I love what you do with the fried veggies. We do this quite often as well. My wife and I also love to fry green tomatoes in coconut oil. Since coconut oil doesn’t change chemically when heated, it’s actually healthy to fry foods with it. It can actually help speed up your metabolism.

For some great info on coconut oil, check out http://www.cancertruth.net/newsletter_2009dec.html/#Coconut

Anyway, keep up the good work!

Also that a can of fruit, if I misjudge my activity level, my blood sugar can crash (fatigue or shakes), my toes tingle, fuzzy thinking and hungry again within an hour or worst immediately. After my blood sugar reaches a high enough level, my nose is stuffy too. So better to keep portions small or skip. I have less problems with potatoes, but same thing keep portions small or skip.

If you blood sugar is up, then you insulin is up, which means your not going to lose weight until you bring it back down. The 20 minute walk, climbing stairs (3 or 4 floors) etc.

In the liver there is a group of sulfur bearing amino acids that pass methyl groups around. Without Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 and Betaine, this cycle stops at homocysteine. I think it is part of the fat burning cycle. Anyway it involves cysteine and methionine in the metobolism as well. So spinach provide both the Folic Acid and Betaine and eggs the B12 (unless you lack an intrinsic factor to absorb it). Beets are another good source of Betaine. I have read this is not to be confused with Betain Hydrochloride found in digestive enzymes.

I think the book I read it in is “Methyl Magic, Maximum Health Through Methylation” by Craig Clooney, PhD. mine copy is in storage, but it looks familar.
http://www.amazon.com/Methyl-Magic-Maximum-Through-Methylation/dp/0836235851/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261587775&sr=1-1

You can have too much spinach, and you would likely feel it if you get there. I believe the calcium in spinach is bound to phytic acid (also found in wheat and other grains) and it also contains oxalic acid [like rhubarb does]. The phytic acid in spinach and grains will not interfere will calcium absorption in other greens. So spinach is very nutritious, but eat some other greens, broccoli and/or almonds too.

I have had spinach grow under a layer of snow (from summer crop going to seed). Not sure if all varieties can do that.

According to this article iron absorption is good.
see http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/114/3/526.pdf and other site on the web or some nutrition and medical books.

Right now I am losing weight (5 pounds in two weeks) and the only exercise was shoveling the driveway (2 1/2″ snow and 1/2″ snow) and going up and down the stairs for laundry. My house thermostat is at 66 or 67 degrees Fahrenheit, so I also have an extra layer of clothes on.

I have been eating a lot of lean pork (pork loin with the fat trimmed off before cooking) and chicken breast, green beans (1/2 can at a time), 2 pounds per week of dry roasted unsalted peanuts (no added fat). I also had sweet potatoes, canned pineapple (20 oz can in one sitting), Mandrin Oranges (15 oz can in one sitting), blueberries, green or red leaf lettuce (medium plate) with an Olive Oil (and soybean oil – yuck) Italian Dressing or Consorzio Mangoe Fat-Free Dressing. 2 or 3 large eggs (yolk and all) several times a week. Canned Tuna with Brown Rice and Olive Oil (may have been something else in that), Almonds, Walnuts and Pecans. I cannot recommend people eat the amount of nuts I have been. To help me metabolism them I take a L-Carntine supplement.

I been drinking 3 mugs of hot green tea (young whole leave, not teabag – Shanghai Chinese friends say very slimming effect – lot more than soft drinks at least) per day and trying not to drink my beloved Coke-a-Cola (up to 24 ounces on the days I have it). Look up what high fructose corn syrup does to your liver (fatty liver just like alcohol, increase appetite, does not affect insulin much). I even had a Big n Tasty meal, hold the mayo, extra quarter meat well done (get rid of an extra tablespoon of fat) with greasy fries and a Coke on ice at McDonalds last night.

1 teaspoon of flax seed or flax seed meal per day helps too (fat is 50% omega 3 and rich in ligans). If you are lucky your egg laying chicken eats some flax seed too.

I eat my protein first and then my carbohydrates. This reduces the insulin response. So I cut back on carbs, but do not eliminate them from every meal. Eating fruit when I crave a coke. Got to say the most important thing is give up soft drinks. Your carbohydrate level will depend on how active you are, how sensitive you are and if you are trying to lose weight. Big for me too, now mom is in Florida, is only eating when I am hungry or maybe a few hours after that, drinking lots of water (takes water to hydrolyze [break apart]the carbon bonds in the fatty acid chains to burn the fat as energy). If you’re carbohydrate levels are low enough then your body will produce ketones, which have a sick sweet smell that will be notable on your breath like diabetics get when they go into ketosis (which is why some doctors are so scared of low carbohydrate diets).

I have an condition called Malasorbion that require me to take digestive enzymes, vitamin, minerals and amino acids for what ever is deficient in my diet or not being absorbed properly, which is why I study health and nutrition so much. Latest studies in the last year college Bio 127 – Cell Biology and Chem 251 – Organic Chemistry (for chemical engineer majors). My hope is if I eliminate 95% of the high fructose corn syrup from my diet and lose 60 pounds (I am 6′-2″ 262 pounds) that my liver, gall badder and pancreas function will return t normal. I cannot eat cheese or drink milk, so lettuce is very important part of my diet.

Look at the number of animals that eat eggs as a primary food source and that should calm your worries about them. When I took a nutrition classes decades ago, the egg was the standard of nutrition for the World Health Organization.

I do well on 2 or 3 eggs for breakfast along with a meat and potatoes. Try to avoid the hash browns that are presoaked in fats to make them stick together and then deep fried like at McDonalds and many fastfood chains, same goes for tater tots. The best are grilled with no fat prior to cooking. My bloodpressure went up 10 point in 3 months from McDonalds hashbrowns (living in a motel room at the time) and returned to normal eating the 2 egg mcmuffins without the cheese and no hash browns, even though I was drinking a medium coke with a refill every morning. I really recommend switching to tea as the colas are just all around bad for your teeth, waistline, and pH levels, but that’s another story.

I’m glad the cholesterol confusion has been cleared up too. Nice to know dietary cholesterol has nothing to do with the body producing cholesterol as a result of a bad diet choices/lifestyle/genetics.

Nice recipe! I gotta say though, I myself tend to be a bit careful about the number of egg yolks i use in my omelette. I usually use one whole egg, including yolk, and then add about 4-5 egg whites. Throw in some onions,spinach, tomatos and coriander, Put a lil drop of olive oil in the pan and cook that baby up!

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- Tek

thanks for this great post. keep up the great work.

Thanks for sharing the omelette recipe. I’m just curious about the ““cholesterol confusion”” that it has been solved. Do you mean eggs contains no cholesterol, period? Or do you mean no cholesterol if you remove the yolk?

I might have missed some new research.

BK
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