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What should we eat (the original diet)?

Revmitchell

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Well it seems many are going that way, take a look at the plant based foods coming out...

"What is plant-based meat? Here's a list of some of TODAY's favorite plant-based meat alternatives that taste, well, like meat!
  • Impossible Burger. ...
  • Beyond Meat Burger.
  • Beyond Sausage.
  • Lightlife Italian Sausage. ...
  • Abbot's Butcher "Chorizo"
  • Before the Butcher UNCUT Breakfast Sausage Patty. ...
  • Tyson's Raised & Rooted "Plant-Based Nuggets" ...
"If it looks like a burger, cooks like a burger and even tastes like a burger, it must be a burger, right? Well, not anymore.

"Burgers," made with plant-based ingredients instead of animal meat, have become a hot item in grocery stores and even fast food chains. The Beyond Burger — which Carl's Jr., the restaurant famous for its particularly meaty dishes with ads starring models, incorporated into its menu — and the Impossible Burger, adapted by Burger King as a new Whopper patty, are two examples of the trendy alternatives out there.

And unlike the fake meats that are often relegated into the vegan section, the newest crop of plant-based options are found in the meat aisle at your local supermarket. That's right, the meat aisle! These companies aren't just making food for vegans and vegetarians — they're coming after meat lovers."Want to try out plant-based meat? Here are our top 10 product picks

Those things are so bad for you. The process they have to go through destroys any value they had.
 

Hobie

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Eating vegan is becoming all the rage and I would admit that probably most people would make a considerable improvement in their diet if they turned to it, but I have to also consider who is pushing it and that a lot of the hype is overblown.

As for what constitutes the diet chosen for us we have a lot of instructions on how to eat meat and I would say especially fish.

Veganism is not for me, but I have been trying to increase my veggies and fruits. I think growing your own garden and knowing where your veggies are coming from is important if one is going to go that route.

I'm not going to diss being vegetarian but one other thing one should consider, which the vegan pushers seem to deny or neglect telling, is that without meat you are lacking getting some essential nutrients. I'll share my notes/advice on this:

Be sure to keep up on nutrients.

Plant proteins carry incomplete protein, lack 1 or more essential amino acids.

B12 – for red blood cells, brain, found in almost no plant food

Creatine – for muscles and brain, produced by liver but quickly decreased from plant diets

Carnosine – anti-oxidant for muscles and brain, plant eaters have significantly less

D3 – plant eaters must settle for D2, sunlight

DHA – brain function, conversion from plant food is inefficient

Heme Iron – iron absorbed much better from meat – plant eaters must eat plenty of non-heme iron.

Calcium… Zinc, …make sure you eat plenty of Artificial supplements to make up for the loss of essential nutrients.

People get caught up in the rhetoric…for health OR ethical, and/or environmental reasons –

Those pushing the rhetoric often say the reason is for health but the hardcore advocates are generally wrapped in promoting that animals have the same rights to exist as we do to be on this earth and their rhetoric denies that our creator gave dominion over the animals as well as instructions about eating them.

Some natural animal products (fish, chicken, lean red meat) are not only very healthy but the only natural carrier of some essential nutrients.

You must eat artificial supplements to make up for the loss of nutrients …yum! Read that small print.
It takes time, but basically the better you eat the healthier for your body. So much like a car, the body needs to be taken care of, and maintained, especially as you get old.
 

Yeshua1

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Grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our Creator. These foods prepared in as simple and natural manner as possible, free from spice and grease of all kinds, are the most healthful and nourishing. They impart a strength, a power of endurance, and help the intellect, that are not afforded by a more complex and stimulating diet.

I was reading a new finding that diabetes can be brought under control if people would just eat vegies, basically the diet found in the Garden of Eden.

"The positive effects of a vegan diet on diabetes have made the news big time lately, but here is an interesting article that goes further, and specifically researches the effects of vegetables.

