tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post7680501460077112553..comments2023-10-10T01:03:46.375+12:00Comments on Food &Health Skeptic: jonjayrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363092874281160320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post-62305727765259167152009-06-16T07:23:29.730+11:302009-06-16T07:23:29.730+11:30Food-wise, cinnamon, green tea, and curry all help...Food-wise, cinnamon, green tea, and curry all help regulate the insulin and fat burning...so I stock these dry goods at all times.<br /><br />But herbs? For what? Disease? Viral conditions? Ugh. Why do people get so WEIRD? Of course Echinacea is bunk, as are rose hips in Vitamin C. Acupuncture? Why bother with some numbing effect like that which at best is boring. If only the placebo effect were replaced by a classic Greek sense of vigor and vitality in which worry no longer destroys health.<br /><br />What I am doing at the beginning of age 40+ middle age is coming off of high dose individual supplements and bulk caloric foods and developing a dirt simple and very cheap alternative to using supplements at all (except fish oil). It will amount to a single long web page worth of recipes that requires access to Costco, a vegetable market, and a source for cheap non-fried rice noodles. <br /><br />Investment in a $300 juicer is required. Quick gourmet food requires a $3000 induction wok connected to an electric stove power plug (or an outdoor BBQ). Home made alcohol spirits, though technically illegal, is a natural alternative to bulky wine or beer brewing. Beef jerky and radish sprouts require a few hundred more investment if automated but can be done on the cheap at first with a mere heat lamp and a few containers for the sprouts. Once invested in, meals become mere dollars a day instead of tens of dollars, all the way down to $0.25 a meal for a simple 200 calorie meal.<br /><br />My comments at this stage will become redundant and repetitive rather than scientific method critiques so I will stop thinking of this site as a forum. I barely need to read up on health any more and I should simply create an info-product around my objective system of healthy living. It's fun being a chemist in wonderful health who has taken the time to scan all readily available food stuffs. Vegetarians are not my market but they could use most of it too. Anyone trying to incorporate your years of commentary into an actual program, for you are indeed the only comprehensive and rational commentator on health matters in existence, can likely both afford and enjoy what I very soon come up with.<br /><br />Sorry to think out loud in writing, here, but I find it to be one of the only places on the web where diligent reading of the entire content here leads to a very simple conclusion: eat what pleases you when you want pleasure and eat the healthiest food you can afford for daily rations.<br /><br />The only thing you under represent is what popular culture and health industry people rarely report on: how attitude, which is easily altered, wields the lion share of influence on mortality and health. That must be emphasized though since the studies on it were so conclusive and thus finished with, decades ago. Temperament aside, free will can certainly be of great influence upon one's health and vitality.<br /><br />Thanks Jon. The condensed and commented upon content here has allowed me the freedom to vastly simplify my dietary outlook...BASED ON COLD HARD SCIENCE. I will sign off except for occasional short comments that act as footnotes to your own content. This project only became a project in the last few weeks going on months as I finally finished an entire economic and nutritional analysis of internet, local and bulk food suppliers. I just want you to know that I will package this information, either free or at a reasonable price as an adjunct to THIS site as the only source of information anyone needs in order to learn about health and nutrition. Eventually I'll photograph everything, make a download ready cookbook, and hope to exchange links.<br /><br />-=NikFromNYC=-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post-47566141298612060182009-06-16T07:23:16.846+11:302009-06-16T07:23:16.846+11:30"$2.5B spent on testing "alternative&quo..."$2.5B spent on testing "alternative" cures."<br /><br />The only herbal supplement I use is Milk Thistle for improved liver function since I used to be a heavy drinker and still dip beer or homemade alcohol in homemade V8 (tomato/celery/carrot/apple/beet/onion/spinach/garlic/horseradish/Worcestershire). That Milk Thistle can cure red cap mushroom poisoning of the liver is enough to hint that it indeed is good medicine for us drinkers (Wikipedia).<br /><br />Though this may help avoid a fatty liver it did not have any ability to solve my huge hidden problem of abdominal fat. My word, when I stopped eating or drinking except small amounts of water for two months and lost all my subcutaneous fat followed by abdominal (organ cavity) fat, I was a new man. My high school physique returned. My oily dandruff prone face and scalp became normal. Indigestion evaporated. My sleep split into two 4 hour bouts without any grogginess. My sex drive and appetite became normalized as stress was no longer the center of my urges. I can feel inches of relief inside my tummy, literally regaining my breath.<br /><br />I am now convinced that internal body fat in at least a male body vastly decreases quality of life and a feeling of vitality. Both physical constriction and estrogen production by fat seem to be at work. Alas, this is the one thing I cannot teach others to fix since in my own case it required the end of a 17 year relationship in a truly traumatic sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com