I went On A Diet

In january i went on a diet with a female friend. (i'm not fat like most of you). It was just more of an interesting thing to try and i've always been health conscious when it comes to things like bread and cheese etc and would hardly ever eat those things anyway, and i've always liked fruit.

She'd filled me in about food and how society has corrupted everyone, how dairy isn't good for you, how the body can't deal with legumes very well, how we shouldn't eat grains, how we should avoid soy and added sugars. We watched a lot of shows and my eyes were opened.

I knew the typical food item in stores was full of junk, but i didn't realise that by cutting the above out of my diet for 30 days i'd feel the best i've ever felt.

I basically ate raw foods for a whole month, veg, salad, meat, limited nuts, fruit and meat. All i drank was water. I chose fizzy water as i became a diet coke addict last year and it helped my rehabilitation.

We could eat meat, although we opted for grass fed where we could.

Since that experience, i've still drank nothing other than water, with the very occassional soda and occassional fatty food, but that's more to do with being badly organised than a desire to consume that stuff.

I drank an energy drink last week, again just a bad decision on my part, and i could feel what it was doing to me internally, my body hated it. It made me feel dizzy. Yet last year that wouldn't happen, because i'd consume them often.

Your body becomes used to the things that are bad for you, and trust me, a lot of the food you eat on a daily basis is bad for you.

I can't even eat fries without waking up feeling like i've been hit by a train.

I feel the best i've ever felt, i wake up with bags of energy, there's no crashes, just the natural urge to sleep at a more reasonable time. The only thing that this diet does do to you is make you SLEEP SLEEP. Waking up can be very difficult :D.

There's so many ways to make healthy food yummy, i invented lacos. Grass fed mince spiced with onions and peppers wrapped in lettuce like a taco. It sounds basic, but after you've been clean of bad foods for a while this sort of stuff tastes delicious.

And minceato, which is mince and tinned tomato with onion and mushrooms with some basil.

You can even use potato skins as pita bread, and that's the best part of a potato anyway.

So, if your one of those people who wakes up feeling rough every day and relies on caffeine and sugar you should cut it out and get on the natural foods, you'll feel like a new person after around a week, and by the end of the month, you'll look at things you used to eat on a daily basis as garbage and learn to really scrutinise the choices you make about what goes in your mouth as opposed to just being in a routine and making bad food choices every day, whether willfully or ignorantly.
 
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Well-done. Avoid fizzy drinks completely. Be careful of eating meat. Whatever meat is, except fish, organic or not, doesn't make different. It hurts you on the long run. Legumes and grains are not bad. Without them, you may deprive your body from important nutrients.

By the way, have you heard the saying: "You are not ill, you are thirsty".
 
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yes I'm a great believer in you are what you eat. I do find it hard to practice though! not helped by having a missus who loves her sugar and hates veg lol. A routine blood test was wake up for me as I was borderline diabetes type 2, also highish chlorestral plus slightly high blood pressure (I'm mid 50s) so i cut all the sugar in tea (2.5 spoons x 10 ish per day) and have not drunk a fizzy drink (coke etc) in 3 yrs. Cut out mars bars etc. Net result was my blood sugar went down again. We as a race do eat an awful lot of junk :(
 
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    Well done Massey you wont regret it

    As a mature runner who has been running for 35 years I have to take care of what I put in my system to enjoy this sport . This sentence alone focuses on how I view my relationship with food . "WHAT I PUT IN MY SYSTEM " I don't have too much of a care for how things taste when I think about eating I think about the training I do . I visualise running fast on a local country lane and consider how I would feel if I could not do that . I remind myself I do this because I eat well .
    I don't eat bread sugar ,chocolate ,fat, fast food or anything else that will kill me .
    I eat a lot of fruit veg I have rich tea biscuits fat free dairy products and water .
    I think I'm OK but I might be wrong :)
     
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    In january i went on a diet with a female friend. (i'm not fat like most of you). It was just more of an interesting thing to try and i've always been health conscious when it comes to things like bread and cheese etc and would hardly ever eat those things anyway, and i've always liked fruit.

