Balance The health magazine for Body, Mind & Motivation
HEALTHY COMPANION
Training program makes dog a regular at medical clinic
GET YOUR FLU SHOT
Immunization good for health, pocket book
WAKE-UP-AND-GO EYEBROWS
Permanent makeup a growing trend
EAT RIGHT ON A BUDGET
Tips, tricks for taste, nutrition, savings
Volume 8 – Issue 4 – Fall 2016 Published quarterly by the Lewiston Tribune and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News
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Contents Balance – volume 8, issue 4 – Fall 2016
COVER STORY
HEALTHY COMPANION
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HEALTH
MOUNTAIN READY
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Training program makes dog a regular at medical clinic Exercises to get in shape for ski season
WELLNESS
TATTOED EYEBROWS
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Permanent makeup a new trend in the L-C Valley
DIET
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BUDGET EATING
Tips and tricks for taste, nutrition and savings
ALSO | FLU SHOTS 6 | SECRETS TO A LONG LIFE 10 | DISCONNECTING 12 | SOYLENT 17 ADVERTISER INDEX
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Balance is published quarterly by the Lewiston Tribune and Moscow-Pullman Daily News and printed at the Tribune Publishing Co. Inc.’s printing facility at 505 Capital St. in Lewiston. To advertise in Balance, contact the Lewiston Tribune advertising department at (208) 848.2216 or the MoscowPullman Daily News advertising department at (208) 882.5561 or Advertising Director Angela Kay at akay@lmtribune.com. Editorial suggestions and ideas can be sent to Tribune City Editor Craig Clohessy at cclohessy@lmtribune.com or Daily News City Editor Devin Rokyta at drokyta@dnews.com. Fall 2016 | 3
Ready to assist Chai, a golden retriever/Lab, offers tail-wagging help at Valley Medical Center as part of her pet companion training By ELAINE WILLIAMS
institutional settings free of charge. The Schultzes both received Five-month-old Ryan Lindler permission from their employers stands, with help from his mother, to take Chai with them to work. reaching out as if he wants to pet Chai reduces tension almost Chai, a golden retriever/Labrador any time she enters a room, mix dog. whether she’s calming college A number of expressions flash students who have exams or across his face, from happy, to comforting a child who just got an quizzical to almost crying as immunization, the Schultzes said. Chai licks him, tail wagging. “It helps relax them,” said Greg Chai is reminded to be gentle by Schultz. “People can’t play that his handlers, Dr. Greg Schultz, a role all the time because we’re the pediatrician, and his wife, Judy ones giving the shot.” Schultz, a Washington State The experience is infinitely University kinesiology professor. more complicated than bringing “He loves pretty much any dog,” a regular puppy home, said Judy said his mom, Amy Lindler, who Schultz. “There’s a lot of missed was unfazed. “He’s not used to sleep, like having a baby.” quite such big dogs, but he does Chai’s not allowed outside love animals.” unsupervised even in a fenced Ryan is among dozens of patients yard because they want to be who have interacted with Chai at sure she doesn’t get hurt and Valley Medical Center in Lewiston protect the investment that Canine since the Schultzes got her about Companions for Independence has a year ago when the dog was eight made in her. weeks old. Anytime Chai is wearing her They’re training Chai for Canine yellow vest, she is working, Companions for Independence, a which means every one of her not-for-profit group that provides movements is governed by dogs to those with disabilities about 40 commands she has to or professionals who work in master before she can advance to | Balance of the Lewiston Tribune
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Chai gets a treat from Judy Schultz.
professional training. There’s hurry for potty, something Chai needs to be able to do at a second’s notice to accommodate a future client, who might be heading into a movie or work. “Let’s get dressed,” indicates it’s time to put on a gentle leader, a harness that goes around Chai’s face without impairing her ability to eat or yawn. There’s also don’t. That’s to stop
behavior ranging from picking up chewed bubble gum to chasing squirrels on walks. At the clinic, Judy rewarded Chai when she followed instructions with treats she carried in a fanny pack. Chai goes almost anywhere the Schultzes go, including to class, to church, on airplanes, and to public events such as Celebrate Love, that was in support of the gay community at Lewiston’s Pioneer Park. Judy will purposely take Chai by construction sites on campus and has introduced her to firefighters wearing their gear. “She’s not supposed to be distracted or scared by any situations that come up,” Judy said. What Chai’s future holds will unfold in the next year. In February, she’ll go to the Santa
Facts about Canine Companions for Independence: » Founded in 1975 in Santa Rosa, Calif. » Has placed 5,183 dogs. » Has 2,102 dogs placed nationwide. » Dogs are valued at $50,000 each, largely because of the training they’ve mastered.
