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There is a tremendous brain drain in rural America. First they take the brightest bulbs off the farm and put them to work in Dilbert's cubicle, and then they go after the dimmer ones who stayed behind, by selling them a bunch of gee-whiz solutions…

You'll see I wear only gray or blue suits. I'm trying to pare down decisions. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make. The late Steve Jobs didn't like to waste energy…

The bear says I'm the luckiest unlucky person he knows. If there's a virus going around I'm always certain to get it. I spent five weeks in bed with covid-19 before most people even knew what it was. Out of all the illnesses I've tried,…

The remedy may be as old as the hills, as I have since been told, but its application is of very recent date; and it astonishes me that such a light should have remained so long unnoticed and hidden... William Banting was a man who…

L'appétit vient en mangeant. I've put on five kilos during the pandemic. This proves that you can gain weight on a low carb diet, although some bloggers would have you believe that you can eat the fridge with no consequences. My case is crystal clear…

To explain obesity by overeating is as illuminating a statement as an explanation of alcoholism by chronic overdrinking. In The Diet Delusion Gary Taubes showed how nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War when the European scientific community in the…

Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games. While browsing around Lidl today something caught my attention: protein bread. I've read about this on low carb forums, but I've never seen it in the Czech Republic before. It went straight in the…

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Other than as a hyposnack, candy is off the menu for diabetics. Chocolate is not, as long as it's dark enough. We've been having chocolate since the dawn of civilization. Already…

We first got insulin in 1921. Before that type 1 diabetes was pretty much a death sentence within six months. It's an old disease. The earliest descriptions exist on Egyptian papyrus from 1500 BC. In 600 BC Hindu physician Sushruta wrote about a disease of…