I have just completed the reading of the book The Alzheimer’s Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age

These doctors say you can radically reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 90%.  And as you can see in the title, they use the words PREVENT and REVERSE.

Well, in my opinion, those are pretty bold words to use.

When reading the book, you will see they chose these bold words without fear of overstating what they have experienced in their years of medical and clinical practice.

If you have known someone who has lived with Alzheimer’s, then you understand the scope of this statement.

The point of the book is simple.  Our Western or American lifestyle is ushering too many people into the horrible nightmare of Alzheimer’s, whether the one who suffers the affliction or those family members who suffer along with the afflicted.

Much of these sufferings can be avoided.

You may ask, “Ray, if this is true and these things can be avoided at any level, WHY has this not been headline news?”

My reply is simple.

There is no money to be made by telling people to eat healthy food, move your body, challenge the brain, and stop being couch potatoes.

In contrast, there are endless amounts of money to be made treating diseases and keeping the human livestock in the feedlot of perpetual pharmaceuticals and medical design.  A design to treat the symptoms, not the cause.

And besides, if you are getting your information about anything from headline news sources, aka ‘newspeak,’ well then you are misinformed.

So, after I completed that book, I downloaded, again, Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It [Joel Fuhrman M.D., Robert Phillips]

When a review called this book ‘… unflinching, provocative …,’ it was not kidding.

OUCH.

Be clear though, it is not referring to fast food as only that which is obtained from a drive-through window nor with super-sized fries.

Be clear the “FAST” refers to the so-called “food” that quickly blasts its way into the bloodstreams of the human body and causes immediate damage just moments after it is swallowed and washed down with high-fructose-corn-syrup-laced drinks.  Which, by the way, includes most processed foods… that is almost everything sold in every grocery store and served in almost every restaurant.

We will not mention the added salt nor the chemicals added.

The key word here is “PROCESSED.”

And you do understand the word genocide used in the title, right?

“…the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation…”

Just think about it.

Just for a moment…

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I hear people say over and over, “… I don’t have time to eat Whole Food Plant Based… or… I can’t afford to eat Whole Food Plant Based”.

Well, that is your choice.

You choose your use of time, and use of money.

You choose the results of your lifestyle.

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One more book.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B Esselstyn Jr.

Yep folks, prevent and reverse the #1 killer of people in America.

I’m gonna leave it at that.

Folks we have had the cure for the chronic disease epidemic since the Garden of Eden.

The “Cure” is the food we were designed to eat.

The “Curse” is we think we are smarter than the Designer.

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(Still not counting calories, measuring protein, nor fearing carbs!)

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I have just completed the reading of the book The Alzheimer’s Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age

These doctors say you can radically reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 90%.  And as you can see in the title, they use the words PREVENT and REVERSE.

Well, in my opinion, those are pretty bold words to use.

When reading the book, you will see they chose these bold words without fear of overstating what they have experienced in their years of medical and clinical practice.

If you have known someone who has lived with Alzheimer’s, then you understand the scope of this statement.

The point of the book is simple.  Our Western or American lifestyle is ushering too many people into the horrible nightmare of Alzheimer’s, whether the one who suffers the affliction or those family members who suffer along with the afflicted.

Much of these sufferings can be avoided.

You may ask, “Ray, if this is true and these things can be avoided at any level, WHY has this not been headline news?”

My reply is simple.

There is no money to be made by telling people to eat healthy food, move your body, challenge the brain, and stop being couch potatoes.

In contrast, there are endless amounts of money to be made treating diseases and keeping the human livestock in the feedlot of perpetual pharmaceuticals and medical design.  A design to treat the symptoms, not the cause.

And besides, if you are getting your information about anything from headline news sources, aka ‘newspeak,’ well then you are misinformed.

So, after I completed that book, I downloaded, again, Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It [Joel Fuhrman M.D., Robert Phillips]

When a review called this book ‘… unflinching, provocative …,’ it was not kidding.

OUCH.

Be clear though, it is not referring to fast food as only that which is obtained from a drive-through window nor with super-sized fries.

Be clear the “FAST” refers to the so-called “food” that quickly blasts its way into the bloodstreams of the human body and causes immediate damage just moments after it is swallowed and washed down with high-fructose-corn-syrup-laced drinks.  Which, by the way, includes most processed foods… that is almost everything sold in every grocery store and served in almost every restaurant.

We will not mention the added salt nor the chemicals added.

The key word here is “PROCESSED.”

And you do understand the word genocide used in the title, right?

“…the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation…”

Just think about it.

