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what do you and your wife eat?
by rjeli 9y ago
what do you and your wife eat?
- nikkwong 9y agoMy guess would be nuts, vegetables, and meats (like fish). Some fruits are okay though, like low sugar ones (avocados). I personally have tested my diet for years and found this diet to be optimal for me, and in line with most current research on what the body needs—and what the body should stay away from. Many people would consider a diet like this difficult, but if you approach it correctly (I end up cooking a lot of szechuan cuisine), it's quite easy—and delicious!
- wickawic 9y agoWhile insightful, you very strangely answered a personal question directed at another user. How could you know what they eat?
- teach 9y agoEverything except red meat and dairy, honestly. But if you want to know what we believe to be true about which foods are healthy, there's probably no better starting point than Harvard's Healthy Eating Plate. - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-...
- dbcurtis 9y agoso, not paleo. Does your wife have comments on the paleo diet thesis?
- teach 9y agoMy bumper-sticker answer is basically that paleo proposes some of the right things but for the wrong reasons. Avoiding processed foods and refined sugar is good. Avoiding dairy is good. But there's no reason in general to avoid cereal grains, legumes or potatoes unless you're sensitive/allergic. And higher-quality meat is an improvement over the status quo but a vegetarian diet is likely to be healthier. But all that is me talking, not my wife. I suspect she would say similar things but honestly we don't spend a lot of time discussing the random fad diet book du-jour.
- Gupie 9y agoWhat do you mean by "unbound fructose"? I assume fruit juices etc? Harvard's Healthy Eating Plate says "eat plenty of fruits", which says contrary to the advice given by many commenters here.
- mdemare 9y agoIt's very hard to ingest too much fructose by eating oranges. Drinking orange juice on the other hand...
- MrBuddyCasino 9y agoI don't see eggs in there. Got an opinion on those?
- teach 9y agoPersonally we eat eggs. Though increased consumption of animal protein (including eggs) is tied to increased cancer risk.