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Fiber is good (you should be getting 25g MIN/day), but too much fructose is not. I have a crazy sweet tooth (especially for baked goods), and I know fruit would never cut it for me. But vaping baked goods seems to be working.
My trick to nutrition is to learn what the good [carbs/fats/proteins] and the bad [carbs/fats/proteins] are, and try to stay away from the bad. There's almost always a "good" substitution for the "bad" stuff you're craving. Like Uncle said, white rice is bad, but brown rice isn't (as bad). Regular pasta, especially when cooked wrong, is bad, but then there's Dreamfields. Sweet potatoes are better than regular potatoes. Vegetable oil is OK for salad dressing, but not for cooking. Whole grain flour is better than enriched flour. You can get crazy amounts of protein, fiber and potassium from beans, especially when combined with whole grain. Natural peanut butter (with just peanuts and maybe a little salt) is good, but Skippy/Jif is baaaad. And on and on...
Reading ingredient lists is good too. Stay away from "partially hydrogenated..." and "high fructose...," and the new substitutes they're coming up with (palm oil, Olestra...), and watch the sodium. For bread, if the first ingredient listed is "enriched flour," skip it.
And two spices I always try to put in: cinnamon (but some people need like 1+ tsp a day for it to work - that's a lot) and cayenne.
I've been doing this for so long that I don't have to worry about what I eat anymore (at least when I'm at home), and I'm at the healthiest I've been in a long, long time.
hey bluesman.......great news your back.........yeah the wabbits.....a funny funny bunny.......ill try to treat him right....but ill throw him a left hook now and then....to keep him on his fluffy tail...
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wheres your pic wabbit..... ?"
You just need to browse the Volt picture thread, or search that thread for White Rabbit. Not the best pic, but not a great face either LOL
wheres your pic wabbit..... ?"
You just need to browse the Volt picture thread, or search that thread for White Rabbit. Not the best pic, but not a great face either LOL
You said, "Vegetable oil is OK for salad dressing, but not for cooking." What about olive oil? I've been using that for cooking because I heard it had the good kind of fat, not the bad kind. I'm basically healthy, so I don't need to watch my diet obsessively, but I do like to make the wisest choice.
Beans are great, but what about the (ahem) gas? I try to avoid eating beans if I have to go out in public. I read someplace that adding ginger would reduce the gas, but it has never worked. How much ginger? I just added a little. Did I need to add fresh ginger, not the powdered kind? Maybe I should give it a try. I have some bean soup in the freezer and some fresh ginger that needs to get used up.
your a fine looking gentleman....nothing wrong with that face...one problem.....you should have been wearing wabbit ears.........would of made a nice touch..
..ill have to go spend some time searching...through the other pics..ill have to get my comp mate to help me do a pic.....could take awhile....hes not to well atm
..ill have to go spend some time searching...through the other pics..ill have to get my comp mate to help me do a pic.....could take awhile....hes not to well atm
well ive seen yours ull have to wait for mine...what a cool drawing.....is that your handy work..........
Can't stand exercise but I love getting something done
That is why living on 5 acres suits me.
I know what you mean about riding, SandySu. Doing stuff with your horse isn't a passive experience. Even in driving a cart you are fully present in the moment and remembering to sit up straight and adjusting the reins and such. Not to mention setting the horse up by walking it out, grooming and getting the harness parts on and then bringing the cart out and getting that on the horse. Not that it seems like exercise but it is
I garden, clean the goat and horse pens, haul water and wood, clean houses. Sometimes I herd the goats out back to graze on weeds or take that cute little horsey for a walk. The dogs like to go around the yard once or twice a day and look for mouses. Penny gets her exercise by digging up imaginary mouses [we call all the various kinds of rodents mouses]. If you say, "Is that a bunny?" Rusty the Red Dog will look everywhere for a bunny. Fortunately, we don't have too many rodents out there although the cat or one of the dogs does occasionally find themselves a prize. That is the way I like to exercise.
That is why living on 5 acres suits me.
I know what you mean about riding, SandySu. Doing stuff with your horse isn't a passive experience. Even in driving a cart you are fully present in the moment and remembering to sit up straight and adjusting the reins and such. Not to mention setting the horse up by walking it out, grooming and getting the harness parts on and then bringing the cart out and getting that on the horse. Not that it seems like exercise but it is
I garden, clean the goat and horse pens, haul water and wood, clean houses. Sometimes I herd the goats out back to graze on weeds or take that cute little horsey for a walk. The dogs like to go around the yard once or twice a day and look for mouses. Penny gets her exercise by digging up imaginary mouses [we call all the various kinds of rodents mouses]. If you say, "Is that a bunny?" Rusty the Red Dog will look everywhere for a bunny. Fortunately, we don't have too many rodents out there although the cat or one of the dogs does occasionally find themselves a prize. That is the way I like to exercise.
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I have been following Eat to Live by Dr Joel Fuhrman for the past 6 months. I've dropped 35 pounds and all of my blood work came back perfect 4 months into this eating style. Dr Fuhrman has a new book out: The end of Diabetes. You can find it on Amazon. I've not read it (thankfully I'm not diabetic) yet, but from what I understand, a lot of the lifestyle is very similar to Eat to Live.
Try soaking your beans overnight and rinse them well before cooking. This takes a lot of the gasses out. Not all, but it does tend to help.
It all goes back to Sigmund Freud possibly??? He had a really good theory on this sort of thing. Uncle is much smarter than I am and can explain it better.Actually his oral fixation theory fits smokers/vapers very well I think
big heat wave hitting oz.....it is 44c....118f.....in vic oz....poor reptilr...im sure shes from there.........here in qld...mid 30s atm....so if its hot as 
hell here....im taking it will get colder for some of you.....heres a tune....some like it hot.....lets turn up the heat till we fry.........also im worried about judeb...theres fires in Tassie....I sent her a txt yesty....no answer yet....
hell here....im taking it will get colder for some of you.....heres a tune....some like it hot.....lets turn up the heat till we fry.........also im worried about judeb...theres fires in Tassie....I sent her a txt yesty....no answer yet....
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big heat wave hitting oz.....it is 44c....118f.....in vic oz....poor reptilr...im sure shes from there.........here in qld...mid 30s atm....so if its hot as
Just watching a Home and Garden show about a young couple moving to the Gold Coast of Australia, just georgeous surf, palm trees and views. Even with the heat it must be just wonderful, kinda like a tropical Caribbean Island on the coast.
big heat wave hitting oz.....it is 44c....118f.....in vic oz....poor reptilr...im sure shes from there.........here in qld...mid 30s atm....so if its hot as
I could never stand such heat! Here's a photo from another year, but it looks about the same now.
I heard that if you take a pin and poke a hole in the beans, you won't have gass!!!!
OK you have been taking LOL lessons from the old wabbit haven't you?
all that glitters is not gold....crime rate is bad as in good old goldie....I use to go there when younger...but you have to have eyes in the back of your head now.....its only a 9o min drive from me....has no appeal to me any more....north is the best...yeah theres crime here...but no where as much as south...
Portrait of a pig:
We were talking about pigs the other day, and I came across a picture I took of my friend's boar, back before he went into attack mode, though he looks scary enough here, IMHO.
We were talking about pigs the other day, and I came across a picture I took of my friend's boar, back before he went into attack mode, though he looks scary enough here, IMHO.
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