Fats & Oils: The Good, The Bad, The Best
Consider Why are there never any good side effects? Just once I’d like to read a medication bottle that says, “May cause extreme sexiness.” – YourCards HEALTHY, HELPFUL FATS Length: 4 minutes, 50 seconds Click here to view. Imagine my amazement. Just when I swore to never eat fat while dieting, a weight loss coach told her class that our bodies NEED at least one tablespoon of fat a day. Why? Life Hack explains: Fat is essential to brain health. Fat keeps the lungs working properly. Fat boosts the immune system. Fat keeps our largest organ, our skin supple. See More: Here, the Cleveland Clinic explains the chemical makeup of unsaturated fats, which leaves them liquid at room temperature and less likely to gunk up arteries. Here, Healthline describes the four best oils for cooking [olive, avocado, sesame and safflower] and the four with low “smoking points” that should be kept cooler [fish or algae oil, flax, palm and walnut oils]. ‘Saturated Fats’ have a chemical structure that keeps them solid at room temperature. They come from animals [lard, tallow, schmaltz], dairy products processed meats and some plant oils [palm kernel and coconut]. Because saturated fats can increase LDL [bad cholesterol] and raise the risk of heart disease, they should be less than 6% of daily caloric intake. Read more. That said, Practical Self Reliance posts, “Animal fats can be a healthy part of any diet, especially from a grass-fed and pasture-raised animal,” Benefits include: Crisper, flakier, more flavorful food Less waste for those with a tip-to-tail lifestyle Read more While eating fried and fatty foods is among life’s pleasures, MedicineNet cautions that overeating could be cravings caused by: Deficiencies of fat-soluble vitamins (E, D, K, and A) Pleasant, fatty-food memories Stress and more at: https://www.medicinenet.com/what_does_it_mean_if_you_crave_fatty_foods/article.htm In summarizing this post, keep Malcolm Forbes’ words in mind, Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul. Succeed & Soar! Sandra Gould Ford Presenting arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. Video 19 FOODS THAT’LL NEVER MAKE YOU FAT 13 Minutes Click here to view. Video FOODS WITH HIGHEST HEALTHY FATS 2 Minutes Click here to view. Shop Sandra’s Gallery Click Here. Buy Sandra’s Art framed, on canvas, as posters as well as puzzles, shirts, infant onesies, phone cases, ornaments, journals, blankets, clocks and more. Each item is individually made, just for you.
LEAP(ing) Day
Whatever you are ready for is ready for you. — Reverend Ike A Meditation: LEAP(ing) Day U.S. Route 30 is Pennsylvania’s portion of this country’s first coast-to-coast road. The Lincoln Highway opened on Halloween in 1913, when cars like Brush Roadsters, Mighty Michigans and Bailey Electrics putt-putted on modified buggy wheels from Times Square, New York City to Lincoln Park, San Francisco. In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell said that the adventures we’re ready for are the ones we get. When driving Route 30 between Bedford and Somerset one February, I topped a hill, snapped a picture, took a breath and wondered: What awaits on the way through this wintry world and beyond that distant horizon? I may also have asked, What leaps must I make, ready or not? People who find spiritual meaning in numbers [numerologists] believe that the once-in-four-year combination of 2 + 29 [February 29] offers special opportunities to “catch up in our own lives.” According to Forever Consciousness, 2 involves realizing the soul’s purpose and 11 [29 or 2+9 = 11] signifies awakening. Whether or not the numerologist view works, why not believe some high jumps and bounds are possible on Leap Day? “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7, King James Bible. And keep in mind, the International Date Line is in New Zealand. That’s eighteen hours ahead of Pittsburgh, which allows a bit more of 2-29 for some springing. Featured Image Information & Purchase. “Route 30” prints start at $18.89.
Time: Important and Urgent
As Amtrak’s Capitol Limited approached Connellsville, Pennsylvania, the rows of black holes in wilderness covered with thick, fresh-fallen snow registered at the edge of my vision. While breakfasting in the dining car, I stared through the window and gasped, “Beehive Coke Ovens!” The snow revealed what leaves and earth normally hid. I’d wanted to find those abandoned parts of my region’s iron and steelmaking heritage for years. Most beehives stopped filling the skies with flames and soot in the 1950s. The last went dark twenty years later. If not destroyed, their fronts were removed to keep the homeless from sheltering inside. Years later, I searched Fayette County’s back-country roads for the railroad tracks. As the sun sank and shadows lengthened, I stopped at a forest café. The bartender called a friend who hunted those woods. After several wrong turns, a man fixing wrecked cars told me of nearby beehives, deep in briars. I was a lone woman in a wilderness as daylight dimmed. Should I turn back? Words from The Seven Spiritual Habits of Success came to mind: Important has to do with results. If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, your high priority goals. But if we don’t have a clear idea of what is important, of the results we desire in our lives, we are easily diverted into responding to the urgent. Though I am drawn to man-made structures with stories soaked into their crumbling bricks, rotting wood and rusting metal, getting out of those woods before nightfall was urgent. Finding those beehive coke ovens when I might not return before the tree roots crumbled and the earth absorbed them, when I might not luck into someone who knew where they were was important. Joy! The featured image may not look like much, but finding them meant a lot. A victory. NOTE: The actual ovens were domes that suggest beehives, but were encased in square structures. A short film showing beehive coke oven operations [See Other Formats. Choose Windows Media (broadband)] History of beehive coke ovens Visit a beehive coke oven Shop the Inspiring, Beautiful Succeed and Soar Collections Click Here