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interestingly Rosemary contains both Apigenin AND naringenin.........natures alternative to haiduts melanon product!

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Thanks for the reminder! I am going make up a batch now!

 

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Here is today’s lunch! I made a French onion soup the other day, and had some leftover milk braised beef short ribs, so I shaved thin, against the grain of the meat, a small chunk of short rib and added it to my soup. I broiled a half piece of yeast-free sourdough bread, which was 13 carbs, with a little grass-fed Swiss chess on top and topped my lovely soup with it. Sourdough bread made with starter instead of yeast has half the gluten used up to rise the bread. As for the soup, I made the soup for 3 people with only 3 tablespoons of butter, and most of the fat from the short rib went into the milk that I braised it in, which made for a nice sauce in that meal. I am now sipping on juice that I made, by soaking blueberries and strawberries for 24 hours, strained and finally sweetened with a little raw honey and sugar. This morning I had a big coffee with sugar and a little whole milk, later a fried egg, salted and topped with maple syrup and later a cup of whole raw milk followed by a spoonful of raw honey. I’m feeling good! For those seriously on a quest to lose weight I would have that French onion soup with only the meat OR just the half piece of cheese bread. I will continue my day with the milk and honey, not sure about the later evening.

 

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Here is today’s lunch! I made a French onion soup the other day, and had some leftover milk braised beef short ribs, so I shaved thin, against the grain of the meat, a small chunk of short rib and added it to my soup. I broiled a half piece of yeast-free sourdough bread, which was 13 carbs, with a little grass-fed Swiss chess on top and topped my lovely soup with it. Sourdough bread made with starter instead of yeast has half the gluten used up to rise the bread. As for the soup, I made the soup for 3 people with only 3 tablespoons of butter, and most of the fat from the short rib went into the milk that I braised it in, which made for a nice sauce in that meal. I am now sipping on juice that I made, by soaking blueberries and strawberries for 24 hours, strained and finally sweetened with a little raw honey and sugar. This morning I had a big coffee with sugar and a little whole milk, later a fried egg, salted and topped with maple syrup and later a cup of whole raw milk followed by a spoonful of raw honey. I’m feeling good! For those seriously on a quest to lose weight I would have that French onion soup with only the meat OR just the half piece of cheese bread. I will continue my day with the milk and honey, not sure about the later evening.

Wonderful!

 

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UPDATE:

I turned sixty last month, and have never felt better than now. I would never be doing this well in my life if I did not find Ray Peat’s work. I attribute my success to a few main key things:

*grass-fed dairy
*raw honey, fresh juiced (and strained) fruit
*food timing
*food pairing
*sunshine
*fixing my sleep (no television)
*eliminating grains
*eliminating supplements
*laughing a lot
*happy music (24/7)

Before this past year I was always focused on my weight, thinking about the food, but addressing my health as a whole had everything fall into place. I still don’t eat much meat, and I am sticking to the sprouted grains. I eat lot of sugar carbs, but try to get them from the honey and fruits rather than the white sugar. I have other secondary things I do to improve my hair and skin and other problematic areas, but having discipline and tenacity has gotten me far, and the rewards now FAR out way the immediate gratification I would have traded now for. My friends and family comment regularly how I am aging backwards, and I am amazed myself how cooperative our bodies can be if we just have faith in the process and make taking care of ourselves more important than short cuts, laziness and unhealthy/toxic “splurges”. After the problems I have overcome, from horrible histamine issues, heart and gall bladder issues, my mother taking DES when she was pregnant with me, almost dying of carbon monoxide poisoning, gray hair, weight issues (both too skinny and too fat) and many more, I am proof we don’t have to continue on a downward course into the grave, pining for our youth all the way there. I am excited for each new day and my focus is constantly on how I can better myself and my surroundings today. Sixty is the best!

