Posted on 04/25/2011 7:14:47 PM PDT by decimon
Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
I laughed, reading this. Sorry I missed the reference.
*Rolls up newspaper...comes after you*
What in Hades *swat* are you talking about *swat swat!*
You have *swat* to obsess *SWAT* over every *SWAT!* molecule *DOUBLE SWAT* that passes you lips!!! *kick to the backside*
*pounces on your back as you lay, where you fell, face down on the floor, places you in headlock*
Were you thinking *dig knee into your back while pulling your head back at an impossible angle* that you could just eat lunch???
*patting the floor for a baseball bat just out of reach*
Did you think *as I drag you by the left ear and esophagus to a standing position while driving my knee into your stomach* you could just *kick your feet out from under you again while releasing the headlock* EAT BREAKFAST LIKE A HUMAN!!!!
YOU *kicks you in side while you lie groaning* FILTHY HUMAN!!!!
*full force downstrokes with baseball bat to your spine* FILTHY HUMAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *baseball bat breaks, I jump on your back and start slamming your face on the floor while screaming ‘HUMAN’ like it’s an expletive.
I apologize if my imitation of nutritional expert advice was too graphic.
So Eskimos following a traditional diet would have very high prostate cancer rates? Not entirely tongue-in-cheek because the first clues to the benefits of fish oil in heart health came after observations that Eskimos had a very low incidence of heart problems despite their very high fat diets.
Turned out their dietary fat was high in omega-3 and that resulted in the low incidence of heart problems. If this new study is valid, they also should have found a high incidence of prostate cancer among Eskimos.
sounds fishy to me
Maybe there is some problem with consistency of diet. Man in nature ate a cyclical diet with different in season foods. No steady diet of Omega-3 tablets.
Conversely we live to a greater age these days where heart and prostate problems are more likely to present.
Merely supplementing Omega-3 is insufficient to overcome the overwhelming amounts of Omega-6 in the typical modern western diet, all the vegetable oils and such. The conversion to arachidonic acid can actually encourage an inflammation cascade response and has to be blocked in order to get any preventive effect so far as cancer, breast, prostate or other is concerned.
Wonder if getting the Omega 3 from Flaxseed oil would be any better.
Homeostasis.
Flax seed does have a high amount of Omega 3s, but mostly in the form of ALA. DHA and EPA come from the fish oil source.
Do either of you know if the isoflavinoids remain in fermented soy? My understanding is that the traditional Japanese diet includes a lot of fermented soy, but no unfermented soy.
I read Dr. Mercola’s website quite a bit. Don’t know if all the info is accurate, but most health “news” I take with a grain of salt. He states that soy should never be eaten in the unfermented state by humans or animals.
>> Japanese diet includes ... no unfermented soy
Edamame is about as “unfermented soy” as you can get, and they eat a lot of that.
>> He states that soy should never be eaten in the unfermented state by humans or animals.
OK. IMHO he’s wrong.
I don’t see any benefit to eating soy. It has a lot of plant estrogens in it, which can affect hormonal balance in both men and women. On top of that it tastes horrible. :)
Hahaha!!
>> I don’t see any benefit to eating soy... it tastes horrible
I don’t care for most tofu dishes, but I eat soy sauce with Asian food and I LOVE edamame. Have you ever tried them? Just boiled soybean pods, best served hot with sea salt. Mmmm...
>> It has a lot of plant estrogens in it, which can affect hormonal balance in both men and women.
You say that like it’s a *bad* thing. I find that eating soybeans helps me to understand wimmen just a little bit better. :-)
I’m gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, soy sauce is fermented soy. I will use that occassionally and like the taste of it.
I haven’t had edamame, I’m one of those women that don’t need the extra estrogen. I have tried soy milk and it made my whole mouth itch, so I figure I’m allergic anyway.... just fine by me!
Good luck understanding women. I sure don’t most of the time and I *am* one.
>> Good luck understanding women.
Thanks. I realize that the best we males can hope for is one brief glimmer of insight every six months to a year or so. ;-)
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