Jimmylegs...too much vitamin d = ouch?

[jimmylegs]

hey anon, do you ever see bread products like these available in your area?

http://www.stonemillbakehouse.com/010~E ... ed_Grains/

[Anonymoose]

We have this http://www.foodforlife.com/about_us/ezekiel-49

I get the raisin bread for toast but I'm noticing a sesame seed bread....

Edit: pfft. Never mind. The labels aren't too impressive, are they?

[jimmylegs]

what do you object to, specifically? not seeing anything overtly objectionable off the top.

[Anonymoose]

I don't object to anything. It just doesn't look rich in much of anything. Is it better because sprouting the grain reduces some gluten voodoo?

[jimmylegs]

there's all kinds of good stuff in there that they don't bother to include on nutrition labels. yes it's better because the sprouting cuts down on the nutrient drain caused by gluten.

check out the subsection on whole grain phytonutrients here (you'll have to scroll down)

Health-Promoting Activity Equal to or Even Higher than that of Vegetables and Fruits
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tnam ... ce&dbid=54

excerpt

"whole grains, such as oats, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.

Despite the fact that for years researchers have been measuring the antioxidant power of a wide array of phytonutrients, they have typically measured only the "free" forms of these substances, which dissolve quickly and are immediately absorbed into the bloodstream. They have not looked at the "bound" forms, which are attached to the walls of plant cells and must be released by intestinal bacteria during digestion before they can be absorbed.

Phenolics, powerful antioxidants that work in multiple ways to prevent disease, are one major class of phytonutrients that have been widely studied. Included in this broad category are such compounds as quercetin, curcumin, ellagic acid, catechins, and many others that appear frequently in the health news.

When Dr. Liu and his colleagues measured the relative amounts of phenolics, and whether they were present in bound or free form, in common fruits and vegetables like apples, red grapes, broccoli and spinach, they found that phenolics in the "free" form averaged 76% of the total number of phenolics in these foods. In whole grains, however, "free" phenolics accounted for less than 1% of the total, while the remaining 99% were in "bound" form."

[Anonymoose]

O I C. I'll try some for sandwiches.

And ahem...didn't you get an MRI in November? Did the diet/supplements halt activity? I don't know where to put this so just tacking it on here.

[jimmylegs]

hey there, no mri in November - it was early in july I think, b/c I was having some symptoms after landing on my head in march. the followup was in November tho (right at the end of term, thaaaanks great timing). I think I mentioned it in the regimen thread but will have to go back and check. it didn't look good compared to the ones I got in the first year or two. makes sense, since I definitely got a LOT worse symptom-wise before I started to get better. I should have had more mris over the years, to see when the worst of the damage happened. symptom wise, it would have been up until 2008. but I didn't have any mris that year or any year since until 2013. lesson learned - will keep more regular track in future! will be interesting to compare my next scan to the 2013 one.

[Anonymoose]

Bummer. I can't believe you didn't have an online tantrum as is my fashion. I'm sorry they were disappointing. Next time will be better (at the very least, you get to see smaller degrees of worsening with more frequent mris, right?)

[jimmylegs]

hahaha! I will have to go back and see what I did say. it's true I'm not really that tantrummy by and large

[Anonymoose]

hahaha! I will have to go back and see what I did say. it's true I'm not really that tantrummy by and large

Me neither...except when I see a horrible MRI report or I get pushed over the dietary nit picking edge or when I see my csf labs. OMG! I am tantrummy! Lol. I'm not telling you how much caffeine free diet coke I drink.

[jimmylegs]

WHAAAT shut uuup. so bad!!!???!!!

[PointsNorth]

Beware ASPARTAME . It used to make my hands numb.

[Anonymoose]

Lol jimmy! I'm not sure what has you so worked up. Is it my ungrateful whining about your most helpful assistance or my diet coke consumption? I'll answer for both. Yes, sometimes the nitty gritty diet dissection is a bit much for me...but that's because I am a brat. Even though I hem and haw about some things, I appreciate all of your help and file the too much things away to work on at a time when my inner child can handle it. No, my diet coke consumption is not so bad...it is soooo good!

Thanks PN. . I'll give it up cold turkey right now. I've done it before. No biggie. (Jimmy, don't get any ideas about my bread!)

[want2bike]

Jimmylegs is that organic corn mill being used in the bread you recommend. When I look at the ingredients it doesn't list the corn meal as organic. I do not want to eat anything which is GMO. I am currently using Ezekiel bread because everything seems to be organic. Aspartame is a neurotoxin.

[jimmylegs]

hey there, that bread is just one of the local sprouted varieties. not likely to be perfect.

re the corn meal, I don't stress too much about a minor ingredient in a product I barely eat. I'd be more worried about the food I eat on a daily basis, which also is not perfect. it would be great if last night's dinner of pork and veggies was 100% organic and non-GMO. but it wasn't. not even close. the pork wasn't even from my local farmers of non-GMO (but not certified organic) pork. it was just leftover ham from a work party.

ideally if I had to purchase bread from someone else, it would be 100% organic non-GMO and would come in a recyclable hemp paper bag from a neighbourhood living-wage certified bakery. but I haven't even had success buying organic non-GMO ingredients to make my own bread (or even my own flour) from scratch. yet.

for context, I am currently working my way through my monthly commercial 100%-evil-down-to-the-last-industrial-food-molecule pizza. baby steps!