Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

Mine started "growing" when I started keeping it in a sock at night. Mostly, hair breaks at shoulder length bc we roll around on it when we're sleeping. You could also braid it. I think that's why Mennonite and Amish women have such long hair.

I cant hold my arms up long enough to braid it and Robert wont. Tom cant.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Granny, I think if we were meant to eat meat, we would have teeth like a dog, a cat or a tiger. Instead we have teeth more like those of sheep and cows. Dogs and cats don't chew their food, they gulp it, and have very short guts. We have molars for chewing and very long intestines for digesting. Can't argue against the taste of meat, though!

Robert told me the young were meant to eat meat because they were hunters and by the time we age we adapt to veggies . LOLOL

 

[h2oratt]

Why even whole grains are bad. Plus a lot of grains are sprayed with roundup or are GMO.

Some animals are clearly adapted to grain consumption. Birds, rodents, and some insects can deal with the anti-nutrients. Humans, however, cannot. Perhaps if grains represented a significant portion of our ancestral dietary history, things might be a bit different. Some of us can digest dairy, and we’ve got the amylase enzyme present in our saliva to break down starches if need be, but we simply do not have the wiring necessary to mitigate the harmful effects of lectins, gluten, and phytate.
Lectins are bad. They bind to insulin receptors, attack the stomach lining of insects, bind to human intestinal lining, and they seemingly cause leptin resistance. And leptin resistance predicts a “worsening of the features of the metabolic syndrome independently of obesity”. Fun stuff, huh?
Gluten might be even worse. Gluten, found in wheat, rye, and barley, is a composite of the proteins gliadin and glutenin. Around 1% of the population are celiacs, people who are completely and utterly intolerant of any gluten. In celiacs, any gluten in the diet can be disastrous. We’re talking compromised calcium and vitamin D3 levels, hyperparathyroidism, bone defects. Really terrible stuff. And it gets worse: just because you’re not celiac doesn’t mean you aren’t susceptible to the ravages of gluten. As Stephan highlights, one study showed that 29% of asymptomatic (read: not celiac) people nonetheless tested positive for anti-gliadin IgA in their stool. Anti-gliadin IgA is an antibody produced by the gut, and it remains there until it’s dispatched to ward off gliadin – a primary component of gluten. Basically, the only reason anti-gliadin IgA ends up in your stool is because your body sensed an impending threat – gluten. If gluten poses no threat, the anti-gliadin IgA stays in your gut. And to think, most Americans eat this stuff on a daily basis.
Phytates are a problem, too, because they make minerals bio-unavailable (so much for all those healthy vitamins and minerals we need from whole grains!), thus rendering null and void the last, remaining argument for cereal grain consumption.

 

[h2oratt]

I cant hold my arms up long enough to braid it and Robert wont. Tom cant.

Will Nancy do it?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Will Nancy do it?

maybe ? I can ask her.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Mostly I just hog-tied my hair, I couldn't braid it myself very well either. I'd start at my neck and put a ponytail holder in the middle of the back of my neck, then another one about a foot below that, and keep going till I got almost to the end. I just needed to keep it contained and out of my way. If ever I did braid it, I'd put a ponytail holder at the back of my neck to hold it and then braid it down in front of my shoulder in a "night braid."

 

[Granny Hatchet]

She is coming here thursday . Gonna help me cook and hopefully stay to eat.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Mostly I just hog-tied my hair, I couldn't braid it myself very well either. I'd start at my neck and put a ponytail holder in the middle of the back of my neck, then another one about a foot below that, and keep going till I got almost to the end. I just needed to keep it contained and out of my way. If ever I did braid it, I'd put a ponytail holder at the back of my neck to hold it and then braid it down in front of my shoulder in a "night braid."

How did you put it in a sock? My hair seems to be falling out badly.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Why even whole grains are bad. Plus a lot of grains are sprayed with roundup or are GMO.

Some animals are clearly adapted to grain consumption. Birds, rodents, and some insects can deal with the anti-nutrients. Humans, however, cannot. Perhaps if grains represented a significant portion of our ancestral dietary history, things might be a bit different. Some of us can digest dairy, and we’ve got the amylase enzyme present in our saliva to break down starches if need be, but we simply do not have the wiring necessary to mitigate the harmful effects of lectins, gluten, and phytate.
Lectins are bad. They bind to insulin receptors, attack the stomach lining of insects, bind to human intestinal lining, and they seemingly cause leptin resistance. And leptin resistance predicts a “worsening of the features of the metabolic syndrome independently of obesity”. Fun stuff, huh?
Gluten might be even worse. Gluten, found in wheat, rye, and barley, is a composite of the proteins gliadin and glutenin. Around 1% of the population are celiacs, people who are completely and utterly intolerant of any gluten. In celiacs, any gluten in the diet can be disastrous. We’re talking compromised calcium and vitamin D3 levels, hyperparathyroidism, bone defects. Really terrible stuff. And it gets worse: just because you’re not celiac doesn’t mean you aren’t susceptible to the ravages of gluten. As Stephan highlights, one study showed that 29% of asymptomatic (read: not celiac) people nonetheless tested positive for anti-gliadin IgA in their stool. Anti-gliadin IgA is an antibody produced by the gut, and it remains there until it’s dispatched to ward off gliadin – a primary component of gluten. Basically, the only reason anti-gliadin IgA ends up in your stool is because your body sensed an impending threat – gluten. If gluten poses no threat, the anti-gliadin IgA stays in your gut. And to think, most Americans eat this stuff on a daily basis.
Phytates are a problem, too, because they make minerals bio-unavailable (so much for all those healthy vitamins and minerals we need from whole grains!), thus rendering null and void the last, remaining argument for cereal grain consumption.

Wow. My body loves and craves my home-made whole-grain bread. It has wheat, soy, flax seed, and oats in it, at the very least. I just don't feel whole and healthy without it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How did you put it in a sock? My hair seems to be falling out badly.

I used a knee-high nylon. Put the nylon over my forearm. Grasped the hair in my hand, flipped the nylon over it, fastened it, usually, with one of those hair ties little girls use with two little balls on them. You wrap the hair tie around the hair, then wrap one ball over the other.