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Playing the OddsSeptember 28th, 2014
Pursuing a well-fed life is not one long buffet table of awesome-sauce.
When you agree that your hungers are wise and that you are worthy of being fed, you also agree to experience being hungry.
And most of us don't enjoy being hungry. In fact, many of us will do anything to avoid this particular flavor of lack.
To avoid feeling our longing and desire we put our hungers in the back of the closet, or in the attic, or behind the stove. Anywhere out of reach of our conscious experience. And to keep them there, we numb ourselves through all the usual suspects: food, shopping, alcohol, staring at screens, and so forth.
And the result of putting our hungers away, in an effort to not feel hungry, is that we are then rarely, if ever, feel fed. Quite simply, it's hard to feed a hunger that we're actively denying.
The solution: play the odds.
I can't promise you that if you walk the path of a Well-Fed Woman that 100% of your hungers will be fed, 100% of the time, with minimal discomfort or waiting.
What I can promise is that the first option—stuffing them down or denying them—has a near 0% success rate when it comes to living a happy life.
The second option—saying yes to your hungers—the option I'm advocating for, will always lead you somewhere very fulfilling.
I can also promise that the discomfort of being hungry won't kill you. And, perhaps more importantly, I can promise that hunger becomes significantly less uncomfortable the more we have a 'yes' relationship to it.
Much of the discomfort we experience around being hungry comes from anxiety and fear that we might not ever be fed or get enough. But women committed to living well-fed lives, over time, we establish a pattern of feeding ourselves and tending to our hungers, such that the anxious (and previously starved) part of us becomes reconditioned to trust that hunger is just a precursor to delicious satiation.
So yes, if you want to be a Well-Fed Woman you will experience periods of hunger. Some will last mere minutes and some will last many years. And the reward for your courage to feel these wise messages will be a life far more satisfying than if you deny your wants.
In my book, this is a risk always worth taking because the odds are in your favor.
Taste TestSeptember 21st, 2014
You can't know what will feed you unless you taste it — and taste a lot of other things that don't feed you.
And sometimes you need to taste something many times before you know if you like it, if you need it, and how much of it is supportive for you.
This will mean tasting things that don't taste good.
This will mean tasting things that might make you ill.
This will mean tasting things that are almost right, but not quite (Hello, Goldilocks).
If you're not sure what you are hungry for, start by tasting anything and allowing your wise body and heart to tell you what is satisfying.
This might mean trying out dating a wide range of people.
This might mean a career path that is anything but a straight line.
This might mean asking to sample all 31 flavors when you go for ice cream.
Wouldn't it be a magical world if we already knew what was right for us before trying anything out, before making a mistake, before embarrassing ourselves, or ruffling any feathers, or hurting feelings, or 'wasting' time.
Nah. That world sounds bor-ing.
Tasting the full menu is one of the best parts of life. It allows us to feel grounded in knowing that what we've chosen is more right for us, in comparison to what we've let go.
When I look back on my life I see a woman who needed to taste some very icky, very off, and very painful things in order to learn what worked.
When you ask yourself "What was I doing back then (in my 20′s or 30′s…)? What was I doing with in that relationship? What was I doing in that dead end job?"
The answer to all of these questions is: "I was tasting."
Seize your freedom to try new things that might feed you so you can discover what actually does.
Want to be a Well-Fed Woman?
Better get to tasting.
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We.July 9th, 2014
I have never had a drinking problem. In fact, I'm a one drink woman because two puts me to sleep, but I had a therapist once plead with me to go an AA meeting.
She had spent months, maybe years, watching me spin inside my own illusion that my pain was somehow different, that my angst was somehow greater, and that no one could understand my personal hell, at least not without feeling a great deal of judgement towards me.
I was pretty far down the rabbit hole of separation. There was me and there was everyone else. Everyone else had it easier. Everyone else felt more at peace. Everyone else was lovable. Everyone else….everyone else…everyone else….but not me. not poor me.
There was you and there was me.
And none of you, could understand or relate to me or my pain.
So my therapist told me to go an AA meeting. She wanted me to sit in a room with other people, who just like me, suffered. People, who if I passed them in the grocery store aisle, I'd assume had it all together. People who both look like and not like me, but nevertheless feel the same feelings and worry the same worries.
I didn't end up at an AA meeting, but I did end up in group therapy and the desired effect was just the same. And it was there that something fundamental shifted in me. For ten months, every week, I sat in a room with about ten other women all awash in their shame, their obsessions, their stuff. And it looked an awful lot like my own stuff.
Put simply: I woke up to our sameness. I woke up from the illusion that no one would-could understand the agony I experienced. I woke up from the idea that everyone else, but me, had it together.
Let's go even further back in time…
At the height of my anorexia, more than a decade ago, I was leaving a dental appointment and stepped into the elevator to leave the building. I rode down with a woman whom I had never met—a stranger. She blatantly eyed my lithe frame up and down. Then said to me "Oooh girl, I only wish I had whatever willpower you've got." Not even a week later I went to get a bikini wax, and laying there on the table, vulnerable, naked, and insecure the waxer said to me "You must work out, you have a perfect body."
In both of these cases gave a pacifying half smile and I said nothing aloud. Yet inside I was screaming: "I don't eat! You want the perfect body?! Stop eating! You think it's willpower? No it's soul-level terror!"
These women had made assumptions about me. They had placed themselves on one side of line and me on the other. In their mind, they were fat. I was not. They had no willpower, I had it spades. They were lazy, I was on top of my game. They were wild pigs and I was smoothly in control.
Yes, there assumptions were wrong, but the point is that I was doing the same thing.
Me and my pain over here, everyone else over there.
And I needed to wake up. The separation was killing me. Literally.
Recently a client confessed that she had taken money from her office's petty cash box. She's paid it all back by now, but the shame of her actions still plagued her. While she seethed with self-judgement, I felt nothing but empathy and our shared humanity.
There isn't any part of her that's different than me. I've been lost. I've made choices that hurt other people. I've acted from insecurity. And while I consider myself a person with boatloads of integrity, if you went through my (or your) whole life with a fine tooth comb you could easily find where I've faltered.
Over the past six months I've noticed myself slip a bit into otherizing. It's been a natural period of creative fallowness and incubation where it's all too easy to look at other people who are in creative flow and think, once again, that they are somehow better than me. Them over there, me over here.
This matters to me because when I'm lost in this place I feel half alive, half connected, half of service, and half myself. I know that each of us is here to serve by being full and whole, not dimmed to a mere fifty percent.
I'm naming my own otherizing here for myself and for you, should you find yourself drawing this unhelpful line in the sand.
There is no human experience that we have alone. It's up to each of us to tear town the chambers of isolation that comparison and fear build.
It's just you and me, them and us—all together.
That person you idolize. That internet guru. That person you loathe. The bully from high-school. The person on the front of this week's tabloids. The one who beat you out for that job. The suitor who liked you, that you didn't like back. The noisy neighbor and the perfect-from-the-outside acquaintance. The criminal and do-gooder. Yep, all of us. Our pains and sorrows. Anxieties and dilemmas. Joys and callings. Sacred reverberating essences.
Say it with me: WE.
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The PendulumJune 16th, 2014
This is how I've spent much of the past seven months.
While leading six crazy-courageous groups of women through reading and implementing Intuitive Eating, and many of those women through an additional 10-week alumni intensive, I have become a professional jailbreaker.