    She'd filled me in about food and how society has corrupted everyone, how dairy isn't good for you, how the body can't deal with legumes very well, how we shouldn't eat grains, how we should avoid soy and added sugars. We watched a lot of shows and my eyes were opened.

    I knew the typical food item in stores was full of junk, but i didn't realise that by cutting the above out of my diet for 30 days i'd feel the best i've ever felt.

    Yep the food industry is big business and its in their interest to sell you as much as possible and they don't care about your health. And you're right switching to grass fed butter and avoiding other dairy is a good move. The problem is not the food you eat making you fat, its the food the animal eats that you eat that makes you fat.

    The biggest con has to be breakfast cereals, through decades of hard marketing the cereal companies would have you believe that the way to start the day is with one of their products. When in fact there is no nutritional value in it at all, the fact that it is 'fortified' with vitamins should set off alarm bells. Basically they synthetically add stuff to make it somehow 'healthy'. Of course and we all know that you eat a bowl and 30 minutes later you're hungry.

    Me I regularly fast now as there is so much evidence to support the health benefits to doing so and of course as homosapiens thats how we used to eat, when there was food not by looking at our watches!
     
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    It is not good to sleep for more than 9 hours. If you are sleeping anything between 6-9 hours, that is good enough. Having healthy diet and doing about 4 hours exercise is more than good enough to stay fit and healthy.
     
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    If you want to lose weight, try this one...

    eat what you want during the day... anytime after 5.00pm all you eat is onion soup.

    :D

    My Landlord swears by it... he lost 5 stone in a month.

    either that or he can't be bothered cooking proper food and just has french onion soup coz he's addicted... :D :D either way, he's definitely slimmer now :D
     
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    Surely you're not trying to suggest that early man lived a healthier life than his modern equivalent?
    This is something that baffles me so many people don't look after themselves but live longer !

    For some reason we never talk about the 15 year battle they have leading up to their death supported by the NHS !
     
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    Well-done. Avoid fizzy drinks completely. Be careful of eating meat. Whatever meat is, except fish, organic or not, doesn't make different. It hurts you on the long run. Legumes and grains are not bad. Without them, you may deprive your body from important nutrients.

    By the way, have you heard the saying: "You are not ill, you are thirsty".

    My understanding leads me to believe that the ideal diet is one that contains zero animal consumption, and fish are included in this.

    Since this diet, i have cut down on the amount of meat i eat, and instead of meat being the focal element of a meal, i hope to make it a small part. I think giving up completely will be too hard for me.

    The countries they analyse with regards to meat consumption, such as many asian countries where meat makes up a very small part of each dish, due most probably to cost, sort of suggests you can live a healthy life and incorporate some animal consumption, but not on the levels you see here in the west.

    I'm not sure about legumes and grains, to call them bad outright is being simplistic. Me personally, abstaining from legumes and grains these didn't appear to make me lack, as i said, i felt incredibly alive eating veg, fruit, some meat, limited nuts, potato (but not too much) , making use of things like coconut milk, which is pretty yummy.

    My understanding with legumes is difficult digestion. My friend, after this experience, following the reintroduction of some foods, feels as though legumes are affecting her.

    There's a show on netflix called fat sick and nearly dead.

    The man featured drinks only vegetables for i think 60 days. His illness went away. By the end of it, not eating grain didn't seem to have any sort of draw back at all?
     
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    It is not good to sleep for more than 9 hours. If you are sleeping anything between 6-9 hours, that is good enough. Having healthy diet and doing about 4 hours exercise is more than good enough to stay fit and healthy.

    I found waking up on my alarm after 7 hrs , 8 hrs was very do-able. What i sometimes struggled with when i lay in bed was a feeling of being weighted down a little.

    I'm not sure if that was more to do with the first week maybe a bit longer, where your body is still getting used to the relatively big shift in how its energy is delivered.
     
