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Jan 3, 2015 07:48:44   #
FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga
 
naturepics43 wrote:
Can you provide supporting link to this info? I would like to show this to my cardiologist & my physical therapist.

I just started cardiac rehab last week!


Go take a look at this site . I have been using Dr Douglass since 2009 .After a doc prescribe crestor ( I never take ) . Navigate thru the site and you will might be amaze .

http://douglassreport.com/?s=

Don't forget Anti-oxidants !!!

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Jan 3, 2015 07:55:37   #
berchman Loc: South Central PA
 
FRENCHY wrote:
Go take a look at this site . I have been using Dr Douglass since 2009 .After a doc prescribe crestor ( I never take ) . Navigate thru the site and you will might be amaze .

http://douglassreport.com/?s=

Don't forget Anti-oxidants !!!


Douglass is another charlaton. I couldn't have said it better than the quotation below:

William Campbell Douglass is an Idiot -Roger Mason

Daily Dose is the newsletter written by Dr. William Campbell Douglass II. (Why does a man need three names?) He is sickly and looks terrible. What a role model. It was formerly called Second Opinion, Douglass Report, and before that Real Health. He suddenly escaped to Panama, probably to avoid prosecution by the authorities.This may well be the most moronic natural health publication in the business. The things he says are so idiotic, so asinine, you think it’s all a joke. Let's look at some of his rantings: "Say no to vegetarians", because they are “sicklier, more irregular, weaker, have poor sex lives, are prone to many illnesses, and die earlier.” He goes on to say if you eat too many of those awful vegetables, "they could sap your sex life and strength", and you could have "slumping sex function and muscle loss and bone damage". Of course the facts prove exactly the opposite is true. Vegetarians get far less diseases of all kinds and live longer. He also tells you fiber in your diet is not only useless (meat and animal products have no fiber), but some fibers "can trigger precancerous growths". Coffee is, "one of nature's healthiest miracles". Wouldn't that be nice if it were true? My God, we could all stay hyped up on coffee all day every day. “That morning cup of coffee you crave is one of nature's REAL HEALTH miracles.” He goes on , "Just one cup of coffee packs the antioxidant power of three oranges". Those are quotes folks. He claims you'll suffer from fewer gallstones and reduce your risk of colon and bladder cancer. Read the articles on coffee in our library to see the facts. You should smoke cigars, too. Cigars have many health advantages, such as staying slim, mental alertness, avoiding addictions(!), and lessening mental and brain disease. He loves cigarettes as well! He says, “Smoking can fight off a whole slew of health problems,.” and, “Smoking can save your life.” Can you believe that?

Yes he really says all these things. He goes on to say that high fat diets don't cause breast cancer. However, countless studies prove high fat diets are THE main cause of this epidemic."Women who consumed the least fat got breast cancer more often" That's another quote. The truth is women in Asia who eat the least fat have the least breast cancer. Women in Europe and America who eat the most fat have the most breast cancer. "Don't even dream of giving up the rich, meaty foods that you can't help loving. In fact, I encourage you to dine on generous portions of steak, eggs, prime rib, chicken wings (with the skin!).., enjoy omelettes with bacon for breakfast... even snack on pork rinds." He claims the pestiicide DDT, "may even prevent breast cancer". I didn't make that up really. Maybe we should all buy DDT capsules and take them every day with our vitamins and minerals. He loves high fat diets with lots of beef, pork, lamb, milk, cheese, butter, bacon, eggs, chicken, and turkey. He claims low fat diets will kill you, and, “I’d panic if my cholesterol level dropped below 200." “Cholesterol screening is not worthwhile." He also says, "Keep cholesterol levels above 200". "Cholesterol doesn't do diddly." A "low fat diet can be harmful to many people". He goes on to say "LOW CHOLESTEROL can be much deadlier than high cholesterol" (emphasis his). He explains that, "low cholesterol can trigger the deadliest kind of stroke", and "even moderately low cholesterol levels can raise your risk of these strokes". He wants you to keep your cholesterol over 250 like his. More quotes. Americans have total cholesterol levels of about 240, and have the highest heart and artery disease rates in the world. Rural Asians have total cholesterol levels of about 150, and have the lowest rates in the world. The truth is total cholesterol (and triglyceride) levels are THE most important factor in heart and artery health. He goes on to say you have, "too little red meat in your diet". To him The Secret of Health is eating grass fed beef and raw milk. Americans hog down more red meat more than any one on the face of the earth, and have highest rates of most all cancers, diabetes, heart and artery disease, and every other known medical condition. We eat 42% fat calories, but that isn't enough for him! He says you can "shake off 14 pounds" in two weeks by eating lots of steak, eggs and butter. Sure, you can! The secret to weight loss is eating more saturated artery clogging fat.