At the heart of this work is illuminating something I call The Pendulum and then shepherding the participants to often hard to find off-ramp.
The Pendulum
The Pendulum is the seemingly never-ending ride between some form of a restrictive state of mind and overconsumption state of mind. A say 'state of mind' here and not 'behaviors' because we need only psychologically restrict or overconsume to experience the tortuous ride. That is to say that feeling restricted or believing we have overconsumed is far more significant than behaving either way. The mind is a tricky thing. Certainly, we can (and often do) behave these ways, but it isn't necessary in order to perpetuate The Pendulum and feel the inevitable mental distress that comes with the back and forth swing.
And back and forth we swing.
These two phases of the cycle manifest in a broad array of ways, but all with the same two flavors.
On the one side we feel in control, high even. Above our hungers and with a sense of calm.
On the flip side we're in chaos, often experiencing some level of shame and self-loathing. We feel out of control.
You probably already know much of this. After all, this is human nature.
We're hard wired to react to one swing of The Pendulum with the other. (Read: this is not your fault.)
I'm talking about food here, but this is a universal law of energy and applies to many other aspects of our lives.
Back and forth. Restrict. Overconsume. Feeling like we're being 'good' only to be feel that we're 'bad'.
Sometimes minute by minute, hour by hour, or month by month. The time between swings isn't important. What matters is that we can't cheat The Pendulum. We can't game the system. As human beings we're wired to swing one way if we swing the other.
Unless we step off the ride.
The Off Ramp
Every pendulum has a center point. We must pass through this point on our way from one swing to the other.
We can stop the ride if we can only just slow the momentum and rest in that center point.
We do this by meeting the ride with compassion and nonjudgmental observation, this makes it much easier to slow the swing.
We do this by meeting the moment post-overconsumption with a conscious choice to return to the center (i.e. reject restriction).
We do this by returning to our body. The Pendulum swings are perpetuated by an override of our body's preferences. The off ramp is found when we decide to cease the override.
Again, the polarity of the ride is hard wired into us. We often think that it is our own failing that leads us to over consume, but rather it is our beautiful and human need to both find soothing and avoid famine (real or psychological) that leads us to the ride.
Real Life
So what does this look like in real life?
It looks like getting clear on your own unique tendencies toward restriction and overconsumption. It looks like getting to know your triggers and the fears and stories that fuel your ride.
Do you tend to restrict certain types of food? Do you restrict eating at certain times of day? Or is it about limiting quantity?
Where do you find yourself most often past the point of comfortable fullness? When do you find yourself feeling like you need to 'recommit' to whatever 'plan' or 'program' or 'rules' you identify with?
Identifying our patterns can be tricky as they are often subtle and entirely socially condoned. You can usually sniff them out by following the thread of where you feel guilty around food.
Draw Your Pendulum
Take a piece of paper and a pen. Draw your pendulum. On the left half write out all the ways you see yourself restricting. On the right half write out all the ways you find yourself overconsuming. Again, these can be restrictive or over consumptive thoughts and fixations, not just behaviors. Track your own pendulum swings. Use arrows. Note your flow. Observe how one sets off a chain reaction that leads back to the other.
Bottom Line
If you're tired of the back and forth, commit to returning to center as often as it takes. (It took me a solid two years of practice) Commit to taking the off ramp as often as you're able to. Commit to paying loving attention. Commit to not blaming yourself for The Pendulum and accepting that it's part of how our species operates. Commit to restrict nothing but restriction itself. Commit to using common sense instead of sensationalism when it comes to what to eat. Commit to choosing happiness over thinness. Commit to choosing real life instead of chasing perfection. Commit to being smarter than the false promises of restriction. Commit to breaking yourself out of jail.
Freedom is possible and it's worth committing to it's pursuit.
The Illusion of the Bottomless PitMay 24th, 2014
"I am never full."
"The pain will never stop."
"There isn't ever enough love."
"I will never not want to eat the entire grocery store."
Many of us walk around with the sensation of deep emptiness.
With that sensation is often a fierce belief that there will never be enough.
Be it food or love—too often we walk the earth feeling as though we are a bottomless pit.
One strategy we use is to try to fill it. With entire bags of chips. With another pair of shoes. With 5 o'clock bottles of wine.
On the flip side, we attempt to cover the bottomless pit with a band aid tale of having minimal needs. This where we tell ourselves we're fine to subsist on crumbs—literal or metaphoric. We keep it together. We stick to the diet. We keep our muscles toned. We don't need a partner, or attention, or chocolate cake, we're fine—or so we tell ourselves.
The sad part is the bottomless pit is an illusion. One that has us running in all directions for temporary salves that aren't sustainable and never leave us feeling very satisfied.
Imagine this:
Your local child protective services agency has shown up at your doorstep with two foster children you are charged with taking care of for a year. They tell you that the children came from a home where there was barely anything to eat.
Over the first few days you notice that one of the children eats until they are sick. They eat quickly and with an anxiety that clearly belays their fear of there not being having enough.
The other child eats very little. Nibbling on this or that but not taking enough sustenance or enjoying the delicious food you have offered. This child is attempting to exert some control where they can. When they wasn't enough in the past, they told themselves that they didn't need it as a way to feel a level of control where none was.
And all of this makes sense.
Neither of them can be sure that there will be enough. They can't yet trust that there will be more food anytime they want, and that they don't have to eat until they're sick or continue to deny themselves nourishment.
What you find over the weeks to come though, as they learn that there is enough food and they have as much as they want, when they want, in any quantity they want, is that they normalize. They are each able to eat with enjoyment, relaxation, and able to stop when they are physically sated.
Are you getting the metaphor?
Our lives are the home where there will always be enough food.
The question is whether we are willing to heal the trauma of our deprivation by ceasing to deny ourselves. It is we who too often deny ourselves the love we long for. It is we who too often deny ourselves the food or pleasure we hunger for.
The result is that we feel like a bottomless pit.
And all along we had our hand on our own spigot able to turn it on and let it flow.
The trick is to turn the spigot on and don't turn it off until we've had enough – and we find the point of 'enough' after a period of reconditioning ourselves to know that there will always be more.
We must let it flow long enough to teach the part of us that is traumatized from deprivation that there will always be enough. What we find when we do this is that that part of us relaxes.
What we find is that the bottomless pit, the one that never existed in the first place, disappears.
A time for everythingMay 12th, 2014
"Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions" tweet
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One of the most common traits (and pitfalls) I see is dichotomous thinking – or seeing everything as either black or white.
There is a frenzy to our lives. A striving, masculine energy to achieve, improve, and purify.
Many of the women I work with come to me when they can no longer bare the tightrope walk their life has become. Slaving in pursuit of being 'good', being 'liked', and being 'beautiful'.
But life isn't a tightrope walk, unless we make it that.
Nothing is good or bad, unless we name it that.
Green vegetables and white sugar are not opposites, nor are they enemies.
Everything is everything, depending on the circumstances. Depending on where we are standing and what is needed now.
I'm calling out for less purity and more messy holding of both. Less pigeon holing. Less throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
This requires paying attention.
When we think in binaries, we get to sleepwalk through life. We decide ahead of time which category something fits into and we live accordingly. No need to reevaluate, it's all already been decided.
Doritos? Toxic.
Meditation? Saintly.
Real Housewives of Anywhere? Pathetic waste of time.
Homemade food? Holy.
And on and on.
