Posted on 12/23/2003 2:58:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:18:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
THE secret to longevity lies in the supermarket. According to "SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life" (William Morrow, $24.95), some foods will not only improve your life - but may well extend it.
Beans, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, pumpkin, salmon, soy, spinach, tea, tomatoes, turkey, walnuts and yogurt - all rich in nutrients and relatively low in calories - are all credited with preventing, and in some cases even reversing, heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers and dementia.
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will you elaborate?
Ummmm.... Puffed or Crunchy?
This was originally posted in 03
Thanks much for the live link! If it weren't for http://www.recipegoldmine.com, I wouldn't eat at all. Some day I may get the knack of making live links in a multi-paragraph post.
You gotta take you're olives with a pinch of vermouth and a couple of oz's of gin (or if you prefer - vodka). That's how you get the real benefits of olives.... ;-/
Olives are fruit.
BTW: According to my reading, only four mammals in the world are incapable of making their own vitamin C. fruit bats, gorillas, humans, and I can't recall the last one. But all the others live in areas where their diets are high in C. Humans being omnivores, don't get nearly enough and the FDA's MDR (60mg) is only enough to stave off scruvy.
Guinea pigs.
The scientists were able to measure the serum Vit C level in animals that make there own C and extrapolate it to what a hundred twenty pound human would need.
Are you ready?
Somewhere between 5-6 thousand milligrams per day.
Also, if you're interested on the nutritional side, I can only urge you to read about some of the recent discoveries about Vitamin D. Reductions of some forms of cancer by 50 percent.
If you are talking Vitamin E, you might want to check this out:
Atlantic Salmon is a code word for farmed Salmon.
High in saturated fat, hormones and antibiotics not to mention fish lice.
You'ld be better off eating a rat and I don't mean the political variety.
They say that runners live five years longer than everyone else, but that they spend the extra five years running.
"I'll die before a brussel sprout will enter my mouth."
LOL! Same here. Or tofu; it tastes like cardboard.
"Pumpkin...don't know how I can work that into my daily diet. Any ideas?"
Acorn squash cut in half. Scoop out the seeds. Put a pat of butter in the center and spinkle a tsp of brown sugar on top.
Bake at 375 degrees until brown. {about half an hour}
Perfect with meat and some steamed green beens on the side.
"It's got olives in it! They're vegetables right?"
Olives, asparagus, broccoli rabe, Andy boy broccoli and heartchokes are excellent.
Olives I believe are fruits. The best way to eat olives is to buy them in water in barrels, crack them, put them in glass jars with oregano, cracked garlic, sliced fresh onions and extra virgin olive oil. Those are the basic ingredients to cracked olives, but you can change them to your liking.
Calamari and stuffed squids are also good for you as are stuffed italian squash flowers.
Whoa, thanks for reviving this two year old thread -- took me a minute to catch on -- and you know, that Sandwich Spread that we opened two years ago is just as fresh now as it was then. Now to track down some Underwood Deviled Ham and Fluffer Nutter on the side.
And if 1000mg is 1G then I'm around 1 to 2 g short for a 120 lb man, and I have 55 more pounds than that.
Yup, way more than the RDA of 60mg.
I've read of people taking up to 40K mg. A doctor and big proponent of C perscribed as much to a pregnant woman, and relatively speaking her delivery was about as painless and quick as such a thing can be (but what do I know, I'm a guy) Or up to the point were the bowels start to complain and then backing off. And the Vit. D thing I just read in the paper, but its been suggested for some time. Fortunately D is made in the body by exposure to sunlight, so while I'm not a tanning fanatic, I get a fair amount, and I love milk which is enhanced with D as well. And thanks, Guinea pigs was the one I couldn't remember. Adding to that little factoid is; that among the 4 mammals, humans are the ONLY carnivores that do not produce C naturally.
Just before I read this post, I was about to head to the convenience store for a candy bar.
Screw it, I want chocolate.
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