About two months ago, I did an interview with Jimmy Moore of the Livin' la Vida Low Carb internet empire. I hardly remember what we talked about, but I think it went well. I enjoyed Jimmy's pleasant and open-minded attitude. Head over to Jimmy's website and listen to the interview here. I do recall making at least one mistake. When discussing heart attacks,I said "atrial fibrillation" when I meant "ventricular fibrillatio...
Kamis, 24 Juni 2010
Selasa, 22 Juni 2010
In Search of Traditional Asian Diets
It's been difficult for me to find good information on Asian diets prior to modernization. Traditional Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese diets are sometimes portrayed as consisting mostly of white rice, with vegetables and a bit of meat and soy, but I find that implausible. Rice doesn't grow everywhere, and removing all the bran was prohibitively labor-intensive before the introduction of modern machine milling. One hundred years ago, bran was partially removed by beating or grinding in a mortar and pestle, as it still is in parts of rural Asia today....
Rabu, 16 Juni 2010
Low Micronutrient Intake may Contribute to Obesity
Lower Micronutrient Status in the ObeseInvestigators have noted repeatedly that obese people have a lower blood concentration of a number of nutrients, including vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K, several B vitamins, zinc and iron (1). Although there is evidence that some of these may influence fat mass in animals, the evidence for a cause-and-effect relationship in humans is generally slim. There is quite a bit of indirect evidence that vitamin D status influences the risk of obesity (2), although a large, well-controlled study found that high-dose...
Senin, 14 Juni 2010
Sabtu, 12 Juni 2010
The Story of Java Vanilla in Indonesia
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The history of vanilla bean in Indonesia began when the Dutch people was bring this orchid plant to be planted in West Java on the year of 1819 as the first time. Indonesiawas the large of vanilla productionin the world after Madagascar, almost major vanilla variety which planted in Indonesia is Planifolia. The international market has giving the name for the Planifolia...
Kamis, 10 Juni 2010
Nitrate: a Protective Factor in Leafy Greens
Cancer Link and Food SourcesNitrate (NO3) is a molecule that has received a lot of bad press over the years. It is thought to promote digestive cancers, in part due to its ability to form carcinogens when used as a preservative for processed meat. Because of this (1), nitrate was viewed with suspicion and a number of countries imposed strict limits on its use as a food additive.But what if I told you that by far the greatest source of nitrate in the modern diet isn't processed meat-- but vegetables, particularly leafy greens (2)? And that the...
Sabtu, 05 Juni 2010
Fermented Grain Recipes from Around the World
In my last two posts on grains, I described how traditional food processing methods make grains more nutritious and digestible (1, 2). I promised to briefly describe a few recipes from around the world, then got distracted by other things. Here they are.Africa: OgiGrain fermentation is widespread in Africa and is probably nearly as old as agriculture on the continent. The nutritional importance of fermentation is suggested by the amount of time and effort that many African cultures put into it, when they could save themselves a lot of trouble...
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