….we saw sometime back that fast-food giant McDonald’s was having trouble maintaining its spectacular growth.  Apparently all the fast food chains are “flat” or even down a little except for their breakfasts. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the economy…and not common sense….got people eating more healthfully? http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/05/08/the-new-normal-for-fast-food-price-cuts-and-stagnant-sales/?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth

….there’s a study out that says that if you stay away from the typical “western” diet, you have a better chance not only of living longer but in better shape. There’s the usual “scientific” warning about limiting red meat (no recognition that grass fed beef is a cow of a different color altogether).  Still, for what it’s worth: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=130281&CultureCode=en

…which I translated from the original Sanskrit overnight: When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. Ayurveda proverb The picture is of Dhanvantari….incarnation of Krishna, Lord of Ayurveda. Okay, our farm manager Duane Ard, came across the quote and knows I’m a sucker for this sort of thing.  The rest is from Wikipedia. While I like the quote, I’m not so sure about Ayurveda, a forerunner of what we now call alternative medicine.  Seems to be that “the lord” and his followers prescribed a lot of questionable medicines, things that were somewhat heavy on the heavy metals.

….not the kind we carry around, but the kind we eat.  For years, and particularly when I pretended I was dieting, I would try to eliminate fatty foods and butter from my meals.  That included carefully trimming the fat off the steaks I ate, even Thistle Hill steaks. I have concluded that, for me at least, it was wasted effort.  Fat, according to the latest research, is good for you.  The right kind of fat.  Here’s a recent article that  provoked outrage in the comments section from people still wedded to the propaganda rammed down our throats by Big Ag and Big Government for at least 70 years. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393304578358681822758600.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs%3Dcomments Now…