Tinfoil Chef

I’ll bet that title got you a bit curious, made you look a second time and wonder just what the one has to do with the other. Well, before anyone gets any strange ideas, I’m not going to try to treat arthritis with Banana Bread.

What I am going to do is talk for a bit about something I’m giving a try. You see, over recent years I’ve been showing some increasing signs of arthritis. You know how it is, the joints hurt, get stiff. Things don’t quite move the way the used to. I’ve been doing the same thing lots of people do, over the counter painkillers of various sorts. The problem is that there’s a lot of times that they just don’t have much, if any, effect. Then there’s the whole “I hate taking pills” kinda thing. Bad enough I’ve got to take the ones that I already do, I certainly don’t want to add more to the list unless I have to.

So, I’m trying something different. I’ve heard more than once that magnetic therapy is supposed to provide some relief from this sort of thing. Honestly, I haven’t ever really thought much of it.

Come to find out, magnetic therapy doesn’t involve a treatment that consists of exposing them to a really high intensity magnetic field or asking them to wear electromagnets. This is done using magnetic bracelets, necklaces, rings and other jewelry that has small magnets built into it.

I’ve got a copper bracelet that has six magnets embedded in it that I’m going to try wearing for a while and post an update here every once in a while as to what effect it has. It’s a plain polished copper which works for me because I’ve never been big on jewelry other than my wedding ring. Wanna laugh? The first thing I though about wasn’t “how’s it look on me?” or anything like that. Instead it was “Gee I’ll have to remember to keep my floppy disks away from it. (yes, I still have some, they still work and I actually use them once in a great while.)”

The arthritis problem I deal with isn’t what you’d call major by any stretch, but it’s still (literally) a pain for me quite often. If something this simple and passive can bring a noticeable amount of relief, then why not.

And now, because you’ve been good enough to humor my talk about magnets and arthritis, here’s that banana bread I mentioned.

Preheat the oven to 350 and Start out by mashing about 1 1/4 cup of bananas (about 3 bananas), add it to a bowl along with 2 eggs, a cup of sugar, a half teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, a half cup of melted butter, 2 cups of flour and a half cup of chopped nuts.

Mix everything thoroughly and put it into a loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour.

2 eggs
1 1/4 cup mashed bananas (about 3)
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 cup melted butter
2 cup flour
1/2 cup nuts

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