If we could use our Martha Stewart label makers on life, I'm sure we would.
But life isn't black or white. It's every shade of gray, and pink, and green, and yellow that can be found. And those colors change moment by moment.
This requires we pay attention. This requires we get comfortable with an unlabeled life.
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
:: Ecclesiastes
and I'll add…
There is a time for Facebook and a time for being miles away from a screen.
There is a time for zafu cushions and a time to find stillness in the least likely place.
No one thing is arbitrarily better than another.
If you want to know if something is medicine or poison you must listen.
Your heart will tell you. Is it soft?
Your lungs will tell you. Are they tight?
Your flesh will you you. Is it supple?
If you listen.
Sensations of ease, joy, enoughness, and vitality are signs of a medicine.
Sensations of deadness, contraction, and insecurity are signs of poison.
Right now, not yesterday or last year, what's your medicine?
Today, mine is shaved legs and a new sundress. Offering myself sustainably. Crisp and cold caesar salad. Haim's The Wire. Writing only when I have something to say.
And you? What's your medicine? What's your poison?
The Not ListApril 19th, 2014
When not to trust yourself
When you think you're not enough or unworthy
When you think no one will understand
When you think you're all alone
What not to eat
Things that don't taste good
Things that are burnt beyond recognition
Things that are more 'should' than 'want'
What not to do in relationships
Attempt to 'fix' people
Seek intimacy without vulnerability
Expect another to treat you better than you treat yourself
How not to walk through the world
Like we don't need you here
Like you are superior to others
Like you are inferior to others
Like tomorrow is promised
An Image of BountyApril 8th, 2014
The following is an excerpt from one of my favorite books for any woman seeking to become well-fed. This particular passage is the prologue and when I read it, back in 2003, I was so moved that I had it printed on a t-shirt. I just needed to plaster these words on my chest because they captured so much of what I was awakening to in and of my own body. If these words cause you to have a certain kind of ache, then I ask you not to tune that out. If these words stir you, a part of you knows that they are medicine, truth, and art all in one.
Pass them on.
The women linger at the water's edge, and they are stunning in the most unusual way: large women, voluptuous, abundant, delighted. They lounge along the river bank, they lift their arms toward the sun, their hair ripples down their backs, which are smooth and broad and strong. tweet
There is softness in the way they move, and also strength and sensuality, as though they revel in the feel of their own heft and substance.
Step back from the canvas, and observe, think, feel. tweet
This is an image of bounty, a view of female physicality in which a woman's hungers are both celebrated and undifferentiated, as though all her appetites are of a piece, the physical and the emotional entwined and given equal weight. Food is love on this landscape, and love is sex, and sex is connection, and connection is food; appetites exist in a full circle, or in a sonata where eating and touching and making love and feeling close are all distinct chords that nonetheless meld with and complement one another. tweet
Renoir, who created this image, once said that were it not for the female body, he never could have become a painter. This is clear: there is love for women in each detail of the canvas, and love for self, and there is joy, and there is a degree of sensual integration that makes you want to weep, so beautiful it seems, and so elusive. tweet
– From Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp tweet
Sacred GroundMarch 17th, 2014
Peter Schroath. Trees, Tall Pine III
"…and your very flesh shall be a great poem…"
— Walt Whitman
Growing up just outside Washington, DC resulted in my childhood having it's fair share of visits to historical sites, such as Civil War battlefields, like Gettysburg.
If you've ever been to a memorial site, especially one where great loss actually took place, you know that you can feel it. What you're standing on at these places is sacred ground and each has a powerful energetic fingerprint. Perhaps you've felt it while visiting the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, Auschwitz in Poland, or The Killing Fields Museum in Cambodia.
Sadly the world is full of sites where atrocities took place and left an imprint, physical or energetic.
In my early twenties as I was emerging victorious from my own battle with anorexia the only way I could relate to my body was as this sacred ground. While not visible to the eye, my body felt like modern day Gettysburg battlefield.
This flesh—my flesh—was where a war had been fought and won.
And what this meant to me was that anything less than sacred awe was not good enough.
In the years since then I have encountered in my life and in the lives of those I work with serious trauma. Childhood abuse. Sexual assault. Mental illness. Loss of parents and children. Battles with cancer. Amputation.
And it doesn't take catastrophic incidents like these to leave trauma. Life is traumatic.
Life is traumatic and our bodies bare the brunt of it. They are our sensory input tool and they are where we experience (or repress) emotion. Our bodies are the tools or fight or flight…or freeze. Our bodies are the recipient of heinous cultural norms. Our bodies, depending on where we live in the world, aren't even always considered our own.
Life is also miraculous. The ways in which our body heals, allows for connection, creates new life, and enables our lives is marvelous.
All this is to say: feel the sacred ground you are living in.
Feel that you are sacred in every cell of your body.
Stand in awe of not just what has happened on your 'land' but on what you have survived and created.
Stand tall.
Consider reverence as a new template for how you inhabit this flesh of yours.
Like Whitman says, your "flesh shall be a great poem".


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Welcome! The team at ChairMaster would like to introduce you to our new blog – FIT AFTER 50. Our goal is to give you interesting, helpful, and fun information about staying fit over 50 – because we know that the more fit we are as we get older, the better our lives will be. Fitness is the fountain of youth! And we hope some of these blog posts will help make it easier for you to stay fit and look and feel great.
Stop the Holiday Food Grinch
Yikes – the average person consumes an extra 600 calories a day between Thanksgiving and New Years, which can turn into six more pounds as you welcome 2013. It's not too late to stop a Holiday Food Grinch when they offer you high calorie treats at your next holiday party. According to WebMD, these lower fat foods are a much better choice:
- Whole grains, such as whole-wheat rolls, wild rice, and quinoa
- Shrimp, lobster, and other steamed seafood
- Plain or lightly dressed vegetables
- Meat and poultry without the gravy
- Salad greens (lightly dressed)
- Fresh fruit
For more holiday food recommendations, visit www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/naughty-nice-holiday-foods
Too Much Sitting Can Shorten Your Life
Do you feel more tired after a long day sitting at your computer or even just watching a lot of television? A new study confirms that those feelings actually point to a real health problem. Researchers in Australia found sitting for more than 3 hours a day could cut a person's life by 2 years - and people who worked in sedentary jobs for 10 years or more had twice the risk of colon cancer. The solution? We can't just sit there - we have to move more! This is one of the key reasons we introduced the ChairMaster - so you can "sit and get fit."
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11)—An all-girls Jewish school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn is getting backlash after fining students who had a Facebook account.
Administrators at Beth Rivkah High School said 11th graders were found to have Facebook accounts, which is against school policy.
Stock said the school principal approached the junior students and offered them an ultiminatum. To pay $100 dollars and take it off or keep it up and get suspended.
"They have a certain punishment. They will get the money back at the end of the year," said Stock.
Stock said the crackdown on Facebook was meant to stop students from breaking school code and to restore the Jewish Orthodox code of morality.
will have a certain punishment which they will get back at the end of the year 100 dollars, yes 100 dollars
Benzion says the crackdown was meant to stop students from breaking school code and restore Jewish Orthodox code of morality.
"It's a regular school rule. They need to obey rules," said Benzion.


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|There is a strong correlation between the
Standard Western Diet, which is high in animal fats and
low in fibre, and the incidence of the afflictions listed
below. The typical consumer of meat and dairy products is
essentially digging his grave with his teeth!
