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What nutrition can we get out of Ants’ Eggs?

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I was reading the Sunday paper this morning. They were featuring exotic Philippine food in the provinces and they showed pictures of ANTS EGGS!!!

So I asked my father in law if he ever ate ANTS EGGS and he said, yes he did eat them occasionally in his youth when he lived in the province of Ilocos. He said that ANTS EGGS are commonly sold in his home provincial markets.

Then I showed the ANTS EGGS picture to my sister in law. She’s a cultural mapping person and she said she saw ANTS EGGS served in the province of PAMPANGA.

My mother in law arrived and I asked her about ANTS EGGS and her face lit up and she said ANTS EGGS were absolutely DELICIOUS and that when you bit them they popped nice popping sounds in your teeth as you ate them. She comes from the province of LAGUNA.

I’m such a city born dork, I’m missing out. Ants eggs are now on my list of food to eat when I drive to the provinces. Better if I just get an ants eggs supplier and have them ship it to Manila.

My question to the knowledgeable and experienced ants eggs eaters there is, what do you get out of eating ants’ eggs? Is it nutritious? Does it fill you up? Is it medicinal?

Raw food has made me slim, not underweight

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Some people see me as “disappearing” or too thin or looking like a POW.  They just are not used to seeing me slim.

I am slim now. But not underweight. 2 months of raw foodism expects a person to detox. Gets rid of the old unhealthy flesh (detoxing and slimming down), then weight gain to what is normal, then maintain that normal weight. How much do I weigh now? At the digital meter it says 112 lbs. I am 5′ 4″ short. Compute for BMI / Body Mass Index = 19.2 which is NORMAL WEIGHT according to http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ and I can bet you that website BMI had WHITE PEOPLE in mind.  I am a Filipino who looks primarily Malay and Chinese mixed in.

Seems I’ve been maintaining this 112 so far for 3 weeks.  We will see.  I am adding egg yolks and raw fish to my fruitarian diet.  I just bought 1 kilo of avocado, maybe that will make me put on more weight.

I do feel good at this weight.  Makes me want to exercise, run and climb trees.  So those who think raw food makes you too slim, nope.  Your body has a set point.  I think I’ve reached my set point.

Consuming more raw eggs in my diet

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I am somewhat following the advice of Wai in http://www.waisays.com/ regarding adding raw egg yolks in your raw fruitarian diet.  So technically I am not a 100% fruitarian anymore.  I am a raw foodist who eats primarily raw fruits plus some raw eggs and raw fish.

I’ve been doing this for a week now and I’ve gone up to comfortably consuming 3 egg yolks a day.  My transition phase is to use a bit of cooked white rice and put the egg yolks on it.  Everyday I reduce the amount of cooked rice mixed in until I reach zero white rice and just consume the raw egg yolks.

I love raw egg yolk delicious stuff.  The whites don’t taste so good though.  This evening I was a glutton.  I ate Durian around 6pm then at 7:30 pm I ate 5 fertile egg yolks.   Hmmm… I felt too full.  I think I should go down to 3 egg yolks.

I took Dr. Tam’s miracle tea to do a colon cleanse this evening.  This should get rid of that cooked rice.