The dogma: If you eat more than you burn, then you will store it. – Wrong.
The dogma: A calorie is a calorie.
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Pizza Dough Recipe
- 1 Teaspoon of Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon of Salt
- 1 Cup Hot (Tepid) Tap Water (not too hot or it will kill the yeast)
- 1 Package of Dry Active Yeast
Combine these ingredients in mixing bowl (hot water and dry yeast last) and stir until all the floating yeast is dissolved. Cover the bowl loosely with plastic wrap and let it set for 10 minutes until the yeast has fully activated (until the water surface is covered with a thin foam of air bubbles. The sugar may help the yeast to activate.
- Add 2 Cups of all purpose flour to the bowl and mix with a fork or spoon. Begin to hand knead the dough mixture.
- Add 1/4 Cup or less of all purpose flour if this dough mixture is too sticky. Hand knead this dough mixture until it is smooth and not sticky. Only add a bit of flour to achieve the correct consistency. Knead the dough into a ball.
- Add about a Tablespoon of Olive Oil to the sides of the bowl and roll the dough ball in the oil to seal its surface.
- Cover the bowl with a dry dish towel and set in a warm place for the dough to rise for about 10 or 15 minutes or until doubled.
- Preheat the oven to bake at 400-F degrees.
- Lightly grease a pizza pan with olive oil
- Press the raised dough into the pizza pan and spread it evenly across the pan to form the pizza shell. This is much the same as punching down the raised dough.
- Cover the shell with the dry towel and let the shell dough rise in the pizza pan for 5 or 10 minutes.
- Place the pizza pan and shell in the oven for 2 or 3 minutes to precook the dough at 400-F (second to the bottom oven rack about 6 to 8 inches from the bottom of the oven).
Now the Pizza Sauce and Toppings:
- Remove the pizza pan and shell from the oven
- Spread 1/2 jar of your favorite pizza sauce (Prego or Rago, etc., or your own homemade sauce)
- Spread and top with shredded mozzarella cheese and shredded colby mild cheddar cheese.
- Add any other toppings that you like: sliced pepperoni, sliced mushrooms, diced green peppers, etc)
- Bake on the second to the lowest rack at 400-F for 12 minutes (6 to 8 inches above the bottom of the oven). Cooking times may vary. Then check the shell crust. Cook for an extra 1 or 2 minutes if the under side of the the shell is too soft. (This cooking time works well with my pizza pan and oven. Your pan may crisp the shell bottom more quickly). Be careful not to burn the cheese.
Enjoy!
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Add Common Icons to Windows 8 Desktop
There are a couple ways that you can add desktop icon shortcuts for “Computer,” “Network,” “Control Panel” and “User’s Files” to your traditional-looking Windows 8 desktop, along side the icon for “Recycle Bin” which is normally already on the desktop. 1. Go to the Control Panel of Windows 8 and select Personalization. How do I get there? Right click the so-called Start button of Windows 8. It is located at the bottom left corner of the traditional-looking desktop. Then, left click to select “Control Panel.” At the top right corner of the Control Panel, select “View By” and select “Small Icons” from the drop down list. In the small icon menu that is displayed for the Control Panel, click to select “Personalization.” In the left pane of the Personalization page click “Change desktop icons.” Under Desktop Icons select the checkbox next to each icon that you want to add to the desktop, or clear the check box for each icon that you want to remove from the desktop. For example, check or clear the appropriate check boxes next to “Computer,” “User’s Files,” Network” and “Control Panel.” Click Apply, then click OK. OR 2. A quicker way to achieve this same result is to right click a blank spot on the traditional-looking desktop of Windows 8. You should then see the list shown below. Left click to select “Personalize.” 
In the left pane shown below, click to select “Change desktop icons.” 
See should then see the Desktop Icon Settings screen as below. Check or clear the appropriate check boxes next to “Computer,” “User’s Files,” Network” and “Control Panel.” Click Apply, then Click OK. 
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Eat More Fat?
Is obesity nothing more than a proxy for metabolic illness?
Surgeon Peter Attia
See: http://embed.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes.html
Should we not challenge all assumptions? I never once questioned the conventional wisdom [. . . about the pathology of diabetes]. I actually assumed the pathological sequence was settled science.
You can think of insulin as this master hormone that controls what our body does with the food we eat; whether we burn it or store it. It’s called fuel partitioning in the lingo? Insulin resistance is when cells become increasingly resistant to insulin trying to do its job.
Is conventional wisdom failing me and everyone else?
Most people believe that obesity is the cause of insulin resistance? What if we have it backwards? Is it possible that insulin resistance causes obesity? The implication is profound. What if obesity — that is, the storing of fat — is a coping mechanism to insulin resistance? How much better would we be to treat the cause rather than the effect?
Despite eating well and exercising often, Peter Attia himself began to gain weight. He developed metabolic syndrome, a pre-cursor to diabetes in which a person becomes insulin resistant. He started to question the assumptions he and the majority of the medical community made about diabetes. He wondered: could it be that insulin resistance caused obesity and not the other way around? Could it be that, in the same way a bruise forms in order to protect the body after an injury, that gaining weight is a coping mechanism for a deeper problem at the cellular level?
“What if we’re fighting the wrong war—fighting the obesity rather than insulin resistance?