Health Food Beginner

[papa_levante]

@ L0VE! You're the best!

 

[Bernice]

Are we going by taste or nutritional value?

with nutritional value

 

[littleblacksheep]

I am sooooooooooooo annoyed and disappointed in myself. I have gone the past 7 weeks without any diet coke or soda, and no junk, eating lots of fruit veg & fish, not so much red meat, taking my vitamins, drinking loads of water and feeling and looking really good for it. What do I do today? Couldn't help myself - bought a can of diet coke and a packet of potato chips! Feel so ugh now, and moreso disappointed in myself cause I gave them up as they are just so bad and I just caved.

Will just have to carry on but just really annoyed with myself right now. When the benefits of eating so healthily were so obvious to me, why did I do it!? Anyway, I am promising myself that it was just a slip and I am not going to do it again!

 

[papa_levante]

Feel so ugh now, and moreso disappointed in myself cause I gave them up as they are just so bad and I just caved.

A relapse is totally fine! Your mindset needs to change. If you want to cut out all "unhealthy" foods from your diet, you need to recognize, "My body is going through Hell trying to get nutritional value from this can of soda. I probably shouldn't drink the rest of it." Eating healthy is a lifestyle and shouldn't be considered a chore!

But every now and then, it's 100% ok to have potato chips! Everything in moderation.

 

[SohoKitten]

i wanted to start a raw diet but I felt that all the healthy fruits and veggies made a good job of overacidifing me(?right word?! i mean something like feeling sour). nuts contain too much fat to eat them all the time. maybe i ate too much fruits which means too much fruit acid?

 

[L0VE]

^ Good topic. Yes, you can get acid reflux feeling from eating too much fruit and then like sleeping after (because sugar makes you tired after awhile) you feel like crap waking up. The fat in nuts is good though and most likely will flush through your system (another thing I learned from Dr. Oz except I'll leave out what he said.) And the good fats also play a part in healthy hair, skin, and nails. Except if you're trying to lose weight, you should eat them sparingly, until you get used to eating more healthy foods. But most of the time I'm pretty sure they won't put on pounds. And to the other post, if you feel the need to eat chips (or crisp in the UK) now and then, try puting them back into your diet (just a little bit.) Or try to buy alternative snacks that resemble or taste similar, to avoid overindulging.

 

[L0VE]

And about raw foods; if you google the topic, they have some really good websites and books to read.

 

[L0VE]

If juice makes you acidy, water it down. Apple juice and tomatoes tend to not mix well with me, so I water my juice down (either 1/2 and 1/2 or 1/4 juice, 3/4 water.) And for tomatoes, Dr. Oz (again) says to eat almonds or nuts before consuming tomatoes and they will digest better. Also, mixing some EVOO with them helps.

 

[L0VE]

I also have a good recipe if you like asparagus (I love it!
pasta (angel hair or tube pasta), parmesan cheese, asparagus, extra virgin olive oil, and tomatoes (and if you want some meat, mix in some crumbled up bacon.) All you have to do is cook the pasta (and heat the asparagus up) and then just mix everything together. It's so good.

 

[ChloeFrancoise]

You can get books about the raw food diet and there are recipes. You could probably even find recipes online. It would probably be better to transition into it slowly so you can get use to it.

 

[L0VE]

From Cosmo

News

Death by vitamins

Thursday, 1 March 2007
Agençe France-Presse

Certain vitamins have no health benefits and actually increase the risk of death, say Danish researchers.

WASHINGTON: Taking vitamins A, E and other antioxidant supplements may increase the risk of death and carries no clear health benefits as claimed by vitamin makers.
In a blow to the healthy image often associated with dietary supplements, a wide-ranging Danish-led review of 47 clinical trials, involving 180,938 patients, concluded that vitamins A, E and beta carotene are in fact linked to a rise of five per cent in the risk of mortality.
The findings, based on electronic databases and bibliographies, were published in today's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Beta carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E given singly or combined with other antioxidant supplements significantly increase mortality," wrote the authors, led by Goran Bjelakovic of the Centre for Clinical Intervention Research at Copenhagen University Hospital. "Our findings contradict the findings of observational studies, claiming that antioxodiants improve health."
The study also found that there was no evidence vitamin C may increase longevity and added: "We lack evidence to refute a potential negative effect of vitamin C on survival."
With an estimated 10 to 20 per cent of the adult population in North America and Europe - 80 to 160 million people - taking antioxidant supplements, "the public health consequences may be substantial," the authors wrote.
The U.S. market for antioxidant supplements was estimated at more than five billion dollars (A$6.3 billion) in 2006. The authors deplored the intense marketing that touts the alleged health benefits of antioxidant supplements and offered possible explanations as to why the products can have a negative effect.
"By eliminating free radicals from our [body], we interfere with some essential defensive mechanisms," read the study. The antioxidant supplements are synthetic and not subject to the same toxicity studies as other pharmaceutical agents.
"Better understanding of mechanisms and actions of antioxidants in relation to a potential disease is needed," the researchers concluded.
The makers of vitamins and other dietary supplements are not required to register their products with the U.S. government's Food and Drug Administration that regulates medicine and food products, but the FDA can order the withdrawal of products on the market that are found to pose a risk to public health.

 

[SohoKitten]

thank you a lot for your help, LOVE! and ChloeFrancoise, too!

I would love to take baby steps but my stomach doesn't agree - I have really bad eating habbits and I am a 0% or 100% person - my stomach hurt a lot when I mixed regular food with raw food. My whole body reacts very sensitive to food, making it hard for me to take slow steps.

Sorry, maybe that's kind of pointless, but I am really stucked

 

[L0VE]

^ It's not . I actually started eating healthy again but decided to go straight for the fruit (not usually a big fruit person) and it really bothered my stomach (but I also ate it when I wasn't hungry, so maybe that's why.) So I get what you are saying, lol ::.
I think it's easier and better for you if you just mix stuff in. I'm better with just eating a pomegranate or banana instead of a whole fruit salad. And apples don't mix well with my stomach.

 

[L0VE]

^ Btw, what kind of raw foods did you incorporate into your diet?

 

[OhJane]

No posts in two weeks?
I just made a really nice veggie soup..very healthy!

Anyone on the raw food diet?

 

[L0VE]

I need to hop back on the bandwagon =X. Lol.

 

[RRRoosa]

Time to bump this great thread! A question: What does drinking coffee do to your health? I've heard so many different things I don't know what to believe. Some say it's actually good for you (can prevent type 2 diabetes, even cancer) and others say it's compleate toxic for your. I'm such a coffee addict I don't think I could ever give up drinking it but I'm still a bit concerned about what I'm putting into my body.

 

[ChloeFrancoise]

I've heard that it can be good for you for certain things. I think it's best people just have it in moderation like everything else. I myself don't really like coffee though. I'm more likely to drink water and tea.

 

[songbirdsel]

my mum and I are going through the biggest soy obsession. I think its staying.. but i was wondering does anyone know if soy cheese is bad for you? or even soy in general if you can over eat it?

 

[Couture_Tribe]

^ We were just talking about it in the vegetarian thread.

In the staes, they say soy is bad because it effects your estrogen, and it slows down your thyroid etc.

BUT personally from my point of view, it is soy! People in China eats large quantities of them everyday, and they are healthy and fine!