Category: Nutrition

  • Back in my more active homemaker days, maybe 2009-ish, I got the idea to try homemade yogurt. I thought it would be a big ordeal, but I must admit this was easy enough to do while caring for a needy infant, plus I know my yogurt is free of sugar, thickeners, and artificial additives. Equipment: large stock pot stainless…

  • Once you start ketogenic living…then what?  What is going on in your body?  Ready for some nerdy scienc-y stuff? During ketogenesis, the fatty acid that is produced when fat is broken down by the liver is broken down even more, and the result is acetoacetate, a ketone body.  Acetoacetate converts into two other types of…