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  1. Zeta

    Sweet potato-red cabbage juice

    Zeta posted a topic in CR Recipes

    OK, this isn't too serious, but: Boil-steam* yer sweet potatoes. Save boil water, which will likely contain small bits of sweet potato. Using same pot, with saved boil water, cook up yer red cabbage. You'll probably have to add more water. Remove cabbage, pour remaining boil water into a glass, let cool, and drink! * By "boil-steam" I mean: fill a pot with a 1-2 cms of water (more, depending on amount of sweet potatoes you're cooking, and how soft you like them), put in sweet potatoes, cover, and let cook, stirring occasionally. Most of the sweet potatoes will be above the water, and will be steaming, some will be below, and will be boiling.
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    The heating system in my building (apt. complex) is such that there's no way to lower the temperature in my bedroom below around 16-17° or so. And once summer comes, the head cooler will of course be far more efficient.
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    "Bait-and-switch", "acclimatization"? This is clearly our day for puns! Back to the cool thread: I may not feel comfortable enough if my body is much colder/exposed. If I'm not, I might try to fashion a head-cooling cap of some kind, sort of like the cooling vest, but for my head. I see from a quick Google search that such things exist and can actually be purchased. (What can't, these days!) Zeta
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    Wow, very cool thread. The sleep angle is of particular interest to me. I'd already lowered my bedroom from 23° to 20°, without noticing an effect on sleep, but after reading the above, I think I'll push it down further, and see what happens. Even if I don't sleep better, it sounds like I might end up improving my health. Dean, judging by the footwear it looks like your daughter is doing ballet in the snow! Zeta P.S. Only now noticed my unintentional pun.
  5. Zeta

    JOKES

    Zeta replied to nicholson's topic in Chitchat

    Just for the record: Clinton never said that.
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    Hi Gerard, and thanks for the useful links. At some point I'm going to do a trial of a low-fat diet, and will need to eat a lot of fruit (I may adopt Dean's "banana approach") to get enough calories. Good to know that, even without exercising all the time, I likely will be able to do it without a disastrous postprandial glucose response.
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    t It's odd, only in the sense that it's an "odd" world we live in, with information asymmetry a pervasive feature of markets, and the very food we eat being one of the most opaque. Indeed. But just because the world is Orwelian doesn't mean we have to use Orwellian language. I'd like to reserve the word "transparent" for the practices of a company like Amphora Nueva. They're a (more or less) open book. But, either way, I want to encourage everyone reading this to insist on getting accurate information about the food they're purchasing. I would love to start a movement to make this happen, but I'm not sure where to begin. Maybe a website could be created, for various types of foods, that sets out a standard (for quality and transparency both) (1), and then, as consumers, we can point food companies/sellers to that site, and simply say: are you willing to adhere to those guidelines, or some of them? Just thinking out loud. Zeta. (1) This this for olive oil, though that's more about quality than transparency.
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    Merry Christmas to you, Dean, and to everyone celebrating it, and, today, to all those celebrating Boxing Day. Zeta
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    I pride myself on following the evidence when it comes to diet. Saul, I don't get your -- pardon -- beef with Dean's claims about veganism, and, most especially, the claims about contaminants in most fish. From everything I've seen, Dean's statement above is 100% correct: he follows the evidence. The evidence suggests that the fish available today in say North America, is, in general, on per calorie basis, more contaminated than other foodstuffs people on CR tend to eat. Zeta
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    H-B Instrument 2/0150 Durac General Purpose Partial Immersion Thermometer (Cheap, reliable thermometer for liquids.) I've found the H-B Instrument 2/0150 Durac General Purpose Partial Immersion Thermometer to be very precise, and fairly accurate, and quick to register temperature. I put it in boiling water, and the reading goes right up to 97° C. Not 100? No, but it's precise: it's always 97° C in boiling water at sea level, so that's fine (for $7 or whatever it costs now). You'll see other, more expensive thermometers at Amazon. If anyone has experience with those, please let us know. Zeta [Update: A note about precision - Cloud pointed out that the boiling point of water varies as a result of various factors, including atmospheric pressure, particulates in the water, interactions with the container, etc. so its not surprising to see a reading not exactly at 100° C for boiling water.]
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    Rodney, you seem to be adducing the increase in life-expectancy in the US as evidence that phthalates and the like aren't worth worrying about. Don't follow your logic, unless you're assuming that these substances are the only (or are the major) source of mortality in the US, which, of course they are not. Zeta
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    Dean, thanks for the recent posts! About the mocha method: note that most mocha brewers are made out of aluminum! Aluminum is not benign. PubMed will show this, as long as industry-financed papers are excluded. About the second paper: this is extremely useful! I don't drink much tea because I'm still not non-worried about manganese (and am getting tons from my new hemp seed consumption), but from a basic chemistry standpoint, it's good to know that there's something about the caffeine molecule that makes it harder to dislodge at lower temperatures than other molecules in tea -- something that could well be relevant to the question of the ratio of non-caffeine bennies to caffeine bennies (1) in different methods of preparing coffee. Zeta (1) Some aren't sure whether caffeine is beneficial, but it seems to be, against Parkinson's, and possibly against Alzheimer's.
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    Michael, Excellent analysis which will compel me to go through the source material carefully to see whether I come up with the same conclusions. I probably will, when it comes to the question of the aging process per se (though I'm not sure you aren't reading (2) somewhat tendentiously ... but I will review that study in the coming week -- it was influential in my decision to try non-standard CR; I may be the one reading it lopsidedly or too hopefully). Meanwhile, I'll continue with my every-three day quasi-fast diet until I get more biomarkers measured. Just found a blood pressure monitor in the house here, and see that my BP has gone from 115/65 or so (on what for me is I believe fairly extreme CR) to ~135/80. Depressing, since even if the increased ketone bodies of my diet are helping my brain, the increased blood pressure is most assuredly not.... ... in the absence of increased IGFBPs. Zeta
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    I'm not thinking about taste, I'm thinking about the extent of the polyphenol extraction. But, again, maybe it's back to the idea that extraction just takes more time at lower temperatures because there's less "bouncing into each other" of the relevant molecules. (Yet: this article suggests there is a threshold for the extraction of some substances in coffee.) I just dug a bit into the question on PubMed and found nothing. Any chemists out there? Even if there isn't a threshold effect, the relation between rate of extraction and temperature might not be linear. I can imagine, for example, that certain large molecules might be more readily drawn into the infusing water with multiple very high energy H2O molecules bumping into them, and that they can resist a small number of H2O molecules in a such a way that it's almost like a threshold effect. Zeta
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    Dean, excellent suggestion about combining the two. The problem for me is that I am now a committed coldbrew coffee drinker, and I'm not sure the chocolate (or any cacao product) will brew well cold. By the way, I should also take a moment to thank James for the research updates! I have tons of them bookmarked, in two folders, one "Read!!", the other "Respond" (the latter: have read, and want to respond; the former: seems like they could be really important). My life is a little messy now, and my health situation has me preoccupied such that any writing effort that requires a lengthy expositional trajectory, thus demanding extended focus, feels beyond me. I'm hopiong that will change soon. Zeta
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