Paul Eres ([info]rinku) wrote,
@ 2008-02-17 12:44:00
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Yesterday I ate too many honey-coated cashews and had that hypoglycemic reaction which causes fuzzy-mindedness for the day; hopefully this'll be the last time I have so much sugar at once (I probably should have just bought plain cashews instead).

I mother just bought a bunch of breakfast food and told me I could choose what I like -- but it was all eggs, cheese, bacon, bagels, etc. -- when will she learn that I don't like to eat that stuff? I hate disappointing her by not eating though, so it always makes me seem ruder than I want to be when I refuse foods I know to be harmful.

And I know this is subject to selection bias, but lately I've been noticing that all the most (for lack of a better word, I don't mean to imply a supernatural) spiritually developed people I know are also those that have the best diets. Whereas all the ones caught up in abstractions and religions and ideologies and empty concepts have terrible diets. There's likely causation both ways rather than one causing the other though.



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[info]radanax
2008-02-18 05:33 am UTC (link)
eggs are harmful?

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[info]rinku
2008-02-18 05:35 am UTC (link)
To me, yes, I'm allergic to them (which my mother often forgets).

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[info]rinku
2008-02-18 10:14 am UTC (link)
Although even if I weren't allergic, I think there's reasons to avoid them (extremely high cholesterol for example).

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[info]radanax
2008-02-18 10:41 am UTC (link)
eggs, yeah - but not egg whites, correct?

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[info]rinku
2008-02-18 10:56 am UTC (link)
There are problems with that too. Wikipedia has this: "Biotin deficiency can be caused by excessive consumption of raw egg whites over a long period (months to years). Egg whites contain high levels of avidin, a protein that binds the vitamin biotin strongly."

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[info]radanax
2008-02-18 11:20 am UTC (link)
http://www.mercola.com/2002/nov/13/eggs.htm

I figure that means having an egg for every four to five egg whites is a safe and healthy way to go - not that that applies to you, of course.

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[info]rinku
2008-02-18 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Hm, he writes this: "Eggs generally are one of the most allergic foods that are eaten, but I believe this is because they are cooked. If one consumes the eggs in their raw state the incidence of egg allergy virtually disappears." -- I'll have to try that once.

Still, there are far better sources of protein than egg whites are, like salmon.

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[info]newedition
2008-02-26 01:38 am UTC (link)
"I mother just bought a bunch of breakfast food and told me I could choose what I like -- but it was all eggs, cheese, bacon, bagels, etc. -- when will she learn that I don't like to eat that stuff? I hate disappointing her by not eating though, so it always makes me seem ruder than I want to be when I refuse foods I know to be harmful."

Hmph, RinkuHero engaging in an act that leads to ill health just to spare someone's feelings?! :-P (joking) Some of us get FIRED for not doing that, you know. :-P

Hope you've fully recovered from the hypoglycemic reaction; it takes me at least a day.

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