Category Archives: food & drink

ad for anorexia

05 Sunday Jul 2009

Posted by in food & drink, health & happiness, rants, video, wtf?

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This ad has been showing on Spanish television for awhile now and, everytime I see it, I get really annoyed. The girls are saying “I’m smarter than hunger” (hunger = hambre) and with close up shots of their eensy-weensy bums they encourage hungry women to eat “30 delicious calories” of puffed corn crap with virtually no nutritional value (1 cake; Calories: 30, Total Fat: 0.2g, Carbs: 6g, Protein:0.7g). I doubt most women would fall for this bullshit, but what about impressionable teenage girls? Which I am sure is Bicentury’s intended target market.

I admit that I tend to find most advertising geared towards women offensive, but this one takes things too far by appearing to promote anorexia. There’s no mention that this product is an occasional snack option if one is on a weight loss programme. The ad just blatantly flaunts stick-thin models boasting about how they beat hunger. Sick.

In reality, a nice crisp apple would make one feel less hungry than two air-puffed corn cakes.  Same calories, but with way more natural goodness.  Here is the nutritional content of an apple…

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I rest my case.

summer solstice christmas

22 Monday Jun 2009

Posted by in culture, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, hope, restaurants, sevilla

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manolo leon lunch

Yesterday was Susan’s last Sunday in Sevilla and she treated me to this fabulously decadent lunch at Manolo León. Some of you may remember that after the erroneous second prognosis last October, when I was told that I maybe had a year to live, we (Nog, Pablo & I) went to Manolo León for a “post-prognosis party” in order to, well, eat like there was no tomorrow and get shit-faced. And so it was nice to go back there under more pleasant circumstances.

Yesterday was also the summer solstice, which ended up feeling a bit like Christmas…

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creamy

20 Saturday Jun 2009

Posted by in cancer, food & drink, photohunt, photos

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photohunter creamy

Today’s Photohunter theme is “creamy”.

In keeping with the whole anti-cancer thang, have been trying to include more antioxidents in my diet. One of the most delicious ways has been making fruit & yoghurt smoothies for breakfast. This one has blueberries, melon, banana, natural yoghurt … and also some greek yoghurt to make it extra creamy.

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ginger

18 Thursday Jun 2009

Posted by in cancer, food & drink

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ginger root

So I got some ginger. So now what?

Trying to do more anti-cancer diet stuff these days. Ginger is supposed to be very good for nausea and tumeric is touted as being a very effective natural anti-inflammatory. Have yet to start on the tumeric but yesterday I made a lovely chicken stir-fry with spring onion, garlic, mushrooms, lemon and ginger. So if any of you have a favourite recipe that uses ginger, please pass them along and I’ll try them out. Preferably some very simple dishes that I can make during the first ten days of my chemo cycle when the nausea is at its worst.

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celebration

14 Sunday Jun 2009

Posted by in cancer, change, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, home, hope, life stuff, love, philosophy, photos, tapas

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becerrita(click on pic to enlarge)

On this week’s A Day at the Hospital post I told you that something wonderful had happened and that Nog and I went out to celebrate. Later I told you the reason for celebrating, but I never told you what we did. By the time we left the hospital that day it was almost 2 o’clock and, since I knew I had some extra cash, I decided it was high time I treated Nog to a tapa snack as he has been treating me since I got sick and haven’t been able to work.

And so we took the bus over to Becerrita and had a lovely tapa lunch. Calamares, lamb in honey sauce, potato croquettes and pork tenderloin with wild mushrooms. Then a nice walk home while I thought about the email I was going to send “Bob” that evening.

To be honest, every day has been a celebration since I was given the amazingly fabulous gift of a month to heal. It’s really changed my life and I am suddenly appreciating all the “little things” so much more. I guess I’d been feeling kind of hopeless and at the end of my rope, and so being given this chance to do things the way I feel I need to in order to get better ended up starting a whole series of positive changes. Still taking baby steps, but doing a little every day.

Having hope again is a wonderful thing.