Hubby is still sore from the procedure. What that means is that the site where they inserted all their hardware, the femoral artery near his groin, still hurts. He gets more rest today: no heavy lifting or excessive walking.
What to have for breakfast? Our usual standby should do very nicely.
- organic oatmeal cooked in almond milk
- 1/2 banana sliced into bottom of bowl
- 2 tablespoons homemade apple sauce
- oatmeal next
- 1 tablespoon freshly ground flax seed *
- 1 tablespoon homemade cranberry sauce (leftover from Thanksgiving)
- some ground almonds or walnuts or both
* Why the freshly ground flax seed? (By the way, I use a small Krups coffee grinder and buy flax seed from our local Whole Foods.) Well, humans don't manufacture Essentail Fatty Acids (EFA's). We get them from the food we eat. Omega 3's and Omega 6's are EFA's. Back in the day, humans used to consume them in equal proportions. Now it's thought that we consume them in a proportion of 20 (omega 6's) to 1 (omega 3's). This is not good. It's a probable reason for coronary heart disease. We need much more omega 3's. Where to get them? From fish (salmon, sardines, mackerel, cod), chicken and eggs, flax seed, and more. OK, why the chicken and eggs? for the same reason as the fish. Life at the bottom of the food chain eat plants (algae, weeds). That's where they get the omega 3's. So if you eat chicken and eggs you have to get chickens that can run around freely and eat grass, weeds, and bugs (who eat plants)! Ditto for the eggs! Flax seed, of course, is the seed of a plant thus it's loaded with good omega 3's. You don't want flax seed oil because it will oxidize quickly, go rancid, and no omega 3's! :-(
Read this article for more complete information on Omega 3's and 6's:
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400149/balancing-omega-3-and-omega-6.html
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