On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM, barnabywalker <barnabywalker@gmail.com> wrote:
-- > Salmon is not my favorite fish.
Awfully tasty when I throw in some cashews to make a salmon version of "cashew chicken" with the rice.
Hey, any meat is good that way! I do cook salmon a fair bit, mostly because my family likes boneless foods better. But I crave fish fat I think. Once I got several pounds of "salmon bellies" ... the part they throw away when the make the fillets ... and those made an even better stir-fry. $1 a lb too. I just wish I could get a steady supply.
Salmon skin is very good. For some reason they don't scale the fish, so I scale it when I buy it before freezing. My family won't eat the skin, so I do. Really, my issue with salmon is mainly that it is so big it's usually cooked as "fillets", which are lacking the good parts. BTW when bears catch salmon ... they eat the bellies and toss away the rest of the fish. I agree with the bears.
We study so many things that I thank you for opening my mind that we might be over-thinking things. I'm going to go back to not being afraid to eat high carb white rice,with the thought that fasting is my "ace in the hole" if the high carb rice really is bad.
Thanks for making me think it through! I think I do things intuitively, but when I have to write about it, then I think more about it.
I am curious though about the "bad" comment above. Do you have a blood sugar problem? Do you measure your blood sugar after meals? Or, what exactly are you expecting as a problem after eating rice?
I did measure my blood glucose for some time, because I was trying to figure out why I crashed when I didn't eat. Also I wanted to figure out the "glycemic curve" of my meals (as opposed to specific foods). What I found was weird: my glucose curve DROPPED after meals, and rose when I got hungry. No matter what I ate, my blood sugar never rose, unless it was like, a whole lot of raw cookie dough.
What I came to believe, based on that, was that I had a problem digesting starches. So I started taking konjac with meals ... I don't do that always now, but I stopped having problems with sugars and starches, digestive-wise.
I'm not sure what exactly fixed the problem ... my guesses would be:
1. Fast-5 makes more enzymes available for that one meal.
2. Eating ginger/cayenne/vinegar with meals are known digestive aides.
3. Eating konjac for some time fixed the bacterial imbalance.
4. I got "used to" eating starches again.
5. The long-term damage I had from gluten healed eventually (According to my doctor, I am probably celiac).
But there ARE people who can't digest starches well, speaking as a former member of that community. I don't believe that makes starches evil ... there are also people who can't digest proteins, and others that can't digest fats, and some that can't handle fiber. If ALL of those are evil, then we need to give up food! :-) I think most people can heal though, and it's worth the effort. Food is good stuff, and meant to be enjoyed, not suffered through.
Heather Twist
http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
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