Clara, Calif., campus of Canine Companions for Independence where she’ll receive advanced training for six to nine months There the goal will be for her to learn how to pick items off the ground, turn lights on and off, open and close drawers and perhaps Tribune/Steve Hanks Chai patiently wait for his next command. how to pull a manual wheel About half of the dogs succeed chair, said Michelle Williams, a in the instruction, which is spokeswoman for the organization. considered a high rate since a The skills will prepare Chai to be number of issues can fail an an assistance dog. animal such as being too skittish She might be assigned to a or having health issues, Williams professional who works at a said. medical facility or school, They are matched with clients someone who is deaf to alert the who train with them for two individual to important sounds, weeks. The remainder return to to an adult with disabilities to the families that raised them as help them be more independent puppies, are placed in other homes or to a child with a disability such or to do other types of work such as autism who has a third party as bomb detection or border handler. patrol. In the latter instance, the dogs A handful of the best become can lay on the children to provide breeders and aren’t assigned to deep pressure or be integrated clients. into their regular routines. When “We’re not going to put a dog they wake up in the morning, for into service that isn’t absolutely example, the child might brush ready,” Williams said. the dog’s teeth and then brush ——— their own with a different brush, to help ease what might otherwise Williams may be contacted at ewilliam@ be a difficult transition. lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2261. Fall 2016 |
Get your flu shot Medical professionals stress health and cost-saving benefits to immunization By MARY STONE
of the Lewiston Tribune
When people balk at getting a flu shot, public health nurse Kate Wilson appeals to their pocketbook. Doctor visits, missed work and possible hospitalization aren’t just inconvenient, they can be expensive. It makes “toughing it out” a little less appealing, said Wilson, who serves as immunization coordinator for Asotin County Health District. “Even if it’s not going to kill you as a young, healthy adult, you’re going to experience significant down time from work,” Wilson said. “It’s not just having a little stomach flu.” The cough that often lingers after a bout with the flu can last up to a month, she said, straining the ribs and causing discomfort. Most everyone should get a flu shot, according to public health Tribune/Kyle Mills officials, and it’s particularly It’s that time of year, the cold season is coming and a flu shot can help you combat important for children, the elderly the yearly virus that strikes. and those who spend time around Anna Olson, nurse manager at those with compromised immune already deals with multiple medical conditions or (for) little Public Health — Idaho North systems. kiddos,” Wilson said. “We know Central District in Lewiston, said “Certainly for anybody who the flu will hit them hard.” her office suggests the same. | Balance
the vaccine. “It’s your body responding,” Wilson said. “You don’t have contagious symptoms.” It usually takes the body about two weeks to build up full immunity after receiving a flu vaccine, she said. Because of budget cuts, the Asotin County Health District does not provide flu shots, Wilson said, but she refers people to local pharmacies and the family practice providers at Tri-State Memorial Hospital in Clarkston. The north central health district does not provide adult flu shots, but parents can call (208) 7993100 for an appointment for
children 6 months through 18 years of age. For adults, Olson said, “we recommend folks check with health care providers or pharmacies.” One option that likely won’t be available this year is flu mist. It’s still approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Wilson said. But studies have shown it’s not as effective as the shot, so most medical providers and pharmacies are not stocking it. ——— Stone may be contacted at mstone@lmtribune.com or at (208) 848-2244. Follow her on Twitter @MarysSchoolNews.
