Good Calories/Bad Calories

Gary Taubes wrote the interesting and thought provoking Why We Get Fat-it’s all about the Carbs, the highly processed Carbs.  In Good Calories, Bad Calories he picks up where he left off, continuing to put forth his theory about why the Western Diet is the greatest act of evil in human history. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health reads like the footnotes from most other books.  He talks at length about the many Diet Trials and the many doctors and the many government agencies who set out to prove how bad things…

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A Volcano, an Ice Cave, and Some Wolves

Tourist Stuff in New Mexico The Wife likes animal sanctuaries.  I tend to have mixed feelings about them myself.  For one thing none of them are made with Photographers in mind-a dozen shots of chain link fences with blurs behind them are not really worth bothering with.  Of course, that’s how some of these places make a bit of money, by selling Photo Op Tours.  I tend to like the places that are nothing but Photo Opts-like a Volcano with an Ice Cave. The Ice Cave is one of those private owned tourist attractions, but it has a lot of…

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