new research debunks trad views on nutrition

[Perris]

I wonder if it's not only about detecting a substance or taste at the moment but also associating food with a pleasant, or unpleasant experience.

what I've read concurs with this.

I have to try to film Gaston. When I shake their usual tiny treat container, he comes running as I always serve him first to scatter to the hens, and he finds out it's mealworms inside...he makes a face of utter dismay and runs away honking in disgust !

please do - it sounds so funny!

I used to feed dried mealworms before I started a mealworm farm, and there was a very strong smell when the sack was first opened. Fresh mealworms do not have this issue; they don't smell of anything as far as I can tell.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Yes I think they have a smell. Since I had covid pretty much everything smells the same.



Sense of smell is tied to memory in people
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/connections-between-smell-memory-and-health

Consistent with both my readings and experience as well - though my inability to smell most things isn't tied to COVID.

 

[RoyalChick]

what I've read concurs with this.

please do - it sounds so funny!

I used to feed dried mealworms before I started a mealworm farm, and there was a very strong smell when the sack was first opened. Fresh mealworms do not have this issue; they don't smell of anything as far as I can tell.

I have found the same with mealworms I have bought. Live ones didn’t smell but dried ones do.
I don’t love the smell.
I honestly have only given them to my chickens a few times. They seem to love both.

 

[Morrigan]

Some chickens are just more adventurous than others I think. Last spring, as I turned over my planting beds, I carefully collected all the cut worm larvae in a bucket. I had a good 50 in there there. As I scattered them in the chicken yard, most of the chickens were slowly checking them out in their typical, craned-neck chicken method, when about 2 or 3 hens just ran through and scarfed up the lot. Zero hesitation.

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

I didn't know Japanese knotweed had it.
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4942868/#:~:text=Resveratrol is also found in,TCM in diverse tea products.

My property has mega amounts of this knotweed. we hate it! lol

 

[Molpet]

My property has mega amounts of this knotweed. we hate it! lol

Yes this was the first time I had heard it had a useful side

 

[RoyalChick]

Some chickens are just more adventurous than others I think. Last spring, as I turned over my planting beds, I carefully collected all the cut worm larvae in a bucket. I had a good 50 in there there. As I scattered them in the chicken yard, most of the chickens were slowly checking them out in their typical, craned-neck chicken method, when about 2 or 3 hens just ran through and scarfed up the lot. Zero hesitation.

I have a hen called Piglet for exactly this reason. She starts with the assumption that everything is edible, so while the others are exploring whether to taste something she has already eaten it.
I just hope it never gets her into trouble.

 

[Kiki]

Yeah.

When I wanted to work on lowering my cholesterol (total and LDL), I looked at diet and exercise, since I'm not going to take pills (unless absolutely necessary, deemed by me and my doc). It's pretty well proven that exercise helps a lot of bodily ailments.

So I looked up, "What foods help lower cholesterol?" I didn't pay attention to the anecdotal stuff like "My neighbor's mechanic's mother-in-law's cousin's friend did this" (ok, an exaggeration). But there was a bit of consensus and oatmeal was in the top 5, or 8, or 15 foods. That's a starting point.

Then I looked up "How does oatmeal help lower cholesterol?" and got peer reviewed studies that explained how the researchers ran their studies (nitty gritty stuff, mostly over my head, but necessary so someone else can try to replicate it) and their results.

I started eating oatmeal (old fashioned, not instant) and steel cut oats for breakfast M-F, and sometimes dinner on Saturday. (Yes, really, for dinner.) I mix in banana, chia seeds, and berries.

My cholesterol went from 241 to 220 in about 6 months' time. I'm still doing it, and am looking forward to this summer when I have my next physical.

Just curious, is this your total cholesterol number or your LDL the 241 to 220.

 

[Kiki]

I just started listening to this for the third time today.
Don't pay attention to the title.
I find that it is extremely informative.

 

[Sally PB]

Just curious, is this your total cholesterol number or your LDL the 241 to 220.

Total went from 241 to 220. I'd have to go look up the numbers for the LDL, but it dropped 20 or 22 points as well.