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son has had several cats that have had strokes and a few died of them.
"Storrmmee" wrote in message ... yes cats have high bp and strokes all the time, Lee "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message m... Art Shapiro wrote: On 11/25/2010 9:11 AM, Storrmmee wrote: this is facinating, DH and i have been together the better part of thirty years, we have bought maybe five of those blue canisters with the girl on it In fairness, the stuff is quite useful for sprinkling on snails or slugs outside. Great visual savoir faire. Now the question has to be asked: does anyone here salt their cats' food??? Art Only if it happens at the manufacturer's! Apropos of that. did anyone ever hear of a cat with high blood pressure? Must be something to the advice that humans should cut down on salt use. |
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I got the idea from her DH and it does work. Like she said you need enough
to really flush things out. It is nasty while doing but worth not having to take meds for it. "CatNipped" wrote in message ... OK, may just give that a try and get Ben to also - we both suffer from sinus infections and allergies. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/ "Storrmmee" wrote in message ... its not strong enough and to flush properly you need a larger volume than spray allows for, one of the benifits of having a sil who is a naturopathic doctor is she explains whys of things, in order for the salt to stop the infections, you need both a strong, warmish solution with enough volume to really loosen the debri that might be hanging on... saline spray is good to moisten while flying and to assist in preventing nose bleeds, Lee "CatNipped" wrote in message ... You can get saline nasal spray at WalMart - it's really very cheap and you don't have all that bother of mixing. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/ "Storrmmee" wrote in message ... he mixes it in a glass of water and snorts it, gross but he has reduced his sinus infections to almost nil, and he really needed to wokrk on thhis as he is allergic to several antibiotics so tries to limit those he can take in case of some serious life threatening issue in the future, Lee "Winnie" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 2:15 am, "Storrmmee" wrote: dh does use it now for clearing his sinuses, works very good to avoid sinus infections, Lee Recently my doctor told me to spray saline solution in my noses when I was on a plane. Usually it gets very dry in the plane and I was recovering from a sinus congestion and cough. A friend told me she used a neti pot to flush her nasal cavities with saline soultion. So salt does has other uses besides seasoning. "Winnie" wrote in message ... On Nov 25, 12:11 pm, "Storrmmee" wrote: this is facinating, DH and i have been together the better part of thirty years, we have bought maybe five of those blue canisters with the girl on it in that time, one we lost in an apartment flood, and one in the house fire, two got thrown out due to getting rock hard, lol, wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: Once salted, you can't take it back. I don't usually salt things while cooking, beyond the usual 1/4 tsp. [or whatever] the recipe calls for. I prefer to let people salt for themselves at the table. So... don't put salt on anything but your own food? Jill --also a salt-a-holic waving hand Another salt freak here! I also don't cook with salt because pretty much everyone I know prefers a lot less salt than I like to put on my food. If I salted to taste during the cooking process, I'd be the only one who would want to eat it. Also, I've heard that when you salt food while it's cooking, it tends to lose some of the salty flavor - but it doesn't lose the sodium content. So then you might want to salt it again at the table, resulting in more sodium. If you salt food just as you're about to eat it you don't have an extra dose of it, at least! (Experienced cooks: any truth to this theory?) Joyce -- There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. -- Dan Greenberg I mainly use salt for gargling whenever I have a sore throat, not for cooking or seasoning. |
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On Nov 28, 1:53*pm, "Storrmmee" wrote:
oh my, i can't imagine any of mine tolerating that, Lee"Winnie" wrote in message Yes Rusty was a good nature cat and tolerated a lot from me. Teeth brushing, pilling,claws clipping, fur brushing. He complained loudly with the last two but let me did it. He would nipped at me but never drew blood. I didn't realize his good nature until I saw some of my friends' cats. But then Rusty was a different cat at the vet clinic. He had a sort of bad reputation there. He yelled at the vet with his last breadth before going to RB. ... On Nov 27, 4:37 pm, "Storrmmee" wrote: its not strong enough and to flush properly you need a larger volume than spray allows for, one of the benifits of having a sil who is a naturopathic doctor is she explains whys of things, in order for the salt to stop the infections, you need both a strong, warmish solution with enough volume to really loosen the debri that might be hanging on... saline spray is good to moisten while flying and to assist in preventing nose bleeds, Lee"CatNipped" wrote in message ... You can get saline nasal spray at WalMart - it's really very cheap and you don't have all that bother of mixing. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at:http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/ "Storrmmee" wrote in message ... he mixes it in a glass of water and snorts it, gross but he has reduced his sinus infections to almost nil, and he really needed to wokrk on thhis as he is allergic to several antibiotics so tries to limit those he can take in case of some serious life threatening issue in the future, Lee "Winnie" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 2:15 am, "Storrmmee" wrote: dh does use it now for clearing his sinuses, works very good to avoid sinus infections, Lee Recently my doctor told me to spray saline solution in my noses when I was on a plane. Usually it gets very dry in the plane and I was recovering from a sinus congestion and cough. A friend told me she used a neti pot to flush her nasal cavities with saline soultion. So salt does has other uses besides seasoning. "Winnie" wrote in message ... On Nov 25, 12:11 pm, "Storrmmee" wrote: this is facinating, DH and i have been together the better part of thirty years, we have bought maybe five of those blue canisters with the girl on it in that time, one we lost in an apartment flood, and one in the house fire, two got thrown out due to getting rock hard, lol, wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: Once salted, you can't take it back. I don't usually salt things while cooking, beyond the usual 1/4 tsp. [or whatever] the recipe calls for. I prefer to let people salt for themselves at the table. So... don't put salt on anything but your own food? Jill --also a salt-a-holic waving hand Another salt freak here! I also don't cook with salt because pretty much everyone I know prefers a lot less salt than I like to put on my food. If I salted to taste during the cooking process, I'd be the only one who would want to eat it. Also, I've heard that when you salt food while it's cooking, it tends to lose some of the salty flavor - but it doesn't lose the sodium content. So then you might want to salt it again at the table, resulting in more sodium. If you salt food just as you're about to eat it you don't have an extra dose of it, at least! (Experienced cooks: any truth to this theory?) Joyce -- There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. -- Dan Greenberg I mainly use salt for gargling whenever I have a sore throat, not for cooking or seasoning. When I sort through Rusty (RB) stuff, I came upon an old bottle of saline nasal spray from the pharmacy I recalled once Rusty had a cold and the vet told me to use saline spray on him. But I don't remember how I sprayed into his nose or how he reacted to it. |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
... "Storrmmee" wrote in message ... depends on the walmart, its the deit version of R.C. Cola, well one of them, there is R. C.* royal Crown Cola* Diet R. C. which has salt, and caf. then Diet, Rite, which has neither, Lee Does anyone else remember a commercial for Royal Crown cola, circa 1967? "Escape! Come on over to Royal Crown Cola! It's the mad, mad, mad, mad cola! Escape! The one with the mad mad taste!" I know I didn't make it up. I used to sit on the curb with a friend and we'd sing the jingle. That just goes to show how far back advertising affected youngsters. But I don't recall ever drinking RC. Apparently the ad didn't affect my mother. LOL We never had soft drinks in the house growing up and I don't drink them now. I really don't like any cola, unless of course it has a generous shot of bourbon or Southern Comfort in it :-) Yowie |
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"Marina" wrote in message