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“We do recommend that everyone 6 months of age or older get a flu shot every year,” Olson said. While most healthy people are only out a few days to a week of work, she said, the consequences of flu for less-healthy people can be catastrophic. “People do still die from the flu annually,” she said. One myth about flu shots, Wilson said, is that people can get the flu from them. The shots offered today can’t do that, she said. Feeling a little achy or having a low-grade fever are actually indicators that a person’s body is having a good immune response to
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Should antibiotics be first line of defense? Naturopath says no, pointing to the rise of drug-resistant viruses and the benefits of natural remedies antibiotics are always there if we need them, but they should not be a first line of therapy. Especially Antibiotics may not always be now, with all the resistant strains (of the solution for treating illnesses or bacteria) going on.” relieving symptoms. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have According to the Centers for found a way to resist the effects of Disease Control and Prevention, the drug, according to the CDC. there are a handful of incidences The resistant bacteria then multiply when the medications shouldn’t and can cause more harm than other be used. That’s where alternative strains of the germs. treatment methods, like naturopathy, “Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are may be viable options. often more difficult to kill and more Dr. Olif Wojciechowski, a expensive to treat,” according to the naturopathic doctor in Moscow, said CDC. “In some cases, the antibioticusing natural remedies is just as resistant infections can lead to effective as pharmaceutical drugs in serious disability or even death.” treating acute illnesses like colds or The CDC reports that the overuse the flu. and misuse of antibiotics may be “I monitor people and expect to contributing to antibiotic resistance. see certain improvement within 48 Proper use of antibiotics may help hours,” Wojciechowski said. “Those control the spread of the more By CHELSEA EMBREE
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It’s another reason she doesn’t recommend antibiotics or pharmaceutical drugs as the first line of defense against illness. Those drugs, she said, alleviate symptoms without curing the underlying illness. “You’re not allowing the body to take care of that infection itself,” Wojciechowski said. A discharge — like a runny nose or a productive cough — is the body’s normal response to illness, she said. She added that discharges should not be suppressed because they indicate the immune system is working to fight the infection. Wojciechowski, whose interest in nutrition led her to naturopathy, makes a number of dietary recommendations to those fighting
colds or the flu. She suggests avoiding sugar, which suppresses the immune system, as well as dairy, which is mucus-forming. Taking extra vitamin C or Zinc can also aid in recovery, Wojciechowski said. She also recommends elderberry or inhaling steam with eucalyptus essential oil. The Mayo Clinic notes that there is little scientific evidence regarding alternative medicine, either weighted for or against the practice. Both the Mayo Clinic and the CDC recommend talking with an established medical doctor about any treatments. ——— Embree may be contacted at cembree@ lmtribune.com or (208) 669-1298. Follow her on Twitter @chelseaembree.
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How to live a long healthy life Roger Spencer staying active at 100 years old By Tom Hager
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Roger Spencer is 100 years old — but you couldn’t tell by looking at him. After a century of living, Spencer is not just alive, but he is thriving. Despite his age, Spencer, who now resides at Bishop Place Retirement Community in Pullman, still exercises frequently, and he even lifts weights. His attention on fitness started at a young age, when he was inspired by a distance runner in Kansas. “I started jogging — everywhere I went I ran. I did that for a lot of my life,” Spencer said. “I think that exercise is exceedingly important.” He continued to run into his elderly years, and even after knee pain kicked in way back when Spencer was in his 80s, he continued to walk 3 miles a day. Walking is a low-impact activity that people of all ages can enjoy, but 70-year-old physical trainer Robert Tyson also says cycling is 10 | Balance
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Roger Spencer, right, takes a Tai Chi class at Bishop Place in Pullman.
a sport that older people can enjoy. “Cycling is an aerobic workout, gets your heart rate up — it’s a very addictive thing,” Tyson said. “You get out on your own by yourself and you just do your own thing and get out in the breeze in the county in the air and it’s kind of an independent thing.”
Spencer credits much of his longevity to his upbringing on a farm in Kansas. It also helps, he said, that he was blessed with an incredible immune system. While his sister nearly died from scarlet fever, he said he barely showed any symptoms of the sickness once he was infected.
