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Good news! I'm not an industry shill. I'm a stay at home mom who homeschools my three kids and earns money blogging. If you read the disclosure statements on my

Good news! I'm not an industry shill. I'm a stay at home mom who homeschools my three kids and earns money blogging. If you read the disclosure statements on my site, you'll see that I never write paid posts or content. I do sell advertising, though, (from which I make a pretty penny, thank you) and the link is a link to a page full of text ads. I used to be a copywriter, but haven't done that since my blog took off about three years ago. It is true that I operate this blog under the business name I created for my copywriting business, but that's mostly so that I don't have to create a new company or tax ID.

jff 15y ago
A stay at home mom discovers the secret ingredient JUICE COMPANIES DON'T WANT YOU TO LEARN? Sounds just like one of those ads about tooth-whitening or one weird old trick ;)
palish 15y ago
Hi, welcome to Hacker News. People around here are a bit conspiracy-theoryish (conspirical?) but overall the atmosphere is good and the conversation is interesting. Thanks for contributing.
- KristenM 15y ago
  Thanks. I wouldn't have known about Hacker News at all, except that you've sent me 2,000+ visitors (and counting) today. Looks like an interesting site.
  - dredmorbius 15y ago
    Heh! Well, for context: this is a news-aggregator site run by a venture capital / incubator company, and inhabited by a bunch of really serious techies. Who would have a rather more diverse range of experiences on health and fitness than your initial prejudices might lead you to believe. Enjoy your visit.
    - palish 15y ago
      Apologies, Kristen. dredmorbius has perhaps shown us that we haven't had as many diverse ranges of "not being arrogant" experiences and "she didn't say anything about us so why are you talking about 'initial prejudice'" experiences and "dredmorbius has only been here 15 days" experiences as we've had of health and fitness experiences, apparently.
bfe 15y ago
Welcome and glad to have you. And while you're not a shill, I find your site misguided, in overly relying on equating natural, traditional diets with healthy, leading you to some recommendations that are orthogonal to healthiness, like fermented veggies and sprouted grains, and some that are unhelpful to health, like red meat and butter. The people of Finland drastically improved their health metrics when they transitioned to a modern mainstream European diet away from their natural, traditional Finnish diet of lots of red meat and butter. Modern scientific findings, properly analyzed, are an astonishingly better guide to human health than any traditional collection of folk wisdom.
- pyre 15y ago
  > properly analyzed That's the catch.
- jokull 15y ago
  I haven't commented on Hacker News for a while now. But let me rake in the downvotes and say that this kind of answer is the reason I can't be bothered anymore. Let's face it, this is a geeky forum. And geeks just can't refrain from giving their opinions and facts. They only need to spend a night reading Wikipedia articles about nutrition to have the right to shit all over someones comments that are marginally overlapping on their new domain of expertise. The tone above, jesus christ. She wasn't even asking for an opinion. Worst community ever. The arrogance that comes with smarts.
  - palish 15y ago
    I agree that HN would be much, much nicer if people would just show a little respect.
  - bfe 15y ago
    When someone takes it on herself to actively evangelize an analysis she acknowledges is controversial, she should expect to be treated like an adult and be presented with honest opposing views, in whatever venue she chooses to take part in. And I'd find a forum disappointing if its default ethic were to reaffirm to all its participants that their current coding knowledge, startup idea, or pseudoscientific views were equally valid and had no room for improvement by frank feedback. I'll let you get back to your much more civilized forums where people simply present their rational analysis and supporting evidence rather than tossing around exclamations of "shit" and "jesus christ" at other participants, especially as part of a call for civility. Oh wait.
Mz 15y ago
Welcome to HN from a kindred spirit. I'm a former homemaker and homeschooling mom. Serious health issues caused me to seriously question conventional wisdom about nutrition, so I appreciate the tone of your site. (The standard medical advice for my condition amounts to "live on tons of junk food to increase your fat, salt and calorie count!" I got better in part by focusing on better nutrition. Much of what I have found works flies in the face of what "the world" believes to be true for people like me.) Count me envious/jealous of your financial success with your blog. :-) You have what I once wanted and never got (in terms of lifestyle -- I still hope to work out the online income thing, though my kids are grown now). Peace.
- KristenM 15y ago
  Thank you for the welcome!

