rolling nutrition nazis 2011

Women Laughing Alone With Salad

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someone recommend something for me to have for dinner tonite
im thinking seafood

Are you eating alone? Are you extroverted in your expressions of pleasure? Are you a woman?

I used to work in the marketing department for a health food chain and we fucking bought SO MANY stock photos of women eating salad alone and laughing it was ridiculous

also lots of people in fields surrounded by flowers

pretty sure all those women just farted IMO

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im eating alone (girl out of town til wed., roomate out of town til the week after) but want leftovers for lunch tomorrow. dont want to spend a lot of money. ok w picking up spices or w/e

fish soup or stew. super easy

Lentil Dahl pretty easy also delicious

what should i buy from the store

and how shall it be prepared

This is the recipe I have used to good effect, if you like sweet potatoes:

http://events.nytimes.com/recipes/7517/2005/03/02/Red-Lentil-Dal/recipe.html

But there's lots out there, depending on your tastes. The more spices in the recipe, the better imo

I used to work in the marketing department for a health food chain and we fucking bought SO MANY stock photos of women eating salad alone and laughing it was ridiculous

also lots of people in fields surrounded by flowers

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:26 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The following images are guaranteed to be in any regional tourism booklet:

- women eating salad alone and laughing
- people in fields surrounded by flowers
- a photo of coffee/red wine taken on a 45° angle
- a woman with hot rocks on her back
- the proprietor's children, for literally no reason
- a dog, for a product or facility that has nothing to do with dogs
- two cupped hands holding berries
- an overweight male butcher clutching a large piece of meat
- an overweight male cheese shop owner clutching a selection of cheeses

when are we going?!

-two cupped hands holding an overweight butcher

clint eastwood: nutrition nazi?

Eastwood, a life-long non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and has practiced healthy eating ever since. As he made a name for himself during the production of Rawhide, Eastwood would frequently feature in magazines and journals, which often documented his healthy lifestyle. In the August 1959 edition of TV Guide, for example, Eastwood was photographed doing push-ups and gave tips on fitness and nutrition, telling people to eat plenty of fruit and raw vegetables, take vitamins, avoid sugar-loaded beverages and excess alcohol drinking, and overloading on carbohydrates.[292]

On July 21, 1970, Eastwood's father died of a heart attack, unexpectedly at the age of 64.[100] It came as a shock to Eastwood as his grandfather had lived to 92 and had a profound impact on Eastwood's life, described by Fritz Manes as "the only bad thing that ever happened to him in his life". From this moment he became viewed as more productive, working with a greater sense of urgency, speed and efficiency on set.[101] Although Eastwood had always been a health and fitness enthusiast, he became increasingly more so after his father's death, abstaining from hard liquor, adopting a more rigorous health regime, and seeking to stay fit.[101] However, he still favored cold beer and opened a pub called the Hog Breath's Inn in Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1971.

i think i came close to burning out my blender motor on kale this morning. i need $300 pls.

My blender motor often smells like burning and it's only just out of one year warranty. I'm ignoring it.

I made this the other night. It's been good to me. I added carrots and onions, too, and also threw in a dash of smoked paprika. It's a winner.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Lentil-Stew-with-Spinach-and-Potatoes-349

that guy eating the fruit salad looks like he's getting his salad tossed.

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This talk by the authoritative but annoyingly voiced Dr. Michael Gregor, summarized here, has reminded me that unless vegans and vegetarians get their omega-3/omega-6 ratio under control and remember to take their B-12, they're likely to have health outcomes no better, and often worse, than omnivores (esp. paleovores).

