What changes have you made to protect your health? Not necessarily willingly.
After working on a vascular ward in a hospital I cut down massively on booze and sugar and did see the health benefit. Only trouble is that avoiding sugar makes a lot of foods a distant memory.
Seeing what type 2 diabetes does certainly shocked me into eating more healthily so that I can hopefully avoid it.
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It's far harder to consume so much sugar from fruit.
I've done three stone in the last 5 months
Most veg I cook from fresh or frozen which is a start.
7 months ago I had very high blood pressure, was drinking too much (I love whisky) and was overweight. I was warned by my doctor that if things didn't change I ran the high risk of a stroke and heart attack (it's in the family genes as well).
Over the next 10 weeks I lost 2.5 stone through a combination of changed diet, calorie counting, less alcohol and more exercise at home. I'm still on blood pressure medication but my blood pressure is normal and I've not put on a pound in four months. I found that if you eat sensibly (I cut down on sugary and salty food) there's never any need to feel hungry.
When I really focused on losing weight I switched from normal tea and coffee to green tea (and cut out the biscuits); avoided Indian curries and made Thai green curry instead at home; replaced normal milk chocolate with high cocoa content dark chocolate; avoided fry ups; ate on smaller plates in the evening (sounds odd but it works); ate more soup, salad and steamed veg with meals.
After a few weeks your salt and sugar receptors adjust and your tolerance for food with high sugar and salt content falls. There's plenty of good stuff on the internet by way of advice but you've got to want to make a change.
Good luck to all.
good luck sir and well done
Have swapped it out for sparkling water now.
Aspartame is evil. I used to have almost a regular occurence of IBS which made life very difficult at times, especially when training for marathons. When the side effects of Aspartame was put under my nose by one of my wife's friends, it made an awful lot of sense to give it up. Since I gave it up, all my IBS problems have as much cleared up so we know what the problem was.
In all honesty, I would think the full fat version of Coca Cola is healthier than all the Aspartame-loaded diet versions.
Like with everything, a bit of everything in moderation is probably best.
That is I eat whole food plant based diet.
I do not call myself vegan as that does not tell anybody what you actually eat but a whole food plant based diet does.
So no vegan processed foods for me. Many of the so called vegan products out there are not healthy but the companies that are selling them are only interested in maximising their profits and couldn't care less about your health.
We are after all herbivores not omnivores.
Only herbivores are born with appendix omnivores do not have an appendix.
Type 2 diabetes is massively on the rise and a lot of this is down to poor diet often caused by added sugar. I saw the consequences of this whilst working on a vascular ward and it's best avoided.
Anyway had pretty much every test done at docs plus an MRI and nothing was found. Decided as a last resort to change my diet completely, not expecting any real change. Cut out all ready meals, chips, white bread etc and went to a rather dull diet of lots of fruit, veg and chicken pretty much every day. Within 2 weeks all symptoms (that had been going on for about 4 months) just went.
Whether it was just coincidence or not I don't really know or care but for me I'll always pay attention to what I eat now.
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die/
where gallons of Cornish Knocker and Betty Stoggs were consumed, so back to square 1 ...
We have apparently been bombarding ourselves with high levels of sugar for so long, sometimes unknowingly, making our bodies produce more insulin wearing out our pancreases and making us resistant to insulin, to the extent that 1 in 3 will get this, and its getting worse.
Get your blood sugar checked if you haven't before and are over 40, and then regularly once a year in my view - personally I would do it periodically after age of 30 had I known what I know now.
Obviously I can't say that's wrong, but it is picking up some traction as rumours go.
Personally I believe that the UK needs to rule that Supermarkets limit their junk food to a MAXIMUM of 20% of their stores.
At the end of the day eating shit foods now and then won't kill you, but eating shit every day will certainly speed up the process.
You know doctors once said smoking is good for you!
John Yudkin. The sugar industry has done all it can to cover up research.
Sugar has become increasingly common in our diet and there is an increasing amount of research into the problems it causes. Hard to avoid the stuff.