Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-13-18 06:47 <=-

Indeed. I'm quite happy to have had the cataracts removed... it did
help with quality of life... Dunno that it'll make much difference as to longevity, except for probably helping to prevent accidents that might have jumped out unseen.... ;)

Considering it's Lilli, that might be relevant.

I was thinking along those lines... :)

Yeah. We need to find more creative ways of
saying yeah and nah on the echo.

Indeed. How right you are... ;)

Hard to miss for anyone who wasn't living under
a rock at the time (though, frankly, there have
been several periods in my life when I'd have been
happier living under a rock).

I hear you... and can think of a few in mine as well, likewise... ;)

Sigh, yeah.

Life being what it is... :)

Yeah. Or: "it is what it is," a phrase that I detest.

Sometimes, though, perfectly appropriate... not my favorite either...

Ah.. So somewhat like Ben and Jerry's, or Wegmans' premium ice
creams... richer, and with catchy names... ;)

There are a bunch of catchy names, 'tis true.
There's even been some controversy. You could
look it up.

I could, but probably wouldn't... ;) I remember some with B&J's...

Yeah. Try tinyurl.com/peachy000

OK, wrote it down....

Which you are ok with...? Hopefully it is a fairly quick taper...

If I hadn't been I wouldn't have. It's a severe but
not so quick taper.

As long as you are off those meds soon... they worry me....

Part of the compromise was staying on the
low-dose aspirin for an indefinite period.
Interestingly, I seem to be habituating to
the stuff; the problem (which the medical
community doesn't seem to see) is that that
kind of adaptation could also mean a decline
in effectiveness of the therapy.

As long as they don't decide to up the dose accordingly, especially for
you.... I'd guess that even if you are habituating somewhat, it will
remain still quite sufficiently therapeutic, perhaps with a little less
risk to you... and I'd also guess that I'd not habituate, so am still
much better not taking it, ever... :)

Michael can educate them that their recipes aren't NDN enough! [g]

If the modern day NA's are coming up with recipes, wouldn't they be considered properly Native...? ;)

No more than the recipes Ian and I have come up
with or perfected would be English or Chinese.

I suppose. :)

Coming back to what constitutes a protein food or a protein
at all. What if something is plenty of most of the amino
acids but is totally deficient in one or a few? It is my
impression that the protein assay is limited by the limiting
protein, in the current way of thinking.

Again, probably depends on who one asks.... and what their view on
proteins is... And how up on and willing to add complementary foods to
the deficient food in question....

My line of inquiry leads me to the notion that
the whole concept is dubious.

There's probably some validity in there somewhere... We do know that
protein is a necessary part of nutrition, it's the details that argued about....

What is its amino acid profile...?

See my post that you quoted. Those are the five that
presumably disqualify it as a protein food.

Oh, I guess I thought you were referring to potatoes in that listing for some reason... :) As I usually am serving eggplant with at least some

Nah, I don't tend to talk much about potatoes.

OK.

meat and/or dairy, apparently its protein is useful.. ;)

Of course, if one gets meat or dairy in one's diet,
there's no point worrying about complete proteins.

And my guess is that if one is already getting the complete proteins,
the incomplete ones supplement and add their goodness to the mix...

Probably, in the vast numerosity of yesteryear's
mail, there was less substance per average post,
with lots of people posting because they liked
the sight of their own words, rather than any
content thing. Of course, picking and choosing
took a bunch of time, which I wouldn't have been
all that eager to invest.

Actually, in genealogy there was mostly content, and sometimes quite a
lot of it packed into a message... And there were a lot of people
regularly posting... probably a couple hundred of regulars....

Seems that was a goal-driven echo; ours not so much.

True... it really was goal-driven, as we all were looking to hopefully
find a cousin that had more info on the lines we were having trouble searching... and to exchange info with.... once contact was established, further info exchange was likely to be done in snail mail... :) And
newbies to the field needed to learn where and how to look... There was
a feeling of family there, too, so there were some messages that were
more personal than genealogical from time to time...

Seems that some previous moderators tried to keep
the conference on the straight and narrow,

The larger the conference, the more things have to be more or less kept
in line, lest things get too unwieldy.... and some focus is needed...
but with a smaller group, the focus is more likely to stray more... not necessarily a bad thing...

plus there were places such as Recipes and International
Cooking, the point of which always escaped me.

They were useful to some subset, no doubt... Like the TAGLINES echo,
devoted just to tags... ;)

ttyl neb

... Oreos are as addicting as cocaine but better for dipping in milk.

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