[Closed] Activated almonds

I wonder if he knows of an online supplier of weaponised walnuts ?

I saw a bottle of laundry detergent in tescos today that boasted that it was 'Gluten Free'.

What a time to be alive.

5 years ago, so maybe he's been crushed by a load of alkalised almonds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9657683/Celebrity-chef-mocked-for-bizarre-diet.html

2015 had a new contender join the game...

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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/diet/step-aside-pete-evans-miranda-kerrs-mum-therese-has-a-diet-that-makes-activated-almonds-seem-normal/news-story/c48ab20a51fa0989e5a467e644998ecf

Mind you, I've met a few "Cultured Vegetables" in my time.

Meanwhile theres a forum < over there < with a thread on the topic of 'Threaded Anchovies'

a glass of reverse osmosis!

pretty sure i had one of those at about 8am at glastonbury this year

I tried spirulina once....it came back up 2 seconds later!

Alkalised water! Wtf is that?

And why is he then adding (acidic) vinegar to it?

What a Grade 'A' nobclanger

I had a nitro coldbrew coffee in the Rapha cafe today, was nice.

My understanding of RO water is that it is really bad for you, it's the blooming odd way of diluting yourself to death.

Too few ions and the synapse doodads in the brain fail to fire.

Although she then un-ROs it by adding back the ions when she mineralised it again.

Bloody clown

My understanding of RO water is that it is really bad for you,

Most speciality coffee shops use RO water to get an ideal PH and 120ppm minerality, this gives a consistent taste and seriously reduces servicing bills for their machines. A lot of home coffee users use Tesco Ashbrook spring water which is just industrial scale mains water put through RO to get an ideal PH and mineral level.
Is it really bad for you?

You get coffee users now, do you?

Do they inject, snort or have someone puff it up their jacksie?

There was me thinking you're supposed to drink the stuff.

That sounds like a nice day's eating to me. There's some wildly silly stuff in there and I couldn't be bothered, but he isn't eating twigs and sadness. 🙂

Pete Evans is all over the meeja here in Oz and he is indeed a Grade 'A' nobclanger. Recently he was advising Australians not to wear sunscreen because it's "full of chemicals" 🙄

Bet he believes in dihydrogen monoxide being bad for you too....

Alkalised? Looks like I'm gonna have my work cut out for me...

he freely admits to self love

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I also want some reverse osmosis water, sounds delicious. Is this just pseudo-science (like homeopathy) - designed to 'sound' scientific to people that obviously have no knowledge of science whatsoever?

I do have Emu meatballs served on a bed of cocoa nibs once a week though.

Could explain the state of my guts after eating too much of my wife's almond crunch - something certainly got activated 😳

Reading this whilst facing the savage destruction from last nights kebab (imagine the sound of a load of old shoes falling out of a loft) maybe it's worth a try.

Alkalised water! Wtf is that?

And why is he then adding (acidic) vinegar to it?

My thoughts exactly!

magine the sound of a load of old shoes falling out of a loft

I'm trying to imagine that, but all I'm hearing is 'stack of library books falling off a trolly'

All the water we used to drink when I was out in Kandahar was reverse osmosised - we had our own bottling plant and the water came directly out of bore holes to the ROPU plant for purification.

I also want some reverse osmosis water, sounds delicious. Is this just pseudo-science (like homeopathy) - designed to 'sound' scientific to people that obviously have no knowledge of science whatsoever?

In this context I suspect yes but reverse osmosis is used to purify seawater. It's a cross between diffusion and filtration.

Needs moar pies to balance this thread up a little..

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Jesus wept. The first wave has just called for back up.

Nothing with RO water as such. Seen it used on an industrial scale to purify. Didn't pepsi or coke sell it at one point with a lot of marketing?

The minerals taken out would be replaced by whatever you were eating. But in both these examples they seem to be undoing that anyway. The crazy lady is adding in minerals and the crazy man is getting alkaline water and adding an acid to it?

