two work weeks gone by, ten 10-hour days, one 8-hour day of work, spent mostly on my feet, one of those feet with a broken pinky toe, eating ibuprofen like candy, wearing giant moon-boot and now ugly black crocs all because of a stupid vaccum cleaner that I happened to stub my toe on a couple of sundays back hoping the swelling will eventually go down so I can wear ordinary shoes once again
pictures are here
So I have added all sorts of raw nuts to my diet in the past two weeks. That’s my snacks now - raw nuts, dried fruit, raw pumpkin seeds, raw sunflower seeds. All part of my ingenenious (but probably futile) plan to avoid heart disease.
I stopped eating red meat a few years back after reading a book about mad cow disease. (Cut back is more precise, I still eat bacon occasionally). One of these days I’m going to save up my money and buy me a nice big juicy organic grass-fed steak.
Evidence continues to mount showing that organic food is more nutritious than non-organic food, and even has fewer pesticide residues, so I buy organic whenever possible. On the west coast, organic food is not much more expensive than regular food, or rather, regular food isn’t much cheaper than organic out here.
I bought a food steamer, no more frying. Steamed vegetables taste fantastic, steamed meat not so good. Maybe I just need more practice. I cook chicken and fish on my tiny little gas grill - sure, it’s carcinogenic as hell, but meat tastes best cooked over an open flame.
Chances are high that I will get cancer and heart disease. I work with lots of toxic chemicals and breathe in lots of dust. I live and work next to a highway - the primary cause of heart disease is breathing in tiny little microscopic particles of diesel exhaust, which get into your bloodstream and act as nuclei for arterial plaque.
But there’s a good chance that the world won’t be around long enough for me to even start showing signs of these diseases. Global warming is spiraling out of control, and we have probably already passed the crucial tipping point of a runaway greenhouse effect.
It’s all downhill from here, folks.
