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] > > >