at the washington state convention and trade center in downtown seattle we attend the tenth annual two thousand and twelve lot of information about how to get better shape the hopefully that's what mine is going to look like when i get and and it turns out that the person i've got helping me out here again this year is the same one who did it two years ago and our how are my numbers than your total cholesterol that just needs to be under two hundred and you're well under two hundred even though i'm guessing you're not fasting right actually this time i had not eaten anything on this eleven o'clock last night ok so there's a really good  and then the ratio between the good in the total anything less than five is good you're only about halfway there on that one as well two boys took four days blood sugar when you're passing you haven't eaten all day we like to see the underhanded in your seventies to know your blood pressure is a talk to somebody and charlie i don't think you're getting closed up but i came across as i was about to go back to get tested for one last thing and these folks are with the kidney trust and you are actually going to be no puncture which is actually in the arm drawing that  and and what is it you want people to know about getting checked in space we have thirty one million americans that have chronic kidney disease and ninety percent of them don't know it until their are already in failure we do have or have risk factors high blood pressure diabetes onil mune disease that put us at risk pretty precent our kidney function for it's just important for people to be tested every year and to know what their kidney function is you expect to be here again next year think that people should get out and get tested and that is the only sure way to know can prevent kidney disease because it you know if you know then you can do something about it they're going to hold out for movie so as it turns out best areas holding open a little bit longer for me and i have with me you are injured and and what are we doing here  and this is the lancet here and we're going to draw a little bit of a blood actually this is the only one here there in there and after this will take about five minutes and then we'll get a result for you so we have to wait almost five minutes right now yeah ok eating a whole foods diet all the things that can prevent diabetes because that's always the goal is prevention is a lot easier than treatment could could be a lot of it because of genetics potentially it could have actually been really good diabetes expo here at the convention center have all your travels become an adventure learn more about the two thousand and thirteen diabetes expo currying april thirteenth from nine am to three pm at the washington state convention trade center in downtown by visiting diabetes dot org and or diabetes dot org slash puget sound please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows well my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and as always thank you for watching adventure t on piers sixty six we attend the fifth annual two thousand and twelve seattle chocolate salon not competing with the maritime festival this weekend so let's head inside check it out everyone having a good time not too overwhelming  well i will i will bother him because i know he's really busy right now but people trying to get it is an interesting combination and what i like to do at home is i'll take up again and i will melt dark chocolate on it and put some truffle and it's like a nice conversation starter when people come over and they networking event that i have in the community called single origin chocolate said that means that each one of our bars differs based upon where the beans come from so it's really in our guest the fine wine everyone knows that you know different vineyards have very different taste the wines a lot of people don't realize that with fine chocolates the same way so we just have a made the spectrum of different flavors you can get with our bars based upon the beans so each of the bars in one sense have the same ingredients but the case  really with the film festival but locally we're vailable lab such talk a lot was stuff on clean hands and there's quite a few smaller stores are around seattle that were available out and there's a store that you know someone like just give us a call and we'll try to get or me so i just came up to the author after everything or the speaker after everything is done and you are j friedman and you also do this outside of in just speaking here so if people are more information about of chocolate or things like that you have a website absolutely because i'm a freelance food writer and also a sex educator so combining these two issues together the website is called gastro lust and that's combining again sex an food gastro lust dot com ok well i thank you for your time and talking to the viewers jay thank you a little speech you've given to the audience or to absolutely for me i just love opening people's minds chocolate opens up our minds and so should say ok well we're going to go check out some more chocolate for we close out this episode absolutely goes well beyond the organic standards so in addition to not using synthetic pesticides fertilizers etc the focus really for biodynamics is on soil health and sustainability so that each farm gets treated as an individual organism on the my packages so raw you can just think of it real simply has minimal processing so we still beautiful for mentation on the kickout that's how we get the great chocolate flavors but the rest of the process will be kept around one hundred twenty fahrenheit or below and we do that to maintain the subtle notes of all the kickout so you can taste as different flavors and then there's also some side benefits you can end up with the higher end occident level it's going to maintain the nutrients of the cow as well this is my first trip to i've been here for a couple of days and i love it yes i it actually kind of reminds me of san francisco which is a big compliment well if people are more promotion you guys have a website yesterday the car chocolate dot com hoping to be part of part of seattle whether we're located in san francisco and we're also in portland had pasta where people are more information is currently on the website which from eleven am to five pm on pier sixty six at the bill harbor international convention center by visiting seattle chocolate salon dot com please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash no slash one two three seven four slash list shows on my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and as always thank you for watching adventure t