Healthy Eating Blogs to Recommend?

[Alvin]

Hi,

Anyone has a good healthy eating blog to recommend? I'm looking to improve my eating habits and want some more resources to educate myself.

Raw, organic, free range, vegetarian, anything to do with healthy eating, lifestyle and recipes.

[runningbird]

I suggest checking out a copy of The Better Brain Book by David Perlmutter, M.D. He collaborated with a nutritionist to include several weeks worth of recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the book.

There are a lot of veg' recipes, but maybe only 25% raw ingredients overall. But, you can pick and choose.

[scorpio1980]

One of my favorite sites is Beyond Vegetarianism--Raw Food, Vegan, Fruitarian, Paleo Diets

[Joeschmoe]

Diseaseproof.com is my favorite.

[Excellent Lodestar]

Originally Posted by scorpio1980

One of my favorite sites is Beyond Vegetarianism--Raw Food, Vegan, Fruitarian, Paleo Diets

That's a great site

I also enjoy Mark's Daily Apple

[scorpio1980]

Originally Posted by Excellent Lodestar

That's a great site

I also enjoy Mark's Daily Apple

Yes that's an excellent site as well.

[Dreamline]

The BTD/GTD Blogs

The blogs at Peter D'Adamo's website for The Blood Type diet are excellent and eye-opening.

Jennifer

[ginkgo]

Here is a site with lots of information on healthy eating with lots of links to different sources like government sites. Here are samples from it:

"The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders (a National Institute of Health) (niddk.nih.gov/publications) says "A weight loss 'diet' that limits your portions to a very small size or that excludes certain foods may be hard to stick to."

"The Ninja Warrior Diet is good for people who want lose weight (fat), gain muscle or be healthier."

"Long time champion bodybuilder, Clarence Bass, says "The American Heart Association has joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Dietetic Association, the Women's Sports Foundation, and the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research in saying that high-protein, low-carbohydrate weight loss diets are not the way to go." Also he says "Healthy eating starts with lots of vegetables and fruits." He is a Flexitarian (mostly vegetarian but a very small amount of meat, poultry and fish)."

"Gabriel Cousins M.D. has written books explaining that raw foods are the healthiest foods to eat."

"Are there people who eat fruit and nothing else. Yes! There are thousands of fruitarians in the U.S.A. "

"Arnold Schwarzenegger says that water retention is caused by salt, coffee, saccharine and some prescription and over the counter medications."

"Health expert and author Andrew Weil, MD says on his website 'Stabilizing blood sugar by eating [low] glycemic load meals, eating lean protein with healthy fats, drinking plenty of water and having high quantities of fiber from fresh fruits and vegetables all contribute to increased metabolism, which helps the body to burn fat rather than store it.' "

Mark Hyman, MD, editor in chief of the medical journal Alternatives in Health and Medicine says (in Bottom Line Yearbook 2008), "Myth 1: The less you eat, the more weight you'll lose.... In my experience, the average person who goes on a diet actually gains 5 pound instead of losing weight. Never go on a "diet." Instead eat foods that turn on your metabolism. These are whole foods that come from nature, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, beans...."

Myth 3: You can control your weight by counting calories.... Losing weight is not about counting calories-- it's about eating the right calories.... Myth 4: Eating fat makes you fat.... Myth 5: Going low-carbohydrate makes you thin. Carbohydrates are the the single most important food that you can eat for long term health and weight loss.... However, just as there are different fats, there are different types of carbohydrates."

Healthy Diet / Losing Weight This is my website so I gave myself permission to use these quotes.

[liamona]

Eat Wild

Weston A. Price Foundation

Cholesterol - You Can't Live Without It!

Whole Health Source

Hyperlipid

Dr. Stanley S. Bass: Super nutrition and superior health -- Natural Hygiene theory - drug-free healing

[ginkgo]

The Beyond Vegetarianism site is written by a writer. Before the world wide web existed, I would read his newsletter. A writer loves to write a lot with lots of words. Also they like to use complex words that many are not familiar with.

