| Salt and sugar!! not pepper
Posted: 10/20/2007 5:59:33 PM | Well I've been for along time on healthy diet as I stock no sugar, chocolate, fizzy drinks, salt, bread, breakfast muesli and all that jazz.
But I do have fruits, rice, vegetables, honey, dates, figs, nuts, and healthy out look on my cooking so no visit to all magz, kfc, and pizza hutters, I do love cooking for my friends and guests and they love it.
As I was reading about sugar in our blood and all the scary stories about our national food consumption it scared me google A spoonful of sugar or read it on
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/2005/08/31/a-spoonful-of-sugar/
what about your salt and sugar? | |
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Pucks
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Joined: 10/14/2006
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| Salt and sugar!! not pepper
Posted: 10/21/2007 7:19:48 PM | Sugar is nasty, i avoid it as well and dont buy it. I use steevia and splenda to sweeten things. Steevia is all natural, but tastes like shit and takes a while to get used to. Splenda is not as healthy but i'd rather use it over sugar.
As for salt, i do not use a salt shaker. The only salt i get is in the food i buy, like in condiments/soups etc. There are salt subsitites that i use as well. | |
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| Salt and sugar!! not pepper
Posted: 10/21/2007 7:26:02 PM | PUCKS... I would avoid splenda as well. Do some checking on it. Try Dr.ercolas site and type in "sweet deception". I think you will be surprised.
Stevia is GREAT and so is RAW HONEY.
AVOID refined sugar as well as the high frutose corn syrup. They are deadly.
As far as salt goes, use sea salt. It tastes as good as regular table salt, but doesn't have the extra chemicals nor the high-heating process. | |
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| Lack of balance
Posted: 10/21/2007 11:16:05 PM | I have no problem with the guy's math in the link but just because the sugar is consumed it does not mean it immediately ends up in the blood. It gets digested and that takes time. Just because he can do some simple math it does not mean he has the rest of the story right. Blood is meant to deliver nutrients, over time, and that alone tells us all that sugar does not immediately end up in the blood. I think the guy is sadly lacking in the biology department. Lacking a lot of information. Keep googling.
I don't think its the sugar that kills you so much as it is the lack of the nutrients its is naturally with as when you might eat a piece of fruit. ANY item reduced to one chemical, be it sugar or salt or whatever, is going to be bad because there is no overall balance. We're meant to eat what grows out of the earth and walks/swims/flies upon the earth not chemical reductions.
People don't generally get diabetes because of the sugar itself but because what is not there. The nutrients processed out. Now chromium deficiency is being suspected. Chromium is in sea salt but not in that regular white table salt. Ditto with white flour lacking vit e and its natural wheat germ and the bromination and bleaching process -- its why I always buy bread flour. Higher protein content, no bromination and whole wheat has the wheat germ and vit E but it does spoil quicker so that cannister I leave in my frig. With everything there is a trade off.
Sugar/flour/salt were all designed to keep for long periods of time. At times this is good, even crucial, but we are not naturally meant to eat and live like that. | |
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| Lack of balance
Posted: 10/22/2007 9:07:42 PM | | Try substituting maple syrup for sugar as a sweetener - I use it in everything from salad dressings to soups.... | |
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| Lack of balance
Posted: 10/24/2007 8:35:02 AM | I think the key is moderation. I stay away from Splenda - I just don't like what I've heard about it. I rarely use any sugar, so I don't worry about having it every now and again. I stay far away from high fructose corn syrup and trans fats as well as watching sodium.
If you deprive myself of too many things permanently, then it is hard to stick with a nutrition regimen. | |
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