jff 15y ago

A stay at home mom discovers the secret ingredient JUICE COMPANIES DON'T WANT YOU TO LEARN? Sounds just like one of those ads about tooth-whitening or one weird old trick ;)

palish 15y ago

Hi, welcome to Hacker News. People around here are a bit conspiracy-theoryish (conspirical?) but overall the atmosphere is good and the conversation is interesting. Thanks for contributing.

KristenM 15y ago
Thanks. I wouldn't have known about Hacker News at all, except that you've sent me 2,000+ visitors (and counting) today. Looks like an interesting site.
- dredmorbius 15y ago
  Heh! Well, for context: this is a news-aggregator site run by a venture capital / incubator company, and inhabited by a bunch of really serious techies. Who would have a rather more diverse range of experiences on health and fitness than your initial prejudices might lead you to believe. Enjoy your visit.
  - palish 15y ago
    Apologies, Kristen. dredmorbius has perhaps shown us that we haven't had as many diverse ranges of "not being arrogant" experiences and "she didn't say anything about us so why are you talking about 'initial prejudice'" experiences and "dredmorbius has only been here 15 days" experiences as we've had of health and fitness experiences, apparently.

bfe 15y ago

Welcome and glad to have you. And while you're not a shill, I find your site misguided, in overly relying on equating natural, traditional diets with healthy, leading you to some recommendations that are orthogonal to healthiness, like fermented veggies and sprouted grains, and some that are unhelpful to health, like red meat and butter. The people of Finland drastically improved their health metrics when they transitioned to a modern mainstream European diet away from their natural, traditional Finnish diet of lots of red meat and butter. Modern scientific findings, properly analyzed, are an astonishingly better guide to human health than any traditional collection of folk wisdom.

pyre 15y ago
> properly analyzed That's the catch.
jokull 15y ago
I haven't commented on Hacker News for a while now. But let me rake in the downvotes and say that this kind of answer is the reason I can't be bothered anymore. Let's face it, this is a geeky forum. And geeks just can't refrain from giving their opinions and facts. They only need to spend a night reading Wikipedia articles about nutrition to have the right to shit all over someones comments that are marginally overlapping on their new domain of expertise. The tone above, jesus christ. She wasn't even asking for an opinion. Worst community ever. The arrogance that comes with smarts.
- palish 15y ago
  I agree that HN would be much, much nicer if people would just show a little respect.
- bfe 15y ago
  When someone takes it on herself to actively evangelize an analysis she acknowledges is controversial, she should expect to be treated like an adult and be presented with honest opposing views, in whatever venue she chooses to take part in. And I'd find a forum disappointing if its default ethic were to reaffirm to all its participants that their current coding knowledge, startup idea, or pseudoscientific views were equally valid and had no room for improvement by frank feedback. I'll let you get back to your much more civilized forums where people simply present their rational analysis and supporting evidence rather than tossing around exclamations of "shit" and "jesus christ" at other participants, especially as part of a call for civility. Oh wait.

Mz 15y ago

Welcome to HN from a kindred spirit. I'm a former homemaker and homeschooling mom. Serious health issues caused me to seriously question conventional wisdom about nutrition, so I appreciate the tone of your site. (The standard medical advice for my condition amounts to "live on tons of junk food to increase your fat, salt and calorie count!" I got better in part by focusing on better nutrition. Much of what I have found works flies in the face of what "the world" believes to be true for people like me.) Count me envious/jealous of your financial success with your blog. :-) You have what I once wanted and never got (in terms of lifestyle -- I still hope to work out the online income thing, though my kids are grown now). Peace.

KristenM 15y ago
Thank you for the welcome!