BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - For lovers of boiled peanuts, there’s some good news from the health front. A new study by a group of Huntsville researchers found that boiled peanuts bring out up to four times more chemicals that help protect against disease than raw, dry or oil-roasted nuts.
Lloyd Walker, chair of Alabama A&M University’s Department of Food and Animal Sciences who co-authored the study, said these phytochemicals have antioxidant qualities that protect cells against the risk of degenerative diseases, including cancers, diabetes and heart disease.
“Boiling is a better method of preparing peanuts in order to preserve these phytochemicals,” Walker said.
The study will appear in Wednesday’s edition of the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The other co-authors in the study are A&M researchers Yvonne Chukwumah and Martha Verghese, as well as University of Alabama in Huntsville researcher Bernhard Vogler.
Walker said peanuts and other plants use phytochemicals for things such as helping avoid disease and insect attacks.
“These things are not nutrients; at the same time they have health benefits to humans,” he told The Birmingham News. “The trick is to keep those health benefits, not to process them out of the foods.”
According to Walker, water and heat penetrate the nuts, releasing beneficial chemicals to a certain point. Overcooking the nuts destroys the useful elements.
Alabama is third in the nation in the amount of peanuts produced with a crop valued at more than $67 million last year.
Mississippi is number 1 in the nation in per capita consumption of boiled peanuts.
OK, I just made that up. Heh.
Here’s an open thread for Saturday afternoon, watching (or listening to) the world’s largest outdoor cocktail party.
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A lot of folks around these parts have vivid recollections of the plane crash that claimed the heart and soul of Southern Rock–Lynyrd Skynyrd. That was thirty years ago today.
Where are they now?
Of those who were members when the plane crashed Oct. 20, 1977:
ARTIMUS PYLE Drummer: Lives in North Carolina and plays with the Artimus Pyle Band
CASSIE GAINES Backup vocals: Died in plane crash
BILLY POWELL Keyboards: Lives in Jacksonville, still playing with Skynyrd
LEON WILKESON Bass: Died 2001 of chronic liver and lung disease
ALLEN COLLINS Guitar: Died 1990 of pneumonia, following paralysis from a 1986 car crash
LESLIE HAWKINS Backup vocals: Lives in Middleburg, still dealing with health issues from plane crash but sings occasionally with tribute bands
GARY ROSSINGTON Guitarist: Lives in North Georgia, still playing with Skynyrd
RONNIE VAN ZANT Vocals: Died in plane crash
JO JO BILLINGSLEY Backup vocals: Now a minister in Alabama, left band two months before crash
STEVE GAINES Guitar: Died in plane crash
Just how high could Lynyrd Skynyrd really have flown? Wonderful piece in the Jacksonville Times-Union. Read it all
Here is Lynyrd Skynyrd, from 1976, doing a live performance of “Searching”
Enjoy your boiled peanuts and root beer on this beautiful college football Saturday in Dixie! Later y’all.
Now well past 90, Judith MacKnight Jones is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the illness that robbed her of all of her memory, her most precious asset.
She has been lying here for the past 11 years, covered by a patchwork blanket, made from pieces her great-grandmother brought from the United States between 1865 and 1885, after the Confederacy lost the Civil War.
Unable to speak or remember now, her book “Soldado Descanso” (”Rest Soldier”) is written in Portuguese, but soon will be translated into English, as the publisher thinks Americans should know about the proud history of Confederate immigrants settling in Brazil, finding a new home here but maintaining many of the traditions they brought from Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, the Carolinas and Georgia. [snip]
The air is clean and pure. In the far distance, red hills and small dirt roads separate farms. People here live from the service and manufacturing industry.
Almost 150 years ago, Dr. James McFaddon from South Carolina went to Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans to open negotiations with Brazil to migrate, looking for a new home.
He traveled to Brazil and, on his return, wrote a book, “Home Hunting in Brazil,” planting seeds for emigration.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 Americans made the journey, leaving the United States to look into building a new home and life. Today, they live not only in Americana and nearby Santa Barbara, but are scattered all over the hills of the state of Sao Paulo and over several other parts of Brazil, the fifth-largest country in the world.
“the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history”
Now that this phrase has been published by a respected member of the MSM, and, as such, is now in the LexusNexis search database, it seems appropriate to associate that phrase with the person to whom it refers: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I received a ping from FReeper “Spirit of Allegiance” this morning which pointed to an article which featured our pal, “Dougfromupland.”
The article was in the San Francisco Chronicle’s on line edition. Here is the introductory paragraph of the article about “the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history.”
In his other life, Douglas Cogan, 59, is a San Bernardino County commercial real estate broker. But for years, the conservative Republican has spent thousands of hours painstakingly researching what he calls “the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history” by a woman he calls one of the most dangerous political figures the country has ever seen - Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Since it appears that Google has enabled “google-bombing” again, I thought it might be interesting to get the phrase, “the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history,” permanently associated with Hillary Rodham Clinton. That is the purpose of this post. And, if any of you bloggers out there want to join in, just copy+paste this post at your blog, or pass it along in the comments section of your favorite blogs. The more the merrier. I’m going to track-post it to Linkfests, and post it at FR and Hannity. I’ll also activate every tag I have ever used to associate it with this post. Heh.
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Here’s a shout-out to RT and the gang at their music video website.
Texas Gal has put together an outstanding tribute to The King. You gotta check it out.
The King is mighty impressed!
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