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Posted by bleauberry on January 22, 2014, at 7:04:36
There are so many diet plans on the market. What to do?
This helps to make it simple.
Rules:
1. The plate should be colorful with a variety of different colors....reds, yellows, greens, etc.
2. The meat is the side dish, not the main dish.
3. The plate is mostly fruits and veggies.
4. Gluten free only, no wheat flour.
5. non-GMO grains only.
6. Avoid corn syrup.
7. Avoid ingredients you cannot pronounce or do not know what they are.
8. Avoid FDA food colorings.
9. Olive oil for cooking, not veg oil, not shortening. Even lard is better than common veggie oils believe it or not!
10. Consume good fats....eggs, walnuts, avocados, olive oil, butter. Avoid margarine or anything fake/manufactured.
11. Organic as much as possible....we don't need trace amounts of toxic chemicals building up inside us, which has probably already happened actually and one of the things contributing to how bad we feel.
For extra power in the anti-cancer department, increase the intake of the broccoli family and garlic, watermelon, and red beans.For extra antimicrobial power, increase the intake of raw garlic.
So basically it is just:
- Each plate is colorful and the meat is not the main attraction.
- Stuff with a high likelihood of being a causative factor or an aggravating factor in psychiatric and other chronic illnesses have been removed from consumption.We want to feel better, not stay so sick, right?
There is no way anyone could do the above diet and not feel improvement. Gains can show up as early as a week, and tend to continue to improve over months.
Did you know taste buds can be changed and trained? They can. Over time they will come to prefer your new foods. You will actually find yourself wanting that romaine leaf wrapped around a piece of cheese as your snack instead of the donut. Really!
I did not believe this at all. Until it actually happened with me when I went gluten free. My previous diet was basically pastries for breakfast, burgers and fries for lunch, and one home cooked meal for dinner. Loaded with wrong fats, gluten, food colors, chemicals, and genetically modified corn and wheat. I rarely want any of my old foods. When I do, a craving for a pizza or donut, then I just spend about $2 more than regular price and get them gluten free! No big deal.This is easy stuff.
Our bodies are sort of like computers....they can only be as good as the the input they are given. With a contaminated software program or a lazy operator, the computer is going to act sick, or at the very least, considerably less than its potential normal operation.
Garbage in, garbage out. The garbage out part is our symptoms.
I'm not saying this diet or any diet is going to cure depression. But it could and has. Sometimes, despite years of hard psych drugs and suffering, a simple move to eliminate gluten can result in the clouds parting and the sun coming out again for the first time in forever. I've seen it happen.
What I am saying is that for anyone with a chronic condition psychiatric or otherwise, I believe it becomes critically important to "eat for health" rather than "eat for taste". The taste will come on its own with any new diet. Taste buds will change all by themselves.
The purpose of the above diet is to:
1. Increase the intake of raw nutrients.
2. Increase anti-inflammation and anti-toxin capabilities.
3. Support the immune system which is linked directly or indirectly to all sorts of diseases including psychiatric.
4. Avoid substances that will aggravate existing health status, or outright cause disease and symptoms.
5. Give the army a fighting chance so they can go to war for you! They can't do a good war if they are getting the wrong supplies.This way of eating is actually normal. The commonly accepted way of eating by americans is not normal or healthy.
Gluten free, non-gmo, etc....these are not alternative ways of eating. The alternative way of eating is the unhealthy way we have adopted in advanced countries! Get back to normal, is all I am saying. And watch symptoms all over the country melt away.Especially with the kids! Gee, no wonder they have so many health issues in such a medically advanced society!
Posted by SLS on January 23, 2014, at 15:21:00
In reply to Psychiatric Diet, posted by bleauberry on January 22, 2014, at 7:04:36
What is "non-GMO"?
Thanks.
- Scott
Posted by bleauberry on January 24, 2014, at 7:48:01
In reply to Re: Psychiatric Diet » bleauberry, posted by SLS on January 23, 2014, at 15:21:00
Non-gmo stands for non genetically modified.
Grains are genetically changed in the lab to produce plants that grow larger yields and have built-in pest control. They are poisonous enough to repel and kill insects. We eat that same stuff all the time. The guilty one is usually corn. It's in everything. One of the problems with corn syrup.
The amount of badness we eat in corn is miniscule and generally assumed by establishment to not be of harm. This I believe is dangerously wrong assumption based on limited or nonexistent evidence. That's because anecdotally there are so many patients who have discovered their symptoms improve and their health is generally better, when they avoid genetically modified grains and instead buy the ones that specify non-gmo on the package.
There was a magazine article I read about a corn plantation in south america where hundreds of field workers came down with mysterious debilitating symptoms resembling the flu, lyme, arthritis, and other stuff. Some of them died.
As it turned out, the major portion of their diet was corn, since it was readily available and free. When the owner suspected the gmo corn, and switched to regular corn the next season, the diseases disappeared. The third season, unable to afford the more expensive non-gmo seeds, workers got sick again.
This is fairly well known already amongst anyone who is a health buff or dealing with a chronic illness. I estimate it will be about 3 to 5 years from now the medical community will be more aware of this. At the moment I believe they have only seen hints or rumors of it. We are still early in the discovering process on this topic. All we really know at this time is that people can and are made sicker by genetically modified corn and grains.
Science is lagging. My prediction would be that since the whole genetically modified thing is seen as an achievement by scientists, they will do everything possible to downplay the reports of ill effects.
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> Thanks.
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> - Scott
Posted by gadchik on January 26, 2014, at 9:52:01
In reply to Re: Psychiatric Diet » SLS, posted by bleauberry on January 24, 2014, at 7:48:01
This is exactly the way I like to eat, I've always believed in raw garlic, chopped up & down the hatch if u feel an illness coming on. I'm also adding matcha tea to my daily routine!
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