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I’m working more and more on going to a whole grain and plant based diet. I don’t keep track of amounts but I estimate that over the last couple years it’s been 40-50%. Now I’m shooting for 70%. Most of my meals lately have been a whole grain like brown rice or quinoa topped with grilled vegetables, and a little meat on top. Most meat I have is chicken breast roasted in the slow cooker. Very seldom do I have pork and even more seldom red meat.
I eat fish two or three times a week. I have a few types that I prefer like grouper, halibut, salmon, tuna or snapper. The one absolute requirement is that it be wild caught. No matter the weather I grill fish outside because I can’t stand the smell of it cooking in the house. I just season both sides with some spices and salt, then sear with coconut and sesame oil. I’ll do like four minutes each side. Ahi tuna I do 90 seconds each side.
I make a lot of booze-related posts in my journal, but my alcohol consumption is usually pretty minimal. It’s usually only on vacations that I do any heavy drinking. More and more I’m going to simple drinks like red wine or beer. If I’m going to drink hard liquor it’s probably vodka. Sadly this means I must end my relationships with Jack and coke, and Cuba libres.
If you’re going to be this committed to healthy eating, you kind of have to eschew a social life. Just too much temptation when you're out to have fried food, alcohol, things like that. If I have 20 working days a month, at least 18 of them I pack my lunch and just eat at the office. Not only is it cheaper and saves time, I can control what I eat. You see pictures of guys who are these, like, fitness models and they have sculpted bodies and they talk about eating healthy and their diets and 30-day meal plans and crap like that. The level of sacrifice that takes is something most people just can’t comprehend.
But I enjoy eating healthy. You have to really cook if you’re going to do it, otherwise you’ll be miserable. You have to find ways to make meals taste good. For me that means slow roasting, and using different spices and generous helpings of garlic.
Valisure, an online pharmacy company licensed in 37 states, told the FDA last week that high levels of dimethylformamide were found in valsartan, a drug produced by Swiss drugmaker Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies. The drug is used to treat hypertension in adults. The World Health Organization classifies dimethylformamide, or DMF, as a probable human carcinogen.
Valisure asked that the medication be recalled and requested that the FDA review and significantly lower the acceptable intake of DMF from its current level of 8,800,000 nanograms to less than 1,000 nanograms. The online pharmacy said it found the cancer-causing chemical in valsartan produced by five companies.
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In a statement to CNBC, a spokesperson for Novartis said in general the company's manufacturing process does not use DMF but it cannot currently fully "exclude the possibility that traces of DMF (within applicable limits) may have been present in materials of other Drug Substances suppliers."
Several blood pressure drugs have already been recalled due to concerns about other cancer-causing chemicals. Earlier this month, Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals said it would expand a recall of its heart medication, losartan potassium, after a carcinogen known asN-Nitrosodimethylamine, or NMBA was detected. Torrent Pharmaceuticals in April said it would also recall losartan and Camber Pharmaceutical told the FDA in February it would recall the drug.
A friend who has blood pressure of 160/x lowered his blood pressure to 140 by drink a pot of hibiscus tea each day.
----------------------------------------- Please Note! If you are on a blood pressure lowering medication and you take a natural herb that ALSO LOWERS IT, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY MONITOR YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE and get the medication reduced by the doctor.
Having TOO LOW blood pressure is also bad for you (and even dangerous if it falls too low
===>Nothing here is health advice, just info - talk to your health advisor/
There are tests you can do to monitor certain areas that need work.
Search online and see. Some naturopathic clinics even let you order tests off their site without having to pay for a consultation (do your research and choose your company carefully)
For example, there is testing for levels of different fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, neurotransmitters, even gut bacteria.
I'm not a professional in this field but this has all directly improved my trading results and life in general (still have to work on it). I believe that this can help others as well, trader or not.
Edit: If you do any of these tests, always take the results to someone qualified to help you interpret them, like a Naturopath.
2001 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which was initially devastating to her. “The day you hear those three words, ‘You have cancer’ … man, it rocks your world.”
She walked on the beach with Alan that day, arm-in-arm, and she says she heard a voice in her head (not an infrequent occurrence). “The voice said to me, ‘You can handle this,'” Suzanne relates. “I got back in the house and I said to Alan, ‘I can handle this.’ And I decided that I could. That’s when I decided I’m not taking chemotherapy and when I told the doctor that, he said, ‘You’re going to die.’ I said, ‘I cannot reckon with the fact of taking my weakened body right now and weakening it even more with poison. It doesn’t make sense to me and it never will. I’m not going to do it.’ It was all over the news, but here I am and my body’s healthy and it’s not ravaged by poison. I didn’t have to come back from the brink of death, I just did it my way through nutrition, detoxification and pancreatic enzymes.”