Diane Bubeck and Associates

12/26/2025

This is how temperature changes the way pasta behaves in the body.

When cooked pasta is cooled for about 24 hours, some of its digestible starch converts into resistant starch. This type of starch breaks down more slowly, leading to a reduced rise in blood glucose after eating. It also acts as a prebiotic, supporting beneficial gut bacteria.

Reheating the cooled pasta increases this resistant starch content even further. Several studies show that this process can lower the typical blood sugar response by as much as 50 percent. The pasta’s taste and texture remain similar, but the metabolic effect becomes noticeably different.

This simple temperature cycle
cook → cool → reheat
creates a measurable nutritional change.

It demonstrates how food structure, not just ingredients, influences digestion and metabolic health.

12/23/2025

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Wheew! I stumbled across something today that shifted the ground beneath me in the quietest way.

Gabor Maté was talking with Mel Robbins on her podcast, and he said something so simple it felt dangerous:

"No two children grow up in the same home. Even with the same parents."

I had to stop what I was doing and sit with that.

Because he's absolutely right.

The parent who raised the first child isn't the same person raising the third. By then, they've been reshaped by years, by disappointments, by small victories and accumulated exhaustion. The father might have softened with time or hardened from unmet expectations. The mother might have found her voice or lost it somewhere in the survival of keeping everyone fed and functioning. The marriage that held the first baby might be thriving by the second or unraveling by the third.

And the circumstances? They morph too. The family that struggled when one child was small might be stable when another arrives. Or the reverse. The house that felt full of possibility once might feel heavy with regret later.

Then there's us. The children. We arrive with different temperaments, different sensitivities, different ways of interpreting the exact same gesture. One child feels seen in silence; another feels erased by it. One flourishes under routine; another suffocates. The same embrace means safety to one and obligation to another.

Same roof. Same parents. Completely different childhoods.

This realization made me reconsider every story I've told myself about my family. How I've spent years comparing notes with siblings, arguing about whose memory is accurate, whose experience was valid. But maybe we were all right. Maybe we *were* each raised by different parents because our parents became different people between each of us.

And perhaps the real work of adulthood is making peace with this multiplicity. Forgiving the version of our parents who didn't have it to give. Honoring the version who gave anyway, despite having nothing left. Understanding that the love was genuine even when it wore completely different faces for each of us.

Because love isn't a fixed thing. It's organic, evolving, sometimes depleting, sometimes replenishing. Just like the flawed, beautiful, exhausted people trying their best to offer it.

You can watch that part of the podcast here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/l3NUPuoX5AM?feature

12/07/2025

What I’m reading now…..
Could 16 oz of fresh celery juice/day really do everything he says? I’m willing to try it for 30 days and report back. Anyone else interested?

12/07/2025

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11/29/2025

Science confirms what Christians have always believed: prayer changes more than just the heart, it changes the brain.

Studies using MRI and EEG scans show that regular, focused prayer activates the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for focus, discipline, and emotional regulation.

It also reduces activity in areas linked to stress and fear, which may explain why long-term prayer is associated with improved mental health, trauma recovery, and self-control.

This isn't just about mindfulness. These changes are
specific to intentional, relational prayer especially when directed toward a personal God, as practiced in Christianity.

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind..." - Romans 12:2

Prayer literally renews the mind.
And science is catching up.

11/27/2025

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11/27/2025

11/17/2025

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