Rudynate

Having been a contestant, I think you would have a hard time making a hire. They are so focused on the contest and moderating their food and water intake, that working would be far from their minds. After the contest is over, they are focused on getting someting to eat and some rest.

And if your prescription drugs cost more than a few thousand dollars per year, which is common place in today's market, you WILL encounter the donut hole. I stay out of the donut hole by buying most of my prescription drugs off shore.

Denial is a wonderful thing. My mother was in her late 80s in a skilled nursing home in Mississippi, and spoke nearly every day about buying a car and moving to Florida.

I see a preventive cardiologist. His recommendation is a Mediterranean-style diet-fish, lean meat, olive oil, veggies, fruit, pasta, whole grains. I personally follow a bodybuilding diet- lean protein, whole grains, tubers legumes, eggs, whole milk, olive oil, peanut butter, nuts, green vegetables, a little fruit

I love deviled eggs. I make them for picnics, parties, starter at dinner parties. Grandma's right. You can't go wrong with them

Eritrea was once part of Ethiopia and I believe all of Ethiopia was an Italian colony. Addis Ababa is known for its Fascist-era architecture.

Years ago I lived in an apartment building and one of the apartments on my floor was occupied by a group of Eritrean students, among them a couple. The couple got married, and as was their custom, entertained for three days - they had an open house and people dropped in - they served food and guests toasted the newlyweds, etc. The first day, the food smelled wonderful - spicy, full of garlic - just great. The second day, I was getting a little tired of it. And the third day, I began to hope that I would never smell Eritrean/Ethiopean food ever again.

I'll keep my irrational blanket.

You think? Several years ago, I took an intensive German course of several weeks in Germany. One of our activities was a potluck dinner where we brought a dish that was characteristic of the country we were from. I was the only American in the class and I wracked my brain to come up with something that conveyed "mom and apple pie" that wasn't ordinary. I finally decided on scalloped potatoes with ham." Everybody liked it.

One of my all-time, bar-none favorite meals is bibimbap. I could really imagine it made with wagyu beef. A while ago, just around the corner, a restaurant opened that served nothing but shabu-shabu. The beef version was made with wagyu beef - fabulous I think they were a little to high-concept for this neighborhood - they only lasted a few months.

Nothing too exotic-venison, wild boar, bison, elk, squirrel, wild pheasant, wild duck

You seemed to want to talk about the mind and dismiss the body. And of course, one can try, but the mind and body are intimately related.

I know a terribly sexy guy who works for a company that imports wagyu beef from Japan. He said to let him know anytime I want a deal on Japanese beef.

So, because we're "so much more," hormones should be dismissed as unimportant?

Hormones are an aspect of one's psychology

Testosterone replacement can help with that.

Steak tartare at a good restaurant is not made from ground beef. It is raw tenderloin very finely chopped.

The first time I visited Seattle, I spent a lot of time at and around the Pike Street market. One day, I happened on a specialty meat market that sold only horse meat. I went inside and there were all these different cuts of horse meat in the cases laid out on beds of ice.

The first time I ever ate raw meat was the first time I went to Amsterdam, in the 70s. There used to be a lot of street vendors who sold sandwiches made from little hard rolls filled with raw ground beef. It wasnt't steak tartare exactly because it lacked all the condiments that tartare has. It was just raw ground beef. I bought a couple and I was with a friend and he thought they were disgusting - wouldn't touch them. I didn't find them very appetizing either, but I wanted to show him how sophisticated I was, so I choked them down. I eventually learned to like raw meat dishes.

Im glad its working for you. I've been on it for nearly 15 years.

I grew up in Western New York, and we had a regional specialty - white hots. They were sort of like poor man's bratwurst. My sibs all liked red hots. My father always made sure to get me some white hots.

It is good. I also like it's cousin carpaccio.

Sometimes alcohol can be a factor. We have a friend in his late 70s. He is someone who has always enjoyed a drink, maybe a little too much. He started hitting the martinis pretty hard and underwent a noticeable personality change. He drove off both of his housemates.

Maybe everybody needs hormone replacement therapy. Testosterone deficiency is supposed to be one of the reasons guys get grouchy with age.