"The Dirty Dozen" #5

So we are almost half way through this series. Has anyone learned anything new yet?? Now its on to Number 5! One of the most "hidden" but not hidden ingredients in foods.

5. Hydrogenated Oils by Jordan Rubin

Pick up a loaf of bread at the supermarket, and you will notice that hydrogenated oils or partially hydrogenated oils are usually recorded right after enriched white flour on the ingredient list. If you see any words with the "hydro-" prefix or "partially" on a package or box, dont buy it. If a friend offers you a packaged doughnut or cupcake, dont eat it. (all in moderation but best to stay away from)

During the hydrogenation process, hydrogen gas is injected into the oil under high pressure to make the oil solid at room temperature and prevent the oil from becoming rancid too quickly, but as mentioned earlier, this hydrogenation process produces an ugly stepchild: TRANS FATS!!! Research shows that trans fats by far are the most dangerousfor your heart. They lower the good HDL cholesterol, increase the bad LDL cholesterol, and increase triglycerides as well as another fat called lipoprotein (a).

As mentioned ealier, if the ingredient list includes the words, "shortening," "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil," or " hydrogenated vegetable oil," then the food contains trans fat. Even if the ingredients label says, "zero trans fat," that doesnt mean what you think it does; the FDA allows food manufacturers to have any amount less than .5 grams of trans fat in the food (per serving) and still legally say "zero trans fat" on the packaging.

Its a good idea when youre eating in a restaurant to ask the server if the kitchen is using partially hydrogenated oil for frying, baking, or cooking their dishes. Ask about salad dressing as well.

Work out log 9-3-2008 shoulders and bicpes

I havent really worked out in forever!! or atleast it seems that way. I did shoulders and bi's yesterday and here how we do!

SHOULDERS:

Dumbbell over head press: 3 sets, 35 lbs in each hand, 10-12 reps with a negative at the end and a static hold on the last 2 sets.

Sitting side lateral raises: 2 drop sets, 10 to 5 lbs, first with 10lbs at 15 reps...drop to 5 lbs and go till failure.

Around the worlds super setted with 90 degree side laterals: Id have to get you a video but ill try to explain as best I can... You start with 5 lbs weights and your arms are by your side, hands supinated position and follow the line of your shoulders rotating upward (works the delts) and then come down. 2 sets with 5 and 10lbs till failure.

BICEPS:

Kneeling pronate bicep curls on the FMM: 3 sets 50lbs on first set drops to 40 for the last 2 sets.

Standing FMM Wide Grip curls: 3 sets 50lbs upped to 60 lbs for the last set, till failure.

"The Dirty Dozen" #4

4. White Flour By Jordan Rubin

One major reason why we have an obesity epidemic is beacuse the stardard American diet (aka-S.A.D...added by Meagan) is weighted heavily with sketchy foods containing refined grains where the wheat has been stripped of wheat germ, bran, and half of the healthy fatty acids during the milling process. The end result is something calld "enriched white flour," but the only reason why enriched wheat flour is bright white is because the wheat stalks are rinsed with various chemical bleaches that sound like a vocabulary test from a high school biology class: nitrogen oxide, chlorine, chloride, nitrosyl, and bezoyl peroxide. The "enriched" adjective comes from the millers adding a few isolated and synthetic vitamins and minerals back into the nutritionally stripped flour, but that's like dressing an American Girl doll in tattered clothes.

Enriched flour, the main ingredient in nearly all the bread and buns on super market shelves as well as a zillion other food items baked in commercial bakeries, is easy to spot on the list of ingredients: it's usually the first item listed. The healthy alternative is purchasing or making your own whole-grain bread from unprocessed whole-grain flour.

"The Dirty Dozen" #3

3. Processed meats and hydrolyzed soy protein: By Jordan Rubin

The quintessential processed meat of all time is SPAM, a syllabic abbreviation of "Shoulder of Pork and hAM," because it deserves Hall of Fame status in pantheon of faux foods. Spam is one of those mystery meats--along with breakfast links, frankfurters, salisbury steaks, bologna, sausages, and salami--where you have no idea what part of the steer or pig is used. You can figure, though, that youre eating ground up stomach, snout, intestines, spleens, edible fat, and even lips!

One thing you can be sure of is that processed meats contain nitrates to convey flavor, give meats their blood-red color, and resist that development of botulism spores. Nitrates can convert to nitrites, which have been studied for decades in public and private settings and found to cause cancer and tumors in test animals.

While we're on this unpleasant topic, I would also steer clea of processed turkey and chicken luncheon meat for the same nitrate reasons (unless its organic and the ingredients dont have nitrates in them).

You may be wondering what hydrolyzed soy protein is all about. Have you ever substituted imitation carb for the real stuff when making a pasta dish for the family? Sprinkled imitation back buts on their salad? Ordered inexpensive sushi at a restaurant? All these foods are forms of hydrolyzed soy protein.

Hydrolyzed soy protein usually contains a significant amount of genetically modified soy as well as compounds that closely mirror the dangerous monosodium glutimate, or MSG. Hydrolyzed soy protein is also a known excitotoxin, which means it has the potential to cause neurological disturbances. Its not fish or fowl, and its not real food.

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Any comments or questions please let me in and know! I love to hear what people have to say about things like this!

"The Dirty Dozen" #2

From Jordan Rubin.

2. Shellfish and crustaceans:

If you were blown away by my recommendation to strike pork from your diet, Im not done yet. Shrimp and lobster, two of the most popular foods in America, are, in my opinion, extremely unhealthy to eat and should aslo be avoided, even if chains like Red Lobster and Olive Garden delectably advertise entrees like breaded shrimp or scampi with pasta.

Invairably, whenever I take out my wife, Nicki, for our anniversary dinner at an expensive seaside restraunt in South Florida, a waiter with a Frenc accent will approach our table and say, " Monsieur et Madame, ze special tonight is pork tenderloin ringed with Alaskan crab and drizzled with a lobster sauce."

But thats not what I heard. His description sounded more like this: Monsieur et Madame, ze special tonight is fresh garbage, ringed with raw sewage and drizzled with solid waste.

Stay with me here. Shelfish and crustaceans, as well as fish without fins and scales such as catfish, shark, and eel, where also declared to be detestable back in Moses's day. The reasons are similar to those that make pigs out of bounds: lobsters, crabs, shrimp, and catfish are bottom feeders. The troll along the seabed or lakebed, sustaining themselves with fish waste. The physiology of crabs, clams, ad lobsters means that whatever they consume goes straight into their system, which is why scientists can measure water pollution by checking the flesh of shell fish and crustaceans for toxin levels. While all this "clean up" is great for water quality and one of nature's ways to scrub the aquatic environment, eating shellfish and crustaceans is not good for your bodies or your health.


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Now, someone brought something to my attention ,me, Meagan, about pasture fed or farm fed animals...that is a grey area in my opinion...so I will just stick to not eating them. That may be one of the questions Ill ask Jesus when I meet Him! lol...