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    Well done Massey you wont regret it

    As a mature runner who has been running for 35 years I have to take care of what I put in my system to enjoy this sport . This sentence alone focuses on how I view my relationship with food . "WHAT I PUT IN MY SYSTEM " I don't have too much of a care for how things taste when I think about eating I think about the training I do . I visualise running fast on a local country lane and consider how I would feel if I could not do that . I remind myself I do this because I eat well .
    I don't eat bread sugar ,chocolate ,fat, fast food or anything else that will kill me .
    I eat a lot of fruit veg I have rich tea biscuits fat free dairy products and water .
    I think I'm OK but I might be wrong :)

    I know what its like to get addicted to running, and seeing the improvements in your physical fitness.

    Sadly, when i was around 18 -21 i used to exercise too much, and did some sort of damage to what i can only presume is my left hip.

    I walk perfectly fine , the only time i notice it is after i've ran around a mile, i can feel a numb sensation. And it's usually there to greet me the next morning when i wake.

    I would go out around ten pm and run a couple miles, have a sit down on a wall and try run back even faster. It's enjoyable but i don't feel i can do it like i used to, unless i maybe find a way of putting more pressure on my right leg to soften the left.

    Biscuits are something i've always avoided, the fat per one :eek:
     
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    yes I'm a great believer in you are what you eat. I do find it hard to practice though! not helped by having a missus who loves her sugar and hates veg lol. A routine blood test was wake up for me as I was borderline diabetes type 2, also highish chlorestral plus slightly high blood pressure (I'm mid 50s) so i cut all the sugar in tea (2.5 spoons x 10 ish per day) and have not drunk a fizzy drink (coke etc) in 3 yrs. Cut out mars bars etc. Net result was my blood sugar went down again. We as a race do eat an awful lot of junk :(

    My dad's type two, which he should be considering how many beers he used to drink a day. He'd sit in the house and drink ten cans of beer a night all week when i was growing up. By definition he was probably an alcoholic.

    He seems to have slimmed down over the years, he's still got a fat beer belly, i'm not sure if the weight loss is as a result of aging because some over weight people appear to slim as they get older, he has to take the tablets. Unlike you his attitude is more i'd rather live to 60 and did what i like as opposed to calorie count and be "boring".

    Even though it's a fact your quality of life as a slimmer person is way better and there's more to life than a burger and fries.

    I'm mostly just astounded how the government, who are meant to look out for the people, don't do more to truly educate people. It's no wonder there is such issues with health care in the western world.

    Like someone else said, people have been brainwashed into thinking cereal is healthy, cereal bars with 'slow release energy' are "healthy" , and then there's milk, yes it gives you calcium, but you can get the same calcium that you need throughout the day from fruit, you don't have to drink growth hormone meant for a baby cow.

    Why is milk considered such a staple? I just don't understand.
     
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    I'm about 3 stone overweight at the moment :(

    It's not so much what I eat as the inactivity that gets me.

    When I stopped working on the building I gained 3 stone over 3 years, lost it again 3 years ago as I was renovating my house and back on the tools, but it gradually started creeping back up after I finished the work.

    I changed my diet in the summer, no more crisps, chocolate, pasties and cut right down on bread and cheese, was feeling a lot better, weight was coming down but then I hurt my back in December and have probably put another half stone on since then.

    It's a viscous circle at the moment, back hurts so I'm not active, I'm not active so back gets worse :(

    I used to like running but can't run more than 100 yards now without getting a pain in the small of my back.
     
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    The problem with the meat is that it comes from animals with a higher temperature, about 2c. Because of this all of it can not be digested. Undeigested meat goes to the colon, where it decomposes and creates a lot of free radicals. This puts a heavy burden on the immune system. Even the digested part can not be put to use, metabolise, easily. This is not so with fish. Because it has a lower temperature than us. It easily digested, absorbed and metabolised.

