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Old 07-05-2012, 06:29 PM
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I try to always prepare and serve our plates with the most part COLORFUL fruit and vegetables with small portions of meat or fish. (about four ounces before cooking for dinner, about two ounces or less for lunch.) I try to limit the fat in sauces. I try to avoid preserved lunch meats of any kind. I feel that we need some idodized salt to keep our thyroid functioning properly. High fat salty snacks aren't great for you either, we know that we can't just eat ONE potato chip.
It's not my ideal diet but it sounds okay. About iodine: I used to think I needed iodized salt too. But then I found that onions are a good source of iodine. And other vegetables contain various amounts of iodine depending on the soil they are grown in. However, I have salt from the health-food store. It's unprocessed and has lots of natural minerals. I don't use very much though.

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I try to limit sweets to special times and not every day. I encourage a lot of water drinking. We drink milk and put it in our coffee...which I believe is good for you...Coffee and especially skim milk. There are very few fruits and vegetable that don't appear on our table on a regular basis and we know the difference between high starch vegetables and high fiber ones.
Okay, except I don't understand why you think milk is good for you. If it's skim milk and just in your coffee, perhaps there's no harm done. I just hope you don't drink too much coffee. Coffee and milk add to the acid load on the body. If you eat eggs in the morning with buttered toast, and then coffee with milk, you have a meal that puts a very high acid load on the body.

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I am not concerned as much as some about food processing. The benefits of preservation in lack of spoilage are real. I try to prepare food "from scratch" as much as possible and am always a little sceptical about claims of produce being raised without insecticides etc. How can we really know? So I try not to worry about it. I favor fish and chicken over pork and beef as far as what I serve most. But I do prepare the red meats a couple of times a week. I don't worry about white flour but try to get whole grain bread most of the time. I also don't think that honey or maple syrup affect us any differently than brown or white sugar. Sugar is sugar. I think we don't need much in the way of carbohydrates in our diets.
About insecticides: I don't worry about that either. Whatever amount it is, it's very minute and our liver takes care of filtering it out. About white flour: If whole grain is okay with you, why not get it all the time? About chicken and fish: Not bad if you stick to one serving about the size of the palm of your hand. About red meat: There were two articles in The Daily Sun about some research done at Harvard. The conclusion was that there's no safe amount of red meat. It was based an a very large long term study. About maple syrup and honey: Bravo! You got that exactly right. Sugar is sugar. And, yes, we "don't need much in the way of carbohydrates in our diets."

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Most of us know what we are doing right or wrong.
I'm not so sure about that. I sometimes go to other websites where people ask questions about diet and nutrition. I am often amazed at how little people know about food. Most of what they do is based on habits passed down from their plarents. Or else they pick up bad habits from advertising or their friends, like juicing.

Most people are overweight and they say that about 80% of diets fail. If most people know what they're doing wrong, I don't think that would be the case.

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