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« on: December 10, 2008, 11:08:21 AM »
Rhubarb nutritional facts before you add sugar....
That's the real problem. You can add up the minuscule amount of nutrients in rhubarb and call it healthy, but it doesn't even come close to being a nutrient-dense food.
Keep in mind that I am an extremely biased and opinionated anti-sugar person. You already know that.
My anti-cancer diet is meat.Some of the little problems with the chart above:
1. You would need to eat 3050 grams of it per day to reach a significant anti-inflammatory target, if in fact the "target" is a credible claim. Eat Mikey's T-Bone and you're there.
2. The "glycemic load" is a bogus claim. Your pancreas still has to produce enough insulin to deal with the near teaspoon of sugar in the Rhubarb. Keeping in mind that the amount of sugar circulating in the entire bloodstream of the average human being is slightly less than one teaspoon. And that's before the additional added sugar.
3. It says it is a good source of magnesium when it is not. Nuts and seeds are great sources of magnesium.
On the plus side, it does contain a good deal of vitamin K, 45% DV (those numbers only represent the amount needed daily to prevent deficiency disease).
On the minus side, it needs huge amounts of sugar to make it palatable. Cancer cells need sugar. Don't feed them.
Mikey's T-Bone. Now THAT is food.
Quote from: Kittyzee
Like Andrew Zimmern says: "If it looks good, eat it!" My motto too. That's what I like about the Travel Channel: exotic places and very different foods that we wouldn't even consider as good. I respect the fact that most people of other countries do not waste one part of an animal, but that it is cooked, preserved and eaten.
People love watching Andrew eat strange, exotic food because we've forgotten that our ancestors ate that way as well. We had a much better variety of animal products available to us a hundred years ago than we do today.
This is what Political Correctness has evolved into.
turtlemike. That was really interesting! It makes a lot of sense and may explain my own observations in pots/tubs that were not successful.
). I wrote it all down (me geek). If you are really going crazy, read on. Spoiler follows! Don't read this if you're trying to figure it out yourself. Only read this if you're at your wits end.
Sorry! It's not the Krebs Cycle, it's the Calvin cycle. My mind is not what it used to be and I get all the names mixed up. It's when the plant uses the energy collected from the sun to make sugar. It can happen during the day, but happens more at night. In people it's the Kreb's cycle. 
