Stewing Hens

I belong to a meat CSA that provides 5 lbs. of pastured pork and one pastured chicken per month. Last week, we had our “Indian Summer” here in the Shenandoah Mountains, and my farmer lost a lot of his broilers from heat stress. He’s pretty new to the farming game and even has [...]

September 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Food, web log | Comments are closed

What’s Wrong with Polyunsaturated Fats?

I didn’t worry a lot about how much Omega-6 was in my diet (mostly from high PUFA nuts, seeds and their oils) and instead tried to balance it out with fish oil.

… More recently, while looking into subclinical (as defined solely by blood tests) hypothyroidism and how hard it is to get a proper diagnosis and treatment for hypothyroidism generally, I wound up reading a lot of work by Ray Peat, PhD , [...]

April 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Food, web log | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)