kiss my asparagus part#2

Dispelling “old” myths:


#1 Calorie is just a calorie…answer NO…reason there is research that says that similar caloric numbers with different foods pack a different punch. Eg potatoes vs. walnuts if you ate 100 calories worth of walnuts you’d put on less weight than the same amount of potatoes.

o Worst to better for calories: French fries, chips, soda pop, red meat, mashed potatoes

o Grandparents should be shot for giving small children French fries…the research says that 2.4 oz of French fries (small order at McDonalds) lights up same areas of brain that cocaine, booze, and cigarettes do. This generation is the highest occurrence of “fatty liver” and they are getting cirrhosis of liver because of it…were killing our future generations!

o If you see a person with AST (40):ALT (40) with a ratio equal to 1 then that is normal, if they are not equal to 1 then you can assume that they have fast food for more than 3 times a day…fatty liver

#2 eggs are bad for you…wrong

o They are natures perfect food, body uses cholesterol, can safely consume 3-7 per week

o Low calorie (70-80), protein-packed high energy snack.

o They have : choline, vitamin D (bones), lutien ( yellow part for eye health), B-12, and B-2

o Omega enriched eggs, means that chicken had flaxseeds added to the feed

o Marigolds are fed to chickens to make a yellower yoke

o Bigger pretty eggs when cracked are AAA status

o Low calorie high protein

o Bakers eggs are larger…not as pretty

#3 you have to drink 5-8 glasses of water

o Most of the water comes from our food

o Let thirst be your guide

o Water comes from other liquids as well: coffee, milk, juice, alcohol, foods

o Water increases metabolism by 2-3%

o Trying to lose weight? If you feel hungry drink a glass of water wait 10 min, or two glasses of water before a meal

o Ever wonder why young kids make their way to the dog bowl? They can’t reach the fosset so that is where they can easily get hydrated.

#4 multivitamins protect against heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s

o It just has no bearings in the research that has been done thus far.

o They fill the gaps if you get too little of some vitamins and minerals from your food.

o If your still menstruating iron good, if not iron not necessary

o Looking for things in high potassium and with large amounts of fiber

o 25 gm of fiber is essential, ex) 1 serving of oat bran 3gm of fiber. Start gradually or you’ll get pretty constipated

o Eating for lower cholesterol….fiber…Look for bean that increase your basal flatal rate….aka make you fart.

o Look at your bowel movements; sink (not enough) float (enough fiber). Use corn as your determine how long it takes to Get it IN and Get it OUT!

 A class of students did an experiment with glass beads, half got high fiber diet others got fatty diet…all swallowed glass beads. The high fiber team got them out in 3-4 days the fatty diet got them out in 10 days….Ewwww on so many levels

o Potassium another vital yet lacking nutrient, blood pressure balance

o Folic acid 400mcg/day for women, used in the 18-28th day of pregnancy. Too late to start once pregnant! It prevents cleft lip and neural tube defects…it is that needle and thread that sews us up” there has been advancements for including folic acid in everyday food this has significantly helps with such debilitating conditions like spina bifita, and unlivable conditions such as anencephaly (absence of the skull) and encephalocele (absence of brain)

 Folate is the form found naturally in foods: examples of foods are lentils, oatmeal, pinto beans, asparagus, and spinach.

 Folic acid is essential for making RBC’s (red blood cells), so anemias could be due to low folic acid as well as other types.

 Folic acid is stored in bone marrow for 40 days and nights, medications such as septra/bactrum (usually used for treating UTI’s or urinary tract infections) decrease the amount of folic acid in body. Other drugs that affect are; metheltrexate used to treat skin disease like psoriasis, Dilantin an antiepileptic drug.

o Funny thing about asparagus: that funky smell that it is associated with is due to the sulfur type gas produced when it is digested…anyways on 20% of population can smell it!

Men/women and serotonin differences

• First off why do women crave carbs?...because they help to boost serotonin in brain and that is the hormone that makes us happy, boosting our self esteem.

• Men are genetically blessed with high levels of serotonin…therefore they are often seen as having inflated self confidence…”I can do anything”

• The carbs we eat produce an amino acid tryptophan and it is the precursor to serotonin (think how turkey and chicken after eating them especially at family gatherings you are very happy and content with life.)

• Why you should say NO to low carb…no energy, depression, bad breath, constipation, and cranky…do you want that….NO NO NO!!!

• Want to lose weight, don’t suffer on Atkins, count your carbs over the next three days and cut it in half.

• Does chocolate boost serotonin….YES….but…just dark chocolate. As well green tea is high on the serotonin producing scale. Choice between chocolate and tea…you decide

• This might make the decision easier…when they produce chocolate there is a certain RPPM (roach parts per million) that’s right Roach as in cockroach parts… fun fact if you’re allergic to chocolate it’s actually not the coco…it’s the roach parts…lol. The proper dose of chocolate is 7.5 grams/day or 1-1/2 Hershey kisses

#5 antihypertensive pills are the ONLY way to lower blood pressure

• Nope: the key is the DASH diet:

o Increase potassium containing foods to 4700mg/day potassium flushes out sodium via the kidneys…similar to potassium sparing diuretics. Vasodilators (opens) the blood vessels

o Decrease salt intake to 1 tsp/day

o Increase calcium containing foods to 1200mg/day

You may ask what does that look like in real food terms:

POTASSIUM:

o 1 medium banana=422mg

o Potatoes with skin=540mg

o 1 medium size French fries=924mg (remember about salt though )

o 1 cup spinach=839mg

o Prunes (10 pieces)=615mg (as said earlier only 3 times a week)

o 1 cup pasta sauce=615mg

o Over 1200 foods have potassium

Drugs that conserve potassium: ACE inhibitors “–prils”, spironolactone, septra/bactrum, potassium supplements. SO if you’re on these drugs cut back on potassium intake.

