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July 18, 2006
Be Faithful To Your Spouse; Play Around With Your Salad
That was the headline of a full-page ad for Paul Newman's salad dressing in a Ladies' Home Journal I glanced at today while waiting in line. I thought it a brillant slogan, challenging salad-eaters to vary their dressing choices.
I seem to practice salad bigamy these days: I eat my lunch salad, which is half of MR's breakfast salad plus pumpkin seeds and eggwhites, and then I eat Subway Club salads, that 150 calorie delight that carries me through many a union meeting with health care professionals. The MR salad is better, of course. It has more veggies of a better nutritional quality and variety; it is organic; its protein comes from eggwhites, which contain no cholesterol or saturated fat. It is simply dressed in red wine vinegar and a bit of organic hot sauce. The Subway Club is mostly just convenient, and a low cal way to eat on the run without looking like a freak at meetings.
I never got my second megamuffin of the day because one of my co-workers needed me to help her drop off stickers to nurses at 7pm shift change, so I didn't get home from work till after eight. Once again, MR ate dinner without me. Luckily, he is the only man in the world who could put up with my schedule. He just goes along, writing about radical anti-aging biotechnology, while I run around like the energizer bunny organizing health care professionals. We are the perfect team. He even made my green tea iced today so I could enjoy it while I was outside meeting with workers in the almost one hundred degree heat!
Off to bed... Luke is covering the 7 am shift tomorrow so I may actually sleep in... until 7:30!!! Wild and crazy, I know, but when normal is 5:30 and 4am wake up is at least once a week, half past seven sounds decadent indeed!
Posted by april at July 18, 2006 9:02 PM
Comments
Hi April, sorry to bother you with this but I am in a debate with a co-worker regarding the healthfulness of Omega 6 oils. Bob Arnott in his book on breast cancer prevention suggests (strongly) that Omega 6 oils cause tumors to grow while omega 3's don't. However, that really cuts down on my oil options and variety. What's the scoop from a CRON position?
Also, I just finished reading a book by Walford and I wondered what the cancer statistics are for CRONies versus lowfat followers.
Thanks so much!
AG
Posted by: Ariel Glenn at July 19, 2006 4:28 PM