I have been tracking everything I eat for 7 days now in Cronometer, and it shows that my deficiencies are B12, iodine, and choline. So when they ask a vegan like me where do you get your protein (I get plenty of the essential amino acids and with only a 12% macro for protein), they should instead be asking where do you get your B12, iodine (no fish), and choline (no eggs). I already supplement with a B12 pill and have added either kept or seaweed to my diet for the iodine. Am considering adding a supplement for the choline. I read that choline deficiency can lead to fatty liver, and that choline deficiency is common.
Category: Nutrition and eating
Amino Acids
Interesting fact: there are exactly 20 amino acids involved in making proteins in the body, 9 of which must be acquired through food — the so-called “essential” amino acids, but there are hundreds of other amino acids as well.
They now have refined the daily requirements for amino acids down to the individual 9 essential amino acids and how much of each one should take in — and which foods have the greatest amount for each.
OMAD
My more elaborate OMAD meal: bottom layer is barley/lentils soaked in tomato sauce with garlic powder, then mixed vegetables and broccoli and tomato/beans all mixed together, then chopped onion on top of that, then a layer of finely diced organic leafy greens, and top level mushrooms cooked in red wine. Predominate taste is that onion/garlic/tomato paste combination. The barley/lentils make it very hearty. The cooked mushrooms in wine are a kind of meat substitute.
I’m only missing the BS in GBOMBS. But then I have a handful of pecans or almonds, and various berries for dessert. Always blueberries. I always finish with eating a lot of different fruits. Meal takes from 1 hour to 2 hours, then 22/23 hour fast.
Ignorance
Most people have no idea how nutritious they could make their meals. They’ve never taken the trouble to read anything about nutrition.
Feel Rich
Planted-Based Eating
Watching the series “Mars” on Netflix. They are trying to grow their own food so the colony will be self sustaining. The lead person for promoting the growth of the plants has this line about human beings: “Without plants, we are nothing.”
Sugar High
Picked up a 20 oz. bottle of Pepsi that was lying on the ground, and read the ingredients. It has 69 grams of sugar!! Why aren’t these companies being sued for selling drinks to the public that endanger public health — would be my question. 69 grams of sugar equals 17 teaspoons in just 20 oz. of liquid. Almost a teaspoon for every ounce.
Moms
Still remember my mother at the dinner table telling us all to: “Eat your greens!” Kind of says it all.
Salad Bowls
I’m exploring Boston for a week. I’ve been coming across these eateries where you pick the ingredients for a large and interesting salad — a place called Sprouts on Huntington Avenue, another called energize (lc “e”) on Massachusetts Avenue, a third called sweetgreen (lc “s” and first “e” inverted) on Boylston Street, and a fourth called honeygrow (lc “h”) also on Boylston but further out, near Fenway Park. (I guess the culinary world in Boston is fascinated by e.e. cummings!)
All four salad bowls were spectacular…and off the chart as far as nutrition goes. Verde in Charleston, S.C., was another eatery with this kind of approach to wonderful salad bowls and powerful nutrition.
The ironic thing about these places is that for 12 bucks or so you get a very original and imaginative hearty salad that’s packed with a crazy level of nutrients (leafy greens being the all stars compared to other foods in general), but you could go to a pricey restaurant — I call them the “cloth napkin” type restaurants — and pay through the nose for the meal, but end up with a fraction of the nutrition and way more calories.
And then there was the salad bar in the Whole Foods in Atlanta, Ga., which was in a class by itself. Some of the plant-based ingredients and combinations completely original, at least to me. Droves of people showed up there every day at lunch and make themselves wonderful salads. While the WF salad bar in Atlanta was at a different level, the WF salad bar in Boston was rather pathetic in comparison. Go figure.
Stoic Eating
The acid test for Stoic eating is the willingness to eat foods that are nutritious but taste bad. Can you do that? For me, that would be asparagus, beets, brussel sprouts, etc. I can.
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