so true--living without fats--alot of them--is exhausting and
fatiguing.  A
high-
fat diet brings even moods, boundless energy, happiness, and FREEDOM
FROM
HUNGER!
----- Original Message -----
From: joel strickland <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Licorice

> Sure.  I turned vegetarian when I was 18, and am now 43.  I try to eat a
lot
> of vegetables, quite a bit of fruit, and as little dairy and egg as I can
> easily manage.  I eat lots of tofu, wrapped in whole wheat tortillas or
> sushi nori.  For fat, olive oil, often with soy sauce & nutritional yeast
on
> spaghetti noodles or rice.  For milk, fortified soymilk.  I also drink
> Ca-fortified orange juice, sometimes in smoothies with soymilk and frozen
> blueberries or some other fruit.
>
> I've been drinking coffee for about 7 years, usually in soy milk lattes.
> Lately I've been trying to switch to green tea.  I infrequently drink
> alcohol; when I do, usually red wine.  I never smoke tobacco.
>
> I've been taking supplements for maybe 15 years - vit C, vit E, an
iron-free
> multi, lately Co-Q and a Ca/Mg supplement.  Occasionally I'll take
ginseng,
> lecithin, flax seed, wheatgrass.  I'm pretty conservative about herbs and
> medicines, basically don't take them, except for what I've listed.
>
> I meditate, run, and lift weights.  I've run 4 marathons in the last 5
years
> or so, the fastest in 3h 20m.  According to the gym's bioimpedance
> measurements, I'm currently about 25 lbs overweight.
>
> What's my philosophy?   I think food combining is unlikely to be true - I
> don't see how we could have evolved to need to watch combinations so
> closely.  I think vegetables have something profound going on with them,
> especially green ones.  I try to keep my cardio system clean with the
> exercise, soy products, and antioxident supplements.  (I generally take
vit
> C & E before I go for a long run, and like they say, it seems to helps my
> endurance.)  I stress the fruit less because of the risk of diabetes from
> the sugar.   I think there's something to the free radical aging theory,
so
> try to avoid fried foods, smokefilled bars, and the like.
>
> When my 2 children were young & breastfeeding, my wife and I tried to eat
> organic, but for the last 10 years or so we've lived near Seattle, and
have
> been making do with non-organic.  I read something about how the benefits
of
> lots of produce outweighs the costs of them having some pesticides, which
> seems reasonable to me.  So I try to eat more of the less expensive
> commercial produce now, choosing the healthier varieties among them, like
> the high antioxident fruits, or high sulfer content brassicas.  I do think
> that organic tastes much better than commercial.
>
> There was a time when I read John McDougall's books
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0832904481/qid=958980472/sr=1-8/002-5
> 779563-6133000, and tried a low fat diet.  I was working extremely long
> hours, and found myself too exhausted to continue with it.  My cholesterol
> measured 106 during that diet.  I gave that up after 6 months or so.
>
> The first time I tried wheatgrass seriously, I healed a longstanding
> infection around a fingernail in about 3 days by applying a wheatgrass
> poultice.  At the same time, I had a mole dry up and fall off, and some
gray
> hairs turn dark again.  These observations are consistent with the
anecdotal
> evidence about wheatgrass.  I recently did a couple of weeks of drinking
> wheatgrass, and it seemed like it helped my performance in the gym, my
blood
> pressure and resting heart beat rate went down significantly, but other
than
> that, nothing to report.
>
> I've been taking musing over Khalsa's cortisol theory of brain aging
lately
> http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag97/july-inter97.html, which encourages me
> with my meditating, switching to green tea, and playing with wheatgrass.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nieft / Secola" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Licorice
>
>
> > joel:
> > >well, i did say i was quite sure the seaweed claim is wrong, and good
> luck
> > >investigating it further.  so i don't think i was being overly
dogmatic.
> >
> > You weren't.
> >
> > And the culture of this list is basically up for grabs since there was
> such
> > a long period of inactivity.
> >
> > Can you give a bio of sorts on where you are coming from diet-wise? I
keep
>
> > looking at your name and thinking that I should know who you are but
keep
> > coming up blank...:/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kirt
> >
> >
> > Secola  /\  Nieft
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
>