<p>I think grains are okay if they’re whole grain. They help keep you full.</p>
<p>My parents went on a bit of an all natural food diet a year and a half ago and I have to say I have grown to love it. I eat very minimal amounts of meat now, and what I do is all natural grass fed etc. We also eat a lot of raw food and try to stay away from the processed stuff, however,I find it important to remember that everything in moderation is good. Allow yourself to have some occasional junk food or you will eventually break and go on binge. On the other hand, the longer I’ve eaten all natural the less I crave processed stuff. Now my favorite treat is pure maple candy (literally straight maple syrup that’s been crystallized), its super sugary so I can only have it occasionally, but its natural and not refined and processed like regular sugar.</p>
<p>Metabolism > Healthy food.</p>
<p>Naw I’m just joking. I love veggies.</p>
<p>QuantumObserver. Teach me how to get huge, bro.</p>
<p>Raw fruits and vegetables are the best. I eat tomatoes, beans, edamame, carrots, and sometimes, raw capsicum. When I cook, I cut up lots of vegetables and saut</p>
<p>what about peanut butter?</p>
<p>Anyone see the documentary “king corn” by two Yale students? Makes me really appreciate that my mom goes out of her way to buy organic, free range meat.</p>
<p>lilmelonred peanut butter is good in moderation, like anything else. I eat a lot of it because I’m a vegetarian and a really picky eater to get protein and fiber, but it is pretty high in calories.</p>
<p>I hope the things i’m eating is good for me. Like, ookay. Instead of cereal, what would be a better idea?</p>
<p>To answer lot of questions you have, I need to emphasize on the fact that FATS are extremely healthy (not the man made rancid, unstable hydrogenation trans fats).</p>
<p>You can still go well without the Omega 3 intake, if you halt sugar and transfat consumption.
Although sugar and transfat consumption can inhibit the proper enzymes needed for metabolizing fats. </p>
<p>As America stopped consuming much fat, Obesity/Diabetes rate INCREASED.
In other words, as america increased their caloric consumption from sugar, and less from fat, we as a nation saw a major increase in obesity/diabetes rate.
Robert H. Lustig, MD debunks our mainstream myth : [Sugar:</a> The Bitter Truth - YouTube](<a href=“Sugar: THE BITTER TRUTH - YouTube”>Sugar: THE BITTER TRUTH - YouTube)</p>
<p>Any excessive sugar deals cellular damage, produces inflammation, quickens aging, and even an increased cancer rate. </p>
<p>There are many people who saw dramatic improvement from switching from High carb low fat to High Fat low carb.
An insulin spike caused by high carb, triggers the process of fat accumulation under skin.</p>
<p>Eating just Fat for calories, you can expect to see even a WEIGHT LOSS. It maintains your weight far better. </p>
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The study concluded that low-carb nutrition is associated with greater reductions in diastolic blood pressure, triglyceride levels, and very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) cholesterol levels, than a low-fat diet. Interestingly, weight loss was equal even though the low-carbers were allowed to eat as much as they liked.</p>
<p>By the way, it is your VLDL cholesterol that is the only good marker for heart health. Total cholesterol levels tell you nothing at all. People with low cholesterol levels die of heart attacks too!</p>
<p>According to Dr. Robert Lustig, you know your VLDL is decreasing if your HDL cholesterol increases (good) and your triglycerides decrease (also a good thing). Typically, this is what happens when someone goes on a low-carb diet.
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<p>When I mean grains are unhealthy, not only are we sensitive to the proteins found in grains most known one being (gluten), which our body triggers an autoimmune response.
You can still consume grains by soaking them to weaken the anti-nutrients. Pizza once a week is fine, just not an over consumption in short period. Whole grains are indeed better than refined grains, but whole grains are still refined despite what they advertise.</p>
<p>I haven’t talked much on Diary and Meat as well.
Most dairy/meat are from farm animals bred in tight spaces they can’t move, injected with artificial hormones and antibiotics, slapped and beaten, fed GMO grains (they are suppose to eat grass not grains), slit their throats open and then on sold. Some can’t even lift themselves up due to abnormal hormonal growth where they may have to be killed.
It is just pure animal cruelty.
[The</a> video the meat industry doesn’t want you to see. - YouTube](<a href=“The video the meat industry doesn't want you to see. - YouTube”>The video the meat industry doesn't want you to see. - YouTube)</p>
<p>America is known to be more common in osteoporosis than china eventhough US consumes more dairy. Why? Pasteurization makes milk acidic. 1st of all cows milk is a lot different from a human milk. If you want drink something closer to human milk, go for goat milk. Going from being alkaline it would become acidic.
So what happens when it’s consumed? Your body tries to balance it by using calcium deposits from your bones.</p>
<p>Another subject I’ve come to stumble upon during my research is fluoride and tap water.
There are conspiracy theories on this, but there are actual studies based on fluoride and how they can decrease IQ, as well as cause brain tumour.</p>
<p>Fluoride, is found in ALL rat poisons, and they are in our toothpaste, and in our tap water. For what reason? the government says it’s a supplementation for our dental health. Well, vitamin D does a much better job than fluoride in terms of dental health, and some countries ban Fluoride. </p>
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Increased risk of cancer. According to a study by the Harvard School of Dental Health, fluoride in tap water increases risk of bone cancer in boys, at levels currently present in fluoridated water supplies.</p>
<p>“This is a very specific cancer in a defined population of children,” said Richard Wiles, co-founder of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a research organization based in Washington, D.C., that made the research available.
