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It's been proven that caffeine strengthens your short-term memory. I also remember reading that coffee enemas have been used by the ancient Phoenicians (it might've been Carthegonians) as a general cleansing process, and, apparently, some mathematician in Cambridge managed to survive bone marrow cancer by eating a hypervitaminated diet (bushels of citrus fruit) and giving himself 5 (yes, five! :eek: ) coffee enemas a day (read this in the Times 5 years ago so it's bona fide, incredible as it may sound).

Even given that the rest of us are (apparently) pouring it down the wrong end, it must still be doing SOME good! :p
 
glass of red wine a day is apparently good for you. my gfs mum was told to dirnk glass of wine and take aspirin at least once aday helps thin the blood preventing blood clots .
 
Captain Planet said:
Remove coffee and biscuits. Add rice & pasta.
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Agreed, neither are very good for you.

Cereals are always a bit dodgy as well, full of sugar most of them. Oats for the win either make up a muesli with your handful of nuts and add some dried fruit or as porridge with chopped banana or some strawberries. Yummy. :)
 
dustiestrat said:
glass of red wine a day is apparently good for you. my gfs mum was told to dirnk glass of wine and take aspirin at least once aday helps thin the blood preventing blood clots .
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Moderate amounts of alchohol each week is indeed good for you. The anti-oxidants or something help with your blood.

Coffee isn't bad for you in moderate amounts, but it's not good either. It contains caffeine which increases urine production and places minor stress of your respiratory functions. Decaff coffee is better but still has no real nutritious value.
 
Be sure to get some fish in your diet too. Omega 3-6 and plenty of other healthy minerals. Tuna, Mackarel and Salmon are very good for you if prepared and served correctly. (I know a family who deep fries salmon and eats the battered chunks. :rolleyes: )
 
AJUK said:
Oats for the win either make up a muesli with your handful of nuts and add some dried fruit or as porridge with chopped banana or some strawberries. Yummy. :)
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Yep, oats form a major part of my everyday breakfast.

Monday to Friday breakfast mix, made the night before and refridgerated:

Plain yoghurt (as low fat as you can buy),
Chopped dried apricots,
Raisins,
Raw unsalted cashew nuts,
Raw unsalted almonds,
Oats (enough to dry the mixture up into a cake-mix consistency).


Saturday & Sunday:

Big bowl of porridge made with soya milk, chopped apricots, banana and a dash of cinnamon.
 
wiki said:
Composition of honey
Honey is a mixture of sugars and other compounds. With respect to carbohydrates, honey is mainly fructose (about 38.5%) and glucose (about 31.0%). The remaining carbohydrates include maltose, sucrose, and other complex carbohydrates.

In addition, honey contains a wide array of vitamins, such as vitamin B6, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, and pantothenic acid. Essential minerals including calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and zinc as well as several different amino acids have been identified in honey.

Honey also contains several compounds which function as antioxidants. Known antioxidant compounds in honey are chrysin, pinobanksin, vitamin C, catalase, and pinocembrin. Unlike most other sweeteners, honey contains small amounts of a wide array of vitamins, minerals, amino acids , and antioxidants.

The specific composition of any batch of honey will depend largely on the mix of flowers consumed by the bees that produced the honey. Honey has a density of about 1.5 kg/liter (50% denser than water) or 12.5 pounds per US gallon.

Typical honey analysis
Fructose: 38%
Glucose: 31%
Sucrose: 1%
Water: 17%
Other sugars: 9% (maltose, melezitose)
Ash: 0.17%
Source: Sugar Alliance
The analysis of the sugar content of honey is used for detecting adulteration.
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Damn. No wonder bees are always so full of energy :eek:

For what it's worth my breakfast was a bowl of cornflakes with a small packet of mixed sultana and apricots poured over and semi-skimmed milk, and a banana.

I'm off sick today, normally I'd be tucking into my mid-morning Snickers just now. :o
 
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manveruppd said:
It's been proven that caffeine strengthens your short-term memory. I also remember reading that coffee enemas have been used by the ancient Phoenicians (it might've been Carthegonians) as a general cleansing process, and, apparently, some mathematician in Cambridge managed to survive bone marrow cancer by eating a hypervitaminated diet (bushels of citrus fruit) and giving himself 5 (yes, five! :eek: ) coffee enemas a day (read this in the Times 5 years ago so it's bona fide, incredible as it may sound).

Even given that the rest of us are (apparently) pouring it down the wrong end, it must still be doing SOME good! :p
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Yea this is the kind of stuff that i have read up on coffee. Well i'l leave the list with 1 cup a day on it. If anyone else finds this list useful and wants to use it as a checklist they can always leave the coffee off if they would prefer.
 
dustiestrat said:
glass of red wine a day is apparently good for you. my gfs mum was told to dirnk glass of wine and take aspirin at least once aday helps thin the blood preventing blood clots .
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Surley 1 glass of red wine a day is a bit ott? Or is that a good ammount?
 
iCraig said:
Be sure to get some fish in your diet too. Omega 3-6 and plenty of other healthy minerals. Tuna, Mackarel and Salmon are very good for you if prepared and served correctly. (I know a family who deep fries salmon and eats the battered chunks. :rolleyes: )
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I am going to add fish to the list. However its not always possible to get fish into your diet every day. What other food is good for the same minerals?
 
Yucca said:
I am going to add fish to the list. However its not always possible to get fish into your diet every day. What other food is good for the same minerals?
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You can get eggs rich in omega 3, cod liver oil tablets (or cod liver oil itself if you like the taste) or just get some tins of oily fish (e.g. sardines in tomato sauce) and pop them on a bit of toast as a snack.
 
Yucca said:
I get mine from the butchers. I suppose he means ones you buy from the delli counter at the back of the sapermarket rather than prepacked ones.
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I doubt very much that the content varies. My grandad would never eat sausages he hadn't made himself. Only he in the entire district used good meat for his sausages when he was a butcher. Everyone else used offcuts, skin, hair, eyes, etc.
 
The only fish i like is white fish, cod, haddock ect. I'l add eggs to the list along side fish?

I want to try and make a list without using any tablets.
 
Gilly said:
I doubt very much that the content varies. My grandad would never eat sausages he hadn't made himself. Only he in the entire district used good meat for his sausages when he was a butcher. Everyone else used offcuts, skin, hair, eyes, etc.
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Eyes? hair? Eeeew! :mad:

Where can i get good sausages from then?!
 
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