If my bed could talk, this is the line it'd use.
I'm camped out again, propped up in bed with my laptop and TV remote control. The brain fog is thick, the pain is limiting me to about 5 words of typing at a time, and I'm that awful mix of exhausted-from-lack-of-sleep/wired-from-corticosteroids. I would kill for Thai takeaway and a serve of Cold Rock Choc-Hazlenut Icecream with Hot Chocolate Fudge and Ferrero Rocher mashed into it, but they're 10km and 200km away respectively, and given my feet are numb and I've taken what seems like my body weight in pain killers, probably not a good time for a road trip.
On a more positive note (I'm trying to spin it), I am getting to watch some pretty interesting daytime TV at the moment. I caught a bit of Dr Oz yesterday, who was talking about superfoods for your skin. Now, my skin is pretty fabulous - a girl's gotta have a win every now and again - but I was still intrigued by the assertion that capers have anti-inflammatory properties.
Capers are really low in calories (23 calories per 100g), and very high in quercetin and rutin, which are both flavonoids and powerful anti-oxidants. Quercetin has anti-bacterial,
anti-carcinogenic, analgesic and
anti-inflammatory properties; while rutin strengthens
capillaries and inhibits platelet formation in blood vessels.
Rutin has found application in some in trial treatments
for hemorrhoids, varicose veins and in bleeding conditions such as
hemophilia. It also found to reduce LDL cholesterol
levels in obese individuals. Capers contain healthy levels of
vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin K, niacin and riboflavin, as well as minerals such as calcium, iron and copper are
present in them.
So... given I quite like capers, I now have no excuse to not partake in sandwiches of smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers... good for my tastebuds, and apparently also very good for my RA!
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