Club of Diet' s addicts

[Anthea]

Breakfast : sweet coffee & BLT sandwich.

Dinner : Baked beans & 'sardines à l'huile', 2 glasses of South African red Cabernet-Saugvignon.

Anyone reading your menus would think you are an alcoholic - I know that the French are bought up on wine but Kurds would not understand

I know that meals are planned with the wine accompaniment in mind - wine is used to cleanse the pallet and enhance the flavour of food - indeed all French sauces contain wine or some other form of alcohol

I know that France is noted for fine dining and French food sets a high standard worldwide

Kurds have no idea what a good sauce tastes like even those living in France will probably still eat Kurdish food

I think you should explain a bit about French cooking

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Breakfast : sweet coffee & BLT sandwich.

Dinner : Baked beans & 'sardines à l'huile', 2 glasses of South African red Cabernet-Saugvignon.

Anyone reading your menus would think you are an alcoholic - I know that the French are bought up on wine but Kurds would not understand

I know that meals are planned with the wine accompaniment in mind - wine is used to cleanse the pallet and enhance the flavour of food - indeed all French sauces contain wine or some other form of alcohol

I know that France is noted for fine dining and French food sets a high standard worldwide

Kurds have no idea what a good sauce tastes like even those living in France will probably still eat Kurdish food

I think you should explain a bit about French cooking

An alcoholic for TWO GLASSES of wine at evening and only from friday-sunday ? LOL ! An alcoholic drunk 2 bottles everyday I think By the way, if you put alcool in a sauce the alcool disappear with the heat, but the taste remains, the same for our 'flambé'.

In Kurdistan, people do not know HOW to drink : they drink during or out of meals and mostly strong alcohols, like raki or whisky or vodka. They produce no wines, which is too bad : the best are imported from Lebanon. Though their vineyards could make very good wines.

Concerning French Kurds, they take quickly our habits, enjoy wines, cheese… and pork meal

[Anthea]

An alcoholic for TWO GLASSES of wine at evening and only from friday-sunday ? LOL ! An alcoholic drunk 2 bottles everyday I think By the way, if you put alcool in a sauce the alcool disappear with the heat, but the taste remains, the same for our 'flambé'.

In Kurdistan, people do not know HOW to drink : they drink during or out of meals and mostly strong alcohols, like raki or whisky or vodka. They produce no wines, which is too bad : the best are imported from Lebanon. Though their vineyards could make very good wines.

Concerning French Kurds, they take quickly our habits, enjoy wines, cheese… and pork meal

Kurds in England still eat Kurdish food - they have no knowledge of fine wine - here many Kurds drink strong alcohol such as raki or whisky or vodka same as in France - most never get to eat in a decent restaurant

You and I would go out to a lovely restaurant and eat good food - a Kurdish man would rather spend his money on gambling and whisky - his poor wife goes nowhere

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You and I would go out to a lovely restaurant and eat good food - a Kurdish man would rather spend his money on gambling and whisky - his poor wife goes nowhere

For a Kurd, restaurant is not a place for romance, because it is public, and their romances have to be hidden So couples can take a soft drink in a café, but during the day. Places where you drink beer or wine at night or evening are for men only or with whores

There is an exception for great hotels and their bars-restaurants where many people are mixed.

In any case, a Kurd do not see the romantic element in the act of eating. As in Kurdish poetry, love is drinking night at moonlight in a garden

A Kurd who starts a romance asks you to 'make a walk'. And then he walks during hours and hours in the city, without looking at you,in a stiff attitude, just waiting for you take his hand

[Anthea]

For a Kurd, restaurant is not a place for romance, because it is public, and their romances have to be hidden So couples can take a soft drink in a café, but during the day. Places where you drink beer or wine at night or evening are for men only or with whores

There is an exception for great hotels and their bars-restaurants where many people are mixed.

In any case, a Kurd do not see the romantic element in the act of eating. As in Kurdish poetry, love is drinking night at moonlight in a garden

A Kurd who starts a romance asks you to 'make a walk'. And then he walks during hours and hours in the city, without looking at you,in a stiff attitude, just waiting for you take his hand

From what most Kurdish women have told me there is little or no romance at home either but sad really

I love a long romantic meal - sharing food and laughing together What is wrong with that? They are more likely to be doing something sexy on the long walks than they are in a room full of people

I have been told never to marry a Kurdish man from Turkey because they make love like donkeys and sometimes even hit their wives - some young Kurdish girls do not want to marry because of the way they have seen their mothers treated (this is what the women themselves have told me).

Kurdish ladies from South Kurdistan are much happier and their husbands not as likely to stay out at night

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I wonder if it does not depend on the social class of different waves of migrations. In France, Western, Eastern and Southern Kurds are political exiled or at least students or came from upper middle class (at least). And many Western Kurds were very wealthy. Northern Kurds who came after the coup in 1980 were also intellectuals or activists.

