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] >