Perhaps most importantly, Spencer stresses a healthy diet. His family had a propensity of vascular sclerosis, which affects blood vessels, but that didn’t stop his dad from a diet rich in animal fat. “We killed pigs and he ate them. I realized when I was early in life from my studies that that was bad for the Spencer life,” he said. “... I realized that and I didn’t eat a lot of animal fats. I ate more fish oils.” Spencer isn’t just physically active— he also keeps his mind sharp with various activities. As a former professor of veterinarian pathology at Washington State University, he continues to keep up with the magazines in the vet medicine field, as well as Science Magazine and Scientific American. He also watches the news frequently. “I try to keep up on everything and play bridge four times a week and play scrabble four times a week,” Spencer said. “I’m competing with other people and I’m trying to make my mind work. And you’ve got to stress it every day or it gets weaker and weaker. If you stress it every day it gets stronger.” Exercise at his age is crucial, as Tyson said people lose about three-quarters of a pound of muscle every year after the age of 30. His advice for older
people is simple. “I’d say it’s never too late to start. It’s hard to get into that mindset because when you get older you start dealing with a lot of aches and pains and it’s hard,” Tyson said. “But if you get to moving, if you get a personal trainer, guaranteed you’ll feel better and that will just feed on itself and the better you feel and the more you’ll want to exercise.” ——— Hager can be reached at (208) 8834633 or by email to thager@dnews. com.
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Disconnecting from devices decreases stress By Josh Babcock
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No matter where we go — work or home — the glow and vibrating buzzes of computers, tablets and cellphones seem to follow us. It’s something researchers say is leading people to chronic stress and emotional exhaustion. According to a study co-authored by a trio of professors at Colorado State University, Lehigh University and Virginia Tech, the very workplace technologies people use to make their work easier are burning them out. The three professors highlighted the findings of the study in a paper titled “Exhausted, but Unable to Disconnect: The impact of Emailrelated Organizational Expectations on Work-family Balance.” They found that technology means people can’t escape their jobs, even when they are at home, which in turn eats away at their personal time. According to the study, the expectation to answer to emails after hours creates “anticipatory stress,” as people can’t fully disconnect from work. The end result isn’t a good one. According to the findings, the “always-on culture” throws off the work-family balance, lowers 12 | Balance
an employee’s well-being and weakens job performance. It also creates a higher turnover rate. The study was based on data collected from surveys of 385 participants from a wide variety of industries and organizations. Jamie Derrick, an associate professor in the department of psychology and communication studies at the University of Idaho, said even the immediacy of social media, emails and text messages outside of work can increase stress. “It’s work and social,” said Jamie C. Derrick Derrick, who is also a licensed A girl sits with her eyes closed at a community meditation session in 2015 in Moscow. psychologist. “People are feeling the pressures of the Derrick recommends creating immediacy and shear number “lights out” periods when internet of notifications — that little red access is prohibited. She also button actually triggers a chemical suggests not viewing any media response in the brain and it’s hard until 9 a.m. as a way to take in to ignore those things.” the experience of breakfast or the Derrick said she gives her students morning. an assignment in which they must “If you don’t take the time to slow detach from all technology for 30 down it’s easy to lose connection minutes. with our self,” she said. “... It’s “People love the experience but stressful to be on autopilot — life starts to feel empty.” they don’t love it until about 15 minutes in,” she said. “The first ——— 10 minutes their mind is saying Babcock can be reached at (208) 883this is boring ... but because it’s an 4630, or by email to jbabcock@dnews. com. assignment they stick with it.”
Getting the body ready for the mountain Local trainers recommend exercises to get in shape for ski season
The snow will be on the ground soon, which means it is almost time to pull the skis out and hit the slopes. To get the body back into skiing shape, Amy Paul, owner and a trainer at Moscow’s North Idaho Athletic Club, and Carlos Medina, a trainer at Moscow’s Anytime Fitness, recommend several exercises that will help keep the body healthy and ready for the mountain. Paul said skiers should do banded and pistol squats, step ups and downs, side lunges, single leg Romanian deadlifts, Russian twists, spinning and indoor cycling. She recommended placing an exercise band just above or below the knees for banded squats to add tension, which will help hip stabilization. Pistol squats are simply one-legged squats. The step ups and downs engage the glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps, Paul said. Paul said there are several members at her gym that ski and do spinning for ski conditioning.
