Nutrition Facts is my favorite website for nutrition information. I still enjoy Dr. Joel Fuhrman, but I have maxed out his books by reading them over and over. He endorsed Dr. Michael Greger, so he is kosher. I check my sources.
I like having easy access to Internet sources on nutrition because there is a bundle of food charlatans out there. I actually followed one to hear his carefully crafted presentation when I was abandoning my sugar-salt-fat regimen. The presentation was a masterpiece of baloney, but I waited for the last slide - a great chance to buy $90 worth - a real savings!! That ended the appeal, and I knew the show was just too smooth and evasive at the same time.
Today I looked in awe at one aisle - truly the Titanic of food displays - enormous, well lit, air-conditioned, carefully displayed with Byzantine art flourishes - the egg-dairy-butter-cheese section. As I rolled along in admiration I also thought, "There is nothing good for me to buy. Eggs are loaded with fat, choline, and cholesterol. The butter and margarine are pure fat with a little salt. The cheese is tempting, salty, fatty, and sweet where needed."
My entire groceries consist of The Daily Three
- The frozen chopped greens, onion/peppers, broccoli, lima beans, and mushrooms.
- The fresh fruit section of blueberries, bananas, apples, and citrus.
- Daily beans - a little bread, tomato paste, Cicero beans, and some sausage.
The money-makers and hospital greeters come from:
- Ice cream, its crafts and assaults.
- Candy, chocolate, desserts.
- Soft drinks and juices, all bad - especially with artificial sweeteners.
- Milk of all kinds, cheeses, yogurts, puddings.
- Frozen pizza.
- Prepared meals.
- All fast-food chains.
Worthwhile food is all health producing, especially in losing weight and providing the complex list of ingredients for a healthy body.
A change to eating lots of leafy greens (kale, spinach, collards, turnip greens) will be almost calorie free but loaded nutrition.
Fresh fruit should be in the daily eating of apples, blueberries, bananas, and citrus. Our old habits are an apple a week instead of two apples a day. But not just apples - blueberries are a powerhouse of nutrition, and citrus is just like dessert when the frozen ice cream truck no longer visits.
Beans are very satisfying and essential for health - due to fiber, protein, and many additional items for health.
Habits, Not Diets
Thinking in terms of dieting is bad. unless someone wants to make money selling us a lack of food followed immediately by making up the poundage lost and adding more, then trying a new "diet."
Eating healthy foods, such as a lot of fruit, will automatically make us healthier, lighter in weight, energetic, and enjoying those new/old foods. Even the over-the-counter meds are more expensive than the raw ingredients of food. Our Creator established our bodies so the infinite complexity of food would make us strong, healthy, powerful against disease and infection.
There is a lot of evidence showing that the nutritional foods not only stop bad things - like diabetes - but also create a craving for those overlooked foods Mom used to make being frugal or on the farm.
I ended diabetes by following the nutrition ideas of Fuhrman. Two doctors in a row were staggered by the change in all my bloodwork, the second one's results later, which were better than the first (more discipline, less chubby).
Fiber-Free
If we are careful in planning a shorter lifetime, we should make sure we eat as little fiber as possible, because fiber sounds yick. We can easily avoid fiber by avoiding beans, peas, fruits, and more. A vanilla malted can be very satisfying with all the milk, cream, sugar, and malt sugar.
However, God made us so the fiber would slow down food and give the body a chance to break down and repair whatever is needed.
Exercise Is Health
We were also created to remain healthy by moving muscles around, lifting, walking, stretching.
