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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 8:08 am
Thanks Chewp. I'm fine. I usually just chop off the ends and rince. Seems like I may start scrubbing.
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Justavice
Member
11-22-2005
| Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 9:16 am
Naja- I've had that happen before. I just figured it was season or quality. Kind of like strawberries sold in the winter taste worse than those in the summer.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 7:47 pm
Justavice, the "celery scent" did seem a bit more pungent on this batch. Maybe it was just bad celery. I think I am just paranoid about everything since the day they added our dog's food to the recall list.
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Baby
Member
01-08-2006
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 5:01 pm
Not sure if this is the right place for this question. If not mods, please feel free to move it. Thanks. Does anyone know anything about the Vitamin Waters that are being sold today? Because of a malabsorption problem (wrote more about it in my folder), I need to try to find a good brand of vitamin water that tastes decent, isn't too high in sugar and doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I have checked on-line and found way too much info. Not sure what's reliable and what's not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 5:23 am
have you just tried liquid multi-vitamins?
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 9:58 am
I didn't know where else (Mame has it, too) to put this link, but I found it very interesting. It doesn't replace the Dr.. But it does recommend healthy vitamins and minerals for what ails you. It also says to consult your Dr. Anyway, the report it generates if free and very detailed. http://www.freewellnesstest.org/test.php
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 11:58 am
Please take the time to read your report and call one of the healthcare professionals listed at the bottom of your report for any assistance. They will work with you and help guide you. I'm not giving them any personal information (email or snail mail) so they can tell me that I need to take supplements. Chiropractors have a great deal going with selling supplements. What is a "nutritionalist"? There is no standard or credential that tells you what kind of training/education a "nutritionist" or "nutritonalist" has...at least with a "registered dietitian" you know they have attended a minimum 4 year college with a science/food science degree, a 900+ hour internship, and a national registration exam (along with minimum 75 hrs science/evidenced based continuing education every 5 years to maintain our credential) - disclaimer - I'm a Registered Dietitian.} It won't matter what you select (many of the questions are very generalized and most folks will answer yes to a lot of them). What would be very interesting is if different answers still generated the same recommendations. Regarding Vitamin Waters (just saw that post today for the first time). Save your money. The amount you would have to spend to get 100% RDA for a good multivitamin would be astronomical. You are much better off with a standard multivitamin (and yes, there are liquid versions).

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 12:36 pm
I was leery of putting down my email addy, but there's always the option of blocking pesky emails. So I'm not too worried. I got a 50 page report, that I've saved to read later. Thanks Twiggsy! Personally I'm fascinated, and always on the lookout for good advice. BTW, I like your advice Kona about the liquid vitamins. I will look into that.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 3:03 pm
Well, I don't usually recommend sites like that one, but it linked from a reliable one. (Our local health food store) I took the test and only put in my email and zip code. I also block spam, so it's not a big deal. The report is very detailed and does NOT recommend any vitamin brands. It gives specific information based on your results. For example, I listed PMS as a symptom. It gave me several recommendations for vitamins (no brand name given) plus, various herbs..etc.. that would help. I listed headaches, and it gave me quite a bit of information for them. I know a lot about vitamins and suppplements, but this site really gave me a lot of info. It's ok if you don't want to try it. I just wanted to let you know I checked it out. Oh and there are Chiros listed at the end. I figure that's how they pay for the site. A multi-vitamin is good, but you also need supplements for some things not included in the vitamin. For example, L Triptophan is not in all multi's. It's a good stress relief vitamin.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 4:26 pm
FYI: L-Tryptophan is an amino acid (not a vitamin).
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 7:21 pm
Well, I didn't want to be that technical. It is included in supplements, which is what I wrote up there. See my second sentence from the bottom. Look, I don't want to argue, I just posted a link to a test that I thought was interesting. Whether or not you want to do it is up to you. I wasn't trying to be controversial.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 8:14 pm
Twiggy - It's an interesting promotion. I'm just trying to post the other side so TVCH folks can make an informed decision about the site and about any information they may get from it. Sometimes that means playing devil's advocate. And I try to avoid any potential for misunderstanding (depending on punctuation, any sentence can mean something different. You wrote "L Triptophan is not in all multi's. It's a good stress relief vitamin" which someone else might read as "L Triptophan is a vitamin" so I was just clarifying. I take my multivitamin every night I remember. And I often advocate special supplements after doing a full nutrition assessment of a client.

