Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Monday, March 28, 2022
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Our Little Drama Queen Off With the Pixies
I know I need to stop watching Youtube. I stopped watching TV because one day I saw a Pepsi ad on an episode of Law and Order, and clearly heard the words, "Jesus is going to kill you." At that point I knew that there was subliminal programming going on. But after that I began to watch Youtube.
You can't unsee some things. I suppose I will spend my eternity hearing the so called gaffes of Joe Biden echoing through the corridors of time. Unbelievably he called for Vladimir Putin to be ousted. Oh, and he wasn't finished. He spoke to the 82nd Airborne and began to tell them what they could expect to see in Ukraine. Were we sending troops to Ukraine now? I am hearing some say that Russia feels the need to defend itself with nuclear weapons. One commenter claimed that last night was when we would be attacked. It must have occurred to Putin that our little drama queen could have a senior moment with the red button.
I went to sleep last night wondering about that. I got up around midnight. Everything was still OK. "I suppose it will happen around 3:00 am - the witching hour," I thought.
This morning I was surprised to find myself still alive. The lights were still working, even the internet still worked.
I find a weird curiosity about what Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris will say next. You just can't make it up.
So two things need to happen. I stop watching Youtube and I write my Senator and tell him to have the President committed. At this point even Kamala Harris would be better. I think.
Goodbye cruel world.
Friday, March 25, 2022
Monday, March 21, 2022
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Mysterious Dime
I found another mysterious coin today near the backdoor on the kitchen floor. This one was a 1980 dime minted at the Denver mint.
How did this happen? I walked out the backdoor to the mailbox and left the backdoor open. From the mailbox I walked to the other side of the house to check something. All this took about three minutes. When I walked back in the house there was a coin on the floor near the backdoor. It wasn't a coin that was there before or that I had dropped. So far though, the coins on the kitchen floor have appeared when I leave that backdoor unlocked. But this time I knew within a few minutes when it had happened. No one came to the house. Even if they were standing nearby, they would have to have been quick or I would have seen them.
This is just curious. Oh, one other thing. A 1980 dime is not rare, but it is unusual to see one anymore.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Friday, March 18, 2022
Lemon Jello Salad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L129P5dijLc
Lemon Jello Salad
Ingredients 2 3 oz. boxes of lemon jello 3.4 oz. box of lemon pudding 8 oz. container of whipped topping 1 1/2 cups of milk 2 cups of boiling water Instructions Pour 2 cups of boiling water to lemon jello and whisk until dissolved. In a separate bowl mix pudding and milk, whisking until thick. Then combine jello and pudding together whisking until well combined. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. Add whipped topping and stir until completely combined. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Mayo Success
It's the same thing every Friday. I decide to make a dozen deviled eggs and a tuna salad so that I can skate through the weekend with nice things already prepared to eat. That's when it becomes apparent that I'm out of mayo.
I decided therefore to make a double recipe of mayo. This can be dangerous. I put in two and a half cups of avocado oil. Twice the amount in the recipe. And then how much MCT oil? I never figured out how much it should be. Probably 1 1/2 cups. So then how much gelatin? I put in two tablespoons. No, wait. Three? Four? How much salt? How much vinegar? Lemon? Eggs? At the end I had a mystery of ingredients. This was getting scary.
I decided to go ahead and go with it and got out the blender. Imagine my relief when it turned into perfect mayo! I realized that I had been holding my breath. Now I wonder what I did right.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Monday, March 14, 2022
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Box Burning Party
I burned the boxes today. It's not that much of a chore, but I guess it took 40 minutes, most of that walking in and out of the house collecting boxes. So, a 30 minutes walk. Nothing to write home about, but enough to feel that I got some exercise.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Eggs - Superfood
Recently, I've been surprised to learn new facts about nutrition. This is curious to me, because not many people have kept their ears to the ground the way that I have on diet factoids.
