Yes exactly, healthy foods flavour themselves and prep is made simple and easy. Mulberries are manna from heaven, 4 days ago I started picking my white ones, the dark ones will take another week or so to ripen. My focus in the garden has been fruit trees, herbs and greens. I should grow more veggies, but there’s good organic produce within walking distance. It’s quite special eating one’s own home-grown food….
Thanks Robyn, that’s a great reminder that foods are indeed synergistic blends of many components. I can’t agree more about minimal processing, this is a big key to good health. Find clean raw foods and learn simple prep methods. Cheers for the links also!
My meals are getting simpler and simpler as time goes by... especially now that so much that I eat comes out of my own garden. Fresh-picked greens and tomatoes don't need heavy dressings to make them taste good! Mulberries straight off the tree are just divine. And tonight I ground coriander seeds picked straight from my plants that bolted a couple of weeks ago, over sauteed broccoli and beans. Unbelievably good!
Yes, you're 100% correct. As a matter of fact, I absolutely detest the term 'carbs' for that very reason (apart from the fact that we don't eat 'carbs', or 'protein' - we eat FOOD, which is a complex nutritional matrix containing variable quantities of macro- and micronutrients that act in a holistic manner that is often not predictable by analysing any of the individual components, i.e. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts... but I digress!).
I’m also curious about the role of protein. All of the keto diets were done with protein at 15% fixed rather than as grams per kg. body weight. Is it possible that if you are not taking in enough protein you are cannibalizing your muscles? Ideally you would be consuming sufficient protein measured as grams per kg (1.6+grams per kg) and then going low carb/high fat of your remaining calories or vice versa. There is an interesting discussion on the subject of protein by Dr Peter Attia and Dr Don Layman
I'm glad you are enjoying my health/diet-related articles. I'm aware that many of my readers subscribed because of my COVID articles. I have many COVID-related topics stored up in my ideas file, and will continue to produce articles on this topic. However, given that the scamdemic has woken many people up to the fact that the 'authorities' don't have their best interest at heart, I consider that one of the most important tasks we all need to undertake is to learn about how to restore and maintain health. This is a topic that is fraught with claim and counterclaim, and I aim to equip my readers with tools to sort the wheat from the chaff in this domain, just as I have been doing with COVID-related content.
Yes exactly, healthy foods flavour themselves and prep is made simple and easy. Mulberries are manna from heaven, 4 days ago I started picking my white ones, the dark ones will take another week or so to ripen. My focus in the garden has been fruit trees, herbs and greens. I should grow more veggies, but there’s good organic produce within walking distance. It’s quite special eating one’s own home-grown food….
Thanks Robyn, that’s a great reminder that foods are indeed synergistic blends of many components. I can’t agree more about minimal processing, this is a big key to good health. Find clean raw foods and learn simple prep methods. Cheers for the links also!
My meals are getting simpler and simpler as time goes by... especially now that so much that I eat comes out of my own garden. Fresh-picked greens and tomatoes don't need heavy dressings to make them taste good! Mulberries straight off the tree are just divine. And tonight I ground coriander seeds picked straight from my plants that bolted a couple of weeks ago, over sauteed broccoli and beans. Unbelievably good!
After reading part 3 I'm back in love with carbs:-) But 'carbs' is a broad term, are all carbs equal?
Yes, you're 100% correct. As a matter of fact, I absolutely detest the term 'carbs' for that very reason (apart from the fact that we don't eat 'carbs', or 'protein' - we eat FOOD, which is a complex nutritional matrix containing variable quantities of macro- and micronutrients that act in a holistic manner that is often not predictable by analysing any of the individual components, i.e. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts... but I digress!).
There is simply no comparison between the impact on a person's health of lollies vs lentils, or white bread vs steel-cut oats. Minimally-processed foods that are rich in microbiota-accessible carbohydrates, such as legumes, whole grains, and fruits, have a plethora of favourable effects on health, while refined carbohydrates such as white bread, sugary foods and fruit juices are damaging. There's now a burgeoning literature on healthy vs unhealthy plant-based diets e.g. see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28728684/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27299701/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36177985/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30895476/.
The moral of the story: choose your carbohydrate-rich foods wisely!
I’m also curious about the role of protein. All of the keto diets were done with protein at 15% fixed rather than as grams per kg. body weight. Is it possible that if you are not taking in enough protein you are cannibalizing your muscles? Ideally you would be consuming sufficient protein measured as grams per kg (1.6+grams per kg) and then going low carb/high fat of your remaining calories or vice versa. There is an interesting discussion on the subject of protein by Dr Peter Attia and Dr Don Layman
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rZlffRoLoRtDJmu2dnaOo?si=WZHZvMHiR2ekG4M5YRoesw
That 15% of calories is based on calculation of individuals' daily energy requirements, which takes body weight into account.
I just ran the numbers on my own weight, using the calculator at https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/webform/daily-energy-requirements-calculator.
According to this calculator, my daily energy requirement as a moderately active 50 year old female weighing 57 kg, is 9,857 kj.
If I wanted to eat 15% of my daily kj as protein, that would be 1479 kj which is 89 g of protein per day (each g of protein = 16.7kJ).
1.6 g of protein per kg of bodyweight per day would be 91.2 g.
In other words, 15% of daily energy as protein equates to the 1.6 g per kg of bodyweight per day recommended by Attia and co.
Thanks for taking time to respond. I find the topic of health and diet interesting and appreciate your articles on it
I'm glad you are enjoying my health/diet-related articles. I'm aware that many of my readers subscribed because of my COVID articles. I have many COVID-related topics stored up in my ideas file, and will continue to produce articles on this topic. However, given that the scamdemic has woken many people up to the fact that the 'authorities' don't have their best interest at heart, I consider that one of the most important tasks we all need to undertake is to learn about how to restore and maintain health. This is a topic that is fraught with claim and counterclaim, and I aim to equip my readers with tools to sort the wheat from the chaff in this domain, just as I have been doing with COVID-related content.