How much to you worry about what you eat?

[boom]

yes. if I could send a note back to my 29 year old self. I would tell myself to lay off the burgers and pizza, and giant burritos and eat the occasional salad or two.

and to stop drinking so much beer.

 

[caseydog]

I'm probably a 7 or 8. I have trouble with raw apples (and raw peaches, carrots, cherries, snap peas, other things). I think it's "oral allergy syndrome" (?) though I haven't looked into it much. Cooked (like in apple pie) is fine. Also I avoid dairy that has a lot of lactose. Most of this is easy to do since I control the groceries in our household.

I can't eat raw bananas, but cooked, I have no problem with them. Raw bananas make my mouth itch, and then make my stomach ache.

Probably the same thing as apples for you. Cooking apparently changes the chemistry in some way.

CD

 

[BAPyessir6]

The dh used to drink like 2-3 sodas a day, but now we've switched to something called Cirkul (which is flavored water). It's sweetened with sucralose, which might be bad for you as well, but I figure it's hopefully better for you than soda.

In addition I used to camel throughout the day (drink nothing), then complain how thirsty and tired I was at night, and drinking 8 oz in the whole day had nothingggggg to do with it. Now that we have flavored water, I drink like 80-90 oz daily. So. . .probably better in general? Hopefully?

 

[taxlady]

Any kind of artificial sweeteners have a risk of confusing your body and may contribute to insulin resistance. If all the sweet things you taste are sweet from naturally occurring sugars, your body knows what to do with them. It starts to associate "sweet" with sugars and will start to react when you get a sweet taste in your mouth. If the sweet taste comes from artificial sweeteners, then that spike of insulin that the body just produced, won't get used to handle the sugar that wasn't there. Your body now has excess insulin in your blood stream. If you keep doing this to your body, it will start to notice that "sweet" does not necessarily mean that there is sugar to deal with. Basically, it confuses your body, which previously knew how to handle sugar.

 

[pseudotsuga]

I can't eat raw bananas, but cooked, I have no problem with them. Raw bananas make my mouth itch, and then make my stomach ache.

Probably the same thing as apples for you. Cooking apparently changes the chemistry in some way.

CD

I'm mostly mouth/throat itch. Once I notice that I stop eating whatever it is and I don't think I've ever noticed stomach ache. It's so weird. I acquired this allergy at around age 30 I think. I used to eat an apple every day...

 

[Linda0818]

This is true! Goodness knows whenever me and the DH have kids, I will have neither the time nor the energy to care/investigate as kids take both.

dragn and boom are right. It's like I'm teaching my son with saving money... start now when it comes to diet and health. Don't wait until you have to do something about it. Trust us, it'll sneak up on you fast. If I could go back, there are a few things I would have changed to possibly prevent the health issues I'm now dealing with.

"Worry" about them now, not later.