Coffee anyone ?

[greybeard]

When people get the flu shot and get the flu afterward, they'll tell you that it's not as bad as it would have been if they hadn't got their flu shot...that's crazy if you ask me.

Not at all crazy..it's how vaccines work, tho the flu vaccine is a bit different because that virus can mutate very quickly, and often does between the time the vaccine for that season's strain was developed and when the inoculations actually begin. It can also mutate mid season or at the end of the season and the vaccine given for that season not work very well. That has happened this year, with a new flu strain showing up at the very end of flu season and it is still popping up now.
I usually do get a flu shot and have not had the flu since i began taking them. The 1st year I took it tho, I did get a very bad case of flu, but it was also the year CDC said they didn't get the right strain isolated soon enough.

There's nothing wrong with 'alternative medicine' and by almost all accounts, it does no harm in of itself. The harm comes when people put too much confidence in AM and postpone or even completely forego proven traditional medical care. By the time they decide AM isn't working, it's too often too late.



One of the greatest minds of our time, Steve jobs (Apple Computers) needlessly died of a rare form of pancreatic cancer after opting for an alternative treatment according to reliable sources close to Mr Jobs, conjured up by some "healer" south of the border. Rare form of cancer, in that is one of the few pancreatic cancers that is pretty easily handled by surgery. It grows slowly and there's plenty of time to make a decision but he waited several years, and it spread to his liver. Had a liver transplant in '09 but was too late. His biographer stated that Steve told him the biggest regret of his life was putting so much faith in alternative treatment and waiting so long before opting for surgery and the use of Sutent®. Those decisions cost him his life in 2011 at age 56, and there was no good or logical reason for it to have happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Health_issues

 

[AmberLops]

Oh, I have drowned lots of maladys with both cheap and top shelf whiskey, but I don't for one minute believe that's what cured me.

The Placebo Effect is a well known, extensively studied and well documented phenomenon.

I know all abut the Placebo Effect...but if natural medicine works in animals, then that can't be the placebo effect because animals aren't capable of it
I know that there are some ridiculous theories and all that but there are alternative methods that do work.

 

[Baymule]

I use home remedies and do just fine with them. BUT I know when I need something stronger and will go to the doctor, instead of blindly following Aunt Minerva's Super Speciality Gobblety Goop Cure All. My son in law makes fun of my home remedies, he is sick a LOT, but I'm not, so who is right or wrong?

 

[AmberLops]

I use home remedies and do just fine with them. BUT I know when I need something stronger and will go to the doctor, instead of blindly following Aunt Minerva's Super Speciality Gobblety Goop Cure All. My son in law makes fun of my home remedies, he is sick a LOT, but I'm not, so who is right or wrong?

I'm with you!
The proof is in the pudding....I've never been so healthy as I am now!

 

[greybeard]

I wanted some eggs with my evening coffee


Again, med high. I don't like my eggs runny.

ease the top down and counted to 10:

another

Took less than 30 seconds for both and they lifted out clean as a whistle

Pretty much, I can cook 'em as fast as I can crack the egg and drop it on there.
For my wife's, I don't lower the top.
5 is the limit I can do all at one time tho, cracked beforehand into a bowl and gently poured on to the waffle iron.

 

[greybeard]

You'll all want to use some of that cooking spray on the irons before you drop the egg on there unless you're against using such stuff..in that case, just go ahead and drop that free range all natural, gluten free, non-gmo farm fresh egg down on there and close the lid. I'm sure it'll work out just fine...

 

[Baymule]

Cooking spray works for me too. Woke up at 4 AM. Been over on SS, drinking my coffee, got a load of clothes in the dryer, one in the washing machine. Got 3 big pots simmering chicken backs, necks and other assorted unwanted parts that I'll can this morning for dog food. They love the stuff. Then I'll finally be DONE with this batch of Cornish Cross chickens!

 

[Devonviolet]

Cooking spray works for me too. Woke up at 4 AM. Been over on SS, drinking my coffee, got a load of clothes in the dryer, one in the washing machine. Got 3 big pots simmering chicken backs, necks and other assorted unwanted parts that I'll can this morning for dog food. They love the stuff. Then I'll finally be DONE with this batch of Cornish Cross chickens!

YAY

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Day 2 of the Fair. Mostly fun stuff today. Kiddie tractor pull and girls want to watch the horse show.

 

[Mini Horses]

@greybeard, and look how cute they are all "waffled".

I don't like my eggs runny either -- can't do it. And I am not fond of the stronger taste of the yolks from my truly free range gals...my buyers LOVE it. I'm just not a big egg fan. However, they contain a lot of choline, esp yolks, which is very essential the older you get. Mostly I scramble with lots of green pepper & onions cooked down first, then add egg. Quiche, I really like. I've talked to myself about the goodness & constant availability Hasn't helped much. Still only eat them seldom. I have no issue with spray oils (have several types on hand) but I love real butter!

So beyond doctor meds and alternative meds, IMO the critical assist for good health is "clean" food and keeping active. We do better with less additives & naturally grown. We can't all be farmers, butcherers, or want to be. But the more we can cook from scratch, fresh grown & humanely raised, the better we are. All the pretty dark colors in fruit & veggies are a good thing to choose to eat, as well as less sugars, salts, etc. It's a choice that many in urban life don't take advantage of. And I don't go to a gym but between the reset work I do and work here, I get more "exercise" than many of them. At wake up, I often do stretches to give my back and legs a good start. Keeps my core working well.

On 2nd cup, so I need to get a move on & do what chores I need done. This time of year, with plenty of pasture, the key issues are feeding an old cat & stallion their senior rations, the milking does handled, opening coops and WATER....hot, hot, hot, they drink a whole lot. So, morning & evening, water checks & fills. I have plenty of troughs. But the goat kids have to have shorter containers. Naturally, the adults choose to drink from those also. Visitors sometimes ask why so many separate containers -- well, goats are not choosy about where they drop pellets, but are about what they drink! Things change as they grow up.