“They’re out-skiing their 30-yearold kids, which is kind of cool,” she said. Paul said the exercises she recommended will build muscles, which in turn support bones. “If we do fall when we’re skiing we don’t tear ligaments or we don’t end up breaking a bone,” Paul said. “The body is more agile.”
She said it is important to focus on working the entire body, instead of just one area. “You could have a really strong core but have very weak quads you’re going to end up tearing something,” Paul said. Medina recommended five exercises: Romanian deadlifts, single-leg extension press, medicine
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Amy Paul demonstrates a Romanian deadlift at North Idaho Athletic Club in Moscow. The exercise is one that is beneficial for skiers.
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and quads at the same time, Medina said. For this exercise, grab a medicine ball or another object to hold against your chest and lower to about a 90-degree squat. From there, you lower about an inch and rise back up to about 90 degrees, repeatedly doing this motion for a minute. Three sets will suffice, Medina said. “When you’re out there on the slopes that’s the type of motion you’ll be doing, right?” he said. He said the backward treadmill walk is like simulating going down the mountain. Three-minute-long sets are recommended. Medina said start the treadmill at 2-3 mph, turn around so toes are facing the back of the belt and set the incline as high as possible to simulate the slope of the mountain. He said the exercise is a great way to support the knees and ankles, while working calves, quads and glutes. “(In) 30 seconds you’re going to be burning,” Medina said. “Your legs are going to be on fire.” Medina said people should focus on staying hydrated in the winter to help prevent the body from overheating. He said hydration is key but sometimes people overlook it. “Sometimes the body requires more water during the winter because, you know, your body’s trying to stay warm,” Medina said. ——— Cabeza can be reached at (208) 8834631, or by email to gcabeza@dnews. com.
Wake-up-and-go eyebrows Permanent makeup a new trend in the L-C Valley By Stacy Thacker
of the Lewiston Tribune
The needle cutting into Kristin Cordero’s eyebrow sounds like ripping Velcro. The 28-year-old says she can’t feel the needle but she can hear it as the ink is implanted into her eyebrow as permanent makeup. At one point she commented that she could fall asleep. Cordero waited for a month and a half before she took her seat in the dentist-like chair to get her eyebrow’s done. “I go pretty extreme with my makeup,” she said. “I’m excited to have wake-up-and-go eyebrows.” Cordero said she’s been following cosmetic tattoo artist Elisabeth Murillo’s work on social media and wasn’t nervous. “We’ve talked a lot about how the procedure goes,” she said. “Everything was well explained.” Murillo, 29, has been doing permanent makeup at Skin Deep Design tattoo shop in Lewiston for a year and she said the medium is a fairly new concept to the LewistonClarkston Valley. Her clients’ age
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Elisabeth Murillo tattoos Kristin Cordero’s eyebrows at Skin Deep Design, a tattoo shop in Lewiston.
ranges from early 20s into their 70s. She’s had clients come in who have no hair because of over plucking or illness and some who just want an enhanced look. Murillo charges $399 for two sessions and said the cost for permanent makeup at other places can reach $600. She works in a tattoo shop instead of a spa because she wants to be
surrounded by artists who can help improve her craft, she said. “I like to know the ins and outs,” she said about tattooing. Before Murillo starts working on Cordero, she draws on the shape that her client wants, makes sure it’s symmetrical and then assembles her needle and makes little cuts in the eyebrow before adding the Fall 2016 | 15
is naturally there. “I understand the anxiety,” she said about clients worrying they’ll have a botched eyebrow. “I follow the hair growth,” she said. “I don’t want it to look artificial.” The horror stories of getting tattooed eyebrows can be seen on the internet. Artists can go too deep causing the eyebrow to bleed or their designs are less than perfect. Murillo pulled up a photo of an eyebrow that she described as looking like “picket fence posts.” “You want to wake up and go to the grocery store,” she said. “You don’t want to wake up and look like you’re going clubbing.” To avoid a permanent makeup disaster, Murillo said she offers free consultations. If she spends an hour with somebody and they still aren’t comfortable doing it that is OK. Murillo said she never feels that her time is wasted and she’s at least educated one more person about the process. Before Murillo starts putting in the color, she makes sure it’s the right tone. There are many factors that go into picking the right color, Murillo
