Nowadays there seems to be an endless array of crock pot recipes. I’ve been to the grocery store and compared a bag of frozen corn to one fresh and found that the latter packed more vitamins and minerals than the former. I’ve even heard that crock pot cooking is so good for you, it’s good for your health. But what’s better, high vitamin rich or low fat and sodium free with lots of fiber and protein. Both seemed to be equally good, so what was the deciding factor? The answer is time and effort.
Most often cooking in the crock pot doesn’t take very much time. If you are just some corporatemeric where time is money then few meals will take place in a month. But you don’t know what a busy household like mine can be. My spouse and I are careful about the amount of time we spend in the kitchen. I can go as long as I need to and as much as I can spare.
Last Saturday I decided to try my hand at a quick and easy stew. I was looking for a way to prepare something quick and easy so I could hit the printing presses and get my food into the oven before work. I found a couple of recipes I really liked and set about making them the following day.
When my family told me what they’d cooked, I was beyond impressed. Aside from the fact that I had more fiber in my diet, there was more potassium in the meals I ate than I’ve ever had before. I now have two or three types of potassium a day, and my sprouts, green beans and peas are rock hard. I’m also starting to get more muscle mass again, so no, I’m not tiny again, I’m growing again.
Spicy versus bland? I have no idea. But something in the middle? Something savory? Although I wouldn’t rule out something bland being a delicacy, I really want to taste something good. Ideally, something with a lot of flavor and spice.
Now, I’m not immune to the idea of eating meat and plants sometimes. I enjoy cheeseburgers and Italian food and sometimes a veggie burger from the neighborhood edutainment complex. But for the most part I can’t eat fried or candy bar-quality food everyday. Not unless I throw up, which I don’t because it’s too dry and processed. But if it’s a choice, I’ll go half and half.
The issue is, I have to choose. Eat something redone? I don’t think I could. My body doesn’t do it for me. But something pale or something brown? Ehh, I have no idea. My doctor’s been telling me for years to try herbal concoctions like the mirsael, the elixia, the aniseed, and so on. But I don’t really trust anyone who advertise herbal detox or make health claims. I was concerned with the quality and the focus, and if it would work.
And so, about a year and a half ago, something unexpected happened when my secondary daughter, Abbey, got sickened with what was probably the flu. I met her at the hospital and she was in fairly good condition, but she noted that she was feeling tired and amiss. I asked if she was alright and she said yes, but she had to be transported immediately to the hospital nursery. I stayed home and spent the next couple days reading her news and website status updates. The news were mostly encouraging, but press were not paying attention to the disease details. It was a strange experience.
The last thing I read on her website was the title: “Theosis Naturalis unfiltered”. It read: “Despite therisks inherent in the modern lifestyle, nature has provided a seemingly easy solution to our drugs problem. drugs are created to solve one problem instead of creating another. solve the problem of poor food due to over farming of plant species and the rampant amount of toxins in our environment.
This is not to say that the past decades of drugs production have not had any damage to our health anduranaviruses. We have had over 40 years of pills, hormones and medicines within our bodies and more continue to be produced. In all likelihood, many more are still being produced as we read this, in the background of some drug metabolism reports.
The capacity to produce more drugs has increased, due to more drugs reaching the market. Health solutions to solve one problem has created a completely new problem. Which in turn, isolving another. Hence the organismic filters and drugs that now seem to be so advanced, were simply right in previous years.
But is this progress sustainable? If we continue to live as we currently do, it will not be.
