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[Plane]

Eat Fish.


A traditional Japaneese diet is great as long as you can bear it.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I tend to use the one-minute oats, which I add some of those cranberry raisins to, 'Craisins' they call them.

I have never tried a steel-cut oat, but I doubt that there is any real reason why the one-minute oats are "worthless". Wikipedia does not seem to have any reasons for this. rolling an oat and making it easier to cook does not seem to me to make it automatically less nutritious. This is the first time I have ever heard this.

It is my observation that the fanatics of healthy food always favor the expensive, the rare, and the inconvenient over the cheap, the ordinary and the convenient. I suspect that this is akin to the belief that any medicine is beneficial, the worse it tastes is directly related to its benefit. And yet, many poisons taste truly vile.

Anything costing $20 a pound at Whole Foods is naturally better than something similar available everywhere for 49? a pound, for example. Being from Missouri, I disbelief this line of thought, and will require proof of said claims.

[hnumpah]

my bp is good though
I`m 163/122

That's not good, that's a very high resting pressure (122). You need to get that under 90.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I bake fish in olive oil, with garlic and dill weed, which brings out the flavor. Catfish, tilapia, kingfish and other cheap fish taste great this way. About 400?F for 15-20 minutes in the toaster oven seems to result in a tasty fish.
Catfish sometimes has a sort of fat on it that it is best to scrape off before cooking. I prefer tilapia and kingfish, anyway.

Chopped green onions and green peppers go well cooked with this.

Raw fish is not bad in sushi and sashimi, but entirely raw fish, I will leave to Smeagol (Gollum). Not a favorite with me.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Eat Fish.


A traditional Japaneese diet is great as long as you can bear it.
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The Japanese pretty much outlive everyone, statistically.
Vegetarians (like the Seventh Day Adventists) seem to outlive meat eaters.

[kimba1]

that`s probly why my doc is trying to talk to me
I`m trying to arrainge something for that.
but i agree just because it`s less nutritios doesn`t mean you shouldn`t eat it
i don`t like eating raw vegetables
folks tell me not to cook them
but since I started at a near pure meat diet
shouldn`t people be happy i eat any vegetables at all.

[kimba1]

just did it

it`s now 133/80

but then I just eat,that always lowers my bp
food can be calming

[Amianthus]

I have never tried a steel-cut oat, but I doubt that there is any real reason why the one-minute oats are "worthless". Wikipedia does not seem to have any reasons for this. rolling an oat and making it easier to cook does not seem to me to make it automatically less nutritious. This is the first time I have ever heard this.

Steel cut oats are not much more in price than rolled oats, when you adjust for the "final" volume - like rice, steel cut oats absorb a lot of liquid, so a small amount makes the same final product as more than double the amount of rolled oats. And the "old fashioned" oats are about the same price as the "instant" oats, but they're cooked less. The rolled oats are steam cooked, rolled, steam cooked again, then toasted. Each of the steam cooking sessions removes some of the nutrients, and the toasting removes some of the essential oils. These processes are done to increase storage times for the final product. The total cooking time (before packaging) in order of least to most are "old fashioned", "quick", and "instant". Since the more cooking that is done before packaging leads to the least nutritious final product, the "instant" oats have a lower nutritional value than the "old fashioned." Total cooking time at home for all these products is similar (within a few minutes) and the cost is nearly the same. The difference is mostly in shelf life - the instant takes years to become inedible, while the old fashioned variety lasts only a few months to a year. It takes about 5 minutes from box to table for the old fashioned, and about 3 minutes or so for each of the others (the one minute quoted from the package assumes the water is boiling already).

Steel cut oats, on the other hand, are whole grains. The husk is removed, and the "groat" is cut up, but no other processing is done. Therefore, they are the most nutritious of the lot. But being totally unprocessed, the cooking time is significantly longer. In my opinion, they are also the tastiest of the bunch. I usually eat the "old fashioned" variety, and occasionally on the weekends I'll set up the slow cooker on Friday night for a Saturday breakfast of "pinhead" oats. Sunday breakfast is usually omelets.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Some veggies are harder to get down than others. One can get rather bored with celery, and if you fill the stalk with peanut butter, you have made it fattening. Lettuce is pretty much flavorless.

Coliflower and broccoli are rather tasty with some spices on them, as are shaved carrots. Of all the national foods, the Thai diet seems to be the least fattening: Tom Yum soup, chicken satay, Pad Thai. Pretty low in calories and quite tasty, in my opinion.

You can make some really good pea soup if you run frozen peas thru the blender with a bit of olive oil and spices. Dried pea soup is fairly good as well. You could flavor it with soy bacon or perhaps turkey pastrami.

Gazpacho can be excellent if you use tomato sauce or paste, which have a better flavor than Osterized tomatoes. There are lots of gazpacho recipes on the Internet.

[hnumpah]

Check out Web MD ( www.webmd.com ). You can do a search on cholesterol there (as well as pretty much anything medical) and it will point you to articles with tons of information in them. Search good cholesterol diet, and I'm sure something will come up. Probably even get some recipes.

[Amianthus]

Lettuce is pretty much flavorless.

*Iceberg* lettuce is flavorless. Other varieties have flavor. Romaine, for example.

[Cynthia]

Isn't oatmeal supposed to be good as well?

I think a lot of it is avoiding the really bad foods too.

Maybe one of our medical folks can answer. I think that 253 is pretty high, but what were your levels of good and bad cholesterol?

Oatmeal. That's what I heard.
Good for Cholesterol.

[kimba1]

oatmeal just don`t do it for me
I like carrots, but too much can get toxic
I `ll got see if some dried mushrrom can help with flavoring other stuff

[Xavier_Onassis]

I have heard that too many carrots will turn you orange, and can also have you seeing things in an orangish sort of way. I may eat a pound a week, and have never had this problem.

[yellow_crane]

oh yeah rancid oil is a big problem for me
you see I don`t have much of a sense of smell
so I can`t tell if oil is bad or not
sometime I actually have to ask guest if the oil is bad
strangely every single time they say throw that $h!t out now.
they actually follow me to make sure I toss it.
I sometime got family checking my food to make sure it`s safe
crazy huh?
all my friends get serious when it`s about about cooking oil and me.

Your sense of smell may well improve once you have degunked your system.

Chinese medicine calls it 'tan' which loosely translates as phlegm.

Westerners recognize phlegm, but not the other kinds of phlegm build-up, such as 'invisible phlegm surrounding the heart' which is metaphor for cholesterol building to cause coronary, but is not exactly the same thing either.

If you have a stuffy nose, have trouble sleeping (both falling and staying, but more staying) and see improvement if you do not eat after 6pm, you should go to the Chinese market and seek out chen pi, which is the rine of citriis, technically tangerine.  About $3 a pound.  If you are a purist, remember that it is better the older it is.

Grind the rine or powder it in a coffee mill, and cap if you want.  Otherwise, make a tea.  I won't even suggest your chewing it.

It should vastly improve the gut-instigating phlegm.

It will cause you to cough up goobers, which is of course good.

It will make make you lose weight.

It will provide for centering, quicken your reflexes, and sharpen all sensory gathering processes.   Like sage, it clarifies.

It will instill that jolt of jing you used to get when you encountered a new meadow, fresh with vibrant life, inspiring you to breathe deep, and want to sing.

Not bad for an orange peel.