If you think this blog is about rationed health care, you are wrong. We already have rationed health care. If you need a heart, kidney or liver transplant, you go on a national waiting list. When an organ becomes available, there is a group that evaluates the people on the list and determines who gets the transplant.

Insurance companies do their own version of health care rationing. I spoke to a friend yesterday who has rheumatoid arthritis. She periodically needs a treatment that costs several thousand dollars. Each time her doctor must submit an application to the insurance company who decides whether she gets the treatment or not. The same application process requires to many medical tests, including PET scans that look for cancer metastasis.

As health care becomes more nationalized, such boards will become more centralized and more powerful. You may not like the term death panels (Obamacare calls them Independent Payment Advisory Board) but this is how a proponent of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act describes them:

The term refers to any of the multitude of expert commissions whose charge will be to dispassionately examine the scientific evidence in order to determine which patients will get what, when and how. These bodies, in fact, will be explicitly aiming to optimize the medical outcomes of the entire population titrated to the amount of money we’re allowed to spend on healthcare.

Sounds to me like somebody besides me and my doctor will be deciding whether I get treatment. But none of that is what this blog is about.

This blog is about the new USDA MyPlate for Better Nutrition.

I ordered supplements a few days ago from the Vitamin Shoppe, and when my order arrived, it included a flyer that tells me, “The US Government did away with the archaic and impractical food pyramid and implemented a more useful MyPlate icon to guide Americans toward consuming a balanced diet.”

The problem with this new guide is that if a Type O followed it, they would face weight gain, higher cholesterol, stomach inflammation, and joint issues.

I went on the USDA MyPlate Website put my age, height, weight, and physical activity level into the daily food plan guide. It tells me that every day I need to eat:
6 ounces of grain
2.5 cups of vegetables
2 cups of fruit
3 cups of dairy
5.5 ounces of protein

More grain than protein?!?
More dairy than vegetables?!?
What are they thinking?!?

I am not a conspiracy theorist – not by a long shot.
The title of this blog was more to get you to read it and think than to make a statement about the motives of government agencies.

However, this new plan makes me all the more thankful for the Blood Type Diet and for Dr. D who developed it. Perhaps if I ignore the USDA plan and eat Right for My Type, I will dodge the more insidious rationing panels as I get older.

Before I reposted the millet cornbread recipe (shame on computer hackers) I had gone to the health food store that has the best price on the spelt bread my Honorable Husband likes. They told me that they stopped carrying millet, because it wasn’t selling. However, they said they would order it if I bought 3 bags. I agreed and had just picked up the millet. In my mind I could already taste the cornbread.

That afternoon HH and I were hauling gravel around the yard. We needed to get to a certain point in our project because rain was in the forecast. As I worked I was thinking about what to cook with the millet cornbread. Suddenly I had a brainstorm. One of the things I loved in my pre-BTD days was tamale pie. I could substitute the millet cornbread and have an old favorite.

Coming in from the yard at dusk, already hungry and tired, I didn’t take the time to make the full tamale pie. I did a quickie version. It was delicious. HH paid me compliments.

Brown 16 – 20 ounces of ground turkey. Add 2 tablespoons of chili powder and 1 tablespoon of ground cumin. In the full version I would also have added cooked onion and cooked red bell pepper – but like I said, I was in a hurry.

While the meat was cooking, I ground the millet in my food processor and made millet cornbread batter. I put the seasoned meat in the bottom of a flat casserole dish and poured the batter over it. I baked it as if it was just the millet cornbread alone.

Substituting in recipes is beneficial. I have also been substituting in exercise, and that has not been so beneficial. We’ve had lots of yard work this spring. When I work outside for a couple of hours, I don’t come in and do another 30 – 45 minutes of exercise. The yard work makes my back and arm muscles stronger. It often gets my heart rate pumping and I definitely work up a good sweat. I thought this substitution was working.