So this weeks quest is to find palatable ways to eat the flax oil hiding in the back of my refrigerator. I'm aware the ground whole flax seed is better, but smoothies and cereal aren't a regular habit. Salad is. In the past, my flax oil based salad dressings have not been crowd favorites. If anyone comes across some flax bearing dressing recipes worth sharing, by all means do. Tonight, I'll make this and report back:

Liquid Gold Dressing by some Berkeley parent

1/2 cup flaxseed oil
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup fresh or frozen lemon juice
2 Tbs balsamic or raspberry vinegar
1/4 Bragg Liquid Aminos or tamari
1/4 to 1/2 cup nutritional yeast
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 Tbs ground flaxseed (optional)

^^ blend the above in a blender.

you can just mix ground flaxseed with porridge, right?

i put it in my steel cut oats and my awesome spinach/non-fat greek yogurt/banana smoothies

so would i get more omega 3 bang for my buck from ground flaxseed or from the oil?

also wondering this

i guess with the ground flaxseed you're getting added bonus of fiber

Yep. Mixing a couple tablespoons of ground flaxseed in oatmeal, porridge, or blender smoothies is the usual recommendation for getting ALA in your diet, and flaxseed (esp whole) are more nutritious and a lot more shelf-stable than flax oil.

I've sluthed to find the recipe above for Liquid Gold Dressing is actually from Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina. I just made some, and its way better than any other flax dressing I've tried. 3/8 cup nutritional yeast (as I used) is a bit high - I'd recommend between 1/8 to 1/4. It could also use a teaspoon of sweetener like agave or honey.

xp will & caek - nearly all the calories of the seed are in the oil. The whole seed (and to a lesser extent, meal) is more stable due to antioxidants etc in the whole seed tissue but not the oil.

I've also seen recommendations that 1 tbsp of ground flax can be pureed with 3 tbsp water as an egg replacer in baking.

Neat scientific article I just came across:

Measurements of aggregate antioxidant activity in plants is generally done by observing how much a given plant extract inhibits a free-radical oxidative reaction in a tube, providing an ORAC value. Since free-radicals are thought to play a part in both aging and cancer initiation, ORAC values are considered a proxy for a plant's value in preventing oxidative aging or free-radical caused mutations.

But what about a plant's ability to prevent proliferation of existing tumors? This is important both for those with diagnosed cancer, and those who don't want the thousands of initiated but as yet nonproliferating neoplasms in our bodies to advance to disease. A team in Quebec tested just that, applying extracts of 32 vegetables to 8 different cultured tumor cell lines, and measuring how much the culture growth was inhibited or halted entirely.

Antiproliferative and antioxidant activities of common vegetables: A comparative study. Food Chem 112:2 pg 374-380

Some vegetables inhibited some tumor lines but not others, but there were some clear winners. Inhibitory effect on cancer cell proliferation in vitro:

Very High: Brussel sprouts, Cabbage, Curly cabbage, Garlic, Green onion, Kale, Leek, Spinach
High: Asparagus, Beetroot, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Fiddlehead, Green bean, Radish, Red cabbage, Rutabaga, Yellow onion
Intermediate: Celery, Eggplant
Little: Acorn squash, Bok choy, Eggplant, Boston lettuce, Carrot, Endive, Cucumber, Fennel bulb, Jalapeno, Orange sweet pepper, Potato, Radicchio, Romaine lettuce, Tomato

Its a confirmation of the known anticancer properties of Alliaceae (garlic, onion, leeks), and cruciferous vegetables (brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli), but curiously bok choy (another Brassicaceae) has no effect in this test. Tomato, rich in lycopene, is believed to be particularly potent against prostate cancer but its extract does little in vitro. The paper says nothing about whether any antiproliferative compounds will be digested and find their way to a tumor.

But it does restore my faith in the lowly onion, which is otherwise a fairly mediocre vegetable in nutrition density. And doesn't help my rather dismal view of the potato (mostly empty calories + solanine, seems to increase kidney cancer).

Inhibitory effect on cancer cell proliferation in vitro

= wtf this isn't actual science

I mean here's the thing. I have grown plenty of cancer cells in culture, and I could piss on them and their proliferation rate would decrease. Do you want to drink my piss because if so will fedex.

As have I some time ago, though a conventional urinal was nearby.

In vitro studies almost always preceed in vivo work. Try this one on:

Ornish D. et al. Intensive lifestyle changes may affect the progression of prostate cancer. J Urol. 2005 Sep;174(3):1065-9

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94 prostate cancer patients electing to not receive conventional treatment were randomly placed on experimental groups (vegan diets with daily tofu and exercising), or control groups. At 12 months, blood serum from each group was added to prostate cancer cultures. The serum from the control group inhibited cell growth by 9%, while the serum from the experimental group knocked culture growth down by 70%.