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numbing solution. The tool Murillo uses looks like a pen but instead of a ball point it’s a .2 millimeter needle. “I’m pretty much drawing on hair strokes,” she said. Murillo said the ripping Velcro sound might be cringe-worthy but it’s also an indicator that she’s got the right depth. She manually adds the strokes to Cordero’s eyebrows. The process is called micro stroking and provides a natural look. For a filled in, blocky and bolder looking eyebrow, Murillo uses a machine. But she said the process is known as powder brow and can also be done manually. When Cordero feels a cut she lets Murillo know and Murillo adds more numbing solution. Cordero said it feels almost like a paper cut but less intense. Making the process as comfortable as possible is important to Murillo. She avoids using a machine when she can because she doesn’t want to scare the client. Murillo got into the business to help people with “body positivity.” She said she wants to enhance what
said. She looks at the skin tones and the hair color and also goes off what the client wants. In Cordero’s case, she wanted a darker shade of brown. When Murillo starts putting in the color, the process goes quickly but not quickly enough for Cordero who pulls out her phone and uses the camera to take a sneak peek at her new eyebrows. Cordero is excited for the results and already feels more confident in her look. Getting tattooed eyebrows is a two-step process, Murillo said. Cordero will have to come back in about six weeks for her second session. After that, Cordero’s permanent makeup should be good for a year or two before it starts to fade. “All permanent makeup pigment is made to fade,” Murillo said. With an ever-changing fashion, Murillo said clients who do get permanent makeup still have a chance to change their shape and style. The time frame also depends on the body, Murillo said, adding that skin can slough off. While she doesn’t work with cancer patients yet, Murillo said it’s something she wants to pursue in the future. She also wants to move into doing permanent lip tattoo work and recently started doing permanent eye liner. “I love doing it,” Murillo said. ——— Thacker may be contacted at sthacker@ lmtribune.com or at (208) 848-2278.
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Meal replacement guru preaches benefits of engineered food By William L. Spence of the Lewiston Tribune
Imagine one of those militant, “green living” apostles, someone who protests coal shipments and oil pipelines, eats organic rice cakes and rides their bike during snowstorms. Now splice their DNA together with the genes from an equally fanatical technology geek — say Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, or one of those manipulative, beady-eyed cyborgs Hollywood loves so much. The result might be something like Rob Rhinehart, an electrical engineer by training who four years ago invented a meal replacement product called Soylent. Although Soylent is promoted as a meal replacement option, Rhinehart suggests people can survive on it exclusively. It’s a powdered blend of soy proteins, algal and vegetable oils and a few dozen essential vitamins and minerals. Mixed with water, it produces a nutritious drink that has been described as “the end of food.” “Two years ago I bet my life on the idea that food could be empirically rebuilt,” Rhinehart wrote on his “Mostly Harmless” blog site in January, 2015. “I theorized that a novel foodstuff could be superior to that which was naturally occurring. … Perhaps food focused on function, simplicity and transparency would be a relief to consumers burdened by a
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vain, frantic, confusing food market.” Reinventing food isn’t Rhinehart’s only interest. After demand for Soylent took off, he began experimenting with other low-impact lifestyle opportunities, including shipping container homes, synthetic fibers and the elimination of, well, elimination. For example, while responding to a challenge to cut his personal water consumption, Rhinehart once “massacred” the bacteria in his stomach so he wouldn’t have to use the bathroom. “A single toilet flush takes over six liters of water, so some changes to my life were clearly in order,” he noted on his blog. “Feces are made up almost entirely of deceased gut