In contrast, those who follow a good vegetarian diet can expect to minimise their risk of suffering from any of these ailments.
Please note, what follows is not merely the opinion of the author but a presentation of the findings of numerous scientific studies, many carried out by nutritionists/epidemiologists/etc. of the highest calibre. Please refer to the Reading Material for details.
Omnivores: read on - if you dare!!
|Avoiding Arthritis
Brow-beating Blood Pressure
Curtailing Cancer
Conquering Constipation
Dodging Diabetes
Getting to Grips with Gallstones
Helping Heart Disease
Looking at Leukaemia
Overcoming Osteoporosis
Shunning Salmonellosis
Many elderly, and not-so-elderly, people experience terrible pain in their joints and their fingers may become swollen and twisted. So much so, that they can't even button a coat! Conventional medicine prescribes large doses of anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin and indomethacin and scoffs at the idea that arthritis is related to diet. However, some medical researchers investigated this heresy and discovered that rheumatoid arthritis sufferers who changed to a lactovegetarian diet had less pain and greater functional ability after a few months. Another heretical study of rheumatoid arthritics involved one week of fasting followed by three weeks on a pure vegetarian /vegan diet. After this short time, 60% of the participants said they felt less pain and greater mobility of the joints. (A vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, seeds, and nuts - but no meat, fish, eggs or dairy products.)
These results are not surprising, since meat and dairy products contain arachidonic acid, which can promote inflammation when converted to prostaglandin and leukotrienes in the body. So, for best results, a rheumatoid arthritis sufferer would do well to remove meat and dairy products from his/her diet. In some parts of the world, old people, for example, among the Hunzas of the Himalayas, who have worked hard all their lives are essentially free of arthritis because they eat foods that are low in fats and cholesterol, moderate in protein, and consume a minimal amount of processed and junk foods.
Hypertension, which is the medical term for high blood pressure, is one of the key factors in the development of heart and cerebrovascular disease and can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Unfortunately, people who consume the Standard Western Diet which includes meat, fish, and dairy products, face an inevitable increase in blood pressure as they grow older. And, in the United Kingdom, one third of all deaths that occur in people under 65 years of age are due to hypertensive causes. The usual medical response to hypertension is, more often than not, simply to prescribe drugs to lower blood pressure without tackling the underlying cause which is an unhealthy cardiovascular system. Although these drugs do bring down blood pressure, they can induce side effects such as fatigue, listlessness, increase in blood cholesterol levels, impotence in males, and decreased or total loss of sexual interest in females.
Wouldn't if be much better to change your diet and lower blood pressure without the nasty side effects?
Studies of people with low blood pressure throughout their lives have shown that they share certain characteristics: their diets are low in fats, cholesterol and salt, and high in fibre. These people are not genetically favoured because when they take on diets high in saturated fat, cholesterol and salt, their blood pressure levels shoot up to match the norm. High blood cholesterol levels and high blood pressure levels go hand in hand. The liver manufactures cholesterol from saturated fats. Saturated fats are present in meat, fish and dairy products. If you want to reduce your blood pressure level (without the nasty side effects associated with drugs) and improve the health of your cardiovascular system, you should reduce your consumption of meat, fish and dairy products. Salt, of course, also raises blood pressure, so avoid salty foods. (Cheese is one of the saltiest foods you can eat.)
Back in 1981, eminent epidemiologists Richard Doll and Richard Peto completed a massive report on the causes of cancer. The report admitted that although not all cancers could be identified or avoided, from the amassed evidence some of the causes of cancer were identifiable and avoidable. Here's a table that shows what they estimate the main risk factors to be, together with their best estimate of the percentage of total cancer-caused deaths attributable to them:
Factor responsible Percentage for Cancer of all Deaths Diet 35 Tobacco 30 Infection 10 Reproductive & Sexual Behaviour 7 Occupation 4 Alcohol 3 Geophysical Factors 3 Pollution 2 Food Additives 1 Industrial Products 1 Medicines & Medical Products 1
'Diet' is at the top of the list and, since our 'diet' is what we choose to eat, if we stop eating those foods that prove, upon investigation, to have a high correlation with diet-related cancer, we can significantly reduce our chances of suffering from those cancers.
Guess what? Further research about cancer mortality in different countries (for example, the United States and Japan) showed that there is a clear relationship between the amount of animal protein in the national diet and the incidence of certain types of cancer mortality. The same linear relationship showed up between total fat consumption and cancer, and animal fat consumption and cancer. Suggestions that certain nations were genetically more predisposed to contract cancers irrespective of diet were quashed when studies of Japanese immigrants in the United States revealed a three-fold increase in their risk of contracting colon cancer when they adopted the Standard American diet.
Basically, more meat means more cancer.
Constipation is the passage of hard stools, usually with some discomfort or pain. The most common cause of constipation is a diet low in fibre. Although laxatives are often used to move the bowels when the stools have become stuck, eventually they only serve to irritate the bowels.
The only effective method to conquer constipation (without nasty side-effects) is to change to a diet low in fat and high in fibre.
Fibre is available in abundance in fruits, vegetables, unrefined grains, pulses, seeds, and nuts - it's what makes plant foods chewy.
There in no fibre in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products!
Meat, in particular, is a very dense food, high in calories, and fills you up quickly. So much so, that you no longer feel like eating bulkier plant foods. Meat therefore not only contains no fibre in itself; it displaces high fibre foods, thereby minimising fibre intake in two ways.
A good vegetarian diet provides enough fibre to ensure that constipation and related complaints like haemorrhoids, varicose veins, hiatal hernia, and diverticulosisis are not a problem. For best results, minimise or eliminate eggs and dairy products from your diet also.
When working properly, the pancreas secretes insulin in response to sugar in the blood in order to keep blood sugar levels within a certain range. Sufferers from maturity onset diabetes mellitus, as distinct from juvenile onset diabetes mellitus in which the pancreas secretes little or no insulin, need insulin injections, not because their pancreas isn't secreting enough but because their insulin is not doing its job. Without medication their blood sugar levels would skyrocket out of control.
A common cause for the malfunction of the diabetic's own insulin is the high level of fat in their blood. So, reducing the intake of dietary fat, particularly saturated fat, can make a significant difference to the life of the diabetic because it lowers the fat concentration in the blood and allows their own insulin to do its job. Several studies have borne this out. A high percentage of diabetics who adopted a low-fat high-fibre diet discontinued their medication within a matter of weeks. Dispensing with medication also means dispensing with the serious side effects - diabetic pills more than double the risk of heart attack and sometimes cause anaemia, jaundice and skin rashes.
Across the world, diabetes is rare or non-existent among peoples who stick to eating grains, vegetables and fruits. If these same people, like, for example, the inhabitants of Nauru, just west of the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific ocean, switch to a rich meat-based diet, their incidence of diabetes zooms.
In general, vegetarians have a much lower risk of developing diabetes than meat-eaters.
The more cholesterol in the diet, the more will be present in the gallbladder fluids, and it is here that cholesterol solidifies into gallstones. There is now evidence to associate the occurrence of gallstones with a high-meat, low fibre diet. Experimenters in Oxford, England, found that meat-eaters were 2.5 times more likely to develop gallstones than non-meat-eaters.
A low-fat, high-fibre (vegetarian/vegan) diet protects against the occurrence of gallstones.
