What are your thoughts on the new documentary What the Health?
Also, I have been on a vegan/vegetarian diet for a couple of weeks and find myself eating a lot of carbs to get full. What do you recommend I add to my diet to limit the amount of carb and starch intake?
You know, I havn't seen it yet. Though after seeing a couple of people talk about it already I think I'll go check it out to see if it's all it is cracked up to be. My suspicion, like most other things, not based in science enough for my tastes. Short answer: Chickpeas because of their high tryptophan content add a handful. Try hummus and falafel. These you should find more filling as you eat them more consistantly. Care not to over do it though on the chickpeas, a rapid increase in tryptophan can excerbate latent infections. Long answer: Part of feeling full is satisfaction from the meal(stomach expansion, presense of simple sugars on the taste buds) which take around 20-40 minutes after you begin eating to kick in while the other part is energy availability which tends to show up after about an hour and a half of digestion. Carbs generally signal for satisfaction because they enhance insulin which pumps proteins in your blood into your muscles, all except the amino acid tryptophan which doesn't compete as well for uptake into the brain as other amino acids do. Tryptophan is then utilized to make serotonin and other important metabolites like melatonin, dmt, and niacin(vit b3). So i'd recommend you don't overload your system with too much protein at once so that your body can't uptake tryptophan into the brain (supposedly more than 35 grams) and especially if you havn't contracted your muscles in a way which would increase your muscle protein needs more than for baseline protein turnover :). Whoever told you to limit carb and starch intake doesn't know the science. In fact the brain utilizes around 20 grams of sugar an hour and it's dificult to provide this through metabolic processes without eating carbs or starchy vegetables in your diet. Besides that, cold/ resistant starches and soluble fibers like inulin are utilized by the gut to make butyrate which you wouldn't wish to forgo longterm as a vegan who doesn't get it from butter. Check out inulin rich foods and toss some of them into your diet at the very least if you feel the need to avoid carbs and starches, though I would recommend you keep them in your diet.
Wow, a lot of great information here. You already did, but had you not I would ask you make a post expanding on this thought.
Correct me if I'm wrong, what I think your saying above is it is okay to increase my intake of rice and bread in the absence of meat?
I do exercise regularly and a higher intake is ideal, but careful not to over do it.
I'm against vegetarianism and veganism. Though I suppose one could supplement with sunflower based phosphatidyl-choline, vitamin k2, and vitamin b12. I'm an advocate for consciensious omnivory. Meat and a few types of cheeses and eggs and fish have nutrients you can't find elsewhere. Again these are Choline, vitamin k2, vit b12. Carnitine and Creatine too. To get enough protein: I highly enjoy the quorn poducts especially their chicken nuggets :P. Bible ezekial 4:9 pasta, Also, corn and popcorn, peas, quinoa. Blackbeans, cowpeas, lentils and of course chickpeas. Pumpkin and watermellon and sunflower seeds. The best advice I can give you is to eat natto. Also to drink fresh young coconuts from non-gmo trees. Trust. non-fermented soy is bad, avoid it like the plague. Jury is still out on tempeh, Natto is perfect it's why the people of japan were healthy, it's not their seaweed consumption. If you've eaten your natto and drank your coconuts you should have no issues eating seitan(gluten) or lectins on the regular. Chia seeds and hemp leaves! How I wish I had access to hemp leaves. Whole wheat spaghetti and peas makes a good dish, complementary proteins and what not. Peas and corn. Corn and beans. I'm too in love with parmesian cheese to ever be a vegan. That and I know we are supposed to cook bone-in meat stews and soups. To eat small and midsized fish like trout, halibut, salmon, and light tuna. To eat egg yolks and cottage cheese and brie and gouda. You do you though. Kale and spinich(lutein and zeaxanthin) LOTS of brocolli(choline and chromium).
Meat and a few types of cheeses and eggs and fish have nutrients you can't find elsewhere. What kind of cheese?
non-fermented soy is bad, How do I know if it is fermented?
Where does one fine this magical Natto ?
So much good information here. Just need to format a little to make for easy reading. Thanks for digging into this with me. :)