Eating smart regardless of how you classify your style

[The Chick Addict]

Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I’m sure you’re careful to buy the kind that’s 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that’s the healthier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind that’s sold in the refrigerator section so it must be almost as good as fresh-squeezed orange juice?

If I’m describing you, then you’re either going to hate me or love me by the time you’re done reading this post. The truth is, that orange juice you feel so good about buying is probably none of those things. You’ve been making assumptions based on logic. The food industry follows its own logic because of the economies of scale. What works for you in your kitchen when making a glass or two of juice simply won’t work when trying to process thousands upon thousands of gallons of the stuff.

Haven’t you ever wondered why every glass of Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice tastes the same, no matter where in the world you buy it or what time of year you’re drinking it in? Or maybe your brand of choice is Minute Maid or Simply Orange?

You should be hearing alarm bells in your head right about now!

https://www.foodrenegade.com/secret-ingredient-your-orange-juice/

I don't really drink orange juice because it isn't quite my fav drink and because the brands with Vitamin D add bone char for that. But really good info for when I want to buy some!

 

[The Chick Addict]

Eating lower on the food chain and sourcing local are some of the best ways to get healthier nutrition.
Don't fall for fads!

Yeah, I don't do fake meat. Its disgusting and unhealthy and being healthy is part of the reason I became Vegetarian.

 

[Pollo Blanco]

I don't really drink orange juice because it isn't quite my fav drink and because the brands with Vitamin D add bone char for that. But really good info for when I want to buy some!

Exactly! It really illustrates how the food industry operates and creates illusions.

Another one is the chickens that say 'All Vegetarian Feed'.

Trying to create an illusion that it was somehow raised in a healthy fashion, even though chickens are insectavoires.

 

[Theorrin]

@The Chick Addict
Here's the rice recipe. I cook it in an instant pot!
Two cups long grain rice
One cup chicken stock
One cup filtered water
One teaspoon sea salt
Three tablespoons avocado oil
One clove of garlic, crushed
Two tablespoons minced onion
Two tablespoons minced celery
Two tablespoons minced parsley (optional)

Cook for 15 minutes (rice button) and de select Keep Warm button. Let the pot sit for five minutes after it's finished cooking, release steam and fluff rice with the rice spoon.
Stir parsley in or garnish rice before serving.

can avocado oil be switched with anything else?

 

[Pollo Blanco]

can avocado oil be switched with anything else?

Literally anything else.
I only listed it because it is a monounsaturated fat that is relatively flavorless.
Olive, coconut or grass fed butter, duck fat, whatever!
I use organic virgin olive oil in my cooking, but it has a fairly strong flavor, so I only use it in dishes where it's not going to over power the dish.

Avoid PUFA's; polyunsaturated fats. They are unstable and go rancid easy, which makes them inflammatory.

 

[Pollo Blanco]

can avocado oil be switched with anything else?

While we're discussing oils and fats, this is a good segway into an article written by famed cardiologist Dr Donald Miller Jr;

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In fact, it turns out that people who have highest percentage of saturated fat in their diets have the lowest risk of heart disease.

Diets in People with the Lowest Risk of Heart Disease – Masai, Inuit, Rendille, Todelau

The diet of the Maasai tribe in Kenya and northern Tanzania consists of meat, milk, and blood from cattle. It is 66 percent saturated fat.

The diet of Inuit Eskimos in the Artic, consisting largely of whale meat and blubber, is 75 percent saturated fat; and they live long healthy lives free of heart disease and cancer.

The Rendille tribe in the Kaisut Desert in NE Kenya subsist on camel milk and meat, and a mixture of camel milk and blood, known as “Banjo.” Their diet is 63 percent saturated fat."
https://coconutoil.com/enjoy-saturated-fats-theyre-good-for-you/

 

[Sally PB]

There are many other differences in their diet and lifestyle from ours too.

 

[Pollo Blanco]

There are many other differences in their diet and lifestyle from ours too.

Notwithstanding, why were they thrown out of the Framingham Study?

 

[Pollo Blanco]

There are many other differences in their diet and lifestyle from ours too.

Any assumptions that you make, are made due to the gross manipulation of the study. Cardiologist Dr Barry Sears covers this too.

So just how did scientists manage to persuade doctors and the public otherwise – that low-fat was the way to go? They simply buried the evidence to show that it wasn’t, says US physician Dr Michael Eades. They did so not because they were bad, but likely because they just couldn’t face up to data that contradicted their passionately held beliefs.

https://foodmed.net/2016/06/framingham-fatal-flaws-science-low-fat-hearts-lchf-banting/

 

[Sally PB]

Any assumptions that you make, are made due to the gross manipulation of the study. Cardiologist Dr Barry Sears covers this too.

There are many other differences in their diet and lifestyle from ours too.

I was thinking of the differences in lifestyle (exercise, rest, among others) that affect overall health too. Not just dietary ones. Sorry, I didn't make that clear.

The "typical American diet" of convenience and processed food has led many people to an unhealthy state.

Low fat... yeah, what are you replacing the fat with? Refined sugar is a big problem, too.

I like what Michael Pollan wrote as a subtitle to In Defense of Food: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

We eat stuff that isn't food. We eat too much. We don't eat enough plants.