Your arteries carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body. If they are healthy, they have smooth inside walls and blood passes through freely. Sometimes, though, fatty streaks appear on the inner wall. Gradually, the streak grows and it can become a hard mass of fatty tissue. This erodes the wall, reduces the elasticity of the artery, narrows the passageway, and interferes with the flow of blood. The fatty tissue is called "atheroma", a large mass of this is called "plaque" and the name of the disorder, atheroschlerosis, means, literally, "hardening from atheroma". The disorder is commonly know as "hardening of the arteries".
When these plaques grow large enough, they rupture, releasing their fatty contents into the artery to form a clot. These clots may clog up the already narrowed arterial passageway, and thus entirely prevent blood flow through the artery. If a coronary artery is blocked in this way, the supply of blood to the heart is stopped, and the result is a heart attack. In the same way, if an artery feeding the brain is blocked, the result is a stroke.
Basically, heart attacks and strokes are the end result of a gradual process of accumulating fatty deposits in the arteries supplying blood to the heart and brain.
So, what causes atheroschlerosis? The Korean War provided some of the first evidence that atheroschlerosis was rooted in our dietary intake of saturated fat and cholesterol. Medical researchers who autopsied American soldiers killed in that war - their average age was twenty-two - discovered that more than 77% of them had arteries clogged by fatty deposits, while the arteries of the Korean soldiers of similar age showed no such damage. The hypothesis that the differences in the soldiers' arteries might be due to genetic predisposition rather than differing diets was quashed when a large group of Korean soldiers were put on the U.S. Army diet. They quickly developed high blood cholesterol levels - a sure sign of developing atheroschlerosis.
These findings indicated that meat, fish, dairy products and eggs were implicated in the development of heart disease because they are high in saturated fats and the only sources of cholesterol.
The International Atheroschlerotic Project, a world-wide study carried out during 1963 to 1965, revealed that people who lived in areas where saturated fat and cholesterol consumption was high had significantly more atheroschlerosis, more heart attacks, and more strokes. In 1970, the results of a massive seven-country study were published. This study analysed the role of diet in heart disease and involved 12,770 men in Finland, Greece, Italy, Holland, Yugoslavia, the United States, and Japan. The study found high correlations between the amount of saturated fat in a people's diet, their blood cholesterol levels, and their death rate from heart disease. Of the seven countries, Finland and the United States of America had the highest consumption of animal products, the highest consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol - and the highest death rate from heart disease.
So, it's quite clear that by eating a diet that is rich in animal fats we can significantly increase our risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. This begs the question: if you reduce or eliminate your consumption of meat, fish, dairy products and eggs, will you also reduce your chances of dying of a heart attack or stroke?
Low fat, low cholesterol? Fortunately, many studies have shown that you can lower your blood cholesterol by reducing or eliminating your intake of animal fat, and further studies have shown that in so doing, you will reduce your likelihood of having a heart attack or stroke. Let's have a look at some of the evidence.
Back in 1964, American heart specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White visited the Hunzas of Kashmir, to investigate claims that these people lived to ripe old ages without any heart disease. He tested blood pressure levels, blood cholesterol levels, and took electrocardiogram traces, but found no trace of atheroschlerosis, even in twenty five men he examined who were over ninety years of age. Dr. White concluded that there was a causative correlation between the Hunzas' diet, which was almost pure vegetarian (vegan), and their amazing lack of heart disease.
A twelve-year study (1959 - 1971) involving two mental hospitals near Helsinki, Finland investigated the effect on patients of replacing animal fats in their diet with vegetable fats. For the first six years, the patients in one hospital were fed a diet low in animal fats, high in vegetable fats while the other hospital catered for the normal diet. For the second six years, the diets were reversed, with the first hospital reverting to the normal diet, and the second hospital eating the low animal fat diet. During the experimental period, the average serum cholesterol level of the patients on the low animal fat diet dropped by 15% and the deaths due to coronary heart disease were halved! As one researcher wrote:
"Although we do not yet have absolute proof for dietary prevention of coronary heart disease, there is strong evidence for its effectiveness, and its safety."
Clearly, saturated animal fat is connected with the development of heart disease, but it is not the only factor. Nevertheless, the meat industry have isolated this factor and promote the idea of eating lean meat. The logic goes like this: if you eat lean meat, then you'll get all the benefits of vegetarianism, without actually going vegetarian!
It doesn't work like that. In the first place, a consumer is likely to buy fatty meat and meat products thinking they are lower in fat than they really are. Secondly, there are many factors working together that make a vegetarian diet intrinsically healthy. For example, lean-meat eaters miss out on vitamin E which is a "biological antioxidant" and can probably protect us against atheroschlerosis.
Is atheroschlerosis reversible? Yes, a rigorously followed vegetarian diet can actually reduce the blockages in our clogged-up arteries!
In 1990, a ground-breaking paper was published in The Lancet in which scientists proved irrefutably that a vegetarian diet - without the assistance of medicines or drugs - could be used to regress coronary heart disease. The study was made up of an experimental group and a control group with members being assigned randomly to either group. Both groups had their coronary artery lesions carefully measured at the start of the study, and after one year.
Members of the experimental group were asked to eat a low-fat vegetarian diet, consisting of fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains and soya bean products. The only animal products allowed were egg white, and one cup of low-fat milk or yoghurt daily. Caffeine was disallowed and alcohol intake was minimised. The diet contained 70-75% of calories as complex carbohydrate, 15-20% as protein, and only 10% from fat. Relaxation was encouraged, and patients had to exercise for three hours a week.
One year later, atheroschlerosis had worsened in two thirds of the control group (on a normal diet). But for 18 of the 22 patients in the experimental group, the blockages in their arteries had reduced in size, resulting in increased blood flow to the heart. And the more severe the blockage, the greater the improvement.
This regression was not entirely due to a lowering of cholesterol because other studies had shown that among patients taking cholesterol-lowering drugs only a minority showed reversal. The study leader, Dr. Ornish, believes that nutritional factors other than fat and cholesterol play a part in heart disease. Vitamin A (beta-carotene) together with other antioxidants plentiful in a vegetarian diet may play a role in preventing and reversing atheroschlerosis.
Leukaemia is the name given to any of several types of cancer in which there exists a disorganised proliferation of white blood cells in the bone marrow, where all blood cells are formed. The over-production of leukaemia white blood cells impairs the production of red blood cells, platelets, and normal white blood cells. This can lead other organs, such as the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, testicles, or brain to stop working properly as they are infiltrated by the leukaemia cells. Both the acute and chronic leukaemia's, and other types of tumours of the blood, bone cells and lymph tissue, cause about 10% of all cancer deaths and about 50% of all cancer deaths in children and adults under 30 years of age.
Is leukaemia infectious? Although such a notion is commonly dismissed as nonsensical, there is incontrovertible scientific evidence that shows that cancers are transmissible both within species and between species. Indeed, one type of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is thought to be caused by a virus similar to the AIDS virus.
Back in 1911, an experiment demonstrated that tumours taken from one chicken and implanted in another infected the second chicken with a cancerous growth. Later, in 1936, another experiment demonstrated that breast cancer could be transmitted between mice via a virus present in the milk of lactating mice. Scientists at the University of Glasgow recently discovered a feline leukaemia virus in cats. Indeed, just like us, the animals we eat suffer from various forms of cancer, sometimes caused by a virus. Here are a few examples:
The author of one US report, published in Basic Life Science in 1982, stated:
Virtually all commercial chickens are heavily infected with leucosis virus. Since the tumours induced are not grossly apparent until about 20 weeks of age, this is not economically as important as is the Marek's disease virus, which induces tumours by 6-8 weeks or age. Bovine leukaemia virus is widespread in commercial dairy herds; more than 20% of dairy cows and 60% of herds surveyed in the USA are infected.
