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wellguy
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Posted: 22 September 2008 11:25 pm |
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I've tried just about everything that you can name when it comes to dieting. I don't want to be "celebrity skinny", but I don't want to carry around a spare tire either. I stumbled upon this site http://www.erictalmant.com, run by a competitive power lifter and I've decided I'm going to give it a shot.
If anyone's got any experience with Metabolic Typing and would like to share their experiences, I'd surely appreciate it. If I don't hear any resounding negatives, perhaps I'll start a journal for all to track my progress.
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Nir
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Posted: 23 September 2008 04:50 am |
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| http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-metabolic-type-unscientific-premise-dangerous-advice.html
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wellguy
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Posted: 23 September 2008 12:14 pm |
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Well, that's certainly not the most glowing review I've ever read. Thanks very much Nir, I had done, what I though to be a good bit of research and hadn't come up with anything too glaringly negative. I suppose a little more research may be in order for me to make the best decision.
Thansk again!
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Weightloser
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Posted: 22 November 2008 11:27 pm |
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Nir wrote: http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-metabolic-type-unscientific-premise-dangerous-advice.html
I'm in the process of reading these articles because the metabolism type diet is a diet might interest me. The author of one of the articles warns us against processing food. Does the processed-food category include boiled veggies?
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Nir
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Posted: 23 November 2008 02:08 am |
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I mostly eat whole foods - and in my book cooked vegetables are still whole foods. Processed foods are those that come in a box or a packet and have an ingredient list, so in my fridge that'll be things like:
condiments (liike soy saunce)
bread
boxed cereal like Wheatabix
Muesli
Ryvita-style crackers
Whey Powder
etc.
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Weightloser
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Posted: 23 November 2008 03:21 am |
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Thanks for the precisions.
1. You certainly destroy some vitamins when you cook the food.
2. However the cooking may make some vitamins bio-available.
3. Cooked or not, the minerals are intact.
Are these affirmations correct?
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Nir
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Posted: 23 November 2008 03:24 am |
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| Yes that sounds right. (That's why Dr Fuhrman's basic recommendation is: (minimum) 1lb raw vegetables and (minimum) 1lb cooked vegetrables per day)
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Weightloser
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Posted: 23 November 2008 03:29 am |
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| Good. I'm doing very well with veggies now. However, I eat 95% cooked. I make a soup with them. I need to go ahead and dramatically increase the raw veggies as I need to fill up my enzyme bank! I think that when the body is depleted of enzymes, the pancreas starts creating them, and then you're in trouble. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Nir
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Posted: 23 November 2008 03:35 am |
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| The Enzyme argument for eating raw (most often put often by those promoting 'going raw') is not receiving agreement from all. However (as you've stated above) there are other reasons for eating raw, such as vitamin availability.
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Weightloser
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Posted: 23 November 2008 03:56 am |
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| So not all the experts agree... We're in 2008. With all our knowledge and technology, how is that that we have not figure out if it is or it is not.
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Nir
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Posted: 23 November 2008 04:14 am |
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In my opinion, the reason why the experts are not agreeing on this issue is that there are a lot of touchy-feely types in the raw food movement, who basically just make stuff up.
And then, there are people coming at health from an evidence-based point of view (Joel Fuhrman for example).
So yes, you're going to get disagreement when science and waffle collide, whatever the century.
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