I have read so many different articles on how much D is enough, so I'm not going to even bother. Check VeganHealth.org, he's on the ball. There was even a recent story about how you don't need any at all. That is really odd and dangerous too.
I am going to order a home D test to check my levels and wanted to share this with you:
http://www.zrtlab.com/vitamindcouncil/home-mainmenu-1.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=4&category_id=1
This is not an affiliate link. No links on this site are affiliate links intentionally (that is I might copy it and paste it without my knowledge). I paste in links without actually linking to many sites so that I don't have a lot of outbound links causing my rank to be affected.
Ahh, so now you know why you have to copy and paste a lot of the links I share.
I personally take a lot of D since I moved from the tropics, Florida, to Northern California where it's been overcast a lot. The improvement took about 1-2 days to see a much better attitude. It was astounding how bleak life was. It's still not as good as it used to be with real sunshine. However, since I am troubleshooting diets lately I figured that my blahness might also be related to the lack of the lavash bread that I used eat in FL. I would eat kale, tofu scramble and lavash and literally drop 2-5 lbs a week! That and some Vega too. It was great and I felt really terriffic. This lavash bread in Tampa is 22 carbs, 20 fiber (net 2 carbs) and I love it. There is nothing like it here. I really like bread, so I've been eating regular low calorie egg/milk free bread. And not only have I put on weight, I am more grumpy and sleepy after a meal with some of that bread. So rather than feel that way, I ordered a lot of lavash to be shipped across country. I know it's not eco-friendly, but I'm getting chubbier by the minute and so WTF. I will learn how to make it myself. I will also bring a lot back in January when I go to FL.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Quinoa Oh How I Love Thee
How to cook quinoa: http://vegangoodeats.com/2010/04/quinoa-101-red-white-and-black/
Be inspired by this wonderful loaf recipe: http://vegangoodeats.com/2010/04/quinoa-104-american-comfort-food-quinoa-wild-mushroom-spinach-loaf-with-cashew-gravy/
I made the loaf for Thanksgiving and it was the tastiest loaf ever! I subbed with sauteed fresh spinach and I also used oil free sun dried tomatoes but added olive oil and brushed the top with the olive oil. Since it's safe to taste the raw, uncooked loaf, I spice it up as needed with more cumin or garlic or whatever.
Most quinoa preparation recipes, especially the one on whole foods, makes a mushy mess. The the one on this guy's site is da bomb. I changed it slightly though. Instead of using veggie broth or water, I used water and 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast when preparing the red quinoa. I would have eaten it all out of the pot, but I used some self restraint.
And, instead of the gravy recipe he has, which looks mighty fine, I made a gravy out of whipped northern white beans, sauteed mushrooms, caramelized onions, one small drop or two of hickory smoke, and garlic along with nutritional yeast, olive oil, and 1 tsp of better than bullion vegan beefless base and water. I sometimes use arrow root to thicken my gravy, but the beans do the trick most of the time.
This was the second Thanksgiving dinner, about a week later. The first one is where I met the dentally challenged children. Ahhh.
Be inspired by this wonderful loaf recipe: http://vegangoodeats.com/2010/04/quinoa-104-american-comfort-food-quinoa-wild-mushroom-spinach-loaf-with-cashew-gravy/
I made the loaf for Thanksgiving and it was the tastiest loaf ever! I subbed with sauteed fresh spinach and I also used oil free sun dried tomatoes but added olive oil and brushed the top with the olive oil. Since it's safe to taste the raw, uncooked loaf, I spice it up as needed with more cumin or garlic or whatever.
Most quinoa preparation recipes, especially the one on whole foods, makes a mushy mess. The the one on this guy's site is da bomb. I changed it slightly though. Instead of using veggie broth or water, I used water and 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast when preparing the red quinoa. I would have eaten it all out of the pot, but I used some self restraint.
And, instead of the gravy recipe he has, which looks mighty fine, I made a gravy out of whipped northern white beans, sauteed mushrooms, caramelized onions, one small drop or two of hickory smoke, and garlic along with nutritional yeast, olive oil, and 1 tsp of better than bullion vegan beefless base and water. I sometimes use arrow root to thicken my gravy, but the beans do the trick most of the time.
This was the second Thanksgiving dinner, about a week later. The first one is where I met the dentally challenged children. Ahhh.
