Nutritional supplements

I’m wondering why some are so non-vegetarian?A number of vegetarians have been great athletes, like Jack La Lanne(for those who know who he is) and Iron Man winners. I guess it has alot to do with know how to cook, prepare meals and what to eat. Jack LaLane admits to eating a little fish and that he is only a 99%vegetarian.Having looked at what people eat, the Okinawan people have one of thebetter lifestyles, eating locally grown food (in their own garden ornearby) and some fish.

In my humble opinion, in this coutry (US) we think and talk about foodtoo much without actually knowing what real food is and only highpriced restaurants may come close, while the rest of us live on overlyprocessed artificial food stuffs. [Does this remind you of a movie -Soilent Green.]We need to start gardening, to put the hurt in the pocket books ofeveryone, from grower to seller, producing the garbage called food. Ikeep talking to people, but so many are dumb, to the point that theydon’t even know what is in their drinking water or that growing yourown food organically is worth the effort.

Sometimes I cut open an avocado that seems like it should befresh and it has little black specks around the edges.

Does anyone know what those are and do they mean the wholeavocado is bad? If there’s isn’t too much black specks I work myway around them and use the rest of the fruit, but it doesn’t tastenearly as good as an avocado with no specs.

I’m in California so you’d think [tag]avocados[/tag] would be awesome allyear but no. Maybe I should limit to seasonal times but theymake such a great lunchtime salad component. Any tips on notgetting those specks?

I’ve said in the past that I eat 5-6000 [tag]calories[/tag] a day, but I tabulated mycaloric intake yesterday for fun and found I only ate 4,677.8 calories. Grantedmy workout was abnormally easy, and I probably eat more when my workout isreally tough. e.g. I didn’t eat any ice cream, a bowl of which would have added500 calories (for 1 cup).

Interesting to see the way it divides up. Breakfast was 326 calories, lunchwas 0 calories (I had celery, which I considered insignificant), pre-workoutwas 120 calories, post-workout was 630 calories, and my “Warrior Meal” was3,601.8 calories.

I’m not aware of any controlled studies onhomeopathy, which makes itequally unscientific both to claim it is certainlyvalid or it iscertainly not.

homeopthic doctors who literally invented thedouble-blind study. Look into the history of this,it’s fascinating.

Therefore, homeopathy is no different from any othermethodaboutwhich there are things we don’t yet know, such asquantifiable efficacyormechanism.

of the medicines used by allopaths the cause of actionis “unknown.” Yet no one calls those drugsunscientific.I live with a homeopathic doctor. She got into itbecause she had a friend who was a homeopath. WhenAnnemarie first heard about homeopathy, she thought itwas utter snake oil. The friend said, “Let metreat–what have you got to lose?” Annemarie waslooking forward to being able to say, “What do youknow-NOTHING HAPPENED!” But instead, overnight, somesevere and chronic problems disappeared and she wassold. People come in and out of our house 5 or 6 timesa day with almost miraculous cures–way more than the20% that could be ascribed to the placebo effect. Alot of these folks aren’t “believers”–they’re old NewEngland dairy farmers who don’t care what it is aslong as it works. I’ve seen people cured of everythingfrom life-threatening, chronic asthma to depression tocancer. That said, it doesn’t work on every condition. Andthe so-called remedies that you get at the naturalfood store are basically bullshit. The remedy has tobe matched to the individual’s symptoms. There isn’tone remedy for hayfever or diarrhea or headaches.There’s potentially thousands. It’s a completelydifferent method of prescribing. So those littlebottles you can buy at Wholefoods labeled “for sorethroats” or whatever are probably not going to workand make classical homeopaths crazy.

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just a quick note about a successful improv from the other day. ibought a pig stomach from a local organic farm (it was frozenunfortunately), mainly just for fun since i’ve only eaten it atchinese shops, never prepared it myself. i wound up cutting up afew onions, cutting the stomach into bite-size pieces (some nicechunks of fat here and there on the outside!), and simmering it fora few hours, adding only some freshly roasted cumin, some ginger,and a pinch of celtic sea salt. i wanted to try something reallysimple not to mask the pig stomach too much. i let it reduce downto a curry consistency and it was DELICIOUS!! the pig stomachbecame very soft and tender. i’m trying to learn more about thegreat foods that come from the less popular parts of animals, partlyin the spirit of frugality. i know there have been threads in thepast about the economic side of feeding a large family NT-style, somaybe this could give someone some ideas, despite coming from asingle guy.

I am trying to find the original explanation of the [tag]bicarb soda[/tag] testand Yahoo just is not playing ball! I can’t find anything thatmentions bicarb prior to filippa’s post on 12th November.

Please could someone help by reposting the instructions?

Also, I tend to burp after I drink anything anyway, so how will thistest work for me?

I made some pickled red cabbage according the NTsauerkraut recipe. However, I used the extra tbsp saltinstead of the whey. They are now so salty as to bepractically inedible.

Does anyone know how I can rectify this?

Thanks

I got some [tag]raw milk[/tag] to make [tag]yogurt[/tag] but I did it improperly and itdidn’t work. I just kind of guesstimated to temp and hoped it wouldwork, stupid eh? So now I have a quart of milk with some yogurtmixed in that I don’t want to throw out. Any ideas on how I coulduse it?

I don’t know much about using dairy since I was vegan for a long timeuntil recently, so I apologize for seeming ignorant.

I don’t think any of Price’s subjects smoked, but in Anthropology class, wediscussed the San of the Kalahari desert. They loved smoking when theydiscovered it from visiting Europeans, and took up the habit. They had similardisease profiles to Price’s subjects, but suffered from venereal diseases andtuberculosis that they developed from contact with Europeans. Their diet wasonly 37% animal products, and based on mongongo nuts, so they may have hadlowered immunity from less animal products– I don’t know. They had no toothdecay,no high blood pressure. I don’t remember exactly, but I don’t think heartdisease or cancer was mentioned.