Friday, February 09, 2007

Year 2, Day 343: Sugary Chinese Lunch Leads to 100 Nut Day

The title of this post says it all. One of the reasons to avoid the carbs and the sugar is that it makes you crave other stuff that ultimately can be bad for you, like lots of fatty things. Essentially, skiing down the nut-cliff.

Breakfast
2 Eggs
Balthazar Bread
3 Strips Turkey Bacon
1 small toast of balthazar bread with super chunky peanut butter
2 slices of apple

Snack
Green Tea
2 oz 50% jalapeno
3 sticks beef jerky
60 almonds
30 pistachios

Lunch: Chang Shin Yuan
Meat of two dumplings
Chicken Soup (Shrimp, Tofu)
Moo Shi Pork
Chung King Pork
Shredded Beef with String Beans
Chicken with Spinach
Tea

Dinner
Tuna
Asparagus

Dessert
3 bites of Smartfood
1 Glass Red Wine (Coppola)
10 Chocolate Chips (Ghiradelli)

Sick on nuts, I hardly had any appetite for dinner. As a result, I ate a few asparagus, and maybe three ounces of tuna. Then I moved to get on with the night.


Study: Pistachios can lower cholesterol —Medical Laboratory Observer

Results from a new research study released at the 2001 Experimental Biology conference found that eating two, one-ounce servings of pistachios a day can help adults significantly lower their cholesterol levels. Pistachios joined the ranks of other nuts when clinical data was unveiled to show that if a person has a moderately high total cholesterol level (greater than 250mg/dl), the substitution of pistachios for other snack foods (20% of caloric intake) can significantly lower total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels by nearly 10%.

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