Re: evolution and diet

From: I William Wiser (will@wiserlife.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 15:32:49 MDT

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    I am repeating myself but...

    Gts keeps talking about vegitables. Vegitables are low calorie.
    I think I recall making 500 calorie days that supply the RDA.
    In practice I found it difficult to eat four gallons of vegitables.
    As many as you can manage seems to be the guideline for
    low calorie vegitables (the only high calorie ones that come
    to mind are carrots, yams, sweet potatos, beets and some
    squashes ).

    Optimized Food Guide Pyrimid verses Paleodiet means
    whole grains, legumes and lowfat dairy verses more lean
    meats, fish and fruits. Maybe more of those high calorie
    vegitables.

    If I were not into life extension and not considering caloric
    restriction I might be tempted to split the differance and
    call it good. Replace half of my whole grains, legumes
    and dairy with fruits, fish and lean meats. That sounds
     yummy. It's much better than most experts ask for and
    even Paleodiet folks might not bitch if 500 of my calories
    are less than optimal. Every good diet ought to allow some
    junk food for pleasure and flexibility.

    Maybe diets are all about vegitables. Vegitables taste good
    when I am really hungry and are not very palitable otherwise.
    Maybe I should write a diet book. Just enough non vegitable
    foods to supply known needs, a little bit of junk, and then all
    the vegitables you can eat. You can flavor the vegitables any
    way you want provided the flavoring adds negligable calories.
    Raw, cooked, whatever. Hard to stay overweight on such a
    diet. Some hunger but few cravings. To maintain you just eat
    a little more of the non vegitables. One can loose weight really
    fast on such a diet. It's better to eat more non vegitables and
    loose weight slowly but if you want fast it's relatively healthy.



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