SODIUM:

• Table salt 1tsp=2400mg sodium vs. Morton lite salt 1 tsp=1200mg sodium

• Taste your food before salting, go easy on condiments, cheese, butters, pickles, salad dressings, canned foods, packaged meals, soups, meats, chips, pretzels, tomatoes juices, and fast food.

• If the Canadian population followed this part of the DASH diet alone there would be $1.8 billion saved annually

• Recommended calcium/day:

o 1-3yrs old=500mg

o 4-9 yrs=800mg

o 9-18=1300mg

o 19-50=1000mg

o Over 50 =1200-1500

• Other foods with calcium: (FOODS…better than supplements)

o 1 cup plain yogurt=400 mg

o 1 cup skim milk=400mg

o Black eyes peas=211mg

o Spinach=277mg (potassium too double whammy)

o Salmon= 181mg

o Raisin bran=237mg

• Rules about calcium

o Avoid natural sources of calcium like bone meal, dolomite, and oyster shells….these may contain large amounts of lead (stored in bones, as the break down with age the lead is released, ex 80yr old having lead poising from earlier life exposure)

o Next dissolvability; place your supplement in warm water stir occasionally if not gone in 30 min it will NOT absorb in your body! Liquid or chew tabs may be a better way.

o Calcium supplements must be taken 6 days a week of you will not get full benefits.

o Calcium carbonate= best taken with food (highest level of usable calcium 40% so 500mg your only getting 200mg out of it)

o Calcium citrate= either full or empty (also less constipating)

• Vitamin D

o Let kids and yourself be out in the sun for at least 20-30 min so that you can get the benefits of the natural vit D. then apply sun screen

o Essential for absorbing calcium

o Found in salmon, canned tuna, mackerel, sardines, and eggs, many foods are fortified with the vitamin such as milk and orange juice. Toxic level of vit D is 50,000 IU/day for 3 months….don’t think you’d be that keen average dose 800 but can be 1000-2000/day

o Vit D prevents falls by promoting better muscle cell function, prevents muscle aches and pain. Decreased vit D in men increases risk of prostate cancers (so put your prostate out in the sun…beautiful visual). It also decreases risk of breast, colon, and ovary cancers.

o Depression can result from low vit D (it was said to put the lethargics out in the sun…they had the right idea)

• Iron

o Women are naturally low due to menstruation, but if a man is deficient there is bigger problems…GI bleeding

o Cooking with iron skillet is great, but if you’re so iron deficient that you can’t lift it, it’s no good to you.

• Vitamin A

o DO NOT exceed 4,000 IU/day….liver failure…funny enough get vit A from eating liver

o Don’t eat polar bear liver…will kill you

• Vit B12

o Fortified in many things

o Helps produce RBC’s

o Help preserve and maintain the peripheral and central nervous system

o Only natural source is animal meat

o If someone who takes a pantoloc/losec or other stomach acid inhibitor they cannot absorb B12…as well as crohns poor absorption…believe it or not obesity is a factor as well, vegetarians, older than 55ys, metformin prevents absorption.

o Keeps white matter in brain health, can cause nutritional dementia if low (the tea and toasters…poor nutrition in elderly)

o ***best multivitamin is actually Cost-co brand****

o Ways to get it: suck, snort, shoot, swallow

o If you exceed 3000mcg a day you will suffer…anal itching lol

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• B1

o Thiamin 1.5 mg/day; deficiency from booze use

o Causes the –opothy’s: cardiomyopothy, neoropothy, encephalopathy

o Why don’t they just add thiamine to booze

• B-3

o Niacin 20mg/day

o Good for lowering cholesterol

o Find in fish, liver, meat, whole grains, nuts, legumes

• B6

o Mixed with TB drugs to prevent neuropathy, but over use causes the neuropathy…2 mg/day

• Vit E

o NASH=non-alcoholic stiletto hepatitis (fatty liver)

o Gynomastia from vit E overdose in men

o 400IU/day

• NUTS

o How many nuts are in a dose?

 15-20 halves of walnuts

 30 large peanuts/60 small

 45 pistachios

 24-28 whole almonds

 For those that are not so anal…the size of an altoid mint can

o Did you know that walnuts are shown to decrease arrhythmias; maybe we’ll see IV walnuts when treating serious arrhythmias?

• Grapefruit juice

o Highest inhibitor of medication, interacts with 60% of all drugs on the market today…taken out of nursing homes and hospitals

o Florida is the highest drug toxic state with all the citrus fruits

• High-fat and Viagra

o Decreases action of drug by 29%...takes longer (1hr possibly)

o Cialis and levitra are not influenced however

• Food borne illness

o WASH your foods….it’s the best way to avoid it

o NO shooking= shit puking

o Undercooked chicken can cause Guillian-Barre syndrome= progressive paralysis and then death.

o Top 5:

 Salmonella

 Clostridium perfringens

 Staph aureus

 norovirus

• Stab at sushi

o Oh I’ll go for the salmon sashimi….NO you won’t unless the person preparing it knows how to remove the parasites….yucky