ask your dietician i place my wellbeing and health in hands of a 2 yr liberal arts major..what do i know
Tom, Thanks for sharing your story, makes a lot of sense, good fundamentals there. How do you usually eat the nuts and seeds? I've found that adding some raisings/cranberries to walnuts and almonds helps stomach them down. Really helps with digestion too! Also, do you think anything specifically has had an outsized contribution to the decline in triglycerides and cholesterol? Or was it simply eliminating certain things like milk?
Wow! That is really quite an accomplishment! One I don't think I can actually do. I get that processed foods are killers but when you stop eating food that comes in boxes, bottles, bags and cans, that kind of eliminates the whole damn grocery store except the produce area :/
How about black, red and brown rice? Not the "Uncle Ben's" in a box but the 10 lb bags imported from SE Asia? Do they qualify as minimally processed, or are they still "bad" since they are carbohydrates?
nah..not for the ketosis cowboys, all about their MEAT for them, evetything else is bad but lots of MEAT!!
Actually, trips to the grocery store are pretty quick. Aside from spices and maybe some bottled water, everything you need is on the periphery of the store. The middle aisles are pretty much a processed food wasteland.
I think it depends on your goals. I eat some sprouted brown rice and steel cut oats. Mainly before or after a workout, or if I'm trying to gain weight. Rice doesn't contain gluten, but has proteins that the body treats very similarly to gluten, so it could be problematic for some people. If you are trying to reduce body fat, limiting or avoiding rice will help. But each person is unique and the best course is to experiment and see what works for you. If you completely remove a food from your diet for a month or two, then reintroduce it, you might discover a sensitivity or change you weren't aware of.
Yogurt is a milk product but it is certainly very healthy and it is a great way to lower the GI value of carbs. For example, yogurt with your fruit or museli will slow the release of insulin in the blood. And the probiotics are good for you as well.
Actually there's more commonality amongst our response to various nutritional components of a meal then defifference. Although I am aware it's fashionable to say otherwise