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Vegetable oils are actually good for you and associated with lower mortality. There is no reason to avoid vegetable oils (unless you're frying with them, which saturates the unsaturated fats). Fish oils are also good for you, although, of course, a vegan wouldn't consume fish oils.
Actually, I have eliminated any added oils whatsoever.
https://nutritionstudies.org/plant-oils-are-not-a-healthy-alternative-to-saturated-fat/
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Oh yeah...and NO diet soft drinks!
Excellent. Research is showing that artificial sweeteners screw up our body's endocrine system.
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radiation is all natural too
Naked juices owned by Pepsi. Way high in sugar. Don't drink them! Eat fruit that is not processed.
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I am vegan. I consume no animal products, no processed foods, no extracted sugars and the only added fat in my diet is minimal use of extra-virgin olive oil.
Anything extracted: oils or sugars are indeed “processed”. Eat as much as you can foods in their natural state.
This includes fruit. Natural fructose from fruit is low glycemic which does not spike insulin in the body and the presence of fiber in the fruit is key to metabolizing.
This is a great post and the way to eat.
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Could be from all that cigarette smoking though...
A long time ago I cut most carbonated drinks from my diet -- outside of the occasional half-gallon "medium" Dr. Pepper at a movie theater. My preference became fruit juices. I love to pack a big cup with crushed ice and fill it with 100% pineapple or grapefruit or some other real fruit juice, avoiding the subtly marketed "cocktails" that mix a couple different juices with extra sweeteners. I could drink two or three on a long afternoon. My doctor noted that my blood sugar was running a bit high, and this led to a discussion about how fruit juices were marginally "better" and more nutritious than soft drinks but with a lot of the same consequences with regards to sugar intake. I had to cut back to my small glass of juice with breakfast.
I was just diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, so this post is timely. What some of you have been facing for years as diabetics and health-conscious individuals I'm trying to learn in a crash course. Some of my greatest challenges so far have been:
- building from a concise stable foundation of truth
- sifting between Type I and Type II guidance
- resolving conflicting opinions and information from seemingly credible opposing sources
- drawing useful information from product packaging
- keeping up with perishable food as a (former) twice-a-month grocery shopper
- developing an expanding menu of quick-prep (or no-prep) safe meals
I appreciate many of the new sources that have come up in this thread.
One of my biggest problems these days. When it's time to eat I want to eat. I'm usually cooking for one, so I don't care to mess up half of the dishes in my kitchen for tonight's entré and a side for fifteen minutes of consumption and then a mass cleanup. In other words, as an adult I never got the hang of day-to-day cooking. So many of these diabetes diet sites are niche showoff sites for culinary mavens. I see too many complex (for me) recipes, and ones that don't really "keep" for three days of leftovers. I'm starting to find some stuff that I can make in big crockpot batches to eat half the week and freeze the rest.
There's a big market out there for diabetic and honestly healthy convenient food. Unfortunately, we mostly seem to get healthy-sounding offshoot brands from the big industry names, with off-white pastorally-themed packaging, and higher prices.
I'm sorry to hear about your diabetes diagnosis. The best advice I can give you is to switch to a plant based diet. Having just watched the video "Fed Up", I don't trust any of the processed food companies.
A great book that will help you get on the right track is
Also, if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can watch loads of videos on the benefits of plant based diet on health.
I'm also reading
- building from a concise stable foundation of truth
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You'll also like the documentary "Fed Up", narrated by Katie Couric.
Watched this video last night.
It is eye opening. We have our own man made epidemic on our hands and no one has the courage to do anything about it.
Sugar is the new tobacco. If you don't believe me, watch the video and present a cogent argument that we don't have a clear and present danger to our health.
If a foreign nation did to our children what the food industry is doing to them, we would be at war with the perpetrator for selling poison (sugar) to our kids.
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I recommend Forks Over Knives.
Totally agree. Forks Over Knives is an outstanding way to help people improve their diet.