Eggs are one of the top ten allergenic foods. There is 250 mg of cholesterol in an average egg yolk. Eggs can never be part of a healthy diet. Yet William says, "Egg lovers live longer. Not only are eggs not guilty of causing heart disease, they've been proven to prevent it." If he was on drugs, at least he’d have an excuse. He thinks eggs are a great source of vitamin D. No food on earth has any meaningful amount of vitamin D it comes from exposure to the sun. William says, "egg eaters have a much lower rate of heart attacks and strokes than egg avoiders". Linda Mc Cartney said the same thing before dropping dead of breast cancer. Read the article Eggs are Bad Food in our library to see how bad they really are.

Soy isoflavones have hundreds of published, clinical, human studies proving their benefits. He says "Don't swallow the soy ploy". He explains, "what soy will do is pump you full of estrogen mimicking compounds, which can depress your thyroid and make you put on weight. It also contains an acid that blocks your absorption of calcium can you say osteoporosis?" Don’t eat soy because it “interferes with iodine.” “Say no to soy” is one of his favorite phrases. If you look at the billions of Asians, who have used soy as a staple for centuries, they are much thinner, have less thyroid problems, and have far less osteoporosis than those of us in the West. In fact, the Okinawans eat more soy than anyone (12% of their diet), and are the healthiest and longest lived people on the planet. He must not know about them.


He is clueless about food supplements (read my book The Supplements You Need). Instead, he suggests drinking hydrogen peroxide.Yes, he really says this.Yes, the same hydrogen peroxide you buy in the drug store to bleach your hair, only much more concentrated and stronger! He wrote a report Hydrogen Peroxide Medical Miracle. No I didn't make that up to make him sound stupid he's light years ahead of me in stupidity. He says, “The very best source of heart healthy CoQ10 is red meat.” Folks, there is no CoQ10 in our food.

You don't need to exercise anymore either. Exercise is just, "a bunch of joint destroying, heart stressing lunacy". We all know exercise is vital to our health.. He claims 100,000 people a month read this this pitiful rag. That’s very doubtful. Native, gullible, innocent people looking for a better way, are making him rich. Pitiful. “Exercise is a waste of time”. “Exercise is ‘dangerous’ and increases heart attack risk.” “Physical education classes for kids are bad.” “You won’t lose weight by exercising.”

He sells crappy, overpriced supplements of course. His Daily Ultimate Support has a mere 10 minerals for $60 per two month supply. (our All Your Minerals and Vitamins® is only $11.95 for a two month supply with 20 minerals.) He also sells worthless overpriced sexual rejuvenation supplements. He sells UltraTurboHG for impotence and sexual rejuvenation. He says this is “The Secret to all night rock around the clock sex.” How about,”Pork your way to better sex” by eating more pork chops. This crazy old fart hasn’t had sex since Eisenhower was president.

Just tell people what they want to hear, and they'll smilingly follow you through the gates of Hell. This is how people like William Campbell Douglass II operate. Just tell people what they want to hear. P.T. Barnum would be proud of old William.

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Jan 3, 2015 08:18:34   #
rpavich Loc: West Virginia
 
berchman wrote:
Gary Taubes has been exposed as a charlatan. The diet he recommends is basically an Atkins diet.


"The Diet Fad of the 21st Century"
Allowing a good 20 years for dieters to forget Dr. Atkins past failure, the book was reissued as Dr. Atkins
New Diet Revolution (though there was not much new about it) in 1992.[39] Along with other retro 70’s
fashions, and this time backed by an aggressive marketing campaign, it became the best-selling fad-diet
book in history[40] achieving "fashion-cult status amongst society figures."[520]
What may have truly made it "The Diet Fad of the 21st Century" (as an editor of the Journal of the
American Dietetics Association coined it)[41] came a decade later with the publication of the infamous
pro-Atkins New York Times Magazine article "What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie."[42] Atkins quickly
wrote an editorial for his Web site claiming the article "validated" his work. Gushingly favorable
follow-up stories appeared on NBC’s Dateline, CBS’ 48 Hours, and ABC’S 20/20. The Atkins
corporation claimed literally billions of media hits.[43] By the time the article’s many flaws were exposed
weeks later, the book had already catapulted to #1 on a New York Times bestseller list and Atkins’ net
worth zoomed to $100 million.[44]
The piece was written by freelance writer and Atkins advocate[45] Gary Taubes (who reportedly scored a
book deal from it--and a $700,000 advance).[46] The Washington Post investigated his pro-Atkins article
and found that Taubes simply ignored all the research that didn’t agree with his conclusions.

