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• Sometimes it takes a death to slap you in the face
  on Dec 7, 2016 in 5 element theory Daoism Daoist death Lao Tze nature pantheism philosophy religion spirituality Tai chi Taoism Taoist Wu Xing
  October 17, 2016, my father, Robert Aloia Sr., passed away shortly after midnight!A couple of days before I was sitting in my backyard. Sun shining and sun bathing; vitamin D being absorbed. I can feel it like a dry sponge getting moistened by water.
• Spanish garlic soup: healthy, hearty and perfect for a fall day
  on Aug 14, 2015 in bread comfort food cooking soup fall food garlic health soup spanish food Spanish Garlic soup
  Almost a decade ago my family and I flew to Spain and had a hellish plane trip. We arrived in Madrid at midnight starving. After we finally got our rental car we drove to the first place that looked like it had food. When we arrived we searched the m...
• Dreaming and Meditation
  on Jul 30, 2015 in dream dreaming full moon Meditation pie in the sky summer's end. The Tao true self yin moon power
  Upon entering the house after a night time meditation that invoked the yin power of the full moon into my body,  I realized that summer is fading fast. Then a quick blur of all the projects I had completed since turning 50 this spring spiked in...
• Pay it forward
  on Jul 19, 2015 in kid's kung fu Kung Fu martial arts pay it forward teaching The Martial Arts Path
  In my last post, I told the story of my first step on the martial path. I also explained that I am still on that path today. That means that I have been practicing for about 34 years and along the way there were many great teachers who have spen...
• My First Step On The Martial Arts Path and The Fallen Idols
  on Jul 14, 2015 in Bruce Lee bullies Bullying Dan Inosanto David Carradine Fallen Idols Game of Death Hippies Kung Fu Marijuana martial arts Nunchakus Pot Head School Shootings Self Destruction The Martial Arts Path
  In the early 70s, my family of five moved to a suburb of NYC from Brooklyn, NY. It was a small town made up of mostly white working class people. I didn’t know it then but that town was a haven for white people fleeing school re-districting. My fat...
• Dealing with Life’s Transitions
  on May 19, 2015 in bullies coping with stress Hurricane Katrina mississippi sacred space Tai chi Unitarian Universalism woods
  Last Sunday, I attended a Unitarian Universalist (UU) service. Although I do not attend as often as I would like, when I do attend I always find that a veil is lifted on some issue that I have unconsciously buried deep within myself. In the UU c...
• New Definition For Tai Chi
  on Apr 30, 2015 in aging balance Chan San Feng exercise mind body exercise T'ai Chi Tai chi tai ji
  Tai chi originated in China as a martial art before written history. It is usually described as a mind-body practice that is sometimes referred to as "moving meditation.” Many people say "dance-like" when describing it. In fact, whenever I describe...
• Follow the Money
  on Dec 2, 2014 in Food prices fruit and vegetable consumption meat consumt myplate.gov
  Sometime in October, a friend and I had a discussion about the cost of fruit and veggies. So I became interested in my monthly food expenditures. I created a spreadsheet and fastidiously recorded my family of four's food purchases for the month of...
• on Nov 17, 2014 in Ebola epidemiology GMOs Letter from Birmingham Jail libertarianism Martin Luther King Quarantines vaccines water fluoridation
  Why I am passionate about Epidemiology! "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provinc...
• Dietary Alchemy and Gluten Intolerance
  on Jun 15, 2014 in Celiac's Dietary Alchemy fermented foods food Gluten Intolerance My Plate Nutriton USDA
  Dietary alchemy is a model of healthy eating that I created. I use the term, alchemy to reference an earlier time where most diets focused on traditional food and balance;  a time before processed foods came into the world and seduced people awa...
• on Jan 13, 2014
   Recently, I was in a local fruit and vegetable market, informally known as, Liz and Frank's, where I usually purchase ingredients for our family meals. I cook most of the meals in our home, and I make as much as I can from scratch. I’m alw...
• Checking Your Blood Pressure Does More for Your Health than a Blueberry Smoothie
  on Jan 9, 2014 in blood pressure blueberry smoothies CDC health indicators Heart attack Heart disease myocardial infarction
  When I was a very small boy I saw my grandmother have a heart attack. I remember her children, my mom and her brothers, frantically rushing to get her in a car to drive her to the hospital. That was the last memory I have of her. Needless to say, it...
• A Win-Win with Purple Sweet Potatoes
  on Dec 31, 2013
   Recently, I was in a local fruit and vegetable market where I usually purchase ingredients for our family meals. I cook most of the meals in our home, and I make as much as I can from scratch. I’m always looking for new ingredients and love t...
• So You Hate The ACA, Now What?
  on Nov 14, 2013
  One of the major “arguments” against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that is repeated ad nauseum is that it is an economic disaster. The unarguable fact is that health care costs have been rising at an alarming rate for many decades. As far back as...
• An unedited impromptu interview with a community health worker in India
  on Sep 18, 2013
  In this video I was taken on a tour with a team of doctors from North Korea, while I was doing research in North India, in 2009. I am sorry for the unpolished nature of the video. It was my only opportunity to do this on very short notice.http://yout...
• One Year of Personal Health Indicators!
  on Jul 10, 2013 in physical activity data collection apple numbers health indicators Graphs systolic personal health blood pressure
  I just completed a year of data collection on my own health indicators. Above is one graph I made comparing my systolic blood pressure against my physical activity recorded in minutes over the course of one year. One thing that caught my eye was the...
• Are Liberals Repeating The Republican Formula?
  on May 16, 2013
  Many liberal social media groups that I comment on and am in agreement with on many issues over the past decade are now getting their panties in a twist when I bring up even the slightness descent.In an effort to be like the Republicans were in the 8...
• A Belated Eulogy for Eleanor
  on May 2, 2013
  I love studying statistics. They tell us what most people are like most of the time. But like many people, the parts of my life that are the most exciting to me are those that don’t fit well into statistical description.One such extraordinary part...
• on Apr 27, 2012
  There are many lessons out there which we can learn from and change our lifestyle to help us live a higher quality of life.
• on Apr 27, 2012
  There are many lessons out there which we can learn from and change our lifestyle to help us live a higher quality of life.