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My partner loves fresh fruit. Periodically, he forgets that it isn't a "free"food like green vegetables and starts putting away 4 or 5 servings in a day. Inevitably, he starts to put on belly fat. When he wonders why he's getting fat in spite of eating well, I always have to remind him to rein in the fruit. He makes that one change and in 2 or 3 weeks the gut is gone.
You and your partner have a great approach to diet.
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You'll also like the documentary "Fed Up", narrated by Katie Couric.
Just ordered the DVD.
Thank you very much for turning me on (LOL - hippie speak) to this.
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It’s a ridiculous “documentary” which only re-enforces a smart/informed practice of “everything in moderation, nothing in excess”
It is not ridiculous. I suppose folks said the same things about tobacco documentaries. Smoking tobacco (which by the way is laden with added sugar) even in moderation is harmful.
Here is an interesting article...
Eating Toward Immortality
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/eating-toward-immortality-1597909330
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We're also a gluttonous, bigger-is-better society. It's impossible to buy a 12 oz can of soda anymore - your only choice now is a 20 oz plastic bottle. McDonald's won't even use the word 'small' on their menu - portion sizes start at 'medium'. When I eat at a restaurant, food is piled up on top of itself in servings twice the size what I would normally eat. Everything is "buy two, get one free" or else you will be penalized financially for trying to buy small sizes in moderation.
You are absolutely correct in your observation.
In fact, there is a documentary on called "Super Size Me" that speaks to the bigger-is-better society.
It is astounding to see the psychological and physiological changes that the guy that makes the documentary goes through as he eats "super size" fast food for 30 days.
- marylander1940 and + FrankR
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I don’t think there will be any improvement in the obesity problem.
Unfortunately, I agree.
Think about it... All the ads on TV for fast food and DIABETES medicine...
What a cozy relationship...
It's up to us to choose what we put in our mouth... Wink, wink... Nod, nod...
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BTW - That is how "Whole Foods" (the store) got it's name.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Shares the Diet that Got Him Back to His Teenage Weight
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Usually, anything marked with “No Sugar Added” has fairly large amounts of artificial sweeteners, which are equally bad.
All the more reason to stay away from processed foods and eat whole foods.
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I've watched French people grocery shop at Trader Joe's. They seem quite careful about what they were buying, the way they read the labels and ingredients of everything, and then had a short conversation before deciding. They do seem to focus more on quality and quantity.
I bet they were all height/weight proportionate. Were they?
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I remember SUGAR SUGAR battling it out with AQUARIAS for the #1 song of 1969.
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1969.
№ Title Artist(s)
2 "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" The 5th Dimension
3 "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations
4 "Honky Tonk Women" The Rolling Stones
5 "Everyday People" Sly and the Family Stone
Dizzy is the first record I ever bought. It skipped. I had to return it to the variety store across the street SIX TIMES before I got a copy that worked, which I probably still have in a closet somewhere. Between my sister and I, we had about half the top 100 that year. I turned 7 that August, she was 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1969
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What about those Naked juices?? I think the bottles say its all natural??
Naked is owned by PepsiCo (named Brad's Drink Company in some alternate universe) and it's all right there on their website. All of Naked's most popular flavors — the ones you'll find lining the enormous coolers of stores like Costco — have an incredibly high amount of sugar.
Yes, Naked his super high in sugar!
The problem is that it is processed food. You are better off eating the apple. Processing concentrates sugar and takes out fiber.
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This is a good example. However, I am less concerned about the natural sugars that would be in an apple or banana, than any of the other items that appear in this picture. The added sugars are the real problem, more so than those that are naturally in a piece of fruit.
I totally agree. It is the added sugars that are in so much of our food. High Fructose is seriously bad.
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Sugar Is KILLING Us - Seriously
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Actually this "Dude", is a distinguished PhD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Colin_Campbell
He has published fact based scientific research on how important plant based diets are to our health.
Humans are a unique species in that we can decide what we ingest or not. We also have a highly developed brain so we can learn and decide what we put into our bodies.