Neko-chan
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I THINK I SCREWED UP MY METABOLISM
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I dunno. I think Jamie just might look good in the stylish hat and light flowing blouse.Neko-chan said:I never wear sunscreen. I try to make sure I'm not out in the sun long enough to sustain a burn, and I know when I've had enough exposure (especially in Oz). Not only is it annoying, because you have to keep applying it, but it's just disgusting. Nothing like smearing chalky grease on your body, mmhm. Never mind your face. Massive break outs anyone?
Find a stylish hat and some sunglasses and a light flowing blouse and you're set. (or a t shirt and manly hat for the male types.)
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If you want the best results from CLO, then you need to get the raw fermented kind. www.drrons.com
Best part about it?
You will never sunburn again!
Best part about it?
You will never sunburn again!
miss_thenorth
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I was talking to the lady at the heath food store about fermented cod liver oil, and she asked me--how on earth do they ferment cod liver oil? Any answers?
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The same way the Vikings did!miss_thenorth said:
In barrels.
Dave Wetzel gave a pretty good rundown on the process on his site.
http://www.greenpasture.org/community/
lwheelr
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Couple'a thoughts here...
I used to be pre-diabetic. Then I bounced over to full blown diabetic for about three months, at the end of which I learned that overdoses of Thiamin and Riboflavin will CAUSE high blood sugar (those two B vitamins are in a LOT of enriched foods). Dumped the sources of those from my diet and have not had significant blood sugar problems since, even when pregnant! Avoid multi-vitamins for this reason - they OD you on stuff you DON'T need, and you'll still stay low on the stuff you DO need because you are most likely either not absorbing it, or you are low on micronutrients that multi-vitamins never have anyway.
Ok, the other vitamin that REALLY makes a big difference to your metabolism, endocrine system, and digestion (all the things needed to maintain healthy weight and energy), is B6. It sort of sits at the bottom of all of those processes, and if you are low, they all go haywire. Blood sugar goes off in both directions, energy tanks, weight gets stubborn (especially around the middle), insulin resistance sets in, hormones go wonky, and digestion gets inefficient.
A supplement probably isn't the answer. Yogurt or Kefir probably IS the answer - they both will help you get more B6 out of your food, and help to absorb it better. They also help you get other nutrients out of your food more efficiently, help in processing proteins, etc, so good all around. If you are gonna eat nutrient dense food, it won't help if you are not GETTING the nutrients OUT of the food, and absorbing them well. Yogurt or Kefir once a day can make a world of difference - just count it as one milk serving (about 15 gm of carb). It will help re-balance your digestion, which can trigger your body out of starvation mode much faster.
Someone said that healthy carbs will HELP with blood sugar and weight control, and this is true. I get about 120 gm of carb per day also, and it is just about right for good energy and good blood sugar control.
The big deal is that they are healthy carbs - nutrient dense, minimally processed, simple fresh foods.
I also agree on the fats - butter, olive oil, EV coconut oil (tastes yummy), lard, sunflower oil, and other REAL and natural forms of fat are good. Think about it this way - if a society used it as a major source of nutrition historically, and if you can make it at home, it is generally ok (yeah, you can make olive, sunflower and coconut oil at home - it takes a heavy press, but you can!). Remember, the Polynesians historically used high amounts of coconut oil in their diets, and at that time, did not have problems with diabetes, obesity, or excessive heart disease. They've become notorious for those ills in the twentieth century as their native diet was abandoned.
I always eat very lean meat, because beef, pork, and chicken fat are things I can't tolerate right now (due to Crohn's), but I replace the fat with medium chain fatty acids that I can tolerate, so I'm not having dry meats.
So take that lean steak or skinless chicken, and sizzle it in some butter. Tastes better and digests better!
Make your own fried chicken too - whole wheat flour for the coating, and fry that chicken in some coconut oil or lard. Don't go overboard on it, but when you want it, make it healthy and enjoy it without feeling guilty.
