White flour and processed sugar throw our blood chemistry out of whack and cause our bodies to remove calcium from the bones to bring down the acidity, and tooth decay and obesity are side effects. The basic diet of bacon, eggs, organic grass-fed butter and whole milk, and a hit of cod liver oil every day is filling, and I’ve come to realize how much more I drank when I bought 1%–more sugar than fat.

Anyway, it looks like human teeth can slowly repair themselves as long as the diet is optimal, so I predict you won’t be visiting the dentist this year. (Try googling “secondary dentin.”)

Now I think I understand why these people who put bacon drippings on their Corn Flakes a century ago lived to their nineties, and why my grandmother didn’t get so far: she lived in the era when Crisco and C&H white sugar first hit the market, and yeah, her desserts were quite awesome… and numerous.

I’m off all caffeine… even things with just a little caffeine like most chocolate. (afectz me brane.) Been that way for a while. I still miss “sweet tea”. I’m trying to get more salad vegies in my diet, though.

Things our parents do can help us eat better. My mom has severe hypertension so everything we had was extremely sodium restrictive. It still confuses me how some people put salt on everything when I think most things already have enough (and many times, too much) salt. Then again, some things don’t stick: I used to eat menudo a lot as a kid. Now, I can’t stand the stuff.