What surprising factoids have suddenly come to my attention? The fact that the quality of protein from animal and plant sources can be vastly different. Is meat, poultry, and fish a good source of protein? Yes and no. Problem. Thirty grams of meat protein eaten doesn't equal thirty gram of protein going to the body in the form of protein. What??!! When did I start to notice this? I started checking my blood glucose before and an hour after eating steak. My glucose would inevitably be higher after I ate beef! But why?
I am on the ketogenic diet, and I have been for probably half my life now, because mainly, it helps with all sorts of issues. But after a while I never seemed to be in ketosis and I never lost weight. So I went carnivore for a while to see if that worked better. That's when I noticed that even the complete lack of carbs in my diet did not result in ketosis. In fact, eating no carbs at all for days not only didn't result in ketosis, but I could eat a steak and see my blood glucose go up! That didn't make sense.
Oh, it makes sense. The reason is that the amino acid profile of meat, like beef, is such that only 32% of the protein will be digested by the body. The rest of the steak is converted by the body into energy, by the process of gluconeogenesis. The body then either uses the new glucose source for immediate purposes, like running a few miles, or stores it in the form of fat for a rainy day. A rainy day that never seems to come. This is not a lot different from what the body does with a candy bar. This is also true for pork, fish, and poultry. Does my body hate me? I'm not sure. We're not as good a friends as I thought we were.
Oh, but what about milk, and dairy, so often called "the perfect food?" Well, if the protein profile of the perfect food is such that 17% of the protein arrives safely into the digestive system to nourish and rebuild tissues such as muscle and vital organs, then perfection has been achieved. And then the rest goes into energy and frequently is converted to fat, again, just like a candy bar. Then why do so many articles call it the perfect food? Article after article puts forth the notion that egg protein is "almost as good as milk."
Let me state unequivocally that milk protein is much less bioavailable to the human body than egg protein. Oh, what is the definition of milk? Well, I suppose one could pretend that we are speaking of human breast milk, and in that case, yes, the bioavailability is slightly better than the egg. We're not talking about human breast milk unless you are less than five years old. We're usually talking about cow milk. It is in no way as good for humans as human breast milk. Even human breast milk loses some of its luster once one is no longer a toddler, because, as often as not, people will lose the bulk of the enzymes necessary to digest lactose.
So I'm not sure where the bestowing of sainthood upon milk came from. That idea is just not correct. It's not how it is. The protein profile of cow's milk, and even goat's milk, is just not ideal for people.
What do I mean by "protein profile?" Well, what are the essential amino acids? Leucine, valine, isoleucine, lysine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, and tryptophan. From these essential amino acids the body can make all the other amino acids it needs, and from those, make the amino acids into protein. But in order for this to happen, the essential amino acids must be in the proper propotions. Suppose you needed 10 grams of each amino acid to make protein, but wait, you only had one gram of isoleucine in your food of choice but 10 grams of all the other amino acids? Would the body go ahead and make 10 grams of protein anyway? No way! It would make one gram of protein, since it needed all eight essential amino acids, and it only had one gram of all eight. So the rest goes to energy, and frequently, fat.
Correction. There are nine essential amino acids. I left out histidine. I had a conversation about this with the PerfectAmino people and they say that histidine is a conditional amino acid, meaning that if one has the other eight in ideal quantities, the body will raise histidine levels. Therefore histidine is not an essential amino acid. Is this correct? I would say it's debatable.
So, of all the protein sources in the diet, the star is the egg, since it contains the most perfect proportions of amino acids for the needs of the human body, the protein being 48% bioavailable. The protein of milk is only 17% bioavailable, thus it is no where near the quality of egg protein. I suppose the thinking was that since cow milk totally nourishes calves early in their lives, that makes it the ideal food for us. Well, it just ain't so. In fact, the quality of all sources of protein in the diet are rated on a scale with the egg being the best, and other proteins being graded on quality compared to the top quality of the egg.
Oh, then there is one other egg error that has surprised me to see being put forth. There are those out there in internet land saying that the egg white contains 100% of the protein of the egg, and the yolk contains no protein. The fact is, the yolk, by volume, contains more protein than the white. However, the yolk comprises less of a whole egg than the white.
So, if possible, eat your eggs.