Is canned fruit and vegetables(I'm lazy), multi grain wheat bread and whey protein powder bad for you? Do you mind sharing one or 2 days of meals you eat ? Thanks
Yeah, some comments on forums are so incredibly dumb that the only explanation is that these people work on the dark side : pharma/junk food industries.
Changing the way I eat was not easy for me. Previously, I ate a lot of "prepared" and "processed" foods. Now I rarely eat anything that comes in a can, bottle, bag etc. I rarely eat grains or milk products. This is not a "diet." Diets don't work. This is a permanent lifestyle change for me. Here's what I ate the past couple of days. I'm on the west coast and wake up very early to trade, so I have to fit my meals around my trading schedule. All fruits and vegetables are fresh (organic whenever possible). Chicken is free range and all fish is wild caught. ------------------------------------------- THURSDAY Breakfast (4:15am): Two poached eggs, half an avocado, herbal tea. At my trading desk by 5:00am: Snacks while trading -- Almonds, 1 grapefuit and 2 apples. Lunch (after trading -- usually about 1:00pm): A very large salad with butter lettuce, arugala, kale, tomatos, bell pepper, cucumbers, sliced chicken breast and pine nuts. Olive oil and vinegar dressing. Dinner (about 5:00pm): Poached salmon, half an avocado, asparagas, steamed spinach. Evening snack: Walnuts and blueberries. -------------------------------------- FRIDAY Breakfast: poached salmon (left over from the night before), a large pear, herbal tea. Snacks while trading: 1 avocado, 2 apples, almonds Lunch: A very large salad with romain lettuce, kale, tomatos, bell pepper, cucumbers, tuna and pine nuts. Olive oil and rasberry vinegar dressing. Dinner: Grilled chicken breast with roasted bell peppers, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, steamed carrots and steamed beans. Evening snack: Walnuts, pecans and red respberries. ------------------------------------------- There are 5 things I work into my meal plan every day because they are very nutrient dense: 1. Kale 2. Apples 3. Avocado 4. Fresh berries 5. Raw nuts - Instead of grains I eat Quinoa (pronouced "keen-wah"), which is a seed - I don't eat white potatoes, but I do occasionally eat yams --------------- I used to be lazy about the way ate, too, so I know exactly where you're coming from. The way I changed was by applying the same discipline to my eating that I do to my trading. -- Do research -- Make a plan -- Test it throughly -- Make necessary changes -- Execute with discipline and precision My grandfather used to tell me: "Self-discipline is the breakfast of champions." He was right.
Posted this before, but it is a good outline for the foods mentioned in this thread. http://www.draxe.com/healing-diet/ Many quick read articles and videos on the website. If you go to the homepage, in the upper right hand corner there is a link to receive a free PDF mini-book - - - Superfood Super You - A Superfood Guide to Weight Loss, Detox, Anti-Aging and Building Muscle. A quick read too, but again.....pulls many things together about what people have been mentioning in this thread.
primal also means people lived without wifi, cell phones, radiation, electrical wires, etc. it is esp. important during sleep- turn these things off! heavy metals toxification- there was no such shit 1000 years ago. its where chlorella comes in- #1 supplement in japan. chlorella is the most potent food on the planet: - full aminoacids, - the biggest amount of chlorophyll per gram - the most effective in detoxification - from radiation, lead, fluoride, PCB, mercury. - highest vitamin D per gram - together with spirulina highest amount of cystine and tryptophan per gram, both precusors of cascade of crucial hormones On the positive side: there was never a time in history when a single man can eat such a variety of superfoods: gojis (china), chlorella (japan), noni(tahiti), turmeric(india) ginseng (korea, china, america), cacao (mexico, peru), pomegranates, maca(peru).
The problem with canned is for fruit they add HFC or Sugar. So you arent really getting the benefit of eating fresh fruit. With vegetables, so much salt is added that is also destructs the value of the vegetable. If you cant do fresh, frozen would be the next step. Salt is a whole different issue. The RDA is wayyyy to high.
Canned fruits and vegetables are, as you describe, "processed foods" and therefore no better than junk food. I agree with you that fresh is the very best and frozen is an acceptable alternative.
Everywhere you find high levels of consumption of sugar and processed foods you will also find epidemic levels of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. ....................... Is sugar toxic? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57407128/is-sugar-toxic/ Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, believes the high amount of sugar in the American diet, much of it in processed foods, is killing us. And as Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, new scientific research seems to support his theory that sugar is toxic, including some linking the excess ingestion of sugars to heart disease.