Posted on 09/17/2010 6:58:35 AM PDT by Scythian
Yes, cumin is a seed. I buy it whole and whirl it in a spice grinder.
Turmeric is a root. I can buy it fresh here in Los Angeles. It looks like ginger but orangish.
Just enjoyed a great salad with asparugus last night for dinner.
Spinich raw
Red leaf lettuce
or a mix of baby greens w/cilantro
a bit of red onion
sliced strawberries
asparugus
gargonzola and or whiney goat cheese
Raspberry dressing or close to it
top with pecans and coconut/lime salt (I am big on flavored non kosher salts)
I agree,
My tummy is what it is and so my diet is in accordance to keep it running well.
The staff in the Pakistani grocery I used thought it was great that I had a large family (only five or six, then) and would give the kids red-pepper flavored chickpea nibbles.
I’ll be trying that.
Me too. Of course, I've never really consumed either to verify, but I'm pretty certain I am. ;-)
Sometimes I can taste with my eyes.
Hence the to each his own.
I prefer blended concotions.
Cilantro/cucumber/avacado and a lil olive oil plus a few other light seasonings make a nice raw veggie salad dressing.
My fruit smoothies are wonderful to me but have I tend to gulp them down which can screw up the body (an old body) BG count.
I used to when younger do allot of raw juice ing.
Now that I am aging my system can’t process all that power at once so I have to chop and chew. Not the same burst of flavor IMO as blended or juiced.
Don’t get me wrong I am all for man made pharma’s.
Yet I try diet and simple measures, as my first line of attack.
When I was young I was all about going to a doc and getting a pill for what needed a cure.
Then as I aged and have very limited time I started with diet about 15 yrs ago.
Not one one taking capsules for nutrition other than Vit D (PNW neighbor) I eat what I crave right now it is foods high in Vit K.
I have taken man made thyroid for most my life and that is a blessing else I would not be here (no thyroid gland) but boy that is such a huge hormonal and how the body processes everything else that I just don’t mess with it by mixing up to much.
If God willing I can do it via diet first then so be it.
I don’t have to cook/make meals for anyone other than myself so if I want to say drink dark cherry juice and do a fast for the occasional gout attack to lower those uric acid levels I am free to do so.
Perks to being single for life.
Downside finding someone you trust to drive you home from that colonoscopy.
At the time, it was unlawful in many places to sell oleomargarine already colored yellow. It often came with a little packet of coloring instead.
As you might guess, this was the doing of the dairy lobby.
ps.: Another powerful yellow food colorant is beta carotene in small concentrations.
Which, unfortunately, explains why we have the Left.
“Q: Is their life span shorter, hence less chance of occurence of Alzheimers?”
Not really, they just have a higher infant mortality rate. The Bible promises 3 score and 10 (70), and if you can make beyond infancy, most people will reach it. On the other hand, living 70 years in India might not be all that fun. Wearing diapers your whole life and eating curry at every meal might get tiresome.
This may be a little off-topic, but who was the Freeper who always touted coffee enema's?
Just askin'
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“Wearing diapers your whole life and eating curry at every meal might get tiresome.”
Is curry known for having that effect on people?
I do have several bottles of (Bio)piperine.
Ordinary black pepper has no measurable effect on curcumin absorption.
The gout drug is not an elective thing. I wouldn't exactly call it a poison.
Anybody know if “curcumin” mentioned in the article is the same as “cumin”? I can get cumin and turmeric as powdered spices anywhere and they don’t taste the same.
No relation.
“Cumin (pronounced “comein”) is the pale green seed of Cuminum cyminum, a small herb in the parsley family. “
Turmeric is ginger family.
Curmumins are the chemicals in turmeric that make it bio-effective for various things.
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