    I think there is something not right with your body because of your sleep more than necessary, getting tired on your exercise and feeling numb sensation. It could be because of lack of rare minerals. Why not have a blood check? Numb sensation could be because of dihydration. I can start work early morning to late evening, without getting tired or feeling hungry or thirsty.

    If you chew your legumes very well all of it, except proteins, get digested in your mouth.

    Theoretically one should be always at a good health, no matter how old s/he is, for being on a diet of fresh fruits and vegetables even if lacks some minerals. This is because this diet provides fresh new enzymes to the body. Enzymes are mediums to metabolise food and raw material of immune system. When your body has enzymes more than enough, the immune system operates at a pick point and can neutralise any negativity, like lack of certain minerals, up to some points.
     
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    The countries they analyse with regards to meat consumption, such as many asian countries where meat makes up a very small part of each dish, due most probably to cost, sort of suggests you can live a healthy life and incorporate some animal consumption, but not on the levels you see here in the west.

    But is it meat in it's purest form that is unhealthy or is the huge amounts of processed meats eaten in the West that are unhealthy as surely you can't compare the nutritional effects of a pork chop or chicken fillet with a pork pie or microwavable chicken dinner
     
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    My dad's type two, which he should be considering how many beers he used to drink a day.

    Unlike you his attitude is more i'd rather live to 60 and did what i like as opposed to calorie count and be "boring".

    I'm mostly just astounded how the government, who are meant to look out for the people, don't do more to truly educate people. It's no wonder there is such issues with health care in the western world.

    I've edited the quote down to the two bits that I wanted to respond to.

    When I was younger I used to drink far too much and smoke as well and had the same attitude as your father but it's surprising how your attitude changes when you approach 60 and realise that you're not quite ready to die.

    I'm not sure what more the Government can do apart from banning sugar as there is certainly enough information out there but people choose to ignore it on the basis that it probably won't happen to them.

    I seem to be one of the unlucky ones as I'm just under 6 feet tall and weigh 12 stone yet I have type 2 diabetes.

    My wife is a staff nurse working in a hospital and she is overweight like so many of her colleagues. What makes it worse is that both of her older sisters are very overweight, both work in the NHS and both have type 2 diabetes yet when I suggest going on a strict diet it's always manana.
     
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    I'm not sure what more the Government can do apart from banning sugar as there is certainly enough information out there but people choose to ignore it on the basis that it probably won't happen to them.

    Not much they can do as they take advice from the medical profession and this is the one area where the advice GPs and the like give is either out of date or simply wrong.

    Low fat diet? We have the sketchy results of one study by a chap named Ancel Keys way back in the 50s. Medical advice for decades suggested low fat diets and the 80s and 90s saw a proliferation of 'low fat' alternatives to existing foods. What happened? The world got FATTER.

    8 glasses of water a day? I hydrate regularly but guess what, google it, there is no evidence to suggest this is something that has to be done, not even sure where it came from.

    Add to that most GPs are fat anyway, a case of do as I say not do as I do. Ludicrous!
     
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    Well done, and that's a really good insight on the food. I started a health kick a few months ago but the food and drink part is my weakness. With four kids, about to hit 30 no time for the gym a couple of stone overweight, myself and the wife we started a cardio programme T25. I am a firm believer that if your happy with your body we are all shapes and sizes dont bother what others think, but when your weight effects your health, in my case my back then its time to get into shape.
    T25 is a really good programme and once you start kind of addictive, so much so that my wife even does it 10-11pm in the evening after a 12-13 hour shift at work (nurse). If you have not heard of it, its 25 mins of cardio 6 days a week, over three levels of intensity.
    Now the diet part, my wife shes done amazing, and does not give into temptation and eats great. Me though I struggle and there is usually something guilty in my desk draw, then I feel bad as its like all that effort for nothing. I really want to loose more weight around my belly so think a low carb diet would work here, but then would this effect my energy levels for the cardio?

