Comments on: My Health, a Reduced Portion http://www.zephyr98.com/2010/06/my-health-a-reduced-portion/ Translated from the English Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kurt http://www.zephyr98.com/2010/06/my-health-a-reduced-portion/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Kurt Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:43:06 +0000 http://www.zephyr98.com/?p=701#comment-105 My son's former Japanese girlfriend and her family eat natto regularly--they grew up on it and are used to it. The local Japanese supermarket, Uwajimaya, has a fair amount of space set aside for it in their cooler section. Maybe it's more for Asians away from Asia? My son’s former Japanese girlfriend and her family eat natto regularly–they grew up on it and are used to it. The local Japanese supermarket, Uwajimaya, has a fair amount of space set aside for it in their cooler section. Maybe it’s more for Asians away from Asia?

]]> By: FoundOnWeb http://www.zephyr98.com/2010/06/my-health-a-reduced-portion/comment-page-1/#comment-101 FoundOnWeb Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:03:11 +0000 http://www.zephyr98.com/?p=701#comment-101 Natto? NATTO?? Even the Japanese don't like it, and they invented it. It's like Marmite in Oz, or deep-fried kudzu in Georgia, something they choke down so they can say they are different from mere humans. Sometimes one can take this health stuff too far. I prefer approach of the Englishman who, when his wife said "it says in the paper here that people who don't drink, live longer," responded "Serves'em right." Natto? NATTO?? Even the Japanese don’t like it, and they invented it. It’s like Marmite in Oz, or deep-fried kudzu in Georgia, something they choke down so they can say they are different from mere humans. Sometimes one can take this health stuff too far. I prefer approach of the Englishman who, when his wife said “it says in the paper here that people who don’t drink, live longer,” responded “Serves’em right.”

]]> By: Kurt http://www.zephyr98.com/2010/06/my-health-a-reduced-portion/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Kurt Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:47:53 +0000 http://www.zephyr98.com/?p=701#comment-100 Sprinkled with turmeric. My dad keeps pressing the natto, a great natural source of Vitamin K (what's shaping up to be a good anticancer agent). And maybe, if I need to, if I lay on enough lycopene rich organic ketchup or pub mustard, I'll be able to hack it. I may even grow to like it and someday gross out my own kids. (That's sort of appealing.) Sprinkled with turmeric. My dad keeps pressing the natto, a great natural source of Vitamin K (what’s shaping up to be a good anticancer agent). And maybe, if I need to, if I lay on enough lycopene rich organic ketchup or pub mustard, I’ll be able to hack it. I may even grow to like it and someday gross out my own kids. (That’s sort of appealing.)

]]> By: FoundOnWeb http://www.zephyr98.com/2010/06/my-health-a-reduced-portion/comment-page-1/#comment-99 FoundOnWeb Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:14:33 +0000 http://www.zephyr98.com/?p=701#comment-99 What's really good about this story is that your decisions were conscious ones (I hate it when I regain consciousness and find I've made a bunch of decisions). You didn't just fall off the high fiber food wagon due to lack of moral fiber. You decided to keep exercising, and to change the diet. Now, you can change back. The genetic basis for your body's response to exercise or diet is so complex that it's difficult to tell what specific combination works best for you, personally. A medical researcher I know once said "everyone is so different, genetically, that it's amazing that _any_ medicine works." Maybe you can back off on the exercise and heavy up on the oatmeal pizza with macadamia nut topping -- and the lycopene from the tomato sauce is just a bit of anti-cancer lagniappe. What’s really good about this story is that your decisions were conscious ones (I hate it when I regain consciousness and find I’ve made a bunch of decisions). You didn’t just fall off the high fiber food wagon due to lack of moral fiber. You decided to keep exercising, and to change the diet. Now, you can change back.

The genetic basis for your body’s response to exercise or diet is so complex that it’s difficult to tell what specific combination works best for you, personally. A medical researcher I know once said “everyone is so different, genetically, that it’s amazing that _any_ medicine works.” Maybe you can back off on the exercise and heavy up on the oatmeal pizza with macadamia nut topping — and the lycopene from the tomato sauce is just a bit of anti-cancer lagniappe.

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