Poor sleep deprived man

[AXJ]

Don't worry Brij... that is small beer compared to drinking, smoking, living in a city, or near a papermill. Eating BBQ food, burnt toast, over cooked chips, anything that has been fried in fat over a certain temperature (can't remember now what that temperature is) margarine for the last 50 years, many chemical/heat extracted vegetable oils, black pepper, pesticides, too many nitrates, mega doses of beta carotene, oh life is deadly!

Personally I don't give a poo. But I do avoid marge, only use cold pressed olive oil, have given up high dose vitamin suppliments, and nolonger live in the city.

As someone gave tribute:

I would also like to mention Adelle Davis the highly-respected american nutritionist who, despite forbidding roasting frying & grilling (because of carcinogens) and recommending that all food should be boiled in her book Let's Cook It Right, still died of cancer.

I also fondly remember another american with the answer to everything, Jim Fix the jogging guru, who forecast that (by jogging) he would live to to the age of 140. Unfortunately he dropped dead at the age of 50 from a heart attack while out running.

[AXJ]

For no other reason than I am eating my lunch, and having just been cooking, and am at this moment sick of programming, I thought I would see what I could find in the mainstream science area about microwaves and ting:

Science: Why microwave cooking fails the taste test
18 January 1992
From New Scientist Print Edition.

Desirable and undesirable microwave flavours Does food cooked in a microwave oven taste as good as food cooked in a conventional oven? No, it does not, according to two American chemists. Helen Yeo and Takayuki Shibamoto of the University of California, say microwave irradiation does not provide the right conditions for the chemical reactions which help a full flavour to develop Read more (Trends in Food Science and Technology, December 1991, p 329).

Microwave cooking zaps nutrients
25 October 2003
From New Scientist Print Edition.
James Randerson

STEAMING is by far the best way to cook vegetables and microwaving them is the worst, according to a study that compared the nutrients left in broccoli cooked in different ways.

Cristina Garc'a-Viguera's team at CEBAS-CSIC, one of Spain's scientific research council centres, in Murcia, measured the levels of antioxidants such as flavonoids left in broccoli after steaming, pressure cooking, boiling or microwaving. Antioxidants protect our cells from damage by mopping up highly reactive chemicals called free radicals, reducing the risk of cancer and degenerative diseases. Steaming left antioxidants almost untouched, while microwaving virtually eliminated them, the team found.

Microwaves probably destroy more antioxidants because they generate higher temperatures, says Garc'a-Viguera. "Internal heating is much more damaging."

Read more >> (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, vol 83, p 1511)

Just passin' the time

[baldowrie]

Mrs Fibble, now I know where you live

It hasn't changed much and the path through the trees has been there for years, and years!

[Silver Ether]

For no other reason than I am eating my lunch, and having just been cooking, and am at this moment sick of programming, I thought I would see what I could find in the mainstream science area about microwaves and ting:

Science: Why microwave cooking fails the taste test
18 January 1992
From New Scientist Print Edition.

Desirable and undesirable microwave flavours Does food cooked in a microwave oven taste as good as food cooked in a conventional oven? No, it does not, according to two American chemists. Helen Yeo and Takayuki Shibamoto of the University of California, say microwave irradiation does not provide the right conditions for the chemical reactions which help a full flavour to develop Read more (Trends in Food Science and Technology, December 1991, p 329).

Microwave cooking zaps nutrients
25 October 2003
From New Scientist Print Edition.
James Randerson

STEAMING is by far the best way to cook vegetables and microwaving them is the worst, according to a study that compared the nutrients left in broccoli cooked in different ways.

Cristina Garc'a-Viguera's team at CEBAS-CSIC, one of Spain's scientific research council centres, in Murcia, measured the levels of antioxidants such as flavonoids left in broccoli after steaming, pressure cooking, boiling or microwaving. Antioxidants protect our cells from damage by mopping up highly reactive chemicals called free radicals, reducing the risk of cancer and degenerative diseases. Steaming left antioxidants almost untouched, while microwaving virtually eliminated them, the team found.

Microwaves probably destroy more antioxidants because they generate higher temperatures, says Garc'a-Viguera. "Internal heating is much more damaging."

Read more >> (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, vol 83, p 1511)

Just passin' the time

blimey .... Hows James ... getting any sleep?

[mrsflibble]

thankfully they're not about this weekend which is good. he's doing ok, he's going to be catching up today and tomorrow then monday, tues and weds he'll probably be sleeping in soph's room. I've considered telling him to go to his dad's or his brother's house on tues as they're doing the pipes into our house and it will be REALLY noisy.

Balowdrie: do i need to worry?! I assumed the oaks must have been there since the house was built (1959 ish?) becuase oaks only produce acorns when over 40 years old; they produce lots those ones do lol!! it's a really lovely area despite its past as a council estate. lots of the houses are now owned by a housing assoc working for the council, or are privately owned like ours. I'd love to stay in the area 'cos it's right where's really convenient for me. walking distance from town centre and stations, good busses (ish), less than a mile to hobbycraft... and soph's preschool is fantastic.

[baldowrie]

I assumed the oaks must have been there since the house was built (1959 ish?)

Oiy! I am not quite that old ok I admit it, not far off! We lived in Sparrows Herne, the last house before the 'posh' dormer bungalows

They were probably planted after the houses were built yes. The path has also probably been there since they were built too. However if they were built now I doubt the trees would still be there let alone a path.

do i need to worry?!

No, I doubt I shall be making a visit to the area

edited to say come to think of it I was collecting acorns from those trees when I were a lass. So I think the tree may have been there first. and mature...possibly they may now be class as ancient

[AXJ]

I planted an acorn from an oak tree in the front garden of my parents in 1972, it now has acorns of its own, is this a record?

Glad to hear that you are getting some peace.. poor both of you :)