iirc vitamin d sourced from the sun is vastly better than the vitamin d available in pill form?
― dayo, Monday, 24 January 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
They're biologically equivalent. But for those not living near our evolutionary environment near the equator, UV levels are diminished by angle of the sun and clothing during the winter. I've read that those living north of 37 degrees latitude (San Francisco, Richmond) get essentially no UVB exposure (or Vitamin D) from November through February even at noon due to the sun's low angle at zenith.
Incidence of multiple sclerosis (a neurodegenerative disease my grandmother endured for 30 years) is highly correlated with latitude, so some have speculated lack of Vitamin D may contribute:
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/World_ms.jpg
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
irc vitamin d sourced from the sun is vastly better than the vitamin d available in pill form?this is true but the light you get from the sun in areas north of columbia, sc (i thinK?) is not strong enough to benefit you for many months of the year (like right now).
err... xpost what sanpaku said (more eloquently than i!)
i am so bad at taking my vitamins. must remember the d, though! that's the one my doc specifically recommended based on my last bloodwork.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
my supermarket started stocking pumpkin salads and maaan pumpkin is an underrated squash
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Friday, 28 January 2011 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
made some dope ass baked kale chips last night. am i assuming wrongly that these maintain most of their nutritional value even though i;m cooking them at relatively high temps (~375) for close to 20 mins?
― ________ (will), Monday, 31 January 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
so addicted to garlicky kale. terrible breath.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
how do those kale chips turn out? I saw a thing about them in some dumb "how to sneak vegetables into your diet, you stupid ape man" article.. Pretty crispy?
― Kerm, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i made them a few times last year - good but they don't keep all that well.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah they turned out great, but we ate them all in one sitting. they were generally crispy. but even where they were still a bit soft/ damp they were still pretty delicious. i may have to play around with temps/ times...
― ________ (will), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
If the nutrition nazi was a billionaire:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?src=me&ref=homepage
Murdock's soup recipe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-recipe2.html
― ThirtyPennies, Monday, 7 March 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
wld eat
― tehresa, Monday, 7 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
John Paulson (the hedge fund manager who made somewhere around 7 billion betting against mortgage backed securities, then betting on the bailout of banks near their share price lows) is a nutrition nazi. According to Gregory Zuckerman's The Greatest Trade Ever, Paulson handed out copies of The China Study to his staff and would rebuke desk traders found with pastrami sandwiches.
― Competent Person Statement (Sanpaku), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
working at a hedge fund would almost be bearable if nutrition nazi lunchbags were provided
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a good app or online thingie to keep track of daily nutrition goals and things consumed?
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 19 March 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
You might want to look at http://nutritiondata.self.com/
― What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. (Sanpaku), Saturday, 19 March 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
www.fitday.com is a good way to track (requires a lot of manual entry but is not bloated w/ too many ads, premium charges, etc.), also sparkpeople has a good tracker that includes lots of name brand foods already entered.
― tehresa, Saturday, 19 March 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
fitday gives you nice graphs and you can track weight, exercise, etc., too.
I just started making homemade lemonade since the weather has turned nice. The current ratio, that I'm happy with, is 6 lemons + one half cup of sugar. Sugar is no good obv so I'm wondering if I should use another sweetner. I have agave nectar but really don't want to experiment with due to the price of lemons. Anybody here make their own lemonade?
Here's a link to the benefits of lemons
http://www.earthincommon.com/nutrition_01-article.html
― brownie, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
*due to the price of lemons and agave nectar.
― brownie, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
you could try stevia powder. it's v v sweet, so a little would go a long way.
― tehresa, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ok thanks, never heard of it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia
― brownie, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i had stevia for the first time today in ice tea. i could probably get used to it, but it doesn't taste at all like sugar to me. maybe that's the point.
― caek, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't actually like the taste very much, it reminds me of artificial sweetener/splenda, but i was just trying to think of an alternative to sugar for brownie.
― tehresa, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't like the taste of splenda either but i'm so used to sugar that maybe i could acquire a taste for stevia? dunno. agave nectar isn't all that great tasting either.
― brownie, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i think of agave as a honey-like sweetener (another thing you could try in small quantities), so i don't expect it to flavor things similarly to sugar.
― tehresa, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yah it is a good suggestion, xxp.
― caek, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't like Stevia at first because it tasted bitter to me. But after a few weeks of use, I couldn't taste the bitter any more. I think you just have to get used to it.
