Choose vegetables and fruits with lots of colors; i’m not kidding. it’s not because they’re photogenic, they’re good for you; that’s according to the The Doctors (Rachael Ray featured in The Doctors showing the fruits and vegetables). i recommend that show; Del and KQ also like it; very progressive. Sometimes i catch it by chance it’s really late but i guess they have other time slots. i saw it when, while flipping, i heard the ER doctor, Travis, say: “i don’t always tell my patients to take antibiotics, as much as possible, if there are other remedies, i don’t make them take antibiotics…” and then he went on to explain why. That got me hooked: Doctors who refrain from prescribing antibiotics unless absolutely necessary. The female doctor, ob-gyne, is very progressive, she gives the advantages and disadvantages of every procedure. Apparently, every procedure has its risks, and then she gives the patient the right to choose, etc. etc, she doesn’t give value judgments like, this procedure is more natural choose this; etc. etc, sometimes disagreeing with the male doctors in the show, she’d say, well, some women would rather have this, but both procedures have their risks, that procedure has more risk of infection, true, etc., this one could cause this etc. (of course, in real life, depending on an examination of the patient, she would probably tilt her advice in one direction or the other while giving the patient the choice.)
Travis had one episode where they had an experiment on heart rate, making five individuals walk uphill 30 minutes a day and after a week, there’s a perceptible improvement in heart rate; the internist doctor in one episode had a vending machine, where, if you were in an airport or bus station and had nothing to eat but a choice of junk food, he suggested the intelligent choices, and he said: if you must eat snack bars, choose this: “nuts with fruits and oatmeal”; if you must eat candies and chocolate, choose this, chocolate-covered raisins over other candies because they’re mostly complex carbohydrates; Travis closed with: if you must eat a sandwich, choose whole wheat bread over white bread. (I wanted to download their clips so you can see how illuminating and sensible the show is, but i have to get logged in their site, etc, etc and i don’t like logging in to other sites.)
Choose, choose: choose the better options.
They showed: when the label on the bottle says “fruit drink” or “kiwi juice”, it’s not necessarily made of fruit juice, read all the printed material on it. In the example they showed, “kiwi juice”, the fine print said, “1% fruit juice” and the doctors said, it’s all sugar-water, even if the label says, “fortified with Vitamin C”, they said, it’s still not fruit juice.
I recommend that show. (it’s also well-produced; fast-paced, many video clips for illustration; big visual aids, many real-life illustration. They also show the cutting-edge technology in medicine.)
oh, i hope you like my photos of the food. This is not a food blog. i am not a photographer. i’m just rambling on, blabbering. the aroma and taste are not done justice by my photos, i know, but i try my best. didn’t have natural light, i always prefer natural light, i just try my best with the visuals.