bacteria and water, so I massacred my gut bacteria (with an antibiotic). Soylent’s micro-biome consultant advised that this was a terrible idea. However, the plan worked. Throughout the challenge I did not defecate.” The blog post doesn’t indicate how long the challenge lasted. Rhinehart also buys custom-made clothes from China and then donates them to charity, so he doesn’t have to waste time washing them. He says it takes less water to make new shirts from scratch than it does to clean the old ones. Soylent itself reflect this lowimpact mantra. A portion of the lipids (proteins and carbohydrates) in the product comes from oil produced Fall 2016 |
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by algae, thereby reducing the reliance on cultivated farmland. The latest version – Soylent 2.0 – is also sterilized, so it doesn’t require refrigeration. Because of this — and because he relies on Soylent for about 80 percent of his meals — Rhinehart no longer needs a refrigerator, oven, range, dishwasher or utensils. He uses his kitchen cabinets to store books. “I go out to eat when craving company or flavor,” he wrote last year. “I haven’t set foot in a grocery store for years. Nevermore will I have to bumble through endless confusing aisles like a pack-donkey searching for feed, while the smell of rotting flesh fills my nostrils. I buy my staple food online, like a civilized person.” Rhinehart’s utopian visions haven’t gone unnoticed in the tech world. He’s a hero to some, while others think he’s missing a few too many computer chips. One recent post on Gizmodo.com, for example, described him as “some sort of creepy nerd messiah (who) has all the hallmarks of a future cult leader.” Some of the apocalyptic techie doom vibes come from the name of the product itself. Soylent was a popular soy-lentil wafer that was part of a 1966 novel by Harry Harrison. “Soylent Green,” the 1978 sci-fi thriller based on the book, starred Charlton Heston as a New York police detective whose investigation of a rich businessman’s murder leads to the discovery that Soylent isn’t made from ocean plankton, as the manufacturer suggests, but has a more nefarious protein source.
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“Soylent Green is people,” says a horrified Heston, in the movie’s final scene. Rhinehart invented the product while living in Silicon Valley. In a 2014 article in “The New Yorker,” author Lizzie Widdicombe noted that he was looking for a way to cut his food budget and save time in the kitchen. “He began to consider food as an engineering problem,” she wrote. “He began to think food was an inefficient way to get (the nutrients) he needed to survive. He describes farms as ‘very inefficient factories.’ ” Soylent is only available online. Widdicombe reported that the drink “looks like gooey lemonade,” tastes something like watereddown pancake batter and quickly becomes addictive — although until a consumer’s digestive system gets used to it, one of the unfortunate side effects is flatulence. Assistant professor Katie Brown, a registered dietitian-nutritionist at the University of Idaho, said she’d never heard of Soylent before. After reviewing the company’s website, she said it seems to be another meal replacement drink, similar to Boost or Ensure. “If you’re using it occasionally, it could be a beneficial choice in an overall healthy diet,” she said. As with any meal replacement product, however, Brown recommended that consumers not give up on regular food entirely. “Foods have combinations of nutrients and provide things that aren’t vitamins or minerals,” she said. For example, “they include
phytochemicals, which are harder to put in a meal replacement.” Soylent is being marketed in part as a cheaper source of nutrition than regular food — with a 28-meal supply of powder being sold for $64 — but Brown said it just takes a little planning to address that issue. “We assign students to plan menus that fit within a Food Stamp budget, which is about $2 per day,” she said. “So this (Soylent) isn’t the only solution to getting a low-cost meal. It might be more appropriate than eating at fast-food restaurants every day, but as a dietitian I’d always recommend food first.” Rhinehart doesn’t share her sentiments, though. He seems to view food as the foundation of many societal ills. “The entire Protestant ethic underpinning capitalism stands atop the inefficiency of food production,” he wrote last year. “‘If you don’t work, you don’t eat.’ Shoving the largely unsavory business of food (production) on the weak was the genesis of social stratification.” “Why are we putting up with the waste and violence of agriculture?” he wondered in the same missive. “Agriculture butchers billions of animals each year, covers over a third of Earth’s habitable land and uses 80 percent of our water supply. I don’t know who the first farmer was, but I want to be the last. We will make food so cheap, only the rich will cook.”
——— Spence may be contacted at bspence@ lmtribune.com or (208) 791-9168.
