>  ML> Ezetimibe works better in conjunction with statins.
> That may be, but Richard can not take statins at all...  I read the info

I wonder if the niacin therapy would go with
ezetimibe, whether they'd augment each other
or cancel.

> on the clinical studies, though, and while ezetimibe made the statins
> work better, there was at least one study done just with the Zetia alone
> (on a group that weren't already taking statins, or couldn't take them,
> so that having some on placebo wouldn't be a case of removing them from
> care)... and patients on the Zetia alone did at least as well as those
> on the combination therapy, with fewer side effects...  a very
> reassuring study for us... 

We have to be careful about picking and choosing 
studies, as that's what the drug companies and
their advertisers do.

>  >  ML> Flying has been one of the obsessions of the
>  >  ML> forward-looking since basically forever.
>  > True... including Leonardo Da Vinci... 
>  ML> Probably many before him, too, but they all ended
>  ML> up a heap of bones at the bottom of a cliff.
> At least if they tried out their contraptions.... 

I'm guessing that the true pioneers did their
experiments without contraptions.

>  ML> The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has a couple
>  ML> examples that actually flew and drove. At that time
>  ML> the roads weren't so crowded that you couldn't spread
>  ML> your wings and fly (along the Alcan highway, Swisher
>  ML> and I saw planes parked by the side of the road, so
>  ML> that condition still obtains in some of the remoter
>  ML> parts of our world).
> And that's an area that can benefit from having such... along with the
> amphibious ones... with the much vaster areas to be covered and the
> terrain and all.... 

Yeah, and flying might be more cost-effective
than driving those distances.

>  ML> I didn't see any in the Carrefour or the Super U, but
>  ML> Letitia brought her own supply of Weetabix and Walker's
>  ML> from wherever.
> Ok, so I did see them in the UK Imports aisle at our Wegmans... a few
> varieties of McVitties... plain digestives, digestives with milk
> chocolate covering, and digestives with milk chocolate and a caramel
> layer under the chocolate...  the last jumped into my cart for tastings
> later....   Alas, though, no dark chocolate.... Forgot to look at
> Lori's today when we went for supplements... maybe next time...

As I recall the foreign food section at Weggie's
was klein aber pretty fein.

>  ML> The Carrefour viennoiseries (27c each in packs of 10)
>  ML> were inferior enough that I had to use up a substantial
>  ML> bit of the chocolate to remedy their shortcomings, though.
> Is this perhaps in France...?

Indeed, though the first Carrefour I went to, 
with somewhat different inventory, such as 
durians, was in Singapore.

>  >  ML> My preference for kitfo and gored gored is, of
>  >  ML> course, for raw, but I wouldn't cry if offered
>  >  ML> cooked..
>  > As long as not too much overly done... 
>  ML> I prefer too little overly done myself!
> Of course...  

Or too much underdone! Though I had a kebab that was
too rare recently - that's because it was marinated,
and raw marinade is not a great pleasure. Sadly, the
beef, which didn't need marinade, was and was cooked
rare, and the chicken breast, which did, wasn't and 
was cooked ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

>  >  ML> Pate de country
>  > Looks good... 
>  ML> It was better than the (not bad) pate we got at the
>  ML> Super U.
> Doesn't really surprise me that much...  

An okay handmade product is generally going to 
beat out a good commercial one.

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      Title: Belgian Endive Salad
 Categories: Salads, Mushrooms, Victoria, Cyberealm
      Yield: 4 servings

MMMMM--------------------------MARINADE-------------------------------
    1/3 c  White Wine Vinegar
    2/3 c  Olive Oil
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Sugar

MMMMM--------------------BELGIAN ENDIVE SALAD-------------------------
      4    3 ounce Belgian Endives
           Assorted Wild or Pickled
           Mushrooms
           Assorted fresh herbs and
           Pesticide-free edible
           Flowers
           Pickled Ginger, sliced
      1    Plum Tomato

  Marinade:
  In a screw-top jar combine wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and sugar.
  Cover and shake well. Set aside.

  Belgian Endive Salad:
  Cut Belgian endive into fan shapes. Using a large knife, cut each
  endive lengthwise from endive tips to base, cutting to but not
  through the base. Turn endive a quarter turn and cut lengthwise
  again. This now forms 4 large "petals." Cut each quarter lengthwise
  again to form 8 "petals" that are still held intact by the base.

  Run cold water into center of each endive. Drain. Arrange in a shallow
  dish. Shake marinade and pour over endive. Marinate 10 minutes,
  spooning marinade over endive twice. Remove endive from marinade with
  a slotted spoon. Drain on paper towels, patting gently to remove
  excess marinade.

  On each of 4 serving plates, spread out an endive "fan." Scatter
  mushrooms over endive. Decorate endive "petals" with fresh herbs and
  flowers to resemble a flower arrangement. Arrange ginger on each
  endive near base. Halve tomato crosswise, using a zigzag cut. Remove
  pulp and seeds. Cut each tomato half in half again, lenghtwise. Fit a
  tomato quarter over base of each endive to form a "vase."

  Source: Victoria Magazine, April 1994
  Typed by Katherine Smith

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