If you want to live to be 100

I never really learned to cook outside of scrambled eggs with cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, and a few other sandwiches, opening a can of spaghetti or making spaghetti or pasta with cheese from scratch or making organic brown rice, or organic lentils or something like that and a salad.

So, the above is sort of my repertoire of foods until last June when I bought a Breville 1000 stainless steel juicer and starting juicing organic fruits and vegetables together and lost about 30 pounds in one week. (30 pounds in one week?). Well, I'm 6 foot 5 inches and until I was 40 or so I regularly gained or lost about 1 to 25 pounds in one weekend as I was very active and I jogged 1 to 5 miles a day. But, as hypoglycemia, aging and an undiagnosed hypothyroid condition appeared and wasn't diagnosed until I was 58 I could no longer fast for a couple of days on lemon juice and water or orange juice, walk 10 to 25 miles through the Sierras, Big Sur or Mt. Shasta, get to throw off 10 to 25 pounds in one weekend. So, this was very distressing for me as it is very easy for me to either do something or not do something.

But, I always found dieting always really sort of maddening. Because it was like always halfway doing something. You were not either doing something or not doing something it was sort of maddening like little girls wanting me to play "tea party" when I was little and I would always sort of leave feeling like I wanted to scream. So, dieting (at least the way most people do it doesn't work for me because for the first 40 years of my life I either ate or I didn't. (There wasn't any in between). In fact all aspects of my life were sort of black white like this in an extreme sense because of the post war era I grew up in where there really were no shades of gray, (only the living and the dead).

But today, I was channel surfing and my Tivo kept wanting to go to the cooking channel in a 100 range of channels I seldom go to because I prefer all the HD Channels (all 100 of them). But something caught my eye on the cooking channel, a program called "If you want to live to be 100". As I turned it on the guy was sort of funny and searching around for anti-oxidant foods to help people live longer and to boost their immune systems. As I watched he and a cook were making little balls of Cilantro-Pine nut pasta and Zucchini-pumpkin seed fritters(pumpkin seeds seem to have a lot of anti-oxidents to prevent aging). So, he sort of approaches healthy cooking like some people on animal planet approach saving wild animals. I guess we, (the human race) are the wild animals he is trying to save. Good Show!