The one I am watching today has an “American girl” going to Bosnia to live with her husband who grew up in Holland. Her tale is full of two languages, lots of English mixed in.
In fairness, they were born abroad. Their return is to a heritage not a place where they lived.
9-to-5, the day shift, or 12-to-8, the graveyard shift, it’s all work. And work calls upon workers to labor daily or overnight. Labor day celebrates those of us who work for a living, in factories, at the United States Post Office, in hospitals, shops, offices. Thanks to New York’s Labor Day Parade in 1882, and […]
Traveling from New York midtown Port Authority left me with all the expectation of a dismal experience. The worst of it so far is standing for an expected hour on a line that had begun before I reached it.
The bathroom was surprisingly clean, beating all those priors I had had. Of course, I have ducked into the PA to use the facilities over the years and they were dismal.
With expectations not met but all cleanliness and helpfulness on full display, I have only to await my bus another half hour.
Boarding should be interesting. I did not hear my stop called in the announcements.
Got on, grabbed a front row seat but may get ousted because it says Reserved. What’s a reservation on a bus?
Print may not be dead after all. Look at the racks of flyers on display at Port Authority. They are ads for shows on (and adjacent to) Broadway. As a once-upon printer, I am touched to see such beautiful full color work. I also wonder if it’s an effective medium for drumming up ticket sales.
My dining status could be called vegan curious. I believe that I had introduced myself elsewhere as one whose meals are kind of veggie forward.
My intro to vegan cooking was via a son-in-law who knew his way around the kitchen. This was not ersatz turkey (I believe it’s called Tofurky); he cooked genuinely tasty versions of all the classics. His lasagna was poetic.
Last year, I believe I mentioned this as well, the vegan children sent me gift cards for Le Botaniste and Peace Food.
Fantastic. I am pretty devoted to Le Botaniste in particular. There are branches of this restaurant around town making it easier to visit one on various occasions.
Last night, these children took me to a restaurant whose table of plenty was a huge surprise. Delicious does not begin describing the variety we encountered at Coletta.
The pizza, the garlic rolls, a cheese board, the meatballs were all better than the originals. Lighter, more flavorful, more interesting than any Italian dish you’ve ever enjoyed.
That is not an exaggeration, it is a recommendation. Click on Coletta (above) for details.
My friend K stays in the loop about matters of health. She forwarded the summary of this study to me.
The trial, published in Nature Communications, involved 15 men and 17 women with metabolic syndrome. “The level of particularly harmful LDL cholesterol fell by 10 percent for [the oat group] – that is a substantial reduction, although not entirely comparable to the effect of modern medications,” says senior author Marie-Christine Simon, a food scientist at the University of Bonn in Germany.
We were able to identify that the consumption of oatmeal increased the number of certain bacteria in the gut,” lead author Linda Klümpen explains in a press release.
“For instance, we were able to show that intestinal bacteria produce phenolic compounds by breaking down the oats.
“It has already been shown in animal studies that one of them, ferulic acid, has a positive effect on the cholesterol metabolism. This also appears to be the case for some of the other bacterial metabolic products.”
To take the results further, the team tested the effects of dihydroferulic acid – a byproduct produced by gut bacteria breaking down oats – where it appeared to reduce cholesterol storage.
It’s important to note that the results may not apply to everybody in the general population. Volunteers participating in the trial all had metabolic syndrome, a condition associated with excess weight, high blood pressure, and elevated blood sugar that can be a precursor to diabetes.
But given that LDL concentrations remained below starting levels six weeks after the diet had ended, the researchers think they’ve found a biological process worthy of further investigation.
The researchers also ran a second trial in which 17 volunteers ate 80 grams of oats daily for six weeks without other dietary restrictions, compared to 17 controls who did not eat oats.
While there were some benefits, the longer, less extreme oat diet didn’t produce the same rapid cholesterol drop.
Eating oats for every meal for two days cut ‘bad’ cholesterol by up to 10 percent in a small clinical trial. Surprisingly, the effect was still visible in participants’ blood six weeks after they returned to their normal diets.
