Arthritis and Your Diet

Mark Sisson at Mark's Daily Apple has lots of great posts.  This one is greater than usual:

Osteoarthritis Is Not Your Destiny

I think it's all great advice, and well worth following, even if it is true that early nutrition can cause irreversible arthritis later in life.

You'll probably never know with any certainty what has caused your arthritis, and doing nothing but moan clearly won't help. ;)  Take action!

Driving Barefoot?

Yes.  I always have some shoes in the car, however.

A Useful Caution on Genetics

SPIEGEL: Why is it taking so long for the results of genome research to be applied in medicine?

Venter: Because we have, in truth, learned nothing from the genome other than probabilities. How does a 1 or 3 percent increased risk for something translate into the clinic? It is useless information.

SPIEGEL: Do you think there will be a time when you can extract all this information to yield real medical results?

Venter: For that to happen we need a lot more information: Information about your body’s chemistry, your physiology, your complete medical history, your brain and your entire life. We would need to do that a million times on different people and correlate that data with their genetic information.

SPIEGEL: Will that lead in the end to the kind of personalized medicine that genetic researchers have always touted? Each person would get his or her own personal treatment that is tailored precisely to that person’s genetic make-up?

Venter: That was another one of these silly naïve notions that was out there. It’s not, ‘Oh, we know your genome, we’re going to make this drug for you.’ That will never happen. It is more important that you use the information in the genome about your personal risks and reduce them through intelligent behavior.

So when someone tells you "it's genetic", or "it's in your genes", it's kind of a fatalistic cop-out.  Yes, it is, but that doesn't mean you're without power to influence your genes.

As the author of the post below states:

"Our access to genetic information currently exceeds our understanding of what that information actually means."

Read the whole thing at Science-Based Medicine.

Einkorn

Inspired by Dr. Davis, I've ordered some einkorn wheat, to see if it makes pancakes that will keep my daughters happy.

As suggested on the einkorn site, I'm going to try tasting the uncooked wheat first, to see if I have a reaction to it.

We've tried buckwheat pancakes, but I'm the biggest fan of the taste, and I don't eat pancakes often. ;)

Steve Magness on Runners' World

See here.  Check out Steve's superb running blog.

The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?

Great essay by Miss Pino.  I suspect that one of the reasons that so many people today have problems with wheat is that we eat way too much of it. 

Many of us eat it at every meal, for snacks, and in our desserts. 

From what I recall of how my grandparents ate, bread was an occasional thing and most of the meals were meat, vegetables, and potatoes.

I've noticed that my daughters seem to do fine if they occasionally have some wheat.  If it becomes a daily thing then the wheat belly appears...

Running & Rambling's Book List

Interesting.  I bet Bannister's book is a great read.