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Eat vegetables

NoCrbs4Me said:
Carbohydrate requirement for humans: zero. Did you know that?
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nutritionally, you are probably right. However, for those of us with bowel issues which require a certain amount of fibre etc then veg is essential.

forgot to add: I cant eat pulses, nuts or seed either.

I would love to eat the way you do : (
 
lucylocket61 said:
nutritionally, you are probably right. However, for those of us with bowel issues which require a certain amount of fibre etc then veg is essential.

forgot to add: I cant eat pulses, nuts or seed either.

I would love to eat the way you do : (
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Some bowel issues need less fibre. Even certain veg with shells or skins or being leafy will cause hell.

We are all individual, and differences can be so huge! Even on veg..
 
lucylocket61 said:
nutritionally, you are probably right. However, for those of us with bowel issues which require a certain amount of fibre etc then veg is essential.

forgot to add: I cant eat pulses, nuts or seed either.

I would love to eat the way you do : (
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I had bowel issues for many years. They went away as soon as I stopped eating plants.
 
Since I was diagnosed two years ago my enjoyment of salad veg has grown month by month, largely due to the creativity of my wife who produces gorgeously tasty salads. I've now reached the stage where I often enjoy the salad more than the meat/fowl/fish.
Had a tuna steak for dinner tonight, marinated in orange juice, garlic, olive oil plus lord knows what else and it was superb with a salad of crispy lettuce, onion, cucumber, avocado and dressed with olive oil, cider vinegar, grainy mustard and a little sweetner.
 
donnellysdogs said:
Some bowel issues need less fibre. Even certain veg with shells or skins or being leafy will cause hell.

We are all individual, and differences can be so huge! Even on veg..
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I said
"However, for those of us with bowel issues which require a certain amount of fibre etc then veg is essential."

my bowel issue needs a certain amount of fibre.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I have never been a vegetable lover, and if I were told to eat loads of them every day in order to beat diabetes, I would give up immediately! I eat the ones I enjoy, in quantities I enjoy. I certainly do not eat the 5 a day. Mushrooms daily, peas 3 or 4 times a week, cauliflower/broccoli/carrots once a week with Sunday roast, a a small spoon of baked beans a couple of times a week. I can't think of any more. I don't even have salad leaves on salads.
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I get all the fibre I need and never have any bowel issues at all. I do eat a lot of flaxseed, the Lidl rolls (a lot of fibre in those), a few potatoes, a lot of tomatoes (which is fruit). It is the traditional vegetables and salad leaves I don't eat.

As far as I know I'm not deficient in any vitamins or minerals, and certainly not in fibre.
 
lucylocket61 said:
I said
"However, for those of us with bowel issues which require a certain amount of fibre etc then veg is essential."

my bowel issue needs a certain amount of fibre.
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Aah, so does mine then!! Thanks for correcting... minimal for me..
 
I only eat vegetables with an evening meal.... I just run better on less, rather than more.

I certainly wouldn't be eating a diet of 50% carbs
 
Rachox said:
You keep more of the nutrients by eating them raw, but a salad doesn’t really go with a roast dinner!
I’m currently enjoying raw cauliflower and broccoli in place of salad with some meals.
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Eeurh, raw cauliflower and brocolli - i.imagine it gets stuck better your for teeth for ages. Think it would mine, but mine are constructed like frankensteins. :-(
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I have never been a vegetable lover, and if I were told to eat loads of them every day in order to beat diabetes, I would give up immediately! I eat the ones I enjoy, in quantities I enjoy. I certainly do not eat the 5 a day. Mushrooms daily, peas 3 or 4 times a week, cauliflower/broccoli/carrots once a week with Sunday roast, a a small spoon of baked beans a couple of times a week. I can't think of any more. I don't even have salad leaves on salads.
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Seems reasonable to me.
Depending on onecage salad means diff things to diff people. Fir my mums generation (1950s born), it meant iceberg, grated carrot, celery tomato with some artificially sweetened salad cream and ham and an egg. More recently the salad cream has been swappec for gallons of balsamic vinegar.
Step in to more recent yrs and you things like
Diced tomato, sliced skinned orange, mint, toasted pine nuts, oil oil, standard salad dressing ( ssd =crushed garlic, white wine vinegar, salt.)
Or
Sliced cooked beetroot, shaved ( with a mandolin) fennel, shaved hard goars cheese with ssd. With this, i would ve damnef and have that days crusty white cut in door stops, witb butter and dry white wine
Or sliced braeburn or granny smith apple, salad leaves, a few mashed tinned (rinsed) anchovies, 1/4d eggs, dry fry black olives, toasted walnuts.

Dont forget all salads shud ve mixed so the dressing ( added just b4 eating as its wilts the leaves) ideally by hand, getting ur fingers undef tge lowest layer and rolling it from bottom to top a few times.
Anyway having said all that, i know some people are simply confirmed non salad woofers eg my brother. He'd eat a beefeater all the time if he could ;-). Their desserts typically have 120g sugar in a serving
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
Carbohydrate requirement for humans: zero. Did you know that?
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It seems like we are at a fulcral point in understanding.
In evolutionary terms we evolved to eat a choice of foods for greatest survival potential and could survive at least for a season on one or tother eg fruitless wintes vs fruitful Autumns. However fruits also contain carbs, so it would appear that we not evolved without at least coexposure to meat -hunting, cannabilism and evolutionary cousin semi-cannabilism eg chimp eating a monkey and carbs in fruit. But exposure to eat was likely seasonal witb periods of low food availabilty = semi starvation. Now as diabetics, our natural response to a inabiluth to produce/ respond to insulin wud be carb avoidance if were not for drugs. Msybe tge mist natural method -ooer- would be seasonal gorging - high energy in coolet seasonal - shexs of loads in autumn. Min food between.
 
caius2x8 said:
It seems like we are at a fulcral point in understanding.
In evolutionary terms we evolved to eat a choice of foods for greatest survival potential and could survive at least for a season on one or tother eg fruitless wintes vs fruitful Autumns. However fruits also contain carbs, so it would appear that we not evolved without at least coexposure to meat -hunting, cannabilism and evolutionary cousin semi-cannabilism eg chimp eating a monkey and carbs in fruit. But exposure to eat was likely seasonal witb periods of low food availabilty = semi starvation. Now as diabetics, our natural response to a inabiluth to produce/ respond to insulin wud be carb avoidance if were not for drugs. Msybe tge mist natural method -ooer- would be seasonal gorging - high energy in coolet seasonal - shexs of loads in autumn. Min food between.
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Is there no edit funxn? I see my mit got knackered toward the end of the above.

I meant: high energy meat in late winter-spring, high sugar fruit in autumn, semi starvation rest of year
 
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