Our tomato plants

Is it normal to have 15 big tomato plants in the kitchen?

Housewifes

One of our biggest newspapers asked women if they want to be housewifes and 56 % said yes. They also asked the men if they wanted a housewife and 50 % said yes.

I think that is pretty interesting as it's so rare that you see a housewife here. I only know of one here in Sweden.

The last fat-soluble vitamin - Vitamin K

As usual, there are plenty of different Vitamin K that are divided into two groups, K1 and K2.

We get half of our need from our food (we absorb about 10-70 % of it) and the other half is produced by the bacterias in our intestines.

The vitamin is needed for the bloods coagulation and thats why it's also called vitamin K - after the danish word koagulation (it was a danish person who discovered this).

Newborns does not have a funcional intestinal flora so they can not produce vitamin K. Therefore the babies usually get a single dose of vitamin K to prevent bleeding conditions.
You can get Vitamin K deficiency when you take antibiotic as that destroys the bacteria flora.

You can find vitamin K mostly in dark green vegetables and vegetable oils.

Swedish lessons

We have now started to have swedish lessons at my house for 2 americans (on the left) and one girl from Russia and one guy from Holland. My sister is sitting there on the end on the table as well eating apple pie.

I know you've been waiting :) --> Vitamin E!!

Vitamin E can also be put into different groups (8). They are good antioxidants as they react with the free radicals. They also “protect” vitamin A and D and polysaturated fats for the same reason I just mentioned (free radicals) – but then the vitamin (E) gets destroyed. This is the reason why they are having vitamin E in hand creams – to protect it from getting bad… so the vitamin is not there to “help your hands” in some way, its only purpose is to be a preservative for the cream. 

We absorb about 50-89 % of the vitamin and it absorbs in the same way as fat – which means that you need bile acids for it. We store about a couple of grams in our bodies.

We need vitamin E for our cell membranes (the “walls” of the cell), immune system, nervous system and much more. 

Our intake needs to increase as we increase our intake of polysaturated fats – but things that contains this fat normally also contains more vitamin E.

It is not very common that people get an overdose of vitamin E – but it can happen as it is a fat-soluble vitamin. 

You can find this vitamin in (for example) vegetable oils, nuts, fruits, seeds, sprouts and more. 

Sources: Näringslära för högskolan

Pills for exam anxiety

My next exam is the 3rd of November.. I got sick and was sick for 2 weeks, which made studying a little bit harder so now the nervousness for the exam is starting to come more and more. And my sister has a big exam in less than a week so my dad made us some pills against "exam anxiety" or tentaångest as we would call it in swedish.

Other options

I know I'm at the right place.. I've said that many times.. But I feel that I want to study more physiology then what is included in the program I'm going.. It's so amazing to learn about how the body works..

And then I would also want to learn more about toxicology.. And some middle-eastern courses maybe?

I've been looking at other courses as well and I found courses that are called things like human physiology, clinical nutrition and nutritional status, nutritional epidemiology, public health nutrition, nutrition toxicology, molecular nutrition, microbiology etc etc.. Gaaah!!! If I read everything I wanted to read, then I don't think I would ever be done.. 


Thoughs of a master and doctoral studies and doing research makes me so excited.


But I guess I should focus on where I am at the moment. Which is carbs, fats and protein!