Healthy Eating

THE FOODS WE EAT are listed on the side

The 10 most nutritious food you can eat daily

1. Blueberries (or other berries)
2. Green leafy vegetables (in the salad)
3. Nuts (Snack)
4. Fatty Fish (For a trucker it's canned)
5. Low fat dairy (I make our own yogurt)
6. Eggs (Cooked last longest)
7. Whole grain
8. Legume, including soy
9. Avocado
10. Dark chocolate

OXYGEN and WATER ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT parts of nutrition as more solid food!

Life giving Precious water

H2O, clear, transparent, pure, non-complicated.

We can live without it for a few days but during summer heat waves we pass out in a few hours without it. Do you have enough of this life maintaining potion? Our body is 65-70% water that we should maintain. (Watermelon is 95%.)

Test yourself. Look at the colour of your urine each time you go to the bathroom. It needs to look bright yellow with no smell. Coffee, alcohol and some meat creates foul odour. 

We feel down, lousy, tired, and sluggish when we lack of it. 

So WATER IS YOUR SECOND BEST MEDICATION. (Air is the first, when you feel down, you should take deep breaths.)

After you took some deep breaths and had a glass or two of clear water, see how you feel. Most of the time you have no need to reach for head ache pills or coffee. (Coffee would dry you out even more so you need to pair it with some more water)

So when we should be drinking it?

After you get up, you break the fast by not eating first but having a glass of water. A good way to hydrate yourself is having some tea with your breakfast. Tea contains some caffeine but has a much longer lasting effect than coffee. 

After getting up              a glass

before each meal           a glass

with snacks                    a glass

before and after exercise a glass

with drying drinks like coffee and alcohol 

on a hot day sip as you go

and finally before you go to bed. Remember, you will be "fasting" for about 7-9 hours. 

Did you notice I didn't tell you how much you should be drinking? You hear often the 8 cups (2 liters) amount.

This is just like any average amount, rarely works out exactly that way. It depends on the weather, your activity level, and what you eat. Fruits contain 80-95% water, some vegetables have high content as well. A nice clear broth soup will help your intake.

Unfortunately the traditional truck-stop food is the driest as well. Sweets, hamburgers, sausages, fries, buns, bread, with heavy gravy doesn't help your body. So if you want to order poutine, my deepest condolences to your body. You surely just eat for the taste not because you need it. Specially when you wash this meal with coffee after.

So give you body the best food, medication or substance it needs. AIR and WATER.

For your Health!

Liquid Food

We tend to think that if something is drinkable, we call it a drink. If we need to use a spoon or fork to eat or we need to chew on it, we call it food.

Well, sorry to burst your bubble but it isn't so at all. Probably after my last two posts you can guess that I will tell you that your only drink is water. Liquid mixes are there for you to enjoy but has nothing to do with what is good for you.

So if you drink milk or pure fruit juice, you drink or eat?

Milk, fruit or vegetable juice, soy, rice or almond drinks are actually considered food.

So what is food than? Food supplies your body with nutrition (carbohydrates, proteins, fat) and necessary vitamins and minerals. In that sense it doesn't matter how you take it; blended, stirred or shaken, cup-of-soup, from a glass, from a bowl, from a plate, with a spoon, knife or chopsticks.

So you have your coffee with triple milk and some fruit juice?

Enjoy your meal.

Those Fruits and Vegetables

Our base food has always been and always will be those greens and beautiful coloured wonders of the plant family. Easy to digest, full of vital vitamins and nutrition, less calories that make us fat, clean our body and keep it in top shape. There has been no harmful effects shown from plants. So we can enjoy them without feeling guilty.

One rule of thumb though: use them as fresh and unrefined and unprocessed as possible! It is a good rule to follow for everything.

Eat them as salads, smoothies, peel them, slice them, bite them.

Don't forget the spices that you can use fresh or dried.

Onions, garlic are the base of cooking but healthy in raw form as well.

Nuts should be essential part of our daily meals or snacks. Raw!

Beans and legumes fresh or dried to cook or juiced. Think about soy!

Different cereals and starches belong to the pants family too. Eat them as close to raw as possible which means no refined flour! You can use your own mill to make your own flour for your own bread. You just need to buy some equipment and finally you will know exactly what you are eating!

Believe nobody that says you will be undernourished if you eat plant based food!

Most of the people in North America are way undernourished although they are mostly overweight or simply obese. The umpteen times more calories still do not provide the minimum amount of vitamins, minerals and -surprise! - good fat or useful proteins either. They just stain and clog their systems and make them expire way too soon.

To get good service and life time warranty for your system you have to switch your service provider to the plant family. They will look after you and provide maintenance that will not need extra expensive fixing and mending!

And it was a free advertisement that will only benefit all of us at the expense of nobody. Win-win and enjoy!

