Chareva walked into my office at home yesterday and told me there was a snake in her bedroom closet, and she didn\u2019t feel like being brave about it. (You probably recall what happened last time, when she was brave about it.)<\/p>\n
So I strapped on my six-shooters and prepared to go rescue my lady from distress, like a good cowboy. Well, okay, I actually grabbed a snake-catching contraption Chareva\u2019s mom had sent to us after the last incident. Either way, I was ready to demonstrate my manliness by man-handling a huge, slithering snake.<\/p>\n
Jeez, what a disappointment:<\/p>\n
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Chareva handles the big snake and gets on national TV as a result, while I get to toss out a glorified worm.\u00a0 Sheesh.<\/p>\n
FitBit Not Fit<\/strong><\/p>\n I guess there’s a reason people are upset enough with FitBit to sue.\u00a0 Mine seemed to work well at first — I checked it against my actual pulse and the reading was accurate.\u00a0 Then it didn’t work so well.\u00a0 I’d be working out, and according to my FitBit, my pulse would drop from 119 to 66 in mere seconds.\u00a0 Or I’d tap the screen for a reading and get nothing at all on the heart monitor.\u00a0 Then the clock started showing 15 minutes behind real time, even after I synced it to a PC that showed the correct time.<\/p>\n So I sent it back.\u00a0 I’m now sporting a Garmin Forerunner 225, which appears to be accurate — no sudden drop in pulse rate while riding the bike, and I don’t have to tap the face for a reading.\u00a0 I also like the larger display.\u00a0 It costs twice as much as a FitBit, but apparently this is a case of you get what you pay for.<\/p>\n Tom Brady\u2019s \u201cBizarre\u201d Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n New England quarterback Tom Brady has played in six Super Bowls and won four of them. He may be on his way to another, although I\u2019m hoping Peyton Manning gets another shot this year instead of Brady.<\/p>\n Anyway, a CBS Sports article<\/a> appeared recently describing what Brady (still at the top of his game at age 38) eats:<\/p>\n On Monday, Brady’s personal chef, Allen Campbell, gave us all a glimpse into Brady’s healthy lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n “No white sugar. No white flour. No MSG. I’ll use raw olive oil, but I never cook with olive oil. I only cook with coconut oil. Fats like canola oil turn into trans fats. … I use Himalayan pink salt as the sodium. I never use iodized salt.<\/span><\/p>\n [Tom] doesn’t eat nightshades, because they’re not anti-inflammatory. So no tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, or eggplants. Tomatoes trickle in every now and then, but just maybe once a month. I’m very cautious about tomatoes. They cause inflammation.<\/span><\/p>\n What else? No coffee. No caffeine. No fungus. No dairy.<\/span><\/p>\n The kids eat fruit. Tom, not so much. He will eat bananas in a smoothie. But otherwise, he prefers not to eat fruits.”<\/span><\/p>\n A little later in the interview, Campbell also noted that they “stick to gluten free for everything.”<\/span><\/p>\n So then, what does Brady eat? The answer appears to be vegetables and lean meat.<\/span><\/p>\n “So, 80 percent of what they eat is vegetables. [I buy] the freshest vegetables. If it’s not organic, I don’t use it. And whole grains: brown rice, quinoa, millet, beans. The other 20 percent is lean meats: grass-fed organic steak, duck every now and then, and chicken. As for fish, I mostly cook wild salmon.”<\/span><\/p>\n Hmmm \u2026 no sugar, no white flour, no diary, no MSG, and the chef only cooks with coconut oil. No canola oil. Easy on the fruit. Gluten free. Lots of organic vegetables, plus grass-fed steak.<\/p>\n Yeah, that\u2019s bizarre, all right. Hasn\u2019t Brady\u2019s chef heard about the newest USDA Dietary Guidelines? They\u2019re \u201cscience-based\u201d ya see, so I think Brady should follow them.<\/p>\n Then again, I did mention I want Manning to win the AFC championship game on Sunday.<\/p>\n Glenn Fry is Already Gone<\/strong><\/p>\n Man, I loved the Eagles when I was a teen. I still listen to them frequently. When I was in a band, we played several of their songs in our set. There were four us, we all enjoyed singing, so we gravitated towards songs with vocal harmonies. Can\u2019t get much better than the Eagles for songs with lovely harmonies.<\/p>\n Along with millions of other fans, I was so sorry to learn that Glenn Fry, one of the band\u2019s founders and songwriters, died this week at age 67. May he rest with a Peaceful Easy Feeling.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what Glenn Fry ate, but according to his manager<\/a>, the drugs he took for rheumatoid arthritis probably contributed to his death:<\/p>\n Eagles singer Glenn Frey\u2019s death is being blamed partly on the drugs he took to combat rheumatoid arthritis: While used to treat thousands of American sufferers, the medicine can leave them vulnerable to serious infections, experts say.<\/span><\/p>\n Many of the medications that treat the autoimmune disease, which affects around 1.3 million Americans, come with a slew of possible side effects, from heart failure to tuberculosis.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s because some of the most effective treatments, known as disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), work to suppress patients\u2019 overactive immune systems, which can make them vulnerable to infection.<\/span><\/p>\n Frey died Monday at age 67 from pneumonia and colitis, as well as the long-lasting effects of the arthritis on his body, his manager, Irving Azoff, told the website The Wrap.<\/span><\/p>\n Azoff added that the pneumonia he contracted was a side effect \u201cfrom all the meds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Like I said, I don\u2019t know what Glenn Fry ate. But I will mention that Loren Cordain was once quoted in a WebMD<\/a> article as saying he believes cereal grains may trigger rheumatoid arthritis. Some months ago, Dr. William \u201cWheat Belly\u201d Davis posted about a woman whose rheumatoid arthritis diminished<\/a> when she went wheat-free:<\/p>\n Carol is thinner, yes, but has also reversed the autoimmune damage to joints. This happens because she has removed the initial trigger for autoimmunity, the gliadin protein of wheat. She has also removed the abnormally increased intestinal permeability permitted by the gliadin that allows bacterial components such as lipopolysaccharide to enter the bloodstream and trigger inflammation. She has also removed the exceptionally inflammatory protein, wheat germ agglutinin. It all adds up to dramatic reversal of autoimmune inflammation.<\/span><\/p>\n Sticking to a wheat-free or paleo or \u201cbizarre\u201d Brady diet isn\u2019t just about avoiding illnesses. It\u2019s also about avoiding the nasty drugs used to treat the illnesses.<\/p>\n And speaking of bizarre diets \u2026<\/p>\n The \u201cPower of the Vegan Voice\u201d goes after a burger restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n Q: How many vegans does it take to change a light bulb?
\nA: That\u2019s NOT FUNNY, you @#$%ing MURDERER!!<\/p>\n