All that liquorice tea is going to play merry hell with his estrogen levels.

lesgrandepotato - Member
Reading this whilst facing the savage destruction from last nights kebab (imagine the sound of a load of old shoes falling out of a loft) maybe it's worth a try.

Coffee on monitor moment! 😀

It looks as though soaking one's nuts may have some benefits, I shall try it for myself and report back.

I blame "Dr" Gillian McKeith!

I had a nitro coldbrew coffee in the Rapha cafe today, was nice.

Don't you mean Club House? Cafes are for cycling peasants who can't afford Rapha kit...

Don't you mean Club House? Cafes are for cycling peasants who can't afford Rapha kit..

I have a new favourite insult - nobclanger. 😆

It's ok....you can use your Walmart discount card now.

I'd forgotten about that! Just waiting for the [url= http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ ]People of Rapha Club Houses website[/url] to update it's URL...

Pete, if you had a proper breakfast you wouldn't need a second one 90 minutes later. Get some [s]woven wheat patches[/s] Shreddies down ya.

Of course, you should only drink natural alkaline water, none of that that nasty manufactured stuff.

https://www.aqualiv.com/alkaline-water-exposed/

Admits to drinking apple cider vinegar daily. 😀

Well that article about alkaline water taught me a thing or two. I feel much better able to understand the issues.

Unfortunately I fear my chem degree and PhD are now void.

i have to admit, I stopped reading halfway through. I could actually feel myself getting stupider.

Unfortunately I fear my chem degree and PhD are now void.

We've had enough of experts.

Admits to drinking [s]apple[/s] cider [s]vinegar[/s] daily

The field of "nutrition" has long ago disappeared up its own arse - one too many coffee enemas. Its basically Poe's law writ large now.

Emu meatballs, I mean come on.

"Eat more fruit veg and cut out the junk food" just doesn't sell that many books or develop a strong social media presence.

[url= https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating ]Why we feel for clean eating[/url]

One of the issues here is that "nutritionist" isn't a protected term. I could call myself a nutritionist. What you need is a dietitian.

To paraphrase Dara O'Briain, would you go and see a dentist or a toothyologist?

Admits to drinking apple cider vinegar daily

I ate an apple last week...

One of the issues here is that "nutritionist" isn't a protected term.

We really need the STW spam filter to substitute it for "moron".

Don't you mean Club House?

If I was a RRC member then it's a club house but seeing as I'm not then to me it's a Cafe same for anyone else walking in off the street..
I would join if it was close to my work because the 2 free coffees a day adds up to over £1500 a year making the £135 joining fee a bargain. I know a few people who have done this for the coffee not the epic suffering/circle jerk/exclusive grey and pink kit

One of the issues here is that "nutritionist" isn't a protected term. I could call myself a nutritionist. What you need is a dietitian.

Yes I was aware of that. There are quite a lot of other glaring inconsistencies when it comes to food. "Organic" is a protected term and there are lots of rules that have to be followed to use this title. "Natural" isn't though and has no meaning other than as marketing.

So "Richmtb's Organic Salty Balls" would require I prove that they or their ingredients were cultivated in an area that hadn't seen non-approved pesticides or fertilised for x number of years.

"Richmtb's Natural Salty Balls" on the other hand would have no such standing and could contain absolutely anything that was approved for use as a foodstuff

MMMmmm chocolate salty balls, just stick them in your mouth and suck em!

So "Richmtb's Organic Salty Balls" would require I prove that they or their ingredients were cultivated in an area that hadn't seen non-approved pesticides or fertilised for x number of years.

"Richmtb's Natural Salty Balls" on the other hand would have no such standing and could contain absolutely anything that was approved for use as a foodstuff

I'm not buying either

That reminds me.

Must buy teabags.

I ate an agitated apple today.

@cougar - I never click on shite like this:> https://www.aqualiv.com/alkaline-water-exposed/
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But then I did. I got as far as:

Water ionizers split apart water molecules with electricity to artificially create alkaline water.

