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| The Lounge | The politics of food | Oct 15 2009 18:34 (UTC) |
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Corn subsidies and why they are making Americans fat. Why processed food costs more than the whole foods it takes to make them.
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| Foods | Try this high-protein pancake !! | Oct 15 2009 18:31 (UTC) |
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Look, I've made protein pancakes and they weren't anything like yours. First of all, where's the cottage cheese or ricotta? Second of all, some carbs are okay - try blending in some oats. Third of all, remember to drink a ton of water to help your body digest the protein. Also, I've made protein crepes before so I had something to replace a wrap and they were pretty good - it was similar to what you have here, only with a little dairy to thin it out.
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| Weight Loss | If I reached my ideal weight I would... | Oct 14 2009 16:06 (UTC) |
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Fly without having the arm rest jabbing into my hips.
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| The Lounge | Are you a survivor? | Oct 09 2009 20:17 (UTC) |
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Original Post by mollymouser: 2 things: 1- I'm glad I'm not the only one out there tasting my dog's food. She once had these sandwich cookies that I ate. They were amazing. Only with a garlic aftertaste. We got her treats she wouldn't eat, so I tried it. Beef liver. Blech. 2- Preparation is key. We have easily prepared shelf stable food as well... I don't trust the government or my fellow citizen, and it wouldn't surprise me if something horrible happened soon. Therefore, we are prepared. |
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| Foods | Egg whites...blah | Oct 08 2009 21:58 (UTC) |
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I've yet to find an *actual* health expert that argues against the SBD. I'm keeping this short since you have trouble understanding written communication, apparently. |
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| Foods | Egg whites...blah | Oct 08 2009 19:56 (UTC) |
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Original Post by pilgrimdude: Dr. Furhman has a book out that competes with SBD. His only piont is "Too much meat" and like I said - I followed SBD 6 months as a vegetarian. Dr. Mercola's article on Emax Health was full of false things (like SBD says to eat trans fats when that's like, the first big thing Dr. Agatsen advocates against), and the article went on to say that whole grains and fruits and vegetables are bad for you - is that what you believe? I sure don't! The Tolentino synopsis says that you won't get enough fiber (I regularly got between 35 and 40 grams a day, which is high, especially for a woman), you don't eat carbs (you do), and that it's too low in calories (12-1500 is what CC+ recommends as a minimum, right? And you eat until saiety, so I'm not sure where he got that idea). The article doctor article says the problem is with relapse. Well, all lifestyle changes have that risk, so I don't see what the point is but to drive up advertising on their site by having a top google hit. I'm sorry, but I've yet to see any article or research that is based in reality or fact that can truly dispute the lifestyle laid out in SBD. You obviously haven't done your own research on topic or else you could quickly just name a few problems with it.
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| Foods | Egg whites...blah | Oct 07 2009 21:37 (UTC) |
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Health experts that quibble with the South Beach Diet? Really. That's funny... having read it 5 years ago, all I know is that every time I turn around, there's another "breakthrough" telling people to be healthy by taking on another aspect of the SBD. Nix trans fats? Check. I'm not sure what there is to dislike about the South Beach Diet. And don't give me the pig out on meat and you're still following it" line because that couldn't be further from the truth. I was a vegetarian for 6 months following the South Beach Diet and no where does it say to pig out on anything. |
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| Weight Loss | i have no idea how many calories i just ate | Oct 06 2009 20:01 (UTC) |
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Does anyone else look at this and think "that's not too bad"? I do. |
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| Foods | Egg whites...blah | Oct 06 2009 19:23 (UTC) |
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Original Post by pilgrimdude: And yet, that information is both outdated and widely disputed. Whole eggs are shown to reduce bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol - which is great, because research shows healthier people have a better good to bad cholesterol ratio. Dr. Agatson (of the South Beach Diet) has extensive research on the topic in his book if you want more information - or they have an extensive report on the world's healthiest foods website (which I'd link you to, but it won't let me copy/paste - how nice). |
