10/30/15: bad habits, good habits, rose & health tips, recipes
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Comments (48)Congratulations! You are now a non-smoker. After the first 2 weeks, you can deal with it. Now you have to decide what you are going to do with the money you are saving. For the first year, each month on my "anniversary", I bought myself a nice gift. After that, each year on the anniversary, I get a nice gift. [Stan says it would have been cheaper for me to keep on smoking, considering all the gifts I have gotten for quitting!!]...See MorePoll on cooking habits
Comments (24)Well I think I am a little different from most here, 1. because I live alone, 2. because I have been without any sort of kitchen since FREAKING THANKSGIVING, and 3. the "kitchen" in this house prior to Thanksgiving consisted of a sink, a pantry and a microwave. No counterspace and no stovetop/oven. So my cooking options were very very limited ... mostly sandwiches, and warming up soups made in a crockpot. Rice cooker was handy too. Cleanup was really difficult, so I admit that I relied far too much on takeout/fast food/eating out. Which is fine for a while, but months and months ? Ugh. Even though I still don't have a kitchen (but I interviewed a new contractor last Friday, his references check out GREAT, and he says he can have my kitchen and bathrooms functional with two weeks of work), I bought myself a new gas grill about a month ago. Remember that my previous contractor is now IN JAIL (has been since end of March), and that one of his demo crew stole my brand new unused grill. I gave up on getting him to replace it, so I just bought myself a new one. Ouch. But it has been so good for me. I have used it every day, and hardly eat out, I LOVE being able to prepare great meals. The grill has been used for everything from bacon and eggs, to burgers and steaks, salmon, slow-cooked pork shoulder, quesadillas, bruschetta, roasted tomatoes, grilled veggies every night, and I even tried my hand at No-Knead Bread ! Which was absolutely fantastic, see ... ? It's still a huge pain to prep and clean up, since there is no working sink in the kitchen and everthing needs to be schlepped to the bathroom. but I feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. So I can only answer this poll as how I hope to be cooking in a couple weeks :-) Gourmet - definitely once, maybe twice each week for dinners. Maybe special Sunday brunch too. I can't wait to start making some of my old favourites - handmade pasta, lovely risottos and gnocchi, slow simmered minestrone .... I have a lot of friends who need to be "repaid" with meals ! Everyday - most days. I plan to fill the freezer with easy to warm staples that can be added to fresh veggies or salad for nights alone. Leftover - I love leftovers ! I don't really understand why some people don't. Good for the two nights per week when I have plans and need to eat first. Eat out - Ugh. I never want to eat out again ;-) Outdoors - I suspect that this will be quite often, since the gas grill is just a couple steps outside my kitchen, and VERY handy to cook stuff that would be too smoky inside. I'd say at least 3 nights/week, year around (the joys of California !)...See More11/29/15: Rootstocks for pots, tips for roses & our health & recipes
Comments (79)Carol: Some doctors mistake phytoestrogen (God-made & natural) with chemical estrogen (man-made). My Swedish mother-in-law grew up drinking tons of cow-milk (zero flax, zero soy), and had a mastectomy at 40 year old. No history of breast-cancer in my family of 9 girls (I'm the youngest girl), nor in my Mom nor Dad's side ... we eat tons of soy-products in Vietnam & zero cow milk. I got curious about phytoestrogen (occur naturally in plants) versus chemical hormones added to cow milk .. found this article from Cornell University: "A diet rich in phytoestrogens has been proposed as a way to decrease breast cancer risk. Some, but not all studies show that women with a diet high in phytoestrogens, including vegans (who eat no animal foods) and women who eat diets high in soy products, have lower rates of breast cancer. Why is this so? Most phytoestrogens are not stored in the body, but are quickly broken down. Phytoestrogens are weak estrogens, and may prevent stronger human estrogens from binding to the estrogen receptor. If the weaker estrogens bind to the receptor instead of the stronger ones, there may be less breast cell division. Women with diets rich in phytoestrogens also excrete more estrogens into their urine, and have lower blood estrogen levels. Some studies have shown that women with a diet rich in phytoestrogens have longer, and hence fewer, menstrual cycles. All of these factors may contribute to reduced breast cancer risk." http://www.envirocancer.cornell.edu/FactSheet/General/fs10.estrogen.cfm Below excerpt is from Oncology nutrition - Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics " Animal studies have shown that both flaxseed oil and lignans can reduce breast tumor growth and spread, even for ER- cancer cells. This result suggests that flaxseeds may have anti-cancer benefits that are unrelated to any type of effect on estrogen or estrogen