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[siegfried_sys]

Sometimes I feel like I am doing "things" I don't longer enjoy. I know there are some issues I just can't avoid like work, you know, but the day-to-day routine is making me mad already. I want to change almost everything, to finish it all. I don't want to keep adding words on my agenda. I don't want to be insert anymore in anything. Maybe it is

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[subaru_san]

I think there is something especially about the end of the year and the coming new year that makes you reflect on what you've accomplished in life. It's normal to feel a little hopeless I think. Personally, I'm not one of those people who believe in loving to work. I believe that you will always work because you have to, and that you can do work that doesn't completely frustrate you and meets your expectations and doesn't make you totally miserable, but it will still always be work. If they won the lotto and it was a huge amount, I think anyone would retire and no one would keep working because they "like their job".

Do you know what they say about living a healthy life? It's better to live a shorter, happier life than it is to live longer and miserable. That's why I don't eat what I absolutely can't stand just because "it's healthy". Like I like most vegetables, but not a lot of fruits. I prefer 2% milk even though it's fatter and I refuse to drink any other kind. I hate the taste of brown bread so I eat white. I also refuse to buy into the whole "egg yolks are bad for you because of cholesterol" thing because only people who don't do their research still believe that egg yolks contain bad cholesterol. In fact, they contain cholesterol, but the good kind.

Always make sure you're doing/studying what you really want. I didn't for the longest time, and couldn't figure out what I really wanted til I found this one program and finally I'm liking what I do and getting really good grades. And don't ever let anyone tell you it's too late or you're too old to study what you want. You're never too old to do what makes you truly happy.

[siegfried_sys]

First, I appreciate a lot that you have read my whole post.

For sure it is new year's fault, I can sense everyone is a bit uneasy when comes this time of the year. Maybe it is because we are partially "unbusy" and the doubts appea.
Then, I see your point, I share mostly of it. Work is just social and somehow we have to manage ourselves and insert into the system to be able "to be able". So, if we really could choose or win the lotto, for sure we weren't "working". To do what we love is a hard path.

That phrase you said, about living happier... left me thinking. Thanks for sharing! A different view can help in the search of sense, haha. Lately I have been a more optimistic, I don't know what to do yet, but I am enjoying myself without feeling guilty.

About the food, that's right: eggs are healthy and we don't need everything we eat but we don't need to eat something that makes us feel bad (in taste way). I don't really have problems with vegetables, I like them all. But, I don't have problems with other food either, like pastry or pasta... and they are a bit bad if you don't measure, haha. Anyway, I won't stop enjoying the marvelous for a strange diet.

Sorry for the long comment again (and maybe the lack of sense and the strange grammar).

Thanks and a big hug <3

[subaru_san]

[subaru_san]

Not a problem. As far as processed grains go, it might be a bit bad for you, but overall I still prefer to eat white bread to brown. With pasta, I literally cannot tolerate the taste of brown pasta. I've tried brown spaghetti, and I'm sorry, but I find it disgusting.

The problems you mention are at the far end of the health scale, not what someone who doesn't eat excessively will be likely to suffer from.

I am not a coffee drinker, but as far as any coating on your teeth goes, you of course have to brush your teeth before going to bed. That is the true and only way to avoid such a coating. Also, with stuff like soda, you shouldn't brush your teeth too soon after having drunk it.

I think it hurts you more than anything else to be paranoid about anything, especially what you eat. As long as you don't eat anything in excess, you should eat what you like.

[seabroth]

As for white flour replacement besides Graham flour, there's tons of different types. Almond flour, oat flour and hazelnut flour for example. If you eat pasta with a sauce instead of plain, and if you use sufficient amounts of egg, the taste is hardly noticable. (Well, I suppose "I don't like the taste" also doesn't work on mothers who try to make their kids eat vegetables : PP)

Oh, I guess I wrote it badly. It's not "a bit bad". It's not a paranoia, it's the sad fact. I only wish you knew Swedish so you could watch the video and understand instead of thinking I'm paranoid... If you are willing to watch it, I can go translate the whole thing this week. There must be the same information out there in English but it will just be much harder to find and likely written in papers instead of shown on tv as a professional presentation (here, for whatever reason, they love to film research presentations and University lectures and put them on tv).