 

[curious_anthro]

UPDATE:

I turned sixty last month, and have never felt better than now. I would never be doing this well in my life if I did not find Ray Peat’s work. I attribute my success to a few main key things:

*grass-fed dairy
*raw honey, fresh juiced (and strained) fruit
*food timing
*food pairing
*sunshine
*fixing my sleep (no television)
*eliminating grains
*eliminating supplements
*laughing a lot
*happy music (24/7)

Before this past year I was always focused on my weight, thinking about the food, but addressing my health as a whole had everything fall into place. I still don’t eat much meat, and I am sticking to the sprouted grains. I eat lot of sugar carbs, but try to get them from the honey and fruits rather than the white sugar. I have other secondary things I do to improve my hair and skin and other problematic areas, but having discipline and tenacity has gotten me far, and the rewards now FAR out way the immediate gratification I would have traded now for. My friends and family comment regularly how I am aging backwards, and I am amazed myself how cooperative our bodies can be if we just have faith in the process and make taking care of ourselves more important than short cuts, laziness and unhealthy/toxic “splurges”. After the problems I have overcome, from horrible histamine issues, heart and gall bladder issues, my mother taking DES when she was pregnant with me, almost dying of carbon monoxide poisoning, gray hair, weight issues (both too skinny and too fat) and many more, I am proof we don’t have to continue on a downward course into the grave, pining for our youth all the way there. I am excited for each new day and my focus is constantly on how I can better myself and my surroundings today. Sixty is the best!

You look amazing! What an inspiration

 

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You look amazing! What an inspiration

Thank you for inspiring me more Anthro!!

 

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Only 19 carbs for three of these, masa and lime only, tortillas is a great weight management food. I fried these up in some refined coconut oil, sprinkled on some finishing salt and some ground cumin and had them with homemade salsa!

 

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This is a great sprouted snack. The pretzels are hollow….

 

[kaybb]

This is a great sprouted snack. The pretzels are hollow….

I love this feed and all your posts! So you eat grains if they are sprouted and carefully chosen?

 

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I love this feed and all your posts! So you eat grains if they are sprouted and carefully chosen?

I am honored that you find my thread valuable and interesting kaybb! Yes I eat mostly sprouted grains nowadays. For starches I really only eat white sweet potatoes and an occasional red potato, added to something, but not much else, as non-sugar/fruit carbs go. Sometimes I will have a grain carb, if there is not too much of it, or if it is low in carbs and the ingredients are good, like one of these Hermosa corn tortillas, broken down with lime for only 5 carbs. I had one this morning with my homemade Lamb “Carnitas” topped with crushed pork rinds, a fruity hot sauce and homemade salsa, my friend made and shared with me. Shortly after I had that, I also had a half cup of cottage cheese with fresh orange zest and organic seedless boysenberry jam. Earlier I had a salted fried egg with maple syrup and a cup of coffee with raw milk and sugar, and it is only 11:00! I have a thread about “Weighing Starches Carefully”, which I linked below for you. I am not against having a little something that isn’t optimal, I just don’t make it a daily habit. I feel too great to mess things up, like I have too many times in the past, having to start all over again, with a little less enthusiasm. I eat more decadently than anyone I know, so I am not wanting to “fall of my wagon”!

WEIGHING STARCHES CAREFULLY (w/pics)

"By present and past statements of the American Dietetic Association, I think some kind of institutional brain defect might account for their recommendations. Although the dietetic association now feebly acknowledges that sugars don't raise the blood sugar more quickly than starches do, they...

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“A lowered metabolic rate and energy production is a common feature of aging and most degenerative diseases. From the beginning of an animal's life, sugars are the primary source of energy, and with maturation and aging there is a shift toward replacing sugar oxidation with fat oxidation. Old people are able to metabolize fat at the same rate as younger people, but their overall metabolic rate is lower, because they are unable to oxidize sugar at the same high rate as young people. Fat people have a similar selectively reduced ability to oxidize sugar.

