Two incidences of beauty

[imomus]

In a world of sometimes unbearable ugliness, beauty becomes terribly important.



This is a picture of half-Russian, half-Japanese model Rina Ohta in the new edition of Fudge magazine.

And this is a beautiful song by Juana Molina (from her Domino album Son) called Malherido.

Comments

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Lingonberry? The other alternatives found at the wikipedia entry? I am sure science can extract the right stuff from these plants and put them into pills so people can eat them instead of eating that fish and destroy the seas ecosystem.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[(Anonymous)]

Another thing to remember about omega-3 fatty acids is that (as I understand it) they can't be produced/synthesized by any animals, including fish - salmon get them if they eat a lot of algae, i think. As far as I know, they all come from plants, even if it's from a step or two back in the foodchain.

I recently found that, in addition to flax, a pretty good source of omega 3 is a succulent leafy plant called purslane (called 'verdolagas', spanish name, at some markets) that grows pretty much all over the world..

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Well, what do you know, this just show that the omega-3 fatty acid trend is harmful for the fish population and it is also a lie that you get it mainly from fish. Bah, I smell a conspiracy here.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[(Anonymous)]

I've been wondering how hard it would be to grow a lot of the type of algae the salmon eat and extract the omega-3 directly from it.
Japanese shiso is also very high in omega-3, but it's something you usually don't eat in large amounts..
- jonathan

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Possibly not that hard, I mean, you can probably get it to grow in some artificial kind of enviroment or something.

Hmmm, but if it contains ALOT of omega-3 you probably don't have to eat alot of it, thay say that you need to eat fish atleast 2-3 times a week in order to get the amount of omega-3 which you need. So perhaps you don't need to eat the Shiso that very often.