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| Foods | Egg whites...blah | Oct 06 2009 19:14 (UTC) |
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Nutritional Yeast, Tumeric, Parsley, or other herbs to up the flavor quotient. |
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| Motivation | Help me please...(sugar) | Sep 28 2009 19:13 (UTC) |
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The problem with sugar is that once you have it, it spikes your blood sugar, then as soon as your first burst of energy is over, you want more so that you can get your energy burst going again. The last time I cut out all sugar completely, I did it cold turkey. All sugar, all white carbs - out the door. Lots and lots of veggies, protein, and whole grains. |
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| The Lounge | New Puppy -need name | Sep 18 2009 20:46 (UTC) |
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Awwww, you may want to take her to a vet/shelter to get her scanned to see if she's microchipped before you get too attached. But thank you so much for rescuing a puppy dog! She looks like a Marla to me. |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | Quite Ashamed & Need Advice | Sep 03 2009 16:09 (UTC) |
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Sounds quite like the South Beach diet. You could pick up a SB Diet Cookbook from your local library - it's really a great way to find healthy foods in exciting ways. Another suggestion would be making your own soups. Soup used to be a staple in diets world wide. They are filling and nutritious and if you make them yourself, you can cut back the sodium. Try making a soup in a crockpot if you are short on time, then let it simmer and enjoy it when you get home. Another place to find good meal suggestions is by searching the DASH diet for recipe ideas. If it says to use something you can't eat, try to think of a way to replace it (if it says white rice, substitute brown). |
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| Recipes | Quick fix protein for a meal? | Aug 26 2009 21:31 (UTC) |
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Put a bunch of spinach in a pan with a splash of broth, lemon juice, and minced garlic (the kind from a jar is a time saver). Turn up the heat. Salt and papper a fish fillet (like tilapia, sole, cod or any other mild white fish). Add it in. Put on a lid. Crank the heat full blast and leave the lid on for about 10 minutes, depending on the thickness of your fillet. Then open it up, and you have a great dish that is light, healthy, and refreshing. You can do the same thing in the microwave too if you're THAT pressed for time. Other than that, my beau and I grill or bake a bunch of chicken boobies on the weekends, then put them in a container in the fridge to take out and nuke throughout the week. It's a life saver to be able to microwave some veggies or minute rice and a chicken breast on a busy weeknight. |
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| The Lounge | The perfect murder..? | Aug 25 2009 22:22 (UTC) |
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Miguel told me that he heard on NPR the other day about this mushroom called the "Assassin's Mushroom" or something like that because the person dies 2 weeks later. I guess it used to be really really valuable because kings could invite adversaries over, feed them the mushroom, and then 2 weeks later the person died. So people didn't really consider the meal - because it should have been "out of your system" by then. In Lovely Bones, the ultimate perfect murder is by icicle - because the evidence melts away. If you haven't read the book, you should. It's amazing. It's going to be a movie soon, I hear. Call up Drew Peterson and ask for tips - he seems to be pretty efficient at it. :-D |
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| The Lounge | I need your stats...EVERYONE PLEASE READ AND RESPOND | Aug 25 2009 22:14 (UTC) |
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YOU CAN'T MAKE ME JUST BY TYPING IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!! |
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| The Lounge | Anyone watching the show True Blood? | Aug 24 2009 20:13 (UTC) |
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Original Post by crazineko: What do you mean by this? He told her he was going to get help, right? |
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| The Lounge | Anyone watching the show True Blood? | Aug 24 2009 18:08 (UTC) |
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Original Post by crazineko: Yeah, I bet the Queen is a naughty girl and was just being messy as she fed. Hahahaha... I was terrified Bill was going to Lorena when he left. I was like WTF!!!! NOOOO! Now I'm really worried that's who it is. You know, Godric banished her... he's gone, she could come back now right? And he said to her "You're a very old vampire. I can tell that." so what's that mean? Could she have stepped up? Oooh goodness.