I've gotta say something about the much maligned potato! Most of the info on potatoes being bad is flat out WRONG. Again, look at history and eating potatoes among healthy populations was very prevalent. It is how we eat them, and what has been done to them that is the problem. Tests that prove this or that negative effect of potatoes have been done on chemically treated potatoes with the skins off, or with the highest concentration of the chemicals in the skins.
Problem #1 - Processed potatoes. EVERY POTATO YOU BUY is PROCESSED, except for Organic whole potatoes. All commercial non-organic potatoes are sprayed with a sprout inhibitor. That chemical is a strong preservative, designed to stop the growth of living cells. And it does. On the potato, and inside YOU. Potatoes are not labeled as treated with this, but you can easily prove it. Just set a non-organic potato, and an organic potato, in the window, and see what happens. One sprouts fast, grows lush, the other sprouts slowly, and if you plant it, the plants will never bear potatoes. The chemical used soaks into the entire potato - the highest concentration is in the skin, but the whole potato is contaminated.
Most potato chips are BAD... not for the chips and oil, and not for the potatoes themselves (heck, Lay's potato chips are nothing but potatoes and sunflower oil and salt), but for the chemical they've been treated with before Lay's got their hands on them. They give me a headache every time I eat them, due to the chemical on them. Every other food that has potatoes in them has this too - potato flakes, canned stew, canned soups, frozen meals, frozen potato products, etc. Potato products are not made from fresh potatoes - they are made from stored potatoes so they can keep the processing plants operating year-round.
So if you want potatoes, the first lesson is, GET ORGANIC (or go to the fields and get the potatoes with the dirt still on them), get whole potatoes, and make your own potato stuff. I sometimes get organic potato chips for a snack when we are on the road - they are old enough after packaging that they don't have much nutritional value left, but they aren't downright harmful like the non-organic ones are.
Problem #2 - The majority of the nutrition in potatoes is right between the skin and the potato. So usually, people peel off the nutritious part, and throw it away, and eat what is left! Is it any wonder that it isn't too good for diabetics? Glycemic indexes are wrong about this too, because they do not report the difference between potatoes with and without skin, and there is a HUGE difference! They do report on baked potatoes, but they ASSUME you won't eat the skin. They report that baby red potatoes have a LOWER glycemic index than other potatoes - guess what? They are typically eaten with skins on!
So the second thing is, get Yukon Gold, White Potatoes, or Red Potatoes, scrub those puppies good, and use those WITH skins, and enjoy your potatoes. Just make SURE there is no green on the skins (store them in a dark place to avoid green on the skins).
Make your own french fries - we make oven fries by tossing cut potatoes (skin on) with a bit of olive oil, and then baking them at 400 for about an hour (add some chili powder, or onion powder and salt, for some flavor if you like seasoned fries). Leftovers store and reheat well. You can make your own potato chips too, but they are harder to get just right - tricky to get the oil temp just right to crisp them all the way through, they usually turn out crispy on the edges, and soft in the middle.
Potato salad with skins on is good. So is potato soup, various casseroles, hashbrowns (shredded or cubed), casseroles, etc.
Potatoes are high in Potassium, a decent source of protein, and a few other things that I need badly, and they are one form that I can actually break down enough to get the nutrients out of, so I have them daily. I've researched them a lot for that reason, and I've experimented with them to test out what I thought might be the case - they do not affect my blood sugar any more than squash, fermented breads, brown rice, apples with the skin on, or any other countable starchy or sugary carbohydrate.
I just won't ever touch potatoes with that sprout inhibitor on them - that stuff is just toxic! And I'm not a reactionist there, it really is nasty stuff.
Just go back in time and eat how your ancestors ate. We tend to think of our ancestors somehow as not being well fed, and as being hungry a lot more, but that wasn't necessarily the case! Across the economic strata though, there were still health problems of the rich, that did not show up in the poor - because the poor had less refined and processed foods. The human race survived and thrived long before the twentieth century, and doctors did not have to tell them to use low fat or low carb or high bran foods to do so, they just ate what they grew and they and their families generally were a lot healthier than modern medicine would have you think!
