Walking, Walnuts, and Those Foods Mom Urged upon Us

 

 My parents used me to sell donuts to other kids and their parents. I did not object.

 Donuts can make someone skinny, with a good Photoshop.

Harvard Medical School has a free health newsletter and encourages people to buy their mini-courses on a given subject, such as blood pressure. Often the newsletter alone is enough, and it certainly brings up the main themes often.

One is that the #1, A+, undeniable benefit to health is the daily walk. That was the reason for getting Sassy, to have a high energy dog anxious to exercise. Besides, she had a face on the rescue website that demanded love and an immediate adoption. A funny statement about just walking is - "No matter how slowly you walk, you are moving faster than the person sitting on the couch."

Sassy and I are still eager to spend some time walking in the morning, as we did today.  We usually get a supper time walk, when cooling breezes begin. She knows the weather better than two websites I examine. She will not leave the front porch if it is going to rain, but she will leave when it is just a token threat.

One of our members (name withheld) got me started on walnuts, although the lure of ice cream with walnuts dampened the overall positive effect. The best walnut ice cream in the world is nothing like vanilla ice cream with fresh walnuts halves on it. 

The doctor told our member to eat walnuts every day. I use them with chili and chicken pot pies as a delicious addition to predictable food. 

The factory oil industry (margarine, Crisco - from cotton seed oil!) was so good at making people afraid of butter and natural oils. Now people realize that fish oil, nut oil, and butter are good for them.

Crisco and margarine remind me of Paul Newman's foods - no sugar added - because they use high fructose corn syrup as a prime ingredient.

I will be writing more about this in the future and chart my struggles with ice cream addiction, donut downers, and sugar challenges.

Skinny bakers scare people - "Doesn't he like his own products?"
As people notice from various Melo Cream photos, people were far more slender those days.