Pesach and nutrition

[cellio]

Notes to self for next year:

• Use fish, a lot, to make up the protein deficit (waa! no soy!) without driving calories through the roof. That much meat, cheese, and egg is bad for you.
• But not tuna salad. I mean real fish, several times during the week. Fresh fish freezes.
• Eat more fruit. Fruit doesn't have to come in cans, you know; there's this place called the produce aisle.
• Eat more veggies too. Buy a microwave-safe casserole for this.
• There's a vitamin-balance problem, but I don't know how to fix it when the balanced breakfast drink is off limits.
• Baby carrots are not the only convenient raw veggie -- just the most convenient one. 400% RDA on Vitamin A is probably bad for you, even if it's only a week.
• Maybe you shouldn't eat matzah after the seders. It's not required, and there are other delivery systems for cheese and jam. Ok, maybe not jam, but you shouldn't be eating much of that anyway.

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

You may not need to be that worried about the calories. JAMA has come out with a report (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/293/15/1861) from the CDC that they'd overcounted the deaths from obesity by a factor of 14. (Costs $12--it was free when it first came out.) Briefly, being somewhat above the recommended weight increases longevity. Being moderately fatter than that makes little difference. Being very fat is still considered dangerous.

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You may not need to be that worried about the calories. JAMA has come out with <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/293/15/1861">a report</a> from the CDC that they'd overcounted the deaths from obesity by a factor of 14. (Costs $12--it was free when it first came out.) Briefly, being somewhat above the recommended weight increases longevity. Being moderately fatter than that makes little difference. Being very fat is still considered dangerous.

<a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3142605"Here's</a> the newspaper version.

[cellio]

That's promising. That said, though, I could stand to not put on any more pounds than I've already got.