Re: One hump or two?

Do the people that eat dates for "easier toilet going" , also eat a lot of
other fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and beans? Or, do they eat mostly
white bread, white rice, meat, dairy, and such and foods with less fiber and
roughage in them? That is the laxative effect a matter of the dates
providing some fiber in the diet, or is there a chemical effect?

I am very lucky that I have never been hungry. But, the summer of 1991,
when I helped remove hazardous waste from the Desert Storm Theater of War,
we were eating military food that had sat in ships for 5 years and in sun in
the desert for an additional 6 months. The military had long ago taken what
they wanted and we got what was left over. A diet of dates for a few days
did not seem so bad, it seemed like an adventure.

Were we really hungry? No. But I expect that today, most of the readers of
this group would turn up their noses at the contents of those brown plastic
pouches (MREs). For example, if we wanted a cup of coffee, we dumped a
packet of dry "instant coffee" into our mouth and washed it down with a
couple of swallows of water. That was better than mixing the coffee powder
with water and trying to drink the nasty result.

The military had disturbed the "desert pavement," and every breeze stirred
up a dust storm. What ever we ate was going to have dust and grit in it.
Open an MRE, and by the time it got to our lips, it had dust and grit in
it.

Aaron

"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" <mirjam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Was just reading Aharon`s description and wondered , in my Supermarket
and in Hrealth shops ALL people use Dates for easier toilet going ,
this is the first time in years that i see any one saying it didn`t
work on him .... well there is always an exception ....
We have here many dates , my Favorites are the Yellow ones that come
off the trees and are hard as stones 24 hours in the frezzer and they
are like icecream , soft and smooth and Honey sweet ....
Apres WW2 food was hard ,,,,,i remember being hungry . If Aharon wants
to understand that ,,,, Please go to my work ,,,on my site " Soldier
give me Chocolate Soldier give Chewingum " ,,,, mirjam

In article <R3Mcg.80404$H71.72463@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<agres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron you must be special. At the end of WWII the allied forces dropped
food packages from airplanes to the starved Dutch people. Dates were on
of the foods we got.. Dates are very healthy and have lots of vitamines,
and are also for most of us, a laxative. Naturally most of the time when
you eat dates it is part of a meal, and not the only staple you eat.

I guess you beter stay a way from dates and date squares....yummy and
matrimonial cookies as well

Els
Sorry, but when I tried living on nothing but dates, and more dates,
for a
week, they worked the other way. I know they have a reputation as a
laxative. For example, they really do help ease a diet of white bread.
But,
try eating nothing but dates and water for a week and tell us how your
tummy
feels!

After a week of dates, my tummy needed all the Ex-Lax that we had in
the
truck, and then I went back to eating the military MREs : (
Maybe
it is just the dates of Al-Hufuf. (I bought a 30 kg wooden crate of
dates
there.) Maybe it is the fact that my dates were dried, rather then
fresh.
With all the smoke from the burning oil wells in the air, it never
really
got that hot during that summer of 1991, and we had plenty of water, so
I do
not think dehydration was much of a problem. Maybe, it was the fact
that we
were pretty active, so I was hungry and ate a lot of dates, but those
dates
sure plugged me up. My partner ate crackers and canned tuna fish when
he
got tired of MREs, and he was OK. I was OK when I was eating MREs, so
I do
not think it was the smoke. I was OK when we got into Hofer Al-Batin
(north
of Al-Qaysumah) and I was eating hotel food (Actually that was some of
the
best food I have ever had in my life. Somebody in that kitchen knew
everything there is to know about grilling lamb chops!)

Hofer Al-Batin is also the home of the great Bald Hills Dairy Camel
Herd. I
bought half a liter of camel's milk at the little store at the cross
roads.
( Mostly they stocked dates, flour, and lamp oil.) The camel's milk was
a
whole lot more powerful than the Ex-Lax. And, I had looked and not
seen
camel's milk in the BIG supermarkets in Al-Khubar and Ad-Damman where I
had
bought provisions.

I have never tried living on just raisins or prunes. In my early
climbing
days, I often lived on granola that was half dried fruit, including
raisins, prunes, or dates, and there was never any problem at all. But,
there was lots of nuts and grain with the dried fruit! But, in my one
experience, dates in excess, plug! : (

If there are dates around, I eat them! But, I do not try to live on
them!

Aaron

"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" <mirjam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes Dates are very laxative ,,, abd Grandeapples stop this ...
mirjam

I thought dates would be laxitative (?) like raisins and prunes.
Learn
something new.

JJMolvik



--
Ja for Jazz and co out of cobra



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