Just for a moment…

***************************

I hear people say over and over, “… I don’t have time to eat Whole Food Plant Based… or… I can’t afford to eat Whole Food Plant Based”.

Well, that is your choice.

You choose your use of time, and use of money.

You choose the results of your lifestyle.

****************************

One more book.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B Esselstyn Jr.

Yep folks, prevent and reverse the #1 killer of people in America.

I’m gonna leave it at that.

Folks we have had the cure for the chronic disease epidemic since the Garden of Eden.

The “Cure” is the food we were designed to eat.

The “Curse” is we think we are smarter than the Designer.

oldmanskinandbones.com

(Still not counting calories, measuring protein, nor fearing carbs!)

Oh yeah, also this blog was proofed by The Crafty Proofer  Check out her website!

From a post made July 31, 2017, 8:51 p.m.  A recollection of a daring first-time event in my life.

“…(last night) I started a light jog on the treadmill. I would walk a steady pace, then jog for anywhere between 30 seconds to a minute and a half, alternating back and forth for 32 minutes while I watched a Dr. John McDougall YouTube. A first time ever jogging any on a treadmill. Motivation is an interesting creature. 

 I am going to continue to eat the most nutritious foods possible, but now, thanks to the admonition of some close to me, I plan to start working on some endurance and muscle strength!! I guess after dropping 78 pounds it could be time to do some exercise. Updates to follow, but I am sure you already knew that… Who knows, maybe Marathon for Old People or something like that…”

Some days before the date noted above I started walking on the treadmill, but my daring leap from my “normal” routine was the night I tried jogging a little.

I recall it all went well for a few days, and then there was an issue of my right knee swelling and there being a significant amount of pain.

It put a stop to the jogging on the treadmill, and as I recall, even the walking for a number of days.

But I had a determination to not appear as an old man with nothing on his arms but skin and bones, so I went back to walking as soon as the swelling went down and the pain went away.

But what little jogging I had experienced was still a strong memory as well as the joy and sense of accomplishment it brought with it.

I had to try it again.  And I did.

This time all went well and has continued to go well till today.

I recall once when we visited a family member on a Sunday morning and I was so anxious to get back to the house as soon as possible because that was going to be the day I stayed on the treadmill till I reached FOUR MILES!

Everyone shook their heads and said, Oh Ray!

But I did it and kept going in the days that followed till I was passing eight miles.

Then there came the morning of March 21, 2018, when Betty was looking at an article announcing a 5K event in Glenrose, Texas the coming Saturday.

Later that morning, while I was at work at 6 a.m., I used my phone to enter the event scheduled to begin in 73 hours.

I felt a rush of excitement as well as fear!  WHAT IF I COULDN’T FINISH the run in the allotted time?  What if I was last to cross the finish line? WHAT IF!!!???

When I arrived home that day, I put on my walking shorts and tennis shoes (that were one size too small) and ran the 5K route I had measured out by driving the neighborhood in my F-150 pickup.

I was so excited to run the 5K in 58 minutes!  I figured I had one hour from the start of the run since the awards presentation was to begin one hour later.

Later that day Betty and I went to Wally World, and I bought a pair of running shorts with compression shorts inside, and a moisture-wicking T-shirt. I did not want to appear to be an old man running his first event.

Oh, I looked great during the run, but the fact that I was still wearing my “readers” around my neck during the event was for sure a “give away” that this fellow was a beginner.

I was so excited at that event!

I started running outside after that week.  Rarely did I return to the “safety” of the treadmill after that.

Since then, I have run in four 5K events and am scheduled to run in a 6-man 100-mile relay at the Children of the Cane Ultra Marathon in Port Allen, LA., this October 2018.  I am scheduled to run in the Fort Worth, Texas COWTOWN MARATHON February 23, 2019,  as well as the Leadville, Colorado HEAVY HALF MARATHON June 15, 2019.

For a brief moment I was on a 12-man team to run across Florida in a 200-mile relay April 2019, but alas, I did not qualify with the race rules of carrying an average pace of an 11-minute mile.

This was perhaps the most devastating moment in my brief sporting career, since I would have spent 36 hours in a van with the 11 other brothers of the Missing Chins Run Club who were willing to cover this old man’s slow pace, as we had one of the most epic times I can possibly think of for my life of running.

But it has turned into a real blessing in spite of the disappointment.

#1. I believe these guys would carry me across the finish line should the need arise.  The fellows are amazing.  (Google Missing Chins Run Club… you will be amazed.)

#2. I needed a goal to lay before me concerning my running.  That goal, in this case, is to improve my pace so as to answer the question concerning my ability to maintain a pace under an 11-minute mile in 2020 with a “YES.”

