Orange juice fasting today just after Christmas
My 8 year old boy suggested he do a 3 day orange juice fast. So I’m doing the orange juice fast with him. My wife joined us too. This morning I went with a maid to Kalayaan street to buy 40 sunkist oranges at 10 pesos per piece. We...
Merry Christmas 2009 almost Paleo Diet Pot Luck Dinner
This Christmas 2009 almost ended up as a paleo diet dinner except for those pot luck contributors from outside the household. This holiday was brought to us by the celebration of Christmas. So my wife’s family had a pot luck dinner (traditional noche buena) and we had to contribute...
Ripe sweet Chesa fruit: Anybody know their nutritional value?
Chesa is a wild crafted fruit. There is no industry or plantation for commercial cultivation. Sometimes in the fruit market you may see a few of them. A new batch we chanced upon came from my in laws’ ancestral home in Los Banos Laguna. A chesa tree full of...
How to eat Gigantic Raw Oysters
My 8 year old boy demonstrates how to eat gigantic raw oysters from Iloilo. We first remove the oysters from the plastic bag. Do not wash the oysters. Get a dipping bowl with organic vinegar like Lola Conching’s vinegar. Dip a couple of oysters in just to be safe...
Raw Paleo Diet and Lifestyle is about curing all diseases and achieving the best health possible
The theory behind Raw Paleolithic Diet is that the optimum human diet is that which humans evolved in, which is a vast amount of time prior to agriculture, prior to commercially processed food… the human diet in paleolithic times which is mostly meat / animal food, fruit and vegetables....
St. Luke’s Hospital now open in The Fort
We just noticed that St. Luke’s Hospital is now open in Fort Bonifacio. Told the maids that this was the nearest hospital in our current area. Good enough for emergency room needs. If you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’m not a fan of western medicine with regards...
How I’m surviving the Christmas binge eating madness
Christmas time is a hard time for most of us when it comes to sticking to our diets. Most of the people bringing the pot luck food are on the regular standard urban diet and standard high carb food pyramid. Well I get away by being forthright among friends...