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It's so humid this morning I have to run the A/C to keep from sweating in 75° (24° C) weather. Now, I'm having wear warm clothes to stay warm. I think what I need for both spring, summer, and autumn is a dehumidifier more than a heater or A/C most of the ti-me.
Relief is on the way for a couple of days with dryer weather on the way, but the sun won't be able to burn off the overcast, gloomy clouds until later this afternoon. For some reason I'm figuring that a dehumidifier might use less electricity than an air-conditioner and maybe run quieter too, but I don't know that. I'll have to research that topic a little.
It's an odd thing, but maybe part of the health problems I have is due to me being overly cautious about using fats and oils. Maybe I painted them all with a broad brush just to avoid using the ones that are said to be bad for humans. I have been reading about that over the last year or so, and the problem with avoiding most fats and oils is that humans need oils.
The deal about olive oil has always evaded me because my ancestors didn't immigrate to the U.S. from the areas in Europe where olive oil is a native product. We used peanut oil or lard from pig-killings to cook with. The Southern traditional diet has been proven to be a lousy diet lately.
I suspect that had a lot to do with people abandoning their gardening in favor of buying their food at grocery stores. Please don't misunderstand me, the Southern diet is still a lousy diet and it always has been, but that was probably offset by the fresh garden vegetables that ripened on the plant for immediate consumption.
I may have realized I wasn't getting enough oil in my diet by reading about how good fish oil is for humans. My reading somehow segued to olive oil and then to the general consensus that canola oil (Canadian oil) could easily replace olive oil if there weren't any olive oil in your kitchen. Huh?
This bit of information sent me searching on the internet to see if that was true, and many people seemed to agree. Certainly not the olive oil producers who adamantly disagreed. Dietetically, though, they seem to be equivalents. This pleases me.
The whole controversy of the quality of olive oils and the arguments about virgin and extra-virgin olive oils, and whether the majority of the olive oil was a Mafia rip-off is totally avoided. Why would I wanna feel cheated by gang wars over the quality of the food being imported into the U.S.? Other vegetable oils are also good for humans, but they're more expensive than canola oils, and not quite as healthy to boot.
Anyway, I've been using a lot more canola oil (and olive oil too if I have it) even in the oatmeal I prepare most mornings. When I fry foods in canola oil I don't try to skim the extra grease off foods like hash brown potatoes and the one-pot vegetable stews I atrociously put together.
My efforts to get the good oils my body needs into my daily intake matters, and I think its made a big difference with the aches and pains that come with rheumatoid arthritis. I'm feeling much better lately.
I still use the fish oil, but I'm using a concentrated form of soft-gels that have more of what really matters about fish oil once a day instead of four of the un-condensed variety. I have 14 bottles of either prescription drugs or supplements I take every day. Part of it may be sheer hysteria, but on the other hand, not many of the supplements do any harm like the prescription drugs do.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