He says: "Word games as to what constitutes "fruit" are endemic to the fruitarian program. So are long-term health problems when fruit is defined strictly. The moral of this summary of the state of the fruitarian, and of the fruitarian movement: Look beyond the word games and examine what fruitarian advocates actually do, and see how well the rhetoric reflects the practical realities."

I would say that what is a fruit is simple. When plants have sex, the result is fruit just like when people have sex, they have babies. When you eat fruit, you do not harm the plant. It gets rid of its fruit just like children move out of their parent's houses.

Now if I were a writer, I would say that writers like to use a plethora (writers love to throw this word around) of words. Also endemic to writers is that they love to be verbose and use rhetoric, rhetorically speaking.

[Dreamline]

This thread proves that everyone is an expert.

What each of us should strive for is to become an expert in themselves.

Because no one way is perfect for all people.

Jennifer

[Charley Forness]

Unless I missed seeing it, I didn't notice anyone mention rawfoods.com. They have nice forums over there with some very knowledgeable people.

-Charley

[Michelle]

My favorite food blog is: Apartment Therapy The Kitchn

It is healthy in the sense that it focuses on nourishment as opposed to starvation or dietary exclusion and on using whole local foods in recipes made from scratch.

[MasterD]

Originally Posted by Dreamline

This thread proves that everyone is an expert.

What each of us should strive for is to become an expert in themselves.

I agree that everyone should strive to become an expert in themselves. Increasing your awareness in what works for you is a great and ever evolving thing.

Originally Posted by Dreamline

Because no one way is perfect for all people.

However, what do you mean with this? Why would humans be the only species where a different approach for every individual member is needed?

All cows eat grass. All tigers eat meat. All birds eat grains, fruits and a variety of other stuff. Etc.. Their blood types may vary (dogs have about 4, just like humans, cats 11, cows about 800). A whole bunch of stuff may vary. But they all eat the some foods. I don't see a reason why this would be different in humans. We all have a liver, a stomach, small intestines, large intestines, a heart, etc... of pretty much the same texture and size with similar characteristics. So, I would assume that every human being is designed to follow a similar approach.

I am curious about your perspective.

Foodnsport.com is a great health resource.

[WelfarestateChild]

Underground Wellness

Hes got a youtube channel where he blogs. Some of his stuff is pretty good. Among other stuff he is exposing the cholestrol myth. Cholesterol is not all that bad it seems

Anyways check him out
YouTube - UndergroundWellness's Channel

[Dreamline]

Originally Posted by MasterD

However, what do you mean with this? Why would humans be the only species where a different approach for every individual member is needed?

A whole bunch of stuff may vary. But they all eat the some foods. I don't see a reason why this would be different in humans. We all have a liver, a stomach, small intestines, large intestines, a heart, etc... of pretty much the same texture and size with similar characteristics. So, I would assume that every human being is designed to follow a similar approach.

I am curious about your perspective.

I would feel badly turning this into The Blood Type Diet thread since that is not it's purpose. You should learn the way I did. Buy the book, see if you agree. It's like pennies on Amazon if you buy it used. It's full of technical discussions that I could not do justice to here and it's probably the most important health breakthrough that no one knows about. Except for the people whose lives it's saved.

I'll be honest: people who just plug along through their days in generally good health do not relate to this diet. They have no troublesome basis from which to get the gist that this could be their answer.

The people that feel terrible all the time and have tried everything seem to click once they start following TBTD and suddenly their life turns around. So if you are healthy, no heartburn, arthritis, cancer, no bad family history, unexplained problems, no skin issues, kidney stones, gallstones, highly energetic, no allergies, no sensitivities, no lupus, MS, no headaches, no high cholesterol, no high blood pressure....you should probably not bother examining TBTD. Not because it can't help you but because you won't relate to the need for it.


Jennifer