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| The Lounge | Anyone watching the show True Blood? | Aug 24 2009 18:04 (UTC) |
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Original Post by kathygator: This. I looked at the clock and said "NO FAIR! It's only 8:46!!!" Hahah |
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| The Lounge | Is Chivalry Dead? | Aug 19 2009 22:47 (UTC) |
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I don't think you're overreacting. I'm sorry if my response made it seem that way. People should respond back, because it makes others comfortable, shows dignity, and fosters an environment of respect. I lived in a small mid-western town where people were considerate. They don't call it "Hoosier Hospitality" for nothing. We, like you, waved at people as we drove places. Holding doors, saying polite words (like please and thank you), and just general consideration (offering drinks when people enter your home) are deeply ingrained in me. I now live in Chicago. And I have such a difficult time with how rude everyone is. BUT, I will also say I work for a company where manners and chivalry is quite alive. Men hold doors for women, let them enter or exit elevators first, carry things for them in the halls, etc. It's quite nice, but people don't appreciate it. And often times, it's gender specific. I held open the door for a man who had his hands full and he turned bright red, and was quite apologetic. But then, I, in turn, hold open doors and elevators for older women or pregnant women or anyone who has their hands full. I always make sure I give a warm "thank you" or "thanks, have a good day". But when I am in an elevator of women who don't say thank you, I usually whisper it to the guy so I don't look like a suck up or something. But I guess that's what I mean about being considerate of others - I don't want to call out the women on being rude, but I also want to be polite and show gratitude to the guy holding the door open. My beau struggled with this when we moved here, he's from KY. If he held open the door for a group, and no one said thank you, he'd let it fall shut on the last person. I had to point out that that was rude, too. And rude + rude = more rude. Whereas rude + polite = less rude, so you just have to do the best you can. |
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| The Lounge | Is Chivalry Dead? | Aug 19 2009 22:03 (UTC) |
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Original Post by kathygator: I completely agree. I hate it when I see/hear people who say "please" or "thank you" then act like jerks throughout the meal. The point isn't to follow a set of rules and thereby you're okay. The point is to make others comfortable, treat each other with dignity, and foster an environment of respect. |
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| The Lounge | Obama's healthcare ideas? | Aug 18 2009 16:02 (UTC) |
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Oh, and I forgot... Calling you a Social Darwinist makes perfect sense. Look, there is an inequality of power in this world, and no amount of freedom in the market will fix that. Trust fund baby might be able to graduate college and create a company which does quite well - using money given to him by his parents and an education his wealthy family could afford. But trailer park baby, who grew up poor and undereducated, hits 18 what are his options? He can't open a business. He doesn't have the funds to do so. So what does he do? Maybe he can get a job cleaning the toilets at trust fund baby's company. He'll get paid next to nothing because that's what's good for business. And the cycle will repeat itself. Regulation protects people. Libertarians go on and on about the ills of regulation, but it's what makes the products we use safe, the water we drink clean, the air we breathe less toxic, and the food you eat safe. |
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| The Lounge | Obama's healthcare ideas? | Aug 18 2009 15:43 (UTC) |
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Original Post by lysistrata: No... I'm not mad at "greedy profitmakers". Not when it comes to most things - creating goods or even services in a marketplace are wonderful things for people to do. There's several problems here. One is when you assume that normal, standard medical care - treating ear aches, vomitting/diarrhea, bronchitis, sinus infections, broken digits/limbs, sprained joints, muscle pulls, rashes, hives, any acute care medical issue - needs medical innovation and break throughs. These are standard ailments, which make up a large amount of health problems in the United States. What more innovation do we need to treat such minor illnesses and injuries? And yet... the last time I got an ear infection (something I've had all my life), it cost $56 for an office visit and $30 for my prescription (for some freaking ammoxicillan). Know why? Greed. Oh, and I have to pay for people who can't pay so medical care is artificially inflated to account for it. Yeah... I'm paying for the poor's health care anyway. Might as well do it in an efficient, humane manner. Then you have the big stuff - cancer, HIV/AIDS, endocrine disorders, tumors, serious medical problems.... no one wants to pay for these things. No one! Not even the insurance companies who agreed to pay for them in the first place when they were taking your insurance premiums! If you aren't part of a group plan, they come through and deny your coverage because you didn't tell them you had acne. So you're literally stuck chosing to have a longer, healthier life or having a shorter, financially stable life. If you're part of a group plan, you lose your job because the health insurance company sees your medical expenses start rolling in and they give your employer a choice - get rid of this person, or pay out $1MM extra in premiums this year to cover for them. Then you're stuck unemployed and unable to get health care because you can't get health insurance because you have a prexisting condition. These things happen. Know why? Greed. It makes me so sick. The problem is when you commoditize my health care. For Frank's sake! I have paid out over $2,000 of my annual income this year for medical care - out of pocket! Outside of my premiums. Outside of my $500 deductible. And I'm paying that gargantuan amount of money for long waits (three weeks before I could see a gyno with an 8 cm ovarian cyst), poor care (when I finally got in to see the guy there was nothing he could do - so he prescribed me birth control, which only exacerbates my problems - so not only did I wait 3 weeks, my doctor is so ill informed on managing my problems that he gave me the wrong drugs), and while I'm doing all I can to keep costs low (I joined a frackin' clinical trail so I could get good care!!! I have to be a lab rat to not go bankrupt because of medical bills!!!). And all that goes to.... some rich bastard's banking account? Screw that. Who has the incentive for medical innovation? The people who run the medical companies. Not the people actually doing the research. This whole "without profit as a motivating factor" bullhockey is a ridiculous argument. All profit motivates people to do is make money. If that means fixing a problem or creating a dependency on your product, you create the dependency. Greed - in some instances - is good. You know... when the goal is to make money. But when the goal is to provide quality health care, greed only sullies the process and destroys lives. |
