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thought this was interesting about fruits and veggies…
Source: onlinegardenertips.com

“Basically all fruits are vegetables because they can be eaten. However, all vegetables are not fruits. For example, lettuce, spinach, carrots and turnips are vegetables and not fruits since they do not contain seeds. Whereas apple, peach, mango, cherry and tomato are classified as fruits along with cucumber because they contain seeds. In fact, the tomato is often mistaken as a vegetable along with cucumber.”

Interesting… i never knew a cucumber was a fruit…
 
What about zucchini, squash, eggplant ect… They have seeds… are they considered fruits to??? 
 

Good point laura!
 I do love my butternut squash baked then filled with butter and brown suger!
 
Butch

why did you have to ruin the squash like that.. leave it in its natural state lol .. no butter or sugar!!

Try it once its better than chocolate hahaha

here’s another “did you know?” factoid from foodreference.com….white chocolate is not technically chocolate…

White chocolate originates from the cocoa (cacao) plant, but it is not ‘chocolate.’  According to the FDA, to be called ‘chocolate’ a product must contain chocolate liquor, which is what gives it the biter intense chocolate flavor (and color) to dark and milk chocolates.

but you know, it’s really not a fact without pete’s stamp of approval….it would really give me peace of mind if he confirmed these claims…where you at, pete?

Of course white chocolate is not chocolate… How can you even compare the two… shame on you!!! White chocolate should have its own category… I think i am insulted… white chocolate is for babbiiesssss!
 
And Wade!! How dare you say squash is better then chocolate butter, sugar or not…  What are you smoking??? NO WAY!! 
 
As you can see I looooveee chocolate… i get my fix 2 times a day with my protein powders… I don’t think i would survive without them…
 
Ohh the chocolaty goodness!! I am actually going to have some chocolate protein pudding now.. If chocolate protein powder and cocoa did not exist i might be obese.. just sayin
 

lol—well smartypants, get me a rattle then…cuz this baby likes white (not) chocolate! 

 
 

lol—the caption of that baby should read:

“After hearing white chocolate was not actually chocolate.”

the term fruit actually has several meanings or uses. “fruit” can refer to the part of any plant with seeds that is used to disseminate (spread) the seeds, usually via animals eating them and crapping them out somewhere other than right next to the original plant.
likewise, the whole fruit vs. vegetable designation can be broken down not just by plants that have seeds (flax is not a fruit), but a better way to distinguish between the two is whether or not the plant has flowers. fruits actually originate from a specific part of a flowering plant and the “meat” of the fruit is a protective covering for the seeds.

as for chocolate, i had never heard the “chocolate liquor” term, but all chocolates are some combination of cocoa powder, sugar, milk and fat. the presence of cocoa solids is what causes the color, so for example white chocolate has no cocoa solids. milk chocolate, unlike dark chocolate, has condensed or powedered milk in it and that’s what gives it the creamy texture. dark chocolate has a varying percentage of cocoa in it, with it becoming more bitter as the percentage goes up since the cocoa is replacing the sugar. just about the highest you’ll find that is palatable is around 85% (the kind that i like), but pure baking chocolate usually contains no sugar, just the cocoa butter and solids.

We can always count on people… Our personal human encyclopedia / Google… you really are impressive… You should become a doctor!!  
 
Thanks for distinguishing the difference between fruits, vegetables and seeds.  That makes a lot more sense. 
 
I thought your chocolate definition was very interesting.  I am a fan of dark dark chocolate.  I would be the person to eat bakers chocolate; love the bitter chocolate taste…
 
What is white chocolate then?? If it has no cocoa in it then what exactly is it and why do they call it white chocolate??

 
i’m curious on the white chocolate name too, mr. google….

Actually there is cocoa in white chocolate in the form of the extracted chemical used in cocoa butter recipe
 
16 oz Cocoa butter
1 tsp lecithin
14 oz powdered dry milk (yes, this is what the professionals use)
14 oz sugar (powdered yourself, the prepowdered has cornstarch that makes the chocolate gummy)
You can also consider added a few onces of milk fat (clarified butter) as in done by most professionals. It makes a slightly differant white chocolate.
Because there are no cocoa solids present, you don’t have to worry about roasting, cracking or grinding any cocoa beans. You can go straight to the Santha for refining.
Place the melted Cocoa butter in your Santha Wet Grinder. It is very helpful to have your solid ingredients warmed up to at least 120 F, including the Santha drum. Slowly add the 14 oz of sugar and 14 oz of milk powder into the melted cocoa butter while the Santha is running. Run the Santha until the white chocolate is of the smoothness you desire. I find 8-10 hours is about right. Your tastes may vary. If you pre-grind your sugar in a small food processor or coffee grinder (about 2 minutes work), you can usually reduce refining time by 2-3 hours or so.
Butch

yeah, there is is cocoa in white chocolate, but it’s the cocoa butter, not the cocoa solids which give it the dark color.

and i’ve had a lot of people tell me i should be a doctor but i didn’t want to go through all that school and tests and blah.