However, this morning I went for a run – probably the first time I’ve run in 3 weeks. I could tell that I was out of shape. I need to make sure that I allow time for running, bicycling and other Type O intense physical exercise, even in the weeks that I am physically active in my yard.

Sorry if there is any confusion about this blog. A hacker gained access to the original post. Every time I logged in to the site Dr. D has set up for bloggers, the comment section was filled with junk messages. Only the sin nature of man can explain why people with brilliant minds waste all of their potential doing evil things. I deleted the original post and am reposting it here. I bought millet yesterday and plan to bake bread tonight.

I started out to blog about how circumstances forced me into a variation on one of my favorite recipes. Then I realized I had never posted about the basic recipe. So it looks like I will be writing two bread blogs in a row.

I have been blogging since 2004, and every November and December I have blogged about cornbread. I love cornbread of any type, but my favorite is moist cake-like cornbread. I like it best when it has the gooey texture of a brownie.

But corn is a problem. It is listed as avoid for Type Os.

On the GenoType diet it is a toxin for Gatherers and a black dot for Hunters. Since I mostly identify myself as a Hunter, I can justify having corn on rare occasions, but I know it isn’t really good for me.

Corn is neutral for Type As, but it is an infrequent neutral on the Type A diabetic diet. HH has Type 2 diabetes in his family and has elevated blood sugar if he doesn’t watch what he eats.

So we rarely eat corn at our house. Last year at Thanksgiving, I combined several recipes together and came up with a delicious cornbread that has just the taste and texture I like. I told myself it would have to be a holiday recipe, that neither HH nor I needed to be eating cornbread very often.

But the memory of that delicious cornbread haunted me.

DD had tried to make a loaf of bread with millet flour one time, but it was too heavy. She came up with the idea to grind millet and use it in my cornbread recipe. She and ESS loved it. I tried it. HH and I agreed that it was delicious. The texture was just like cornbread. The flavor was wonderful, not identical to cornbread, but close enough to be satisfying.

Millet cornbread is perfect with chili, tasty with any meal, and outstanding with ghee as an afternoon snack. It has become one of my favorite recipes.

Millet Cornbread
2 cups millet, ground into flour
4 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/3 cup oil
1/3 cup honey

Mix dry ingredients together and set aside
Mix wet ingredients and pour over dry ingredients. Stir together
Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes in 9x9 pan.

A recurring theme in my blogs is that I try to focus on beneficials – on what I CAN have. There are so many delicious beneficials, as well as plenty of neutrals to round out menus and give variety. When I keep my focus on them, I am content both as I cook, and as I eat.

However, when I focus on avoids it just makes me feel deprived. I start wanting the thing I’m not supposed to have. It doesn’t help when I describe the Type O diet, and someone dismisses it by saying, “Oh I could never give up wheat.” or “I couldn’t live without cheddar cheese.”

I smiled when I read my Bible Study this morning from Genesis. The author makes exactly the same point about Eve. Her avoid list only had one item…and what did she want? Of course…the one thing she wasn’t supposed to have. Here is a quote from Sarah Young’s book “Jesus Calling.

“Before Satan tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, thankfulness was as natural as breathing. Satan’s temptation involved pointing Eve to the one thing that was forbidden to her. The garden was filled with luscious, desirable fruits, but Eve focused on the one fruit she couldn’t have, rather than being thankful for the many good things freely available. This negative focus darkened her mind, and she succumbed to temptation.

“When you focus on what you don’t have or on situations that displease you, your mind also becomes darkened. You take for granted life, salvation, sunshine, flowers, and countless other gifts from God. You look for what is wrong and refuse to enjoy life.”

I’m sure I will keep returning to this theme, because I believe it is the second greatest factor to success on the Blood Type Diet.

During this Easter season, keep your focus on the blessings in your life and in your diet. Approach God with thanksgiving for the many, many things that you have. And enjoy the good news that eggs are either beneficial or neutral for us all.