metabolism." https://www.oncologynutrition.org/erfc/hot-topics/flaxseeds-and-breast-cancer/ Phytoestrogen is DIFFERENT from chemical hormones injected into cow to make them produce milk longer. An excerpt from below link: "new study out of Harvard University showing that pasteurized milk product from factory farms is linked to causing hormone-dependent cancers. It turns out that the concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) model of raising cows on factory farms churns out milk with dangerously high levels of estrone sulfate, an estrogen compound linked to testicular, prostate, and breast cancers. Dr. Ganmaa Davaasambuu, Ph.D., and her colleagues specifically identified "milk from modern dairy farms" as the culprit, referring to large-scale confinement operations where cows are milked 300 days of the year, including while they are pregnant. Compared to raw milk from her native Mongolia, which is extracted only during the first six months after cows have already given birth, pasteurized factory milk was found to contain up to 33 times more estrone sulfate. http://www.naturalnews.com/035081_pasteurized_milk_cancer_dairy.html#ixzz3uj5y7wGc Havard-trained doctor Andrew Weil, M.D. stated "Among women, milk consumption has been associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer in both the Nurses' Health Study and in a 2005 study from Sweden's Karolinska Institute. Organic milk is better in many respects than conventional milk but still may be full of natural hormones. My advice: cut down on dairy products. Substitute soy milk for cow's milk when possible. Andrew Weil, M.D." From Physicians committee for responsible medicine "In international and interregional correlational studies, dairy product consumption has been consistently associated with prostate cancer mortality.3-7 The largest and most recent of these, based on World Health Organization mortality figures for 1985-1989 from 59 countries and United Nations food balance data for 1979-1981, reported a strong correlation between per capita milk consumption and prostate cancer mortality (r = 0.78, P<0.0001).7 A more geographically restricted study, conducted in 20 Italian regions, found a similar correlation between prostate cancer mortality and milk consumption (r = 0.75, P <0.01).6 http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-consumption-and-prostate-cancer *** From Straw: Agree with all the above researches, I gave flax oil to my kid to improve her eczema (skin-rash). I'm taking flax oil & flax seeds to improve my skin-rash. I develop an allergic reaction to the new batch of fish-oil (really stinky) .. and I still need Omega-3 for my dry-hands....See MoreApril 6, 2016 - Tips for: roses, garden, health, happiness, recipes
Comments (19)Safety tips for the garden: NEVER USE GAS nearby a flame source, like a pilot light in a water-heater, or furnace, or a tiny ember. One neighbor used gasoline to kill a big & thorny rose grafted on Dr. Huey: she poured on the rose, then put a trash-can-lid over it so it could not get rain. That surely destroyed the soil. During my volunteer days in rehab (decades ago), I still remember a man, burnt badly from head to toe ... he was in utter misery. He told me how he did it: through using gasoline to kill a patch of poison ivy. Another man did the same and became a human fireball, except he attempted to light some wood in a wrought iron outdoor fireplace, the $99 type at HomeDepot. He could not get fire started, so he grabbed the red-can of gasoline container (for mowing the lawn).. it has just a little of gas inside. He thought he could splash just a tiny bit of gas onto the barely alive flicker on the log .. but that tiny flame ignited the fumes and shoot the flame into the gas can and caused a HUGE EXPLOSION .. and he became a fireball. Luckily there's a pond 12 yards away, and he jumped into it .. alive, but in the hospital for months with 17 very painful skin-grafts. He wrote his near-death-experience and time in hell (after death) in the below Amazon book-on-line. Just click on the book and Amazon shows the first few pages of the book, where he landed in hell after death. He's an assistant principal at an elementary school. http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Real-Too-Death-Experience-ebook/dp/B018UYNQCG/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460265353&sr=1-9&keywords=hell#reader_B018UYNQCG There's another sad & true story of a teenager boy was chopping wood with a chain-saw, he ran out of gas, and it's freezing cold outside, so he brought the gas can down the basement to re-fill his chain-saw, except there's a furnace down the basement (with flame inside) .. the entire basement exploded, killing the boy. Another near-death experience involved a man came back to his old house on sale .. the water was turned off, so he could not wash his hands after spraying a wasp-nest with wasp-spray. He got some wasp-spray on his hands, was hungry so he ate his sandwich, noticed a strange taste .. he got ill, and was in a coma & had a near-death-experience (went to heaven) then hospitalized for 6 months before he could walk again....See Morejessjennings0 zone 10b
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