Re: Assimilation 101
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:26 pm
For us old people, assimilation is a very important issue. As our ability to assimilate nutrients goes down, so also does our health go down. And your ability to assimilate nutrients will go down as you age.
My wife and I make soups. If you took all of the ingredients in a homemade soup and ate and drank them, without making them as a soup, it wouldn't come close to the nutritive value of the soup itself. According to the chemical, shallow view of health, the ingredients should be exactly the same as the soup. But the making of the soup releases nutrients into the water, especially minerals, which are so lacking in our diets anyway. These nutrients in the water are highly absorbable, unlike the supplements that we buy.
Blending, even soups, increases the assimilation of nutrients.
Juicing increases the assimilation of nutrients.
All three of the above also make available more water, water that does NOT dilute one's stomach acid.
There is no guarantee that commercial soup makers make their soups properly as described above. And then there are all of the evil things that they add to increase taste and shelf life and etc. With a well-crafted home soup, taste and shelf life are not issues.
For busy people, slow-cookers are great. You can set your slow-cooker in the morning to low filled with veggies and a little blended up meat, for example, and when you come home at night, you have a really healthy and tasty dinner.
I do not use any grains as they increase the carb count along with the phytic acid and lectins. Veggies, blended and not blended, meat, blended and not blended, go into the slow cooker.
Salads are good, but soups also have their place because of the release of nutrients with the cooking.
Supplements that aid digestion are also advisable.
Thank you, class, for your patience. There will be a test. The test will be whether you can avoid going to a nursing home. (:->)
Sincerely,
Professor Roger Bird, RNE (renegade nutrition expert)
My wife and I make soups. If you took all of the ingredients in a homemade soup and ate and drank them, without making them as a soup, it wouldn't come close to the nutritive value of the soup itself. According to the chemical, shallow view of health, the ingredients should be exactly the same as the soup. But the making of the soup releases nutrients into the water, especially minerals, which are so lacking in our diets anyway. These nutrients in the water are highly absorbable, unlike the supplements that we buy.
Blending, even soups, increases the assimilation of nutrients.
Juicing increases the assimilation of nutrients.
All three of the above also make available more water, water that does NOT dilute one's stomach acid.
There is no guarantee that commercial soup makers make their soups properly as described above. And then there are all of the evil things that they add to increase taste and shelf life and etc. With a well-crafted home soup, taste and shelf life are not issues.
For busy people, slow-cookers are great. You can set your slow-cooker in the morning to low filled with veggies and a little blended up meat, for example, and when you come home at night, you have a really healthy and tasty dinner.
I do not use any grains as they increase the carb count along with the phytic acid and lectins. Veggies, blended and not blended, meat, blended and not blended, go into the slow cooker.
Salads are good, but soups also have their place because of the release of nutrients with the cooking.
Supplements that aid digestion are also advisable.
Thank you, class, for your patience. There will be a test. The test will be whether you can avoid going to a nursing home. (:->)
Sincerely,
Professor Roger Bird, RNE (renegade nutrition expert)