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<p>Wow. Very informative. 
Do you know how to explain whats on a nutrition label and explain each terms? like saturated fat, non saturated and which is better? etc?</p>
<p>I know a lot about food labels/healthy eating (at least the more mainstream views) because I used to want to be a dietician, and for several years I ate probably 10+ servings of fruits and vegetables every day (mostly green smoothies), but then high school got more difficult and I didn’t have as much time to prepare stuff.</p>
<p>Please explain It can help us make better food choices and know what to watch out for.</p>
<p>General guidelines:
Unsaturated > saturated > trans (I think this one is somewhat controversial)
Frozen or fresh > canned
Whole fruit > juice
Whole fruit > dried fruit
Raw vegetables > cooked, except for carrots and tomatoes
Steamed > boiled
Spinach/other lettuce > iceberg lettuce
Stevia > aspartame, sucralose, etc.
Green tea > other tea
Coffee, tea, water > soda
100% whole grain for cereals and breads > “whole wheat” (just because it’s brown doesn’t mean it’s whole grain - if the ingredients list starts with “enriched” or “white” it’s probably not)
Plain oatmeal > instant with flavors</p>
<p>A lot of times if something says “no trans fat” on the front it won’t be true - they’re allowed to say it has none if it has under 0.5 grams per serving. So look in the ingredients list for hydrogenated oils, which are trans fats.</p>
<p>All-natural on a food label doesn’t necessarily mean anything. It’s not a regulated term. Organic foods will have a green USDA stamp somewhere on them. </p>
<p>Low-fat doesn’t mean low-calorie or healthy. It’s probably high in sugar. </p>
<p>Watch for serving sizes, servings per container. The nutrition facts are for one serving and not the whole thing. </p>
<p>When comparing food labels, you want higher values for fiber, protein, and unsaturated fats and lower values for calories, other types of fat, cholesterol, sodium, and sugars. Percent daily values usually only apply if you eat 2000 calories a day. </p>
<p>(All you have to do to lose weight is eat fewer calories than you burn. It’s good to eat healthful food but it doesn’t really increase the rate of weight loss in my experience. If you’re counting calories, be wary of estimating because a lot of restaurant meals have far more calories than they appear to. Most of that information is online.)</p>
<p>I think everyone is aware of this by now, but salads aren’t low in calories if you use a lot of dressing/bacon/cheese/croutons. A lot of vinaigrettes/healthier-looking dressings are almost as bad as ranch.</p>
<p>Sometimes on the food label, it only has total fat and then saturated fat but does not mention unsaturated. Does this mean you take total fat and minus the saturated fat will equal unsaturated fat?</p>
<p>Yes. There are two types of unsaturated fat: monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. Sometimes they’ll list the counts for both. Polyunsaturated fats are slightly better than monounsaturated.</p>
<p>Trans fats are actually unsaturated too, but they’re not healthful.</p>
<p>Good points, I do have couple of things to mention.
Here is an indepth explanation on fats: [FACTS</a> ON FAT!](<a href=“http://www.alienview.net/xzfat.html]FACTS”>FACTS ON FAT!)
He debunks and talks about the lies on fat:</p>
<p>1.Saturated fat is bad.
2.Unsaturated vegetable oil is good.
3.Margarine is more healthful than butter.
4.Coconut oil is bad.
5.Canola oil is better than olive oil.
6.One can meet EFA requirements through diet alone.
7.(Recent lie) Trans-fatty acids are now considered as bad as saturated fat.
8.(Another recent lie) The American Heart Association is concerned about your heart!</p>
<p>Polyunsaturated (canola/corn/soy) fats go rancid/toxic easily compared to monounsaturated fats (olive)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say coffee would be at the same level as tea at all, it can be just as bad as soda considering all the other crap they put in.
Green Tea isn’t the healthiest either. You can see more benefit from Black Tea, but White Tea is perhaps the best, very least amount of fluoride concentration as well otherwise better/equal as green tea. </p>
<p>Teas inhibit DhT conversion. Acne, Baldness, Oiliness… are all related to high excessive DhT production (conversion). Some people can have more active dht receptors, making them more prone to oiliness. </p>
<p>You are NOT what you eat. Just because fats have higher calorie concentration consuming it won’t make you fat. You are what your body makes and turns what you ate into.
There are lots of studies on this, and if you’ve seen my “Sugar the Bitter Truth” he explains it there as well.
Going High Fat people saw far more improvements and same if not more weight loss than going Low fat. </p>
<p>Raw > Cooked… pretty much every food. </p>
<p>Cooking a food is another way of letting it lose it’s nutritional value. Some vitamins can’t even exist at high cooking temperatures.
Cooking is a chemical experiment itself, new chemicals are created.
Some heterocyclic amines (HCAs) found in cooked and especially burned meat are known carcinogens.
These are linked to cancers as well.</p>
<p>Then there’s another topic on spraying of pesticides. Which not only are they toxic but also they affect OUR immune system indierctly. </p>
<p>That’s another topic, there are lot of I could talk about but I am tired for today. </p>
<p>We tend to trust way too much on what the media or the mainstream science says, giving our powers to them.
The “Big Pharma” is real and lot of people do agree with that.</p>