― homosexual II, Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/
Found this last week. It has an auto fill ability but also allows you to input calories manually and automatically adds it up for you.
― ThirtyPennies, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
for some reason i thought they charged... or maybe they just charge for features that fitday offers free, but the livestrong interface is def nice and they also have a lot of name brand foods there already.
― tehresa, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
sparkpeople has a nice recipe calculator, too.
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
― tehresa, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been using the livestrong one for a couple days and realized I eat TOO MUCH SODIUM! Everything else is good afaict. How much of an issue is this at my age? If I drink a gallon of water a day, the excess sodium is likely excreted, right? I am crazy about pickles and don't want to stop eating them, but I will if I must.
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Monday, 21 March 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i recommend the vanilla stevia if it tastes bitter to you, really cools it out
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Monday, 21 March 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i rememember that gbx (i think) said something like that - that you dont need to worry too much abt salt intake cuz yr body regulates it, hope he's right, i love salt
― just sayin, Monday, 21 March 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
god i hope that's true. i was really shocked at what had TONS of sodium - most of mine came from bread and stuff like that (also pickles tho - i srsly eat them constantly)!
i was reading about effects of too much sodium and saw that the body will usually excrete excess unless you're "sodium sensitive" - i guess this would be the result of kidney problems, which i have often had :/
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Monday, 21 March 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that seems to ring a bell the 'sodium sensitive' thing, maybe worth checking out? i guess i should.... aargh
― just sayin, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
they've recently reduced the amt of daily recommended/allowable sodium for us adults, too, i think...
― tehresa, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe some sugar/hfcs lobbying effort, who knows?
I've mentioned in the past the problem is only partly with absolute sodium intake. Its also with sodium potassium balance, the sodium being the primary metal ion in extracellular fluid, potassium being primary inside cells. A high sodium/potassium ratio also seems to screw up signalling pathways Here's a layman's review of some of the research.
Some high potassium foods from my pantry (mg K / 100g serving):
Vegemite: 2600mg Palm hearts: 1806mg Soybeans: 1797mg Beans, white: 1795mg Lima beans: 1724mg Mushrooms, shiitake, dried: 1534mg Beans, kidney: 1490mg Beans, black: 1483mg Beans, adzuki: 1254mg Apricots, dried: 1162mg Tomato paste: 1014mg Split peas: 981mg Lentils: 955mg Chickpeas: 875mg Raisins: 825mg Peanuts: 776mg Dates, medjool: 696mg Waterchestnuts: 584mg Avocados, raw, California Potassium: 507mg
Bananas: (only) 358 mg
Basically, beans, tomatoes and other fruit (and of course bananas). I wouldn't worry too much about the banana equivalent dose.
― What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I love that you have Vegemite in your pantry <3
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
interesting article. one more reason to pick out the Brazil nuts, too.
― rockapads, Monday, 21 March 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
All natural potassium is radioactive, you need it more than you should fear natural background radiation, and you aren't going to absorb any more of the radioactive isotope (K-40) than proportionate to your body potassium requirement.
You're going to expose yourself to similarly trivial amounts of radiation by sharing your bed with someone else. Should that stop you?
― What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
not necessarily, but it could come in handy as an excuse.
― kate78, Monday, 21 March 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
introduced persuasive public speaking by trying to convince students to drink unappetizing-looking but super healthy smoothie in a recycled glass container with the following ingredients:
banana (1)guayaba pulp100% not from concentrate cranberry juicemango (just a few little frozen chunks)carrot juicehuge bunch of spinach
got 3/9 to sample it! those who were willing to try said that it was tart and tasty, not "gross" or "disgusting" as they had originally thought
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
that sounds delicious.
― tehresa, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
it is delicious! just grassy/green enough, tart, and satisfying.
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Friday, 25 March 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I have perfected this perfect smoothie -- I subbed raspberries for the mango this time and it's just like liquid spring: tart, grassy, bright, a little bit sweet.
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
my family will always be grateful for the krispy kale on this and previous nn threads.
― more than a Bale-sized gulf (whatever), Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Where do I find guayaba pulp, is the question.
― quincie, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man i was just reading about something with guayaba in it but now i don't remember where/what.
― tehresa, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm betting the Grand Mart would come through on this one. Or the Thai market in Silver Spring, maybe.
― quincie, Monday, 4 April 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link