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    I certainly want to maintain my figure. I am very much contented with my weight and the shape of my body. But I know its not enough since I am a coffee drinker and loves to eat fatty foods. I know I need to eat vegetables and learn to have a healthy lifestyle so I need to refrain from eating more pork and rice. Right now, I am in a diet and usually do yoga in the morning and run some routine in the gym during weekends.
     
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    I'm lucky where I live, we have a few traditional butchers and graziers to choose from, who actually butcher their own meat, rather than having it prepacked. The vast majority of the meat I eat is from the butchers, same for my six dogs. I also try to eat seasonal, far too many people want to eat strawberries in December.
     
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    But is it meat in it's purest form that is unhealthy or is the huge amounts of processed meats eaten in the West that are unhealthy as surely you can't compare the nutritional effects of a pork chop or chicken fillet with a pork pie or microwavable chicken dinner

    Yes, just meat in general is bad for you. There's no reason to eat it at all. If you ask the general public a loaded question like 'why do we need meat' they'll say protein. But you don't need it.

    Like Swisaw said, it increases free radicals which increase aging. It's the portion sizes i think that's the biggest issue. You'd probably be looking at two mouthfuls of chicken shredded into a meal instead of eating a whole chicken breasts or more per meal to keep it at a level of moderation, or just not eating it at all, which is hard i think.

    And if you are going to eat it, even in moderation, you want to opt for grass fed and avoid corn fed and processed completely.

    I think, from all of the shows i have watched, and my own experience that the basis of every diet for someone who wants to be healthy should be veg, veg should be the main part of a meal, instead of a massive steak with a tiny bit of veg on the side.
     
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    I think, from all of the shows i have watched, and my own experience that the basis of every diet for someone who wants to be healthy should be veg, veg should be the main part of a meal, instead of a massive steak with a tiny bit of veg on the side.

    I try and eat fairly healthily but unfortunately I don't really like traditional veg although I feel obliged to eat it.

    I'm off to the Canary Islands next week for the Easter fortnight and will be eating predominantly grilled fish whilst I'm there which I'm looking forward to
     
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    Yes, just meat in general is bad for you. There's no reason to eat it at all. If you ask the general public a loaded question like 'why do we need meat' they'll say protein. But you don't need it.

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    You most certainly do,hence why the best food for human beings is other human beings.;)

    Its not chance that vegetarians don't live as long as meat eaters.
     
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    so the big question massey, you gonna stick at it?! I've gone on health kick diets in my own way and they last about 10 days. Once you start this thing it kind of takes over your life ie analysing everything you eat and I find it becomes a right drudge. I will say though, it must help hugely to have a partner who is like minded as that gives some moral support. btw - your Dad .....what is it with people that they think so little of themselves or their lives such that they dont care if they die 20 yrs earlyo_O
     
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    You most certainly do,hence why the best food for human beings is other human beings.;)

    Its not chance that vegetarians don't live as long as meat eaters.

    Not what i've seen. The regions around the world where people eat predominantly veg live longer and don't get as sick. The very first thing i found lol http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-expectancy-eggs-dairy-research-a7168036.html That sort of evidence i'd say is pretty conclusive and you could say what common sense would predict.

    Also, i know the human body is capable of eating all sorts, but you'd think if nature intended us to eat meat we wouldn't have blunt fingers and inadequate teeth.

    I'm not an eco warriror or advocate of veganism by the way o_O
     
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    so the big question massey, you gonna stick at it?! I've gone on health kick diets in my own way and they last about 10 days. Once you start this thing it kind of takes over your life ie analysing everything you eat and I find it becomes a right drudge. I will say though, it must help hugely to have a partner who is like minded as that gives some moral support. btw - your Dad .....what is it with people that they think so little of themselves or their lives such that they dont care if they die 20 yrs earlyo_O

    Today i've eaten two clemantines (been busy) and in about an hr or so i'm gonna brown some mince and onions and mushrooms, sprinkle a combination of spices (hot ones) and tip it onto lettuce wraps with some cucumber and tomato.

