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oops, something got deleted. I meant to write, although it's tough now to find the time to do all this, the food industry is so appalling and organic is so expensive. It will soon be tough to even find a seed that hasn't been genetically modified.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So, what's the threshold for processed food consumption? Less for sure but how little is enough?
For me (health policy person here) it is if you look at the ingredients and they are very long, with things you can't recognize as food, that is a bad sign.
A fun exercise: go get a kid's "Lunchable" and flip it over. The ingredients are so many they practically have to make the box bigger to accommodate. A better choice would be to buy some turkey deli meat, best if you can buy like Applewood Farms/organic at least, and put it between two pieces of whole wheat bread. Maybe add some greens and tomato, and mustard. Same idea, and you are still eating processed foods in a way, but much, much better than the Lunchable. Your ingredient list will be much shorter, and most of the ingredients you will recognize.
A plant based diet is a great thing. But we a fair amount of eggs and yogurt, and we get the Whole Foods or local farmer's market "non industrial" chicken or wild caught salmon and eat about 1-2 a week. we get eggs from the my parent's farm, but a relative who is an organic farmer (not easy to become one by the way) says if you buy eggs from the grocery store, only buy Eggland's Best organic. The mainstream brands are pretty processed to preserve them.
Zumba Mama, it's great that you will be making your own pasta and bread. I will not get to that point. I'd love to, but it's not realistic for me at this time in my life. I try to make my simple tomato sauce and choose pasta from a box, but that is a step above mac and cheese from a box. Another great example of "less processed" vs. very processed.
And that is not to say you can't eat total crap from a box in moderation, just that the bulk of your diet IMO should be whole foods and the "less processed" foods. This is a start, hopefully. I strongly recommend the movie Food Inc. Books are fine but something about that movie, the visual is worth a thousand words.
Thanks for the egg tip. And I agree about the Food, Inc. I think everyone should watch that. Very scary and disturbing. It helped inspire me to grow my own food...although it's tough now to even find a seed that hasn't been genetically modified. It's all so sad.
Have you seen Meet your Meat (very hard to watch) or Botany of Desire?
Anonymous wrote:zumbamama wrote:Anonymous wrote:PP with the PhD and Chinese/Tibetan GM (so cool!)...I don't want to be spared the boring stuff. How/where do I learn more?
I agree, please spill your thoughts PPs.
Apologies, but I'm not quite sure what I'm being asked...
You had mentioned that you could go much deeper on the subject, so I was curious to see what more you had to say on the subject. I just find this whole thread very interesting, as I would like to decrease the amount of processed food we consume. I've made gradual changes in our family's diet over the past few years, but I want to keep improving it. We started a veggie/berry garden and have stopped buying alot of frozen processed junk. Next I want to stop buying pasta, tortillas and hummus and start making them from scratch.
I welcome any tips for better eating. The more I read about the food industry, the more sickened I am. I had no idea about the unfermented soy products being bad for you...so now I'm scared to eat that too. Along with dairy and countless other things I consume regularly. So this weekend I'm trying out different kinds of milks and looking for better cereals. Or maybe I should make my own cereal too!
Anonymous wrote:PP with the PhD and Chinese/Tibetan GM (so cool!)...I don't want to be spared the boring stuff. How/where do I learn more?
I agree, please spill your thoughts PPs.
Planks, dips, chaturanga holds, boxing and push ups (regular and pilates style) are all good for arm sculpting.
But I also agree you can make walking a good workout if you walk fast, uphill with weights or pushing a stroller.
If you mix up your workouts between swimming, walking and running, your knees would be impacted less and you wouldn't have to give up running completely.
I do high impact 6 days a week, 1-4 hours a day, and could not sustain if I didn't do yoga/massage to undo the daily impact I put on my joints.
If you mix up your workouts between swimming, walking and running, your knees would be impacted less and you wouldn't have to give up running completely.
I do high impact 6 days a week, 1-4 hours a day, and could not sustain if I didn't do yoga/massage to undo the daily impact I put on my joints.
swimming. and restorative yoga for your knees so you can run when your knees get better.
My boss is a long time marathon runner and takes his acupuncturist with him if his knees act up. He's 65 and still running.
My boss is a long time marathon runner and takes his acupuncturist with him if his knees act up. He's 65 and still running.
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I'm in your class and I love you
Te amo!
I am most commonly stereotyped as Spanish speaking nanny, because I'm tan and have white children. I like that the Spanish speaking nannies always come talk to me at the park or school, so I can practice what little Spanish I know.
But really, I'm a DC native danceaholic.
But really, I'm a DC native danceaholic.
I meant too late.
It's never to late too find your passion. Maybe you have an interest that you just haven't explored yet. What did you enjoy doing when you were a kid? Or what is your idea of fun? When you read, what do you like to read about?
When I was there a few years ago, people spoke highly of Ensign Middle School in Newport Beach and Corona del Mar High School in Corona del Mar. I heard Costa Mesa schools are iffy, some good, some just ok. This all hearsay, though.
Communication Arts & Design / Dance
Once I drove to my Wednesday class on a Tuesday, and so was late to my Tues. class. I call them senior moments.
It was super crazy today! Very hard to walk two feet without bumping into someone and my kids wore out fast from the lines and crowds. We didn't even get to see the pandas : ( Next time I'll go when it's not beautiful outside!