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"Unfortunately, eating healthy is hard and kinda' sucks. Egg whites and chicken + broccoli gets old pretty fast." I welcome any opportunity to point to almond

by rsync 7y ago

"Unfortunately, eating healthy is hard and kinda' sucks. Egg whites and chicken + broccoli gets old pretty fast." I welcome any opportunity to point to almond butter as an extremely dense, and healthy, source of calories. Easy to add to a smoothie. Speaking more broadly, I would have a hard time with IF, etc., were it not for shifting about 20-30% of my calorie input to nuts, generally. Mostly raw in form.

fauigerzigerk 7y ago
>shifting about 20-30% of my calorie input to nuts I wouldn't do that. Nuts contain tons of metals that you don't want to overdose on.
- rsync 7y ago
  "According to the finding of the research, any amount of Pb, Hg and Sn were not detected in the organic certified nuts. In the organic certified nuts, the levels ranged between 5.53-123.78 ppb Cd, 8.22-16.62 ppm Cu, 0.24-1.86 ppm Ni, 15.03-46.37 ppm Zn, 444.1-810.6 ppb Cr, 22.06-67.42 ppm Fe and 1.24-3.14 ppb As."[1] Perhaps you are speaking of conventional (non organic) nuts and seeds ? I would not consider consuming those. [1] https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20183271188 https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20183271188
  - wallace_f 7y ago
    Why would organic nuts have less heavy metal toxicity than conventional? Your link is broken btw.
    - jobigoud 7y ago
      Based on the quote I tracked it down to this paper: "Determination of heavy metal contents in some organic certified dried nuts". I can only access the abstract, couldn't find it on sci-hub. The study is focused on organic nuts though, it's not specifically an organic vs non-organic. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325951651_Determination_of_heavy_metal_contents_in_some_organic_certified_dried_nuts https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325951651_Determina...
hnick 7y ago
Is it any better or worse than the cheaper and more available peanut butter (with no additives)?

by rsync 7y ago

fauigerzigerk 7y ago

>shifting about 20-30% of my calorie input to nuts I wouldn't do that. Nuts contain tons of metals that you don't want to overdose on.

rsync 7y ago
"According to the finding of the research, any amount of Pb, Hg and Sn were not detected in the organic certified nuts. In the organic certified nuts, the levels ranged between 5.53-123.78 ppb Cd, 8.22-16.62 ppm Cu, 0.24-1.86 ppm Ni, 15.03-46.37 ppm Zn, 444.1-810.6 ppb Cr, 22.06-67.42 ppm Fe and 1.24-3.14 ppb As."[1] Perhaps you are speaking of conventional (non organic) nuts and seeds ? I would not consider consuming those. [1] https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20183271188 https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20183271188
- wallace_f 7y ago
  Why would organic nuts have less heavy metal toxicity than conventional? Your link is broken btw.
  - jobigoud 7y ago
    Based on the quote I tracked it down to this paper: "Determination of heavy metal contents in some organic certified dried nuts". I can only access the abstract, couldn't find it on sci-hub. The study is focused on organic nuts though, it's not specifically an organic vs non-organic. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325951651_Determination_of_heavy_metal_contents_in_some_organic_certified_dried_nuts https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325951651_Determina...

hnick 7y ago

Is it any better or worse than the cheaper and more available peanut butter (with no additives)?