How much to you worry about what you eat?

[blissful]

People who eat vegan know they get enough protein. (not counting people trying to add protein to make more muscle) We eat plant based and get more than our fair share of protein. Lots of fiber in that.

Needing protein is an over used concern unless you are talking about starving people then there is a shortage of everything.

 

[boom]

People who eat vegan know they get enough protein. (not counting people trying to add protein to make more muscle) We eat plant based and get more than our fair share of protein. Lots of fiber in that.

Needing protein is an over used concern unless you are talking about starving people then there is a shortage of everything.

my dietitian stressed getting enough protein. she said 100 grams, due to a health thing I have going. it isn't an over concern, not for me.

 

[pictonguy]

my dietitian stressed getting enough protein. she said 100 grams, due to a health thing I have going. it isn't an over concern, not for me.

Unfortunately whole plants don't have much protein to begin with so vegans must buy into the ideology that protein is not really that important. And the protein that is in plants isn't very bioavailable or in other words, it's not absorbed or utilized by humans very well, which again this aspect of nutritional science is also never really taken into account or talked about in the vegan community and the meager amount of protein vegans consume, a lot of that protein doesn't get absorbed, of course the consequences don't really show up for years which is not a very large demographic anyway considering over 80% that try vegan quite after 5 years which most vegans start in their late teens or 20's so the turnover is really high and not many make it into old age who are still vegan. I would go with your dietitians advice.

 

[knowledge keeper]

I completely agree. Everything in moderation. I don't eat many fried foods, for example, but sometimes I just gotta have deep fried fish and deep fried chicken livers, two of my favorites. Oh and, of course, fried chicken.

Fried chicken is my weakness))

 

[Linda0818]

Fried chicken is my weakness))

Same here. I love it.

 

[HeyItsSara]

Food pleasure is built on 3 things - fat, sugar and salt. Fried chicken has 2 of them!!!

 

[boom]

Food pleasure is built on 3 things - fat, sugar and salt. Fried chicken has 2 of them!!!

korean fried chicken has all three. just saying.

 

[blissful]

korean fried chicken has all three. just saying.

So true.

 

[GoodenoughtBO]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you worry about what you eat?

1 = Not at all. You start every day with three eggs, cooked in butter, with a half pound of bacon on the side.

10 = Obsessed. You read everything written about healthy eating, and don't eat or drink anything that any "expert" says will kill you.

I'm sure everyone here falls somewhere between those extremes. No judgement's please. I just think it would be fun to see where we all fall in that spectrum.

CD

I eat my normal diet with modification for Multiple Sclerosis.
I don't eat Multiple Sclerosis Diet because it is often written as just a healthy diet.
My point being that changing a diet you have had for 50yrs is not always healthy.
I try to eat more fish and I like to eat steak because it tastes good.
I cook everything with small amount of cold pressed coconut oil at low heat, although the oil may be damaged to some degree by cooking it is still more healthy and offers some omega 3.
I try to consume 50 grams of ground flaxseed per day because it also feeds microbiota.
Other then the points raised I eat whatever I want, the interventions are strict and practical.
Taste is not really contemplated, my numbness reduces it considerably, in any case.

 

[pictonguy]

I eat my normal diet with modification for Multiple Sclerosis.
I don't eat Multiple Sclerosis Diet because it is often written as just a healthy diet.
My point being that changing a diet you have had for 50yrs is not always healthy.
I try to eat more fish and I like to eat steak because it tastes good.
I cook everything with small amount of cold pressed coconut oil at low heat, although the oil may be damaged to some degree by cooking it is still more healthy and offers some omega 3.
I try to consume 50 grams of ground flaxseed per day because it also feeds microbiota.
Other then the points raised I eat whatever I want, the interventions are strict and practical.
Taste is not really contemplated, my numbness reduces it considerably, in any case.

I hope you have success but coconut oil has almost no omega 3's or about 0.0028 grams per 1 tbsp, so pretty much negligible and it's the plant version of omega 3 called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) which needs to be desaturated and elongated into the real omega 3's which are EPA and DHA and the conversion for this to happen within the body is not very well done with about a 2-5% conversion rate which brings the total of omega 3's for that 1 tbsp to about 0.00014.

Flax for example has about 1.6 grams of ALA per 1 tbsp, so better but still needs to be converted. 3 ounces of coho salmon for example have 1.3 grams of the actual EPA and DHA and you would need to consume about 10 tbsp of flax to get the same amount of EPA and DHA. Basically either consume fish or take fish oil for omega 3's and i see your consuming fish so I'd not worrry too much about any plant versions, imo.

 

[CharlieD]

If I had someone over for supper who keeps kosher, I'd put the effort into making food they could eat. However, my kitchen would still not be kosher. My household does not keep the Shabbat, so even if I had kosher food in my pantry, you wouldn't be able to eat it.

CD

Yes, you are correct, I would not be able to eat food you prepared, (though there are people with different level of kashrut they keep, who might be) but I can always have store bough pacckaged foods that are kosher.