{"id":93,"date":"2006-03-03T07:28:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T07:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/03\/discard-food-product-eat-packa\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T07:28:01","slug":"discard-food-product-eat-packa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/03\/discard-food-product-eat-packa\/","title":{"rendered":"Discard Food Product. Eat Packaging."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I would like to be posting <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/03\/02\/cookin\/\">cool recipes<\/a> (with pictures, even!), I&#8217;m currently on a somewhat restricted diet. This isn&#8217;t a terribly serious post, and may slide over into &#8220;self-pitying,&#8221; so I&#8217;ll put the bulk of it behind the cut. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, I had some stomach problems that were eventually identified as acid reflux. It went away with a little medication, and some minor lifestyle changes (getting more exercise, not eating right before bed), and everything was fine for a long period. Then, having been advised that losing weight would get rid of the problem entirely (and suspecting that losing weight would help my basketball game and general health), I started making a serious effort to eat less and exercise more. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, part of the &#8220;eat less&#8221; strategy (drinking tea as a substitute for eating junk food at work) caused the reflux to come back with a vengeance (see if I ever take advice from doctors again&#8230;), which accounts for the generally dyspeptic tone of this blog the past few weeks. This, in turn, has led to a bunch more trips to the doctor, and a referral to a gastroenterologist who presented me with a list of foods to avoid, along with the usual  instructions not to smoke or drink alcohol, which I think is a deep spinal reflex in the medical profession. If you sneak up behind a doctor and startle them, they yell &#8220;Don&#8217;t smoke or drink alcohol!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The list of foods to avoid:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>citrus fruits\/li>\n<li>chocolate<\/li>\n<li>drinks with caffeine<\/li>\n<li>fatty and fried foods<\/li>\n<li>garlic and onions<\/li>\n<li>mint flavorings<\/li>\n<li>spicy foods<\/li>\n<li>tomato-based foods, like spaghetti sauce, chili, and pizza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That list pretty much covers, well, <strong>everything I eat<\/strong>. Yeah, this is going to do wonders for my mood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I would like to be posting cool recipes (with pictures, even!), I&#8217;m currently on a somewhat restricted diet. This isn&#8217;t a terribly serious post, and may slide over into &#8220;self-pitying,&#8221; so I&#8217;ll put the bulk of it behind the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}