Blog 3305 – 11.19.2024

Recipe For Better Health

Yesterday, on the second day of my birthday week, I treated myself to a pot roast, the very first one that I ever cooked (pictured above.) On a quick trip to the local Kroger where I always check the discounted meats for bargains, I saw a two pound Nolan Ryan Beef roast. I figured the instructions for how to cook it could be easily found online and they were.

Last January my Primary Care Physician reminded me that my last ultrasound sound examination and blood work indicated that I had fatty liver disease and that I should lose some weight, exercise, and modify my diet. I weighed 197 lbs at the time and currently weigh 155 lbs. I am biking about an hour each morning and a couple of hours on Saturday mornings.

I have watched a lot of YouTube videos on Fatty Liver Disease, and how best to reverse it. Below is a clip from one of the first ones about what foods to avoid.

In addition to Olive oil and butter being better for me, I also discovered the Carnivore Diet and for a month ate nothing, but what a carnivore would and still lost weight. After the month I started adding a few veggies back into my diet. With the five restrictions above I am forced to read labels and my dining out choices are quite limited, but I have discovered that cooking for myself is a lot healthier.

In this new quest to explore recipes for better health I have even discovered that the one foods that I loathed most as a child, liver, is one of the best foods to support my own liver. I now eat beef liver, chicken liver, and cod liver on a regular basis.

The funny parody of Paul Simon’s hit song goes, “There must be fifty ways to lose your liver.” In addition to the five ways listed above I have discovered that reading labels, avoiding foods not good for me or my liver, and cooking foods that are for myself is a recipe for better health.

I did not eat the potatoes, but included them for my wife. Starches like all carbohydrates turn to sugar as soon as we eat them and sugar is at the top of the list of foods to avoid if you want to be a long liver. (Pun intended)

To your health and your liver’s.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White