Food Archives - Page 9 of 9 - Respect Food Roles

“God made the food . . .

April 18, 2018January 20, 2015 by Debi Simons

. . . and he wanted people to take it and thank him for it” (I Timothy 4:3b Worldwide English trans.).

My husband is fond of quoting Martin Luther’s description of humankind as a drunkard on a horse: he goes down the road for awhile and then falls off and rolls into the ditch on the right. Then he staggers back up on the horse and stays on for awhile until he falls off again and this time rolls into the ditch on the left. He spends very little time in the saddle actually going down the middle of the road.

How two small medical scares . . .

December 21, 2018January 12, 2015 by Debi Simons

. . . are helping me keep some of my New Year’s resolutions. We “obligers” need lots of outside prods. (Don’t know what an “obliger” is? Read about the “Four Rubin Tendencies” here. I think she’s really onto something.)

I write about my efforts to quit my small-but-annoying habit of picking at my fingers and chewing on hangnails in the chapter on habits in my book. I’ve been doing pretty well, but there have been some slips. A couple of weeks ago I had to get a filling redone at the gumline, third bottom tooth over from the center on the right. I hate getting fillings! Hate it, hate it, hate it. It takes forever. And those needles!

Clean as . . .

April 17, 2018January 1, 2015 by Debi Simons

. . . you go.

You might think that this post belongs in the “Entertainment Behind the Scenes” category, and it is going to use cleaning up the kitchen as its main example, but the subject applies to far more than dishwashing. (And no, that’s not my kitchen in the picture. Mine would be far worse!

The Truth About Sugar

January 4, 2019July 10, 2014 by Debi Simons

Book cover for "Sweet Poison, why sugar makes us fat" Sweet Poison: Why Sugar Makes Us Fat by David Gillespie, Penguin Books, 2008. Link is to the book’s page on the author’s website. Some parts of this website are subscription only.

You’ll find quite a few books about food and nutrition as this book blog continues. (I’m reading a book titled The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet; it should show up soon.) David Gillespie is the most accessible writer I’ve found on the subject of the evils of sugar. Robert Lustig’s Fat Chance and Gary Taubes’ Why We Get Fat: and What to Do About It are both good resources but very dense. You have to be pretty interested in the subject already in order to be motivated to plow through them. Gillespie, on the other hand, is funny, smart, and brief, and he plentifully illustrates his ideas from his own experience. I have to admit that I did a little skipping in the chapter “Biochemistry 101,” but he does an admirable job of explaining the actual processes by which our bodies transform food into energy.