This begs the question: Do I increase my risk of contracting leukaemia or other cancers by eating meat or by being exposed to food animals or their produce?
The hypothesis that viruses can cross the species barrier and infect humans was tested in a study paid for by the US National Cancer Institute which examined the health of slaughtermen - those people with the most exposure to infected animals. The study monitored the health of almost 14,000 slaughtermen over a period of 30 years (1949 to 1980) and found that abattoir workers were nearly three times more likely to die from Hodgkins's disease that the general population. (Hodgkin's disease is a cancer of the lymphatic system.) The study concluded:
The excess risk was observed only in abattoir workers and seems to be associated with the slaughtering of cattle, pigs and sheep... Thus, the excess risk seems to be in keeping with a postulate of an infectious origin for these cases, as no other occupational exposure could adequately explain this occurrence.
Here's some further evidence from various studies:
The foregoing evidence suggests that cancers in animals may be transmitted to human beings, particularly to those in certain occupations. It makes sense to minimise your risk of contracting these cancers by avoiding the handling and eating of animal flesh.
Osteoporosis is defined as the loss of protein matrix tissue from the bone, causing it to become brittle and easily fractured. Bone gradually becomes thinner as a person grows older, but post-menopausal women are particularly prone to osteoporosis because their ovaries no longer produce oestrogen hormones, which help maintain bone mass. Other causes of osteoporosis include removal of the ovaries; a diet deficient in calcium; certain hormonal disorders; and prolonged immobility. It's also more common in heavy drinkers and smokers.
The link between calcium deficiency and osteoporosis first hit the headlines in 1984, when the United States National Institute of Health recommended that women should increase their calcium intake to prevent it. Demand for calcium supplements suddenly hit the roof, since 25% of 65 year old women in the US have osteoporosis.
Because meat contains almost no calcium, it was left to the dairy industry to seize the opportunity for increased sales. Soon, we all learnt that:
Sounds plausible? Maybe, but it doesn't work like that. A large intake of dairy produce will not safeguard you against osteoporosis. Nevertheless, many people are consuming dairy products and calcium supplements in the belief that they can, thereby, avoid this crippling condition.
Let's look at some facts:
The Eskimo population has the highest dietary intake of calcium in the world (more than 2000mg daily, mainly from fish bones), yet they also have the highest rates of osteoporosis in the world!
According to the findings of the China study (which involved the collection of 367 detailed facts about the diet and lifestyle of 6,500 participants across China, from 1983 onwards), 'most Chinese consume no dairy products and instead get all their calcium from vegetables. While the Chinese consume only half the calcium Westerners do, osteoporosis is uncommon in China.'
These facts contradict the simplistic propaganda of the dairy industry, so what's the truth of the matter? A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1988 reveals the answer. The scientists involved used a technique called direct photon absorptiometry to compare the bone mass of vegetarians and meat-eaters. They studied 1,600 women and found that:
Comparing the nutrient intake of the two groups revealed that the vegetarians' advantage wasn't due to increased calcium intake. The real reason for the difference in bone mineral loss was explained by nutritionist Nathan Pritikin in the March 1981 issue of Vegetarian Times in which he said:
African Bantu women take in only 350mg of calcium per day. They bear nine children during their lifetime and breastfeed them for two years. They never have calcium deficiency, seldom break a bone, rarely lose a tooth. Their children grow up nice and strong. How can they do that on 350mg of calcium a day when the recommendation is 1200mg? It's very simple. They're on a low-protein diet that doesn't kick the calcium out of the body... In our country, those who can afford it are eating 20% of their total calories in protein, which guarantees negative mineral balance, not only of calcium, but of magnesium, zinc and iron. It's all directly related to the amount of protein you eat.
In fact, several factors explain the difference in bone loss between vegetarians and meat-eaters:
Salmonellosis is a bacterial infection derived from contaminated animal products. Symptoms of the disease are: nausea, diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, fever, and, sometimes, vomiting and chills. Unfortunately, the disease can be fatal for the aged, the ill, and infants.
Although it's hard to estimate how many animal carcasses are contaminated with salmonella, in the case of chicken, estimates have ranged from 25% to 80%. Not only chicken flesh, but eggs also may be contaminated. In general, it is advisable to avoid foods that contain raw egg (such as home-made mayonnaise, ice cream, and mousses).
In most cases of food poisoning, contaminated meat or poultry is the root cause. While it's usually the cook who gets the blame, the problem wouldn't arise if the meat wasn't grossly infected with salmonella bacteria in the first place.
Avoiding the prospect of being poisoned by contaminated animal products is another good reason for adopting a good vegetarian diet!


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We appreciate your interest in the VSRA and hope to see you at one of our upcoming events. If you live in the area, or are moving to the Knoxville area from another location, you are welcome to attend our meetings as our guest.
For the enjoyment of those who have served in our armed forces, VSRA displayed 20 cars in the parking lot of the Ben Atchley Veterans Home on Saturday, April 12. The following weekend, 15 members, wives, and friends in 9 street rods enjoyed a Spring Cruise to Carver's Apple House Restaurant near Cosby. The cruise began with a tour through the Holston Hills Dogwood Trail.
Seventy-two registered participants enjoyed a weekend of beautiful weather, good music, southern hospitality, and a relaxing environment at the 38th Annual Silver Dollar Rod Run in Sevierville, Tennessee May 30-31. We hope to see you next year May 29-30, 2015.
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Eagles starting middle linebacker Casey Matthews breaks down what went wrong in the Georgia Dome Sunday.
The Eagles are the better team and one non-challenged call isn't what cost the Eagles in Sunday's 35-31 loss.
The Eagles lost 35-31 Sunday in Atlanta but it's not the end of the season or anything.
It was a loss for the Eagles -- not a good one. Not only did the Birds lose the game but they probably lost QB Michael Vick (concussion) for at least one game.
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Larry D. Urick Jr., 47, of Decatur, died on Monday morning June 4, 2012, at his residence.
Larry was born on August 11, 1964, in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to Larry D. Urick Sr. and Iris L. (Hebble) Urick.
Larry married Angie (Hottell) on October 3, 1984; she survives.
Never before in the history of Adams Central High School has a Jet softball team ever won an IHSAA sectional tournament, let alone a regional tournament, and heaven forbid, even think about a semi-state championship.
This year, however, a group of Adams Central ball players have banded together to play a game they love. That dedication of the game puts them in the IHSAA state finals this Saturday against the South Putnam Eagles, a team that arguably is a strong favorite to win the crown.
There are four teams left in the 3A state finals for baseball in Indiana and the Bellmont Braves are one of them for the first time since 2002 when Jon Stevens' group of Braves fell to Vincennes Lincoln, 4-0 in the state final.
Despite the visit to Victory Field in Indianapolis back in 2002, the Braves are still without a semi-state title due to the fact that there was not a semi-state conducted from 2000-03.
Decatur Assistant Fire Chief Jim Hitchcock says that by the first part of next week, the city fire department will have smoke detectors for use by county residents.
