In my never ending efforts to adjust my diet...

"Andy" q wrote in message ...
"The Historian" wrote in

All this fuss reminds me of a Monty Python sketch. "Thank goodness we
didn't mention the dirty knife."


Neil,

I hadn't seen it and had to do some surfing and found someone's
description of it he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirty_Fork

Still most people ignored the 25mg sodium tuna fish altogether. I
obviously dragged the post beyond it's main point!

All the best,

Andy
Still trying to figure out who am I in this s[kh]it.


My guess would be the customer who mentioned the dirty fork and caused a big
uproar from everyone.

Andy q wrote:

Still most people ignored the 25mg sodium tuna fish altogether. I
obviously dragged the post beyond it's main point!

Here you go, Andy: low sodium tuna is a drop in the bucket as far as
your difficulties are concerned. I doubt very seriously that regular
tuna was the cause of your high blood pressure, or your cholesterol
troubles, or your weight gain. I'm sure it will be helpful to some
extent, but unless it's the only food you eat, it's unlikely to make a
huge difference in your day-to-day dietary life.

(The Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote in
:

Andy q wrote:

Still most people ignored the 25mg sodium tuna fish altogether. I
obviously dragged the post beyond it's main point!

Here you go, Andy: low sodium tuna is a drop in the bucket as far as
your difficulties are concerned. I doubt very seriously that regular
tuna was the cause of your high blood pressure, or your cholesterol
troubles, or your weight gain. I'm sure it will be helpful to some
extent, but unless it's the only food you eat, it's unlikely to make a
huge difference in your day-to-day dietary life.


Maybe so but after lowering my sodium intake to below 500mg a day i had
the lowest b/p on record yesterday.

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And yes I eat a lot of tuna fish because it's so quick to prepare
including minus the miracle-whip-free and Arnold's wholegrain whole wheat
bread in favor of romain lettuce.

Andy

Andy q wrote:

(The Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote in
:

Andy q wrote:

Still most people ignored the 25mg sodium tuna fish altogether. I
obviously dragged the post beyond it's main point!

Here you go, Andy: low sodium tuna is a drop in the bucket as far as
your difficulties are concerned. I doubt very seriously that regular
tuna was the cause of your high blood pressure, or your cholesterol
troubles, or your weight gain. I'm sure it will be helpful to some
extent, but unless it's the only food you eat, it's unlikely to make a
huge difference in your day-to-day dietary life.


Maybe so but after lowering my sodium intake to below 500mg a day i had
the lowest b/p on record yesterday.

119
84

And yes I eat a lot of tuna fish because it's so quick to prepare
including minus the miracle-whip-free and Arnold's wholegrain whole wheat
bread in favor of romain lettuce.

I managed to lower my blood pressure without eating low sodium tuna, and
I eat a pretty fair amount of the stuff. I can't eat the brands with
hydrolized soy protein in them anyhow, so your low sodium tuna wouldn't
work for me. Everyone has different concerns.

I'm not saying it's bad or anything, and good for you if it works for
you, but it's not a miracle. It's one small component, not a cure-all.
I think you'd be better off adding more exercise to your life than you
are trying to consume less than 500mg/sodium per day.

(The Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote in
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I think you'd be better off adding more exercise to your life than you
are trying to consume less than 500mg/sodium per day.


Funny you should mention it, I just got back from a 1/2 hour 2 mile walk in
15 degree windchill.

Also have only 500 calories to meet my daily intake.

Andy

P.S. Tried the barilla PLUS spagetti. Delicious stuff and healthy! -A

Ignoramus30909 wrote:

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:48:13 -0600, Andy q wrote:
(The Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote in
:

Andy q wrote:

Still most people ignored the 25mg sodium tuna fish altogether. I
obviously dragged the post beyond it's main point!

Here you go, Andy: low sodium tuna is a drop in the bucket as far as
your difficulties are concerned. I doubt very seriously that regular
tuna was the cause of your high blood pressure, or your cholesterol
troubles, or your weight gain. I'm sure it will be helpful to some
extent, but unless it's the only food you eat, it's unlikely to make a
huge difference in your day-to-day dietary life.


Maybe so but after lowering my sodium intake to below 500mg a day i had
the lowest b/p on record yesterday.

119
84

And yes I eat a lot of tuna fish because it's so quick to prepare
including minus the miracle-whip-free and Arnold's wholegrain whole wheat
bread in favor of romain lettuce.

I am happy that eating less salt made the differene in BP, let's see
if your change is of lasting nature.

While I don't doubt that Andy's moving in the right direction in a
general sort of way, I'm skeptical that a single good reading from one
of the most notoriously unreliable sources out there is indicative of a
permanent change.

Andy q wrote:

(The Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote:

I think you'd be better off adding more exercise to your life than you
are trying to consume less than 500mg/sodium per day.

Funny you should mention it, I just got back from a 1/2 hour 2 mile walk in
15 degree windchill.

Great. Now when are we going to see you add some weight lifting to the
mix?

(The Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote in
:

Andy q wrote:

(The Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote:

I think you'd be better off adding more exercise to your life than
you are trying to consume less than 500mg/sodium per day.

Funny you should mention it, I just got back from a 1/2 hour 2 mile
walk in 15 degree windchill.

Great. Now when are we going to see you add some weight lifting to
the mix?


When the finger I split the skin open down to the knuckle heals. About
three more weeks.

Andy

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:01:34 -0600, Andy q wrote:

Chris Braun wrote in
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And what's a bird collection?

In brief:

It's going into jungles and outbacks and shooting birds and skinning
them, taking heart, liver and muscle tissue for DNA study (saved in
numbered plastic tubes as assigned to the bird in liquid nitrogen) and
then cutting out their brains and eyes and insides and scraping all the
inside fat out, tieing the wings togehter so they hug the body, then
replacing the eyes carefully and filling the chest cavity with cotton and
stiching them closed, preening their feathers back into shape, so they
look like the same bird you just shot and tagging them with a label
around their feet with location, sex, age, date, species, etc
information. and wrapping them in fine cotton to dry, then bring them
back to the bird cabinets and store them.

In this manner, we can take the same bird DNA from a bird's wing tip from
1820 and another from 2006 from the same location and compare the
difference in the environment they lived in and the changes that took
place over time effecting their evolution. A before pesticides/after
pesticides thing, for example.

And for others who wish to study birds of a given species from five
different places around the planet, they can just ccome see us and we'll
draw out a try for them to study specimens without having to have to go
out to each place to do what we do and eventually extinct a bird
population.

We provide a valuable scientific services to the world. Beer is a luxury
in the wild!

Any more you wanna know?

Andy
Bird Brain

Thanks -- interesting stuff! I'm sorry not to have thanked you sooner
for this informative reply, but I've been away.

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004