Price setting mechanism for gold and silver is broken
The law of supply and demand should dictate that when a physical commodity is scarce and there is unsatisfied demand, that the price of that commodity will increase. Yet in the last few weeks, the...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs says gold will go down $500: LOL
The Financial Post has repeated a Business Insider article about Goldman Sach’s prediction that gold will go down $500. Here is my comment: The National Post loses credibility with these Business...
View ArticleAvoid the scrutiny of FATCA/FBAR/Form 8938 by putting your gold in an...
Cross posted from the Isaac Brock Society. Simon Black (Do I Have To Report My Offshore Gold…?) asks whether custodial gold “accounts” (e.g., James Turk’s Gold Money) fall under FATCA provisions and...
View ArticleCarbs are poison: carpal tunnel or peripheral neuropathy?
I’m going to start a new tag/category called “Carbs are Poison”. This is my new motivational motto as I have entered a major lifestyle change that took place two months ago. About sixty days ago, I...
View ArticleQE Carney: Loonie monetary policy
Mark Carney Leaves Canada With ‘Stealth QE’ Rising At Fastest Pace Since 2009 Carney has much practice devaluing the Canadian loonie. He is perfectly suited as the new head of the Bank of England....
View ArticleHow I came to know that I am diabetic
Last November I realized that I had diabetes. For years I’ve worried about becoming diabetic because it runs in my family. Since about last summer, I’ve suspected that I might be diabetic but put off...
View ArticleCould a ketogenic diet help prevent or even cure cancer?
In 1977 my mother passed away from cancer at the age of 47. I was thirteen and my little sister was eight. Fairly recent research has shown remarkable facts about cancer cells (Gary Taubes, Good...
View ArticleII. Could a ketogenic diet help prevent or even cure cancer? CBN reportage
Starving Cancer: Ketogenic Diet a Key to Recovery This link has an interesting video with Pat Robertson recommending a ketogenic diet (i.e., ultra-low carbohydrate diet) for the treatment of cancer.
View ArticleExercise to lose weight to avoid or treat diabetes? Give me a break
A few years ago, a missionary friend of mine visited us here in Ontario. He was keen to go fishing, and so one early afternoon, we rented a canoe at Lake Opeongo and headed towards North Opeongo...
View ArticleThe Carb Bubble: On how the theme “carbs are poison” relates to this blog
A person surveying this blog may find it difficult to understand how the themes of this blog, especially the latest category, “Carbs are poison”, cohere except that they all involve the author’s own...
View ArticleThomas Seyfried on ketogenic diets and fasting as a treatment for cancer
I mentioned in an earlier post that it would make sense to implement a strict ketogenic diet as a treatment to help fight or prevent cancer. A ketogenic diet severely restricts sugars and starches, and...
View Article“Come with me if you want to live!” Ketogenic diet is Kyle Reese for cancer...
Do you remember the scene in Terminator where Kyle Reese says to the terrified Sarah Conner, “Come with me if you want to live!” Well, if we consider cancer to be a terminator, then wouldn’t it make...
View ArticleWant to avoid Alzheimer’s disease? Cut the carbs, cut the gluten
Dr. David Perlmutter speaks about his book, Grain Brain, in this interview:
View ArticleDo statin drugs contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease?
As many of you know, my father disappeared last July and there is still no sign of him. I wonder if my father, who suffered apparently from Alzheimers disease, was on statin drugs. Tom Naughton has a...
View ArticleThese are the Neanderthals that claim the right to tax you no matter where...
Some Americans disturb me. Yesterday, a commenter told me to eff-off on my timeline on Facebook. I had expressed opinions at Think Progress that he didn’t appreciate so he came over and told me to eff...
View ArticlePaternalism and how it works
This post first appeared at the Isaac Brock Society. I have been reflecting over the last few days on the question of paternalism as a type of leadership. I talked this over with my next door neighbor...
View ArticleSugar: The bitter truth, by Robert H. Lustig
This is my counter to all my Facebook friends who share sugary recipes. Dr. Robert H. Lustig is the intellectual heir Dr. John Yudkin, who proved the toxicity of sugar in early 1970s in his book Pure...
View ArticleBMI: Body Mass Index and the reification of a mathematical formula that makes...
Health professionals: Please, stop using BMI as a means of assessing the health of patients and clients. Everyone can look at a person and see if he or she is overweight, obese, morbidly obese, or...
View ArticlePre-Insulin treatment of diabetes: the non-pharmaceutical approach
My first introduction to diabetes specialist Richard K. Bernstin was from a YouTube video in which he debates registered dietician Hope Warshaw. Berstein handily puts Ms. Warshaw in her place. It is...
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