Fitness and diet

[Akita Suggagaki]

What are your particular fitness goals?

Avoid heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

True:

Unfermented soy is verboten here, because the abundant phyto-estrogens are not good for you (whether you're a man or woman, for different reasons). Almond milk is a possibility. And one way to get it without walking: https://www.vitacost.com/califia-farms-almond-milk-dairy-free

Unmfermented soy (in a LOT of processed foods) hinders absorbtion in most people, of needed minerals and hurts the thyroid in millions of Americans (probably billions worldwide).

Why ? >>> this is true >>>

Good for you for trying. It's a jungle out there.

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More simple, yes: The Pulse Test (see online free) can help determine 'quickly' if something is actually good for the body at the time it is consumed, or bad/ allergy/ or worse. "Quickly" may be less than two weeks, or up to three months, depending on time and accuracy of checking the pulse before and after eating ....

Sounds like one would need a fitness lab to measure that. Anything more simple.

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Lack of minerals often causes slow healing, or weakness in the tissues, bones, muscles, nervous system and immune system.
ACV can help promote overall health and healing.
Soy breaks down the way the body grows and heals, and contributes often to thyroid and other damage.

I'm waiting for my foot injury to heal. Then I'll be able to be more active outside. Doing exercises at home is not as easy or fun. It's unfortunate that it's summer too, because this is the season where I'm usually the most active.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Avoid heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Have you seen the book "Reversing Diabetes" ?
and other helpful info like that ?

 

[ThatRobGuy]

So in this corner we have keto diet with people losing weight and managing diabetes, great promis. In that corner we have Whole Food Plant Based Diet reversing heart disease.

The thing about the various diets (and their purported success) is that the actual reason for their success is often mis-attributed which can give people the wrong idea about certain foods.

For instance, the ketogenic diet promotes weight loss because it, inadvertently, often times creates a caloric deficit in comparison to the way a person had been previously eating.

If you take a person who'd been eating roughly 3,600 calories a day on the "average American diet" (and that's not an exaggerated stat), and they switch to a popular ketogeneic diet which may consist of 3 eggs and 3 slices of bacon in the morning (~400 calories), a cheeseburger minus the bun and a side of broccoli for lunch (~400 calories), and something like a steak & veggies or chicken & veggies for dinner (~400-600 calories), they've just created a massive deficit compared to what they'd been eating up until then, so rapid weight loss in the first 3 months is to be expected.

Going into ketogenesis is simply a metabolic process in which your body starts using ketones for fuel instead of glycogen.


With the "whole foods plant based approach", it's a similar story, it's not that whole plant foods have some sort of magic power to reverse heart disease. Any food choice regimen that removes the oxidative stress of high amounts of animal fat & junk food, combined with lowering serum LDL below 80 is going to have that effect.


At the end of the day, weight is a calories in/calories out model, and heart disease risk factors are determined by body weight combined with current LDL levels (as there is a direct linear relationship between LDL and prevalence of heart disease)

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Eat less, live longer (if mice can do it so can we).