We Have a Pact; Well, Sort Of
We had a little family meeting yesterday near our Christmas tree. Just talking about anything and everything. Ping was joking that we need to adopt a countryside Chinese girl who can take care of us in our old age, because Cici will be too busy with her career to worry about us. Cici will get married while she is in college, Ping continued, to which Cici and I reacted the same way. No way! I think I will get married when I am 30 years old, Cici said. That is exactly what I was thinking too, I told the girls. Cici and I didn't shake on it, but we certainly had a meeting of the minds.
There was more talk about the University of Texas. Cici still has her heart set on going there for college, although she sees Texas A & M as a valid back up position. Then she will show her practical side and return to Houston to work while she goes to law school, she says. Many students do that because we have the South Texas College of Law here offering class schedules that fit with a working person's schedule. Its students regularly win the National Moot Court Competitions that are held among all the law schools in the country.
Long before then, however, we have friends coming today to spend a couple of days with us, so we will eat Peking Duck tonight. I have a busy schedule with a lot of meetings, so Ping will still come to the office to see me through most of them before leaving to meet up with our friends and Cici.
Last night I remembered that it was on September 19 that I stopped with the blood pressure medicine cold turkey, so after three months with no medication my blood pressure should be very high according to Western medical authorities. I took my blood pressure. It was 120/73. These Western doctors need to learn more about the benefits of brown rice and beans and Chinese vegetables and hot tea. They need to learn more about the dangers of meat and caffeine and sugar and the Western food pyramid that simply doesn't work. And finally, they need to learn more about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs.
Or at least be open minded about them.
There was more talk about the University of Texas. Cici still has her heart set on going there for college, although she sees Texas A & M as a valid back up position. Then she will show her practical side and return to Houston to work while she goes to law school, she says. Many students do that because we have the South Texas College of Law here offering class schedules that fit with a working person's schedule. Its students regularly win the National Moot Court Competitions that are held among all the law schools in the country.
Long before then, however, we have friends coming today to spend a couple of days with us, so we will eat Peking Duck tonight. I have a busy schedule with a lot of meetings, so Ping will still come to the office to see me through most of them before leaving to meet up with our friends and Cici.
Last night I remembered that it was on September 19 that I stopped with the blood pressure medicine cold turkey, so after three months with no medication my blood pressure should be very high according to Western medical authorities. I took my blood pressure. It was 120/73. These Western doctors need to learn more about the benefits of brown rice and beans and Chinese vegetables and hot tea. They need to learn more about the dangers of meat and caffeine and sugar and the Western food pyramid that simply doesn't work. And finally, they need to learn more about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs.
Or at least be open minded about them.
Don't forget that the modern food pyramid is more about making sure that businesses are represented, than it is about nutrition.
I think if you look at the original food pyramid from way back, you will see it's quite different(while still western of course), than it is now.
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I like to look at the contrast between our Western food pyramid and the Okinawa diet. Have you had your sweet potatoes today? They were such an important part of the Okinawa diet that this question was apparently used as a greeting years ago.
Our Christmas meal this year will be Chinese vegetable dumplings and Chinese vegetables with some brown rice. Eating turkey was just a tradition; I don't miss it, and the girls don't really care for it. Even my son will only eat turkey if he puts soy sauce on it to disguise its taste.
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