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Skriven 2014-09-26 20:28:20 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17384 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: health 5
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Hi Michael,

For the count--I lost my gall bladder in December of 1998 but Steve
still has his.

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 RH> I'm reining in my sweet tooth, never will lose it entirely but it's
 RH> learning to adapt to smaller portions of sweets. I'll never be able to

 ML> Seems to work pretty well for you.

You saw me in June, some 30+ pounds less than the last time we got to a
picnic (2010 at xxCarol's). Part of that was due to cutting back on
sweets.


 RH> give up meats either but overall, we eat a lot less of them than we
 RH> did when we first got married.

 ML> I do wonder what I'd do if I were bitten by the bug that
 ML> Steve described that potentiates an allergy to red meat.
 ML> Risk death frequently, I guess.

We'd adapt but I'd miss the occaisional steak.


 RH> Better buy a belt--you don't want to be mistaken for one of these kids
 RH> that walks around with one hand holding up his trousers all the time.
 RH> The minute he lets go, they sag and show all he's wearing (or not)

 ML> Hey, I AM one of those kids.

No, you're the wrong age, etc.


 ML> As I said, it's an umami bomb.
 RH> Going to try making it at an upcoming picnic?

 ML> Nope. Buy it at the Asian market.

There are several in Raleigh. We got the house--will close the week
before Thanksgiving. Hopefully moved and unpacked before Christmas. If
we do host the picnic next year or whenever, we could go down to pick
some up.


 ML> in fact overconcentrated the flavor of the confit and the salt
 ML> both, which made it less than a stellar experience. Availability
 ML> of a large quantity of (say) potatoes would have helped.
 RH> Always room for improvement, especially on something like that.

 ML> I've never had one that fully satisfied me except at
 ML> Michelin-quality restaurants, mostly in Europe, where
 ML> they cook better than I do but also make much more money
 ML> than I do. But even a suboptimal confit is better than
 ML> no confit at all.

You can always try doing one at another picnic.


 ML> My father, for example, made it to 89 and might well have
 ML> lived past 90 but for some medical misunderstanding, and
 ML> after his 30s he never got a full night's sleep or a lick
 ML> of exercise. Or, oddly, for some decades, much medical care,
 ML> despite it being free for him. Uncontrolled heart disease
 ML> and diabetes from 50 and no consequence until past 80.
 RH> He was probably more the exception than the rule to most rules on
 RH> maintaining health.

 ML> My point in conversation with Nancy is that in a lot of
 ML> cases, the data from which the rules sprang were collected
 ML> from a population that didn't include my people and that
 ML> might only partially apply. I question the universality of
 ML> food pyramids, the benefit of exercise, proper hydration,
 ML> staying in the sun enough to get Vitamin D but not enough
 ML> to get cancer, and so on. I notice that the researchers are
 ML> beginning to come around little by little - you see the odd
 ML> study that tries to generalize its findings just to a
 ML> subpopulation rather than to humanity as a whole. More often
 ML> still you get these monster pronouncements that seem well
 ML> and good until the next study asserts that the exact
 ML> opposite is true.

Many studies were done on the average American male and data from that
used to set the standard for everybody. Its just in the past
(relatively) few years they've done the same studies but using women and
various ethnic groups, finding out that the original study results don't
always hold true for other groups.

 ML> Baked eggplant and meatball casserole
 ML> cat: Armenian, main
 ML> servings: 6

That looks good. If I'd seen it before supper, I would have changed the
menu. I used the ground beef for a meat loaf; now I need to get some
more to try this.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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