Spreading the Word

What might I do to spread the word of The All-Food Diet throughout the land?

Funny you should ask that...

You can follow this blog.

You can tell your friends.

And like the facebook page.  Only 16% of my facebook friends have liked so far.

www.facebook.com/AllFoodDiet

You can write on the page anything you want about diet, health, food, lifestyle, or what you are making for lunch.  Or tell us where you shop.  How you keep fit.  Your views on the industrialization of the food supply.

You can also share the page onto your timeline. 

Write a  review on Amazon.

www.amzn.com/gp/product/148009966X 

This site not only lets you like, but lets you 'try' and 'rate'.  If enough people do so, the relative rankings appear.  They list several thousand diets.

www.dietsinreview.com/diets/the-all-food-diet/

or like or review on goodreads, or put it on your shelf or lists...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/16145627-the-all-food-diet

You can still like or comment on the Waking Times piece.

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/06/28/the-all-food-diet-buy-foods-with-one-ingredient/

One

One is an important number, both in mathematics and in spirituality, not to mention numerology and diet.

How many screens should a movie theatre have?   One.  And it should have an old facade & marquee, serve real healthy snackfood if there is such a thing, have plush seats (one per person please), and have sconces and runway lights, and the piano should pop up out of the stage.  I never go to small noisy smelly modern multiplexes.

How many cars should you own?  Well, an argument can be made for zero, but one could also say no more than one.  Going one step further, many of us could get by on one internal combustion engine, and not own power mowers, ATVs, and the like, unless of course you really need them or have a good reason.

How any houses should you own?  Well again, you don't have to have even one, but consider the inconvenience of having more than one.  You have twice the taxes and maintenance, and how often do you really get to the second house?


How many wives should a man have?  Setting aside a discussion of none being an acceptable choice, and that the bible not only permits but requires a man to have more than one in the somewhat special circumstances that his brother leaves a widow with no sons, I would maintain that even though in a truly free society one can do as you please, the average American might find more than one hard to handle, and indeed given the divorce rate one seems to place an undue burdon on many persons.  Let us momentarily neglect the fact that "42" is the answer to everything.

When you buy food, how many ingredients should the food items contain?

Bags

How much is there to say about bags?  How compulsive can one be?

I have found that vegetable bags have little use.   These are the bags you get at the supermarket produce section.   Recently I've been putting onions and other fresh things straight into the basket.  After all, they are washed and cooked before eating.  Sometimes I take a veggie bag from the fridge and wrap something else in it, but there are few opportunities to use them.

At the markets, I usually put things in re-usable bags, although the name on the bag rarely matches the place I'm shopping at that day.  Putting the canvas bags on the conveyor belt helps the cashier to notice them and award you your dime.  When they say "paper or plastic" I respond with "canvas".

Regular plastic bags, the kind that Ireland and Los Angeles are legislating against, I use for messy garbage.  If I don't have enough, I find someone who has extras.

Paper grocery bags are for paper garbage, or for combining all the trash in the house.  Sometimes I fall short and ask others for extras.  Buying trash bags seems crazy, considering all the influx of bags and boxes into the normal household.

Recycling goes into boxes.  The boxes come from food and other purchases.  Sometimes I re-use them, pouring out the recyclables into their bin and taking the box back into the house.

My favorite bag is my baggallini.  They are made out of recycled industrial pasta, so you have to make sure you don't take them out in the rain, lest they break down.

Traffic and Weather together

Traffic and weather are impediments to biking.  It's the height of our short summer in the twin cities.  It's warm, light till late, and it is neither raining nor snowing.  The weather isn't bad, so let's talk traffic.

I've been riding to St. Paul a lot.   While there is not a single bike path going where I want to go, there are several routes work pretty well.  Much of the route is on a car-free bike path.  Other segments are low traffic.  Only a few blocks involve serious car threats.

Starting at my place, it's down the alley, to the end of the dead end block and onto the bike-crowded but car-free bike path.  I take this till it hits the Mississippi.  Someday they will re-purpose the RR bridge and add bikes to it, but not yet.  Then it's up river road bike path to the Franklin bridge.  Here we encounter cars.  There is  a bike lane over the bridge, and up the hill maybe 1/2 mile to University.  Behind University is a bike/bus only road, with bikable sidewalks as well.  This road curves around and drops you at the state fairgrounds.   While they are terribly crowded 12 days a year, on other days the grounds are deserted.  One route is thru como zoo and the como lake park, but I've been sticking to the fair grounds as far East and North as I can go and then taking a shady low traffic side street to my destination.

You can't always take a zero-car point to point route, but often you can get cobble together a route with a reasonable amount of coffin avoidance.