THANKS! that makes more sense…
 
Pete you are LAZY! you should have went to school for it.. you would have been awesome…
 
We all asked Jon but never asked you.. What is your goal in life?
 
 

pete, just sign off after each thread’s post as “dr. pete” and no one would be the wiser…i’m sure you could back it up if anyone challenged you.

you could call it lazy, or you could say that i am more interested in following my passion than making money, haha. i don’t know quite what i want to do with my life exactly, but if you look at the stuff i’ve been doing for the past 5-6 years you could definitely say that my interest lies in educating people about better nutrition and fitness practices.

and D, that might be cute, but i would never insult my peers who did go through the whole process of going to school to complete a doctorate by calling myself a doctor. i may have the knowledge, but if it was just a matter of passing a test i would’ve become a “doctor” a long time ago. either way, most doctors don’t know jack about nutrition because our school system doesn’t put a lot of emphasis on teaching them about better nutrition. they stress treating disease and not preventing it, so unless a doctor is proactive and takes the time to educate themselves, most of them only know the little they have learned throughout their schooling, which isn’t a whole lot.

i don’t mean to downplay the importance or knowledge of doctors, if anything i don’t like the education system and think it needs some changing.

I couldn’t agree with you more about our education system
“Doctors stress treating disease and not preventing them” Well said!
I find myself questioning my own doctors when it comes to proper nutrition and training.
 I will never forget when my doctors asked me why i eat 5-6 small meals a day
This blew my mind!!! He asked me every question except for my daily food intake… This would have been the first questions i would have asked since my issue was completely related to this… This is one reason why I question many doctors. Sports nutrition is very different then just eating for healthy.    
 

I read this somewhere and I am curious to know if this statement is true…
 
Is this true:  If you have an injury or healing wound?
 
“DON’T worry too much about extra calories- If it is a serious wound you need more calories to help the wound heal.”

Saw this in Women’s Health Mag…low carb / high protein diets could be a cause of bad breath?

A low-carb, high protein diet may be the cause of that killer bad breath according to an analysis by the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine. The key to these diets is a fat-burning state known as ketosis when your body burns stored fats to use as fuel instead of the missing carbs. As the fat burns, chemicals called ketones accumulate in the body and are released in your breath. Since this is a metabolic problem originating in your stomach and not your mouth there’s not much you can do other than modifying your diet.

That is a side effect for sure!! this is one example of a diet that is low carb and high protien
 
 
The Dukan Diet
 
THE ATTACK PHASE
 
The Dukan Diet starts with a short, sharp ‘attack’ phase where you eat nothing but protein - just meat, fish, eggs and no-fat dairy products. You can spend just one day here - or as many as ten days if you have a lot of weight to lose - and many people can expect to lose as much as 7lb in five days. 
 
You may experience bad breath and a dry mouth during this pure protein phase. Both are signs that you are losing weight. You should welcome them as proof of success.
Ease them by drinking more water. Constipation may strike after four days on attack so add a tablespoon of wheat bran flakes to your oat bran. But keep drinking.
 
During this phase, eat freely any foods on the following list - eat as much as you want, whenever you want. You must adhere to this plan strictly. 

wow—never heard that before…so, it’s called the “attack phase” because you could literally knock someone over with your breath?

hahah.. that is funny but i dont think thats what they meant..
 
we can have our own definition!!! love it

Q:  How do saunas help remove toxins from the body?

A:  “Saunas do more than just help you relax; they help clear toxins from your body. It’s done not only through the predictable means—the sweat—but because the forced constriction and dilation of blood vessels that happens when you go into and out of the heat releases the chemical nitric oxide.”

-Dr. Oz

A:  “Saunas are rooms that use dry to heat to achieve their temperature (as opposed to steam rooms that utilize moist heat.) Sitting in a hot room like a sauna causes your blood vessels to dilate and may improve circulation of blood in the skin. In addition, the heat causes the body to produce more sweat which can help release dirt and toxins from the skin.”

- Dr. Joshua Zeichner of The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Source: Sharecare.com

Thought this was interesting on “gut feelings”…saw it on vitaljuice.com.

Your gut has a mind of its own. TRUE.

You’ve had “gut feelings,” but you may not know that your gut literally has a mind of its own—the enteric nervous system (ENS). The word enteric means “of of having to do with the small intestine,” which is precisely where this second nervous system is located. Your ENS is highly integrated into your central nervous system, and the two interact consantly. If you’re afraid, your gut-brain knows and it and your digestion is altered. Likewise, if you eat something that “doesn’t sit well with you,” it may put you in a bad mood.

wow very cool dana.. so is the saying follow your gut feeling true?? maybe not because its just an emotion right??