Food and Biochem Relinkage

[thorfinn]

Been a long while (years!) since I posted these, but I think a refresher linky post appears in order:

• Thorfy's Chinese Stir Frying Meta-Recipe
• Wokking Technique or How To Improve Your Hot Wokking Action!
• Chinese Chopstick Technique
• Human Biochemistry, the basics as relating to dieting.

http://thorfinn.dreamwidth.org/tag/food has the full list of such posts.

Comments

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Ah, I recall these from ACG days. And I have to say, your advice on both excellent fried rice and Why Atkins is a Crock of Shite have stuck with me all these years. S'true!

[qamar.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Now, where's the congee page? :)

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Ahem.

In the last of those you say "The way to tell the difference? Listen to your muscles... if they're feeling "crunchy" afterwards, that's bad. "Crunchy" means that you have lactic acid buildup, and lactic acid is the direct byproduct of anaerobic metabolism."

That might be true for some kinds of exercise, but for heavy load-bearing exercise it's not true. The soreness you get after a weights workout is actually caused by structural damage to the muscle, at a micro level. Heavy weightlifting creates micro-tears in the muscle fibre, which are then repaired to a state slightly better than they were beforehand. That's how you grow muscle.

Googling shows me multiple pages with information like this one (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0675/is_2_17/ai_54286949) and this one (http://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/1346.html), which say that soreness *during* exercise might be lactic acid buildup, but soreness *afterwards* is what I described.

Load bearing exercise is pretty important, especially for women. I'd hate to think you were discouraging people from doing it on the grounds that they feel crunchy afterwards.

You wok!

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

These are Really Cool. I was brought up learning Chinese and Thai cooking styles, but I still learned a fair bit. Thank you!

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

I, too, would love a congee page. With vegetarian option!:)

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Yeah, bring on the Congee!

"Crush the lesser races. Conquer the galaxy. Incredible power, unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera!"

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

I still don't use a wok. (We do use steel pans now though.) I still think of you every time I don't. :)

[thebaronmk1.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly - an excellent summary which will hopefully prove worthwhile in my cooking adventures :-)

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

I do like the idea that my gentle 15-20 bike ride to/from work every day is the Best Form Of Exercise Ever!

[kitling.livejournal.com]

I need my Sichaun potato, eggplant and capsicum dish!

Damn chilli paradise for closing down.

[thorfinn]

Oops. :-) Cursed scientific progress. Edited to reflect new knowledge. Ta. :-)

[thorfinn]

:-) It really is. Obviously, as a form of exercise it's not going to give you lots of strength, but in terms of pure health benefits, it's massively huge bang-for-buck.

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

I also do an hour of yoga and an hour of football weekly. I reckon I'm doing OK on the exercise front.