it all began with chromium.

I think I may be low on chromium. (I have been craving sugar a LOT lately.) Then, I looked up about chromium-rich foods and found this about tomatoes.

When you crave sugar, your body is low on chromium. At some point earlier in the year, I read that it meant you were low on two minerals, but the only one I could find this morning was chromium.

I need to try to remember to find a way to be tested for nutritional deficiencies...soon. But not right now!


Also, here's a link to some USDA nutritional database.

Read this soon. It tells about why Stress Makes You Eat.

Um... this is probably a read, too: http://curezone.com/foods/

I dream of black bean soup.

This seems like a good recipe for black bean soup.

I went to the registered dietitian today.
A few months ago, I made a mental note to myself that by the time I finally went to a registered dietitian, I would have the whole eating thing pretty well figured out.

This happened. I did learn how many servings of each food group to eat per day, though. I'm going to try to eat more fresh fruit and nuts than anything else. I know, I've said this before, but I mean it now.
And this weekend, I really think (if nothing else pops up) we may make bread! Well, bread that does not have fruit in it.

I attempted to purchase brown sugar at Walmart, but I ended up buying sugar that is not refined and was only filtered once. But, the best thing about this sugar... it is not made from Genetically Modified Organisms!
I don't know if all of the food that contains GMOs are bad, but I do know that I want to stay away from the ones with high amounts of un-natural MonoSodium Glutamate.

(note to self: include recipes for magnesium(etc)-rich-foods on website...)

going...gmo/msg/food-additive crazy.

http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/BuyingNon-GMO/index.cfm

I have many, many things to say on this subject. Just not right now. :)

It's AWFULLY coincidental that almost everything on that list is basically MonoSodium gluatamate in disguise.

*shudder*

I did learn, however, from this video, that both Canada and Europe have banned the use of GMOs in their food.

pcb. :(

Via the Monsanto videos that I just watched, I became um, very intrigued by PCB.

I just did a little bit of research and I need to look more up on:
PCB and autism
what all contains pcb
and more on the symptoms of too much pcb

and... try to find out something that depletes pcb... i did begin by looking up this and found nothing. think of different key words.

Monsanto, soy beans, additives.

I need to read this soon. It is about how most additives are GMOs.

And I am currently in the process of watching The World According to Monsanto on youtube.
This is sort of like the missing link to all of the research I've done about how bad additives are... A lot of these GMOs clearly have high doses of MonoSodium Glutamate in them, but I need to research that as well.

I think that the destruction of some nuclear things in Anniston has something to do with Monsanto.

Monsanto is the reason why soybeans are so bad for us, I think. But I'm not sure. The protein in the soybean is changed when it is sprayed with roundup, or something. or they've created a strain of soybean that is resistent to round up, and so you can use that on the weeds... but the protein that makes the soybean able to be resistent to round up... is that protein DIGESTABLE by the average or any human or animal-being?

i bet it isn't.

a celebration. (b vitamins, vitamin A, extraordinaire)

I ate some hush puppies last night at a restaurant that I'm pretty sure have gluten in them. I went from 105lbs to 109.5lbs in one night. It's amazing what that glue does to me.
Anyway, so I read that article about how to improve eye sight, and then I did more in-depth research. This is what I consider to be an "obsession" and I am only able to divulge in such obsessions when I have eaten some delicious gluten.
I read this.
And reached the conclusion that I need a lot more Vitamin A in my diet.
Night blindness, dry eyes, those are both symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency.
1 cup of raw carrots has 686.3% of your DV for Vitamin A according to whfoods.com.

I am so relieved to find out that I can make my eyesight better.. and make dry eyes go away!

Today I also learned that raw peanuts contain a carcinogen in them. So it is clearly not healthy to eat *everything* raw.
1/4 cup of peanuts have 22% of your DV of niacin. Oh, and peanuts are also a very good source of calories. This is good to know, good to know.

b vitamins and eye sight

http://ezinearticles.com/?Food-and-Vitamins-to-Improve-Eyesight&id=586710

I think that due to drinking some juice that has 4 types of b vitamins (b-3,5,6,12) my eye sight just got a little better.. I don't have to strain my eyes in order to see the TV clearly. I must remember this for the future. I have dry eyes, too, and it talks about that.
However, this article helps me to know that I *can* improve my vision. That's something that they just don't tell you when you go to the eye doctor.