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Post by daylilydude on Nov 6, 2011 8:55:34 GMT -5
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Durgan
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Post by Durgan on Nov 6, 2011 12:05:57 GMT -5
Agree. I have been eating two meals per day for many years. Always a breakfast of oats and skim milk, and a bowl of soy beans. I can do reasonably moderate work on this until the afternoon. Absolutely no tea, coffee, chocolate or added sugar. The activity level is constant with no evidence of highs and lows.
Further: I muse that the Western diet is slowly killing us. Evidenced by the high rare of obesity and the many illnesses as a person ages. Improvement entails a complete change in diet. All it takes is a change in mindset. As a caveat, this is of course, not the only issue, but diet is one that can be controlled by the individual. We might start by destroying the Canadian Food Guide.
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krikit
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Post by krikit on Feb 3, 2012 12:32:13 GMT -5
Good comments. One thing we have to consider with what's happening with our food is the JUNK that's put into the food we eat - so much pesticides etc. on the plants, what was the meat given to make them grow faster & fatter, what garbage are they putting in the way of emulsifiers, preservatives, dyes etc. Then consider the health issues with fluoride & cholorine in the water - just to skim along the top. Our food isn't as nutricious as was for generations before because the food is taken over my multi nationals who don't have the public's health in consideration. Want a shock - start reading what's in the food, supplments, medicines, makeup, soaps etc. - it's horrific. Not being political - just pointing out the fact that there's so much garbage in everything it's amazing & that's going to have a huge affect on people. And, as people age there comes the usual weight gain - when people live to be over a certain age many gain weight & can't lose it no matter what they do.
I've gone with two meals & have not been made ill by it. Sometimes I'll skip lunch & maybe have a nice smoothie with fruit & good juices (with natural sugar, not stuff added) & that keeps me motoring all day. I agree that we've been conditioned at school, at work & even at home when we'd eat & what we'd eat & how much - usually the big meal being dinner. After working all day at heavy labour the workers would come home for a big meal but how many of us do that yet come home to big meals for dinner? It's a social thing as well - we go out, we have folks over & we go to eat at other's homes. I have heard that eating the big meal at lunch is better but not sure about that. I think if we eat a bit every time we feel hungry rather than sitting down to big meals daily might be worth thinking about but not sure of the health impacts one way or the other.
I've taken to eating differently - having 1/2-3/4 of the plate filled with veggies for dinner. I also won't allow myself to eat dinner until I've done my workout - at least a one mile walk aerobics style of workout or if just walking, a lot longer because you aren't working out as much. That burns off much of what you eat for dinner. I've cut back on snacks, just allowing more healthy snacks like apple chips, popcorn, nuts & sunflower seeds - if I have chips I eat the Baked ones that are more expensive & healthier because I checked the ingredients.
If we're changing eating patterns we're going to have to make it gradual, don't you think? Our bodies have been trained & conditioned & when we change the pattern, it can take our bodies awhile to adjust. People have survived on next to nothing so guess that's something we can keep in mind. Stockpile foods that you can use that will be filling/things you eat a fair bit for emergenices & make as much organic as you can in hopes it isn't as unhealthy. If you can grow your own - awesome!
Have a nice day & weekend!
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swamper
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Post by swamper on Feb 5, 2012 18:35:28 GMT -5
The stomach is the first phase of digestion, where strong acids work to break food down. Assuming it empties into the small intestine about six hours after being filled, it it perfectly logical to space meals approximately six hours apart, and allow the acids to work before the food enters the small intestine. Sorry I don't agree. There is no logic presented in this Alternet article, just a lot of rambling.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 5, 2012 23:02:55 GMT -5
If you look at our close relatives in nature - primates with a similar digestive make-up to ours - we evolved as sort of a constant foraging eater, that is eating whatever we would come across out there, but not large amounts, unless we killed an occasional larger animal here and there. It wasn't until we started hunting that we got large amounts of meat all at once, but we also aren't vegetarians - our digestive system is different from monkeys and apes that are total vegetarians. Let's face it - in nature, the number of meals an animal gets in a day is not constant, therefore digestive systems have not evolved to eat in any time frame.
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Post by spacecase0 on Feb 6, 2012 1:23:26 GMT -5
I think that we are eating for the bacteria in our digestive systems, or at leas we should be, if you eat less than 2 meals a day it messes up the symbiotic bacteria, I figure that is a very good reason to have 3 or 4 meals a day.
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