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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo  We have different results in many ways. (...) We don't have the same body! |
If you put it that way we are all different. It's partly genes, but I think the most differences in how we react to foods depend on what we are used to, and the different interactions. So maybe we have the roughly the same body to begin with, but the habits and experiences accumulate, making us and our reaction unique. So possibly if we start the same diet, the differences in history cause different reactions. So we may even be so complex that not just health studies, but even your own experiments can't tell you about yourself! That would explain my different results to identical experiments.
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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo 1) are you sure it's a question of nutrition? Is there something else in your life that could be keeping your energy down? Some negative thoughts or problems or unresolved conflicts or...? |
There is always some challenge happening, but I am very emotionally stable, so I don't think that is it. And that factor is constant on average over a 30 day trial, so I should still be able to feel an energy difference from a diet.
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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo 2) There are lots of things some people react negatively to, like meat, dairy, sugar, coffeine, gluten... You tried once without meat and once without dairy and processed foods. Why not combine both and try without meat and dairy? Or without grains? Or without sugar? Or without meat, dairy, grains and sugar?  |
Those combinations are interesting, and I have been thinking about that all day now, and things are getting clearer with that. Let me try to put it down how I see things now.
I totally agree that caffeine, sugar, aspertame and artificial flavors and colors are bad for almost anyone. It is easier to research, prove and test this for yourself, because these things are single molucules that are identifiable both in health studies and personal experiments.
I think some grains (or gluten) are bad for some people for genetic reasons, but that doesn't go for me as far as I know. (Hmm, what would happen if I did a now grian trial... Might try that, thanks!)
I am not so sure about meat, diary, and conservation additives. These things are composite things, which interact with itself and many things in the body. Things get complicated. It gets even more nasty if you combine different trials, like quitting processed foods, meat, and dairy in a single trial. Say you feel great after, then you never know which of the three is the good and the bad... I would not want to quit meat eating unless it was absolutely needed to feel better. I did that trial, and it did not improve my energy.
So this is what I know so far, about my body and health, from my own experiments:
BAD: Sugar, caffeine, aspertame, high fat fried food, and most artificial flavors and colors.
GOOD: Fruit, veggies, nuts, seeds, beans etc.
NO EFFECT / UNCERTAIN: Meat, processed foods, conservation additives, grains, dairy.
So I guess I will do a trial of cutting processed foods, and decide whether the benifits justify the extra prep time.
If I go with natural history and human evolution, than it makes no sense that meat could be in the BAD category. Maybe only the growth hormone meat, but that can be solved by eating organic/eco meat. I have a hard time believing the last evolutionary jumb was based on an unhealthy diet change.
To a lesser extent that goes for grains to. Civilition became possible with agriculture, and if grain is BAD we have been eating like fools for 10.000 years. That is bold claim!
I am most in doubt about processed foods and dairy. It comes down to WHICH of the additives is putting them in the BAD category, and than avoiding that. I did not have an energy change from cutting processed foods and dairy, and only one mild detox effect (bad breath). I currently have very little dairy because it is likely just an inefficient way of eating, and most of the planet can go without it. So I attribute my detox effects to the cutting of dairy. But why not eat it if the energy level doesn't change?