... rice...tomatoes
one snack is an apple, the other snack I have been blending frozen berries and frozen bananas...
...juicing carrots... beets...
...salad... mixed greens with olive oil and vinegar
...oatmeal with a few berries and milk too? I typically drink a lot of coffee for breakfast...
... whole milk with my coffee and just get the flavored coffee...
If there is anyone who lives a very healthy diet any information would be helpful... sure eat your veggies...
I wonder if other people struggle to understand this as well, or maybe it's just me..
...Juicing and blending can be USB devices ( I have a usb blender that works ok long as the berries have time to dethaw)
Does anyone else in Minivan life, or even van life relate to trying to eat super healthy...
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CV:
* Semi-retired Physical Therapist.
* We operate a small organic teaching farm near the outskirts of Eugene, Oregon.
* We owned a restaurant business for ten years.
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a -- we eat only frozen berries.
Freezing helps break the cell walls, aiding digestion.
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b -- we eat only one serving of fruit daily.
Those sugars are known to contribute to liver disease.
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c -- after about 30yo, our stomach acid weakens, contributing to intestine sludge... and potentially colon/rectal cancers.
How much hydrochloric are you supplementing?
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d -- blending vegetables into a soup/smoothie helps break cell walls, aiding digestion.
You still need to chew each bite thoroughly while you saturate it with saliva... the first stage of digestion.
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e -- organic fair-trade coffee has some benefits.
Could you add organic flavors?
Some flavoring has GMO and corn syrup.
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f -- it's just you.
You are the only one.
Everybody else automatically knows all this without any struggles.
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g -- we aim for twelve servings of vegetables daily.
To accomplish this, we have vegetables for breakfast:
* in a cast-iron skillet, simmer bone-broth
* add left-over vegetables.
* crack four eggs to poach.
Season with sea-vegetables, such as nori.
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h -- rice, corn, grains are a sugar load.
We avoid sugars, including alcohol.
Unless you are training for a marathon, your body has zero use for carbohydrates.
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I -- tomatoes are part of the nightshades.
The others are potato eggplant peppers.
They are terribly inflammatory.
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j -- root vegetables such as carrots turnips potatoes are primarily sugars.
A diet with those facilitates the 'Blood-Sugar Roller-Coaster', a series of insulin dumps followed by a sugar crash.
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k -- beets are best fermented.
Fermenting burns off some of the sugars, while retaining the necessary nitric oxide.
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l -- cow milk is good for baby cows.
If you are a baby human, consume human milk.
If not, avoid dairy, including goat and yak.
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m -- I detest salads.
I can barely tolerate a salad with sliced apples, cashew cheese, raisans, and sardines.
Other than that, salad goes in the blender.
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n -- oatmeal is an avoidable grain.
A couple-three times a year, I make my version of haggis:
* the night before, I soak the oatmeal in its cooking water plus a squeeze of lime or lemon juice, or a dash of vinegar.
(The acid helps dispel the naturally-occurring pesticides called phytate.
Every plant produces phytates as a deterrent against bacteria and fungi.
Unfortunately, a diet high in plants increases that load toward lethal... exactly as intended.)
* next day while the oatmeal cooks, I brown some ground elk or beef with pink salt and herbs.
* Toss the two together.
Haggis!, but without the sheep stomach.
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o -- coffee at breakfast tends toward a 10am crash.
At that point, most people reach for the cake, muffins, or/and cinnamon rolls... a bounce for the sugar rush.
Probably a bad idea.
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p -- portions -- eat only if you are hungry, eat until you are satisfied.
A simple way to control portions -- count your chews.
For example, I chew one bite of elk stew fifty-five (55) chews before it is soft and saturated with saliva... the first stage of digestion.
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q -- if you must consume sugars -- grains, root vegetables -- temper their absorption with an oil -- olive is good, although we prefer coconut.
For a salad dressing, whisk a squeeze of mustard into your oil and vinegar as an emulsifier.
Add fresh herbs, and you are set.
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I still prefer to drink my salad from the blender.
Blending also helps digestion by breaking those cell walls.
If you are past 30yo, your digestion probably could use the help.
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r -- living fermented foods.
Either make your kraut and kimchi, or acquire them from the cold-case in the 'health-food' section.
Read your label, some cheats use citric acid or vinegar to mimic the natural souring.
Living fermented foods would be killed by vinegar.
