More Ideas on Delicious Healthy Meals - Major Steps Needed

 

I have always enjoyed writing and observing the power of words. I have seen how the slant of words can make people respond accordingly. Graphics and videos help too.

My biggest beef is emphasizing body weight and making that weight a goal. Disease is not caused by weight going up or down - for the most part - but selection or rejection of damaging foods. For example, the best way to reduce the flabby-bread -belly is to reduce the number of bread loaves with butter, peanut butter, jelly - also slices of meat.

Tour the biggest grocery store and measure the number of foods which are most like fast food joints -

1. Heavily salted
2. Heavily sugared or fake-sugared (which is worse)
3. Heavily fattened up, often with plenty of salt and sweetener.

A can of Garbanzo beans can have as little as 120 mg of salt. The same can with the same livery but with the name of Chick Peas can have 480 mg of salt: Walmart vegetable aisle.

Reducing those items, which are little more than quarter-pounders with fries (bread, and salty toppings), will reduce body fat, once the addiction pains lessen. One waiter told me he lost 40 pounds by not drinking the free coke they were allowed to drink any time. 

Getting the fast food off the grocery store menu is slow and the withdrawal is acute. It is easy to reward quitting salt by eating a bag of Fritos.

The Answer Is Not Yuk Foods But New and Healthy Addictions

The doctor gave me potassium magnesium pills when I was low on potassium. Let the reader understand - He never mentioned bananas, which have

• Vitamin B6.
• Fiber.
• Potassium.
• Magnesium.
• Vitamin C.
• Manganese. (Harvard bananas link)
• The pills did not taste very good.

An apple is just as delicious as a slice of apple pie - completely satisfying with one or two large apples.

Charlie Sue always shares my apple and banana when I am enjoying them. Peach is favorite for both of us, but she walked away sadly when I offered her a pear half open.

The Fun Part - Splurge on Deluxe Fresh Fruits and Fresh or Frozen Vegetables

People shift gears when buying certain foods, so really good fruits and vegetables can be especially good and nutritious. I am willing to bet (with Monopoly money) that buying the fast foods like pizza is going to cost less than a plentiful table of vegetables and fruits (top quality) with a reasonable amount of meat.

Today Charlie Sue and I shared one sausage in slices, and she finished the vegetable stew bowl:

chopped frozen spinach

walnuts

blueberries

onions, green and red peppers,

ground flax seeds

garbanzo beans

tomato paste.

Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder, Climbing High into the Sun!

 

Computer Fizzle - Trying To Catch Up - Also Change of Phone Number

 

"I didn't mean to touch that key, really, I'm sorry. Please come back and reboot."

I am finishing the upgrade of my backup computer after the very old one fizzled. The library computer will match this one to make future transitions easier... I hope. The computer armory includes three very good ones and an up to date laptop for travel, God willing.

Our congregation is looking at Zoom to replace Vimeo, because Vimeo is unreliable. I will create Biblical doctrine Vimeos for the time being. 

I will talk to Zoom today. 

My current cell phone number is (involuntarily) dedicated to spam phone calls for Medicare, car insurance, and other bothers, so I will dump that in the next few weeks.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 20. Second Sermon - "...the secure and proud heads ... despise the time of the kingdom of grace and persecute the preaching of the Gospel, and upon the false trivial spirits ...bear the name of the Gospel and of Christ for a show and do not mean it in earnest."

 

 This is portrayed in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. My English teacher yelled at us - "If you haven't read Pilgrim's Progress, you are IGNORANT!"

Complete Sermon -> Trinity 20 - Second Sermon - Parable of the Wedding Feast, Matthew 22:1-14

KJV Matthew 22:1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. 7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. 10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.



1. This Gospel is a very earnest admonition, like to-day’s Epistle, to make good use of the time of the Gospel; and a terrible threatening of the awful punishment, that shall pass upon the secure and proud heads that despise the time of the kingdom of grace and persecute the preaching of the Gospel, and upon the false trivial spirits who bear the name of the Gospel and of Christ for a show and do not mean it in earnest. And by this Gospel is well painted forth and made plain what the multitudes are who are called God’s people or the church and possess his Word, and how they are and act both as to their inner nature and their outer appearance.

2. First, God builds up his Christendom in a way that he calls it, and what pertains to its government, the kingdom of heaven; to signify, that he has called and separated out of the world a people for himself here upon the earth through the Word of his Gospel; not to the end that it should be fitted and organized, like the outer and civil government, with temporal rule, power, possessions, government and maintenance of outward worldly righteousness, discipline, defense, peace, etc. For all this has already before been richly ordered, and it was commanded and put into man to rule in this life as well as he can; although this is also through sin weakened and spoiled so that it is not as it should be, and is a poor, miserable, weak government, as weak and transient as the human body, and is able to go no farther, where it is at its best, than the stomach, as long as the stomach performs its functions. But above that God has arranged and instituted his own divine government, after he revealed his fathomless grace and gave his Word to prepare and gather a people, whom he redeemed from his wrath, eternal death and sin, through which they fell into such misery, and from which they could not help themselves by any human wisdom, counsel or power, and taught them to know him aright and to praise and laud him forever.

3. Christ here calls his kingdom the kingdom of heaven, where he does not rule in a temporal way nor deals with the things of this life; but he founded and developed an eternal, imperishable kingdom, which begins on the earth through faith, and in which we receive and possess those eternal riches, forgiveness of sins, comfort, strength, renewal of the Holy Spirit, victory and triumph over the power of satan, death and hell, and finally eternal life of body and soul, that is, eternal fellowship and blessedness with God.

4. Such a divine kingdom can be governed, built up, protected, extended and maintained only by means of the external office of the Word and of the Sacraments [GJ - the Means of Grace], through which the Holy Spirit is powerful and works [GJ - is efficacious 1 Thess 2:13]  in the hearts etc., as I have often said in speaking on this theme.

5. But in the most lovable and comforting way it is pictured to us here by Christ our Lord, in that he himself likens it to a royal wedding feast; when a bride was given to the King’s son, and all were full of the highest joy and glory, and many were invited to this marriage feast and its joy. For this is among all the parables and pictures, by which God presents the kingdom of Christ to us, a select and beautiful one; that Christendom or the Christian state is a marriage feast or a matrimonial union, where God himself selects a church on the earth for his Son, which he takes to himself as his bride.

God here by our own lives and experiences will make known and reflect as in a mirror what we have in Christ; and also by the common state of marriage on earth, in which we were born and reared and now live, he delivers a daily sermon and admonition in order that we should remember and consider this great mystery (for so St. Paul calls it in Ephesians 5:32), that the conjugal life of a man and wife, instituted by God, should be a great, beautiful and wonderful sign, and a tangible, yet spiritual picture, that points out and explains something special, excellent and great, hidden to and inconceivable by the human reason, namely, Christ and his church.