bother me. It was an outside spider (probably from the organic grapes I was eating) so I walked to the balcony and blew it to the garden ( Read more... )

So, as I've mentioned before, I've been losing weight. I started out in mid-March at around 137 and by the first week of June I had gotten down to about 121. Besides hitting the gym for an hour (almost) every day, I'd eliminated refined starches (namely sugar and flour) and restricted my calorie intake to 1200/day, mostly lean protein and ( Read more... )

You can put tortillas in the toaster. It helps if they start out frozen. And then to tip the toaster on its side so they don't slide down and get crumple-stuck.

This recession is a nasty one - probably the worst in the post WW2 period.
Wow, and I'm not dead? That is so aweome.