rolling nutrition nazis 2011

yeah i worried about that. i buy flax seeds and throw em in, i didn't know if that was the thing to do or not. they have to be kind of broken up to 'work' i guess?

Otherwise you're giving your public sewer system/humanure compost pile an omega-3 supplement.

i bought a bunch of ground flax seed for my uk version of steel cut oatmeal. it is working out well, as in i am presumably doubling down on omega 3 (i eat sardines a couple of times a week). it comes in a sealable bag.

i have also been enjoying a red lentil daal with sweet potato, maybe i got the recipe link from ilx?

and salmon and quinoa, as per.

Could someone tell me how much sprouted wheat berries cost at Whole Foods in the bulk section so I won't have to drive to Milford?

you could try calling your local store?

I submitted a question under the category Product Request using a form on their web site. I felt it would be too much to ask by phone.

Last time I called Whole Foods, they had really spectacular hold music! I forget what it was (except I do remember it wasn't the Beatles).

i stopped eating food

RIP Jack LaLanne http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2011/01/jack-lalanne-1914-2011.html

my supplements are making me sick today

I was helping my friend Beaulah study for her natural medicine class last semester and it made me uneasy about taking my supplements.

Broad spectrum vitamin supplements may be a bad idea. Evidence suggests vitamin A, beta carotine, vitamin E, and folic acid supplements increase mortality, Vitamin C has no effect, while Vitamin D reduces disease incidence and slightly increases lifespan.

I used to take a relatively high dose multi tabs, and since I didn't chew, found the vitamin C (aschorbic acid) content (probably) nauseating on an empty stomach.

Presently I "only" take a 4000 IU Vitamin D capsule, a 450 mg algal DHA softgel, and a 500 mcg B-13 sublingual tab daily, more or less as recommended by Dr. Michael Greger, who has a fairly comprehensive knowledge of recent studies. No nausea taken with morning tea, and I presume I'm getting well over the RDAs of everything else in a low-carb vegan diet.

i'm taking vitamin D capsules along with a more comprehensive daily vitamin but i am probably going to ditch the latter b/c of nausea. i tend to get enough good food in my system so i don't need it. i take the vitamin D because i try to avoid sun exposure.

iirc vitamin d sourced from the sun is vastly better than the vitamin d available in pill form?

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

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.

my supermarket started stocking pumpkin salads and maaan pumpkin is an underrated squash

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?

so addicted to garlicky kale. terrible breath.

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?

i made them a few times last year - good but they don't keep all that well.

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...

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

wld eat

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.

working at a hedge fund would almost be bearable if nutrition nazi lunchbags were provided

is there a good app or online thingie to keep track of daily nutrition goals and things consumed?

You might want to look at http://nutritiondata.self.com/

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.

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

*due to the price of lemons and agave nectar.

you could try stevia powder. it's v v sweet, so a little would go a long way.

ok thanks, never heard of it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

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.

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.

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.

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.

yah it is a good suggestion, xxp.

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.

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.

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.

sparkpeople has a nice recipe calculator, too.

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

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.

i recommend the vanilla stevia if it tastes bitter to you, really cools it out

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

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 :/

yeah that seems to ring a bell the 'sodium sensitive' thing, maybe worth checking out? i guess i should.... aargh

they've recently reduced the amt of daily recommended/allowable sodium for us adults, too, i think...

maybe some sugar/hfcs lobbying effort, who knows?