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Diabetic Oregon Man ‘Doing Fine’ After Dog Eats Toes

2011/07/13 Gayle 0

I read this story several months ago. I thought about including in my strange news posts over on the Outrageous Experiment Home page, but never did it. However, I think it’s more of an inspiration piece anyway. Published March 04, 2011 | Associated Press A diabetic man from Oregon who awoke to find that his dog had eaten three of his toes says he is recovering and hopes to leave the hospital soon.Nathan Jones told The Associated Press on Friday that he is “doing fine” and resting, but he declined to speak further. Jones called 911 on Tuesday to say his dog had eaten part of his right foot while he was sleeping, including three toes. The hospital says Jones is in fair condition and was expected The rest of the story

Taste Matters

2011/06/24 Gayle 0

I came to a startling realization this week. Satisfaction rules my diet! On Monday, I had a high calorie lunch from one of my favorite sandwich shops. As you can see from the nutritional chart, the sandwich alone has 700 calories. I did drink a coke Zero and skipped the chips. Still my lunch at 1:00 pm was 700 calories. For dinner I had a pork chop, grilled, some broccoli and other veggies grilled and a twice baked potato. I ate around 6:30 or 7 pm. My dinner was less and satisfying! It just didn’t taste good to me. I didn’t think the items complemented each other and well over all I was dis-satisfied with my dinner. What I found was that I was immediately The rest of the story

Americans Run on Junk Foods

2011/06/23 Gayle 0

I read a story today about weight gain in rats and how rats fed a ‘typical American diet’ gained more wait than rats fed good old fashion lard. It has given me great pause! Here’s the story…. Rats fed a snack-based diet of highly palatable, energy-dense foods gained more weight, had more tissue inflammation, and were intolerant to glucose and insulin (warning signs of diabetes) than rats whose diets were high fat from lard. The study is featured on the cover of this month’s issue of the journal Obesity. “Obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States,” says Liza Makowski, assistant professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilland the study’s senior author. “These findings provide us with a better animal model The rest of the story

Be Smart Implementing New Found Inspiration

2011/06/13 Gayle 0

After yesterdays blog post I was thinking about the things I am more grateful for in my life. So, I started a list. The first thing I wrote on my list was my health. It seemed liked a good place to start; without being healthy many things in life become much more difficult. With my new inspiration, I decided to start some yard tasks I have been avoiding. It felt great to see the progress of my labors and I was proud of my accomplishments at the end of the day. Then, after dinner it started. PAIN! I naturally thought, ‘oops, over did it’ but the pain was relentless. Nothing I could do seemed to relieve it. I considered that it may be a heart The rest of the story

Living in Oblivi-land

2011/06/13 Gayle 0

Do you ever feel like you are walking through life oblivious to people and things around you? I do! I especially felt that way yesterday. I was in the yard doing a few things and noticed this cute little snake watching me from less than a foot away. I believe I had the obvious reaction. I asked Jenn to ‘keep an eye on him while I ran to get my camera’. Fortunately he was as curious about us as we were about him and he stayed for a few candid shots.