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Title: New Aztec Diet Focuses On Ancient Superfood
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Published: Aug 23, 2013
Author: ABC News
Post Date: 2013-08-23 00:43:26 by Tatarewicz
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The latest diet book to hit shelves is pulling diet tips from an unlikely source: the ancient Aztecs. Author and host of the Dr. Danger reality series, Dr. Bob Arnot's " The Aztec Diet" focuses on chia seeds as a superfood to keep cravings at bay. READ: Why is Everyone Eating Chia Seeds? Dr. Arnot has been compensated by Lifemax, one of the companies which distributes chia seeds. Chia sees are packed with omega-3 vitamins. They have more calcium than milk and spinach and five grams of fiber per 70 calorie serving. Avo-Colada Calories: 414.5 Carb Load: 19 1¼ cups coconut water (9.5-fluid-ounce package) ½ cup chopped ripe avocado 1¾ cups chopped frozen pineapple 2 tablespoons chia 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice Pinch of sea salt Combine the coconut water, avocado, pineapple, chia, lime juice, and salt in a blender. Blend until smooth. Gazpacho Gratitude Calories: 323.5 Carb Load: 14.25 2½ cups cherry tomatoes 2 tablespoons chia 1 medium carrot, peeled and roughly chopped ¾ cup roughly chopped English cucumber ¾ cup roughly chopped peeled cantaloupe 3 tablespoons chopped red onion 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil 5 medium fresh basil leaves ½ teaspoon sea salt, plus more to taste Freshly ground pepper Combine the tomatoes, chia, carrot, cucumber, cantaloupe, red onion, lemon juice, olive oil, basil, sea salt, and pepper to taste in a blender and pulse until smooth but still chunky. Season with more sea salt and pepper to taste. Dr. Bob's Kale Blueberry Smoothie 1 cup filtered water 4 tablespoons chia ½ cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt ½ cup blueberries 3 cups chopped stemmed kale leaves 1 teaspoon honey Combine the water, chia, yogurt, blueberries, kale, and honey in a blender. Blend until smooth. *Works best if the blueberries are frozen
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Run, little chia turtle. Run! ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Have you eaten these seeds?
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I do. I mix chia seeds, whole milk, vanilla extract and stevia. It's very similar to tapioca pudding. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. You use a blender to break the seeds up? I do not drink milk but I do drink whey protein powder. If I had a direct source in the country, I would drink whey. It is the best protein along with eggs.
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No, just stir or shake. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. This site has complete nutritional data on chia seeds and everything else.
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Excerpts from article about the old Aztec diet: The Aztecs were unique among the world's states in having a cannibal empire......Recently, Borah, possibly the leading authority on the demography of Mexico at the time of the conquest, has also revised the estimated number of persons sacrificed in central Mexico in the fifteenth century to 250,000 per year, equivalent to one percent of the total population...... These enormous numbers call for consideration of what the Aztecs did with the bodies after the sacrifices. Evidence of Aztec cannibalism has been largely ignored or consciously or unconsciously covered up...... A search of the sixteenth-century literature, however, leaves no doubt as to the prevalence of cannibalism among the central Mexicans...... According to these early accounts......the overwhelming majority of the sacrificed captives apparently were consumed. A principal -- and sometimes only -- objective of Aztec war expeditions was to capture prisoners for sacrifice. While some might be sacrificed and eaten on the field of battle, most were taken to home communities or to the capital, where they were kept in wooden cages to be fattened until sacrificed by the priests at the temple- pyramids. Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols. The corpse was then tumbled down the steps of the pyramid and carried off to be butchered. The head went on the local skull rack, displayed in central plazas alongside the temple- pyramids. At least three of the limbs were the property of the captor if he had seized the prisoner without assistance in battle. Later, at a feast given at the captor's quarters, the central dish was a stew of tomatoes, peppers, and the limbs of his victim. The remaining torso, in Tenochtitlán at least, went to the royal zoo where it was used to feed carnivorous mammals, birds, and snakes. ......Mexican archeologists excavating at an Aztec sacrificial site in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City between 1960 and 1969 uncovered headless human rib cages completely lacking the limb bones......Nearby they also discovered piles of human skulls, which apparently had been broken open to obtain the brains, possibly a choice delicacy reserved for the priesthood.... Through cannibalism, the Aztecs appear to have been attempting to reduce very particular nutritional deficiencies. Under the conditions of high population pressure and class stratification that characterized the Aztec state, commoners or lower-class persons rarely had the opportunity to eat any game, even the domesticated turkey, except on great occasions. They often had to content themselves with such creatures as worms and snakes and an edible lake-surface scum called "stone dung," which may have been algae fostered by pollution from Tenochtitlán. Preliminary research seems to indicate that although fish and waterfowl were taken from the lakes, most of the Aztec poor did not have significant access to this protein source and were forced to be near- vegetarians, subsisting mainly on domesticated plant foods such a maize and beans..... ....Aztecs frequently withdrew from conquered territory without establishing administrative centers or garrisons. This "failure" to consolidate conquest in the Old World fashion puzzled Cortés, who asked Moctezuma to explain why he allowed the surrounded Tlaxcalans to maintain their independence. Moctezuma reportedly replied that his people could thus obtain captives for sacrifice...... from the Aztec point of view, the Tlaxcalan state was preserved as a stockyard...... Mesoamerican cannibalism, disguised as propitiation of the gods, bequeathed to the world some of its most distinctive art and architecture......Even small touches, such as the steepness of the steps on pyramids in Aztec and other Mesoamerican ruins, become understandable given the need for efficiently tumbling the bodies from the sacrificial alters to the multitudes below. Perhaps those prehistoric scenes were not too dissimilar from that which Bernal Díaz described when his companions were sacrificed before his eyes in Tenochtitlán: "Then they kicked the bodies down the steps, and the Indian butchers who were waiting below cut off their arms and legs and flayed their faces, which they afterwards prepared like glove leather, with their beards on, and kept for their drunken festivals. Then they ate their flesh with a sauce of peppers and tomatoes."
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#3. To: Horse (#2)
Have you eaten these seeds?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#4. To: Esso (#3)
#5. To: Horse (#4)
You use a blender to break the seeds up?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
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#8. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
"New Aztec Diet"
Through cannibalism, the Aztecs appear to have been attempting to reduce very particular nutritional deficiencies.....
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