The link between low cholesterol and cancer, depression, anxiety
Here's some links regarding the link between low cholesterol and cancer, depression, anxiety, and preterm birth and low birth weight if your cholesterol is low while you're pregnant.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol-level/AN01394
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/3/419
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138557.php
http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/130.htm
Some may cover the same, paltry research on this topic. Feel free to send me your links.
I was inspired today to post this because of a comment on JackNorrisRD.com. One commenter related that I took it as a personal affront when I encouraged that guy, via his own blog, to read what I had wrote about the need for cholesterol in some people. He refused because it wasn't peer reviewed scientific stuff. If I had taken it personally, I would have persisted. Instead, I just moved on after I made a witty remark about how that guy's screen name/handle is similar to his attitude. I was just pointing out irony. Geesh.
You see, whether you are a vegan, an omni, or a follower of some cult leader in Texas, if you don't think for yourself you are a waste of my time.
His perspective is that he would read about the need for higher cholesterol levels in some people once it made its way down from on high through the scientific community.
That is an interesting perspective, and one that will never likely happen, here's why:
In one corner we have Big Pharma happily doling out the statins* and when those statins patten's expire they will subject more animals to painful tests and start again. Those are nice, laid back folks those Big Pharma peeps, they never, ever influence policy or pay for research.
In the other corner we have Big AG happily doling out the dead beings pumped with antibiotics (from Big Pharma) and other disgusting things. Those are nice, laid back folks those Big AG peeps, they never, ever influence policy or pay for research or become members of non-profit organizations.
Nearly all of the medical community agrees: saturated fat and cholesterol from animal sources is the #1 reason why there's a high rate of heart disease.
So eat your meat. Take your pills. Watch some guy rant on TV. Get stressed out. Take more pills. Eat some sweets. Die.
Cholesterol need not be dietary. There's some stuff in the WAPF doctrine that you must eat meat and get dietary cholesterol, but that's just wacked IMO. You can raise your own good and bad cholesterol levels with different types of fats. However, there is a genetic disorder called SLOS and people with that require synthetic or dietary cholesterol. It's estimated that 1 in 30 people are carriers of SLOS (that's a lot of people). Is there a vegan geneticist in the house? A magic 8 ball?
In the meantime you've got people on a low fat vegan diet thinking they are doing the right thing by their family. After all this perfect, precious, healthy diet has been filtered down from on high. It's a no-brainer. Right.
Then they get sick and their teeth decay.
Not everyone can have a cholesterol levels of around 100 of the plant mostly diet of the Asians. They are Asians. Check out a healthy German, what are his or her levels? I don't know. But a question like that is not something to dismiss.
Some people like Sarah Palin and some people like Dennis Kucinich.
We are all different.
I like Dennis.
Special thanks goes out to the dude who didn't visit this blog and the reasons why. You are inspirational!
* Statins lower cholesterol and it would harm business if there was a bunch of publicity about how low cholesterol may be harmful to some.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630121130.htm
New Insights Into Link Between Anti-Cholesterol Statin Drugs and Depression
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol-level/AN01394
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/3/419
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138557.php
http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/130.htm
Some may cover the same, paltry research on this topic. Feel free to send me your links.
I was inspired today to post this because of a comment on JackNorrisRD.com. One commenter related that I took it as a personal affront when I encouraged that guy, via his own blog, to read what I had wrote about the need for cholesterol in some people. He refused because it wasn't peer reviewed scientific stuff. If I had taken it personally, I would have persisted. Instead, I just moved on after I made a witty remark about how that guy's screen name/handle is similar to his attitude. I was just pointing out irony. Geesh.
You see, whether you are a vegan, an omni, or a follower of some cult leader in Texas, if you don't think for yourself you are a waste of my time.
His perspective is that he would read about the need for higher cholesterol levels in some people once it made its way down from on high through the scientific community.
That is an interesting perspective, and one that will never likely happen, here's why:
In one corner we have Big Pharma happily doling out the statins* and when those statins patten's expire they will subject more animals to painful tests and start again. Those are nice, laid back folks those Big Pharma peeps, they never, ever influence policy or pay for research.
In the other corner we have Big AG happily doling out the dead beings pumped with antibiotics (from Big Pharma) and other disgusting things. Those are nice, laid back folks those Big AG peeps, they never, ever influence policy or pay for research or become members of non-profit organizations.
Nearly all of the medical community agrees: saturated fat and cholesterol from animal sources is the #1 reason why there's a high rate of heart disease.
