I've been working on developing healthier meat recipes that still taste delicious—and keep me satisfied. This squash tossed with beef, beans, and kale or spinach has so much flavor it's easy to forget it's good for you! 

1 medium spaghetti squash
1 cup water
3/4 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
1/2 cup chopped red onion
2 tablespoons yellow mustard
2 to 3 teaspoons Louisiana-style hot sauce
4 small garlic cloves, minced
1 can (15 ounces)black beans, rinsed and drained
2 cups chopped fresh kale or spinach
1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt

Place squash in saucepan, fill with water to 1/2 volume in saucepan. Let squash boil 20-30 minutes.  Remove water from pan. Let squash rest until warm to the touch.  Cut in half and scrape out seeds.

In a large skillet, crumble beef and cook with onion over medium heat until no longer pink, 4-6 minutes; drain. Add mustard, hot sauce and garlic; cook 1 minute more. Stir in black beans and kale or spinach; cook just until wilted, 2-3 minutes.
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Using a fork, separate strands of spaghetti squash; combine with meat mixture. Dollop servings with Greek yogurt.

Many of you know from a previous post that I am a staunch supporter of the Eat Right For Your Type diet.  I recommend anyone in search of good health, especially with fibromyalgia syndrome, to purchase this book or get it from your local library.  

Do you think knowing your blood type is only important in the event of a transfusion? Think again! Research indicates that your blood type is a key genetic factor that influences many areas of health and well-being. 

Throughout your life, you’ve probably observed that some people tend to lose weight more easily, while for others, their weight is an ongoing battle. Or wondered why some people are plagued by chronic illness while others stay healthy and vital well into their advanced years. Very simply, the answer is in your blood type. 

Knowing your blood type is an important tool for understanding how your body reacts to food, your susceptibility to disease, your natural reaction to stress, and so much more. A single drop of blood contains a biochemical makeup as unique to you as your fingerprint. ​

Dr. D'Adamo pretense is that food is abundantly filled with lectins that can damage our overall health.  More importantly, by becoming familiar with your own blood type, you can keep lectins at bay which can cause damage.

What is a Lectin?


A protein substance commonly found in foods that binds with glycoproteins and glycolipids on the surface of animal cells causing agglutination. Some lectins cause agglutination of erythrocytes in specific blood groups. (medical dictionary definition). Lectins also play a significant role in hormonal reactions. 

In lay language, this translates to very tiny molecules found in foods that selectively cause blood and other body tissues to stick together. A lectin that causes the tissues of a person of one blood type to stick together will not necessarily have the same effect on a person of a different blood type.

I have read the book seven years ago and attribute a more stabilized life at this point by implementing Dr. D' Adamo's basic principals.  But, as the years wane on, I was frustrated that I could not find new super foods to add to my daily fare in the book.

So, i did a web search and found the most amazing link!  I just had to share this with you.  On Dr. D'Admo's website besides TONS of information and recipes, you will find typeBase V which allows you to research specific food values as they relate to the various systems and publications of Dr. Peter D'Adamo. These include the basic ABO blood group values, represented in Eat Right For Your Type (1996); the addition of the secretor/non-secretor distinction with Live Right for Your Type (2001), and the reorganization into epigenetic archetypes in The GenoType Diet (2007). The basic ABO values have been enhanced and updated with the release of the twentieth anniversary revised edition of Eat Right for Your Type (2017). 

What a great find! Now each food is only a click away! No more pondering and searching the Internet trying to locate odd food items for my blood type.  

​A man (Clive Owen) has difficulty coping with the knowledge that his 14-year-daughter (Liana Liberato) was assaulted by a sexual predator she met in an online chat room.

​David, a meticulous and efficient home care nurse working with terminally ill people, develops close relationships with his patients. In his private life David is awkward and reserved, which leads to him needing his patients as much as they need him.

This delicious dish can be served along with a salad or as a side dish to a main meal.  Anyway you serve it, those delicate flavors of lemon and olive oil add a nutritious, delicious meal to your day.

​Lima beans are an excellent source of molybdenum and a very good source of dietary fiber, copper and manganese. Lima beans are good sources of folate, phosphorus, protein, potassium, vitamin B1, iron, magnesium and vitamin B6.

1 pound dried lima beans
2 bay leaves
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
1 medium onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Additional chopped fresh parsley

Rinse and sort beans; soak according to package directions. Drain and rinse beans, discarding liquid.
Place beans in a large saucepan; add bay leaves and water to cover by 2 in. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until beans are tender, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Drain.

In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender, 3-4 minutes. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Add next six ingredients. Stir in drained beans and remaining oil; toss to combine. Sprinkle with additional parsley. 

Brazen and bizarre, only Geoffrey Rush can pull this off. 

​The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.

In the last hundred or so years we have lost something vital for our health and well-being: our electrical connection to the Earth.  With the advent of rubber and plastic soled shoes, and insulating mattresses in insulating houses, we spend our days and nights disconnected from the Earth.

One only has to walk barefoot in the grass or on a beach to regain this connection and feel the nurturing effects, and yet in our modern lives it is not always practical to do so.  There is a very physical and scientifically verifiable reason why we feel better when we do this.

The Earth is a massive reservoir of negatively charged free electrons.  Without a connection to this reservoir, the cells in our body are unable to balance the positive charge which results from things like electron-deficient free radicals.  The effect of excess positive charge in the blood can be seen very clearly by the way in which the cells are attracted to clump together (see Scientific Research).

There are various things we can do to balance this electron-deficiency, such as anti-oxidant rich foods and drinking living water.  But what has been largely overlooked until recently is receiving free electrons from the Earth.

It's such a simple thing and yet the effect can be so profound.  In our modern lives we can't always be outside and barefoot, and so the products offered on this website are designed to provide this electrical connection to the Earth in a convenient and practical way.

Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)

There is another effect of grounding which is particularly relevant in our modern electrical world.  Our environment is full of a wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, from computers, mobile phones & masts, radio & TV broadcasts, WiFi, Bluetooth, power lines, domestic wiring, and other electrical appliances.

This electromagnetic radiation induces voltages in our bodies, disrupting the trillions of subtle electrical communications which are a vital part of the function of our body's systems.  By being grounded to the Earth we greatly reduce the levels of these induced voltages.  This video demonstrates this.
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We are electrical beings, living on an electrical planet, and our connection is vital for our health and well-being. -Groundology

Sometimes you need a good book of drama to make you forget about your ills.

Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion’s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O’Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more—and less—than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker, Victor Helios—once known as Frankenstein.