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Having excess weight can cause many different health problems, which accelerate with age:
- Heart
- Blood pressure
- Diabetes.
Our society has changed from one where vegetables are a major part of our diets to a minor part, replaced by snack food, fast food, and just plain awful food.
Here is a list of foods and flavors I use for cooked vegetables, not necessarily all at once:
Beans, kidney and chickpeas (garbanza)
Mushrooms
Asparagus
Peas
Green beans
Onions and green peppers
Tomato paste
Broccoli
Sweet potatoes
Mixed vegetables
Black pepper
Tabasco sauce
V-8 juice.
The funtastic part is the way God has placed essential nutrients in various ways among those plant foods.
I thought, "I better have the multi-vitamin every day. Where else will I get zinc?" The answer is in vegetables and nuts, but I take the multi-vitamin anyway:
Pumpkin seeds
Chickpeas aka garbanzo beans
Cashew nuts
Mushrooms
Spinach
Oatmeal
Peas
Asparagus.
This can be repeated with variations in edible plants with calcium, potassium, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and other nutrients. The mix of vegetables in a sauce pan means a host of beneficial ingredients will combine with a much higher fiber count and hunger satisfaction.
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| Kitty - "I dare ya." |
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| "I'm fixin' to change my habits." |
That replaces the bloat of an ancient Roman style feast. They used an instrument tickling their throats to make room for more feasting. Don't laugh or gag - anorexia is a serious problem among young women in competitive colleges like Notre Dame.
Soluble and insoluble fiber benefit our complete digestion. Sugar and fats give us instant satisfaction and weight gain. Food fiber gives us
better and slower digestion, satisfaction, and fat burning. Leafy greens and beans, nuts and fruits prevent the urge to eat a chocolate cake as a quick substitute. People find that omitting the high fat, high sugar, and white foods - rice, potatoes, ice cream, white flour - will cut back and almost eliminate the cravings thereof. So a plant-based habit of eating will be fat-burning naturally, without any super-expensive, hyped, magic pills in a jar.
Vegetables are not only delicious and satisfying, but dirt cheap. People without herds of rabbits and squirrels can raise many vegetables easily. Vegetables at the store cost relatively little, especially when factored in with the cost of medical care for eating-related disorders.
