106F today. Too hot to function, so I stayed inside in the AC and got a nap in the afternoon. (I'm still not sleeping well.) Tomorrow it cools down a bit to 101F and Alexa says there'll be some thunderstorms. I hope it rains. We're not getting nearly enough rain for the season.
Dave had some things to do outside the house today, so he got to be out in the heat, lucky him.
Neither of us felt like cooking today, so we tried takeout from a new Thai restaurant near the Indian restaurant we usually go do. Finding new restaurants since we moved kind of sucks. I miss our old favorites. This new place (Thai Cuisine, I think it was called) was only okay. The portions were bigger, but everything was kind of bland and way too salty. (I eat very low salt because it has such a big effect on my blood pressure, so it might just be me that notices when a restaurant is going overboard on the salt.) I mean, it is Asian food, so you expect it to be salty, but it was a little above and beyond for me.
When I lived in Japan, it was nearly impossible to eat low sodium. Japanese food is packed with sodium. So many Japanese women die of strokes in their 50s, it's crazy. Here in the US, many people eat around 3 grams of salt a day. (Recommendations are for no more than 2 grams and a low sodium diet like mine aims to have around 1 gram and no more than 1.5 grams.) In Japan, the average woman eats 8 grams of salt per day. The average Japanese man eats 11 grams of salt per day. So Japanese eat far more--three to four times more--sodium than Americans. (This is for everyone who thinks that Japanese eat such a healthy diet of fish and rice.)
Americans do eat far more fat and sugar than Japanese, but--and this is surprising to many--far fewer food additives than Japanese. Japanese food is filled with food additives, many of which are banned in other countries.
Can you tell I'm still on my diet? Ugh. Food.
So dinner: Dave had drunken noodles and I had a teriyaki chicken plate with brown rice (not Thai, but I wanted some basic protein). We shared a Thai stir fry with zucchini and tofu.
Meh.
Enough about food.
Our recent wildlife sightings are mainly dragonflies (they hang out around our pond), rabbits, quail, and flies. So many flies. The heat and the horses bring flies.
I hate flies.
2 comments:
I didn't know that Japanese food was so high in salt. I wonder if that's because of the amount of soy sauce they use?
I wonder! Soy sauce is really high in sodium, as are all the traditional condiments and sauces in Japan like mentsuyu or tonkotsu sauce-- but so are things like ketchup and mustard in the U.S. and we eat just as much packaged foods and probably more junk food in the U.S. so I wonder what accounts for the difference.
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