Re: [CH] Bumblebee Tuna, etc!
Dave Drum (dirty_dave@chillicooks.org)
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:14:24 -0500
Doug Irvine wrote:
> After watching all this stuff for the last coupla days, the elder
> chile-head has just gotta jump in here. First off, it is my belief that
> the trouble with the American(including Canuck)populace is that we have
> large populations of GLUTTONS! Marie and I are inveterate people
> watchers, and we are both struck by the way people eat in restaurants
> when we infrequently attend one. Usually Thai, as it happens. We watch
> people of both sex(all of them fat!)gobble down food as if it were the
> last food they were ever going to see. The shame of this was brought
> home to us this past Sunday at 2 AM when a favorite niece died of a
> massive heart attack. She was diabetic(as I also am)but she was grossly
> overweight. Which I am not, weighing in at 150lbs at 5'10". Marie who
> has born our 7 kids is the same weight at 5'7" and so is not all that
> overweight. She is 78 I am 82, both healthy and we both eat a lot of
> chili peppers, ingesting them in one form or another each and every day
> of our lives. However, I do believe that the way we eat, and the foods
> we consume are responsible for our health and age. A few years ago Marie
> developed atrial fibrilation, which entailed an ablation procedure,
> resulting in 32 holes being burned in her heart. Our cardiologist was
> very pleased with the outcome, and pronounced the procedure a success. I
> am diabetic, due to an inherited trait, but unlike my late niece,
> decided to deal with the problem intelligently, and chose my food intake
> accordingly. As I do the cooking, and Marie does the baking, we manage
> to have a well balance diet, very little fat, very little sugar, lots of
> veggies, a moderate amount of meat, pork, chicken, seafood. Hardly any
> beef. Thus we do not get the growth hormones fed to the cattle to make
> them larger which in turn is ingested by the folks eating that beef.
> So, quit blaming the poor tuna and whatever else, and lay the onus on
> the folks who feed themselves with ever increasing amounts of food.
> Soapbox mode off.....Cheers, Old Doug on Vancouver Island BC
Well said, ol' dude.
I just came out the body & fender (last Friday) after a cardiac
ablation AND a pacemaker - AND having my diabetes go from moderately
severe to nearly not there (go figure).
I, too, pay close attention to what goes in my gob - even though I am
nowhere nearly as healthy an eater as you. So, I am well aware of what
is real and what trips my bullshit detector. Sadly there are a couple
here who set off my BS alert early, often and consistently. And
sometimes I say something about it. Bv)= I, like most here, do not
suffer fools gladly.
Enjoy your cool temps, your roof-top container garden and life in
general. We are to be about 92oF here (32oC) and high humidity with
flash flood warning rampant.
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ENJOY!!!
From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
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