When I eat too fast, I eat too much. I knew that, but until now I haven’t been able to help it.
Now Juan Ramirez has come to my help. In March I wrote here about “Eating Too Fast” and some of the strategies I use. After that article, Juan wrote me about his invention to help us slow down at the table.
When we eat slowly, we can avoid overeating and therefore can control our diabetes better. But some of us eat fast because we (more…)
“What’s all this buzz about kimchi?” a friend asked me the other day. “People are talking about the health benefits of this Korean dish.”
Yes, the recent buzz about kimchi is strange, because Koreans have been eating this fermented vegetable relish for at least three thousand years. It’s not that kimchi is a revolutionary new food straight out of a high-tech laboratory.
In fact, our rediscovered appetite for kimchi (more…)
A couple of years ago I made a strenuous hike in southern Colorado that I wrote about on my “Fitness and Photography for Fun” blog. While that hike didn’t kill me, it came too close for comfort.
I reflected at that time on the aphorism by the German philosoper Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1888 he wrote what we usually translate as, “Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.”
My own anecdotal evidence has led me to (more…)
South Korea is different from the United States.
In some important respects this Asian country is more like America than most of us would think. This country is a democracy with a booming economy.
But the differences are great and go beyond Korea’s use of a different language and even a different alphabet than Westerners use. The differences go far beyond history and tradition. The biggest differences (more…)
Stanley Kim is a practicing physician in Southern California who recently invented the smallest and painless lancets for testing our blood glucose. I wrote about this invention here this August.
At that time Dr. Kim and I hadn’t met. I interviewed him on the phone from my home office in Colorado.
We had to travel all the way to South Korea to meet in person. We are in Busan, Korea’s second largest city with about 3.6 million residents. (more…)