Was serum from the vegans absorbing something from digestion of plants or the tofu that the omni's weren't? Maybe there was an indirect stimulation of apoptosis signaling pathways elsewhere in the body? Perhaps something in the control diet was inhibiting normal apoptosis? Its impossible to say at this point.

The notable things about that Montreal study is that 1) The vegetable extracts were selectively poisoning cancer cells and not normal cells, and 2) the veggies that had the most pronounced effect were not (in general) the ones most commonly eaten. The vegetables in the American diet are primarily potatoes, tomatoes, lettuces (all), onions, carrots, and cucumber (in that order), of which only onions ranked highly above. Just after those are highly ranked cabbage & broccoli. Kale & brussels sprouts are pretty trivial in comparison.

That, in itself, is interesting to me, a helpful reminder to myself that eating the unusual veggies may be better, and I wanted to share. As an interested outsider I can only hope to extract better detail on emerging themes from contemporary work, hopefully without too much selection bias, as by the time any consensus emerges we'll all be decades older.

giving up HFCS 100% in the new year

need advice: is "corn syrup solids" a sneaky term for HFCS or something different that is just as bad or something different that is less bad?

Mentioned last year, but these videos on HFCS/sucrose are IMO required viewing:

Robert Lustig - Sugar: the Bitter Truth (90 min)
Sean/UndergroundWellness - Sugar: The Bitter Truth (The SHORT Version) (11 min)

HFCS = glucose + fructose = table sugar = bad. There no significant chemical difference, both (when consumed in quantities common in the modern SAD) induce the liver to increase (LDL) bad cholesterol lipoproteins and obesity via de novo lipogenesis.

Get your fructose from fruits.

For anyone with poorly-seasoned/stripped cast iron cookware, and even carbon steel woks, I was thumbing through a Cook's Illustrated at the grocery checkout, and stumbled upon Sheryl Canter's novel approach to seasoning which CI highly praised, and just tried it myself with great success.

Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To

Summary: seasoning is a polymerization process, not cooking. Stable saturated and monounsaturated oils don't polymerize easily, but low-smoke point, high PUFA oils do. The best unstable food oil by far? Flax oil.

are brown rice/white rice/brown pasta/white pasta/potatoes/white bread/whole grain bread all equally bad? are potatoes the lesser evil?

xp roxymuzak:

Corn syrup solids, like ordinary cooking (not high fructose) corn syrup, is 100% glucose. Less sweet by dry weight than HFCS/sucrose, and according to Dr. Lustig above, less harmful, but still empty calories.

xp just1n3:

Oh, now you're just teasing me. Nearly all the fiber, vitamins & minerals of grains are in the bran & endosperm, which are milled off in the production of white rice, white pasta, and white flour/bread. Dr. Fuhrman's ranking of grains/starches by aggregate nutritional density runs:

Oats 53
Brown Rice 40
Sprouted Grain Bread 39
Potato (white) 34
Barley 32
Whole Wheat Bread 24
Quinoa 21
Whole Wheat Pasta 19
White Pasta 18
White Bread 17
Bagel 18
White Rice 12

His methodology and results seems reasonable to me (though his recipes still suck).

I don't like whole wheat pasta either, but Dr. Greger has turned me on to bionaturae brand as the closest to white pasta in texture. $3/lb at Whole Foods, $2.50 in bulk from Amazon, when my order arrives I'll let everyone know how it fares.

thanks!

Also, while it looks like cooked whole wheat pasta is indistinguishable from cooked white pasta in Fuhrman's ranking, that's because fiber doesn't figure into his calculation, and many of the other nutrients leach into the cooking water. That wouldn't be an issue making in soup with pasta.

Q: Does anyone have any experience with hemp oil?

