“Every day you have 10,000 reasons not to make your goal.”

“One grower I met had recently uprooted a mature almond orchard in favor of pistachios, because the latter can withstand higher sodium content in the soil. In some cases, the soil simply can’t bear the toll that farming takes. In a part of the valley called the Westlands Water District, a hundred thousand acres now lie fallow, lain to rest because the land had become so depleted of nutrients and so rife with salts.”

Limited value. Sometimes I get in my car and roll up the windows.

Cancer is an isoparasite. It loves everything its former employer does.

And — as woo-woo as it seems — cancer can read your thoughts, putting a whole other slant on “spontaneous cure.”

Potatoes are very digestible if cooked and/or dextrinized long enough.

A boiled potato takes 3 1/2 hours to digest.

A baked potato takes 2 1/2 hours to digest.

Most meat takes over 4 hours to digest except wild meat like venison, which takes only 1 hour.

Re: What about steamed?

Steaming wasn’t thought of by the researcher who looked through the hole in a man’s stomach for almost every meal for over a decade till he finally escaped in the 1830s.

My SWAG would be about 3 hours.