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| The Lounge | Obama's healthcare ideas? | Aug 17 2009 21:40 (UTC) |
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Of course there are drugs that help people. Sometimes, as in the case of antibiotics, heal them. Statins have to be taken indefinitely. They may reduce cholesterol or whatever they do (I honestly am not in the medical field), but they don't "fix" you and then you never have to take them again. Here's the thing. I do know the business side of things. I was an Insurance/Risk major in college. I understand the Health Insurance side all too well. I know that it's much more common to tell someone to pop a pill than to actually fix a problem. Because it's cheaper for the insurance company and better for big pharma. I understand how business works. That's why I'm sickened that people make a profit off of my illness (or, by withholding my treatment). I understand that pharma makes money by assuming risk and pouring tons into R&D. You're not talking to an idiot. My problem is that ther eare investors, when there could be funding. There's a difference. Investors ask for things back. Funding doesn't. Investors push businesses to make money for them. Funding uses discoveries for the good of all. I can't name a single drug today that was developed by a non-private entity. Then again, that's not the environment that our country has created for drug manufacturers. Our regulatory (or lack thereof) climate has made things the way they are. You free marketers are simply social darwinists hiding behind a vague economic *theory* that holds just as much water as pure communism. |
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| The Lounge | Obama's healthcare ideas? | Aug 17 2009 20:42 (UTC) |
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You make a valid point. Synthetic hormones, Insulin, and a variety of other medications DO help people live better lives. But Insulin doesn't rid the body of diabetes. Antidepressants my balance a person's brain chemistry, but they don't "heal" a person. Here's the thing.... pharma does what pharma does for the money. They aren't out there to make people's lives better. They are there for a profit. If their drugs cause side effect A which creates a need for drug B, then YAY! More money!!! But research (through schools, government) are there because they are trying to make lives better. |
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| Health & Support | Health insurance for a college-student married couple? | Aug 17 2009 20:33 (UTC) |
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Original Post by harrislittle: Riiiight.... because it's not smart to have health insurance when you're young and "invincible!". Here's a list of health issues my SO and I have had in the last three years...we're both 26, we both exercise and eat healthy. We don't smoke, we drink occasionally, never to excess. Me: SO: In the last year, I have paid $1700 out of pocket, after insurance, after my $500 HSA. On top of my premiums. But it doesn't even compare to the amount I would have had to pay if I didn't have insurance (basically, that's 20% of my medical bills because I put my HSA towards my $500 deductible). You're right, though. Young people are invincible! *sprays fairy dust everywhere* We don't need annual check ups, we don't need preventative health care. |
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| The Lounge | Obama's healthcare ideas? | Aug 17 2009 20:21 (UTC) |
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Original Post by lysistrata: Last I knew, most meds don't heal people. Mostly they cover up symptoms of larger problems. Sure, you can take this pill to decrease the pain from your back injury.... which could only be "healed" by surgery. But the surgery is a last ditch effort that is difficult to get coverage for through your insurance. And even then, they might deny you the day before you go in to surgery, saying you haven't tried enough other options yet -- even though you have been to the chiropractor, the acupuncturer, through physical theraphy, on light duty at work, tried various pharmacuticals to reduce inflamation, pain, relax muscles, etc.... But no.... surgery costs too much. So take this pill instead. |
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| The Lounge | Obama's healthcare ideas? | Aug 17 2009 20:14 (UTC) |
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Original Post by lysistrata: Heh. Kinda like people who voted for Gore outnumbered people who voted for Bush. What's your point? |
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| Foods | Give Me Your Recipes: INDIAN! | Aug 17 2009 20:03 (UTC) |
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Get some different masala spice mixes - like garam masala or tandoori masala. Tandoori chicken: The next day, grill or bake the chicken pieces. I'm a wimp, so I like it with chippitah (kind of a whole wheat indian tortilla) and cilantro. I've made Hyderabadi biryani from a mix before and it was pretty good. Same thing with Chicken Tikka Masala. I can't remember the company, but the boxes were all yellow or orange or red and looked generic. We also buy bottled curry sauce sometime, but it's just soooo salty. But I guess for a quick throw together meal, it suffices. My favorite Indian dish is Chicken Saag and I've yet to try to make it at home. I might just leave it to the experts..... |
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| Foods | Reicpes for a picky eater! | Aug 17 2009 19:56 (UTC) |
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pound chicken breasts until thin, then dredge in parsley, salt, and pepper seasoned whole wheat flour. You can serve it with asparagus sprinkled with parm, with a big bunch of salad greens and a lemon vinagrette, mashed potatoes (cooked in broth, mashed with FF half and half), or a light pasta that's been tossed with olive oil, salt, and parsley. |
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