Human Health, Hotness, and How not to Give Up Hope
Dear Family,
I am reading “Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Foods,” by Cate Shanahan. Also, am continuing to read Weston Price. And I tell you, I am tired of the word “degenerate.”
I also am totally intrigued, and want to understand: what does it mean to be human and _healthy_? How does one do what we are, in the end, unofficially programmed to do: conceive and birth and raise healthy children?
A Performance to Remember, and A Silly Thing About Educational Activities
Dear Family,
“...Pippi, can you tell me what seven and five are?”
Pippie, astonished and dismayed, looked at [the teacher] and said, “Well, if you don't know that yourself, you needn't think I'm going to tell you.”
All the children stared in horror at Pippi, and the teacher explained that one couldn’t answer that way in school.
“I beg your pardon,” said Pippi contritely. “I didn't know that. I won't do it again.”
“No, let us hope not,” said the teacher. “And now I will tell you that seven and five are twelve.”
Weston Price, Women's Work, and Unschooling the Art of Human Health - Fascinating Articles this Week
“Cooking is not seen as a universal skill of self-sufficiency and adulthood... We are surprised when someone doesn't know how to drive a car, but we are not at all surprised when someone doesn't know how to cook. Large corporations are more than happy to keep us in this state of helplessness. It creates a huge market for factory-processed products and fast food.”
--Jessica Prentice, “Full Moon Feast”
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Projectiles, Patience, and Why We Need More Sleep
Dear Family,
Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
--Shel Silverstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
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“Nobody ever tells you that growing up costs so much!”
--Athena
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Bennerisms:
Saturated Fat, Heavy Metals, The Scientific Method, and Personal Fulfillment - Fascinating Articles This Week
Dear Family,
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/China-Study.html
Yet another well-referenced critique of “The China Study,” by Chris Masterjohn.
Crazy, It's a Birthday! and the Rain of Chronic Disease
Dear Family,
“...One minute you're waiting for the sky to fall
Next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all...”
--Bruce Cockburn, _Lovers in a Dangerous Time_
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The Funny Thing about Humming (Fascinating Articles This Week)
“[I]t is the responsibility of those of us fortunate enough to exercise choice to ask whether this is the way the world should be going.”
--Charles Clover, from “The End of The Line,” as quoted in “Rightous Porkchop” (by Nicolette Hahn Niman).
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http://www.panna.org/blog/bring-2011-update-strawberry-pesticide
The Funny Evolution of Jealousy
Dear Family,
“Everything has multiple variables, and _everything_ is non-linear! It's amazing anyone can make any progress at all.”
--Terry Matilsky [hard at work on his gravity/early universe theory...]
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Jemmerisms:
“Pig is my favorite meat. Pepper is my favorite pepper.”
“I love this car [toy with pull-back action], because it's SO frickin' cool! ...It goes, Zoomy! Zoomy!”
As we drive by a wintry Cayuga Lake: “Those really are frozen waves.”
Fingernails, Some Commentary On the Maxilla, and Other Late-Night Musings (Fascinating Articles This Week)
Here's an article written for elderly patients, but fascinating for people of any age who have fingernails and have ever wondered about the various annoying symptoms that can afflict these small and useful body parts:
http://mrishaanshareef.blogspot.com/2008/10/finger-nails-to-predict-hea…
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