Eat Bright Food

[smokingboot]

A proper update will have to wait.

I should be back home with my kitties and my dear larians by now. Instead, I haunt The Tower, a dishevelled figure in white capable of saying little more than 'Uhhhhhhhhh *coff, coff* huhuhurrgh.' caddyman is suggesting they slip bits of liver under my door. He doesn't say whose. They even offered to cook it for me, and dye it too, cos according to the nurse practitioner I saw today after 3 and a half hours waiting, I have a viral throat infection and need antioxidants, also known as 'Bright food.' I was confused. Food's brown, right? Apparently she meant berries, chilis, peppers, that kind of thing. The gentlemen of the Athenaeum Club have cheerilly informed me that this also includes red wine.

When I am too weak to take up such an offer, I know I'm ill.

Comments

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

well, wine IS a bright food, you dafty trousers!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Sunny Delight is bright. Just not a food:-P-out will be complete should I accept its alluring offer...

[larians.livejournal.com]

Get well soon sweetheart, you are greatly missed. xxx

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Baby I miss you too. XXX

The good news

[ravenrigan.livejournal.com]

Both chocolate (preferably dark, 70% or higher organic and fair trade if you prefer) and tea (green better but black still works) also contain anti oxidants.

And the bad news - mostly they are found in fruit and veg. Practically any fruit, mediterranean type veg especially good,also anything red or orange.

I got a nice juicer from Sainsburys for £40, which gets you more antioxidants than you can shake a stick at, if you can be bothered to buy pounds of fruit (at cheapy turkish or asian greengrocers, umpteen for a quid NOT Sainsburys unless you are rich and lazy) chop it juice it and wash up afterwards. (you don't even have to peel or core most things (except for oranges, pineapples unless organic, and kiwi fruit)

I have to say fresh juice is loverly. My particular fave antioxidant mix is crapple ginger. Carrot, appple and fresh ginger. Pinemelon is also good, as is Strapple (strawberry and apple, foamy and delicious, like a creamy cocktail but without the booze) Simon can do wonderful things with apples oranges and a lime.

Re: The good news

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how you inspire me! Somehow I have to shop today, for bright food and these juice ideas sound wonderful. And chocolate too! Clearly you are my fairy godmother;-)

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Tiger prawns have lots of antioxidant in, I believe. I'm sure you can cram some of those down. I hope you feel better soon.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Tiger prawns? Really?

Well I'm sure I could force down one or two,if I absolutely have to!

Thank you for your kind wishes and the tip!

[squeezypaws.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you. May I return the wish?

I hope you feel better, and bigger, and brighter over the next 9 months:-)

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

Like Wot she sed.
Drink juice, lots of loverly juice...

(hugs)

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I have no excuse now after ravenrigan's tips. I'm off to Waitrose on a juice extravaganza!

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

Get better soon Debbie! I hope all your food is filled with light so its nice and bright...

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Just what I need, luminous food:-D

Wonderful to meet you and Suzette btw. Hope we can catch up with a little more time soon!

A question from bemused of Ulster

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

What`s an oxidant?

Re: A question from bemused of Ulster

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

From an online thesaurus I found this definition:

Noun1. oxidantoxidant - a substance that oxidizes another substance.

Makes it all so much clearer, wouldn't you say?

Re: A question from bemused of Ulster

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure. Clear as mud.

Re: A question from bemused of Ulster

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I've been seeking clearer definitions since. No-one seems to know what these things actually are *joins the Cat in mud gazing*

Re: A question from bemused of Ulster

[jfs.livejournal.com]

There's a theory (which still isn't totally accepted) that as the body gets older, it starts to break down and produce 'free radicals' (which are bits of molecules which cause disease and aging) due to a process known as oxidation.

Anti-oxidants are foodstuffs which nullify these free radicals and therefore, the theory goes, help slow the aging and degradation process.

Even though not all nutritionists agree with the theory and there have been several clinical trials which haven't shown any benefit to taking anti-oxidising food supplements, most of them will support it because the foods which contain anti-oxidents tend to be really good for you anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidants

Re: A question from bemused of Ulster

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

A nice little article, full of long words and 34 references at the bottom. All of which brings me back to an old question. If our diets are and always have been so unhealthy then just how did dear old homo sap manage to survive long enough to leave the stone age behind let alone muddle through to the silicon age?

Re: A question from bemused of Ulster

[jfs.livejournal.com]

As far as I've always understood the subject, dear old homo sap has been very good at eating a balanced diet for the vast majority of our existence. It's only in the very recent past that we've lost that.

Re: A question from bemused of Ulster

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Well, bear in mind, we are living much longer and our teeth/bones seem to be in much better shape than say our prehistoric forefathers who rarely hit forty never mind fifty. Evidence of malnutrition has been found in the bones of pharoahs.

What I find interesting is that in ancient depictions of banquets in Sumer and Egypt,you see lots of fruit etc, and Plato's Republic mentions a diet for workers that would do us all proud. The further back you go, the more ready humans are to make the best of all and any nutrition, starvation being a very real threat.

Personally, I think HS's survival is more down to a very adaptable breeding cycle and disease prevention (though of course, both are affected by diet) that has probably created a massive imbalance; HS is a bit out of control. Fewer in number finishing their food and not just eating the best bits might be better for human health and the planet as a whole.