Let me share with you a recipe that helps with any illness. From the cold to the flu and all the other current nasties floating around now. Winter illness or otherwise, this recipe is sure to help you in a pinch.
Fair warning, This recipe is bitter, but you can add a few specific sweeteners to it to help make it more agreeable to your palate. Here is the Virus busting recipe.
1-2 grapefruit peels
1-2 orange peels
1 lemon peel.
Steps.
Add peels to a pot and cover with water, turn the heat on and let it boil
once boiling, reduce heat to a simmer and let it simmer for 15-30 mins (longer means stronger)
turn off the heat and strain out the liquid. This is potent and you do not need much. The average person should take no more than 4 tablespoons to start. Heavier/bigger people can use more. Smaller/shorter people can use less.
Take as often as you need (usually every few hours) preferably room temperature or hot. Do not drink cold.
Feel free to add it to your water or any drink as is. you may sweeten the tea with honey, maple syrup, or stevia/monkfruit only. Avoid other sweeteners.
That’s it. This makes several servings depending on the water content and can be scaled up or down if desired. It is safe for everyone to take 5 years and up (use 1 teaspoon though).
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Calories are units of measure that tell you how good a certain food tastes. Fudge has a high number and is very good. The low calorie celery, which is not a food at all but rather a member of the plywood family invented to get dip into our mouths, is not so delicious.
Sergio Tlacelel
Yup, calories. Count them all the same because they are all the same right?.
Mushy pulpy mess of soggy fries washed clean by yellow fizzy liquid. Verdant crunchy fiber-like bolus scented with hairy scarlet sweetness. Calories. It’s what you eat. Are they different? Do fries act differently than raspberries? Should they be counted and why does that matter? Should we bother counting calories and meticulously stare at all the foods in front of us? How about weighing every little ounce of precious morsel that enters our mouth and subtract every calorie from the food we spilled onto the floor? Calories don’t count. Not the same way you are thinking. Humans don’t need to count calories. Bipedal animals do. Obsession is depression. Question that stressful expression. Use calories like the tool it is.
When bipedals talk about calories, it is considered the prime reason for food consumption. You cannot live unless you have enough calories. You will die if you under eat. You can die if you overeat. Why is under eating a separate word and overeating a single word? Is it to convey the message that less calories are bad and overeating is better since you won’t die of starvation? Can you die starvation if you overeat?
The future of consumption, coming to a living room near you. I.V. pole not included.
How much is enough?
We can have our metabolism measured to know exactly how much we use daily based on inactivity. Then proceed to only eat that much and not a number more. This will allow us to eat cheetos and never become fat all while sitting on the couch watching streams of our favorite YouTube celebrities, old reality show reruns and hilarious standup comedy. The laughter will help burn a few extra calories.
Calories in and calories out. All calories are the same there’s no doubt.
Dangerous thinking. Calories come from the macronutrients found in whatever foodstuff we are stuffing into our face at the time. Protein and carb calories are close in value while fats are more than double the amount found in protein or carbs. In fact, one serving of fat is more calorically than one serving of protein and carbs combined. Since calories are calories it doesn’t matter whether it is from cheetos or carrots, right? They both start with c like calories and if the calorie count is the same then my weight scale needle will not shift upwards. Not all calories are the same nor are all calories built the same.
Calories can be the same thing. Carrots=Cheetos right?
Emptiness is the abyss
Empty calories are calories that give no nutrition. Soda, for example, is a liquid-like syrup that only provides carb calories. Unless you order diet, then it really is empty of anything except fleeting pleasure. Candy is no better. Most foods have some nutrition coupled in with calories, but other things like rice flour cereal must have nutrients added to it to make it “better”. These are not empty but devoid calories. Just like that ice-cold diet soda. No substance. So far not all calories are the same. There are better Caloric choices out there. We like multifunctional items. Not only eatable items.
Celery. That stalky green mass of water and fiber. Celery has 5 calories per stalk. The calorie count of celery does not consider the processing that goes into breaking down that particular foodstuff. It ignores the oral mastication, look that up, and digesting as it traverses the avenues, boulevards and sewers of the body. The number is much lower than 5. Some would say it is negative in this regard, but I would not bet your horses on it just yet.
There is a difference between all calories in terms of how the body processes them. Fat needs the least processing; therefore, its caloric numbers are still the same. Carbs need more processing than fat; therefore, its number is slightly lower. Protein is the lowest on the calorie scale needing the most work done to break it down in the body. In other words, if you have a 100-calorie package of plain jerky, plain crackers, or butter, jerky will have the lowest calories. It will be lower than 100. The butter will be the closest to 100 calories and the crackers will be somewhere in between. Ignoring nutrients present, calorically the biggest winner, or loser, is butter. Clearly not all calories are the same.
Junk food junkies beware.
Calories in, calories out.
Time for a math game. Bodily processing not being considered, Fat is roughly 9 calories per gram. That means one tablespoon, 15 grams, of fat is about 126 calories. Protein and carbs both come in at 4 calories per gram. For the same tablespoon of protein or carbs you get 56 calories. 56 from protein plus 56 from carbs equals 112. Lower than fat, however, knowing what you know now about the processing aspect of calories, those numbers are going to be lower while the fat calorie count remains the same.
