Squashed wrote:You can eat as much fruit and vegetable matter as you like. Everyone should have at least 5 serves of plant matter per day, preferably more. However, plant matter does not make you feel full.
casual_cyclist wrote: I don't find that at all but I do agree you should have fat and protein in every meal. Plants make me feel full. I can only eat a certain amount of baked sweet potato or pumpkin or a big plate of veggies before I feel full. It's certainly more filling than refined carbs.
I wish plant matter filled me up. I can eat fruit continuously and still feel hungry
Having said that tho, if I have a teaspoon of olive oil or some flax seed oil with it, I do feel full after just a couple of pieces.
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casual_cyclist wrote: There is no reason to avoid saturated fat. The "science" on the link between saturated fat and heart disease was wrong.
This is of interest to me because we have all been taught saturated fats are bad fats. We are also told to eat fruit and nuts. Yet nuts have saturated fats in. I always found this contradictory and wondered if there are different saturated fats, just like there are different types of cholesterol.
Eg: are saturated fats in nuts different from saturated fat in meat?
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Squashed wrote:If you want to lose weight and reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes, reduce your processed carbohydrate intake. Processed carbs include rice, pasta, bread, biscuits, and anything made from flour. Complex carbohydrates are found in fruit, vegetables and nuts.
casual_cyclist wrote: Add refined sugar to your processed carbs list and I agree with that statement. Although, I found that cutting these out completely was not good for me, a couple of modest serves of refined carbs like pasta and rice are fine when losing weight.
Yes sorry, I should have mentioned refined sugar too, thanks for that
Some carbs are fine but most people over do it when it comes to processed carbs. I had been eating huge amounts of processed/ refined carbs for years due to the riding I did. However, a few years ago I developed heart disease and went through some quite traumatic experiences and have been unwell ever since. Towards the end of last year I was feeling very unwell and use to blow up like a balloon whenever I ate processed carbs.
Long story short, the doctors didn't know what was wrong so in January I just gave up processed carbs completely and ate meat, fruit and nuts. My insides settled down very quickly, I was able to drop my stomach and heart medication and I have managed to increase my average and top cycling speed without suffering as much chest pain. I still have a limit with chest pain coming on but there has been an improvement, and I still have heart disease. But dropping the carbs made a noticeable improvement. However, my blood sugar is now increasing. The doctor is monitoring it closely but without simple carbs in my diet, my blood sugar has started to increase. This is confirmed by the video from the Two Doctors Experiment, (great video by the way) whereby the doctor without carbs had an increased blood sugar level at the end of the experiment, which was caused by lack of easily digested sugars and his body’s response to this.
Moving on from this, I have recently started to add some processed carbs back into my diet and so far things are ok. Further testing and monitoring by the doc is required to see how this goes. But basically some processed carbs are needed and complex carbs are fine. But most people need to reduce the processed carbs they eat and increase the plant matter. And some fat is fine but don’t over do it