On 8/7/2015 9:40 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2015 7:49 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 6:48 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2015 3:46 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 8/7/15 4:19 PM, Muggles wrote:
These days I'm not sure who to believe when it comes to chemicals
like
what's in RoundUp. I'd like to believe it's safe to use, but I just
don't know.

I play it safe by eating freedom fries in the morning and pinto
beans in
the evening. Potato and bean farmers don't use Roundup.

http://positivemed.com/2013/09/17/15...-french-fries/


This page talks about the benefits of French fries, which they
point out
are actually Belgian fries. I suspect that Belgian fries are
identical
to my freedom fries because freedom from France is the whole point of
being Belgian.

#7 says without adequate potassium, you'll be tireder, weaker, and
slower in reflexes. Not good for working on a sloped roof.

I would have to read this right about dinner time. I quit eating
french
fries because of the oil/fat content in them. After putting up that
shelf I'm good and hungry now, too. {{resist temptation}}

I'll have to measure how much oil I use. It's just enough to transfer
heat from the pan to the bottoms of the potato cubes. If it's a
tablespoon, and it all ends up on my plate, that's about 100 calories.
The government recommends that 30% of calories be fat, so that's a
fraction of what I need.

It's probably not more than 150 grams of potato. That would be about
600 mg of potassium and 140 calories. Hmmm.... 41% of calories from fat,
not far from government guidelines.

My butter consumption went down after I started eating freedom fries
every day. So I guess they help meet my fat needs. I use canola oil.
It's mostly monounsaturated, like olive oil, which Popeye loved as much
as spinach.

It has lots of omega-3, which is supposed to improve cognitive ability
for those of us who are a little slow. Maybe that explains how after
all these years, I finally figured out how to use a stud finder, and it
took only 15 minutes! I'm a regular wiz kid!

lol you're funny! I appreciate the humor.

I have southern blood running through my veins, and fried potatoes are
like home town cooking for me. The oil in them doesn't like me as much
as I like the oil in the fried potatoes ever since I had my gall bladder
out some years ago.

Missing Gall bladder? So you have weight problem and digestion problem
which cauases it.

My gall bladder started going bad on a Sunday night. Had a sudden attack
and was on the floor crying from the pain for a good 45 minutes. I went
to the Dr's office Monday morning for an ultrasound. I was scheduled to
have it take out that Friday. Tuesday through Thursday before the
surgery I have multiple gall bladder attacks - excruciating pain to the
point I'd be on the floor crying, and they were causes by eating
anything that had even the smallest amount of fat in it. By Friday
morning I was ready to rip the thing out myself.

Right after the gall bladder surgery I had extreme digestion problems.
Couldn't eat anything with fat in it for a long time because I couldn't
digest the fat. Eventually, my body adjusted to where I could eat more
normally, but it took about 10 years to get to this point, although,
sometimes high fat foods still don't agree with me. The fat in fried
foods just me feel bad, too.


However small it is VERY important organ for us.
When talking about Potassium, don't forget Magnesium, you ought know.

I'd rather live w/o a gall bladder than live with the pain when it went
bad. I pay more attention to Potassium, but not so much to Magnesium,
although I'm sure I get magnesium in my diet.

--
Maggie