The optimist sees a donut, the pessimist sees 452 calories boiled in fat, drenched in sugar, and empty on the inside.
Sergio Tlacelel
What about deficits
Calorie deficit is mentioned as necessary to drop weight. Ever heard the adage that one pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories? This is true by weight, not by effort, however. Shedding fat is more complex than just do not eat so much and put the damn fork down. Calorie deficits carry the risk of malnutrition. Starvation is a real thing. Reducing calories is a stress on the body, especially if you do not get enough nutrients in your diet and thus require more than what you are giving yourself. Do not give yourself a budget where you end up owing debt in massive amounts. Constantly being in a red deficit can lead to issues down the road; A road with potholes.
A calorie deficit leads to a point where you overeat. Buffet for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Yes, please! It is not the overeating that is dangerous. Although that carries its own risks. The danger lies in the signals told to your body. The signal being that food is scarce now. Overtime a calorie deficit forces the metabolism to become lower and slower. The moment food enters your mouth you gain weight. The signal you sent of food being scarce told the body that food needs to be stored because who knows when you will eat again. It was hard surviving without food. Could a calorie deficit be carried out normally? If adequate nutrition is involved, possibly.
There are diets that provide enough nutrients and are more regulatory in their calorie consumption without counting. These diets tell your body that food is adequate, not scarce. Thus, helping to prevent the rebound effect of weight gain that follows a drop in weight for most people. Not to mention, don’t track weight loss period. Obsession is a regression. There are better ways.
What about too much?
Calorie surplus has its own issues too. It is far too easy since food and “food” is overly abundant. “Food” aisles of packaged pastries and bagged chips lining stores. Candy peaking over a counter’s edge at checkout. Pizza is only a call or click away. At every corner, in every aisle, even in unexpected places like a park food is found.
Overindulging in foods allows one to become soft like the ice cream one eats and bloated like the inflatable pool toys available during summer. Giving the signal that food is abundant has its value but not while we sit around doing nothing. Not all calories are the same, not all weight gain from calorie surplus is the same. Calories from meat are different than from rice if both are matched for calorie counts. Those two differ compared to calories from bread or sugar.
Should counting calories be a thing?
Counting calories is very neurotic and complicated. It can impact social life to the point where you isolate yourself for meals because you cannot eat out with friend or have that drink you want. Unless you trust the restaurant to provide appropriate counts, you may avoid it all together. Life without drink will make you twice think or so says some alcoholic dude. Drinks cause their own issues. Drink calories are easier to obtain versus food calories. Alcohol has its own calorie process. It gets further impacted and more complicated when ordering rainbow colored sugar drinks. Alcohol calories act quite different from our other friends.
Life without drink will make you twice think.
A. Alcoholic
What to do?
What then is the best choice or way to go about things? Do not count calories. Instead eat in a way that is auto regulating. Become aware of what you eat yet eat without concern. Don’t eat liberally like a grazing cow. It means eat food that is rich in nutrition. Eat knowing that calories behave differently in the body. What you eat will react differently within you. Eat in a way that keeps you full and happy. If pounding bag of chips and puffs by the pound doesn’t satisfy your hunger, find food that does. More filling and more nutrient dense means you will eat the adequate amount daily or a little under what you need and still be fine with no stress. No two calories are the same. Rise above it.
If it doesn’t rot or spoil do not eat it. Except for honey, that stuff lasts forever.
Dripping bubbling greasy mouthwatering twinkies. Charbroiled scent wafting through streets guiding to a treasure trove of cheeseburgers and obese milkshakes. Food drives us. It drives us to feed the body and soul. Food is meant to nourish and fuel us, but our food relationship has morphed. No longer do we think of food as a necessity for life. Food has become a tasteful delight.
A trip down the pleasurable velvet lined hallways and gullets of humanity. Food is now a rave with taste buds throwing a party for the mouth every few hours. Rich decadent mush forms in our mouths causing whole body vibrations. We bipedal animals have fallen from grease. We grace ourselves with cookies, cakes, cupcakes, and other C worded junk food.
Food is not for gorging on when life is boring. We are separated from what food really is. Our grandparents and great-grandparents would not recognize what we eat as food. Why eat it?
What To Eat?
There is so many conflicting points in the media and amongst fellow bipedal animals about food. One day eggs are great, the next hour they are as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes. This holds true for almost every food. Vegetables are great, but only eat organic unless you want to poison yourself. Fruits are amazing, but they are watery sugar sacs; do not indulge by the pound. Fat will kill you, but it will save you from a fall by cushioning your organs. Thank goodness for fat mounds and paunches.
What to eat then? How about returning to what food really is. Eat what your grandparents or great grandparents would eat.
Food Is Nourishing.
Food provides us with building blocks for the body. Every tissue in the body replaces itself constantly. This turnover requires a steady stream of food. Without proper nourishment from real food, then the body begins to breakdown. Proteins in the body do not function right. Inflammation occurs at a higher rate than it should.
