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Skriven 2013-04-01 15:55:00 av Nancy Backus (65732.cooking)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: highly refined 338
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-30-13  15:12 <=-

 NB>> Most of the evidence points to highly refined foods being problems
 ML> If you get your fiber and vities some way, refined food is
 ML> probably mostly okay. They say that corn products are worse
 ML> than other things, though.

The biggest trick is getting everything that's been taken out some other
way, especially if one doesn't even necessarily know about some of the
nutrients one is missing...
 
 NB>> nutritionally.  Take things out of their original form where the good
 NB>> and the bad balance out, and end up with the worst parts not being
 NB>> balanced at all, and you will indeed most likely have problems...
 ML> I'm not into obsessive balance, but if your body needs
 ML> something and you don't get it from anywhere, I agree that
 ML> you have to fix that.
 
I'm not obsessive about it, but we do try to eat things that are less
highly processed and are in more of a natural state... to cut down on
the balancing acts afterwards, as much as anything else... ;)

 ML>> But the fiber should count for something, when the kernels
 ML>> are served (rather than flour, meal, etc.).
 NB>> I'd think so, too.  :)  Whole grain corn meal keeps the fiber, too.
 ML> I seldom if ever see whole grain corn meal and am sure that
 ML> I would not like it if I did.

It makes a pretty good cornbread... :)

 NB>> Certainly... it helps that we are only needing to feed the two of us,
 NB>> and that we're less fussy about 3 squares a day nowadays... As long as
 NB>> I keep the weekly grocery bill under something reasonable, we can get
 NB>> just about anything we want, so splurges aren't out of the question...

 ML> But you choose your splurges. 

True.

 ML> Here at Annie's, we're on
 ML> a rota of prime rib, sirloin strip, ribeye, shad roe ...
 ML> when she had people over for dinner, she served them
 ML> spag bol for dinner, though; I think that as the guests
 ML> are notoriously frugal, she feels that she's going to be
 ML> frugal to them as well, which I think is not good, especially
 ML> as she serves their rich cousins fancy food, even though they
 ML> don't have her or me over at all. I felt a little guilty
 ML> about this so did a teriyaki ribeye for appies beforehand.

Maybe if she did more splurging for them, they'd reciprocate...? 
Besides, that sort of thing shouldn't really be tit for tat, though I
know of too many that operate that way...  

 NB>> Maybe the guy needs some of the facelift stuff to make him more
 NB>> plausible...?  It's all just hype, anyway... :)
 ML> I imagine it is. One of the suppressed bits of evidence is
 ML> that those who are somewhat overweight have just as good a
 ML> life expectancy as those of ideal BMI and tend to live longer
 ML> than the skinny people.

Letting that bit out of the bag would destroy the entire diet
industry... ;)  
 
 NB>> ... Eat healthy, exercise, get plenty of sleep -- die healthy!
 ML> Eat vegetarian, you won't live any longer, it'll just seem
 ML> that way.

[smile]

 ML> Poor man's asparagus, pommes charlotte with caviar
 ML> M's note: I find this an interesting recipe even in its
 ML> contradictoriness. Poor man, indeed! I would be a really
 ML> poor man and leave off the caviar, substituting, if anything,
 ML> regular sieved egg. I am not sure about the identity of the
 ML> Charlotte potato.

Doesn't sound all that poorman to me, either...  :)  Asparagus itself is
pretty pricey, although it finally is getting more seasonable... down
from 5.99/lb at the peak to a much more reasonable 1.99...  Reminds me
of the famous Marie Antoinette mentality... ;)

ttyl         neb

... I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top!!!


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