Hippy Dr. Andrew Weil says it doesn't have the offensive undertones of flax oil (which frankly is better for seasoning woks than for eating - sadly I've concluded we should our flax from smoothies and porridge).

seems like there's not much point in eating grains beside the calories, really.

fiber is good for you?

It beats

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btw made this and my breath is on fire! haw.

you will need a Clan of the Cave Bear-type lady

vibrams???

― dayo, Friday, November 18, 2011 2:17 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol no wai i got these units

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real cave men wear callouses

naw p sure real cave men wore saucony hattoris, but we will never be sure since that was before history

I was sold on Vibrams before they started falling apart from constantly washing the reek out. Current recomendation: Merrell Barefoot Trail gloves. Vibram designed minimal sole, but good traction on wet grass, and you can wear socks.

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Sorry bout the huge image, the preview was much smaller. Also, I inadvertantly posted the image of the True Glove, rather than the Trail Glove, which gets the better reviews.

hey those aren't totally ugly! might consider.

Note the Women's size versions are very very pastel.

ugh
not acceptable

i *guess* you can skip the salt but i don't see any pepper either? dude come on. uoI'mhaf otm..

Braised some mustard greens with my kale last night. A+. Greens rule!

totally!

i actually started keeping some kale in the fridge at work to mix into my soups at lunch! i will basically add kale to anything! also whenever i make any hot dish that's traditionally served w/ rice i have taken to serving it over baby spinach or kale.

Luv kale

also whenever i make any hot dish that's traditionally served w/ rice i have taken to serving it over baby spinach or kale.
me too

we have braised kale at least twice a week now, and spinach and other greens as well...love this time of year

i'm going to start (indoor) rock climbing next week! so excited
maybe i will start eating more caveman-like

maybe they will have an indoor cave too

exactly

maybe they will have an indoor cave too

― ice cr?m, Friday, November 18, 2011 8:23 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

they do, have these, btw

savage

wut do u do in there, age plastic cheese

no u hang from plastic cheese shaped things dummy

gawd

r u sure u were not just aging plastic cheese

i mean win win, right

i can't remember if this was posted already but here is a good nutritional label maker, la lechera: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp.

i'm now on this myfitnesspal thing to see if it'll help me be a bit more focused and disciplined about what i eat.

i'm looking at it and i like it except i don't think i have the self-discipline to put my own recipes in. it looks more convenient for people who don't cook at all.

it wasn't too bad - the annoying thing is the quantities, because some of the listings will only say "grams" or "cups", which is a pain if you've been using tablespoons or whatever

yeah, it's not really that bad. i eat the same thing for breakfast every day anyway so i just saved it, and i repeat recipes a lot anyway.

Dear god I have earn like shit the past two weeks. Can't wait to get home and back in track Wednesday. Feel so gross.

Eaten not earn.

Not even NN necessarily but I feel like I am At the point where my body is screaming for something green.

Prob bcz it is.

NEW YEAR NEW U

;)

http://thevegg.com/

I just bought some amaranth. Does anyone have any good recipes?

You can use it in practically any recipe for quinoa, with no alterations. I don't know if amaranth requires a wash, as quinoa is reported to.

I think I will rinse it anyway, just to be on the safe side. Thanks Sanpaku!

NNs I need inspiration. Also a 2012 thread, pls.

me too!!!

i feel like we have both been saying this for months :(

start a thread! i would start it but i feel like a nutrition disappointment most of the time

wah wah wah

i need nn motivation! quincie, maybe we can start a support group?

― tehresa, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:19 PM

11 months ago :(

i think i'm gonna go to the gym now.

fine i'll start the thread

thanks, harbl

I am going to visit a gym today! Not to work out, mind you, but to see if I there is any possibility that I might actually show up were I to join.

Also going to the farmer's market, which should help on the nutritional front.

Already, T, let's do a daily check-in on the new thread to keep us motivated and, er, accountable.

sweet. i generally do fine for breakfast/lunch but dinners with nutrition-indiscriminate bf is killing me.

i also think that for me if i don't exercise enough, it doesn't matter how healthy i eat. i will be fat. so. more gym for me.

~~~~~nutrition nazis 2012~~~~~