Green peas have a super wide range of the micronutrients and all the essential amino acids. They are high in three nutrients which pose a problem for vegans: lysine, leucine, and choline. If you are vegan, you would do well to add them to your daily diet.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Death Rates Compared
The flu pandemic in 1918/1919 (it came back a second year) infected about 1/3 of the entire world, i.e., it was highly infectious with a huge number of people infected. But it wasn’t a death sentence as the death rate was only 2.5%. Yet millions died because so many were infected. The death rate for the current pandemic is a little over 2%, much greater than the standard flu death rate of just .1%, but, so far, it has infected far fewer people than the 1918/19 pandemic.
A nasty aspect of the Spanish Flu is that it could kill very quickly. Often those people who were infected died that same day or shortly afterward. A respiratory killer — you suffocated from lack of oxygen.
Employment
All the employment gains since 2008 have been erased totally, in just a month and a half. Yet the market keeps going higher. Won’t last. Hard times are coming. There’s a wrecking ball going through state and local government budgets. The virus was just the pin that popped the bubble — the bubble was there all along, fed by easy money from the Federal Reserve. An unproductive, debt-ridden economy with market prices inflated to the hilt. When this thing collapses, it is going to be epic.
Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey
Thoughtless
Count the number of thoughtless things you do during one day. You’ll be surprised.
Side Dish
Sliced Bella Mushrooms and diced yellow onion cooked in a healthy dose of Cabernet Sauvignon. Add sliced Red Bell Pepper and a touch more wine. Put the lid on and let it cook for bit. Take lid off and stir now and then. Cook until all the wine has evaporated, careful not to let anything stick to the bottom of the pan.
The Press
Kavanaugh gets raked over the coals by the press on trumped up charges, but Biden gets a pass and silence when the charge is more credible. So much for the press — no one takes them seriously anymore.
Tolstoy
Lysine
I’ve discovered the protein issue with a vegan diet is more nuanced than is commonly realized. Yes, a well rounded vegan diet will give you plenty of overall protein. But if you use cronometer every day and see how such a well rounded vegan diet breaks down relative to each of the essential amino acids (essential in that you have to get them from food, the body doesn’t make them), then you will see that one is often chronically short of lysine and somewhat short of leucine despite the well rounded plant-based diet. So a more sophisticated question for the vegan diet, isn’t where do you get your protein, but how do you get the RDAs for those two specific essential amino acids? Lysine in particular is a serious problem for vegans imo.
I’ve been on a straight, plant-based vegan diet (Joel Fuhrman’s GBOMBS) for the last few years, but this experience with conometer has made me modify it to include a small amount of turkey to address the lysine/leutine issues. Interestingly enough, even with the addition of a small amount of turkey, my lysine and leucine numbers still come in somewhat below their RDAs, which makes me think the change was even more justified. Now I call myself an “almost vegan,” due to this modification to my diet.
“Haywire”
People who liked the Jason Bourne movies would like Haywire on Netflix. But this time, a female.
