Category Archives: Geek

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  Wheat-Gluten Exorphins

  Posted on February 19, 2012 by Fritzrips in Blog, Wheat

  My wife and I have spontaneously eliminated wheat and wheat products from our diet.  This wasn’t a conscious or determined effort, it was just something that happened in our home because we don’t eat any processed foods, most of which contain wheat in some form.  I’m still alive and quite healthy, despite not eating the [...]

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  Happy Chicken, Happy Eggs, Happy Human

  Posted on February 4, 2012 by Fritzrips in Agriculture, Blog, Geek

  Modern agriculture is the root (pun intended) of all evil in American health, at least in my viewpoint.  We’ve bastardized our food supply beyond comprehension with genetically modified foods, pesticides, and altered diets and living conditions of our livestock, all in the name of efficiency, politicial influence, and greed.  Why even talk about socialized healthcare [...]

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  Move it, or lose it.

  Posted on January 23, 2012 by Fritzrips in Blog, Geek

  A good study in a The Physician and Sports Medicine showing the benefits of life long exercise on muscle mass.  You’ve seen them.  The 70 year old shirtless, tan, ripped guys running 8 minute miles on the Shoreline Trail.   Well, now you know why their still studs and everyone else in America is either [...]

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  Obesity Map Animation

  Posted on January 8, 2012 by Fritzrips in Blog, Geek, Obesity

  This is an animation graphically showing the obesity epidemic spreading across this country.  It looks like something out of a sci-fi documentary about some killer virus, but in this case, the virus is American agriculture, the FDA, the American Heart Association, and American Dietetic Association, and conventional wisdom and apathy. Is terrorism or the national debt the [...]

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  Cornhole

  Posted on January 8, 2012 by Fritzrips in Agriculture, Blog, Geek
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  K2-A giant of Himalayan proportions

  Posted on December 13, 2011 by Fritzrips in Blog, Fat Soluble Vitamins, Geek

  For this post, I flip back and forth with terminilogy regarding Vitamin K.  For clarification, here’s how it goes. Plant source vitamin K is K1, or phylloquinone Meat or dairy vitamin K is K2, or menaquinone.  There are many subtypes of menaquinone, MK4 is primarily addressed here. Natto is a concentrated source of menaquinone (MK-7) [...]

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