Focus on feeling better, and on nourishing your body without over-indulging it.
I used to be pre-diabetic. Then I bounced over to full blown diabetic for about three months, at the end of which I learned that overdoses of Thiamin and Riboflavin will CAUSE high blood sugar (those two B vitamins are in a LOT of enriched foods). Dumped the sources of those from my diet and have not had significant blood sugar problems since, even when pregnant! Avoid multi-vitamins for this reason - they OD you on stuff you DON'T need, and you'll still stay low on the stuff you DO need because you are most likely either not absorbing it, or you are low on micronutrients that multi-vitamins never have anyway.
Ok, the other vitamin that REALLY makes a big difference to your metabolism, endocrine system, and digestion (all the things needed to maintain healthy weight and energy), is B6. It sort of sits at the bottom of all of those processes, and if you are low, they all go haywire. Blood sugar goes off in both directions, energy tanks, weight gets stubborn (especially around the middle), insulin resistance sets in, hormones go wonky, and digestion gets inefficient.
A supplement probably isn't the answer. Yogurt or Kefir probably IS the answer - they both will help you get more B6 out of your food, and help to absorb it better. They also help you get other nutrients out of your food more efficiently, help in processing proteins, etc, so good all around. If you are gonna eat nutrient dense food, it won't help if you are not GETTING the nutrients OUT of the food, and absorbing them well. Yogurt or Kefir once a day can make a world of difference - just count it as one milk serving (about 15 gm of carb). It will help re-balance your digestion, which can trigger your body out of starvation mode much faster.
Someone said that healthy carbs will HELP with blood sugar and weight control, and this is true. I get about 120 gm of carb per day also, and it is just about right for good energy and good blood sugar control.
The big deal is that they are healthy carbs - nutrient dense, minimally processed, simple fresh foods.
I also agree on the fats - butter, olive oil, EV coconut oil (tastes yummy), lard, sunflower oil, and other REAL and natural forms of fat are good. Think about it this way - if a society used it as a major source of nutrition historically, and if you can make it at home, it is generally ok (yeah, you can make olive, sunflower and coconut oil at home - it takes a heavy press, but you can!). Remember, the Polynesians historically used high amounts of coconut oil in their diets, and at that time, did not have problems with diabetes, obesity, or excessive heart disease. They've become notorious for those ills in the twentieth century as their native diet was abandoned.
I always eat very lean meat, because beef, pork, and chicken fat are things I can't tolerate right now (due to Crohn's), but I replace the fat with medium chain fatty acids that I can tolerate, so I'm not having dry meats.
So take that lean steak or skinless chicken, and sizzle it in some butter. Tastes better and digests better!
Make your own fried chicken too - whole wheat flour for the coating, and fry that chicken in some coconut oil or lard. Don't go overboard on it, but when you want it, make it healthy and enjoy it without feeling guilty.
I've gotta say something about the much maligned potato! Most of the info on potatoes being bad is flat out WRONG. Again, look at history and eating potatoes among healthy populations was very prevalent. It is how we eat them, and what has been done to them that is the problem. Tests that prove this or that negative effect of potatoes have been done on chemically treated potatoes with the skins off, or with the highest concentration of the chemicals in the skins.
Problem #1 - Processed potatoes. EVERY POTATO YOU BUY is PROCESSED, except for Organic whole potatoes. All commercial non-organic potatoes are sprayed with a sprout inhibitor. That chemical is a strong preservative, designed to stop the growth of living cells. And it does. On the potato, and inside YOU. Potatoes are not labeled as treated with this, but you can easily prove it. Just set a non-organic potato, and an organic potato, in the window, and see what happens. One sprouts fast, grows lush, the other sprouts slowly, and if you plant it, the plants will never bear potatoes. The chemical used soaks into the entire potato - the highest concentration is in the skin, but the whole potato is contaminated.
