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    What are your healthy foods for weight control issues and health in general?

    in I'm Too Fat Forum

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    I avoid soda water because it may have sugar (I want to prevent diabetes) or sugar substitutes (due to links to cancer, worsening of insulin resistance heart disease, stroke). Xylitol in gum as an artificial sweetener prevents tooth decay and Ste-via appears to be safer than the other artificial sweeteners (I use half a small pack in coffee) but I haven't seen it in soda water.

    Still, soda water has phosphoric acid that dissolves bones and you slowly pee out calcium, etc. leading to osteoporosis, broken hips, etc. due to low bone density.

    Its hard to get over processed food addictions after being brain washed by food industry advertising and their inclusion of addictive sugar, salt etc. to saturate your taste buds with addictive chemicals but its worth the effort to get over the addiction.

    Here is a source for tasty recipes we found that we are trying out to keep on our current path of eating healthy foods.

    http://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/

    Scroll down to see the recipes and at the end of each page click on load more for 233 such recipes or use the category drop down menus for recipe groups like wraps & burgers, sides and salads, soups and stews, baked and stuffed, etc.

    I think we have a language problem. I am not a native English speaker so I might be wrong, but I thought:

    Sodas: Coke, Fanta and similar.

    Soda water: carbonated water or sparkling water. Plain water with CO2. Here mostly sold in small bottles from Singha and Chang. The locals like to mix it with Whiskey. Some European mix it with wine but most people drink it as it is.

    No sugar, no phosphoric acid in it.

    There is so much deceptive labeling on the front of food/drinks here in the US that even when reviewing the ingredients on the nutrition label its hard to know what I'm getting or where it was made & rules followed, so I just avoid it. Probably the same or worse elsewhere except maybe Europe.

    What are your healthy foods for weight control issues and health in general?

    in I'm Too Fat Forum

    Posted

    I avoid soda water because it may have sugar (I want to prevent diabetes) or sugar substitutes (due to links to cancer, worsening of insulin resistance heart disease, stroke). Xylitol in gum as an artificial sweetener prevents tooth decay and Ste-via appears to be safer than the other artificial sweeteners (I use half a small pack in coffee) but I haven't seen it in soda water.

    Still, soda water has phosphoric acid that dissolves bones and you slowly pee out calcium, etc. leading to osteoporosis, broken hips, etc. due to low bone density.

    Its hard to get over processed food addictions after being brain washed by food industry advertising and their inclusion of addictive sugar, salt etc. to saturate your taste buds with addictive chemicals but its worth the effort to get over the addiction.

    Here is a source for tasty recipes we found that we are trying out to keep on our current path of eating healthy foods.

    http://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/

    Scroll down to see the recipes and at the end of each page click on load more for 233 such recipes or use the category drop down menus for recipe groups like wraps & burgers, sides and salads, soups and stews, baked and stuffed, etc.

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    What are your healthy foods for weight control issues and health in general?

    in I'm Too Fat Forum

    Posted · Edited by ronz28

    I try to eat a variety of superfoods and spices, detoxifiers, antioxidants, anti-aging, cancer killing unprocessed whole plant fiber foods including broccoli, mustard seed powder, kale, spinach, cilantro, red kidney or pinto beans, chickpeas, humus, lentils, quinoa, brown rice, sweet potatoes, flaxseed, chia seeds, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, ginger, oatmeal, blueberries, plums/prunes, cranberries, mangoes, amla, papaya, oranges, Kiwi, bananas, lemons, limes, walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts, apples, coffee, green tea, water, 100% cocoa powder, almond milk, almond butter, stevia, turmeric, garlic, onions, cloves, cinnamon, oregano, black pepper, etc.

    I avoid sugar, soda water & juices (sugars producing diabetes and phosphoric acid that dissolves bone) meat, chicken, fish (except small portion of wild caught Alaskan Salmon, weekly), eggs, milk, cheese most oil except minimized amounts of extra virgin olive oil & organic coconut oil.

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    ThaiPeople and Soy Milk?

    in General Topics

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    I like the movie Hungry For Change that explains a lot of this (Its on Netflix & elsewhere). Another movie Fed Up is also recently out on this matter but I have only seen YouTube videos about it at this point. My experience has been that becoming Vegan and focusing on eating only real nutritious whole food Vs. processed foods most of the time (except Thanksgiving, etc.) has taken 50 pounds off of me and improved my health substantially based on my feeling and blood tests, etc. Now if I could just find the time to exercise more and get that waist to height ratio down a little more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-to-height_ratio

    U.S Social Security, an entitlement?

    in Home Country Forum

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    Many who paid into SS never get a dime nor to their spouses get their "investment" due to certain rules. Its just a necessary way to get the masses to provide something for their own retirement, otherwise just like with hospital bills in the USA up until now, everyone else pays for treating the people who show up at the hospital & didn't provide for their own insurance.

    Foods you have cut out entirely and those you "should"

    in I'm Too Fat Forum

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    When I feel hungry near bedtime, then one hour before I want to sleep I have a banana in addition to my regular 3 Mg Melatonin Ultra (also contains 8.5 mg Chamomile & Valerian herbs, calcium, etc.). I try to avoid alcohol late in the evening as it makes it harder for me to sleep. I can eat all the bananas I want (usually 3/day and it doesn't affect my weight). I can eat all the whole fruit & vegetables I want & my weight decreases or stabilizes but any processed food, bakery items, meat, cheese, milk, eggs, etc. and my weight increases. It was hard to get used to initially but after a couple of weeks it worked & after one year, it still works. Now I just focus on eating the highly nutritious heart disease, cancer preventing detoxifying fruits, vegetables and spices like Kale, spinach, garlic, onions, broccoli with mustard powder added at the table, purple cabbage, beans (red kidney, lentils) cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, plums, amla (Indian Gooseberry), almond milk, water, cilantro/pak chee/coriander, turmeric, cloves, cinnamon, sage, lemons, red delicious apples, strawberries, flaxseed (I grind it), walnuts, pecans, 4 brazil nuts/month, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, kiwi, etc. Just got to minimize filling up on virtually worthless ones like iceberg lettuce.

