I wonder how many of the inches lost from my waistline was from my liver shrinking.

By the way, i also wanted to tell you that i ate so much in thanksgiving, i had a lot of carbohydrates and cake. However i won’t celebrate christmas day, i just won’t be part of the gluttony. I’ve noticed that engaging in binge-eating is such a short-lived pleasure. I think that the pleasure of eating low in carbs and in calories is a *long lived* pleasure, compared with the hedonic short lived pleasure of binge-eating. specially when we look ourselves in the mirror. And as the philosopher Nietzsche said: What is good? All that makes you powerful. What is bad? All that makes us weak. And beauty makes us powerful.

Take care

Binge eating is indeed a short-lived pleasure. Too much of it can lead to a short-lived life.

I’m a very new reader of your blog. I’m concerned about agave as I had understood it to be a low glycemic sweetener? (I’m insulin resistant). My main use of added sweeteners is for my tea. I tend to use either agave or erythritol as I don’t care for the taste of Splenda and I gave up diet Pepsi (and thus my only source of aspartame) about a year ago.

So, now that you are talking about fructose in the agave, I’m concerned, as it seems that you are saying either that it is not low GI afterall, or that even if it is low GI, that agave has something else about it that makes it not a good choice for those who watch their weight and are concerned about their health. Thanks in advance for any further enlightenment you can offer.

Welcome to the blog. Glad to have you.

For each teaspoon of agave you are putting in your tea, you are getting about 3.6 grams of fructose. If you are drinking one cup of tea per day with a teaspoon of agave, you’re probably not getting enough to matter. But if you are using a couple of teaspoons and drinking multiple cups of tea throughout the day, you are more than likely getting way too much fructose.

BTW, Dr. Mike, I smiled at this: “However, since I eat no sweeteners throughout the day, someone else has to eat double to keep the averages the same.” For years I’ve been telling people “The average American eats 152 pounds of sugar per year — and somebody’s eating more, folks, ’cause I’m eating less.”

Yep, since I eat maybe two pounds of sugar per year (if that) somewhere, someone else is eating 300 pounds per year. Which is not a small amount.

Make this in accordance with your own traditional:
saute 1 lb of sausage
add one chopped onion and equal volume of chopped celery
I add a fairly large amount of poultry seasoning
add one chopped head of cauliflower
add one can of decent chicken broth
Cook until cauliflower has lost its cabbage like taste, DO NOT overcook (this is the secret to all faux cauliflower recipes – potato salad, mashed potatoes, gratins etc. There is a magic window where it is tender and kind of tasteless (sorry, couln’t think of a better word)

It was better the second day when I had some good turkey gravy. It does not have the great mouth feel of a good bread/cornbread stuffing, but otherwise is pretty good. I suspect that had the gravy had pieces of giblets or other turkey meat it would have been even better. It is better than OK. On Thanksgiving day itself I had just a small serving of regular stuffing, and my blood sugars were not much affected.

Thanks for the recipe. It sounds great.

I was hoping to get your thoughts on this protein powder here;
http://www.allmaxnutrition.com/139-IsoNatural-Original-2lbs.aspx

It’s pure whey, I’ve tried it and I prefer it over the powders that are artificially sweetened. I don’t like the taste of artificial sweeteners.

Also, now that this powder has been brought to your attention, would you consider switching over to it? Why, why not? Is there anything particularly better about the MRM protein that you have suggested above?

The protein product in your link is a good one. But it is also an expensive one. There are a several methods of processing whey, with the two most commonly found in protein powders being whey isolate and whey concentrate. Of the two, the whey isolate is vastly more expensive. But I don’t think necessarily worth the extra money. The whey is a good source for good quality protein, i.e., all the essential amino acids. The whey concentrate provides these amino acids at substantially less expense than the whey isolate.

The MRM protein uses no artificial sweeteners – it is sweetened with a little stevia. And it costs $23 per container. The same size protein powder in the link you provide costs $45. It is a little better product overall, but not, in my opinion, worth the almost doubling in price.

And of course, that extra sweet taste in products that would not normally be sweet has a tendency for making us want to eat more of them than we normally would.

Add the above to being cheap to use and HFCS is definitely an all-around boon for the food industry.

Incidentally, on the trusting in the free market comment—in order for the free market theory to function it means there is free access to knowledge for all parties. That is certainly not the case between manufacturers and consumers. It is not a level playing field. Their livelihood depends upon the ignorance of the consumer, and they take full advantage of it. Any threat to their livelihood and they haul out the marketing and lobbying machine.

PS I tried to click on the parody video, and it said it was no longer available…are “evil” forces at work here or just technical difficulties?

Yes, HFCS does increase the shelf life of foods. So does sugar. I don’t know if there is a difference in the two in terms of shelf life.

I just clicked on the parody video, and it works fine. Maybe it was just down for some reason when you tried it.

Sorry to be off topic, but I just wanted to say THANK YOU.
This Thanks giving day I want to let you know how grateful I am for your blog
and all you share.
That’s all
Best wishes to you and your loved ones!

Marc

Thanks for the good wishes, Marc. The same back to you and yours.

Happy Thanksgiving.