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    OK, this isn't too serious, but: Boil-steam* yer sweet potatoes. Save boil water, which will likely contain small bits of sweet potato. Using same pot, with saved boil water, cook up yer red cabbage. You'll probably have to add more water. Remove cabbage, pour remaining boil water into a glass, let cool, and drink! * By "boil-steam" I mean: fill a pot with a 1-2 cms of water (more, depending on amount of sweet potatoes you're cooking, and how soft you like them), put in sweet potatoes, cover, and let cook, stirring occasionally. Most of the sweet potatoes will be above the water, and will be steaming, some will be below, and will be boiling.
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    The heating system in my building (apt. complex) is such that there's no way to lower the temperature in my bedroom below around 16-17° or so. And once summer comes, the head cooler will of course be far more efficient.
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    "Bait-and-switch", "acclimatization"? This is clearly our day for puns! Back to the cool thread: I may not feel comfortable enough if my body is much colder/exposed. If I'm not, I might try to fashion a head-cooling cap of some kind, sort of like the cooling vest, but for my head. I see from a quick Google search that such things exist and can actually be purchased. (What can't, these days!) Zeta
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    Wow, very cool thread. The sleep angle is of particular interest to me. I'd already lowered my bedroom from 23° to 20°, without noticing an effect on sleep, but after reading the above, I think I'll push it down further, and see what happens. Even if I don't sleep better, it sounds like I might end up improving my health. Dean, judging by the footwear it looks like your daughter is doing ballet in the snow! Zeta P.S. Only now noticed my unintentional pun.
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    JOKES

    Zeta replied to nicholson's topic in Chitchat

    Just for the record: Clinton never said that.
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    Hi Gerard, and thanks for the useful links. At some point I'm going to do a trial of a low-fat diet, and will need to eat a lot of fruit (I may adopt Dean's "banana approach") to get enough calories. Good to know that, even without exercising all the time, I likely will be able to do it without a disastrous postprandial glucose response.
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    t It's odd, only in the sense that it's an "odd" world we live in, with information asymmetry a pervasive feature of markets, and the very food we eat being one of the most opaque. Indeed. But just because the world is Orwelian doesn't mean we have to use Orwellian language. I'd like to reserve the word "transparent" for the practices of a company like Amphora Nueva. They're a (more or less) open book. But, either way, I want to encourage everyone reading this to insist on getting accurate information about the food they're purchasing. I would love to start a movement to make this happen, but I'm not sure where to begin. Maybe a website could be created, for various types of foods, that sets out a standard (for quality and transparency both) (1), and then, as consumers, we can point food companies/sellers to that site, and simply say: are you willing to adhere to those guidelines, or some of them? Just thinking out loud. Zeta. (1) This this for olive oil, though that's more about quality than transparency.
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    Well, I've done some experimentation. Hard to know about the effect on skin, but cold showers in the morning definitely make me feel great! I finally measured the water temperature. It's not as cold as I thought it would be. My routine: 1. Start at a luke-warmish temperature (turns out: it's 32°C!). Do most of my washing at this level. It's at a "I'd prefer it warmer but I can live with this" level. Not cold, but doesn't feel like it would be bad for my skin. 2. Turn down to a level that is uncomfortable, but if I move around, I can deal with it. Stay there for a minute or so (want to push this out to several mins.). This turns out to be 26°. Still not too impressive! 3. The "finish". Turn down to a level that really hurts, and makes me desperately want to get out of the shower. So far can only deal with this for 15-20 seconds. This turns out to be 22°. 22° is what we dealt with easily as kids during the first swim of the summer in the North Atlantic. It's funny that it's so intolerable in the shower!! I'm still looking at the research -- what little there is -- to see what temperatures would be likely to produce the best health effects. Zeta
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    Interesting hypothesis, Saul! I bet the warmer showers in the winter do indeed play a role in drying out skin. But the people-hours spent in air-conditioning during the summer is probably not all that high, in the general population in which this has been studied (loosely or formally) -- which includes northern Europe and northern North America (people are outside a lot, too). Still, I have little doubt that people have hotter showers in the winter, and that that's not good! Zeta
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    Merry Christmas to you, Dean, and to everyone celebrating it, and, today, to all those celebrating Boxing Day. Zeta
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    I pride myself on following the evidence when it comes to diet. Saul, I don't get your -- pardon -- beef with Dean's claims about veganism, and, most especially, the claims about contaminants in most fish. From everything I've seen, Dean's statement above is 100% correct: he follows the evidence. The evidence suggests that the fish available today in say North America, is, in general, on per calorie basis, more contaminated than other foodstuffs people on CR tend to eat. Zeta
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    H-B Instrument 2/0150 Durac General Purpose Partial Immersion Thermometer (Cheap, reliable thermometer for liquids.) I've found the H-B Instrument 2/0150 Durac General Purpose Partial Immersion Thermometer to be very precise, and fairly accurate, and quick to register temperature. I put it in boiling water, and the reading goes right up to 97° C. Not 100? No, but it's precise: it's always 97° C in boiling water at sea level, so that's fine (for $7 or whatever it costs now). You'll see other, more expensive thermometers at Amazon. If anyone has experience with those, please let us know. Zeta [Update: A note about precision - Cloud pointed out that the boiling point of water varies as a result of various factors, including atmospheric pressure, particulates in the water, interactions with the container, etc. so its not surprising to see a reading not exactly at 100° C for boiling water.]
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    Rodney, you seem to be adducing the increase in life-expectancy in the US as evidence that phthalates and the like aren't worth worrying about. Don't follow your logic, unless you're assuming that these substances are the only (or are the major) source of mortality in the US, which, of course they are not. Zeta
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    Saul, by amazing coincidence I've been reading recently about what some people are calling "cryotherapy" (not liquid nitrogen-level cryo, but cold nonetheless). There's not a lot of research to back up all the claims made about it, but last week for the heck of it I started a routine of having showers where I alternate between really cold and lukewarm (I can't quite take really cold for more than 30-40 seconds; thus, for now, the alternation). It's curiously invigorating (whether or not it removes amyloid beta from the brain, improves immunity, etc., etc., etc.). Dean, I've actually gone 'poo-less, with the exception of apple cider vinegar "shampoo" once a week or so. The body - certainly the scalp - most assuredly adjusts its oil/fat output based on need. If my hair gets dirty these days, it's dirt "from the outside". I just don't produce noticeable hair grease any more. Zeta
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    Dean, thanks for the recent posts! About the mocha method: note that most mocha brewers are made out of aluminum! Aluminum is not benign. PubMed will show this, as long as industry-financed papers are excluded. About the second paper: this is extremely useful! I don't drink much tea because I'm still not non-worried about manganese (and am getting tons from my new hemp seed consumption), but from a basic chemistry standpoint, it's good to know that there's something about the caffeine molecule that makes it harder to dislodge at lower temperatures than other molecules in tea -- something that could well be relevant to the question of the ratio of non-caffeine bennies to caffeine bennies (1) in different methods of preparing coffee. Zeta (1) Some aren't sure whether caffeine is beneficial, but it seems to be, against Parkinson's, and possibly against Alzheimer's.
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