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    Foods you have cut out entirely and those you "should"

    in I'm Too Fat Forum

    Posted · Edited by ronz28

    Except for special occasion with family I have cut out: all bakery products, all red meat, all chicken, fish (except small portion of sockeye salmon once a week), all eggs, all dairy except yogurt ice cream (no cheese), all oils except olive oil & a little coconut oil.

    To give up: yogurt ice cream to be replaced by soy or almond ice cream.

    Foods to eat more of: turmeric, cloves, oregano, kale, spinach, broccoli (with ground mustard), cinnamon, sage, flax seed, avocados, beans, walnuts, pecans, garlic, Brussels sprouts, onions, regular oatmeal, blueberries, cranberries, ginger, red delicious apples, and green tea.

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    First Ebola case diagnosed on US soil

    in World News

    Posted · Edited by ronz28

    Some info I have heard from CNN, Fox, CNBC news include: Second person being monitored in US for Ebola. Now tracking over 100 people including children who had contacts with first patient. Both the first victim and his girl friend advised the ER staff that he just arrived from Liberia but didn't mention that he had carried an Ebola victim to a hospital where she died the next day from Ebola just 2 days before he got on a United Airlines plane to come to the US via Belgium and Washington DC. He puked all over the outside of his girl friends apartment and had diarrhea there. He puked all over the ambulance that picked him up to take him to the hospital. The ambulance remained in service for 2 days after he puked on it. Hospital sent him home but he came back later. ER staff that did this must be fired.

    Texas has not tried to dispose of the Ebola contaminated waste like bed sheets from the girl friends apartment yet, but tells her not to leave her apartment. United Airlines still has those planes in services where he sweated all over the seats, etc. There are about 10,000 Liberians in the Dallas area (who knew). US will send 3,000+ Army newly trained medics, etc. from Ft. Hood in Killeen, Tx to Africa to care for Ebola patients and undoubtedly bring more Ebola back to USA. Some countries are now stopping Visas for Liberians but I agree to denying Visas to anyone who has been there or anywhere else with the epidemic, without regard to national origin until this disease has been eradicated.

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    Major evidence that low carb diets not needed for long term weight loss/maintenance success

    in I'm Too Fat Forum

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    Pesticides are certainly a problem & perhaps more so in some places than others. Pesticides are concentrated in the fat of humans and animals so that that avoiding animal fat is a good thing but all fish, meat has some concentration of pesticides, etc. of contaminated food that they are fed over the years that we ultimately consume. Yet whatever we eat certain fruits and vegetables naturally prevent the absorption of pesticides due to their hard skins or they too fast for bugs to do damage, etc. like the clean fifteen (avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, cabbage, sweet peas- frozen, onions, asparagus, mangoes, papayas, kiwi, eggplant, grapefruit, cantaloupe, cauliflower, sweet potatoes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticides_in_the_United_States#Clean_15

    There is also the detoxifiers like cilantro (pak chee in Thai) and many fruits and vegetables that are heart attack, cancer, diabetes, dementia, etc. fighters and preventers regardless of the normal level of costly pesticides used but we just can't get around nuclear contamination of tuna, salmon and other fatty long lived fish that travel the worlds oceans to get their dose of Fukushima radiation or the animals fed their fish meal.

    Major evidence that low carb diets not needed for long term weight loss/maintenance success

    in I'm Too Fat Forum

    Posted

    Here is a list of high density nutritionally super-foods that will do your body good to prevent chronic disease, cancer, etc. http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2014/13_0390.htm#Tables

    Kale is usually at the top of such lists but is ranked further down in this one. As usual this list of foods is not in itself sufficient as Vegans need B12 supplementation preferably with the sublingual form such as Methyl Cobalamin B12 to assure it gets into the blood stream. However, no fish, meat, eggs, poultry, cheese, milk, sugar, etc. is necessary and, to me, is detrimental and is carcinogenic especially with what they pump animals full of these days to maximize profits.

    Vegetarians live... less long

    in Health and Medicine

    Posted

    Vegan diets are often deficient in a couple of critical elements that require supplementation like vitamins B12 and D3, also Omega 3- DHA and can't forget plenty of water.

    Not just any fruits and vegetables will do as some are ineffective in preventing diseases like iceberg lettuce. Best are cancer fighters, antioxidants, high density nutrient packed whole foods including: garlic, onions, kale, spinach, broccoli, brussel sprouts, beans, sweet potatoes, lemons, limes, oranges, Indian Gooseberry, blueberries, cranberries, organic strawberries, kiwi, cilantro/pak chee, organic apples, avocados, cloves, Ceylon cinnamon, mushrooms, turmeric, ginger, black pepper, dark chocolate, pecans, flax seed, chia seed, walnuts, Brazil nuts, peanuts, red cabbage, old fashioned oatmeal (no flavored sugar packages), quinoa, brown rice, steamed tomatoes, hibiscus tea, etc.

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