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JSABD
Distinguished Member
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Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:53 pm |
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What is your definition of junk food?
What foods do you consider junk food and foods to you consider real food?
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Nir
Senior Administrator
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Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:00 am |
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real food: starchy and non-starchy vegetables, beans, fruit, nuts, seeds and intact whole grains.
I eat VERY SMALL amounts of eggs, fish, meat, and low-fat dairy. With these I believe the damage relates to the "dose".
junk food: anything else, in particular sugar, refined flour, oil, sodium, acrylamides - almost all processed foods have some of these.
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JSABD
Distinguished Member
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Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:42 pm |
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Nir wrote: real food: starchy and non-starchy vegetables, beans, fruit, nuts, seeds and intact whole grains.
I eat VERY SMALL amounts of eggs, fish, meat, and low-fat dairy. With these I believe the damage relates to the "dose".
junk food: anything else, in particular sugar, refined flour, oil, sodium, acrylamides - almost all processed foods have some of these.
I like that definition.
When you reformed your diet how difficult would you say it was?
How long did it take?
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Nir
Senior Administrator
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Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:11 pm |
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how difficult? I was sitting on the health information for a few months before accepting it. Some of it was in direct contradiction to information I previously had - or involved giving things up. To begin with it was just about weight so it was just calorie counting and 'anything goes' as I became willing to give things up.
The clean-up of my diet has been a GRADUAL affair. Major changes within 6 months but continual revision and improvement:
Vegetables were restored to their central place.
Restore calorie-counting discipline lost during binge-eating period
Next to go was the notion that an abusrdly high amount of protein was 'required'.
Policy on junk food has varied - sometimes allowed as long as they were counted - sometimes allowed up to 10% of calories - sometimes avoided altogether
Quantity of food was restrained (from a peak of 6 kilograms per day to about 2 kilograms per day)
give up potatos as a major source of calories
simplify calorie-counting practices
give up acrilamides (for example steam rather than high heat cooking methods)
severely reduce caffeine, artificial sweetners and sodium
group eating into meals
extend the daily fasting period (only a few months ago)
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