Protein sources (Formerly known only for meat)

Every cell of our body needs protein for staying healthy. Although most people only associate proteins with muscle and body building and as such it is considered almighty good. BUT STOP!
Each and every cell of our body contains some protein and the number is in the trillions. The protein structure is distinctive to every species. It works many ways. Our body itself creates its main elements called amino acids while we digest our food. Our digestive system takes all that we eat apart and rearrange it to our body's needs. So even if we eat some animal proteins that we need exactly the same way, in our system all that protein is taken, dissembled and reassembled into amino acid sequences we need just at that moment. So don't think that you eat animal meat you get more proteins you need than if you ate plant based protein. Your wonderful body-factory assembly line will do its work anyway. Remember, you will never know what each of your cells need at the moment but your body will!
How much you need minimum? You need not count anything if you eat your nuts, beans and legumes. But there is such a thing as TOO MUCH PROTEIN.
This might become simply fat, so instead of muscle building you just get overweight.
Our excretory system will try to get rid of excess protein so you pee it out. But it can get worse. It can add to building blood clots that will lead to heart and cardiovascular problems.
When you eat a plant based diet your body can metabolize most of the food so you need not worry about your cells or muscles. When you want to get stronger just exercise more and eat you nuts beans and legumes. They are delicious!
Meat? Well, your ancestors had no other way of surviving droughts, ice ages, only if they followed the herds and ate them. There were times when there was simply not enough plants available to survive. Eating whatever we could wherever we could meant life or death at the time. Just like pigs, you might say? Yes. But our original diet did not include meat and our system still did not fully accommodate this alternative. it was good enough until we found better.
And now we have. We don't need to starve in this part of the world so we can clean ourselves and rid our body of cancer causing toxic food.
So, poultry, beef and pork: we will let you become chickens to live over 15 years, turkeys of the wild, cows that will only need to feed their own calves and not mature people, and pigs that resemble our biological system the most so it looked like we committed cannibalism!
REMEMBER TO EAT EVERYTHING IN THEIR NATURAL RAW FORM? CAN YOU DO THAT WITH MEAT? (Oh, you say you like tartar beefsteak? Yukky! )

The Fat you Eat is not the Fat You Carry

We can't - and believe me, you don't even want to eliminate fat from your diet. It is very important to become and stay healthy.

Vitamins A D E and K are fat soluble which means they can only be digested when fat is present. (So when you take multivitamins or vitamin pills of this sort, you need to take them with food that contains some fat.)

For healthy skin and hair as well as maintaining regular body temperature and healthy cell functions we need fat.

But what kind of fat? Meat with white chunks or spots full of fat or lard, butter, heavy cream, so you get it for sure? Or the fully man-made margarine that used to be a butter substitute during the war when food was scarce? Definitely not!

Humans up till about ten thousand years ago needed fat to survive the ice age of the time when they had to walk and run a marathon-a-day to find and kill their prey. That prey was wild, lean with strong muscles itself.

Do you run many miles a day to find and kill your prey and try to share it and save it for later? Do you eat strong wild game? Oh, no? The animals you eat only live for some months or maybe a year, stay idle and artificially blown up to maximize its size so it would provide the most profit in the shortest period of time. 

Not very appetizing. 

So the fat we need is plant based  in small amounts.

Nuts, beans and legumes, good oils like olive oil, avocado gives you what you need. 

Remember, fat calories are more than twice as much as carbohydrate's or protein's. 9 calories per gram, so you need only a small amount to satisfy your daily needs.

THE FAT YOU CARRY

Remember, our body builds makes its own building blocks. Your fat that you gain under your skin or around your organs can originate from proteins, sugary food as well as grains or carbohydrates. The body is a great factory that can create its own building blocks from almost any combinations. It transforms fat you eat or even protein you don't need to simple sugar for energy and then when you are covered as far as energy goes, it will store the excess in fat cells that will be released in need for energy so it will become sugar again at that time. 

We not just need to eat though, we want to eat often and at every occasion to eat when we socialize, entertain, go anywhere. There is no way we would ever go without food for days. The longest fast is during the night when we sleep so we usually don't eat so when we wake up we break the fast very fast not to go hungry.

So we pile up fat everywhere our body can store it. Bulge here and there, oops, we begin to have a hard time to bend, we might walk funny because our thigh are so close they are rubbing each other, we grow breast like bulges on our backs and it is only the outside. Meantime our organs are getting imprisoned by fat all around them. So they fight and finally they get exhausted and fail. So you go to see a doctor where you want to be repaired when your cure is in your hands and mouth. So is your toxins and poison. 

So you decide. Fat or lean, healthy or sick, energetic or sluggish. I guess that is democracy too when you have all these choices.