Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan: Day 29 Read about this adventure from the beginning. Yes, I'm still on Dr. Jeffrey McCombs' Candida Plan, taking McComb’s supplements, drinking four quarts of water a day, taking sweat baths, and eating only animal...
Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan: Day 15 I'm at four weeks on Dr. Jeffrey McCombs' Candida Plan, which I'm doing to rid my body of an overgrowth of fungal candida albicans. That's four weeks of taking McComb's supplements, drinking massive amounts of...
Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan: Day 7 It's been two weeks that I've been healing my candida albicans problem with Dr. Jeffrey McCombs' Candida Plan and it's going well. I'm still surprised to have had no sugar cravings. I've suffered a little...
Previous post on this topic: What I Was Eating Before I started the McCombs Plan on Nov. 1, so for this month it'll be easy to remember what day I'm on. Today I didn't spend as much on groceries because I'm eating more eggs and ground beef as my animal proteins. How...
Previous post on my Candida journey: Going to Kick This F#$%-ing Sugar Problem Before I began the McCombs Plan on Sunday, my grocery shopping looked like this. 27 Sept: cauliflower, oranges, cheese, masala chai tea, bananas, canned tuna, almonds $20.54 4 Oct: eggs,...
I was complaining AGAIN about sugar cravings and fatness when one of my healers said it sounds like I have Candida. She suggested I look up someone named Dr. Jeffrey McCombs. Well, wouldn't you know it? That's who I saw back in 1994 when I had my first acute bout of...
Ignorant Americans everywhere are avoiding their local Chinese restaurants, shops and neighborhoods because they're afraid of the coronavirus. In Chicago, Chinatown restaurants are suffering from as much as a 50% decrease in business. Why do they think every...
Previous post on food & weight: I fasted for three days It was 1994 and I was 28 years old when I realized I had a problem with sugar. In the 26 years since then I've worked hard to end my physical and emotional dependence on sweets. In the past few years, two...
Previous post on food & weight: Fatness check-in The NRT practitioner at Gnosis Natural Health has helped me with many health problems and is especially good with chronic conditions. I've been seeing her for various problems and aches since January 2016. She told...
For those who didn't grow up in the U.S. (and many who did) I was in a restaurant with a friend who ordered a beer and then didn’t drink much of it. I gestured at it and said, “So, you’re really not a big drinker.” She said, “It just doesn’t taste right to me.” I...
You might be clinically depressed if: you're back on cigarettes or junk food or alcohol or shopping or whatever your addiction is that you've been trying to kick for decades. you can't concentrate on work for more than a few minutes at a time. the long minutes you...
Next post on weight & health: Determined At the age of 50, I'm now on my fifth year of being fat. When I went from size 10 to size 18 in the last months of my marriage in 2013, I thought, "I'm not worried about gaining weight. I've been thin and active my...
Previous post on weight & health: NPR's This American Life: "Tell Me I'm Fat" Well, since I published this post saying I'd better accept my fatness or live in the delusion of future thinness, I've chosen the latter. I was a skinny kid and stayed thin for most of...
I hardly know why news providers like the L.A. Times do stories like Americans could prevent roughly half of all cancer deaths by doing these four things. We know we should stop smoking, drink less alcohol, exercise regularly and achieve and maintain a "healthful...
Last night at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs talk I heard one of the most engaging, yet disturbing, speakers I've ever seen. Robert Paarlberg, author of The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism, talked about what he...