Friday, September 14, 2007
Surprise, surprise: most of them are fruits or vegetables.
From Best Life Magazine, “Eat these eight foods every day to cover all your nutritional bases”
- Spinach
- Yogurt
- Tomatoes
- Carrots
- Blueberries
- Black beans
- Walnuts
- Oats
Luckily, since eating the same stuff every day would get boring after, I don’t know, a day, they also provide substitutes.
See also my Celsius1414 post on “Lowering cholesterol with food choices”.
It’s funny comparing both of these lists with the verboten foods of the Paleolithic Diet — no grains, no beans, no dairy, etc. — as well as the common items.
Big article in the LA Times on “The power of produce”
Whether it fights cancer depends on which you eat, how you eat it — and your genes.
Fruits and vegetables are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber and scores of phytochemicals that scientists are just beginning to understand, and studies have shown that people who eat more fruits and vegetables have a lower risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes — and some kinds of cancer.
In a related story, “A common complaint? Preparing produce is time-consuming and inconvenient”
I have been told by not unreliable authorities that there was a time early in my life when I loved fruits and vegetables. At some undefined point between then and my first coherent memories, my love affair turned bad. I grew to loathe virtually all of them. If it was grown, I likely hated it….
That’s how The Grown Diaries began two years ago today. And a couple of URL changes later, here it still is. There have been some large lapses between posts, including all of 2006, but the blog itself and the goals behind it remain. I expect to see even more activity here in the coming months.
Word of the day: leguminous
adjective Botany
of, relating to, or denoting plants of the pea family ( Leguminosae). They have seeds in pods, distinctive flowers, and typically root nodules containing symbiotic bacteria able to fix nitrogen.
Despite the old song, I don’t believe beans are a fruit — it’s just harder to find rhymes for vegetable. ;) They are, however, a marvelous source of nutrients, including protein and fiber.
Speaking of nutrients, cooking with dry beans apparently helps their nutritiousness versus canned. It also aids digestion and reduces their, ah, “magical” properties.
Here’s a cool article on “Soaking Beans”, explaining why and how to soak beans. The page is one of a larger Dried Beans collection with all kinds of interesting tidbits, from cooking, to flavoring, to storage.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Please note that “The Grown Diaries” are now hosted at http://www.growndiaries.com — all web forwarding should be happening automagically.
