Food, Nutrition, And Health

     

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175 pounds

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
--Albert Einstein

I found an interesting Youtube video presentation by Stephan Guyenet (whom I follow on Twitter) but it is 46 minutes long, so if you decide to watch it make sure you have sufficient time and interest available. (It's actually kind of boring.)

Why We Overeat

Stephen Guyenet is an obesity researcher and neurobiologist. In his spare time, he reads, writes, and speaks about obesity, metabolism, nutrition, and health. He received a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Virginia in 2002 and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of Washington in 2009. Whole Health Source is a blog he publishes to communicate science to the public.


My ongoing effort at losing weight is not going well. I am so enamored with the taste and flavors of sweetened and fatty foods that I habitually either find excuses to ingest great quantities of high-calorie, unhealthy foods or I conveniently, temporarily forget that I am on a diet.

Cheap Generic Crunchy Style peanut butter and Smucker's Strawberry Preserves spread thickly on two slices of dense Honey Oat bread is my current self-directed affliction, at least one sandwich a day, sometimes substituting the name brand preserves with generic sweetened orange marmalade.

Can't keep doing that.

Must persevere.

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Walking Trail Through The Scrub

Tucson, Arizona  March 22, 2014

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Did You Know . . .?

Johnny Depp jumped in to adopt his Sleepy Hollow co-star Goldeneye after he heard the one-eyed horse was going to be put down.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. The Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. Under the leadership of U.S. Representative Bella Abzug of New York and feminists Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, the bill was approved by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states.

Hawaii was the first state to ratify what would have been the 27th Amendment, followed by some 30 other states within a year. However, during the mid-1970s, a conservative backlash against feminism eroded support for the Equal Rights Amendment, which ultimately failed to achieve ratification by the a requisite 38, or three-fourths, of the states. Because of the rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment, sexual equality, with the notable exception of when it pertains to the right to vote, is not protected by the U.S. Constitution.

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WORD FOR TODAY

nutrition  [noo-trish-uhn]
noun
1.  The science or study that deals with food and nourishment, especially in humans.
2.  A source of nourishment; food.
3.  The process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues.

Nutrition is the selection of foods and preparation of foods, and their ingestion to be assimilated by the body. By practicing a healthy diet, many of the known health issues can be avoided. The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the perceived palatability of foods.
--Wikipedia

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

William Shatner

(born March 22, 1931)

William Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, singer, author, film director, spokesman and comedian. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, commander of the Federation starship USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series Star Trek, from 1966 to 1969; Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994.

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

(born March 22, 1976)

Reese Witherspoon is an American actress and producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991. In 1996, Witherspoon appeared in Freeway, and in 1998, she starred in Pleasantville. For her role in 1999's Election, she earned a Golden Globe nomination.

Matthew Avery Modine

(born March 22, 1959)

Matthew Modine is an American film actor. His most well-known film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, and oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds.

May Britt

(born March 22, 1934

May Britt is a Swedish actress who had a brief career in the 1950s in Italy and later in the United States. She made her movie debut as the leading actress in Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair (1952). She also featured in the epic film War and Peace of 1956. In the late 1950s, Britt relocated to Hollywood after signing with 20th Century Fox. She starred in a few movies, including The Young Lions (1958) with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift and Murder, Inc. (1960) with Peter Falk, as well as a much-criticized remake of The Blue Angel (1959) in the legendary role first created by Marlene Dietrich in 1930. She retired from the screen after she married Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1960. 

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How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
--William Shatner

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Poutine -- A Unique Taste Treat

    

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"What the devil is Poutine?" I asked.

"Poutine, and it's pronounced Pew-tin by the way, not Poo-teen, is a Quebec dish, made with French Fries topped with Cheddar Cheese Curd and soaked in a hearty super-heated thick brown gravy."

"Oh Gee Whiz," I said, "Chili-Cheese Fries?"

"No, not exactly. Poutine is a French-Canadian food that tastes a little bit like American Gravy Cheese Fries, but just a little bit. There's actually a world of difference between the two."

"So, it doesn't taste like gravy soaked cheese fries? What does it taste like?"

"The taste is indescribable."

"You don't say?"


Recipe for Poutine.

The potato (French Fry) must be hand-cut, absolutely fresh, and fried in pure lard.

The gravy, sometimes called BBQ Chicken Gravy is dark and very thick, and it must be bubbling hot.

The cheese is the most important part. You must use FRESH white, cheddar cheese CURDS. These curds have a taste and texture much different than actual cheddar cheese.

A Styrofoam bowl should be used in which to serve Poutine, since the Styrofoam reacts to produce the proper heat when the steaming gravy is poured over the cheese curd to create the dish's unique flavor.

It's said that when the curds are placed on the fries and the thick bubbly gravy is poured on top, the three flavors combine to produce what can only be described as the BEST junk food taste sensation on God's Green Earth.

More about Poutine . . .

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WORD FOR TODAY

calisthenics
noun
-  Gymnastic exercises designed to develop muscular tone and promote physical well-being.
-  The practice or art of such exercises: Calisthenics is recommended to relax the muscles before a run.

Calisthenics is a form of exercise consisting of a variety of simple, often rhythmical, movements, generally without using equipment or apparatus. They are intended to increase body strength and flexibility with movements such as bending, jumping, swinging, twisting or kicking, using only one's body weight for resistance. They are usually conducted in concert with stretches. Calisthenics when performed vigorously and with variety can benefit both muscular and cardiovascular fitness, in addition to improving psycho-motor skills such as balance, agility and coordination

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY


Mary Tyler Moore

 

 Born Dec 29, 1936
Age:   75 years old

Mary Tyler Moore is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke's wife) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66). She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Ted Danson

 

Born Dec. 29, 1947
Age:   64 years old

Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III is an American actor, author and producer, well known for his role as lead character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He is currently starring in the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He also plays a recurring role on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, starred alongside Glenn Close in legal drama Damages and was a regular on the HBO comedy series Bored to Death.

Jon Voight

 

Born Dec 29, 1938
Age:  73 years old

Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has won one Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the biological father of actress Angelina Jolie.

Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ (1979).

Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train (1985). During the 1990s, he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker (1997). Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s (decade), appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001), as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising (2001), and as Pope John Paul II in the television miniseries of the same name (2005).

Charles Goodyear

 

Born Dec. 29, 1800
Died   July 1, 1860

Charles Goodyear was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 -- a method that he perfected while living and working in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.


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Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
--Buddy Ebsen