La Lioness Priyanka
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:47 AM
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How Often Do You Eat Beef? |
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The argument has been made that beef eating is not environmentally sustainable. I think doing anything excessively is what is not sustainable. However, I wanted to know how frequently do non-vegetarians eat beef?
I eat beef once ever 2 weeks in the summer and once a week in winter.
So how often do beef eaters eat beef?
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:49 AM
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But I have heart disease. I seem to feel better when I eat it than not. I especially crave it during or just after my period.
Mostly I stick to chicken, pork, or fish.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:51 AM
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3. Several times a week... |
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$1.99 per pound on sale (ground)...livin' on a tight budget ya know...
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:53 AM
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We eat beef, poultry, pork, and fish, and we also do meatless meals.
However, we eat beef more than twice a week if I've made a roast beef dinner. I can usually get 3-4 meals out of that.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:56 AM
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8. yeah once a make a big beef thing, it does last a while. |
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but those are rare exceptions
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:53 AM
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5. Several times a week, at least. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:00 AM
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you are such a failure as an indian. the only person worse at it, is me. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:40 AM
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Thu Jul-26-07 07:53 PM
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45. You should have seen a friend of mine from Pakistan |
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We both were majoring in the same multiple subjects, so out of 5 classes, 3 of them were together, and because our daily schedule we always hung out during lunchtime. When ramadan came, he kept insisting that we go to McDonalds each day so he could eat 2 fish sandwiches for lunch. His family was wondering why he kept putting on weight and wasn't very hungry at the evening meal.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:55 AM
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You had to stick "non-vegetarians" in there. Now I can't be a smart ass.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:56 AM
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7. Probably 2-3 times per week. |
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Of course if I make a huge amount of spaghetti or lasagna, that may be served for days.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:00 AM
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9. Whenever I feel like it--I don't keep track. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:01 AM
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10. you must have some idea. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:06 AM
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18. Nope--no one's ever accused me of having an idea! |
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Edited on Thu Jul-26-07 11:16 AM by pagerbear
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:03 AM
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11. Once or twice a month these days |
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I also only eat the beef I get from a local farm that practices organic and sustainable farming.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:04 AM
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14. i try to get organic beef to. most of the restaurants we go to, serve organic as well. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:16 AM
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22. How to deal with eating out has been my latest self-challenge |
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I no longer order beef when I go out unless I know the restaurant uses organically raised meat. It's a challenge because I love the local bbq place and they don't use organically raised meat...I figure I will have to break my rule a couple times a year anyway. :shrug:
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:05 AM
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15. I try to stay organic, too. |
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I eat beef once or twice a week. I love it, can't help it.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:03 AM
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12. Twice a week, certainly. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:03 AM
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13. the only beef I eat regularly is ground beef |
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maybe once a week. A steak is a rare luxury.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:06 AM
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Sometimes I can eat it on 3 consecutive days, sometimes I can go without it for 3 consecutive days.
Probably averages out to every other day.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:06 AM
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17. At least once a week ... |
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more if I could afford it.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:08 AM
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We also eat lots of chicken and fish, plus some pork and lamb. We eat tons of vegetables and fruits from local farmers and we've been buying more and more of our meat from local farmers as well. We now belong to a cow-share so our milk and eggs come straight from the farm to our kitchen (from grass-fed cows and free range chickens).
I think the issue of environmental sustainability needs to be about eating locally versus eating meat and produce that is shipped 1500 miles away from your table. Right now, eating locally is easy for us, as we live in farm country and there are lots of organic meat and produce co-ops around here. I realize that it's harder for others to do that but eating as locally as possible is key.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:09 AM
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20. 4 or 5 times per week. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:10 AM
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we have swithced to eating more chicken and fish in place of the amount of beef we used to eat. Mostly ground beef when we do.
I try to do some rib-eyes on the grill once or twice a month though...:D
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:17 AM
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23. once a month at this point |
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trying to drop it completely. already dropped pork.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:33 AM
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Note to red meat lovers: Try emu. Really good, lower cost to environment per pound.
Emu burgers are the best burgers!
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Thu Jul-26-07 12:09 PM
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26. At least once a week... |
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Sometimes once every week and a half. I tend to spread my dead animal flesh consumption pretty evenly across the majors: Pork, beef, chicken, fish, but lately I've been leaning a little more heavily toward the chicken.
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Thu Jul-26-07 01:36 PM
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I am a threat to the environment.
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Thu Jul-26-07 01:37 PM
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28. are you planning on having kids? |
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Thu Jul-26-07 01:46 PM
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30. well that makes you less than disastrous. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 01:51 PM
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31. Speaking for the nonvegetarians in my family . . . |
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My sons and husband eat beef 4-5 times a week.
One daughter never eats it, the other eats it perhaps twice a month.
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Thu Jul-26-07 01:53 PM
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...but I had some last night if Steak-umms count.
I'm more of a poultry person.
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Thu Jul-26-07 03:54 PM
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Edited on Thu Jul-26-07 04:11 PM by billyskank
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Thu Jul-26-07 04:01 PM
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35. About 50% poultry, 25% beef, 25% veggie. |
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Been eating a lot of hummus for lunch lately. :9
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Thu Jul-26-07 04:06 PM
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36. Not as much as I used to |
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Looking back, it hasn't been very often recently - once every two weeks seems to be my going rate. Once in a while, I'll go on a burger bender and have it every day for two or three days, then back to a couple of times a month.
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Thu Jul-26-07 04:27 PM
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37. We're getting bullish on buffalo of late. |
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Very lean, very tasty. Plus from our farmer's market, organic, no drugs/hormones.
