melissapauline's Profile

This is a fantastically preserved bit of design history. I say: don't touch it, expect maybe getting rid of the linoleum floor, and painting the walls (maybe a soft grey?). Give it time and see if it grows on you. Notice how often your guests will say "I love your bathroom! It's straight out of the the 50s!", and then ask if you really want to replace it with some generic mid-2010s stuff.

Why does it have to be LOUD? It's my understanding that playing music at really high volumes actually distorts the sound, which seems counter-productive for a music producer. Plus, he'll permanently damage his hearing that way.

Sorry, but I think the problem here is the LOUDness, not the ways to contain it.

Many people just write off a vegetable when they try it once and don't like it. The trick is to keep trying different things until you find ways to cook them that you *do* like. That requires recipe-searching. Whereas the food in the list above are all pretty easy to like.

Actually, unless there are privacy concerns, I wouldn't bother with a window treatment. I like your windows they way they are.

Beautiful job!

The quote doesn't say, as you did, that "Dental health is so indicative of overall physical health." Because it isn't. You can have great teeth *and* HIV, heart disease, fertility issues, chronic back pain and lots of other health problems. You can also have really bad teeth but be healthy otherwise. The quote just says "they have determinants in common", which is not the same thing.

I agree that it's good to pay attention to research but one also has to take account of the *quality* of the research, which includes its age. Price's was very poor. A lot of the paleo stuff I've seen isn't based on any research at all.

Meanwhile, like I said, noble barley gets lumped in with cookies as "poison".

A DENTIST, whose research comes from the 1930s, who was actually studying tooth decay, but drew broad conclusions about nutrition and health anyway - outdated, misapplied science. I read his chapter on Australian Aborigines (I lived there for a while and know a bit about about their cultures). Hoo boy. In the 1930s indigenous Australians faced a mountain of serious threats to their emotional, physical and community health, and certainly lousy Western food was one, but the outcomes can't be chalked up to it alone. He doesn't even acknowledge this, but his writing is full of the prejudices of the day. Yikes.

I think we're all in agreement that the industrial Western food of today is bad for all kinds of reasons, but it's illogical to conclude that all *grains* are bad for everyone. "Grains" does not equal "Western-style highly processed grains accompanied by fat, sugar, and salt".

Somewhere right now a nice pot of millet is cooking and the people who eat it will be fine.

I've come across Mark's Daily Apple before. It's loaded with pseudoscience. I still haven't found the part where Mark details his own scientific and nutrition background. As far as I can tell, he dismisses all the science that doesn't support his theories because those scientists are all "sellouts". All while he is selling stuff himself! The market for new diets and food philosophies in America is HUGE, and he's cashing in, like dozens of others. Weirdly, he seems to think he has human evolution, nutrition and plant science TOTALLY figured out. That's absurd. It's far too complex and there are still many things we don't know.

The article you linked to about traditionally prepared grains has many flaws. For one thing, where's his proof that ALL cultures who eat grains are using the prep methods he describes? They might be doing all kinds of things with their grains. For another, most foods require some kind of processing to be safe and healthy to eat. There are naturally occuring toxins in many of the foods that he himself recommends. But grains are the big nasty?

For yet another, he says right up front that health is due to many factors. Right, so how can he be so sure that *grains* are the culprit in US health issues? When there are so many others?

These other grain-eating cultures have got thousands of years of experience to put up against Mark's theories. I have more faith in their knowledge than some guy flogging diet books.

@thewholesomehome

So it's not really the grains, it's the highly processed industrial food that makes up the typical American diet - food that also has lots of chemicals and other highly processed ingredients other than grains.

Meanwhile, all over the world people are eating whole grains as they have done for millenia, with no adverse effects.

I'm thinking: cold water, very gentle soap/detergent, soak but do not twist, scrunch, etc. Rinse thoroughly, then roll gently in a shamwow to absorb as much water as possible (may take a few rounds), then lay flat to dry.

Some advice here:

http://www.sewgirls.com/needlework/30-year-old-crewel-help-to-clean-3508-.htm