Wild rice is expensive, but is special and perfect for holidays like Thanksgiving or Chanukah (which starts December 4th this year). Wild rice is not a grain like other rices, but a seed. Go figure! Just like buckwheat is not a grain, but a fruit…. Wild rice kernels are unpolished (so you get every drop of nutrient this seed provides), and the flavor is nutty with a nice chewy texture. Wild rice gives us copper, fiber, folate, magnesium, niacin, phosphorus, vitamin B6 and zinc!
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Weight Loss, Part 2
This is an article on weight loss. I last covered the topic for the May, 2001 newsletter. Yet just recently, it has recently been called to my attention that the first article did not entirely solve the problem… That first one was called “It’s May Already, and I’m Still Too Fat For My Bathing Suit!” I’m going to call this one:
Weight Loss, Part 2
So I was leafing through my old copy of Nutritional Biochemistry, hoping to glean some pearls of wisdom about the subject. Instead, I came across one of the most medically pompous statements I’ve ever seen. And I hope it amuses you as much as it amused me: “It is customary for people to self-diagnose obesity, i.e., whether one is underweight or overweight. A self-diagnosis might be expected to be inaccurate because the measurement of body fat requires special tools.”
Would one of those tools be a scale? A tape measure? A mirror, perhaps?