Anyone who needs a smoke detector may visit the fire station on Seventh St., just off Adams St., or call the department, 724-8909.
Hitchcock noted, however, that the detectors will not be given to anyone. "Instead, we will take them to the home and install them to be sure they are installed properly," he said.
Jennifer Kate Hartman, 41, Fishers, Indiana, passed away June 5, 2012.
She was born July 4, 1970, in Chapel Hill, N.C., the daughter of Michael and the late Diana (Ettleman) Hawfield. She married Matthew Hartman on September 26, 1992; he survives.
She graduated from Southside High School in Fort Wayne, and went on to receive her Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications from Indiana University.
Fun Family Fridays will begin this Friday, the Decatur/Adams County Parks and Recreation Department has announced.
Every Friday will feature something different, something fun, something for everyone, a department spokesman said, adding: "Fun Family Fridays are opportunities for residents of Decatur/Adams County to take advantage of our wonderful outdoor resources."
Each activity is free and all will be held during a 90-minute period, 5:30 to 7 p.m., each Friday.
Vaughn Edward "Ed" Merillat, 96, died Wednesday. Among survivors are two daughters, Donna (Roy) Heatwole of Harrisonburg, Va.; and Jeannine (Mark) Starks of Centerville, Ohio.
Funeral services will be at noon Monday in the Swiss Village Chapel, with visitation from 10 a.m. to time of services. Burial will be at MRE Cemetery.
Arrangements were by Yager-Kirchhofer Funeral Home.
The local Shrine lodge will host area Shriners as they participate in a parade in Decatur on Friday.
The parade, due to start at 8 p.m., will feature antique vehicles, tractors, mini-cars, etc.
The parade will form at and also end at the Krueckeberg building (formerly Adams Lumber) on Adams St. The parade will go east on Adams St. to Five Points, north on Second St. to Madison St., west on Madison to Seventh St., and south on Seventh back to Adams St.
True E. Myers, 66, of Monroe, went to meet the Lord on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at the VA Hospital in Fort Wayne.
He was born in Decatur on April 27, 1946, to the late Melvin D. and Anna A. (Liechty).
On April 10, 1966, he married Barbara (Brubaker).
Aldine B. "Deany" Holle, 90, of Fort Wayne, passed away at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at her residence.
Deany was born on Thursday, November 10, 1921, in Adams County, the daughter of the late George and Lydia (Eickhoff) Bultemeier.
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When Ken Hom is on Saturday Kitchen, he usually pulls a blinder out of the bag, such as crispy chicken noodles. And this recipe was no exception. Tender beef, sticky savoury sauce and to quote the Homster "disgustingly healthy". I'm not sure how healthy it is, but it tastes pretty darn good to me. Continue Reading ››


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Venus Williams was practicing her backhand before she started kindergarten. Tiger Woods showed off his putting skills on the evening news at age 2.
But for every prodigy who grows into a successful athlete, thousands of youths suffer physically or psychologically from being pushed to compete at a young age. For that reason, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends children avoid specializing in a sport until they reach adolescence.
"We're trying to help create more well-rounded children," says Eric Small, M.D., a member of the AAP Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness. "We're not saying that no kid can train in a sport year-round, but there are some caveats. Parents need to be reminded that there is a higher risk of burnout and a higher risk of injury."
The repetitive motions often demanded by intense training in a single sport can cause overuse injuries, such as stress fractures or tendonitis. Over-training also can contribute to psychological damage, including depression, according to Dr. Small, assistant professor of pediatrics, orthopedics, and rehabilitative medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Thomas W. Rowland, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist in Springfield, Mass., adds this tip: "Let kids sample different sports and keep it low-key so that interest can be sustained over the long haul."
Here are ideas for parents:
Keep it fun.
Don't let your child play when he is injured or feeling pain.
Make sure your child is learning skills, not focusing on competition.
Track your child's growth. Is he getting taller? Putting on weight?
Offer your child a variety of physical activities until at least age 12 or 13.
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Burnt plastic in a stainless steel pot [moved from Not about Food board]
Fool that I am, one evening recently, I found some honey that had hardened into crystals in a plastic jar and I put it on the stove in a (beautiful) stainless pot on a trivet almost full of water. I turned the heat on low and promptly forgot about it..
What a mess I found the next morning! I have managed to extract all the burnt honey, and some of the burnt plastic, but by no means all. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
re: sunshine842
I'm back! Life got in the way for a while.
I have tried a grinding wheel on an electric drill. I have also tried the oven cleaner, saturating the stuff in the pot, closing it up with lid and wrapping the whole securely in a plastic bag for more than 24 hours. I regret to report that I've had little success. The pot was not damaged by the wheel but the burnt plastic is still securely stuck there. I'll try some of the other advice offered. I really do appreciate all your contributions. I'll attach a photo next time.
re: Ompahbill
You can always heat the pan up and soften the plastic and then scap it off.
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It's a real pain to remove plastic that was burnt on to SS or glass. The stuff is like superglue that has already set and hardened. I wonder if this is how they make nonstick cookware?
Let us know what worked in the end.
i have used a product that is sold to clean the bottom of an iron - it stinks when you use it, and the pot has to be hot - maybe you could boil some water in it, quickly pour it out - and start working - this will take several tries i would think.
if you have an outdoor burner (on your bbq?) - that would be best as it is smelly.
look in a good quilting shop - etc.
you'll also need a good supply of old cotton rags (old cotton towels) that you can dispose --
I'd think along the lines of removing wax. I'd put the pan in the freezer (or put it in an ice water bath) hoping to get the plastic as rigid as possible, and then try to pop off as much as I could while the plastic was cold. As with candle wax, very gentle heating could also help...the idea being not to turn the mess to liquid, but to soften it up. If the pan is wet and cold, though, the plastic bits you pop off won't be so prone to re-adhere or smear around as they would be if the pan were warm and dry, so I'd go with cold first. Try to find a rigid tool that won't gouge the pan as you work...maybe disposable chop sticks or bamboo skewers. (Don't skewer yourself.)
After that, I'd try a solvent-based metal cleaner on the remainder. Brasso might do it. Let a solvent-dampened cloth sit on it for 10 minutes or so, and try not to wipe the plastic around the bottom of the pan when you clean it up. If that didn't move it, then maybe acetone (nail polish remover) or a general-purpose solvent. Then a stainless steel cleaner (Brasso, maybe?) to finish the little smears left.
The nice thing is that stainless steel, unlike absorbent materials, won't absorb the plastic or the solvents. Once the plastic looks like it is all gone, it will be all gone.
For thinned plastic, a single edge razor blade works to remove the gunk when a plastic bag meets a hot surface.
I agree with 'do it outdoors' I'd heat it, have some really coarse scrubbing pads to swish through the goo with either paired spatulas or tongs to lift out a series of things you'll use to get most of the goo out while its' liquid.
I appreciate all your help, I really do, but I don't yet think you're hitting the problem. It was a plastic bottle's remains that got burnt onto the interior of the pot, not a film of plastic, and the residue is well stuck to that interior surface despite my best efforts. I have given thought to heavy duty acid, or alkaline solutions but they are hard to come by, and truthfully, I'd prefer something less caustic. I know. Caustic. Alkaline. Whatever. Something to soften the little chunks that are still well stuck to the pot. Again, thanks, and please keep posting.
re: Ompahbill
If you have tried gently heating the pan and it doesn't soften the stuck-on pieces, then you have pretty much exhausted your options, short of acid or a grinding wheel (which will remove the bottom of your pan along with the plastic.)