Typical tantalizing treat teasing trepid taxpayers to a trap.
That candy bar was so worth it! Was it?
How does this affect you? You may feel groggy as you reach for your coffee, tea, or a breakfast pastry. You have bowel disturbances. Acne rears its ugly head on your head and face. Joint pain or muscle aches occur. The delicious icing on the cake is you crash in the middle of the day. The only option left is to wash those depressions away and drown those sorrows in alcohol or Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. No wonder we call it the Standard American Diet (SAD). If this isn’t you, congratulation. Hopefully, this reality will never become yours. However, bipedal animals cannot escape nor outrun everything. Reality will catch up sooner or later.
Food should nourish us strongly. The best choices are not strong-tasting foods, but strong natured food. Not shallow food but food with deep nutrition. Food found in nature. That is the proper title for real food, nature. We were birthed, forged, and rose from nature. We bipedal organisms are still animals first and foremost. If it ain’t from nature beware of danger.
If it ain’t from nature beware of danger.
Sergio Tlacelel
Nowhere in the world have we found a brownie bush or a cookie tree.
Brownie bush in it’s native habitat.
Food Is Fuel.
This is a no brainer for most. Food is fuel for the body like gas in a car. How about we put jet fuel in our airplane rather than diesel? Without food we would have no energy. That is justification for eating bread, pastries or pasta, right? Bread is called pain in French, but that’s a story for another day. Yes, food provides fuel, but there are better sources of fuel than stale white bread. Want to use cheap gasoline? The risk is it could damage or gunk up the engine. Cheap gas is bad. Cheap food is bad too.
Cars can run on diesel or natural gas. Some even have electric motors. Likewise, there are better fuel options. There are better bread options with better bread benefits. Better yet, make a breadless selection. Give starchy roots attention. Root vegetables like potatoes, sweet potatoes and beets are a safe choice for fuel.
Fat is a fuel source. The body can run on fat if you let it. Many of us store fat up for a rainy week or two. Protein can be used as fuel in a pinch. Let your teeth sink into that one for a minute. Some food choices are like the electric car, others like diesel. Experiment and find which burns cleanest for you. We bipedal animals are all alike to a degree, but not all of us are identical. Just because your spouse prefers burning protein, doesn’t mean that it works just as well for you.
Food Is Alive.
You are alive. Eat things that are alive. That doesn’t mean you have to eat a mooing steak, but if you really want to by all means proceed. Aliveness is a term meant to describe food freshness. Fresher is better. Fresh baked bread is better than stale old bread. Although a dry aged steak is good, a fresh steak trumps a three-week-old cooked steak in the fridge. A freshly picked plant or fruit is more enjoyable than a canned one. Fresher means better tasting. Although exceptions do exist, the closer to harvest a food is the more nourishing it is.
We want deep nutrition. Fresher contains better nutrient profiles than something older. A riper fruit or vegetable is better than one picked green. Most food in a grocery market is old and picked while green. Fresh plants are crispy and firm. Old plants are limp and saggy. Do not eat decrepit food. Some food may have been kept in cold storage for a year or more. That is not as alive as day old food from a farmer.
There must be food somewhere around here.
Food Is From Nature.
Food comes from nature, the ancestral home of the bipedal animals. We are a part of nature and thus consume nature to live. That means if the “food” you are plating in front of you cannot be found as is in nature, then it’s a food product made in a factory. Not food. Eat nature, not couture mixture tailor made for human consumption.
Food is always found as is in nature. No twinkie bush nor pizza tree exists. If you find one, you win. Food products, on the other hand, are always packaged. Food products are usually strong tasting to get you to love them. Don’t waste your money on these ho-hos. These food products ain’t loyal. An apple is food. A steak is food. Apple ring candy is not food. Beef cup of noodles is also not food.
The allure of strong-tasting food products is strong. So powerful is this allure that it dwarfs your taste of vegetables or fruit. Imagine the flavor of decrepit saggy pale lettuce vs potato chips. A weak flavor made weaker versus a strong flavor. No wonder people hate vegetables as all these issues combined add up to a bland food. The older it is the less alive it tastes.
Old food that’s bland should be canned and banned from being panned!
Real fresh vegetables have taste, deep nutrition and fit the category of food. Real food is alive and does not have a dead, bland, taste. Sure, a candy bar is sweet, but an apple with peanut butter is just as good. Fruit is nature’s candy after all.
Don’t Disassociate From Your Food.
Food comes from nature, but from where does your food come? A farm or a factory? What animal is your choice of protein? What’s in your stomach? Plants are alive and we chop them into small pieces. Animals are alive and we chop them into pieces. Fruit are plant babies and we chop them up into pieces. seeds and nuts are also plant babies. Know that what you are eating was alive and came from somewhere in nature. Processed food is a zombie long dead. Candy, pastries and other junk are from a factory defecated out of a tube neatly packaged and perfumed.
In summary,
Stop eating condensed starch whether flat, round or sweet.
Stop eating sweet grease bars and balls.
Stop drinking sweet liquids and psychedelic colored liquids.