So eat your meat. Take your pills. Watch some guy rant on TV. Get stressed out. Take more pills. Eat some sweets. Die.
Cholesterol need not be dietary. There's some stuff in the WAPF doctrine that you must eat meat and get dietary cholesterol, but that's just wacked IMO. You can raise your own good and bad cholesterol levels with different types of fats. However, there is a genetic disorder called SLOS and people with that require synthetic or dietary cholesterol. It's estimated that 1 in 30 people are carriers of SLOS (that's a lot of people). Is there a vegan geneticist in the house? A magic 8 ball?
In the meantime you've got people on a low fat vegan diet thinking they are doing the right thing by their family. After all this perfect, precious, healthy diet has been filtered down from on high. It's a no-brainer. Right.
Then they get sick and their teeth decay.
Not everyone can have a cholesterol levels of around 100 of the plant mostly diet of the Asians. They are Asians. Check out a healthy German, what are his or her levels? I don't know. But a question like that is not something to dismiss.
Some people like Sarah Palin and some people like Dennis Kucinich.
We are all different.
I like Dennis.
Special thanks goes out to the dude who didn't visit this blog and the reasons why. You are inspirational!
* Statins lower cholesterol and it would harm business if there was a bunch of publicity about how low cholesterol may be harmful to some.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630121130.htm
New Insights Into Link Between Anti-Cholesterol Statin Drugs and Depression
Fat is where it's at: an interesting comment on Lierre Keith's Vegetarian Myth book
So I'm at Lierre Keith's site and head on over to Amazon to look at the comments and what do I find but this:
It's amazing that such a simple thing such as fat in your otherwise balanced and colorful vegan diet could prevent such an avalanche of health issues. If you eat low fat vegan, you ARE doing it wrong! You don't have to go crazy with the fats, but you need to add it to your salads and greens to get the optimal absorption of nutrients. Plus, add a little to your green smoothie. If you recall the page of healthy vegan kids and their families a few posts back one child loves coconut milk!
Read this whole site or search for "fat" or "fats" in the search bar, when I have time to organize, hopefully I'll have a ton of links on why some fat is good for you, even a little or a little bit more than a little. You have to discern for yourself.
If you are a heart patient see a doc. This site is intended for otherwise healthy people who are not experiencing "hardening of the arteries" as my Momma says. Please visit VeganHealth.org for healthy vegan diets.
By Joan Howe "joanhello" (Northampton MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Paperback)
The author interweaves her deepening political and environmental understanding - looking at the whole picture and realizing that pretty much everything in the supermarket, not just the meat, is produced by methods that make the world a crueler, more polluted and, worst of all, less sustainable place, and that to avoid contributing to the problem calls for much more radical solutions than merely leaving the animal products out of your diet - with her own story of worsening health on a vegan diet followed by recovery when she began to eat meat again. This is where my first caveat comes up: she implies, without coming right out and saying, that her vegan diet was also a low-fat diet. I have also been vegan for long periods of my life (although never the decades that she logged) and it was only during the last one, from 2004-2006, that I experienced the slight beginnings of the back problems she describes. No coincidence: that was the one where I went low-fat as well as vegan and actually lost my ability to digest fat. Fortunately I got an accurate diagnosis promptly, got nutritional therapy to regain my ability to digest fat, and lost the back pain within a year. In the latter half of her Nutritional Vegetarianism chapter, she devotes several pages to challenging the demonization of dietary fat by the mainstream medical community. Nevertheless, she continues to attribute her health problems mainly to lack of meat rather than lack of fat.
It's amazing that such a simple thing such as fat in your otherwise balanced and colorful vegan diet could prevent such an avalanche of health issues. If you eat low fat vegan, you ARE doing it wrong! You don't have to go crazy with the fats, but you need to add it to your salads and greens to get the optimal absorption of nutrients. Plus, add a little to your green smoothie. If you recall the page of healthy vegan kids and their families a few posts back one child loves coconut milk!
Read this whole site or search for "fat" or "fats" in the search bar, when I have time to organize, hopefully I'll have a ton of links on why some fat is good for you, even a little or a little bit more than a little. You have to discern for yourself.
If you are a heart patient see a doc. This site is intended for otherwise healthy people who are not experiencing "hardening of the arteries" as my Momma says. Please visit VeganHealth.org for healthy vegan diets.
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