Here's to 2015

 I find beauty in the blank page. Resembling a blanket of freshly fallen snow, I can hear my own thoughts and as they start to unravel I make a slow, measured path down the page. This could also be why I love the start of a new year. It's like a blank canvas from Father Time. Wipe the slate clean and begin again, only this time wiser than before. 

My amateurish ventures into nutrition have definitely made me wiser. Although, sometimes I feel like I fell down a rabbit hole and perhaps ignorance really was bliss. But most of the time I don't believe that. As Maya Angelou loved to say, "When you know better, you do better." I do better for the most part. Sometimes I have to put a blindfold on part of my brain just to enjoy a chocolate chip cookie like a normal person instead of thinking of sugar addiction and the massive sugar industry and its infiltration of our food system and the massive health consequences facing humanity (BE QUIET BRAIN AND JUST ENJOY THE DAMN COOKIE!).

There's also the frustrating fact that for every question I've researched, I have at least 10 more questions once I find the answer. And I'll dig, and dig some more, and email some random doctor halfway around the world and get a thoughtful-but-not-altogether-illuminating reply... and then my questions keep multiplying but my options for answers run out. It's like reading a really suspenseful murder mystery and never finding out whodunnit.

So this year, I'm reeling myself in a little bit and just posting some of my thought process and questions from my forays into nutrition and health. Maybe I'll find the big answers, maybe I won't. But I think a lot of what I learned along the way is valuable.  I'll begin the year with the story of one of my main obsessions that got me on this path in the first place: ketones, glucose, and their relationship to the "emperor of all maladies."