As one of the main goals of Calorie Restriction is longevity, it feels right to honor here the memory of a historically significant man, who made it to 102. I don’t know what his dietary habits were, but to say he lived a rich and full life, with vigor to the end, would be an understatement.
Speaking of centenarians, in case you were wondering, the current record for the longest-lived CRS member belongs to Ralph Cornell, who died last year at 104 years of age.
If you can believe it, just the other day I brought home my very first jicama root from the supermarket. Seems I must’ve had it in a Mexican restaurant before, but maybe not. <shrug> Anyway, it felt like a new experience, and it was so good.
Of course, I enjoyed it raw initially to get a sense of its flavors. It struck me as a combination of a potato and a cucumber—really juicy. Then I doctored it up by dry frying in a skillet with onions before splashing in balsamic vinegar at the end. This gave it a nice caramelization and is the same way I tend to make eggplant too.
It took me a while to find the nutrition information for it in my software, since it’s listed in the USDA database under Yambeans. Lower-cal than potatoes, I’ll be having this one again soon.
Not known for shying away from controversy, PETA’s latest proposal doesn’t even have full support within their organization. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is offering $1 million for the
Speaking of challenges, there’s another pretty cool one going on right now that fits right in with the spirit of Earth Day. The X Prize Foundation has added another technological contest to their line-up. This one’s for the first to design an affordable car that gets 100 MPG.
Get your body care from one of the good guys. Tested negative for 1,4-Dioxane in the Organic Consumers’ recent Coming Clean study.
With Earth Day right around the corner, I want to share Al Gore’s latest presentation on the environment. Using similarly impressive graphics as in his award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, he suggests the situation may be worse than we’d originally thought.
By the way, his latest book, The Assault On Reason, looks really good. It’s now available in hardcover, and, oddly enough, it actually costs less than the soon-to-be-released paperback. Weird. Anyway, I’ll probably add it to my growing stack of future reading.
It seems, while biting down on a HUGE carrot, it somehow slid down and cut the gum in front of my lower teeth. Now that’s a raw food hazard you don’t hear every day.
Of course, dental care is often discussed among raw foodists, and products like tooth powder proliferate to solve the problem. That’s not the case here, however. In fact, my dentist was just complimenting me on my healthy, pink gums!
In other words, this was just a freak accident, but an expensive one for sure, requiring as it did a soft tissue graft at the periodontist. Ouch.
I’m making lemonade out of this lemon though and am currently on day four of an 8-day self-styled liquid raw cleanse/healing. Not juices, but smoothies and soups, etc..
Stay tuned for the compilation. I hope to publish it sometime in the next couple months under the Raw Done Light series. I have to crunch the numbers and format everything first.
I’m convalescing quite nicely without pain meds. No vicodin for me! Heck, I even refused the double-strength ibuprofen they proffered at the office while I was still numbed up.
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Heck, I even refused the double-strength ibuprofen they proffered at the office while I was still numbed up.