Most potato chips are BAD... not for the chips and oil, and not for the potatoes themselves (heck, Lay's potato chips are nothing but potatoes and sunflower oil and salt), but for the chemical they've been treated with before Lay's got their hands on them. They give me a headache every time I eat them, due to the chemical on them. Every other food that has potatoes in them has this too - potato flakes, canned stew, canned soups, frozen meals, frozen potato products, etc. Potato products are not made from fresh potatoes - they are made from stored potatoes so they can keep the processing plants operating year-round.
So if you want potatoes, the first lesson is, GET ORGANIC (or go to the fields and get the potatoes with the dirt still on them), get whole potatoes, and make your own potato stuff. I sometimes get organic potato chips for a snack when we are on the road - they are old enough after packaging that they don't have much nutritional value left, but they aren't downright harmful like the non-organic ones are.
Problem #2 - The majority of the nutrition in potatoes is right between the skin and the potato. So usually, people peel off the nutritious part, and throw it away, and eat what is left! Is it any wonder that it isn't too good for diabetics? Glycemic indexes are wrong about this too, because they do not report the difference between potatoes with and without skin, and there is a HUGE difference! They do report on baked potatoes, but they ASSUME you won't eat the skin. They report that baby red potatoes have a LOWER glycemic index than other potatoes - guess what? They are typically eaten with skins on!
So the second thing is, get Yukon Gold, White Potatoes, or Red Potatoes, scrub those puppies good, and use those WITH skins, and enjoy your potatoes. Just make SURE there is no green on the skins (store them in a dark place to avoid green on the skins).
Make your own french fries - we make oven fries by tossing cut potatoes (skin on) with a bit of olive oil, and then baking them at 400 for about an hour (add some chili powder, or onion powder and salt, for some flavor if you like seasoned fries). Leftovers store and reheat well. You can make your own potato chips too, but they are harder to get just right - tricky to get the oil temp just right to crisp them all the way through, they usually turn out crispy on the edges, and soft in the middle.
Potato salad with skins on is good. So is potato soup, various casseroles, hashbrowns (shredded or cubed), casseroles, etc.
Potatoes are high in Potassium, a decent source of protein, and a few other things that I need badly, and they are one form that I can actually break down enough to get the nutrients out of, so I have them daily. I've researched them a lot for that reason, and I've experimented with them to test out what I thought might be the case - they do not affect my blood sugar any more than squash, fermented breads, brown rice, apples with the skin on, or any other countable starchy or sugary carbohydrate.
I just won't ever touch potatoes with that sprout inhibitor on them - that stuff is just toxic! And I'm not a reactionist there, it really is nasty stuff.
Just go back in time and eat how your ancestors ate. We tend to think of our ancestors somehow as not being well fed, and as being hungry a lot more, but that wasn't necessarily the case! Across the economic strata though, there were still health problems of the rich, that did not show up in the poor - because the poor had less refined and processed foods. The human race survived and thrived long before the twentieth century, and doctors did not have to tell them to use low fat or low carb or high bran foods to do so, they just ate what they grew and they and their families generally were a lot healthier than modern medicine would have you think!
Focus on feeling better, and on nourishing your body without over-indulging it.
miss_thenorth
Frugal Homesteader
Lat year I wanted to sprout sweet potatoes to start some slips. I bought regular (as in NOT organic.) Waited and nothing, but kept them in water anyways.
After someone ahd suggested organic, I went and bought some of them, put them in water and waited. They took as long to sprout as the regular ones, so my conclusion was that they too were sprayed.
Thankfully i get my regular potatoes from my neighbours uncle.
After someone ahd suggested organic, I went and bought some of them, put them in water and waited. They took as long to sprout as the regular ones, so my conclusion was that they too were sprayed.
Thankfully i get my regular potatoes from my neighbours uncle.
