Grandma put butter all over him, wrapped him in a woolen blanket, and rushed him to the hospital.
She did what she thought was best.
We know now that putting butter on a burn traps the heat inside and causes the burning to go deeper into the skin. If the nerve endings are burnt, the pain stops; until they grow back; if they grow back.
The wool blanket became imbedded in his beyond-blistered-skin and the lint had to carefully be plucked out of the flesh, piece by piece.
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Right now, we are told that wheat is a healthy product for us to eat. We think of it as a nourishing staple of our diet. You are functioning under your best beliefs when you give the kids sandwiches, hot dogs, mac n cheese, hamburgers, pasta, and toast. But I am telling you, wheat is not good for us today.
To be fair, the wheat of today is not the same wheat grandmother ate. Our wheat has been genetically engineered to grow faster, more plentifully, and be disease resistant. The wheat we have today has not been examined for human safety by the FDA; why bother, right? It's just wheat.
However, two slices of the wheat we have today will raise your glycemic index (blood sugar level) MORE than a Snickers candy bar (a big one, not the "fun size").
In the 50's, doctors started blaming heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity on FAT (red meat, bacon, butter) and sugar. We are all trying to eat better. Whole wheat, whole grain, oats, Cheerios, lo-fat milk, fat-free everything. And now we see the cure in sight, RIGHT???
No. Dammit, it is WORSE. They were wrong and rather than admit it, they keep pushing it down our fat, cancer ridden, diabetic gullets. (Maybe Oreo and Lipitor are too big to fail?)
Ever go out for dinner, eat all the bread, and still manage to eat the full meal, and dessert? Yeah. Wheat is an APPETITE STIMULANT. An ADDICTIVE APPETITE STIMULANT. I used to make homemade rolls and wonder how we could always eat ALL of them. Now I get it. Our body doesn't HAVE an OFF switch for wheat. When you eat enough steak and your body will say "Whoa there buck-o: Nuff!" Wheat is evil.
It is not hard to give up wheat. It is very hard to see my mother struggle with diabetes, to know my father and brother's hearts failed them so early; to worry about all the rest of my family and you, too.
It isn't hard to give up wheat. It is very nice be my high school clothing size (but, alas,with saggier boobs). It is very encouraging to watch my husbands clothes get baggier and baggier on him, as he succeeds in this informed lifestyle choice.
You do not need the rice, the pasta, the bun, the bread. You will feel JUST as full without them, I promise! Focus on the protein, the fat, and eat some fiber for poops sake. Take your vitamins, floss your teeth. Wheat is the old, out-dated, WRONG information. Eating wheat is an old, fat wives tale.
(Homework: Read Wheat Belly, By William Davis.)
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Wow, I have never heard that stat about wheat raising your blood sugar level more than a candy bar?! So, practically speaking as I struggle with my diet....you eat the stir fry with beans rather than over rice or in a tortilla or something, right? And do you add seasoning? And what kind of cooked chicken and cut veggies do you buy? Thanks:) Do you believe there is a link with heart disease, then? Okay, that's all my questions for now. Thanks for the post. Sounds like you guys are doing well (besides the annoying fire alarm beepinging-aarrgh!) We miss you!
Oh, and speaking of genetically engineered food, check out Vanishing of the Bees on Netflix if you haven't yet. It will make you want a big garden with room for a beehive:)
I'm reading your articles based on the sole fact that we have the same name and there are several clarifications to be made:
a) God did not give Adam and Eve articles to clothe themselves in; they chose to on their own out of newly regained modesty after eating the forbidden fruit and gaining the knowledge of good and evil. Thus, making them ashamed of their exposed nakedness.
b)my 7 year old daughter is naked most of the time because I have never taught her to be ashamed of her beauty. She knows to cover up when company comes over, out of personal privacy, and also to not sit on my pillows because I think that's gross. I am an adult, I change in front of her, pee, whatever...I was not raised this way, I was raised very modestly, but hippi's have some very valid validity.
c)the government promotes the consumption of carbohydrates (pasta) because it has a sedating and, seriously fattening, quality. Being fat and lazy makes the masses easier to control because in this new era there are far too many atheists and free formed spiritualists to be controlled with the time tested and true method of god fearing religious tactics. In no way of evolutionist history are ppl supposed to purposely consume 6-8 servings of carbs a day, as per the Canadian Food Guide unless you are nursing a baby or running marathons, regularly.
What is interesting to me is that if I eat wheat in the USA, my joints swell and ache and I feel like I'm 100 years old. My brain gets foggy, and blah blah blah. BUT I lead tours on the Camino Santiago in Spain and I am able to eat wheat there with no problems. Why? Because they do not allow the genetically engineered wheat we allow here. They also do not allow their wheat to be sprayed with bromine, which we do! It's a shame, what we're allowing the pharma companies to do to our health out of greed.
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