Stress and starvation lead to a relative reliance on the fats stored in the tissues, and the mobilization of these as circulating free fatty acids contributes to a slowing of metabolism and a shift away from the use of glucose for energy.“ -Ray Peat

Glucose and sucrose for diabetes.

Since the first doctor noticed, hundreds of years ago, that the urine of a diabetic patient tasted sweet, it has been common to call the condition the sugar disease, or sugar diabetes, and since nothing was known about physiological chemistry, it was commonly believed that eating too much sugar...

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I have been finding my juice press to be a big benefit to my diet. One thing I really like is pressing fresh watermelon with the rinds, sometimes adding purple carrots, which don’t have the abundance of vitamin A, the “Peater” avoid. I don’t ingest all of the bloating fiber and I don’t waste the rinds, which are just as nutritious as the red part. The waste from the juice I put in my composter, to feed my fruit garden!

“Many studies have found that sucrose is less fattening than starch or glucose, that is, that more calories can be consumed without gaining weight. During exercise, the addition of fructose to glucose increases the oxidation of carbohydrate by about 50% (Jentjens and Jeukendrup, 2005). In another experiment, rats were fed either sucrose or Coca-Cola and Purina chow, and were allowed to eat as much as they wanted (Bukowiecki, et al, 1983). They consumed 50% more calories without gaining extra weight, relative to the standard diet. Ruzzin, et al. (2005) observed rats given a 10.5% or 35% sucrose solution, or water, and observed that the sucrose increased their energy consumption by about 15% without increasing weight gain. Macor, et al. (1990) found that glucose caused a smaller increase in metabolic rate in obese people than in normal weight people, but that fructose increased their metabolic rate as much as it did that of the normal weight people. Tappy, et al. (1993) saw a similar increase in heat production in obese people, relative to the effect of glucose. Brundin, et al. (1993) compared the effects of glucose and fructose in healthy people, and saw a greater oxygen consumption with fructose, and also an increase in the temperature of the blood, and a greater increase in carbon dioxide production.

These metabolic effects have led several groups to recommend the use of fructose for treating shock, the stress of surgery, or infection (e.g., Adolph, et al., 1995).

The commonly recommended alternative to sugar in the diet is starch, but many studies show that it produces all of the effects that are commonly ascribed to sucrose and fructose, for example hyperglycemia (Villaume, et al., 1984) and increased weight gain.” -Ray Peat

 

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“The commonly recommended alternative to sugar in the diet is starch, but many studies show that it produces all of the effects that are commonly ascribed to sucrose and fructose, for example hyperglycemia (Villaume, et al., 1984) and increased weight gain.” -Ray Peat

The peel of this fruit contains a large percentage of the nutrients within the whole fruit, yet most people throw the peels in the garbage without a second thought. Not only do watermelon rinds contain all the nutrients found in the juicy fruit, but they also contain higher concentrations of certain antioxidants, minerals, vitamins and active ingredients.
This hard peel has low-calorie levels, but high amounts of vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B6, potassium and zinc. Watermelon rind is also rich in nutrients with chlorophyll, citrulline, lycopene, amino acids and flavonoids and phenolic compounds.“

Watermelon Rind Uses | Learn Important Terms and Concepts

Watermelon Rind Uses | Understand important concepts, their definition, examples and applications. Also, learn about other related terms while solving questions and prepare yourself for upcoming examination.

