atw: Re: OT. Shameless self-promotion, or how to handle brain fatigue

  • From: "Christine Kent" <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 16:04:35 +1000

I'm more inclined to take a big handful of cashews, dried fruits like
sultanas and oat-filled biscuits (anyone have recipes for that kind of thing
btw?)

 

This one is divine.
http://www.christine-margaret.com/2011/07/goji-berry-and-fig-energy-bites.ht
ml

 Use the chia rather than the flax, as chia is almost totally stable and
does not go rancid.


Then there's this that makes a pretty solid goo, that can be cut and put
into a lunch box once it is cold, and doesn't sit heavily on the stomach
(although it looks as if it would - I bake it with buckwheat rather than
oats)

http://www.christine-margaret.com/2011/07/baked-oatmeal-with-sour-cherries.h
tml

 

And I also have a few superfood chutneys that I use like jam, on bread or
biscuits, when I am travelling.

http://www.christine-margaret.com/2011/07/dried-fig-chutney.html

 

 

  _____  

From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Parker
Sent: Friday, 5 August 2011 15:21
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: OT. Shameless self-promotion, or how to handle brain
fatigue

Christine 

With a background in biochemistry and bacteriology ( and to a degree the
public health) I tend to view books of this ilk with a degree of caution.
His data on the cancer/casein work with rats was compelling and I delved
into his reviewed papers. Difficult and challenging conclusions for a
society devoted to milk and milk products.

 

The China Study itself may be open to other interpretations an opinions -
one thing to work on a bunch of lab. rats, quite another to get a diverse
nation as China to get involved a study as major as his was.  Nevertheless,
the evidence does support what we might all suspect - eating processed foods
is not half as good as eating the raw materials.

 

I agree absolutely with the watchfulness on toxins - merely because it's
"natural" does not mean safe.  Many of the Solanaceae
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae>  plants are deadly ( the
nightshade)  Campbell was of course involved in the aflatoxin work in the
early days.

 

Off to get a junk of broccoli...

 

Bill

 

 

On 05/08/2011, at 12:10 PM, Christine Kent wrote:





Looks like good information Bill.

Not completely compatible with my book however, in that I have SOME recipes
that use milk and cheese. The jury is still out as to whether the issues
caused by milk are actually caused by the way it is processed rather than
the milk itself. 

I have made the whole book gluten free though, as the only way to render
wheat toxins inert is to ferment it for at least 24 hours, and none of my
recipes is for 24 hour bread.

I do recommend in the book that people follow whatever diet they have
decided to adopt and use my book to ADD value to that diet and perhaps get a
little bit of the pleasure of food back. 

I have watched my mother and my sister die, trying to follow restrictive
diets.  I watched my sister's lip curl up as she tried to eat her sprouts -
which it turns out really do contain a very harmful toxin - so the reaction
of her face muscles was telling the truth.

This book is not like that.  It brings pleasure back into eating, and is for
people who want to stay healthy as well as for people who want to get well.

Hey, Bill, we can look at this as being on-topic.  As technical writers our
brains get very tired.  I have seen quite a few individuals, over my years
in the business, "hit the wall" and not be able to work any more.  Consider
a discussion of food as a necessary OH & S conversation for overworked
brains. I list brain foods in the book.

Christine

From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Parker
Sent: Friday, 5 August 2011 1:56 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: OT. Shameless self-promotion

Well, here I go OT indeed.  I might need banning as well. Before I bought
any more cook books I recommend Tom Campbell's treatise "The China Study"
and look at the casein data.   Nuttin' to do with words as they should be
writ proper!

Bill

On 05/08/2011, at 11:42 AM, Christine Kent wrote:






In case Neil bans me, here is my totally unrelated and totally shameless
self-promotion.

For those who expressed an interest previously, my superfoods cookbook is
now available again, after all sorts of technical issues related to Lulu
printers, not to my documents or Word.

http://www.christine-margaret.com/

Actually we can make it example of what can be achieved using Word as a
desktop publishing tool. This book looks gorgeous printed.

We can also extol the virtues of the capacity now for Word to post direct to
a blog. The posts on the blog are posted using Word's blog posting feature,
for any who are unaware of that possibility.

Is that TW related enough Neil, or are you going to ban me?

Regards, Christine

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