There will be more blessings to come, I am sure.

I plan to run across Florida with my brothers in 2020.

As of my run this morning, I have run 611.64 miles in 2018.

If I run 3.92 miles each of the 99 days remaining in this year (today is September 23, 2018), I will have run 1,000 miles in 2018.

I repeat… If I run 3.92 miles each of the 99 days remaining in this year (today is September 23, 2018), I will have run 1,000 miles in 2018.

I can recall the old Ray who was pretty much a “couch potato” before the heart attack and triple bypass.

I can recall the old Ray when he began to discover what could happen to a person who began to follow a WHOLE FOOD PLANT BASED LIFESTYLE.

Those are two different people.

I no longer have tortured remains of animals coursing through my veins, arteries, and cells.  Everything in me is from whole foods, full of life and wonder.  The energy that fires in my body as well as my brain is as much of the power of the sunlight and with the colors of the rainbow.

No more am I running on a lower-standard fuel that is the cause of the chronic diseases of this Standard American Death Diet based in tastes of the stomach, and not in the wisdom and compassion of doing no harm to other creatures who are aware of suffering and cruelty.

I am literally a new man.

And I love to run.

If you knew me before, you never saw this coming, did you?

Neither did I.

But here we are.

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Yep, I did.

They thought I was crazy when I gave up cigarettes.

They thought I was crazy when I gave up dead cow, dead pig, dead chicken, dead turkey, and dead…animal rotting body parts.

They thought I was crazy for giving up all dairy products.

Now I am giving up COFFEE.

Here is why.

To the BEST of my knowledge, the only ingested source of cholesterol I take is found in COFFEE.

I know and believe the multitude of studies that show evidence of several values of drinking coffee, but I also know and believe the studies that show drinking coffee raises your LDL cholesterol levels.

I simply cannot afford to contribute to any increase in my LDL Levels.

So, coffee is out, and I am, at this writing, two days of no coffee.

So far, not even a tiny hint of a headache.

I am drinking maybe 6 (six) cups of Gun Barrel Green Tea with a lemon slice per cup.

Please, if you are reading this, share with me your favorite tea, how you fix it, and where you buy the leaf.

I am only using lemon slices in the tea, and then I eat the lemon after several passes in the cup.  I am going to get that lemon fiber too.

Here are a few of the reports from my trusted doctors:

Dr. John McDougall

https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/hot-topics/nutrition-topics/coffee-tea/

I consider Dr. McDougall a trusted authority on all things health.  Check out his videos on YouTube…

Dr. Michael Greger

Does Coffee Affect Cholesterol? Click here to view…

Read the transcript at this link too.  It has several other videos referring to the attributes and values of coffee.

There are many others I trust, but I will not clutter this space with more detail.

Feel free to comment or ask any questions.

I am glad to visit with you about these issues.

And no, I do not feel this is extreme.

Extreme is digging around FOUR places in my legs looking for enough healthy veins to harvest and sew together to do a triple bypass on my heart.

Many folks declare, “I’m not gonna give up what I like to eat and drink ’cause I’ma gonna DIE ANYWAYS, so I might as well ENJOY it till I die.”

Well, I think of how I watched my daddy and my momma die.

My reply to the statement about enjoying everything you want till you die, I’ma gonna do it anyway… is…

“FU#K that SH*T!”

That is about as stupid of a statement as can be said.

Life and living are so much more than killing animals after they have suffered so severely, just so you can eat dead animal parts that are going to hurt your health more than they can help anyway.

Yep, I’MA GIVIN’ UP the Cuppa ‘JOE’.

Watching another sunrise while on a nice jog, or sharing a cup of Gun Barrel Green Tea with a lemon slice is so much more precious than a lot of other things I can think of…

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Check out many other videos concerning the value of Green Tea!  Click Here!

This LDL level is going DOWN… without meds.

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I just noticed this while working on the last blog I posted!

I stopped smoking cigarettes on March 21, 2008.

Exactly TEN years later, I ran my first 5K on March 21, 2018!

Is that cool or what?

Very interesting!!

Ok, maybe I need to change my birthday to that date 3/21…

Cool.

(Oh, YEAH! This carton shown in the picture above is the last carton I ever bought.  It never left the sack, and you can see the receipt just below the letter ‘D.’  It is still in that same sack today.  I figure it will stay there from now on…)

(Oh, YEAH! Come to think of it, those shoes I’m wearing on the right?… I still have those too!  But I am using them!!)

