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I’d heard of the China Study which supposedly proves veganism is healthier than eating animal foods. But I hadn’t read the book, so really couldn’t have an opinion about it. I’d heard from some LC bloggers that it was bunk, but again, nothing definite. That all changed today. I think it’s time for T. [...] I don’t know if I have OCD, but whatever it is, it’s going crazy right now–usually I start these things out with a picture but I have none to use for this post. Argh. Anyway, I don’t want to call her out by name, but an old friend of mine from high school recently hurt her leg and her doctors recommended bariatric surgery if she wants to be able to walk long distances ever again. Her BMI’s somewhere in the 50s range. She had a weight problem back in high school too, and along with most of the rest of us she’s put on additional weight over the years. I asked her what she’s tried so far and she listed off “dieting” (whatever diets that might be), Weight Watchers and eating more veggies. She also apparently has a thyroid problem, which for some reason her docs didn’t seem to want to wait til that got most of the way straightened out before making grand sweeping pronouncements about the fate of her GI tract. She’s looking at resecting rather than lap band, too, which especially worries me. Lap band is at least reversible in the majority of patients who get it. Resecting, not so much, and the mortality rate is higher. If there’s anything I can do to help her not have to have the surgery without getting in her face about it then I will do so. I figure the best way to do that is to just provide information. Now’s the time to make all that WILFing* I do pay off for someone besides me. Well, as far as it has paid off for me, anyway, up til now. I have skipped this probably two weeks in a row and I’m sick of it. I’m so sick of it that although I’m writing this at 13 minutes past midnight, let’s pretend I’m actually writing it on Sunday, so I’m totally lying with the datestamp. Yes, I’m that OCD. Fuck it. Let’s roll. I was going to take a photo of a lacto-paleo cheesecake I made “tonight” in honor of my child’s sperm donor’s recent birthday, but he cut into it before I could yell HangOnASecLemmeGetTheFuckinCamera. So you get kitties again instead, because I like pictures to go with my LinkWithin plugin. This is my cat Lundi getting mommy hugs. She likes to get up on the bathroom sink and then prop her paws on my chest and purr like crazy while I pet her.
OK, there’s the cute part, on with the bitching. …and I’m too goddamn happy to snark right now. Epic. Win. Super Bowl 44, 7 February 2010 I no longer have any excuses for not seeing this weight loss through. Why Our Family Eats Animal Products: Part One from Nourishing Days is a breath of fresh air. It’s not often you see someone lay out the reasons they eat animal foods without supplication, mitigation, or apology. Too bad the textbook Speshul Genotype Vegan had to show up in the comments. (Read more…) This past year I heard about a study that showed saturated fat helps in calcium absorption. I was trying to explain to a friend just now why low-carbing makes more sense nutritionally than a low-fat diet, and wanted to bring up that point. I couldn’t find anything about saturated fat specifically right off [...] Improve the web with Nofollow Reciprocity. |
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