I eat mostly fruits, very little vegetables and cooked grains. I have lost 10+ kgs in the past 6 months. I was not obese, but could lose some weight.
Refined sugars are detrimental for health. Whole fruits and their sugars are great!
Refined sugars are detrimental for health. Whole fruits and their sugars are great!
Bananas are especially bad. Blackberry, Raspberry and Strawberry are OK even thou they have a sweeter taste in my opinion.
The funniest thing is, once your system is reset, many foods that seem OK cause troubles.
I could eat a lot of onions and garlic in the past. Now, they trouble me a lot.
here you go.
However, I do not like to measure these things. Like other animals, i like to eat and enjoy my food.
My wife enjoyed and _loved_ galic for 30+ years before her IBS kicked in. Garlic is extremely bad for IBS because bacteria gorge themselves and produce a ton of gas, which causes horrible intestinal pain.
A study [0] recommends garlic and onions as key foods to restore a healthy, balanced microbiome.
I have never heard anyone before you claim that garlic or onions will kill bacteria. Rather, they let a specific kind flourish.
... at the expense of others.
Garlic is mentioned exactly once in the study. It is just included with a bunch of other things. Nothing to conclude here.
Garlic is, by no means, a food. Any study that recommends it as food is not a proper study.
Garlic is an extremely potent medicine.
If you're going to make a silly claim that garlic and onions aren't foods you need to back that BS up.
Sorry, what? Onion is one of the oldest cultivated plant and it's consumption exists in nearly every culture, in much "cleaner" times than today. If our guts can adapt to milk, it will have adapted to onion.
Also, you're going to have to show me evidence that the extremely potent medicine has extremely potent effects - what do we currently cure with onion? And please no big pharma arguments - aspirin and penicillin are still wildly available and they come from natural elements.
Potent medicine is what Ayurveda calls it. Garlic is right at the top. Our concept of potent and the way nature works are not compatible. Hence, the diseases.
Try detoxifying your body and then consume garlic to know if it is a medicine or just another food item.
Which toxins?
Cows do a pretty good job of this [edit - for us].
Its kind of funny to say that because Elephants can get all their protein from grass so can humans (unaided by outsourcing to cow) because there are differences in physiology and lifestyle that are more than significant.
The day humans start eating raw fresh or rotten meat and find enjoyment in that is the day I will accept that humans are meant to eat other animals.
Also, if you are downvoting me thinking that I am some vegan activist, you are wrong. I am from Asia where relying on fruits and vegetables is or at least was till a few decades ago quite natural.
Sushi. Shrimp. Spanish ham and other cold meats like chorizo. Steak tartare. Jerky. Many fermented meats that I don't know the name of. My brother even loves eating raw meatballs.
We cook, not because we aren't meant to eat meat, but for the better taste and easier digestion.
I personally hate raw vegetables, they're too crunchy and taste like... cardboard (personal preference of course). Cooking is not a phenomenon exclusive to meat.
Whenever I read this kind of thing it makes me sad that people don't realise that actual fresh veg of the kind that you don't buy in the store is actually delicious.
Raw vegetables are just not my cup of tea.
Cooking is inferior. You cannot better nature. It just is not possible.
King Tut died of an infected broken leg.
There are people who advocate, and claim to enjoy, both those things.
This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxvszzgYRjU who claimed he learned it from a tribe.
Also, cooking and refrigeration aren't necessary to prepare and preserve meat. Ancient people would make pemmican which will keep for months.
Maybe. But to suggest that we could all get along fine by just eating grass all day is ridiculous.