This one sounds like a painful lesson.
re: Ompahbill
Have you tried acetone? Many commercial solvents and "goo" removers contain acetone and 100% pure acetone is available at any major retailer. You can find it in the nail polish area , it is the main ingredient in nail polish remover. It is cheap.
It will soften/disolve acrylic and fiberglass so it might work on plastic.
re: cleobeach
Yes, I'd go for acetone (nail polish remover) or a general-purpose solvent. I've just found that physically removing as much as you can before you bring in the chemicals will greatly remove the amount of chemical needed. Whittling it down carefully with a razor (as suggested above), if nothing else, then the chemicals. Use a solvent-based stainless cleaner to get the last film off.
re: hambone
+1. I loaned my house to someone who used one of my best SS pots to cook a boil-in-bag veggies and forgot to add the water. I finally gave up and threw it out.
re: hambone
If it is really a "beautiful" pot, it is worth a bit of effort. If the container were porous or couldn't stand up to strong chemicals or heat, that would be one thing, but a good stainless cleaner with abrasive will take a bit of the metal off, and all the plastic with it.
If the pot is very very cold, though, the plastic may become brittle enough to pop off down to the metal, albeit in pieces. Really, it is possible.
re: meatn3
I like Meatn3's suggestion.
If the very cold pot doesn't work, either, you could try to load the plastic up with icecubes, and then put the pot in a larger pot of water that's already boiling. Maybe a physical change like the pot expanding even a few millimeters might work to separate the less expanded plastic residue.
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I don't think metal will ever beat out plastic for responding to heat. I think it is a matter of finding the physical state of the plastic (especially where it interfaces with the pan) that will render it easiest to remove and yet not smear it around more than it already is.
You want to physically remove as much plastic as possible. I think that means very cold if you're trying to pop it off and moderately warm but not melted if you're trying to cut through it. The biggest bear to get off is going to be the layer in direct contact with the pan. If you are very lucky, an steel cleaner containing both abrasive and a bit of solvent will do it, but if you're not, it will either take a stronger solvent of some sort or it won't come off at all.
In retrospect, though, the bigger question is whether merely being on dry heat all night might have warped the pot or at least permanently discolored it. Even if you can get the plastic off, the heating alone may have ruined the pot.
Still, I'm very interested to hear what happens. Doing some research on one ruined pot may give some information that will save another pot that wasn't abused quite so much. I'd try everything I could think of, even if I knew the pot was ruined, just because I could learn what works and what doesn't. It is the kind of accident that could easily happen again.
re: meatn3
heat carefully and evenly or you will warp the pan.
re: KaimukiMan
Thanks - good point to emphasize!
re: meatn3
Many thanks again for all your thoughts. I'm busy right now but will report whatever success I achieve.
re: Ompahbill
If you go to a woodworking/good hardware store you can get steelwool in different coarsenesses. That will help you get the fine layer of metal some of my Chowhound friends suggest. (I still think I would make a rosemary planter out of it for the stoop, but that's just me.)
re: Ompahbill
So, after many attempts i still have not solved the problem and will probably chuck the ( formerly beautiful ) pot. Nothing works. Tried steel wool, pure acetone, lots of oven cleaner, picking away carefully with an old chisel, even the careful heating to burn off with the blow torch!. I'm at a loss but thanks again, Folks.
re: Ompahbill
Drill a hole or three for drainage.
Plant rosemary in it.
re: hambone
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Thanks to everyone who voted for Tab Benoit for the 2012 Blues Blast Magazine Music Awards. In May of this year 30 Blues music industry professionals nominated their choices in the fifth annual Blues Blast Music Awards. The Blues Blast Music Awards honor the years best in Blues music in eight categories with Tab Benoit taking home the award for Male Blues Artist Of The Year.


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Superheroes Return to Ordinary in Top-Notch Incredibles
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The film is also very funny, with highly original personality traits (not the least of which is Hunter's Southern accent) and characters, like the superhero fashionista and the whiny babysitter. A brief but comical plot point about why superheroes should not wear capes will amuse many, and the argument between Helen and Bob about which freeway exit to take, as they careen toward town, had me howling.
Not content to rest on these laurels, however, The Incredibles also promotes marriage and family life. Like many husbands, Bob fights traffic every day to arrive a job he hates and a boss he cannot respect. His wife stays home, doing what she has to do to fulfill her less-than-thrilling responsibilities. Like every couple, the Parrs spar, but they also put up a unified front for the children and do what they can to resolve their differences. That they stay together, despite the lure of other women (for Bob) and the disappointment of duplicity (for Helen) is a testament to the blessing that marriage can and should be, despite its difficulties.
The film deserves its PG rating. With lots of heavy violence and multiple deaths, it will not be appropriate for younger audiences. The superheroes and their children narrowly escape death on several occasions, while other characters die what adults know to be violent deaths, although no blood or gore is ever shown. Further, while the plot is sound, it nevertheless revolves around the traditional superhero scenario, although the aside - with the superheroes returning to ordinary existences - injects life into the tried-but-true model.
All in all, The Incredibles is a great ride which will merely serve to bolster the already-sterling reputation of a studio that has produced many excellent animated hits. Pixar's competitors, we can only hope, will take note and follow suit.
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- Language/Profanity: Three mild obscenities ("Oh my God!").
- Sexual Content/Nudity: Married adults kiss romantically in several scenes; sexy female character crosses and uncrosses her legs and sashays across room; teenage girl has crush on teenage boy, who eventually asks her out on a date.
- Violence: Lots of action/cartoon violence with death threats and life-threatening situations and dangers; mother warns children that people will try and kill them; some characters die violent deaths, such as being sucked into a plane engine and crashing against a wall, creating a fiery blaze.
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. . . so far this summer, having been living in short, billowy dresses, and had nearly forgotten how elegant an ensemble a crisp white blouse and a full, floor-grazing skirt can be — perfectly carolina herrera-esque, and as perfect for early mornings at the office, as for long, sultry summer nights . . .
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Steam Winter Sale Day 11 – The IncGamers Picks
It's sequel day in the Steam Winter Sale, with no less than six of the thirteen Daily and Flash entries sporting a "2" in the title. I guess you could make a decent argument about Fallout: New Vegas being a "part two" to Fallout 3 as well.
Are there people who don't own New Vegas yet? The $2.50 USD price for the main game is pretty crazy, but it's probably worth pushing the wallet a little further for the (66% off) $6.80 Ultimate Edition. That way, you get about another 20-30 hours-worth of DLC expansions to mess around with.
Of all the 2's on offer today, I'd go for Euro Truck Simulator 2 ($6.25) if you have some podcasts or albums to catch up on, and maybe Mass Effect 2 ($5.00) if you really haven't played Commander Shepard's Sexual Harassment Exploits in Space yet. Prototype 2 I've never played, but looks good if you enjoy smashing things up with weird, bio-engineered powers (that one is $10.00.)
There's also the usual selection of repeat deals from yesterday to comb through, in case you missed those.
Steam Savings Strategy: If you want a specific game, wait for it to be on sale through the Daily, Flash or Community deals. These ones take off the most money. Everything else will be discounted at the standard sale price until 10am Pacific on 3 January, so if your game of choice never shows up cheaper you can still grab it at the basic discount before that time/date.
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