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7375. thoughtful - 8/19/2008 3:50:26 PM Anyone ever watch "you are what you eat" on bbc america? Jillian McKeith is a macrobiotic nutritionist and she invades the homes of people who are obese and gets them to drastically change their diets. I have to admit that after 8 weeks, these people do look incredibly better...not just less weight, but their skin looks better, their energy levels are better, their confidence and happiness is way up there.
One of the things she does is gets them to keep a food diary for a week and then lays out everything they've eaten on a single table. No surprise when you see nothing green or nothing raw and very little that's home cooked.
But one show, the woman ate the most disgusting snack I've ever seen...white bread slathered with margarine and then folded over a bunch of steak fries. Ugh!!! 7376. judithathome - 8/20/2008 6:32:32 AM I watch that show a lot...it's amazing what those people eat in a week! I doubt I eat as much in a month or two and certainly not the same sorts of things.
I'm at a plateau now and have been for a few weeks...32 pounds down. Isn't worrying me at all...I'll eventually drop another pound or two. And then some more...I'm in no hurry. 7377. thoughtful - 8/20/2008 2:14:06 PM Good attitude!
There was an interesting piece in yesterday's health section in the NYT about how weight is one thing, but fitness is really more important in determining how healthy you are. So slim people who are not fit are worse off than those who are fit but carrying extra pounds. Fitness they judged by the length of time you could stay on a treadmill while they gradually increased the speed and elevation.
I really think my father's body lasted as long as it did despite his years of severe body abuse due to smoking and alcohol and later diabetes was due to the fact that he was incredibly hard working and was always incredibly strong due to all the physical labor he did. 7378. Wombat - 8/20/2008 9:15:38 PM Thoughtful:
My daughter did a header off her bicycle several years ago and landed on her chin, which brought on TMJ. You need to look for a cranio-facial pain specialist. Her treatment included heat, electric stimulation, perfusion of anti-inflammatories, exercises, and day and night appliances to bring her jaw back into alignment. She is pain-free now, but it was an expensive and drawn-out process. Our insurance is kicking our claims back and forth because they are unable to figure out that it is a medical, not a dental, condition.
Good luck! 7379. thoughtful - 8/20/2008 10:04:41 PM Thanks for the input wombat. Wow! that sounds incredibly painful and a real annoyance to go through (pain both from the injury and the insurance cos!) ...maybe I'd just better 'walk it off' or in this case, 'talk it off'!
7380. anomie - 8/21/2008 1:30:55 AM Thoughtfull, you gave me a chuckle and nudged a memory of a lesson I learned when I first went to England. Fries on bread is called a "chip butty". I once tried to order an order of chips in pub and couldn't do it unless I got the "chip butty". I even tried the Jack Nicholson thing..."bring me a chip butty and hold the butty", to no avail. I got a french fry sandwich. 7381. anomie - 8/21/2008 1:45:48 AM Chip Butty:
img =src"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/810314406_af73415740.jpg"> 7382. anomie - 8/21/2008 1:46:39 AM Oh nevermind! 7383. anomie - 8/21/2008 2:30:12 AM 
7384. anomie - 8/21/2008 2:30:46 AM Hey! Hey! A chip butty! 7385. thoughtful - 8/21/2008 1:28:52 PM Somehow, anomie, naming it doesn't make it any more appealing...a heart attack in the making!
7386. thoughtful - 8/21/2008 1:30:49 PM Piece on npr health this am remarked on study showing TM is effective in reducing blood pressure.
What bothered me the most about it was that this was done at UMass, the home of Jon Kabat Zin who spends a lot of time working on pain management and the mind/body connection and has been teaching tm for years...why this cardiologist seemingly took an independent route to the subject is beyond me. Don't academics talk to each other? 7387. thoughtful - 8/21/2008 2:11:41 PM I've tried it and it works pretty well. Homemade sorbet from canned fruit.
Take a can of canned fruit (peach slices, pear slices) and freeze it. Once frozen, put the contents into a food processor. (This takes work..I've tried running hot water over it, cutting out both ends, and pushing, but I seem to end up with a fork and digging it out.) Then puree. You can add whatever strikes your fancy. I've tried frangelico which is good, but you could add whatever strikes your fancy...fresh mint, almond extract, other liquors. It makes a cold slurry that's very tasty. For company I'd serve right away. For myself, I then divide into single portions and refreeze. The refreeze stuff is not so smooth and sorbet like, but it still eases my craving for cold and wet like ice cream but at minimal calories and maximal nutrition.
I've since bought some canned mangoes and mandarin oranges to experiment with. 7388. judithathome - 8/21/2008 2:33:47 PM Instead of freezing it in the can, empty contents into a plastic baggie...easy to empty, that way. 7389. thoughtful - 8/21/2008 4:09:26 PM Duh! Why didn't I think of that! Great suggestion...I'll try it! 7390. anomie - 9/3/2008 9:01:32 PM Anyone ever had food poisoning? Sat morning about 9AM I went from feeling okay to being deathly ill in about 15 minutes. It felt like the worst hangover of my life mixed with flu and nausea. No actual vomiting, but I was in bed for two days. the first day I considered going to the ER, but I just tried to sleep. I had eaten an over-easy egg the night before, and I think maybe that was it. It amazed me at how quickly the body can get so sick. I couldn't even drive my guests to the airport and I felt bad about that, but that's how horrible it was. I could barely stand up, much less drive.
7391. robertjayb - 9/3/2008 9:19:11 PM Probably came from Sam and Ella's egg farm. 7392. judithathome - 9/3/2008 9:32:00 PM Yep...sounds like food poisoning. I've had it from bad lettuce, a bad oyster...that was the worst case ever...and from various other things over the years. It's very easy to get it...surprised you've never had a bout of it before.
Keoni got it from bad sushi when we took some in the car on the way to see the Arky's last summer. He was sick as a dog at the annual party; missed half of it altogether.
I had it in a little cooler but evidently it was "off" before I even packed our road trip snacks. We got there and went out to eat that night and he didn't eat anything, was already starting to feel bad. Next day he was in bed until about 10pm...sick as hell.
Naturally, I was fine...hadn't eaten any of it. 7393. anomie - 9/3/2008 10:15:10 PM I'm being careful not to get too paranoid about eating things. I threw away a bunch of probably-perfectly good items, lettuce included, from the fridge. I'm gonna eat an egg soon just to do it.
I must have had an iron stomach most of my life. I've never felt so bad. 7394. judithathome - 9/3/2008 11:41:44 PM You have my utmost sympathy over it...and lucky you, to have escaped it this long!
That's like me having my first broken bone after age 60...I coulda been a contenda in the non-broken bones Olympics!
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