EXERCISE:
* Jog 5k outdoors
WATER: (3) × (25) = 75 oz
EATS:
* cheerios, uncooked rolled oats, pomegranate, almonds, blueberries, ground flaxseed, almond milk
* banana
* strawberry Newton XL-cookies & few almonds
* red seedless grapes
* pinto beans, rice, avocado burrito wrapped in flour XL-tortilla
* steamed broccoli
* air popcorn w/ few jr XL-mints
SUN HAS SET
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
EXERCISE:
* Jog 5k outdoors
WATER: (3) × (25) = 75 oz
EATS:
* banana, almonds & peach
* mushroom-oat burger on bagel w/ onion, tomato, homemade oilfree hummus, pickle & broccoli-slaw
* air-fried potato wedges & steamed asparagus w/ homemade hummus dip w/ tabasco
SUN HAS SET
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
Serves 6
Ingredients (organic is best)
-1 pound cremini or white button mushrooms*
-2 teaspoons sea salt
-1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
-3 cups rolled or quick oats
-2 teaspoons black pepper
-2 to 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided (NOT RECOMMENDED)
-6 sprouted whole-grain hamburger buns or 6 large lettuce leaves
-Mustard, Lemony Almond Hummus (page 191 in Beat Cancer Kitchen), pickles, red onions, sliced tomato, lettuce, and avocado for garnish
Directions
1. Pulse the mushrooms in the work bowl of your food processor until they are finely chopped but not blended. Work in batches as needed.
2. Combine the chopped mushrooms and salt in a large mixing bowl. Allow the mixture to rest for 5 minutes. You’ll notice that water is being pulled from the mushrooms; do not discard the water!
3. Add the vinegar, oats, and pepper. Using your hands, knead the mushrooms and oats together until well incorporated. The mix will seem a little dry at first.
4. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes. Use this time to slice your pickles, onions, tomatoes, etc., and tidy up the kitchen.
5. Knead the mixture once more. This time, it should resemble ground beef – seriously!
6. Divide the mixture into 6 equal balls and press each ball into a 4-inch patty on a sheet of parchment or wax paper. Make sure your patties have smooth, rounded edges. This makes them less likely to fall apart as they cook.
7. Place 1.5 tablespoons of olive oil in a large cast-iron skillet or frying pan set over medium heat. Pan-fry the burgers 3 at a time for about 4 minutes per side. Add the remaining oil before cooking the second batch.
8. Serve hot on a toasted whole-grain bun or over lettuce, topped with your favorite burger fixings. Mine are lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, and lots of mustard.
Enjoy!
This recipe is from BEAT CANCER KITCHEN: Deliciously Simple Plant-Based Anticancer Recipes.
EXERCISE:
* Jog 5k outdoors
* Face exercise
WATER: (3) × (25) = 75 oz
EATS:
* pinto beans, rice, kale, tomato, onion mushroom, avocado, salsa
* black beans, rice avocado
* mini coconut ice cream sandwich
SUN HAS SET
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
Experts warn melatonin use in America is ‘out of control’
May 21, 2022
July 9, 2022 By Zachary Stieber
The protection against severe illness from so-called natural immunity remains superior to the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study.
People who survived COVID-19 infection and were not vaccinated had sky-high protection against severe or fatal COVID-19, researchers in Qatar found.
“Effectiveness of primary infection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 reinfection was 97.3 percent … irrespective of the variant of primary infection or reinfection, and with no evidence for waning. Similar results were found in sub-group analyses for those ≥50 years of age,” Dr. Laith Abu-Raddad, with Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, and colleagues said after studying long-term natural immunity in unvaccinated people.
That percentage is higher than the protection from COVID-19 vaccines, according to other studies and real-world data.
Swedish researchers, for instance, found in May that two doses of a vaccine were just 54 percent effective against the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.
South African scientists, meanwhile, found the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines peaked at 88 percent, and quickly dropped to 70 percent or lower.
The Qatar group found natural immunity for over 14 months after a person’s first infection “remains very strong, with no evidence for waning, irrespective of variant.”
The study was published ahead of peer review on the website medRxiv.
Few researchers have studied natural immunity long-term among unvaccinated persons, in part because many of the people have eventually received a COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccines, meanwhile, have waned against both infection and severe illness over time, triggering recommendations for booster doses, with some Americans even getting five doses within 10 months.
The vaccines were once said to provide close to 100 percent protection against symptomatic infection. They now provide under 50 percent protection against infection after a short period of time, even after booster doses, following the emergence of Omicron.
That strain and its subvariants are dominant in countries around the world, including the United States and Qatar.
Natural immunity was thought to provide strong protection against reinfection. But the Qatari researchers found it also provides poor protection against reinfection from Omicron.
Pre-Omicron infection against pre-Omicron reinfection was as high as 90.5 percent, and remained around 70 percent by the 16th month, according to the study. But pre-Omicron infection against Omicron reinfection was just 38 percent effective, although it was higher among people infected with the original Wuhan strain or with the Delta variant, and lower among those who got sick from the Alpha or Beta strains.
Modeling signaled a drop to zero percent protection by 18 months, but the shielding still appears to last longer than that of vaccines, researchers said.
“Vaccine immunity against Omicron subvariants lasts for <6 months but pre-Omicron natural immunity, assuming Gompertz decay, may last for just over a year,” they wrote.
Limitations of the study included differences in testing frequency among the cohorts studied, and depletion of groups who had a COVID-19 infection due to deaths.
Nov 10, 2022
Dr. John Campbell