Revelry Reverie

It’s been just over two months since I started this experiment, so I suppose it’s time for a review. I started this experiment to see how changing my diet might improve my overall health (including how “good” I feel). Knowing that I ate too little veggies and fish, taking meat and poultry off the menu…

Among the many things that I can only understand by trust is chemistry. I will just have to take your word for it. Which leads to this revisiting of an earlier post (which I’d rather not delete or modify, since this is a learning process). I have begun reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In…

Joy Thai Cuisine, Williamsport, PA We are on vacation! First “on vacation” meal was at a Thai place in Williamsport Pennsylvania. To be totally fair, I did not expect a lot from Williamsport–not knowing anything about the town–and it was really neat. Anyway, they had a Thai place, so we went. Joy Thai Cuisine was…

Here’s a link to the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100802/ts_alt_afp/healthusfoodcancermeat The article states that increased nitrate and nitrite consumption ups N-nitroso compounds which cause tumors. It says that people (in this particular study) who consumed the most nitrates and nitrite compounds had a 28 or 29% higher chance of developing bladder cancer. They specifically point out that these…

My friend is home from the Peace Corps for a short while. She’s serving in Moldova (look it up). Amidst her stories of the confusion and growing pains of a young nation trying to distance itself from the not-that-past-tense specter of the Soviet Republic while being an oft-conquored bit of land (about the size of…

It’s been a few days since my last post, but I’ve had good reason! We’ve been doing a lot of work on our house (like replacing the stairs to the second floor – which freaked out the dogs – and putting in a new counter top / butcher block), so I have actually been eating…