The results are promising, and enough to convince anyone, especially diabetics, to eat more than just the recommended '5 servings a day.' Even better news: vegetables are also powerful warriors against cancer, but it's important not to smoke, or these benefits may be erased.

Chomping on a few vegetables may help ward off diabetes. That is according to a new study at the Minnesota School of Public Health. Inside these and other orange, red, and green foods like carrots, tomatoes, kale, and spinach are caroteniods. Those carotenoids have previously been shown to protect against cancer. These have been shown to lower your odds of a lifetime of getting diabetes....Now go eat your vegetables!.."

"....When it comes to vegetables, people with diabetes, should eat at least three servings a day. Vegetables are healthy, chock full of vitamins and minerals, and some give you much needed fiber. The best part: vegetables are naturally low in calories -- if you are careful not to top them with butter, sour cream, cream soups, or cheese sauces.

Remember, non-starchy vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, lettuce, greens, carrots, chilies, peppers and tomatoes (those in this food group) do contain a small amount of carbohydrate -- 5 grams per serving.

Easy ways to eat your vegetables:
•Keep frozen and canned vegetables on hand to know you always have vegetables at the ready.
•Make double and triple portions; at a serving one day and have one ready-to-go for the next.
•Blanch (quick cook and chill) a head of broccoli or cauliflower, break it into pieces, place in a plastic container and have a ready supply for the week, hot or cold.
•Keep a bag of pre-cut or baby carrots around -- grab a handful as a snack, pack them with lunch, throw them into stew, or microwave for a quick vegetable.
•Microwave or sauté onions and peppers to put more vegetables into a tomato sauce.
•Toss extra sautéed vegetables on a frozen pizza.
•Make a big salad to last a few days, store in the refrigerator in a plastic container.
•Add vegetables into sandwiches -- not just the old lettuce and tomato, try alfalfa sprouts, sliced red onion, sliced cucumbers, sliced yellow squash or zucchini, red peppers, or leftover grilled vegetables.
•Add vegetables to an omelette or scrambled eggs -- sauté onions, peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes and add some fresh herbs.
•Drink tomato juice, V-8 ... as a vegetable.
•In a tomato sauce, cut the amount of meat you use in half, and add more vegetables -- onions, peppers, mushrooms, eggplant, zucchini or others..."
Adapted from the book Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy. Written by Hope S. Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, a nationally recognized expert on healthy eating and diabetes
I live under the NC, and so like to enjoy a nice pork chop once in a while!
 

Benjamin

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Umm its dishonest to lump all meat in with anything processed.
That's what bugs me about those promoting vegetarianism, is their twisting of the facts to attack eating meat. Again, I have no doubt that increasing veggies would improve most people's diets but the claims against meats simply ignore the facts. The movement is being championed by animal rights activists and is often being adopted by people who buy into their claims without looking at the evidence more objectively.

For instance, "recent claims that vegetarian diets bring diabetes under control". I have long known that simply cutting some fats, sugars, ...calories and losing weight along with exercise has reversed diabetes. I know several people and heard of many more that have reversed diabetes on a diet that includes meat and exercise. Yet, the vegans try to make it sound as if meat is the problem rather than the truth that improving the diet and losing weight is the solution. In fact, I would put exercise before a strictly vegan diet as more beneficial. .
 

Hobie

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Well, here is something surprising I came across, a way to fight the coronavirus....
"Eat healthy foods

What you eat and drink can make a huge difference in your overall health, according to registered dietitian nutritionist and cookbook author Maya Feller.

The first tip: drink lots and lots of water.

"Hydration is terribly important," Feller told Inside Edition. "For women, you want to drink two liters a day and for men, you want to have three liters."

Feller also said that certain foods can boost your immune system.

"You want to look for foods in their whole and minimally process formed," she said. "Berries are rich in antioxidants. Strawberries are a great source of Vitamin A and the darker berries have resveratrol, which is really important for immune health."

Other good foods are those rich in protein or fiber, including almonds, eggs and leafy greens."...
What Is 'Social Distancing'? And Other Steps to Prevent Coronavirus
 
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