    I'd say i'm close to the mind set i need to be in to make this a permanent thing. The abundance of energy i feel when i wake up is too good to throw away. Remembering how sluggish you feel on a typical diet in this country is good motivation.

    In my head automatically, i look at certain foods and don't want to eat them. Mayonnaise for example, even the low fat stuff is bad for you and i used to love tuna mayo on a potato. Now i'd opt for avocado mashed up and mixed with tuna and onion, for example. Or squeeze a lemon over a salad.

    I have coconut milk now out of a carton, so if i make a smoothie i'd pour some of that in, or just drink it out of the carton if i feel like a change from water.

    I have coconut oils for use in cooking. I even have ghee. A big tub of it. It looks horrible and smells but it's healthier.

    My goal is to cut out all dairy, grain, soy, sugar and have limited legumes.

    It all depends what type of person you are, and if you are easily influenced by others, especially if you live with other people and the kitchen cupboards are full of fast food.

    I don't bring bad things into my house as a rule, which means if i ever feel like i want a treat i have to leave the house to get it.

    One thing i want to do , and wish i had done at the end of January, is eat this diet for a month and go and get a blood test to see if i was lacking in anything.

    I'll never go back to drinking energy drinks every day, drinking diet coke, grabbing bars of chocolate daily or every couple of days, pouring milk on cereal, eating big baguettes with sausage full of who knows what on them, i'm not gonna go back to that.

    Will i maybe once in a blue moon have a pizza or something out of convenience? Even tho i know i shouldn't eat it, probably. It's nice to have a night off from preparing your own food now and then lol
     
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    Not what i've seen. The regions around the world where people eat predominantly veg live longer and don't get as sick. The very first thing i found lol http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-expectancy-eggs-dairy-research-a7168036.html That sort of evidence i'd say is pretty conclusive and you could say what common sense would predict.

    Also, i know the human body is capable of eating all sorts, but you'd think if nature intended us to eat meat we wouldn't have blunt fingers and inadequate teeth.

    I'm not an eco warriror or advocate of veganism by the way o_O

    • Vitamin B12: 83% of vegans are deficient in B12, compared to 5% of omnivores. B12 deficiency can have serious consequences (59).
    • Iron: In one study, vegetarians had only a third of the ferritin (a marker for iron levels) of omnivores (60).
    • Vitamin D: Levels of Vitamin D are 74% lower in vegans, compared to omnivores (61).
    • Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Vegans have 53% lower levels of EPA and almost 59% lower levels of DHA, compared to meat eaters (62).
    A diet that makes the majority of people who follow it deficient in critical nutrients…

    I don’t know about you, but that seems like a pretty bad idea to me.


    Full article

    https://authoritynutrition.com/top-11-biggest-lies-about-vegan-diets/
     
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    The problem with the meat is that it comes from animals with a higher temperature, about 2c. Because of this all of it can not be digested. Undeigested meat goes to the colon, where it decomposes and creates a lot of free radicals. This puts a heavy burden on the immune system. Even the digested part can not be put to use, metabolise, easily. This is not so with fish. Because it has a lower temperature than us. It easily digested, absorbed and metabolised.

    I think there is something not right with your body because of your sleep more than necessary, getting tired on your exercise and feeling numb sensation. It could be because of lack of rare minerals. Why not have a blood check? Numb sensation could be because of dihydration. I can start work early morning to late evening, without getting tired or feeling hungry or thirsty.

    If you chew your legumes very well all of it, except proteins, get digested in your mouth.

    Theoretically one should be always at a good health, no matter how old s/he is, for being on a diet of fresh fruits and vegetables even if lacks some minerals. This is because this diet provides fresh new enzymes to the body. Enzymes are mediums to metabolise food and raw material of immune system. When your body has enzymes more than enough, the immune system operates at a pick point and can neutralise any negativity, like lack of certain minerals, up to some points.

    What about lectins? Legumes are high in lectin. Too much consumption makes you resistant, which makes you fat? (I've been speaking to my friend) :D This can cause satiety confusion? One thing i was never on this diet was confused about hunger. I knew exactly when i needed to eat and when i didn't.

