Eat and be well: Nutritionists name the 10 most important foods

The Orlando Sentinel ^ | June 22, 2004 | Marge Perry

[Focault's Pendulum]

White Castle

Anybody who puts out a Big Slam Breakfast...or equivalent

Johnnie Walker Red

Johnnie Walker Black

Guiness Stout

Any Cigarettes you can buy from Switzerland

Grilled Rib Eye Steak and Baked Potato served with both butter and sour cream.

Porterhouse Steak with the same Baked Potato but add some Asparagus for roughage...generous on the Hollandaise Sauce.

Twice Baked Stuffed Potatos with Ranch dressing. Note: e mail me and I'll send you the recipe

All Diner food.

[The Other Harry]

My wife eats dark chocolate chips right out of the bag (actually, she puts them in a bowl). I haven't got a taste for it but, then, I think it must be a woman thing. :-)

I have read where chocolate stimulates something akin to what an orgasm stimulates in females.

[The Other Harry]

I could live on blueberries and avacados. Not thinly, but happily.

[Eaker]

Crestor

I agree with the rest of your list!

[muawiyah]

Alas, legumes also contain starch, and unless you eat them in an uncooked dry state they are going to give you a diabetic sugar spike like there's no tomorrow!

Just where do they get these ideas that diabetics don't check their blood sugar levels every now and then to see how different foods affect them? Nobody's slipping any beans past me without a fight.

The Glycemic Index gives different values for different kinds of beans. Fresh green beans are quite low. Canned red beans are almost as bad as white bread or glucose injections. All the other legumes (beans and lentils) are ranked in between. It's always wise to check the Glycemic Index to see how something ranks before eating it.

[KriegerGeist]

I eat all of them daily or weekly except avacados.

[summer]

I haven't got a taste for it but, then, I think it must be a woman thing. :-)

I really think one has to develop a taste for it. It is certainly different. And, I agree, for some reason it's probably easier for women to make the effort to enjoy dark chocolate. :)

[Clara Lou]

Try Dove dark chocolate pieces. Mmmm. Dove dark is better than Hershey dark choclate.

[BunnySlippers]

They forgot coffee and cigarettes.

And booze ...

[summer]

Re your post #38 - LOL...nah, keep your list. :)

[BlessedBeGod]

10. DARK CHOCOLATE. Yep, that's right, chocolate. Justify it nutritionally: dark (unsweetened chocolate) has compounds similar to red wine that benefit heart health. The flavonoids (an antioxidant-like chemical in plant foods) in dark chocolate fight free radicals and help blood vessels dilate, which improves blood flow. It doesn't take a nutritionist, though, to say that chocolate makes people feel warm- hearted.

YES!!!!!!!! I guess I can continue eating my dark chocolate Hershey kisses after lunch every day! :-)

[Dog Gone]

I have read where chocolate stimulates something akin to what an orgasm stimulates in females.

You mean the urge to engage in sappy talk while I'm trying to fall asleep?

[Billthedrill]

Grilled Rib Eye Steak and Baked Potato served with both butter and sour cream.

Yeah, but no chives. Green vegetables'll kill ya.

[BunnySlippers]

2. Pretzels

Be careful, they're killers ... :)

[summer]

Try Dove dark chocolate pieces

Thanks; I will.

[carl in alaska]

Bumparooski......

[summer]

Re your post #45 - I was thinking the same thing about the beans re the G Index.

[Poohbah]

I eat from the four food groups every day.

Sugar, salt, caffeine, and saturated fats.

[chilepepper]

but blueberries make your mouth, teeth, and gums, uh well, blue. Looks bad.

Yeah, but then people with colds and other horrible diseases stay away from you. Why do you think garlic is so healthy?

[don-o]

Cooking eggs too long destroys

My interest was piqued by a Nero Wolfe murder mystery. Then I looked it up in "The Joy of Cooking."

In the murder mystery, Nero Wolfe said it would take 45 minutes.