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The moment I stopped smoking Good Friday 2008, most of my fellow smokers knew I would be back.

They were wrong.

I kept two open packs of Doral Lites and an unopened carton until 2017 when I packed them away in a barrel of things I might need should the world as we know it come to an end, and civilization collapse.

Yeah, I still have the barrel.

But I stopped smoking that day, March 21, 2008, and never looked back.  Cold turkey, and never had more than a mild craving.  All the dozens of times I stopped in the past the cravings were severe, and I always bought the next pack and carried on with the addiction.

When I stopped using animal growth hormone/baby calf tittie juice, as well as all dairy products, it too was over.

This time, even the use of Blue Bell ice cream was over.

When I stopped the consumption of dead animal body parts, it too was over.

I won’t be fooled again.

But the reaction from friends was totally opposite to stopping cigarettes.

Repeated concern that I would become ill, protein deficient, and just an all out weirdo was obvious in the reactions of several friends and family members.

But my health was always a major concern for a large number of the guys who had shared carryout bags loaded with deep-fried bean burritos and corn dogs from the local gas stations… they were worried about my health since I was giving up that sort of source of protein and… healthy way of eating.

(Really, think about it…. if God did create Man and place him in the Garden to frolic with all the animals, and everyone eating the plants and fruits… did He make a mistake with Plan A?)

[OK, I probably should take that last sentence out and save it for another blog…]

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I just had my fourth blood test result since the triple bypass.

I have visited a local doctor twice. I received a general checkup each time and a full run of the blood tests.

Each time, the results are overwhelmingly reported in the ‘normal range’ except for one area, and it improves each time.

We will treat that subject in a blog of its own.

What I wish to address in this blog are the three BIG QUESTIONS asked of people who do not eat nor consume any animal products or dairy.

In my case, please add processed oil of any kind to this, so there are four big questions I get all the time.

#1.  I do not use ANY OILS for cooking or baking.  They are of no value to my human body.  Any and all OIL I consume is found in WHOLE FOODS, ie flax seed, chia seed, avocados, tree nuts, etc.

#2.  “Where do you get your calcium?”  Plants.  The same place the animals get the calcium to build their bones to carry their, in some cases, large bodies, i.e., cows.

(You did know drinking animal milk drains your body of calcium thus causing osteoporosis, right?)

#3.  “Where do you get your Vitamin D?” Sunlight, and a healthy kidney and liver.  Yeah, I have read how all that happens. It is a harmony of actions and nutritionally-provided substance that results in Vitamin D, which is actually a hormone as I understand.  Apparently, I am getting enough.  And since I only eat plants and other WHOLE FOODS, my answer is sunlight and plants.

#4.  “Where do you get your B-12?”  I do take a liquid B Vitamin mix which includes B-12  that is OTC and relatively inexpensive.  I also use nutritional yeast as a great tasting addition to… everything I dare put it on.  Some say it offers a cheesy taste to everything from hot-air-popped corn to salads.  I won’t even begin to tell you all the places I  have put and enjoyed nutritional yeast.  That is another blog.

(By the way, most farmed animals sold for consumption of dead muscle/body parts are NOT getting B-12 from the dirt. It is fed to them via supplements. Check out where those animals are living, and you will see any self-respecting B-12 bacteria would never want, nor be able to survive, in that… slop.)

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So, there you go. Oldmanskinandbones is getting all these things from plants and living the Whole Food Plant-Based Lifestyle.

The blood test at the doctor’s office is proof that you can be healthy without anything other than plants, healthy exercise, a good attitude, and totally avoiding the Standard American Death Diet.

All these areas reported within the NORMAL range.

I could say so much more, but I am going to leave it here…

‘Til next time.

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So I am creating something else in the kitchen using the Nonstick Pans! Click here!

I am making hash browns with sauteed bell pepper, onions, Cauliflower Taco Stuff, and Vegan No-Dairy Cheese.

All mixed and then browned like a big potato pancake for supper!

So, while I am getting this ready for supper, I mention to Betty I need her to watch me and be sure I do not use metal utensils on the No-Stick Pans.

Without saying a word, she comes over to the drawer, opens it, and looks at me…

I had not even noticed she had cleaned all the metal tools from the drawer.

I exclaimed, “WOW! Why did you think of doing that without me even mentioning it?”

She replied that she had been living with me long enough to think ahead, and “RayRay proof” the tools available.

She is correct. I probably would have just opened that drawer one day and grabbed one of the tools that would have damaged the No-Stick Pans I have come to love!

I love Betty too!

When we get this recipe for the fancy potato cakes, we will pass it on!

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