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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 9:01 pm
Yikes, I wish I hadn't posted it. It's not promotional for any vitamin company. It does list a few dr's at the end. It gives a tremendous amount of information..and I think people here are very well informed to make their own decisions. The link came from a reliable source, by the way. I only gave my email addy, my initials, and a fake zip code. You don't even have to give a real addy. It just generates right away.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 10:38 am
Hey thanks Twiggy - I'm glad you posted it, and don't be too discouraged at some of the reaction you're getting. There definitely are people trained in institutional nutrition but while i respect their training, I was totally underwhelmed at the application of same while my hubby was in the hospital with neutropenia, during my pregnancy, when my daughter was an infant or when I was diagnosed with high cholesterol and told to avoid eggs or when my dad developed PD. It's shocking how poor the understanding/nourishment is in what we call health facilities these day. Sadly the actual accomplishments made during the modern era of medicine are a far cry from what we ought to be able to do. I often wonder why this is and why doesn’t scientific innovation occur on a regular basis in medicine? Studies have shown that ideological immunity is built into the scientific interprise (medicine as well), where it functions as a filter against potentially overwhelming novelty... A historian of science I. B. Cohen explained, “New and revolutionary systems of science tend to be resisted rather than welcomed with open arms, because every successful scientist has a vested intellectual, social, and even financial interest in maintaining the status quo." So don’t look for innovation to occur in medicine anytime soon, because the other reason it rarely occurs in medicine, is largely due to the inability of physicians etc to admit uncertainty. The problem being uncertainty and doubt must exist before learning can occur. As a result we all must do much of our own homework keep an open mind and gather information from many places. So thanks again.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 1:26 pm
I took my aunt to the doctor on Friday and all things considered she's doing pretty good. One of the things her doctor said though was that her bad cholesterol is good, but her good cholesterol is bad and she either needs to take fish oil vitamins (dr doesn't really want her taking more pills though) or eat more foods that are high on the good cholesterol. Fish, walnuts, avacadoes were the three things she mentioned. I bought her some walnuts and have planned a couple meals around avacados (tacos using ground turkey and avacadas, pizza with olive oil, chicken, avacadoes) but I'm wondering if there are more foods we could also use to boost the good cholesterol? Also is all fish equal? Will we get the same benefits from salmon as halibut? How about canned tuna and salmon? And what about shell fish (shrimp, crab, etc.)? We've done pretty good cutting out the bad cholesterol and cutting back on the sugar, salt, and eating more fresh veggies and lots of dark, leafy green stuff but this is one area I don't know a whole lot about.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 10:17 am
Not sure how mobile your aunt is but exercise has been shown to help increase HDL levels, so adding more of that on a regular basis helps avoid pills. If overweight, lowering that is effective as well, every two pounds lost may increase HDL .35mg/dl is what my doc told me. Canned salmon is better than tuna, shell fish is not recommended for this purpose and make sure the walnuts are fresh, organic if possible and keep refrigerated. Keep avocados to max of two per week. Also important to avoid omega 6 oils, processed foods, polyunsaturated vegetable or processed oils are bad for this.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 2:10 pm
She is not very mobile at all, gets around the house and to appointments but thats about it. We try to encourage her to get out more, take a walk through the neighborhood but she won't. She's afraid of falling. She's also not overweigh and since we started cooking for her she's much healthier than she was. Diabetes, blood pressure, and now cholesterol are all under control. I think we'll just have to cook more fish (which means more of my sis cooking cuz I don't cook fish, lol.) I took her a bag of shelled walnuts one day and sat them on the table. Half way home I realized how dumb that was, she can't eat them with no teeth! If I crush them up and put them in things like fruit salad, green salads, muffins even, will she still get the benefits as eating whole walnuts. I'm going to have to be more creative with that.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 4:27 pm
She's lucky to have you War...what about something like an elliptical or treadmill?? Is that an option? I'm with you on the fish thing, I'll eat it but will NOT cook it either. DH insists on it being rinsed first and he's on his own with that too eeewwww!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 5:30 pm
I love to cook fish - -salmon in particular. Take a skinned salmon filet and cut it into about 4 pieces (depending on serving size). Put each slice on a piece of aluminum foil sprayed w/Pam. Create a little "bowl" by turning up the foil sides. Drizzle a bit of olive oil over fish and season w/salt and pepper. Then, pour a bit of white or blush wine in with the fish. Top with 2 lemon slices, a bit of rosemary and/or thyme and 1 tsp. of capers. Fold the tops over to seal, and cook on a grill or in the oven for about 20 minutes. This is good enough that even my brother who "doesn't like fish" eats it. Of course, it helps that our salmon comes fresh from Lake Michigan each summer and we just vacuum seal it and freeze it. 
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 5:35 pm
Teach, a squeeze of Kraft Sundried tomato and basil dressing on salmon and then bake is delish
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 8:52 pm
I've never checked, but I am of the opinion that canned salmon has about as much good stuff as fresh, and it is a whole lot easier to fix. You open the can and plop it out, no cooking required. I love canned salmon, red sockeye only, none of that pink stuff.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 4:03 am
Oprah's Dr Oz said the canned salmon is better for you because it is wild. He said the fresh salmon sold in the store is actually farm-raised. I don't remember why that makes a difference, maybe because of what the wild salmon eat versus what the farm-raised eat. Anyway, the tv doc agrees with Juju, and I love the red sockeye too.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 8:37 am
I don't know how it works south of the border, but here, if I go to my fishmonger, he's got two options for fresh salmon - farm, or wild. Fish not raised in the wild must be clearly labeled 'farm'. Maybe I'm a fish snob, being on the West coast and all, but you can see and taste the difference between farm and wild. The farm fishing is under a lot of debate because the fish raised in such proximity to other fish on the farms cause health issues - sea lice, among others. Also, there are concerns over what the farms are doing to natural habitats. As for cooking the salmon, I marinade it in equal parts soy sauce and maple syrup, then bake in the oven. Divine!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 11:30 am
Wild caught salmon is available certain times of year (although it can be quite expensive).
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 12:30 pm
I eat fresh salmon at least once a week. I feel for you guys who can only get it randomly, and at a steep price.
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