...before the involuntary noises I was making were starting to draw glances. Though I do approve of the split infinitive. The good news from this thread is that whilst I can't say * * ** on here, I can say "knob clanger" so that's okay.

(-: It's quality woo, isn't it.

doris5000 - Member
a glass of reverse osmosis!

pretty sure i had one of those at about 8am at glastonbury this year

Colonic Irrigation?

I never click on shite like this:> https://www.aqualiv.com/alkaline-water-exposed/
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But then I did.

I did too.
I'm just upset that all these years I've been missing out on energised structured water. Not sure how I'll cope now that I know the water in my [i]bidon[/i] (bought from a Rapha Clubhouse while drinking coffee made with reverse-osmosis water obvs) is unstructured.

😐

To “activate” an almond you need to soak it for 24 hours in water then dry it out again over a low heat either in a dehydrator or on the lowest setting of an oven.

Proponents of activated almonds claim that raw almonds contain certain phytochemicals that prevent you from getting the full benefit of the nutrients almonds contain. They contend that by soaking the almonds for 24 hours and starting the germination process you are activating the almonds’ growth cycle which denatures these phytochemicals.

oh Lord,save us from unactivated almonds.

He could of course, just eat a few more almonds to get his full benefit, but that would render all the pretentious bollocks a bit well, moot. And no one wants that.

For a novice, is RO water just de-ionised then?

Apple cider vinegar is the titts. Pies will make you acidic.

Activated almonds sounds like something Adam West would say when playing Batman

Pies will make you acidic.

I only buy de-ionised, activated pies from the Greggs Clubhouse...

(-: It's quality woo, isn't it.

The bollocks on that aqualiv site is suspiciously too good, like it's cocking a sly eyebrow at anyone who vaguely remembers a smidgen of GCSE chemistry, whilst beckoning in only the numbest of numbskulls

dangeourbrain - Member
For a novice, is RO water just de-ionised then?

RO is a method of purification - you have a semi-permeable membrane and apply a pressure difference across it equal to or greater than the difference in osmotic pressures of the two fluids in order to get pure water.

It's legit therefore, but totally pointless to do with tap water in any developed country. In fact some tapwater is subject to RO as part of its purification anyway.

Edit - although ironically often things are added post RO for tapwater too, e.g. chlorine to make sure it's still safe at the other end.

Activated almonds sounds like something Adam West would say when playing Batman

Thanks, now I'm getting funny looks in the office.

Cougar - Moderator
Activated almonds sounds like something Adam West would say when playing Batman
Thanks, now I'm getting more funny looks than usual in the office.

FTFY

Thanks philjunior, I'm glad someone said it!

Again. This is 5 years old.

pretty sure i had one of those at about 8am at glastonbury this year

Colonic Irrigation?

no thanks, I just had a banana

This sort of nonsense died when 'Dr' Gillian Mckeith inspected Michelle mcmanus' jobbie on television.

That was TVs lowest ever.

Activated water is the business. I have mine activated with yeast, sugar and hops.

That would be horrible. You should use wheat or barley to improve the flavour.

Of course, you should only drink natural alkaline water, none of that that nasty manufactured stuff.

doris5000 - Member

pretty sure i had one of those at about 8am at glastonbury this year

Colonic Irrigation?

no thanks, I just had a banana

Now Len's retired, I assumed this thread was going to be about Craig Revel Horwood's hipster catchphrase on Strictly. "Activate my almonds! That was FAB-U-LOUS!"

As for acidifying alkaline water, can I get a patent on apple cider acetate? I shall call it Vitamin WTF, and supply it in small bottles via all 'good' online health retailers, as well as about a million shonky thieving ones.

Reading this whilst facing the savage destruction from last nights kebab (imagine the sound of a load of old shoes falling out of a loft) maybe it's worth a try.

😆

Now Len's retired, I assumed this thread was going to be about Craig Revel Horwood's hipster catchphrase on Strictly. "Activate my almonds!

I have a mental image of a villain in his lair but instead of saying "unleash the hounds!" he's shouting "ACTIVATE THE ALMONDS!"