I gotta learn how to write more concisely....
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Thoughts on diet and health
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Yes. I'm just finding that for work too, and for posting on forums, most people want the info in a concise way. It's the key to effective writing. My posts are a long mess with too many filler words, repetition, etc. I'm not a good writer. Writing well is hard.
It is.
Sorta related - writing pen and paper old school is really good for the brain. Maybe it does help prevent senility type onsets according to early research my wife was reading to me.
If you are doing everything else well, AND you don't have primary hypertension, then there is no issue with adding salt to your food. Its just a mineral. You are just moving water around by changing sodium levels.
If you chill your pasta 24 hours after you cook it, the starch becomes resistant and doesn't spike your blood sugar levels.
There are lot to even just the difference in how the wheat is milled. I had no idea there was so much to something seeming so simple.
Find the YT video about "bread used to be a superfood, now it makes you sick. WHY?"
I just avoid spaghetti and nuke a potato if I want carbs, or get carbs from other natural, unprocessed foods. Anything ultra processed, like flour is, I just try to avoid. Meat, veges, fish, eggs, fruit, unprocessed nuts, etc, are the way to go. When I dumped the processed foods and the seed oils (and really all processed oils) and started eating more meat, my cholesterol went down, I lost weight, and I don't have the crashes. Energy is solid all day long. Now if I could quit the coffee! Because coffee is quite processed as well, and definitely not natural. I have no idea what chemicals are in it, where it came from etc. It's a drug that the whole world just accepts as good. Messes up sleep too. It's poison really, just to a lesser degree I guess than other stuff.
But with Wonder Bread you could rip off the crust and then mush the rest of the slice into a ball and eat it. I know I did that when I was a kid.
You are not thinking about which is the healthiest bread when you are 12. Mom brings it home, you eat it.
Yep, but soon kids will just do what their smartphone tells them to do, and wonder bread will be a thing of that past. Your apple watch will give you a blood sugar "danger" alert.. then eventually we will not "eat" food like we do today. It will be beamed to your stomach, to your cells. There will be no more chaos in hospitals, 12-hour ER wait times. It's inevitable, because conservation of energy is the key to technological advancement, survival as a species, travel to the stars. The human race will perish otherwise. Easy to see.
What does the data tell you about how I am wrong?
I think the key takeaway from all of this is that nutritional requirements are individualistic. In Pablo's case he's found what works for his condition and body. For his health and quality of life his current diet is working wonders for him, he's doing exactly what he should be doing, listening to his body.
In my case being an ecto-meso with an extremely fast metabolism, if my diet consisted solely of lean meat, salads/low starch veg, and the occasional low GI carb I'd be a rake. I need something protein sparing to ensure that the protein I do eat is used to support and maintain the lean body mass I carry. Carbs do that and I don't hold back on them...they provide the energy leaving the protein to do it's intended job.
There isn't a straight lined approach that works for everyone. I've always done well steering clear of processed junk and fast food, eating for my activity level on a given day with portions that coincide with that, and try to be at or near a calorie deficit when I turn in for the night.
Perhaps my case is a simple one but as long as whatever dietary path you're on makes you feel and perform well, and keeps your bloodwork happy, I see no reason to overthink it or make it more complicated than it has to be.
In my case being an ecto-meso with an extremely fast metabolism, if my diet consisted solely of lean meat, salads/low starch veg, and the occasional low GI carb I'd be a rake. I need something protein sparing to ensure that the protein I do eat is used to support and maintain the lean body mass I carry. Carbs do that and I don't hold back on them...they provide the energy leaving the protein to do it's intended job.
There isn't a straight lined approach that works for everyone. I've always done well steering clear of processed junk and fast food, eating for my activity level on a given day with portions that coincide with that, and try to be at or near a calorie deficit when I turn in for the night.
Perhaps my case is a simple one but as long as whatever dietary path you're on makes you feel and perform well, and keeps your bloodwork happy, I see no reason to overthink it or make it more complicated than it has to be.
Doctor told me I should have more sodium even after I said I drink pickle juice. Silence on phone after that. So I don’t listen to my doctor anymore.
Get a new doctor
Also buy raw nuts like almonds and walnuts and roast them yourself or eat them raw. Instead of bread nuke a potato. It's crazy what happens when you eat like you described - the blood sugar spikes stop, cholesterol goes down, BP goes to normal, energy stays steady. Eat an apple or orange every day if you can. Avoid anything processed and see for yourself how you feel after you eat. It's astonishing. And eat til you are full enough and no more. Drink enough water to stay hydrated. Listen to your body. Genetics, stress, play a roll in it too I'm guessing, but at least if you eat right, you can see what you're made of, what your baseline is. Alcohol is poison too.
Some of the recent posts from mysekf and some others are for people who are insulin resistant. While everyone should eat healthy like the way your grandmother or great grandmother cooked some of us must really watch the carbs.
Fir others they don't need to watch the carbs. But still might be a good idea to avoid Wonder Bread and Twinkies. Eat an orange vs orange juice.
Fir others they don't need to watch the carbs. But still might be a good idea to avoid Wonder Bread and Twinkies. Eat an orange vs orange juice.
Today, Wednesday January 7. The food pyramid has been turned upside down.
Wow, finally ultra processed food is getting attention. You wonder why it took so long, hopefully the war on ultra processed food has started.
Any way, new emphasis will be on protein and carbohydrates at the bottom
This is just out from health and human services.
Big new emphasis
https://realfood.gov/
Wow, finally ultra processed food is getting attention. You wonder why it took so long, hopefully the war on ultra processed food has started.
Any way, new emphasis will be on protein and carbohydrates at the bottom
This is just out from health and human services.
Big new emphasis
https://realfood.gov/
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Yes, a very good step they took to making the right changes. My question to them would have been what are the food manufacturers and retail grocery chains gonna do to reduce the processed foods that line 80 percent of the shelves? Will there be new rules on the food manufactirers to stop filling foods with sugars, salts, preservatives, seed oils, etc? Because people just assume all these colorful boxed ultra processed foods are just fine. All the chips, crackers, cookies, etc are all garbage for the human body. Then you go to buy beef and it's $10 a pound for the cheapest shank cut of chuck. There was a war on beef in the country for a longtime. I know they are working to fix it. The food pyramid change is a great start though.
People just need to stop buying that junk.
Yeah I know.
AHA are the only people whining about the new guidance so far. I think the vegans will wake later, they are still in their usual carb daze.
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