"Everything in moderation..." So, remember how in around the 1920's people would put embalming fluid in their alcohol? : P

Well, I think I wrote it badly since I meant to say, that coating that you need to brush off every morning, doesn't even appear if you stop eating those things (that is, after a few days up to two weeks; the products don't get completely out of your system immediately). It's not a natural coating that happens when you eat just any food.

But here is a bit from the intro in the video, taken from the subtitles. One of the doctors you can read about who did some of the research at that time was named "Robert McCarrison", who was apparently a nutritionist who worked in India for over 20 years in the Hunza Valley in the Himalayas. If you don't trust me, you can find someone unrelated who can verify the video contents:

(beginning time, 00:03:53.16)
Diabeties has not been a global illness. In the beginning of the 1900's diabeties was considered to be specific for the European and American population. When the British Empire's doctors travelled to aboriginal (native) populations, they didn't find obesity or diabeties. They didn't find artery calcification, and they had fantastic teeth without brushing them. Cavities/caries didn't exist and one saw few fall from cancer. Additionally they seemed to have fewer stomach problems than in Europe.

One didn't have appendix problems, constipation, colonic (intestional) pouches, intestional inflammations or hæmorrhoids. One didn't see vein ruptures or gallstones. In the beginning of the 1900's they called these illnesses "civilization's illnesses".

(Original Swedish)

Diabetes har inte varit en global sjukdom. I början av 1900-talet tycktes diabetes vara specifik för den europeiska och amerikanska befolkningen. När det brittiska imperiets läkare reste ut till ursprungsbefolkningar hittade de inte fetma och diabetes. De hittade inte åderförkalkning,och de hade fantastiska tänder utan att borsta dem. Karies fanns inte och man såg få fall av cancer. Dessutom verkade de ha färre magproblem än i Europa.

Man hade inte blindtarmen, förstoppning, magsår, tarmfickor, tarminflammationer eller hemorrojder. Man såg inte åderbråck och gallsten. I början av 1900-talet kallas de här sjukdomarna för "civilisationens sjukdomar".

[subaru_san]

First of all, wow, this is so old... I'm really sorry, I got so absorbed in a trial of FFXIV that I literally tuned everything else out, including the email address that receives LJ notifications.

What I was trying to say is that claiming that something is all bad and completely awful and horrifying *is* paranoia. Btw, no, I don't remember, since I wasn't around back in the 1920's. :P

Tbh I really doubt that to be true, about the coating. Consider especially that the food we eat in and of itself has less to do with it than the environment that the food is grown in and the conditions it is exposed to both while it is growing and after it has been harvested. And of course we have different diets than aboriginals, but I'm not going to lie to myself. There is no way that I want to give up pasta that tastes good, meat and any other animal products and even some junk foods just because it is healthier. To me, health is in eating everything in moderation. I love vegetable dishes, I often make a good curry for which I found a recipe and it doesn't need pasta at all. Sometimes I also make a jambalaya, from the same site, which while it has some rice, it's part of the dish and there isn't an excess of it. For the curry above though, I've made it as the recipe dictated, and it called for fried tofu, and I honestly did not miss the taste of meat. I could definitely enjoy it with either chicken or beef as well, but to me it was just as good without it.

Thanks for translating that! Tbh, I don't think it will come as news to anyone that Europeans, and consequently Americans, live a life of abundance and excess. It's why eating everything in moderation has become a discussion in the first place. There are always those who will make more of an effort to eat healthy, and on the extremes, there will be those who will be health freaks and eat no animal products on one end, while on the other there will be people who eat McDonald's every day of the week if not several times a day.