www.AtkinsExposed.org - 4 - 8 Nov 2004 20:39

Atkins Exposed Dr. Michael Greger


Taubes evidently interviewed a number of prominent obesity researchers and then twisted their words.
"What frightens me," said one, "is that he picks and chooses his facts.... If the facts don’t fit in with his
yarn, he ignores them."[47]
The article seemed to claim that experts recommended the diet. "I was greatly offended at how Gary
Taubes tricked us all into coming across as supporters of the Atkins Diet," said John Farquhar, a Professor
Emeritus of Medicine at Stanford. When the Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the
Washington University School of Medicine was asked to comment of one of Taubes’ claims, he replied,
"It’s preposterous."[48]
"He took this weird little idea and blew it up," said Farquhar, "What a disaster."[49]
"The article was written in bad faith," said another quoted expert. "It was irresponsible."[50] "I think he’s
a dangerous man. I’m sorry I ever talked to him." Referring to the book deal, "Taubes sold out."[51]
What the researchers stressed was how dangerous saturated fat and meat consumption could be, but
Taubes seemed to have conveniently left it all out. "The article was incredibly misleading," said the
pioneering Stanford University endocrinologist Gerald Reaven who actually coined the term Syndrome X.
"I tried to be helpful and a good citizen," Reaven said, agreeing to do the interview, "and I ended up being
embarrassed as hell. He sort of set me up... I was horrified."[52]
Gary Taubes has been exposed as a charlatan. The d... (show quote)


I could do the same thing with any author in any field this doesn't impress me.

I was on a low-carb diet for five years and I kept my weight down my cholesterol and triglycerides were perfect I was a model of good health so I know how it goes.

Have you ACTUALLY READ any of Taubes books and , IF SO, do you have anything specific to refute his technical conclusions?


Do you have any first-hand information or do you just hurl elephants via cut and paste?.

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Jan 3, 2015 08:34:19   #
JPi3.14 Loc: Seattle, WA
 
I have tried this and it is perfect. One other idea is to add a dash of salt or vinegar. Makes the shells easier to peel.

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Jan 3, 2015 09:39:41   #
Papa Joe Loc: Midwest U.S.
 
rpavich wrote:
The PERFECT soft boiled/medium boiled/hard boiled egg method?

The Pressure cooker.

It makes them easy to peel and cooks them perfectly every time.

1 cup water in the PC.

Put eggs on steamer basket or something above the water.
set for 40kpa or low pressure.

3 minutes of cook time. (for soft boiled

release pressure fast by either running cold water over the PC (stove top cookers) or opening the valve by hand (on electric cookers)

Check out this soft boiled beauty.
The PERFECT soft boiled/medium boiled/hard boiled ... (show quote)




I just want everyone to know: If I should become scarce after a post like this, it's Bob's fault! I'm in the kitchen....
(Nice shot, Bob!)

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Jan 3, 2015 09:41:22   #
Zonker Loc: Leesburg, FL
 
Seems like a lot of work for an egg or two. Toss them in a pan of boiling water with a 1/2 tsp baking soda for 2 1/2 min rinse under cold water same result!.

The cancer survivor's diet during chemo, recommends eggs.

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Jan 3, 2015 09:46:56   #
Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana
 
Thanks rpavic, you made my breakfast choice easy!



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Jan 3, 2015 09:47:53   #
Zonker Loc: Leesburg, FL
 
Oops typo here 3 1/2 min!

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Jan 3, 2015 09:52:57   #
rpavich Loc: West Virginia
 
fritzbaker wrote:
Seems like a lot of work for an egg or two. Toss them in a pan of boiling water with a 1/2 tsp baking soda for 2 1/2 min rinse under cold water same result!.

The cancer survivor's diet during chemo, recommends eggs.


I could never get them to come out perfect and easily peelable with that method...it was too hit or miss.

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Jan 3, 2015 09:53:12   #
rpavich Loc: West Virginia
 
Sirsnapalot wrote:
Thanks rpavic, you made my breakfast choice easy!


Nice!

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Jan 3, 2015 10:20:34   #
jmw44 Loc: Princeton, NJ USA
 
Yum. Great pic, too. Can't wait to try in in my electric pressure cooker.

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Jan 3, 2015 11:34:03   #
berchman Loc: South Central PA
 
rpavich wrote:
I could do the same thing with any author in any field this doesn't impress me.

