Healthy Eating Ideas in times of Covid-19 coronavirus

I became pescatarian not so long ago, Jim, after thinking about the benefits of seafood. It was prompted by the possibility of a visit to the Philippines which, sadly, never materialised

Add vitamin d to bread and milk...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-covid-urge-scientists-deficiency-supplements

I've changed over to Sweet Potatoes (camotes) from white rice and feel much better for it

From a GP in North Devon:

I have known about this for a while but hadn’t seen it in the news.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...matt-hancock-reveals-lost-two-stone-low-carb/

Dr Aseem Malhotra on Facebook today:


“The online junk food advertising ban will NOT target nutritious high fat foods
I made that very clear in my communications with the Secretary of State for health and in the #21dayImmunity plan book. Matt Hancock gets it“

Why does he remind me of

How to Stay a Healthy This Winter - The Times

Consultant cardiologist and author of The 21-Day Immunity Plan
“Eliminate ultra-processed foods — anything from a packet with five or more ingredients — from your diet. They make up more than half of British calories, are usually nutritionally deficient and manufactured in such a way as to interfere with appetite control. Minimise low-quality carbohydrates. These are carbs that lack fibre, including all breads, rice and pasta, and are responsible for having the biggest impact on raising blood glucose, which over time increases the risk of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.“

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...t-is-the-single-best-thing-i-can-do-lw9r9lfnw

Wow, taking out bread, rice and pasta is a massive step for most people, John
Did you post a link to better eating (without having to sign up to third parties)?

Turn the clock back 40 years and very few of us if any ate so much in the way of carbohydrates. Nationally and globally we in general all eat so much these days in the way of carbs (that are effectively glucose) that we have become (in general) metabolically challenged.

Not sure what you mean about signing up. It’s our own food choices that make the difference. We are what we eat. And what we eat has a great bearing on immunity to viruses. Oss and I have been discussing this for a long time now.

Take out bread, pasta, potatoes and rice (starch = sugar) and you improve your health (in many cases). The body does not need carbohydrates.

Your link required signing up to a newspaper, which I dislike doing....

So what are you saying? It sounds like you are trying to contest it. Which is daft. I cannot see the point. I now run a Facebook group on behalf of one local GP practise who now include lchf as a dietary solution to hypertebsion, obesity, T2 diabetes, fybromyalgia, Alzheimer’s, and other conditions. Any patient that they believe will benefit from a lchf way of eating are now referred to me. If the patient then contests it, well that is his / her own look out. If he or she listens, learns and implements then they reverse their condition and a bonus is that they then become less susceptible to viruses.

As in the example above and the one I posted earlier from Solihull. N does not equal 1 and all around the U K the same thing is happening. But there is stubbornness about.

“Plan
Eliminate ultra-processed foods — anything from a packet with five or more ingredients — from your diet. They make up more than half of British calories, are usually nutritionally deficient and manufactured in such a way as to interfere with appetite control. Minimise low-quality carbohydrates. These are carbs that lack fibre, including all breads, rice and pasta, and are responsible for having the biggest impact on raising blood glucose, which over time increases the risk of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.”

The rest is free on a free trial. However there is a lot of material out there. The problem is finding it amongst all the rubbish that is also out there.

There is also a good book on it but it will set you back 7 quid.

Explain this.

In the UK, 25% of adults are obese and type 2 diabetes has risen by 65% in 10 years, both cost the NHS £16 billion a year.

That’s just in 10 years.

This type of information is well known. It tallies with changes in our eating habits / our dietary choices. If we go back another 10 years there were very few takeaways. So unless you bucked the trend at the time you were probably eating home made meat and two vedge at the time. No snacks in between and all home made and nothing from a tin or a packet. Probably potatos and bread but not rice or pasta.

Most of the population ate like that. Though there are always exceptions. Wind the clock forward and it is completely different now. Hence the poor health of half the population.

Half the adult population in the U.K. and USA are increasingly insulin resistant from consuming to many carbohydrates in their lifetime. And yes, that does include beer. Many are yet to find out so are unaware and are usually completely stunned when they find out. We are not talking about a small minority here or the exception. It is prevalent.

Just have more arguments with the wife - that will make the appetite for food disappear

Mrs Ash is now eating a low carb healthy fat diet. She tried a couple of times and failed when she stopped eating rice and became hungry. I managed to get her to realise that eating health fats stop the hunger. Once she realised that she was off. She has now been at it for about 6 weeks now. No rice, bread, potatoes, pasta or sweets / cakes etc. It’s working. She is doing it for weight loss purposes and for long term health.

She has a breakfast of sausage egg and bacon or similar, pretty much every morning now. No toast, has browns, no cereal and no fruit juice.

The link to a report on obesity. The Eye opening. And we are emulating them over here. Is it because they eat so healthily? It is worth registering to read it. But it goes on to say:

“The current prevalence of obesity in the U.S. is in stark contrast to what the nation looked like several decades ago.”

I suppose they will tell me they ate more carbs 40 years ago than they do now. And they don’t eat any fat, eggs or cheese as it will make them fat. And only eat cereal for breakfast with a glass of fruit juice etc etc etc. You know how often I hear that? Hundreds of times. So why are they so obese over there and we are following behind? Surely the penny must be dropping by now?

I cannot repeat this enough. It is the carbohydrates that make us fat.



Over 73% of U.S. Adults Overweight or Obese
— Obesity rate up by half since 1999-2000, NHANES data indicate; nearly 10% severely obese

https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/obesity/90142

Do you not think it might be down to this? And beer of course.