During my lifetime, I’ve seen the move away from fresh cooked fresh produce and meat to packaged, processed stuff. I’ve always been on the opinion, only based on my own logic, that what is found is nature has surely to be better than that which has been messed around with in a factory.

I’m currently reading In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, a book that largely reinforces my own beliefs about what we eat and how it affects our health.

There are some interesting statistics in the book, and many of them aren’t something dreamed up by some pro-organic food faddist group, but are those obtained and researched by the USDA.

For example, us humans. being omnivores, are adapted to eat a few thousand different food items, along with all the vitamins, minerals, and macro and micro nutrients they contain. However, the average American gets most of their calories nowadays from just four sources – corn, soy, wheat and rice. You may think that you don’t eat much of those, but you do – in a processed form, the food processing industry has found a multitude of ways to present it.

If you’re interested in what you really eat, and how you can make simple changes to improve your long-term health and even longevity, this book is a really interesting read.

For now, I’m going to grab another banana.

In Defense Of Food is a post from: The Eye An Eyebeemania Blog

It’s said that the mind is a funny thing. Life is but a state of mind. After all, we’re all only here because of our consciousness; think about it.

Still, I have just listened to an interesting BBC radio story entitled The Man Whose Mind Exploded.

70 year old self-named Draka Oho Zaharzar lives in Brighton on the south coast of England. He’s been filmed by Andy Warhol, modelled for Salvador Dali, and danced at The London Palladium.

he’s been in two serious road accidents that left him in comas, had two nervous breakdowns, and tried to commit suicide twice.

He now has almost no short term memory and has filled his tiny apartment with thousands of pictures and pieces of paper to remind him of who he is and what is happening in his life.

As for Drako’s memories, the fact that he was a muse of Salvador Dali is one of the more unusual ones – that he has a wife is another. Nearly everything else he forgets.

He can remembers the past but not the present, yet this doesn’t seem to bother him.

Recently too, I read a moving book by Robert Kurson entitled Crashing Through. It’s the true story about Mike May (not a known relation), who lost his eyesight in an accident at the age of three, and was given the opportunity to try to have it restored forty five years later. It was actually not an easy decision for him to make, and there were a lot of mental obstacles to try and overcome along the way.

Both these stories made me realize the obvious – that everything we do, comes down to what is inside our head – the brain. When that doesn’t work properly for whatever reason, it changes things in strange ways for the person concerned and for those around them.

All In The Mind? is a post from: The Eye An Eyebeemania Blog

I rarely read fiction. I almost never read historical fiction. However, once I picked up Ken Follett’s “World Without End” I was hooked from the first page.

I spent too many nights reading until I could stay awake.

It’s a real historical epic full of webs of deceit, plots, love, and much more. Follett truly brings the characters to life, and there are many many twists and turns.

World Without End is a post from: The Eye An Eyebeemania Blog

Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

Work In Shreds is a post from: The Eye An Eyebeemania Blog

Well, OK, I fess up. I got up really late this morning. like 11am. I never get up that late.

I know what it is, I’ve been having a lot of late nights with NAB Radio this last week, as we try to fill in for our shortage of voluntary DJs SO by the time I wind that down at 2am, and then get to bed, and unwind with a book for an hour it’s kinda like way way too late.

So, last night, we had it a bit better organized, and I went off to bed at 11.30. I was reading for a while. I read mostly non fiction. I like biographies, and history books, and at the moment I am currently reading the Pulitizer Prize winning “Freedom From Fear” by David M. Kennedy

It’s a history of the American people in the Great Depression and World War Two.

So, this afternoon, I’m working on some web projects, including some more at NAB Radio.

Easy Sunday Morning? is a post from: The Eye An Eyebeemania Blog