I have been of Adam and the Ants since forever. This week’s ear candy is one of my favorite A & A songs. I love the drums and rhythms. Enjoy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgHbt0ODr4
Eat better with fresh food
On Friday, March 26th, ABC broadcast “Jamie Oliver Food Revolution”. It is a show where British chef Jamie Oliver tries to change the eating habits and ideas of the people of Huntington WV which had been labeled the most unhealthy city in the US. The primary villain in this drama is processed food.
Processed food, also known as “convenience foods” are those items that are either frozen, canned, or boxed and require little to no preparation time. If you didn’t have to do much to cook the food then it is a processed food.
What is wrong with processed food? Except for the time saving – everything.
Not all convenience foods are created equal. Most convenience foods on the market today are laden with saturated fats, sodium and sugar and provide little to no nutritional value. Even foods touted as fat free or low fat are usually poor alternatives to an already low-nutritional value food such as fat free ice cream and olestra-laden potato chips.
Convenience Foods: A quick and healthy guide for those on the go
Due to some personal health issues I wanted to eat better so I decided to cut down on fat. I also wanted something easy to fix so I naturally looked at processed food.
The one thing I noticed is the sodium content of those foods were off the chart. A well known “healthy” version of a TV dinner had more salt in it than a Big Mac although the fat content was lower.
It is much harder to avoid the huge amounts of salt than it is the fat in processed food.
The hard truth is if you really want to eat healthy it must be freshly made by you in the kitchen where the fat, sugar, and salt can be strictly controlled. There is no short cut right now.
A side benefit is that the cost of the ingredients of freshly made food combined can be cheaper than the processed food one is replacing.
Health care reform passed – This is just the start
I have HCR hangover and we still have another bar to hit. The Stupak agreement is another example of Christian privilege that violates my religious rights and a woman’s right to her body. I hope that the price was enough and that we keep working on shaping the reform into what it should be including a viable Public Option that ends the monopoly practices of the health insurance industry.
Weekend Ear Candy – In the air tonight – Phil Collins
It’s late one summer evening and I’m lying in a lean-to tent during a camp out weekend with my Scout troop back in 1982 I think. I am alone in the tent since I was so “popular” every one wanted to bunk with me. My only real friend was my small transistor radio. And a storm was moving toward the camp.
The sky flashed with lightening and low rumbles of thunder shook the ground as the storm drew closer.
I HATED thunderstorms so I turned on the radio and laid it on my ear to muffle the storm. “In the air tonight” came on and at just the time it seemed to sync with the storm noise and actually made it more enjoyable – it added a freaky twist to the song and the storm. Now when I hear the song it transfers back to that time and place.
New episode of podcast is up
Another fine episode of the Doug’s Views Podcast is available for listening. From the Texas school book craziness to complaining about the stupid arguments from the left supporting Health care reform, this edition has a little bit of everything of note recently. Doug also plays a funny commercial he heard.