Their flesh is orange like a Sweet Potato and is good for you. She has for several months sprinkled a very small amount, like less than half a teaspoonful of this spice, on to rice and sweet potatoes, not knowing that the strange roots she has seen for many years in her favourite Asian supermarket are the fresh turmeric root.
But now she knows what they are, they will always be in YumYum HQ, she slices it very finely with that wickedly sharp mandolin into her lunch time bowl of raw vegetable. All things red.. beetroots, red onions, red cabbage are mixed with raw ginger, garlic, celery, carrots, pumpkin seeds, dressed with black pepper, some grey sea salt and the juice of half a lemon and a dollop of linseed oil.
When using the powder or the raw root of turmeric, always add fresh black pepper, it boosts the level of curcumin in your blood stream! This also applies to when you make Turmeric tea.
And it tastes much nicer than the powdered spice. But the powder and the fresh root have different health giving properties.. so read on and if you don't already include this day-glo spice in your cooking, then do so immediately, if not sooner, as Constance used to say.
Unless you suffer from Gallstones! One of the properties of as little as a quarter of a teaspoonful of powdered turmeric is to increase the action of the gallbladder, by contracting and squeezing out half of its' contents.
I quote from Dr. Michael Greger' latest book 'How Not to Die'.. "Cooked turmeric appears to offer better DNA protection whilst raw turmeric may have greater anti-inflammatory effects".
Ginger root, do you use it? Like turmeric, it comes in the powdered form as well as in the fresh root, she keeps some of her ginger roots in a flower pot with some 'poor' soil, they grow thin, tightly rolled fresh leaves which she snips off and uses raw.. they taste delicious!
And did you know that it's an ace in the treatment of migraines without any evil side effects, likewise with the treatment of pain and we quote again his book - on page 361 - in the drug trial between one-eighth of a teaspoonful of powdered Ginger against 400mg of Ibuprofen, the ginger worked as just as effectively!
In fact, most spices are good for you and not just for improving the taste of our food. The spiky Clove is the most antioxidant packed spice and, of course, herbs are up there with spices in being good for you. Garlic, Oregano, Peppermint, Marjoram being just a few of them.
But beware.. both cinnamon and nutmeg can cause hives! As she well knows! And yes, you can have too much of a good thing when it comes to nutmeg and cinnamon, of which there is two varieties: Cinnamon from SriLanka and Cassia Cinnamon from China.
There have been extensive tests done on Cassia Cinnamon recently because of a compound called Coumarin. Whereas it used to be considered a safe and effective treatment for type 2 Diabetes, the recent tests are showing that the results of tests are showing coumarin to be toxic to the liver in high doses.
She thoroughly recommends anyone who has an interest in maintaining good health to read this book. You don't have to take everything on-board but why not tweak your 'diet' ie food intake a little if it is going to benefit you?
Chirps to you all.. we're having supper early as she's got to go all the way over to Hackney to collect another pair of reading glasses. Then she'll call in on a friend on her way home. We have IshPol and Herrings for our supper tonight, I call that worthy of a slurp and a chirp or two, don't you?
GeeGee Parrot.
February 2nd, 2017.
PostScript: HOW NOT TO DIE by Michael Greger MD, Published by Macmillan £14.99.
But now she knows what they are, they will always be in YumYum HQ, she slices it very finely with that wickedly sharp mandolin into her lunch time bowl of raw vegetable. All things red.. beetroots, red onions, red cabbage are mixed with raw ginger, garlic, celery, carrots, pumpkin seeds, dressed with black pepper, some grey sea salt and the juice of half a lemon and a dollop of linseed oil.
When using the powder or the raw root of turmeric, always add fresh black pepper, it boosts the level of curcumin in your blood stream! This also applies to when you make Turmeric tea.
And it tastes much nicer than the powdered spice. But the powder and the fresh root have different health giving properties.. so read on and if you don't already include this day-glo spice in your cooking, then do so immediately, if not sooner, as Constance used to say.
Unless you suffer from Gallstones! One of the properties of as little as a quarter of a teaspoonful of powdered turmeric is to increase the action of the gallbladder, by contracting and squeezing out half of its' contents.
I quote from Dr. Michael Greger' latest book 'How Not to Die'.. "Cooked turmeric appears to offer better DNA protection whilst raw turmeric may have greater anti-inflammatory effects".
Ginger root, do you use it? Like turmeric, it comes in the powdered form as well as in the fresh root, she keeps some of her ginger roots in a flower pot with some 'poor' soil, they grow thin, tightly rolled fresh leaves which she snips off and uses raw.. they taste delicious!
And did you know that it's an ace in the treatment of migraines without any evil side effects, likewise with the treatment of pain and we quote again his book - on page 361 - in the drug trial between one-eighth of a teaspoonful of powdered Ginger against 400mg of Ibuprofen, the ginger worked as just as effectively!
In fact, most spices are good for you and not just for improving the taste of our food. The spiky Clove is the most antioxidant packed spice and, of course, herbs are up there with spices in being good for you. Garlic, Oregano, Peppermint, Marjoram being just a few of them.
But beware.. both cinnamon and nutmeg can cause hives! As she well knows! And yes, you can have too much of a good thing when it comes to nutmeg and cinnamon, of which there is two varieties: Cinnamon from SriLanka and Cassia Cinnamon from China.
There have been extensive tests done on Cassia Cinnamon recently because of a compound called Coumarin. Whereas it used to be considered a safe and effective treatment for type 2 Diabetes, the recent tests are showing that the results of tests are showing coumarin to be toxic to the liver in high doses.
She thoroughly recommends anyone who has an interest in maintaining good health to read this book. You don't have to take everything on-board but why not tweak your 'diet' ie food intake a little if it is going to benefit you?
Chirps to you all.. we're having supper early as she's got to go all the way over to Hackney to collect another pair of reading glasses. Then she'll call in on a friend on her way home. We have IshPol and Herrings for our supper tonight, I call that worthy of a slurp and a chirp or two, don't you?
GeeGee Parrot.
February 2nd, 2017.
PostScript: HOW NOT TO DIE by Michael Greger MD, Published by Macmillan £14.99.
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