banana pb smoothie, apple cider vinegar, dates

I made a Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie this morning. I looked at a variety of recipes, and they were all basically the same... 1-2 TBS peanut butter, 1 banana, 1/4 cup ice, 1-2TBS honey, 1 cup of milk.
I will have to start trying different variations of this, and use it for my main breakfast. I wonder if peanut butter goes well with any other type of fruit. Especially oranges/tangerines/clementines.

Last night I did something very out of the ordinary for me. Well, first I was reading whfood's entry on grapes and I, well... here's a quote from that page:

"If you're inspired to try a daily glass of red wine as part of your healthy way of eating, you may want to look for red wine from southwestern France or Sardinia. Research published in Nature suggests that the protective polyphenols in red wine are present at higher concentrations in wines from southwestern France and Sardinia, where traditional production methods ensure these compounds are efficiently extracted during wine production."

But, then, somehow I got to apple cider vinegar from there. Anyway, so last night I drank a little over 2 tsp of apple cider vinegar in water with honey before going to bed. And I feel pretty good today, and I did not have acid problems in my stomach despite the vinegar before bed... whereas if I had eaten a red tomato before bed, I would have had terrible nausea this morning or just thrown up, because the tomato would be too acidic to digest. --- The apple cider vinegar is supposed to help digestion... and a lot of other things. I am going to start drinking it at least once a day, maybe more. I read somewhere that suggested drinking it with each meal.

This is a good link about the benefits of apple cider vinegar.

(fun fact: The smell of apple cider vinegar makes my mouth water.)

Also, I learned a few days ago that dates and raisins have fluorine in them, an element of fluoride. and it helps to keep your enamel healthy!!!!!!!!!!! I had been wondering for YEARS how to possibly strengthen the enamel on my teeth! once we saw this thing on one of the science channels about this stuff that dentists were putting on these people's teeth to repair the enamel that was weak or whatever. i still think about that every so often... But I bet if I just regularly ate dates and/or raisins, then that would be kind of like the same thing, but better.

I wonder if other versions of dried fruits contain things like that and also i wonder if grapes have anything relative to fluorine in them.

But this is weird. I wonder if that is suggesting that the reason why dates have flourine in them is because they use fluoride as an insect spray and so there is residue?

And: fluoride content in foods

rolls.

http://www.celiactravel.com/blog/2008/06/gluten-free-yeast-free-egg-free-bread.html