I was on a low-carb diet for five years and I kept my weight down my cholesterol and triglycerides were perfect I was a model of good health so I know how it goes.

Have you ACTUALLY READ any of Taubes books and , IF SO, do you have anything specific to refute his technical conclusions?


Do you have any first-hand information or do you just hurl elephants via cut and paste?.


Yes, I purchased and read Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
I was actually excited by it and convinced by it until one of my more scientific and sceptical minded friends suggested that I explore some critical reviews. Below I've supplied a link to a number of articles by someone who has a BS in biochemistry and a PhD in neurobiology and is an obesity researcher. Taubes is a journalist.

I understand that people believe what they want to believe and I don't expect you to be persuaded by anything which criticizes Taubes. I have lost 30 lbs in the last 9 months by eating a *high* carb diet. No, that doesn't mean bread and pasta; it means beans and whole grains like quinoa, rice, bulgur, etc. and lots of vegetables of all sorts including sweet potatoes. At the age of 77 my blood pressure is 110/68, resting pulse is 39, triglycerides 130, etc. Many studies have shown that meat is bad for your health and it doesn't matter if it's grass fed and organic. I eat meat once a month because I like it.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/#uds-search-results

Taubes shows off his ridiculous diet:"I do indeed eat three eggs with cheese, bacon and sausage for breakfast every morning, typically a couple of cheeseburgers (no bun) or a roast chicken for lunch, and more often than not, a rib eye or New York steak (grass fed) for dinner, usually in the neighborhood of a pound of meat. I cook with butter and, occasionally, olive oil (the sausages). My snacks run to cheese and almonds. So lots of fat and saturated fat and very little carbohydrates."

BUT: "Gary Taubes is famous for writing about the benefits of high fat and high protein diets. To prove their effects he published his lab data showing that his lipids are good. Problem is that Taubes is not a physician and does not seem to be aware that he has an anion gap acidosis, meaning his body is actively having to clear acids. You see this on his labs where his CO2 is 19.

Over time the body has to buffer the increase acid he eats which it often does by taking calcium from muscles. Chronic metabolic acidosis like this is associated with eventual insulin resistance and disease. It causes inflammation and can impact immunity.

He may genetically be able to tolerate high fat from a cholesterol standpoint but cholesterol is not everything. And we aren't even discussing his bowel flora. I would love to get a hold of some of his stool to study!"

The above passage was taken from:

https://www.facebook.com/drgarth

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Jan 3, 2015 11:34:43   #
Mile Loc: Crescent City Calif
 
rpavich wrote:
The PERFECT soft boiled/medium boiled/hard boiled egg method?

The Pressure cooker.

It makes them easy to peel and cooks them perfectly every time.

1 cup water in the PC.

Put eggs on steamer basket or something above the water.
set for 40kpa or low pressure.

3 minutes of cook time. (for soft boiled

release pressure fast by either running cold water over the PC (stove top cookers) or opening the valve by hand (on electric cookers)

Check out this soft boiled beauty.
The PERFECT soft boiled/medium boiled/hard boiled ... (show quote)


no breakfast yet and these are making me feel starved

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Jan 3, 2015 12:21:40   #
speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho
 
rpavich wrote:
The PERFECT soft boiled/medium boiled/hard boiled egg method?

The Pressure cooker.

It makes them easy to peel and cooks them perfectly every time.

1 cup water in the PC.

Put eggs on steamer basket or something above the water.
set for 40kpa or low pressure.

3 minutes of cook time. (for soft boiled

release pressure fast by either running cold water over the PC (stove top cookers) or opening the valve by hand (on electric cookers)

Check out this soft boiled beauty.
The PERFECT soft boiled/medium boiled/hard boiled ... (show quote)
Just a regular pot of boiling water will do to get perfectly soft boiled eggs every time. Just shock the eggs afterwards under cold water for easy peeling.

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Jan 3, 2015 17:42:04   #
mtbear
 
I use a pressure cooker frequently, I did a chicken for soup just 4 days ago. Using a PC just seems like too much bother for eggs. Thats a pretty picture but the eggs are way too done for me, I like a small bit of runny whites. On the issue of eggs and heath I recently read an article that says most of the problems with eggs come from cooking the yolks. The heat oxidizes the sulfur compounds causing production of free radicals. Another problem is eggs from factory poultry farms have a higher level of diseases like salmonella. I buy eggs from a local farmer that coops them at night and roams them in the daytime. I'd like to find a farmer that uses rolling coops as that seems to be the healthiest and most efficient way to raise chickens.

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