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Eat Real Food

Eat Real Food

New federal guidelines insist that we should “Eat real food.”  I could not agree more.

A couple of months ago, I stopped at a beverage store to pick up some beer for a social event.  I was in a hurry, and picked up non-alcoholic beer by mistake.  Fortunately, there was a recovering alcoholic in the group, so it didn’t go to waste, but that stuff should come with an obvious warning label.

I am a recent convert to the coffee club.  I keep it simple, but understand why the more sophisticated might grind their own beans or use a more exotic brewing method.  I don’t understand the point of decaffeinated coffee.  That’s like having chocolate without cocoa.

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Technology won’t save us from old folks.

WSJ: Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age

WSJ: Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age

Machines could soon help elders get out of bed, bathe them, even provide them with emotional support.

I always figured this problem would be solved by the Japanese inventing competent Elder-bots, the Chinese making cheap knock-offs and an American start-up company offering free robots that tended to the feeble as it harvested confidential medical information to defraud Medicaid.  That won’t happen.

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Being alone isn’t so bad.

RCI:  Americans Are Increasingly Alone, But Are They Really Lonely?

In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a bombshell report, “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” that painted a bleak picture of citizens feeling “isolated, invisible, and insignificant.” Most provocatively, it stated that perhaps half of Americans face a personal crisis of aloneness that poses health risks “similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.”

The “Crisis of Loneliness” issue has been in the news for over a decade.  It has always sounded phony to me.  How does anyone gauge the loneliness of others?

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Workout routine

There is just no way to make this look good.  Unless I get a tape worm from Sparky or deer wasting disease, I will remain a fat guy.1

It helps to say that I am famine resistant, but the photos don’t lie.  I could phony them up like the fat-arsed social media girls, but that defeats the purpose of having a record of our workout progress.

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