Saturday, August 14, 2010

OK, troops, here's my latest research.

My eye problem is really inflamation and leaking of little blood vessels in the back of the eye. Turns out that sugar, (alcohol, pop, candy, sweetened boxed cereal, junk food, etc), tomatos and the night-shade family of plants (potatoes, et al.) are the worst. I started a garden with lots of tomatoes here, started drinking beer, etc., and overexerted once while drinking beer (that was the coup de gras for my eye.)

Check out this article on anti-inflamatory foods.

From what I can find out, the skin numbness can be from a combination of toxins I've breathed or consumed, the use of alcohol, some insult to the nerves of the skin like getting really cold, nobody really knows. Well, I'm screwed if I continue to do booze. Dang. Well things could be worse. John Finley gave up the libations so I guess I can too.

But I've heard that inflamation can be in all cells of the body and cause tiredness, (as well as slow degeneration of lots of things.) I saw in the above mentioned article that 'white foods' are culprits (potatoes, a night-shade plant, flour and white rice). I gave up wheat along with caffeine after Dr. Popp said I was allergic to it, and feel ten years younger. Daniel, I strolled right up Crater Lake Mt. with Jesse, totally unlike trudging up it with you. Giving up wheat flour has been huge. My sinuses, and Jesse's too, have dried up. I heard just recently, and much belatedly, that an alergic reaction to food can wreak severe havoc with your sinuses. We go to Great Harvest Bread Co. in Medford on Wednesdays to get fresh bread on spelt-bread-baking day. (R.J. has been eating spelt bread and doesn't know the difference, but knows it's good tasting. Don't tell him.)

Well, eat the grits down South there instead of the mashed potatoes, Elias. This is serious for you military fitness nuts. Jesse is starting to see that this muscle testing business may not be bogus after all. A video I saw on YouTube on peripheral neruopothy that I have now said that 20 million people in the U.S. have it. Toxins cause it, and I used weed killer in our back yard a few years ago, on a calm day with that high fence to keep in the fumes. I should be on Dumb and Dumbest. Everyone uses Roundup though. Daniel, if you get P.N. with your cemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialty in the Marines, it can be treated with light therapy. John Finley used a Rife Machine successfully on it too. But you gotta stop doing what caused it, if you can find out.

Have a nice day. lol

Dad
P.S. John Finley sends this additional information on making sourdough bread and pancakes. He says the process of it going 'sour' is akin to germinating the grain and then making little baked-in-the-sun wafers. He says you really gotta grind your own grain at home. John used to be a farmer in Montana and knows about these things.

"That's a cool blog, looks like everybody has got soy figured out. It's cattlefeed only and has to be fermented for humans (soy sauce, tofu etc). And the same is true for "white flour". There's no grains I know of that don't benefit from a sourdough process. Most "white flour" in the US is "Hard red winter wheat", and I still make 1/4 of my bread out of it, adding it towards the end of the project to the buckwheat, barley and oats where it can help the rising in the pan process, the other grains don't seem to have much rise. There's nothing at all in the bread but flour and water. Wrapped right it will improve over time, keeping for weeks at room temp or virtually forever in the frig. Never had any get stale on me unless I added something to it, which I haven't done for a long time. My intestinal tract health goes to hell every time I stop eating it for awhile.
The bread has to be just flour and water, but the pancakes get lots of egg, buttermilk, and any sort of berry just before they're cooked. The bread is a lot of work but well worth it. The pancakes are a breeze.
All the best"
John

The reason John says his sourdough is just different now and the crust of his bread crumbles may lie in this article on genetically modified crops.

And I add: Jesse and I drove his Jeep Liberty to the Rogue River access road and watched three big excavators dig up the Gold Rey Dam. Here's some comments from Facebook: Me:
"Amen to that brother. We were out watching the demise of the Gold Rey Dam on the Rogue today though. ODFW maintained to the end that they wanted it there to use the fish counting window. Not the kind of scientists we're looking for." John Stec "That reminds me of the ODFW biologist who wrote a paper way back in the '80's in which he emphatically concluded that the upper Klamath watershed could never again sustain salmon. That became the mantra that drove policy and essentially became a self-fulfilling prophecy."