Eating right on a budget Tips and tricks for taste, nutrition and savings want — or that are not consistent with your goals of healthy eating — you’ve blown your food money Grocery stores can be treacherous for the week. places. Brilliantly colored displays, Rudley said a single woman needs unhealthy sale items and the to set aside $38 to $75 to meet her temptation of prepackaged foods may nutritional needs for a week. A man be enough to send a trying-to-beshould spend $42 to $85. Daily News/Geoff Crimmins healthy individual to the dark side of To keep that budget intact, Rudley University of Idaho students sample the freezer aisle — but eating well on recommends avoiding shopping produce and bulk-foods during a healthy a budget doesn’t have to be scary. shopping tour at Winco in Moscow. hungry, and creating a shopping list With the right knowledge and a based on what’s missing from the Professional Care plan of action in place, it’s possible cupboard and a well thought out meal to maneuver around the undesirables plan. Personal Attention and arrive home with the right foods Another strategy, Keeney said, is and some money left in the bank. to avoid the first set of displays after University of Idaho campus dietician Marissa Rudley makes her Dirty Dozen living teaching those skills. Dr. Bill Perez Celery, peaches, An occasional weekday afternoon strawberries, apples, will find Rudley, with cohort New Patients Welcome blueberries, nectarines, Lauren Keeney and about a dozen • Preventative Care bell peppers, spinach, UI students, roaming the aisles of • Restorative and cherries, kale and collard WinCo Foods on Moscow’s Pullman • Cosmetic Dentistry greens, potatoes, and Road in search of healthy eats that • Crown & Bridge grapes. won’t bust a budget. Rule No. 1, Keeney said, is never Clean 15 shop without a list. Onions, avocados, sweet “It makes shopping a lot easier,” corn, pineapple, mango, sweet peas, asparagus, she said. “What happens if you go kiwi, cabbage, eggplant, shopping without a plan? You might cantaloupe, watermelon, get home with 20 things you didn’t Corner of 16th Avenue & 17th Street, grapefruit, sweet potato, intend to buy.” Lewiston 208-743-0141 honeydew melon. On top of having things you don’t www.MaplewoodDental.net By Shanon Quinn
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entering a grocery store. “The first thing you see is crackers, cookies, all of those impulse buys,” Keeney said. Another tip, though it seems logical, is one Rudley said people striving to eat healthy seem to miss. “If you won’t eat it, don’t buy it,” she said. Rudley also urges people not to be so tuned in to name brands, but compare the taste, ingredients and prices to find the better deal. One comparison tool available no matter what and where you buy is the unit price listed on product labels — even on the bins containing bulk foods. Making comparisons even between store brand and bulk has the potential to save dollars, according to a price
comparison exercise Rudley assigned her students. Rudley said another place consumers get less bang for their buck is in purchasing produce, as some are convinced they should buy everything organic, rather than a more economical mixture of organic and traditional foods. “It can be worth buying organic for the Dirty Dozen,” which is a list of fruits and vegetables more likely to retain pesticides, she said. Another list, the Clean 15, are lowest in pesticides — mainly, Rudley said, because they have thick skins that need to be removed before eating. Other quick tips included label reading for health — especially with peanut butter and nut milks
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contagion. Although traditionally social contagion is more likely to spread among people who have frequent physical contact with each, the internet has altered that aspect of the phenomenon. Social contagion is when somebody does something unusual, and it affects other people, said Parks. “People see it and say, ’Wow, I’m going to do that, too,” he said. Copycat clowns are likely motivated by the idea of getting attention and making it into the news. “If you feel that people aren’t paying attention to you, and you want to stand out and you see that
people are being written about for dressing like a clown and jumping out and scaring people, this may be a relatively safe way to get attention,” Parks said. Bill Indick, a visiting professor of psychology at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who specializes in media psychology, agrees that attention-seeking behavior is one explanation. But at its heart, he says, the clown craze is a media phenomenon. “That’s why it comes in waves,” Indick said. “The media propagates it, creates it, feeds it and at a certain point, gets tired of it. The media then digests it and eliminates it. And just as quickly as it started, it’s over.”
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subway. In Wisconsin earlier this month, a couple was arrested after police discovered they’d left their 4-year-old child home alone while they went clowning. Parks said the clown craze is interesting, and not particularly surprising, to social psychologists. “There are classic aspects to it that we’ve seen in the past,” he said. Among those aspects is the principle of de-individuation. “When people are taking part in a riot they may do things, such as set things on fire and tip cars, that they would otherwise think was wrong.” Another factor that’s at play could be what Parks called social
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