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How many Paleo diet blogs are there….
….well, I’m old enough to remember when there were none. Of course, I’m old enough to remember just about everything. But there are a sufficient number, I see, that some organization even lists the Top 50 of the year. Here’s a new one and, just in time for the holiday, even features O’Cave Girl’s Irish stew. http://cavegirlcuisine.net/
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A treat instead of a treatment….
….wasn’t that the old Camel slogan? In any event, that thought came to mind as I read the latest posting about the health benefits of grass fed beef. I sometimes wonder if we don’t overdo this wellness stuff to the detriment of consumer acceptance. After all, spinach has never been able to overcome the stigma of “eat it, it’s good for you” even with the help of Popeye! As always happens when we put out a new offering of meat, we get a spate of rave reviews. Everything from “my husband said that was the best roast we’ve ever had” to “my husband and I agree that was the best…
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Where did all the flowers go….
….one of the blogs this weekend posted pictures of high school kids from 1969. The pictures were originally in Life magazine and the subject was high school fashions. Fun and interesting….but…. But the comments quickly fastened on just one thing: there were no girls who were fat! Clearly, something has happened in the past 40 years….something really frightening. http://www.leenks.com/link421304.html
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Spinach pops….
….now here’s a wonderful idea: spray vegetables with sugar so kids will eat them. No, really. A serious suggestion from the “experts” in nutrition. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/02/18/sugar-mist-makes-veggies-more-palatable-to-kids/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fhealth+%28Internal+-+Health+-+Text%29
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“I’m cutting back on meat”….
….I don’t know how often I hear that. Just the other day, a woman was raving about the taste of Thistle Hill meat but added, just a bit apologetically, that sadly she was “cutting back” for “health reasons”. Of course, I answered that it might well be that, in fact, she might better improve her health by increasing the amount of grass fed beef she eats. A significant percentage of our customers do indeed buy our meat precisely because they have decided it’s good “for what ails them”. The biggest source of propaganda against eating red meat, of course, is our very own government. The bureaucrats are still tied to…
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Eating the baby….
A diner in England has garnered a lot of publicity by offering a “Kidz Breakfast” which they claim weighs as much as a baby. No one seems to have succeeded in polishing off the breakfast until now, which is when Robert Pinto walked in and “ate the whole thing”….9 pounds of bacon and eggs…and sausage. It prompted calls for it to be banned and had one expert warning that someone could die after eating it. But the “Kidz Breakfast”, described as weighing the same as a small child, has remained the talk of a Norfolk seaside town. Consisting of a dozen sausages, 12 bacon rashers and enough eggs to be produced…
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Sign up for Thistle Hill beef….
This note from a neighbor and customer reminds me that we haven’t invited you to try Thistle Hill beef for yourself: We had DELICIOUS (Thistle Hill) t-bone steaks last night…cooked rare! Emphasis is the writer’s. In the past few years, we’ve been unable to keep up with the demand but we have been setting aside some animals to remedy the problem. Right now we expect to double our production in late Spring. Meanwhile, we have just put another Devon in for processing. And if you’d like to add your name to our mailing list so you can place an order, just send an email to info@thistlehill.net. For those of you impatient…
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Trying not to be boring….
….and what’s a bigger turn-off that people talking about their diets? So I’ve been trying to be quiet about my current campaign to lose about 40 pounds (3/4s of the way there). But I did want to note this column by Peter Ballerstedt in Kit Pharo’s weekly newsletter. Ballerstedt makes the point that, even if you don’t lose weight, a low carb, high fat diet is good for you. For the science, be sure to click on his link. Do you (or someone you love) have three of following conditions? Abdominal obesity: a waist circumference over 40 inches in men and over 35 inches in women. Serum triglycerides 150 mg/dl…