A preference for sweetened and
refined foods seem to be a major factor in our diet.
Not exact matches
For instance, my body doesn't
seem to do well with extremes: too little
food, a raw
food diet, too much animal protein or
refined carbs, too much natural sugar, added sugar, extremely high amounts of protein or extremely high amounts of fat, etc. etc. etc..
«There's some evidence that kids with ADHD crave carbohydrates, particularly
refined or simple carbs such as sugar and fruit, and in a small percentage of cases, eating these
foods does
seem to make the symptoms worse,» says Lynn.
Similarly, it
seems silly to talk about rising obesity rates and increasing portion sizes without taking into account crop subsidies that not make it possible to buy 64 ounces (500 calories) of a soft drink for a mere two dollars, but also explain why school lunches across the country are trays full of overly
refined ad highly - processed
foods.
But it
seems plausible that the low - fat recommendations made things worse because people started eating less of healthy
foods like meat, butter and eggs, while eating more processed
foods high in sugar and
refined carbohydrates.
First it
seems you are interpreting me «avoiding oils» as avoiding oils within whole
foods, so let me clarify: I do not eat processed, isolated oils (or
refined sugar or protein powders).
In your experience, someone who eats the way my wife does, literally most
food is
refined carbohydrates, and she is at 15 % body fat, have that kind of eating catch up to them in the long run even though it
seems to make no difference now.
Refining primal / keto for me this year, and trying to pinpoint those
foods that
seem to throw my body into a tizzy... and figure out why.
It can be daunting because there are so many
foods that you're not supposed to eat: no grains, no dairy, no
refined sugar, no legumes, no gluten (the list
seems scary!).
There are many successful dietary patterns and they all
seem to have one thing in common: cut out processed and
refined foods.
But from my observations it
seems hardly related to the amount of animal products in the shopping cart, but rather to the amount of processed,
refined and manufactured
food (or rather «edible foodlike substances, as Michael Pollan put it).
But the low phytate content of
refined carbohydrate
foods may explain why someone whose family eats white flour or white rice
food products may
seem to be relatively healthy and immune to tooth cavities while those eating whole wheat bread and brown rice could suffer from cavities, bone loss and other health problems.