Plastic pipe and flax seed oil

[drscott]

I'm on my own today -- Mike left just as I was getting up to spend a sports day with his friend, and I'm not expecting him back until tomorrow morning. I have chores to do -- there's a pile of 3" white plastic pipe in the side yard left over from demolition of the previous redwood-barrel hottub and its heating system which I need to cut up for disposal. I had been saving it in case it was needed to take rainwater from the atrium downspouts out through the entry for disposal, but since that would involve a lot of chopping into the concrete walkway and a much more extensive atrium rebuild than we now plan, I'm pretty sure I won't need it, so it's just clutter.

I also need to get to Trader Joe's -- I'm nearly out of flax seed oil, which is one of the dietary ingredients that keeps me so lean -- and I should swing by another window store to look at the precise thicknesses of our choices among Milgard windows. Then it'll b off to the gym and over to excessor's for dinner.

Comments

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Flax seed oil is one of the vegetable oils with the highest concentrations of "good" fats (Omega 3 and 6) and EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids) like ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid) and CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid.) Your body needs these, and the EFAs in particular help make fat metabolism more effective. You can take these via capsule but it's certainly cheaper, and probably more effective, to substitute the bulk oil for some of the bad fats in your diet -- for example, eating only low-fat dairy and adding back some of these oils to keep your total fat intake up where it needs to be to keep everything working smoothly and avoid cravings.

[crispan.livejournal.com]

Hey, Thanks. I'll look into purchasing some of that.