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Thu Jul-26-07 04:29 PM
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sometimes two in the summer, grilling
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Thu Jul-26-07 04:35 PM
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Local, grass-fed and humanely raised/killed beef
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Thu Jul-26-07 05:06 PM
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40. About 10-12 times a month |
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We also eat lots of chicken, occasionally pork, and (rarely) fish.
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Thu Jul-26-07 05:57 PM
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It is farm raised and grass fed. I buy it by the half.
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Thu Jul-26-07 05:59 PM
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42. Every other week or so. |
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Chicken is much more frequent... once or twice a week.
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Thu Jul-26-07 07:26 PM
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43. DU POSTERS...have TURNED ME OFF AGAINST BEEF! I can't eat it unless |
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I'm desperate for some blood....and then...I know I'm going to get MAD COW!
Seriosly...I'm scared to death of eating beef with what I've read about it since I've been here. I limit it...but the CHICKEN is GETTIN BORING...no matter how many ways I can cook it...so once in awhile I seek out Whole Foods for source....but I don't trust them. Their meat is TOO RED in COLOR! You'd have to have been around like me to know that real good, tender beef isn't bright red and dripping with blood....ugh....
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Thu Jul-26-07 07:33 PM
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44. 2-4 Times Per Month, Give Or Take |
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Sometimes I'll go several weeks w/out beef, then have it 2 days in a row. No real pattern.
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Thu Jul-26-07 08:00 PM
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46. About once a month. And it's small portions too. |
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A little beef goes a long way.
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Thu Jul-26-07 08:39 PM
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48. either beef or chicken almost every day |
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Thu Jul-26-07 09:43 PM
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I haven't eaten beef, pork or any "red meat" for nearly 30 years. I do eat poultry and fish.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:48 PM
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now that I think of it, I don't eat it either. For years I've had yummy veggie burgers instead of the regular ones my husband gets and when I make tacos I have corn and beans while he has ground beef. I can't remember having it. I haven't missed it, I never liked the way it felt anyway.
I've cut down on pork a lot but I use it for pasta sauce about every other week. It's complicated to make a big sauce in two parts, one for the meat eater and one for me.
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Thu Jul-26-07 09:48 PM
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50. "I think doing anything excessively is what is not sustainable" |
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Let us all know how that works for you.
Lots of hybrid vehicles out there, with consideration that the argument has been made that driving a hybrid is more environmentally sustainable than the...other option.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:06 PM
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51. its going very well for me. thanks for asking. |
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It's one of the principles I try to live by: everything in moderation. It feels right to me, dare I say, on a spiritual level (coming from an atheistic pagan). Nothing feels more spiritually/emotionally out of balance to me than self-righteousness, no matter what good it professes to be in the name of.
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Fri Jul-27-07 07:58 AM
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63. people have been eating meat for centuries, its only unsustainable now, because of the amounts |
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in which we eat.
in meat eating parts of india, no one has red meat more than once a week, and even less in the summer.
meat is sustainable, excessive indulgence of anything (including bottled water) isnt.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:51 PM
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53. 2 to 3 times per week. It varies. |
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:53 PM
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54. beef: 2-4/wk, chicken: 2-4/week, pork: 2-4/week, no meat: yah, right.... |
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... He says, polishing off his first loaded pizza, moving on to the next.
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Thu Jul-26-07 10:59 PM
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55. Once or twice a month |
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Love it, but I am balancing my soy protein intake with that of meat protein. I eat more poultry than any other kind of meat, however.
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Thu Jul-26-07 11:25 PM
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57. Once every couple of months |
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I prefer fish or chicken, but every once in a while I get a hankering for a steak. It used to be just once a year, for prime rib on my birthday, but this past year I've had it a few times.
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Fri Jul-27-07 12:57 AM
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I love to barbecue. I roast some form of animal flesh about every other day, Usually beef or chicken. Every now and then I'll do shrimp, squid, salmon or scallops.
Oh yeah, and tripe. To barbecue tripe properly is an art. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...triiiiiiiiiipe.......
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We usually try to eat fish 2 times a week and Bison (which I love) the other days. We're in the middle of cattle country up here so the prices are pretty good for both beef and bison..
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Fri Jul-27-07 01:43 AM
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62. How much beef can a beef eater eat if a beef eater could eat beef.... |
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... A beef eater would eat as much beef as a beef eater could eat if a beef eater could eat beef.
Ta-da!
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Fri Jul-27-07 09:01 AM
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64. I eat beef or chicken probably 6 nights a week |
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Edited on Fri Jul-27-07 09:04 AM by MiserableFailure
My blood pressure is 107 over 67, and my total cholesterol is 158. My bad cholesterol is way below average. I'm 175 pounds at 6'2". I watch what I eat religiously and I try to work out 2-3 times per week. I'm also 41, so no fast metabolism here.
contrary to popular belief, and i quote, "blood pressure is a continuum with decreasing pathology associated with lower levels to well within the current "optimum" range". that means that it's better to have a systolic of 110 than 120. all systolic pressures below 120 are not equal.
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Fri Jul-27-07 09:09 AM
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65. About once a week at most. |
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If even that.
I tend to eat chicken most days. I don't know if that's any better for the environment, though. :shrug:
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Fri Jul-27-07 10:03 AM
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66. I stopped eating it when I was a teen and saw a truckload of cattle go by |
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Thinking about what awaited the gentle beings looking out through the slats of the truck with their big brown eyes made me vow never to eat cow -- or pig -- again.
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Fri Jul-27-07 10:48 AM
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67. Haven't for at least 7 years. Mad Cow bums me out. |
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