But later, during the dirty war, it was a huge wave of lower classes, peasants, poor workers, illiterates people, so they brought their way of life with themselves. I could see in Istanbul or Diyarbakir many Northern Kurds liberal, feminists and all what u want among teachers, syndicalists, activists etc.

The problem is not that husbands spend their time out their home if they let their wives do the same

[Anthea]

I wonder if it does not depend on the social class of different waves of migrations. In France, Western, Eastern and Southern Kurds are political exiled or at least students or came from upper middle class (at least). And many Western Kurds were very wealthy. Northern Kurds who came after the coup in 1980 were also intellectuals or activists.

But later, during the dirty war, it was a huge wave of lower classes, peasants, poor workers, illiterates people, so they brought their way of life with themselves. I could see in Istanbul or Diyarbakir many Northern Kurds liberal, feminists and all what u want among teachers, syndicalists, activists etc.

Exactly the same in England - lots of Kurdish intellectuals and writers here from Western - Eastern and Southern Kurdistan - lots of uneducated unskilled Kurds from Northern Kurdistan

The problem is not that husbands spend their time out their home if they let their wives do the same

What is good for the man should be good for the women

Many Kurdish men from North Kurdistan do not allow or encourage their wives to learn English

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So this evening, an absolute 'non-halal' meal : Black pudding sausage & roasted potatoes and 2 glasses of Chianti

[Anthea]

So this evening, an absolute 'non-halal' meal : Black pudding sausage & roasted potatoes and 2 glasses of Chianti

Black pudding WOW I am told it is delicious

Black pudding used to be something eaten as part of a traditional English breakfast - now it has become an ingredient in fine dining

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Here it is a quite common and cheap meat, traditionally eaten with potatoes purée, sometimes in a crêpe. We call it 'boudin noir'. At the contrary, le 'boudin blanc' is often eaten at christmas.

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BBC News Health

Olive oil and salad combined 'explain' Med diet success



The combination of olive oil and leafy salad or vegetables is what gives the Mediterranean diet its healthy edge, say scientists.When these two food groups come together they form nitro fatty acids which lower blood pressure, they told PNAS journal.

The unsaturated fat in olive oil joins forces with the nitrite in the vegetables, the study of mice suggests.

Nuts and avocados along with vegetables should work too, they say.

Inspired by traditional cuisine of countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy, the Mediterranean diet has long been associated with good health and fit hearts.

Typically, it consists of an abundance of vegetables, fresh fruit, wholegrain cereals, olive oil and nuts, as well as poultry and fish, rather than lots of red meat and butter or animal fats.

While each component of the Mediterranean diet has obvious nutritional benefits, researchers have been puzzled about what precisely makes the diet as a whole so healthy.

Chemical reaction

Prof Philip Eaton, from King's College London, and colleagues from the University of California in the US believe it is the fusion of the diet's ingredients that make nitro fatty acids.

In their study, part-funded by the British Heart Foundation, the researchers used genetically engineered mice to see what impact nitro fatty acids had on the body.

Nitro fatty acids helped lower blood pressure by blocking an enzyme called epoxide hydrolase.

Prof Eaton said: "Humans have this same enzyme so we think the same happens in people."

This explains why a Mediterranean diet is healthy, even though it contains fat, he says.

"With the fats in the Med diet, if taken together with nitrates or nitrites, there's a chemical reaction and these combine to form nitro fatty acids.

"It's nature's protective mechanism. If we can tap into this we could make new drugs for treating high blood pressure and preventing heart disease," he said.

He said human trials were planned.

Dr Sanjay Thakrar of the British Heart Foundation said: "This interesting study goes some way to explain why a Mediterranean diet appears to be good for your heart health. The results showed a way in which a particular compound could combat high blood pressure, which is a major risk factor for heart disease.

"However, more work is necessary as these experiments were conducted in mice and this compound could also be having its effect through other pathways."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27470115

[Anthea]

ny daily news

Manuel Uribe, former world’s heaviest man, dies at 48

The Mexican man had been confined to his bed for years. Doctors have not yet certified the cause of death.



A Mexican man once listed as the world's heaviest human being has died at the age of 48.

Manuel Uribe had slimmed down to about 867 pounds, well below his then-record peak weight of 1,230 pounds, which was certified in 2006 as a Guinness World Record.

Uribe's death was confirmed Monday by an official of the health department of Nuevo Leon state, where the city of Monterrey is located.

Uribe had been confined to his bed in Monterrey for years, unable to walk on his own.



http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/h ... -1.1805988

[Anthea]

We might all be horrified that someone could do that to themselves

But he did not do it to himself - someone fed him

He was not alone many other are fed by their families

I will never be able to understand why someone would do that to another person