... On 27/11/2010 03:20, John F. Eldredge wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:16:56 +0000, bastXXXette wrote: Marina wrote: I didn't have soft drinks very often as a child, because I got diabetes at age 5 and the only sugar-free soft drink on the Finnish market at that time was a disgusting pineapple-flavoured drink that I think was sweetened with fructose. So it definitely wasn't a good drink for a thirsty diabetic, I thought fructose was as bad as, if not worse than, table sugar is for diabetics. There weren't any artificial sweeteners available? When I was a kid, there was saccharine, at least. Which was pretty gross, but was at least an option if you couldn't have sugars. Joyce Fructose is sometimes suggested as an alternative to table sugar, for those not wanting to use table sugar, artificial sweeteners, or to do without a sweet taste. It has a sweeter taste than an equivalent amount of sucrose, so you can get by with a lesser amount of it. If you use the same quantity of fructose as you would of sucrose, however, it spikes your blood sugar just as badly as sucrose will. I've always been told it has a lower GI than sucrose, so it will not spike your BG as quicly as ordinary sugar. (OK, they didn't talk about glycemic index when I was a kid, but of slow, medium, and fast carbohydrates, but it's the same basic idea.) I do use a teaspoon of it every day, with my berries and plain yoghurt. Fructose is pretty much one half of the sucrose "table sugar" molecule (the other half being glucose). Therefore, gram for gram, or teaspoon for teaspoon, fructose is almost twice as sweet as the equivalent amount of suscrose, whilst delivering half the energy value (joules, calories) Whilst sweeter than sucrose, the sensation of sweetness of fructose comes on quicker and leaves quicker than the sweetness sensation of sucrose, and its sweetness decreases on heating. Yowie (here endeth the chemistry lesson) |
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Yowie wrote:
I really don't like any cola, unless of course it has a generous shot of bourbon or Southern Comfort in it :-) I've always hated sodas - colas, orange soda, grape. I wouldn't have minded the taste of ginger ale, but my mother kind of ruined it for me by giving it to me every time I had an upset stomach. I did drink soda a lot as a kid because that was the only beverage available, which only made me hate it more. The first time I ever got drunk was from a rum and coke. (Well, more than one. ) Still tasted like crap, but at least it was fun. Joyce -- A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo Rosten |
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Yowie wrote:
Fructose is pretty much one half of the sucrose "table sugar" molecule (the other half being glucose). Therefore, gram for gram, or teaspoon for teaspoon, fructose is almost twice as sweet as the equivalent amount of suscrose, whilst delivering half the energy value (joules, calories) Whilst sweeter than sucrose, the sensation of sweetness of fructose comes on quicker and leaves quicker than the sweetness sensation of sucrose, and its sweetness decreases on heating. Isn't high fructose corn syrup the really bad stuff that gets added to an amazing number of processed foods? Joyce -- A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo Rosten |
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On 03/12/2010 03:52, Yowie wrote:
Fructose is pretty much one half of the sucrose "table sugar" molecule (the other half being glucose). Therefore, gram for gram, or teaspoon for teaspoon, fructose is almost twice as sweet as the equivalent amount of suscrose, whilst delivering half the energy value (joules, calories) Whilst sweeter than sucrose, the sensation of sweetness of fructose comes on quicker and leaves quicker than the sweetness sensation of sucrose, and its sweetness decreases on heating. Yowie (here endeth the chemistry lesson) It also heightens the flavour of fruit and berries, which is why I like it with my breakfast yoghurt and berries. -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. |
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On 03/12/2010 03:52, Yowie wrote:
Fructose is pretty much one half of the sucrose "table sugar" molecule (the other half being glucose). Therefore, gram for gram, or teaspoon for teaspoon, fructose is almost twice as sweet as the equivalent amount of suscrose, whilst delivering half the energy value (joules, calories) Whilst sweeter than sucrose, the sensation of sweetness of fructose comes on quicker and leaves quicker than the sweetness sensation of sucrose, and its sweetness decreases on heating. Yowie (here endeth the chemistry lesson) "Marina" wrote in message ... It also heightens the flavour of fruit and berries, which is why I like it with my breakfast yoghurt and berries. wrote in message ... Isn't high fructose corn syrup the really bad stuff that gets added to an amazing number of processed foods? Adding fructose serves two purposes: as Marina points out, it heightens the flavour of other things, particularly sweet things, and it acts as a humectant, or, in other words, it stops stuff drying out and tasting stale. Vicky |
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