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UPDATE:

I have mentioned in recent updates that my coffee consumption is low, and wanted to address that further. It isn’t low for any other reason than that I don’t really want it, and if I am going to listen to my body, which I have a good rapport with, it really doesn’t want it first thing in the morning, because I can hardly finish a cup of coffee in the morning. The other day, I really didn’t want any coffee so I decided to start my day with a big glass of iced milk, and it felt better. After the milk I made my coffee and enjoyed it more. Ray Peat always did say to have protein first, to properly support the use of coffee, but I just never did it. I even e-mailed him once asking if I put milk in my coffee, with sugar of course, if that would be enough protein and he said only if it was a lot of milk and a little coffee. So today I poured myself 16-ounces of whole raw milk, and added in a couple teaspoons of maple sugar and a half teaspoon of instant coffee, instead of brewed, and again, it feels like a better start. I wonder how much of people drinking coffee in an unsupported way upon waking is setting them up for a vicious cycle of blood sugar issues, cravings, and unsuccessful weight loss. Although coffee helped me in some ways to get my metabolism revved up, when it did, my want for it waned.

What your morning coffee really does to your brain

Your morning coffee is good for you - if you drink it at the right time.

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“What are the health benefits of coffee?

Despite what you may have been told, there are several ways your daily caffeine intake is good for you. Not only can coffee improve your energy levels, but it can cause your brain to function at optimal levels, making you smarter.

Some other health benefits of coffee include:

• Boosting your metabolism
• Improving your physical performance
• Helping you with your nutrient intake (the vitamins B2, B3, B5, manganese, and potassium are all found in coffee)
• Lowering your risk of developing type 2 diabetes
• Helping fight depression symptoms and make you happier
• Providing a source of antioxidants

Consuming caffeine when cortisol levels are high decreases the health benefits.

Cortisol, a naturally-occurring stress hormone, has a very distinct circadian rhythm that is regulated by the brain’s central pacemaker. Interrupting this rhythm can lead to metabolic abnormalities, fatigue, and poor quality of life, according to a 2009 study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Consuming caffeine when your cortisol levels are at a natural peak can lead to interference in the production of cortisol and an increase in your tolerance, which can impact your response to stress and will cause to you need more and more caffeine as time goes on.”

What your morning coffee really does to your brain

Your morning coffee is good for you - if you drink it at the right time.

bigthink.com

 

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JUST A THOUGHT…

I have long thought that so much dry food in a diet seems problematic for digestion, slowing things down, caustic toxicity, allergies, sleep issues, colon cancers and weight gain. I keep wanting to experiment with a No-dry food diet, and am going to attempt to do so today. It seems like a more difficult thing to do, but it eliminates a lot of processed foods, and fat that needs to be on things like breads. So today, I started my day with two cups of whole raw milk with a half tablespoon of instant coffee and maple sugar in it, a butter fried and salted egg, topped with maple syrup and paired it with a quarter cup of cottage cheese topped with organic jellies, marmalade and seedless boysenberry. I have been up for four hours now, and will have to see what else I can want today that isn’t bone dry.

 

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UPDATE:

This was a really good combo this morning, cottage cheese, maple syrup, marmalade and salt. Ignore the paper plate in my pic, because I didn’t plan for this wonderful discovery! I tried to cover my fault with a home-grown strawberry mint sprig, and think it worked a bit. Anyways, I most often have a butter-fried egg in the morning, salted and topped with maple syrup, and this morning after having my egg, I thought cottage cheese sounded good afterwards, and noticing all the wasted, expensive maple syrup on my previous egg plate, so i thought soaking up the rest with the cottage cheese would be a responsible thing to do. It was delicious, who’d have thought? I will be doing this combo from now on! Between the egg and half cup of cottage cheese, I had 13 grams of fat and 14 grams of protein. This is a key to my success, if the fat count is less than the protein then it is a good balance to keeping one’s weight in check. I am just going to use the popular restaurant chain Applebees, as an example of why people get fat, and why SALADS ARE THE WORST DIET FOOD, and how the protein to fat ratio is horrible! These numbers are outrageous, not even considering the horrible ingredients from processed and restaurant food. It isn’t even food! I DO NOT go to chain restaurants. I go to privately owned restaurants, and order simple grilled meats, fruits and crème brûlée, if they have it, and a main course! About the only good fat I can find in a restaurant is in crème brûlée, because even the ice cream is probably mass produced with a bunch of additives.