    With regards to grains, even whole grains, it's proven that the stomach is not evolved enough to digest grain, this can cause digestion issues, eating foods that cause digestion issues can mess up your gut, where 80% of the immune system is located. If this is the case, which it seems to be to me, i don't get why society is so bread orientated.

    The numb feeling is a damage to somewhere around my left hip that's never going to heal. It was because of too much physical exertion.

    I agree an overall healthy diet may make any nutrients you lack less of an issue. I think i am going to try and do this again and get a blood test at the end of it. Excluding legumes completely and no grains again.
     
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    • Vitamin B12: 83% of vegans are deficient in B12, compared to 5% of omnivores. B12 deficiency can have serious consequences (59).
    • Iron: In one study, vegetarians had only a third of the ferritin (a marker for iron levels) of omnivores (60).
    • Vitamin D: Levels of Vitamin D are 74% lower in vegans, compared to omnivores (61).
    • Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Vegans have 53% lower levels of EPA and almost 59% lower levels of DHA, compared to meat eaters (62).
    A diet that makes the majority of people who follow it deficient in critical nutrients…

    I don’t know about you, but that seems like a pretty bad idea to me.


    Full article

    https://authoritynutrition.com/top-11-biggest-lies-about-vegan-diets/

    That's like saying, this man isn't getting enough fiber

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    Just because they are vegan doesn't mean they are automatically eating right , getting the right food variation. It doesn't mean it's because they're not eating meat or drinking milk. That was my first thoughts.

    Have you seen vegan food? I have. I even tried some last year. I could eat vegan patties all day long, for example - just vegan patties, call myself a vegan and be deficient in all sorts of things.

    So maybe the highlights you make are a little simplistic :D
     
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    8 glasses of water a day? I hydrate regularly but guess what, google it, there is no evidence to suggest this is something that has to be done, not even sure where it came from.

    About seven years ago, my doctor advised me to drink a lot of water and avoid anything with a lot of potassium like tomatoes. He advised me to do that because he diagnosed me with third stage chronic kidney disease. I followed his advice. I also changed my diet to a diet of fruits, vegetables, and wholegrains, also on his, my Dr, advice. This is because he also diagnosed me with hypertension, high blood pressure.

    After five years, my Dr told me that my kidney then was better than eight years ago. My blood pressure recovered a lot earlier. Since the advice of my Dr, regarding drinking a lot of water, I have been drinking 0.04litre of water per each kilogram of my body weight at about four regular intervals like before breakfast, at 10am, at 4pm and at 9pm. Now I am 65kg in weight. So I drink 0.04x65=2.60litres of water daily. I still drink my water even when I am fasting. But I add a quarter of teaspoon sea salt, a teaspoon of honey and squeeze a piece of lemon to my water each time except before breakfast.

    Never wait to become thirsty to drink water. The immune system uses a lot of water. When you become thirsty, means your immune system has gone very weak or has stopped because it can not get one of its raw materials, water. One could get any serious disease at the moment of thirst. I always warm my water. Each degree, C, of water warmth above your body temperature strengthens your immune system by 30%. I always drink my water on empty stomach, at least half hour before or two hours after my meals. Drinking any drink, with meals, is another cause of serious diseases. Because it dilutes digestive enzymes. So most of the food remains undigested. It goes into the colon to decompose to cause colon disease and send a massive amount of free radicals into blood stream to add a heavy burden on immune system. All types of cancer are associated with diseased colon. All cancer sufferers without exception also suffer from colon disease.

    The saying: “You are not ill, you are thirsty” was coined by an Iranian Dr during Iranian revolution on 1979. He was in prison and was sentenced to death. The prison was full and every one was ill. Instinctively the idea of water came to him as medicine to cure prisoners. He encouraged every one to drink a lot of water, every one did so and recovered. When he let the authority know about his discovery, the authority let him free. Now he lives in America.
     
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